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So answer the rest of my questions - you could have, you didn't. Why not? a) you actively wanted to produce bad code. b) you couldn't have. c) other?

> the Lord save us from those who have an excuse for everything.

Lord save us from people who think self-flagellation is at all useful or beneficial to anything. It's status-signalling and nothing else, you're in hypothetically the same situation as someone else (having made a mistake) but you want to claim to be superior because you're feeling the most bad about it?
From https://blog.xot.nl/2020/04/19/google-apple-contact-tracing-...

> It is one thing to agree on a few best practices for contact tracing and force app providers to adhere to those standards. It is quite another to bake that standard into the operating system layer, active in the background, ready to be deployed. We have to trust Apple and Google to diligently perform this strict vetting of apps, to resist any coercion by governments

There are countless attacks on Bluetooth. GPS is not accurate enough for contact tracing. The data will not be reliable.

Imagine the lawsuits when dozens of people are required to mandatory quarantine away from home when someone (who they may not know) tests positive?

Proposal for MA use of contact tracing data (MIT is in MA and they have contributed to protocol design), https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/03/contact-tracing...

> then there’s the question of how to keep people who test positive isolated so that they don’t transmit the coronavirus. Some people will have room to isolate at home. But others who share bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms, or who live with someone at increased risk for a severe case of COVID-19, will be given some options. The Baker administration is looking at setting up isolation units in dormitories and hotels. People in isolation will need food delivery, possibly child care and lots of additional help so that they don’t interact with others.

Don't most homes share kitchens? Where are the dual-kitchen homes and apartments? This means virtually everyone who was within six feet of a positive contact would be isolated away from their home/family. So that can't scale, because there aren't enough quarantine hotels/dorms to house the entire population.

Every other pandemic in the history of pandemics focused on isolating high-risk groups. That is more practical than Tracing Theatre.
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no, i’m saying speed is largely beside the point when discussing saving lives in auto accidents. the critical behavior change we need is constant active driving, which is hard, but that’s what would make a meaningful difference, not lowering speed limits. people tend to drive as fast as conditions allow anyway.
i waited forever for a release on the DS. it finally came but on the switch. also the developers told me that a switch lite wouldn't be the best experience (not TV output among a few things).
My favourite spelling mistake is from the Nottingham County Gaol and is all the worse for being set in stone:

https://i.imgur.com/h6XiZE3.jpg

Take a close look at the word "gaol". Originally, the stone mason spelt it as goal and had to try to tidy it up as best he could.
Same experience trying to open a Checking+Savings account with them online. I get a call supposedly from them and asks me to verify myself by telling them the code they just texted me. I refused, hung up and called back. By then it was past 5 on a Friday and I had to wait till Monday.

The whole thing was BS as it was because they wanted to verify that I owned the external checking account I was using to fund the new accounts -- one that I registered on their portal ~7 years ago and have consistently used since then to pay off my Chase credit cards.
I wasn't suggesting anything, but having just looked at the submission history it seems clear that it's promotional. The HN community doesn't favor that. It's fine to submit your own site or work occasionally, but not to use HN primarily for promotion.

Also, the submitted title ('Zoom’s virtual background swap but better. DL+GANs for background replacement') was too promotey.
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Yep, that Wikipedia article talks about that, and one it suggests are further too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_braking
I was still typing my comment when you posted yours. But prestigious HBCUs (Howard, Spelman) are great examples of how one minority community in the US has done exactly that.
> “Some people are completely opposed to an intrusion on privacy but there’s a younger generation sharing their location on dozens of apps,” Burgum said.

Funny, when you tell young people that by the time they leave the food court, descend the escalator and exit the mall, 100 companies know what, where and when they bought dinner, they stop using digital payments.
I would like to see in admissions systems some kind of quantification and attestation of the applicants’ capabilities and also their shortcomings. Balance this with the sum total of all educational investment individually by their parents/teachers/schools, and also the collective investment in their peers and across all schools. It’s one thing to know someone is a good applicant. But if we argue that this is a meritocratic system that also accounts for inequality of opportunity, we should do more to articulate what it means to be a good student.

What does it mean to be a good student versus a potentially good student? How do you tell the difference between a good student with test anxiety, an average student who tests well, and a below average student who has been tutored to compensate for their lack of discernment? How do you compare a good student in a severely disadvantaged intellectual and/or economic environment with a student who rates the same on educational attainment as the prior student, but lacks meaningful barriers to learning?

