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I dislike these articles that try to manufacture outrage by using emotionally-charged terms from the physical world - like “stalking” - in the context of targeted advertising, to make things seem more threatening than they really are.

Someone stalking you in real life is pretty damn scary, and not at all comparable to an automated Facebook algorithm showing you ads for mountain bikes because you joined a mountain biking club.

EDIT: I realize now that it was actually a HN commenter who used the word stalking, not the article, which is slightly more circumspect, though still uses manipulative language in my view.
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I have personal opinions as I work in a semi-related field, but I would prefer not to disclose that information.

In lieu of that, the questions I mentioned above were meant to be reasonably objective questions that would help me identify if an organization seems to be qualified in my mind without relying on reputation. Do you think any of those questions seem invalid? I tried to make them procedure agnostic to avoid discounting techniques which I am not aware of (so no, must use SHA, 2FA, antivirus, SGX, etc.). If you are willing to, are you able to identify any individuals you think have give good answers for most of those questions? Are there any questions that you think are unfair?

For instance, "Would you feel comfortable using the processes you have used in the past to develop a system where compromise would result in the loss of human life?". If the answer is no, I would not consider them an expert as there are many systems that are deployed today where compromise would result in the loss of human life (note that this does not mean those systems are appropriately secure). As an analogous case, if I found a civil engineer who made multiple bridges and then asked them, "Would you feel comfortable if any of the bridges you made in the past were used by humans?" and they said no, I would not be asking them for advice on making bridges for humans since they have never done it before.

If they answer yes to the question, I want to know why as I believe the default answer for most people is somewhere between "no" and "are you crazy". A really good answer would reference systems where they are confident in security, where compromise is valuable, have stood the test of time, and have withstood deliberate attempts to compromise against attacks in the vicinity of the value or compromise. For instance, "Person X did the security for Y bank. Y bank has a $500 Million bug bounty for system compromise (which is not onerous to collect)." would be pretty convincing. If your answer is a $500 Million bug bounty is absurd, you can look at some of my other replies under my original comment for why I believe that is actually too small.

If your answer is then that nobody is an expert, then my answer is that nobody should develop these systems since nobody knows how to achieve the minimum standard of safety. If it can not be done safely, then it should not be done at all no matter how hard you try if human lives are involved.
Canada's financial support for regular people 'so easy I thought it was fake'
The tests here in Queensland give results in 24 hours, according to a friend who was just tested
It's in South Korea where there is an abundance of tests. Where tests or people to administrate them are scarce, we have to prioritize those with symptoms.
Hi HN!

One of the creators here.

It's a cross between Zoom x Pokemon. You only get audio and video from people you're standing next to, and as you walk away from them, the video fades away and the audio drops off.

With current video chat apps, you lose many of the dynamics of real life meetups. In particular, you lose the ability to have multiple people in the same shared space having multiple conversations.

In real life events, you can talk to a few people at a time while still being able to quickly go from one conversation to the next. With video chat, you have to talk to everyone at the same time.

Online Town is meant to fix this.

The way it works is, when you're near someone you get their audio and video, when you walk away from them their video drops off, and their audio fades out.

So you can have multiple conversations within a single virtual space.

Join me in the public room! Would love to get your all thoughts on it :)
(As someone who knows next to nothing about medicine or microbiology) I’m curious how they already know which antibodies to look for? Are antibodies unique to each virus? Is it possible that some people have stumbled upon antibody X at some point in their lives that maybe isn’t perfect for fighting off this new coronavirus but still helps? Along the same lines, is it possible some people have antibodies IgM and IgG from some other illness they’ve encountered in their lives? Or is the presence of those antibodies conclusive evidence that they’ve been infected with COVID-19?
Timing matters. If the economy takes a shit as soon as you start looking for your first job, that has knock on effects. And right around the time that many millennials are just becoming able to join the housing market, the economy is going to take a shit again. The article explains this.
I can't speak for Slack, but it's not unreasonable to believe that a single machine's available output bandwidth (~10-40Gbps) can be saturated during a deploy of ~GB to hundreds of machines. Pushing the package to S3 and fetching it back down lets the bandwidth get spread over more machines and over different network paths (e.g. in other data centers)
The town of Vò, 3300 tested repeatedly, 89 tested positive, 1 death.

