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My uncle from Milan, Italy forwarded a "news" article about it after he and his family recovered from the disease. They are angry (due to ignorance) and I'm afraid it is not possible for them to think logically after suffering like that for a month. It's not fun, I wish it were. Fake news are not fake if you don't suspect that they are. Let's do our part as technologically literate people and keep our families sane as much as we can.
> It never acted like any other program. Double-click selected everything while normally it would select a word.

Maybe, but at least a single click (in Firefox 74) brought a text caret to type at a location, just like any other GTK text box on my system.

> They changed it to behave like one other program: Chrome.

If I wanted Chrome's bizarro NIH-induced UI fantasies, I'd use Chrome. I like that Firefox had a semblance of sanity and consistency with the rest of the world (even if not perfect).
There are days when it feels overwhelming. I hear you completely.
I live in nyc and have a brother who lives in Vietnam. When a person in my brother’s building tested positive for the coronavirus the government quarantined the building, tested every single person who lives and works there, stationed police outside to enforce the lockdown, and delivered food for two weeks. If someone had tested positive they would be relocated to a hospital facility for treatment. When the tests for everyone else in the building came back negative the government let them all resume the normal social distancing rules and going to the grocery store again.

Contrast this with nyc where the virus is outta control, few tests are being done outside the hospital system, and there is no sense of a comprehensive presence of government effort other than the police harassing people who quarantine together when they take walks in public.

America is finished if this is the best we got.
The biggest worry about the raft of covid-5g conspiracy theories is not that people will believe them (some may, momentarily, and quickly move on to the next viral thing) but rather that there'll be a backlash of blind, uncritical 5g support.

Troy's article, while not explicitly defending 5g, is much more likely to encourage such a backlash than anything.

Please be critical.
This goes contrary to what other studies have found. In the Stockholm metropolitan area they found that 2.5% percent of the population was infected [1]. In in a community in Germany, which was the epicenter of the outbreak for a time, they found that 15% of the population tested positive for antibodies [2]. In Iceland they found that 88-93% of the infections are undetected [3].

[1] https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/nyheter-och-press/nyhets...

[2] https://www.land.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/zwis...

[3] http://www.igmchicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Covid_I...
Nice work. Anyone claiming performance improvements without an accompanying benchmark that is relevant to your usecase is wasting your time.
Depends on how large the party is :)

People will do this on their own once the strain is identified and there is a test for it.
> Because 5G is more efficient.

Not in the towers/coverage metric. I don't see how 5G could help in places that already have poor coverage (e.g. outside cities.)
Any psychologist here able to explain a bit why some people are prone believing conspiracy theories? I can’t for the life of me figure out why some people, even highly educated, have a tendency to lean towards a mystical or conspiratory explanation for anything just slightly difficult to understand. Is there a part of the brain responsible for this?

Edit: I live in a country where people will find such an explanation for anything ranging from bad weather, to a bad economy, to even covid. And such theories are so prevalent that “normal” people are basically outliers.
The same hysteria happened with the first steam powered trains travelling at 12mph in the UK.

Farmers thought their cows milk would turn sour from the train noises and people thought their heads would explode or body damage would happen travelling that fast.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67806/early-trains-were-...

https://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/07/11/women-and-child...
All right, that seems much more reasonable to me. Thought you said the peak for the USA in general was imminent, and that's not at all obvious given that the social distancing policies going forward have yet to be decided.

It might be the case, but that assumes that effective measures to control the epidemic will keep being applied everywhere.
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Not here (Aus). We're doing pretty well so far.
It’s also simply wasteful.

5G’s benefits over 4G are:

-

4G’s benefits over 5G are:

- Fewer towers necessary because larger coverage areas

- Better penetration of materials

- Doesn’t interfere with weather data collection

Why is there even a push for 5G? What is the benefit to the consumer? A higher bill because a 10x increase in infrastructure is necessary? Asinine. Just use wifi. I don’t understand what 5G was even made to technically accomplish.
I was confused at first and did not like it. But a few hours later got used to it. Perhaps the reason being I'm mostly interacting with a keyboard instead of mouse.
The thing I like about this change is when you press Cmd+L it immediately expands most visited list and you can quickly select with the keyboard.
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I'm in the same boat, plus the ESP8266 (and the ESP8285, there are some very nice bare packages of it) is only $1.8, so I can toss it into whatever throwaway thing and not care.
4 Chan and Reddit aren't the real world. Internet users put way too much stock in their societal impact.