Differences and advantages in stimuli and investment in intellectual activity exist in continuum that isn’t just what happens at school or at home but also what happens in the hands and minds of students. It also touches on funding of public schools, and how that funding is levied mainly by local municipal and county property taxes with federal and state contributions. This reliance on local tax base creates intellectual deserts in many of the same places you find food deserts. For a fair system to be possible, we have to have a conversation about goals in admissions process and what is fair and what is unfair in the current system to inform us about what a fairer system might look like.

If college admissions is a measure of success, the measure should not be the target and be gamed by those with power and influence to do so. There must be some accounting for this disparity in opportunity for the student and their representatives to game the system. It’s fine to have a legacy system but I see it as opening the door to this kind of anti-meritocratic behavior by students, their families, their schools and counselors, and especially by the colleges and universities they apply to.

In order to know how good an individual is we need to know both how big a fish they are, and how big the pond is. But we can’t stop there. We need to know how much food they ate and how much energy they expended to get it. Would they have done better in a different pond? Possibly. Should they have done better considering how much opportunity they and their peers had? Also a question we should be able to answer. We should have better tools to know how to better teach and also to better learn.
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Impressive to me but $50 to retrieve 1TB vs cheaper tiers on AWS for slower. I don't know what GCP's retrieval throughput is though.
Some initial questions about this plan:

1. How does this system deal with the "data withholding" problem? In other words, when people provide "storage power" their data will be repeatedly sampled to make sure it is available... but when an entity claims that samples aren't being provided as required by the protocol, how does the system determine that that person wasn't lying, if the sampled data is still provided correctly in a followup request? If the answer is "through arbitration", what prevent the arbitration system from being DDOSed?

2. The "verified clients" are certified by "a decentralized network of verifiers". How does this system prevent a sibyl attack, i.e how does it prevent verifiers from repeatedly verifying themselves using multiple accounts?

3. I notice this system doesn't mention the use of erasure coding, which is usually a common feature of similar schemes by other projects. Why is it that erasure coding isn't necessary in this system? In other words, if data is randomly sampled, how does a client make sure 0.001% of the data isn't missing if only 99.999% or less of the data has been sampled so far?

4. The filecoin organization has a ton of funds due to their successful ICO. This makes it hard for users of the filecoin network to know if it is truly scalable (since the filecoin org could just run a bunch of anonymous server farms with their funds that provide free storage to paper over flaws in the cryptoeconomic incentives) How can a user of filecoin get some assurance that the files they are storing aren't just sitting on a server run by the filecoin organization & are truly running on a decentralized system functioning through the specified cryptoeconomic mechanism?
Caveat: if you want your code to run in a web browser, you will need to be careful about which npm packages you use, since some are server-side only.
Sounds like UCI’s ban of recumbents in 1934, a sordid tale of political intrigue, commercial interests, wounded pride, and arguably bribery and corruption, which basically crippled the recumbent bicycle/tricycle industry, and all because they were better. I’m bitter about that because in most regards recumbent tricycles are just so much better than upright bicycles.
Ever since 2000, we've have a pandemic once every decade. The next one will occur soon, but it's not certain whether it'll be as scary as COVID-19.

> We need to start building social distancing into our culture the same way we built protection for sex into our culture.

While I agree with the general gist of your comment, I should emphasize that what we need is physical-distancing, not social. Humans are social beings at core, and depriving them of social interactions is as deadly as the virus itself. What we should be practicing more than ever before is washing our hands, minding our coughs, and in general, being responsible to the society. The individualistic lifestyle - which is pretty much dominant in the West - shouldn't stop us from caring about our community as a whole and our duties towards other people. Technology can only help us get so far; the rest depends on how much we - as responsible social beings - take care of ourselves and each other.
We also had an article today about a Bluetooth RCE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22971863
> It is my belief that the best cure for any disease is to avoid the disease.

> Again, the best cure for any disease is to avoid the disease.

Sure, if we're talking about HIV or HSV (any variant), then yes, the best cure is to avoid getting it in the first place.