If fatality rate is 0.1%, there was only a 10% chance of 1 death i.e. it is very likely death rate is higher than 0.1%. Also the Diamond Princess numbers are relevant, after adjusting for age spread in a normal population, it is a lot more than 0.1%.
Your comment about nationality seems interesting - it's a fundamental human right to have nationality (https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/Nationality.aspx); what do you mean by "non national persons" ? The common mass cases e.g. illegal immigrants are not non-national persons, they're just nationals of some other country. There are certain edge cases that result in stateless people, but the general solution for that is for states to work to assign nationality, it's definitely reasonable in many countries to not be able to have standard contracts with such people until they get their identity documents issued.
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> 30 days ago many HN posters were saying this. I guess they were all idiots too.

Quite possibly. There are all kinds.
I'll give you an obvious example.

A service business that helps established businesses shift more of their work to remote. The demand is enormous right now. Service businesses are labor intensive, they don't scale easily, so during a boom demand time there is never enough specialized labor to go around.

That will taper off after a while. So as you build the business, begin offering other services to your new customers (services that are sustainable after the remote boom fades).

Look for enduring businesses that are unlikely to fail short-term during the economic disaster; businesses that have some forced regulatory-based demand are ideal (certain small to mid-size insurance agencies; some things in real-estate; law firms depending on the segment; and so on).
Why does eliminating the bullshit layer mean enormous amounts of power have to be concentrated in any one person's hands? You can hire two sysadmins.
Iceland has the most comprehensive testing, and their fatality rate is around 0.3%.
Oscillation and a sort of meta-stability is not uncommon, and something I personally find fascinating!
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> The issue with all of that is you're underestimating or misunderstanding the areas being spoken about

What size areas are we taking about? It seems that at least for the Prineville District in central Oregon the majority of grazing allotments are less than 1,000 acres.[1] That's only like 1.5 square miles, and well within the distances that Australian LGDs roam every day.[2] And per that same source, LGDs are sometimes left unattended for more than a week at a time, so it's not like the rancher has to haul himself out to the middle of nowhere every day.

I can understand that having to rely on LGDs would come across as a tremendous imposition to ranchers who have lived their entire lives without worry of predation. But that doesn't say much about the actual long-term costs involved once the practice becomes re-established, presumably in tandem with loss compensation programs. (Though, as Americans are wont to do, I suspect we'd eschew low-tech LGDs in favor of high-tech drones with guns. And pay more for it, but that's our own fault.)

[1] https://www.blm.gov/or/districts/prineville/plans/johndayrmp...

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Study-investigates-if...

Idiots popping up everywhere, it seems...
But it is also a sample with few in the sickest bracket, who are a disproportionate fraction of deaths.

And the number of deaths is sufficiently small that it is consistent with a wide range of death rates.
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Both Munich and Prague have started such studies with several thousand random people in each. That should give us a much better estimate for the number of "silent" cases.
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Twice as contagious = half as deadly?
IIRC, the researchers stated yesterday not to expect any surprises based on what they've found so far... :(
Yup plus see other projects in the same vein:

https://github.com/moltar/typescript-runtime-type-benchmarks
There are a bunch of serological surveys going on right now in the US: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/unprecedented-nation...
You're neglecting the market effects of networks that make these 'private' businesses de facto monopolies when you make your comparison to private ownership.

We have so little precedent with these society shaping forms of communication and content, it would seem very strange to me if we had already arrived at an optimum when it comes to how we should treat them. I don't necessarily have an answer to said predicament, but I definitely think 'do nothing and let unelected business decide how the conversation should end' is not a good answer.
This is part of what we're doing with Reliza Hub - https://relizahub.com (note, we're in a very early stage).

Apart from tracking deployments, we're really focused on tracking bills of materials and communication between Business and Tech teams.
Santa Clara county did surveillance testing which likely saved California https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6914e3.htm
despite the shortage of test kits. Just imagine if the nation had sufficient tests available.
Nitpick: changes in the number of immune people change R, not R0
The "is it doing X before we run out of money?" question is way overblown in startup land, usually by product people to skew developer time towards more features instead of much needed foundational work.

In reality, this question is almost always instantly answerable. You're either still building out your MVP and desperately need customers to validate your idea, in which case the answer is "No", or you're an established startup with runway and a growing customer base, in which case the answer is "Yes".
That seems like a stretch to me. Sources of hazardous concentrations of ozone are generally technogenic in nature -- the concentrations produced by lightning in the troposphere are far too low to pose any real danger. As such, there's no reason that humans (or any organisms) would have evolved to specifically detect that.
I was expecting something completely different and far more exciting. This is Zapier after all, so I was expecting that this was going to be a tool where you could point it at some program on screen and get data / events from it to integrate with the rest of the Zapier suite. I was hoping for something that would undermine the robotic process automation industry using clever computer vision.

Oh well, maybe it can evolve into that.