Facebook and group messaging apps are how a lot of people communicate.
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In software, the product is built by the employees. It would be weird if the quality of the product (abstractly and in product-market fit) were entirely divorced from the quality of the employees.

I see it slightly differently; I think that 95% of the success of companies is driven by key moments or decisions by 5% or less of the work. (That’s usually by a similarly small slice of the workers as well.)
Author repeatedly emphasizes this post is not about 5G, it's about fake news campaigns. Possibly could have used a less controversial example.
Fully agree that this change is needless, gratuitous and downright ugly. But it gets worse...

The pref that disables the ugly behaviour is going away. Indeed, in some sense it's already gone: ["Remove the megabar pref"](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627969) is already marked as `closed`.

I think the UI change is not merely ugly, but actively harmful. When the user's attention is elsewhere, but the focus of the urlbar changes there's a nasty UI animation that occurs in the user's peripheral vision. As any real UI designer should know, human peripheral vision is primarily for motion detection, directly tied to fight-or-flight stress reactions and triggers an adrenal stress reaction which in this case is not merely "undesirable" but downright harmfully misleading. The last thing the world needs is more stress just because some delusional UI designers thought an animation upon receiving/losing focus was a good thing to implement.

This abomination has to die, and today would not be soon enough.
Fair point! I guess if I can edit my statement a bit I'd phrase it like that: If from my application you can see that I have work that we can talk about and discuss, let's do that, if not then let's do the predefined questions. That's fine.

I've had a couple of situations where I go in an interview and the interviews ask me questions that show to me that they have not even looked at my CV and the cover letter they asked me to write. They were just reading off a list of generic tech interview questions.

To me that feels like if I went to interview at a company and told them I have no idea who they are or what they do, I just know their name and that they are looking for a coder.
That's just counterproductive.

But I totally agree with you that there is no single solution. I just think there are different "good" questions for different people, interviewers and interviewees need to adapt to that.
There's a more complete set of flags to disable more stuff:

browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus = false
browser.urlbar.update1 = false
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions = false
browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips = false

Does any of that help the click behavior?
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You engage with luck. Improve your skills and cultivate luck.

Anecdotal : every job I've had came from relations, 1st to 3rd degree.
3 phone masts have been attacked.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/04/uk-phone-mas...

Re 5G itself, the link you posted is debunked in the first reply. There are no credible concerns related to 5G
We are talking infection fatality rate not infection rate.

Infection fatality rate is number of people who die after they are infected. That's one of the most important numbers and it can be estimated. It's different from case fatality rate. Number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 who die.

You started your argument trying to argue based on your understanding of what the infection fatality rate is.
Good memory on that old comment!

Mine looked like this: https://imgur.com/LDkdx1k

Perhaps it wasn't the original release. Perhaps it was a regional difference. I agree, I don't think the case was intentionally made to deceive.
If everybody who cares doesn't take a strong unrelenting stand against it, I will eventually pass.
Hitler had minority support when using backroom politics got his way.
Thanks. This is the problem I have run into which is all the right people are so busy at the moment that they don’t have time to look at something like this from someone like me.
IIRC it gets a bit messy once we start talking about hardware implementations of algorithms. I mean, is an electronics circuit that essentially implements an algorithm still a software patent?
IMO, it would be a ridiculous, unproductive perversion of justice/excessive impingement on freedom if this practice were illegal.
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As a depression patient, that's more or less healed, here's my take:
- In depression you can get up lost in these cognitive negative loops

- One of the feedback loops is between what you feel and what you think - a bad feeling induces you to think some bad thoughts, and as those thoughts are combined with the bad feeling, they are validated as true. Now the thought is associated with a bad feeling, and one will give rise to the other , just like tinkle of the bell induced pavlov's dog to drool. But in this case the drooling of the dog can also make the bell tinkle, causing more drooling...

- the amygdala response is about the bad feelings, and how the bad feelings can induce more physiological discomfort due to amygdala kicking in and doing "what it's supposed to" - now your bad feelings are superchardged as well

- so, I would say it's not only about cortex or amygdala, but in depression the negative thought patterns and the physiological response can get linked into this destructive loop of continuous feedback. Hence, it does not matter that you can rationally say to yourself the bad thoughts you had are not that serious because they just launched a full scale amygdala based storm of bad feeling and anxiety