Some diseases you don't really get a choice. When 21% of NYC has had a disease that has been spreading for only a few weeks in spite of extreme public safety measures (social distancing, shutdowns), you have to wonder if you can avoid getting it, for how long, and at what cost. If you don't get it now, how do you keep from getting it later? Eradication is typically a decades-long project. Vaccination is anywhere from a months-long project if you don't care about establishing vaccine safety to a multi-year effort -- enough to eradicate if you're serious about it and have a vaccine that can cope with mutation rate (probably not).

> Catching this virus is a bit like playing a round of Russian roulette. You’ll probably be fine, but you could end up dead.

But that's not really the case. Risk factors for covid-19 are fairly well understood at this point: old age, past history of pneumonia, obesity, and diabetes. That's not not-a-big-deal, but it's in the realm of the manageable: isolate those at risk. But stopping the progression of this virus through the population is clearly not an option at this point -- we long ago passed the point where that was feasible. We can only slow down the progression, and definitely not long enough to obtain a tested vaccine because that's well over a year away and might be closer to two years if anything goes wrong with the current candidates. In terms of morbidity rates, this thing is not that bad as it has not overwhelmed the U.S. healthcare system (a few hospitals, yes, but the vast majority are far from capacity), and some treatments are available.

So it's not clear that we need to slow covid-19's progression further, or that we could if we really wanted to. Transmission rates are just extremely high.

> With this test, we can screen for the virus at the entrances to buildings and other areas, much like we currently use metal detectors to screen for weapons. [...] Longer term, it can be used to safely reopen more crowded areas such as festivals, sporting events, and even Disneyland.

With... a test that... takes 10 minutes to run? Color me skeptical. By the time amusement parks get the go-ahead to reopen, covid-19 will have worked its way through well over 50% of the population. The way things are going, that's not too long from now, maybe two more months and NYC will be at 50% -- by the end of the year maybe most of the U.S. will be past 50%.

Covid-19 is just too infectious. We can't stop it.
On the importance of having black doctors: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24787.pdf

The long term equal performance thing is less clearly demonstrated, justice scalia for example had a very strong belief otherwise. Here's a perspective on it from the no difference side (i'm sure you'll have already read the other versions of the argument): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/12/1...

I'm more convinced by the need for black doctors than the performance argument personally. If having a black doctor for a black community leads to better health outcomes because people trust doctors that look like them (with good reason, unfortunately, things like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment have not been forgotten), then medical outcomes are medical outcomes. If their race, in that case, makes them a better doctor for that community and that community needs more doctors to address large health disparities, then that in and of itself is a type of performance metric that's important. I don't like that that's the case. I'm obviously biased since i'm asian and I'd very much like higher admit rates. And I'm idealistic in thinking race shouldn't matter in administering medicine. But that's not the world we live in yet. And it's not just from the patient perspective, a different sort of cultural understanding and empathy from the doctor also helps them practice, which their race or gender can provide.
I have never been convinced by the "helpless billionaire" argument.
The issue is secret hand management , a separate device per player is needed to handle secrets.

I’ve successfully setup a Discord session between two households where we all had laptops or desktops around a kitchen table with Tabletop Simulator on each, and a central TV for the video/audio and the overall game board shared “spectator mode”.

We played Ticket to Ride and a couple others (Sushi Go Party, and Spirit Island , which is like cooperative anti-Catan). It worked out well but definitely took some practice to get the right mix of software, and it helped that TTS was on sale.
This really looks like a solution in search of a problem. The cloud storage market is already pretty efficient and we are expected to believe that adding a bunch of inefficiency and complexity will result in a better product?
>I'm not a big Seinfeld fan

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
This is cool. It looks like this is a program for creating and evaluating a decision matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_matrix. This got me thinking about an idea for a similar tool, but catered to a specific domain, one that can be populated with data to help make the decision -- e.g., where to live, where to go to dinner, what kind of car to buy, etc. A decision where the options have known important criteria and quantifiable values, e.g. a decision about where to live has criteria like cost of living, crime rate, walk score, etc. Essentially, it would be like criteria filters you commonly see on shopping websites except it would let you rank those filtering criteria as well.
you seem to be regurgitating a lot of popular talking points, especially this one:

>The Trump administration knew about this in January, denied it’d be a problem..

you do realize that China did a surprise shutdown of the country only during the Chinese New Year holiday break, right? I have a team in China and they're in a province next to Wuhan. They were all stunned by the lockdown during their week off, during the last week of January [1]