If you're compiling feature requests, it would also be nice if this could generate simulations in SCORM format for e-learning: that will help for onboarding.
Barrier to entry for coding is very low.

Even working as a burger flipper they can get a degree, move up the management chain, etc.

A couple generations ago people were starving and out of work due to the great depression. We had a recession in 2008, and had no where near the same impact. Just more people on welfare, and people lost money on houses.

Plus, everyone always can be an entrepreneur, which is the source of all our current wealth anyways.
Didn't a study show that the death rate is a magnitude lower than previously thought? Something like 0,6% IIRC.
According to this page (I didn't verify it myself), salmonella is quite difficult to dry sterilize.

(https://www.foodsafety-experts.com/food-safety/salmonella-se...)

> Salmonella is very difficult to kill when it is sitting in dry powders. Depending on the product you might need to get the product heated to temperatures above 150°C for at least 30 minutes to achieve a 6-log reduction if any Salmonella present in the product.
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> It has way more features than google docs and is standard everywhere

I work for another FAANG and we don’t use MS Word. It certainly isn’t “standard” for us. It’s not standard for two of the three FAANG companies, so “everywhere” is inaccurate. Being popular isn’t the same thing as standard. Pages is a far more usable for the vast majority of use cases. Most people aren’t creating extremely complicated word processing documents in their day-to-day. Word is a bloated mess. Keynote is far easier and more elegant than PowerPoint. Excel however certainly shines for big spreadsheet work, but for most spreadsheet work Numbers and the google spreadsheet are perfectly fine.
Some thing driving the invites was the promise of some GB of free storage, which some people abused in creative ways via their APIs (I remember a fuse driver storing files as mail attachments ...)
Permanent is rather misleading in that context. These these people don’t have major mental or physical impairments yet. Their old enough to retire, but heathy enough to enjoy it.
The reason why the epidemic peak is estimated so soon is that New York has the bulk of the cases and they began bringing new cases under control before most of the rest of the nation.

Dig into state by state numbers and most states are after that with lower peaks. See https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america and then https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/new-... to verify.
Just take an hour to watch the 2014 SRECon keynote from Ben Treynor.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon14/technical-session...
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I like to think of it as the Coronacation.
doesn't feel too different from the dot com bust into the housing crisis.
I would argue that's a failure of pgp, not sharing in general. People have less resistance to easy to use apps like whatsapp, riot, etc versus something like pgp.
> For example the news reader could be easily split off or sold

For things on the Google stack selling isn't really easy.

Things they acquired , like picassa, could probably be sold again, but there they wanted to migrate to Google Photos.
Dr. Fauci addressed that the other day when asked about when schools might reopen. He hedged a lot, but basically said he thought it could happen for the Fall. At the same time he was talking about that as the time frame for wide-spread anti-body testing that would show just how far the virus had penetrated. (And that such testing and continued contact tracing etc. would be what facilitated cautious steps towards reopening society)
I think Iceland is aiming for full population test
Other than pivot tables, what makes Office better than iWork?
Does this get past DocuSign security measures ?

(I am assuming that Docusign timestamps and also ip address stamps . . . .)
One Process
I appreciate your concerns and I think you're doing the right thing!

May I ask which countries you're referring to?

In USA, I know immigrants who are awarded medallions via lottery and who take a loan and pay off their medallion - like an investment. It potentially helps them break into the middle class.

The medallion ended up becoming an entity that was stable that the freelance economy would peg to something. Not saying it was perfect, but it prevented the system from being flooded with drivers.

NYC medallions used to be $1m in 2013. They're less the $200k these days. There's consequences to people who were just starting out, who saved for medallions, who now have their investment paid for over decades lost.

Working and earning something isn't privilege to me, that's gumption. Whenever I see that word online very rarely does it take into account hard work. 20 or 30 years driving 70+ hours a week? And they're an immigrant just trying to live the American dream?

Let them have happiness in life. And we should be celebrating their work and effort. They are absolute heroes for sticking to something so persistently.

Let's talk about fairness for new drivers. Doesn't necessarily have to be at the expense of others!
has anyone here ever used prolog in production - like real world, making money, production? How about in real world research where it produced no-kidding actual value? From what I can tell it is only useful these days as a academic example of an alternative type of language. Is there something else that has carried the torch forward?
Considering most AirBnb's are illegal hostels that lack the safety and fire protections of commercial hotels... It's a bit hard for me to feel pity.
Its success aside, I thought Wave was really cool. It worked pretty well for school group projects.
even if the death rate is that low, you have to account for the fact that health systems in first world countries are overloading with the initial stages of the spread, leading to more people dying because there's no medical attention to patients who would otherwise make it through the disease.
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I'm thinking that China could flip the script by getting Russia to become dependent on Chinese money buying their gas. Use just enough of it to establish the relationship, but not so much that a pipeline shutdown will overly harm the Chinese economy.