- my ssri:s kind of felt like they cut out this bad loop. I felt like my cognitive self was insulated from the physiological response, giving me space to unlearn both cognitive and emotional bad habits one at a time without the disruptive loop taking control
Oh, I got your point now :)
Sure. It's the same here. I can buy stuff with Euros in York rather than the usual GBP.
But generally people want the local currency because they have fixed liabilities in the local currency - taxes and debts.
Chances are they'll take your money and then swap it out for the local version rather than hold it.
Related: Fossil SCM is a distributed source code manager (just like Git), but with the added benefit that documentation and issues also goes in the repository (so like GitHub, but packed into the repository). When you clone a Fossil repository, you get everything, not just the code.

http://fossil-scm.org/

Also been discussed on HN before, a selection:

- Fossil VS Git (https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wik...) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19006036

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673229

I haven't personally used it for more than toy projects, but looks very interesting and would love to use it more.
You listed a whole bunch of "downsides" but they look more like good security measures for running an app inside a browser.
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I'm using Fossil for this: https://fossil-scm.org/
Written by the SQLite author (and based on SQLite).
Connecting those who have PPE to those who need it
We are creating a centralised database to connect those who have PPE to those who need it in South Africa. Would love to find as many similar projects as possible so we can all learn from one another. https://www.coronapp.co.za/community/ppe
Possible health effects of non-ionizing radiation have been studied in all kinds of frequency bands for many decades. So far, no significant effects that go beyond heating have been found, and there is no known mechanism that could cause such effects.
Good that its available in flatpack.
But the new address bar is so unnecessarily space consuming. If I move it to a smaller window in my desktop its taking up so much space!
Repaying debt is the same as an increase in the store of savings.

Your personal balance sheet moves in the same direction from a lower value to a higher one.
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> The biggest advantage of running Android on cloud/edge I think is anti-theft.

what is this anti-theft? What's being stolen?
> 5G’s benefits over 4G are:

It enables huge numbers of connections, making it more feasible for IoT appliances to use cell radios instead of wifi radios, taking yet more control away from consumers.

Oh wait, 'benefits'... well I suppose that's a matter of perspective..
Well this is what many countries and scientists are already doing. It’s just not working as virus is unpredictable and it might infect some but not others.

The best way to find a solution is still try to understand how it acts on different types of people and if they have underlying previous conditions what changes it does, this takes time and I believe that’s the reason there isn’t any cure except by chance in a short time.
Yes, as the infection spreads testing becomes overwhelmed and the apparent fatality rate goes up. A recent trial found that in one German town the actual fatality rate was 0.37%. They did antibody testing so they knew everyone who had been or was infected.
Maybe not run this in mission critical production systems
> But in rare circumstances, atmospheric refraction can cause high-frequency radio signals to propagate much farther than normal,

My uncle, decades ago, was a cop in rural Ontario (based on Kilaloe). Absolute middle of no where, mostly rural, but an area with a bit of elevation here and there.

Somewhere down in the US, Virginia I think, used the same frequency as them for their police radio. They discovered this because every now and then if you were up on a hill under the right weather conditions, they could talk to each other, hundreds of km apart. Very confusing the first few times.

Or so he tells the story. I'm neither a cop nor a person familiar with the magic of radio technology.
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Book summaries of best-selling nonfiction books written by actual human.

If you don't have time to read but if you want to be smart (duh!) you can read my summaries instead of the actual books.
I'm a bit peeved that they removed browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll and browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll.

I thought it was a bug, but in the bug tracker they told me it was intentional.

When I suggested they notify users when they have set a setting set to something other than the default and then this setting is removed, I was told it's documented in the Release Notes.

Well, no, it isn't.
I agree with the testing regime; I don’t agree with having police in every building.

That's at least three people per day watching over the comings and goings of a building. You can only do that when you have a near police-state.
Exactly. For me the tl;dr of this article is:

If you don't have a person to edit your stuff, read it over with fresh eyes.

This goes for anything from late-night texts to 100K - word books.
I did read through your entire proposal, this is a legitimate question, and is not address in your proposal. It is definitely not the problem your proposal is aimed at solving.

The question posed is would an attenuated virus create a much short immunity reducing efficacy of the overall approach. It seems like the only answer can be we don't know, we'd have to look at that.
While the example was bad (too general, a potential for copy&paste from somewhere else), it was certainly not for the reason OP wrote:

> The exercise was supposed to take "a few hours" according to the hiring manager, but I'm extremely rusty with ASP.

Well, if they look for an ASP expert, this self-selection saves time on both sides!

I use take-home assignments with boilerplate code, to reduce the initial time investment and make it easier to compare parts of the projects. (Otherwise, it may be a too open-ended task.)

I try to make sure that the skills I require the skills I need. For example, when I needed a deep learning engineer (for a PyTorch project), I expect fluency in at least one deep learning framework. I made it explicit that instead PyTorch boilerplate then can use any other framework (a few people send in Keras).