These were also the points of view at the time:

>The WHO is not recommending any international restrictions on trade or travel, but does recommend exit screenings at airports. [2]

It's not precedented to shutdown the US nor other parts of the world, especially when the WHO, as noted in the quote above, was telling the world everything was okay. Clearly, the virus and cause was not also well understood at the time, or some false information was being shared by the WHO. (check the dates of the links)

Your talking points are disconnected from reality, but you've got a bulleted list of things, so nothing will stop you from your mission. You've also ignored how the liability of opening up a state is being pushed off to state govenors and local officials, as there's no one size fits all opening strategy... that, clearly, doesn't help with the political narrative you're trying to push though.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/01/coronavirus-more-of-china-ex...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798789671/chinese-authorities...
People don't even observe yield signs reliably. You think everyone on earth is going to suddenly obey testing requirements?
That’s an amazing saying. I, too, once had a middle aged Japanese colleague for just a few weeks - he was a smart engineer and hard worker, and kind to all. But he went back to the “mothership office” soon after - I was sad, but it was nice to work shoulder to shoulder with him. Something to cherish.
I think a tag list of technologies is irrelevant to both parts (even if it's filled in good faith).

For each technology, you could add a list that is a proxy for level of proficiency. Something like:

- just started learning

- used in simple side-projects

- used in complex side-projects

- used in simple professional/production projects

- used in complex professional/production projects

- proficient with years of experience

- deep knowledge
Even Singapore, a virtual police state, barely got 20% of people to use contact tracing apps.

As a silver lining, if Apple/Google surrender location privacy on their platforms, it might finally give Purism and the other "libre" phones a chance in the marketplace. And those $1000 flagship "mobile" phones can be replaced by a $300 iPad without a GPS.

As for the "kids" who "don't care" about privacy? Ask them that question after their first unnecessary 2 week quarantine-in-isolation-hotel due to glitchy bluetooth.
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It's the same sort of mentality that got Americans with Japanese heritage tossed into camps during WWII. Collectivism is really, really bad for individual liberty and nothing drives collectivism like a crisis. People get scared, and scared people do bad things.
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That reminds me of Cambria
> If so many people have trouble implementing agile maybe it just doesn't work?

The problem with agile and other empirical processes of project control is that it goes against the OCD tendencies of scientifically minded people. They assume that, since programming is all math and logic, software development projects should be as well.

They add micromanaging processes in a futile effort to control what they perceive as chaos and end up trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
This has been one major argument. The others have been: "flatten the curve - just extend the time until everyone gets it" (obvious problem, exponential growth can't work that way), "shelter in place 'till a vaccine appears" (not very practical) and "it's really not that bad, there are so many asymptomatic carriers that in the end it's not actually worse than the flu after all or at least there's nothing we can do." (not that plausible, not appealing, non-fatal cases still much worse than the flu).

I think this is the best position, however but it still needs to be argued for since it's not the only position.

Edit: Also, it looks like the US has plateaued at this point but in a situation with a fairly dysfunctional testing arrangement. It is going to be hard to argue for people to sit tight until tests are in place so I'm not terribly optimistic.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the ClojureScript team posts, one of the motivations for tight webpack integration is that not every npm module is compatible with advanced compilation.

From the article[0]:

> But after nearly three years since we first shipped Node module processing via Closure, it’s apparent that too few of the most popular libraries can be subjected to advanced optimizations. While we still believe there’s promise here, the ClojureScript community will have to show the rest of the world the way by developing compelling JavaScript libraries that can be readily consumed by popular JavaScript tools, yet still be subjected to Closure’s phenomenal tree shaking and code splitting when building with ClojureScript.

0: https://clojurescript.org/news/2020-04-24-bundle-target
You're engaging with someone who has endeavored to derail a discussion into partisan interpretations of Trump's statements. This after sidestepping logic in the original thread, bodes poorly for any further responses.
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Is Pulseaudio no longer viable using APT alone? One of the first things I do is excise Snap from the system entirely and install Flatpak. I had been planning to upgrade my daily driver to 20.04 in the very near future (I prefer LTS versions) but audio problems would be a complete deal breaker.
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pop os would be good alternative too. since pop os will be on flatpak n apt.
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