The population ratio (~10:1) and GDP ratio (~4:1) makes it possible to create this scenario.
The primary driver here is moving from a hosting company to a workflow/developer productivity company. If you're using ZEIT for staging/test deployment previews or hosting SSG or hybrid SSR/SSG Next.js it all pencils out nicely. It definitely doesn't work for the original container-first model.
Not only that, but Russia-Chinese relations have not always been smooth. They have had dustups over one of the longest land borders in the world before.
thinkpol doesn't appear to be a reliable canadian media outlet

r/fuckthinkpol for stickied thread shows what type of people are behind it
Your comment belies the inaccuracy of your user name :)
If you ever watch Bon Apetit videos on YouTube, they have a series where they did a cured egg recipe. They grated it onto pasta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp6F7jW5cmI

I highly recommend the whole "It's Alive" series with Brad if you're into preserving your own food.
You're very kind. It's unfinished, and I doubt whether it will ever be useful for anything (other than just being kinda neat in and of itself.) I need to deal with compiling loops/recursion/fixpoints. But thanks! I appreciate it.

Your advice to use CLP(FD) for the semantics of integer math operations was fantastic!
I think it will go sour within a month maximum, anger is already bubbling. The numbers with shelter in place are trending toward fewer deaths than a bad flu season. Going to be hard to convince people to shelter in place much longer paradoxically with those types of numbers in early May.

Stimulus helps, but a clear exit strategy for reopening segments of the economy is going to have to be presented.
> my natural language where I would say "if x equals one".

You gave an english quotation as an example of your natural language.

My only point is that there is no objective "natural" ordering, what is natural to each person depends on their starting point. Because this is somewhat arbitrary and provincial, it is good to be exposed to alternatives.
Extremely Slow Mobile Internet
Do you experience slow mobile internet due to lock down? What is the exact reason for the slowness?
Title correction: this isn't a CDC study, just published in a CDC journal
From https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/unprecedented-nation...

> We’re also concerned about the related coronaviruses that cause the common cold in humans. These viruses induce antibody responses that, at least temporarily “neutralize” the virus, but they don’t appear to last. Because the neutralizing antibodies wane over the course of 1 to 2 years, people can be reinfected with the exact same coronavirus 1 or 2 years later. The simplistic idea is that people are going to get infected with SARS-CoV-2 and then they’ll be resistant to infection for the rest of their lives, and that herd immunity will accumulate over time, etc. But if this is anything like the more traditional coronaviruses that cause common colds, you’ll get robust neutralizing activity at first, but it will wane over time. And so our studies are really focused on assessing that issue of persistence of immunity from reinfection.

[...]

> Q: What happens when SARS-CoV-2 infects a person who has antibodies to the other four coronaviruses that infect humans and cause the common cold?

> A: We were on a call today with the CDC about this. If we look at people who just went through a SARS-CoV-2 infection and have a burst of antibodies against the virus, they’ve also boosted their pre-existing antibodies against the classic cold coronavirus. And the earliest antibody responses that CDC researchers have seen in careful longitudinal studies to SARS-CoV-2 are actually those cross-reactive memory responses to the classic cold coronaviruses.

> Q: How might these cross-reactive antibody responses matter?

> A: The immune memory to previous infections may help control infection with those cold viruses and even ameliorate symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection. But it can cause problems with the accuracy of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics, as people reinfected with common cold coronaviruses could score as false positive with some SARS-CoV-2 serological assays.
> Natural gas from fracking does not cause burning tap water.

I'll take a step back from "burning", because that seems hard to prove, but it most certainly does contaminate ground water: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fracking-can-cont...

> Fracking-related earthquakes are either minimal or bebeficial

That's the most insane claim I've read on the Internet this week. You should be ashamed for saying that.

Beneficial earthquakes. Now I think I've heard everything.

I know it's against Hacker News rules to assume bad intent in posts, but I cannot believe that you're saying these things in good faith. It's just not possible.
In Italy they have 10% of people who they know have the virus dying (deliberately not calling this death rate) but they are testing pretty well and that seems very, very high. Can there be 10X more people with the virus than they know about? Not sure.

Also, OK let's call it 0.6%. Only just over a million deaths in the US alone then, even before health systems overwhelmed.

Still a non-starter in my book.