Yes, people can Google things (good!). And it some sense it balances more junior people (but willing to put more effort) with people with more experience. The later could be told easily by interview. When I ask questions about their solutions, it is easy to see which parts are done with understanding, which - not.
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The latter. There is nothing inherently bad about the passive voice. What is bad is hiding agency so that actions that are taken for the benefit of some (usually rich or powerful) party are made to appear as the inevitable result of some external force. This tends to be easier in the passive voice, but grammatical structure is just a proxy here. Both “many workers were made redundant by the crisis” (passive) and “the crisis forced many workers out of employment” (active) hide the same information that “the rich cut their losses in the crisis by firing many workers” doesn’t.
Your ignorance of its benefits doesn't mean it has none.

You can literally google "5g benefits" and read through any number of whitepapers.

For one, it has much lower latency, making it competitive with fibre in many areas.

It's more efficient, allowing more devices in the same area. The 60GHz band in particular will allow extreme densities as seen in sports stadiums or major train stations in rush hour.

It has higher peak bandwidth.

It includes special modes optimised for very lower power devices with modest bandwidth requirements.

Etc...
You can customize its density to "compact" in the toolbar customization. Does that help?
This is just gorgeous and begs the question: what is wrong with e-ink and their non-marketing of their technology?

You can get LCDs in almost any form and size for very little money, but e-ink displays are still rare and expensive. I love my kindle (ironically even Amazon seems to be very slow in enhancing it), but I would love larger e-ink screens and display devices. Like with good old black and white displays, there is zero penalty for running them 24/7.
The newspaper is a great implemantation of this, but I also would like to have a large e-ink display for displaying b/w photographs.

And of course, a reader, large enough to cover the area of an open book (so almost A3) would be a dream. Displaying a double-page of any print at 100% would make for the ultimate e-reading experience. Would be the ideal accessory to any programmers desk, but also for any scientist.

So the big question is: why does all of this not exist?
Do you have the URL and search bar separated or the same input box like Chrome? I've got them as separate input boxes and text selection still works with a single click for the whole URL string.
Or Muammar Khdaffi's idea of the gold dinar (African currency with a 1:1 gold equivalent) supposed to be the future standard to express oil prices.

https://millenium-state.com/blog/2019/05/03/the-dinar-gold-t...
Display is $1500, controller $500, software under NDA and you can't buy it as a mere mortal. It probably takes over a minute to update the display, considering those 3-color waveshare 10" ones take 15 seconds.

Honestly, this is crap in every way.
Why? Who else would enforce the quarantine?
I don't think it is actually contrary to those other studies. The austrian study randomly selected among the whole population whereas the german study used a cluster connected to a hot-spot. IMO it is measures like social distancing in place for more than 3 weeks at the time of sample-taking in austria that reflect in the data.
Ted Kaczynzksi would be rolling in his gr... Prison cell, not everyone has the ability to live like that.
Some countries like Germany plan to dismantle their 3G network next year.
These urgent copypastas are funny as hell and they are not going anywhere simply because it's much faster and convenient to fall for this pseudo-counter-popular opinion that expose these nasty technologies than make your own. In the end of the day none of these boomers give a damn about 5G unless it is criticized on national TV or in WhatsApp groups.
I can't read the article since I don't own a Medium account. Why does the author need me to sign in?
At your local library too. https://www.worldcat.org/title/style-lessons-in-clarity-and-...
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I didn't see that thread. Based on my experience, I don't really buy the premise. I'm not saying different languages can't somewhat nudge you a tiny bit towards better practices. Or simply not allow you to do certain things, which isn't really sheparding is it? But the vast majority of great engineering I have seen is mostly about the team and the many decisions they have to make in the course of one day. Which quickly adds up.

Quality engineering mostly comes from people, not languages. It is about your own personal values, and then the values of the team you are on. If there were a magic bullet programming language that guided everyone away from poor code and it did not have tradeoffs like a hugely steep learning curve (hi Haskell) then you would see businesses quickly moving in that direction. Such a mythical language would offer a clear competitive advantage to any company who adopted it.

What you are looking at really is not good vs. bad, but tradeoffs. A language that allows you to take shortcuts and use hacks sounds like it could get you to your destination quicker sometimes. That's really valuable if your goal is to run many throw-away experiments before you land on a solution that is worth spending time on improving the code.
Yes from Amazon and other trusted places. I’ve done in app purchases for games (to remove ads) for a lot of companies. I wouldn’t do it if they had their own payments.