skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] and Bluetooth -- just aren't accurate enough to capture every contact.

Did I miss his paper on the matter? There's dozens of groups working on this and even with a regular free space model the results seem "good enough" in <2m,15min scenarios for an additional data point.

Most of this seems to leave out that digital contact tracing is not a cure all but a tool to help manual efforts. I somewhat hate the simplification people bring here, that every additional identified contact helps, but dismissing it as "plain dumb" seems rather shallow as well. Sure, false negatives will be a thing, the false negative rate of not doing digital contact tracing at all would be higher by definition. Most of what he outlined can occur in manual contact tracing as well and we still do that, simply because it's necessary.

I haven't seen anything so far that would suggest that digital contact tracing in the poster child Singapore had any of the negative impact he brings to the table here and studies like Ferretti et al. [0] seem to make a pretty good case why it would at least not hurt the overall epidemiological goal.

> It's not accurate enough for you to quarantine yourself for two weeks. And without ubiquitous, cheap, fast, and accurate testing, you can't confirm the app's diagnosis. So the alert is useless.

The time frame and assumptions on testing capability is US centric I assume? If you can get a quick test it would not be two weeks, it's likely quick tests will become more prevalent if this sticks around long enough and testing capability will be raised to sufficient levels. Otherwise yes, false positives would quickly diminish usage.

Of course some of his points are valid and need to be addressed by OS vendors, apps and policy makers, and evaluation of efficacy will be just as critical as teaching the public that having an app does not mean things can go back to normal. There's also plenty of opportunity for abuse even with the commonly decentralized architecture that is at the moment widely agreed upon but none of that supports the allegations of this particular article imho.

The comments similarly bring up things like "surface transmission" as if that mattered at all. If you treat a contact tracing app as an additional data point it becomes much more sensible.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/scie...
But he is though. No other president has had quite so many people in his campaign staff jailed. https://www.axios.com/trump-associates-convicted-mueller-inv...
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Re: the board thing, Jira has actually been trying to solve this problem for years now with a concept called Simplified Workflows. [1] This allows the project admin to create Statuses and adjust their workflow without needing to get a Jira admin involved. The problem with this approach is that every project does something completely different (often times even multiple teams within a project use different processes) and the people working to do higher level planning can't grok what is going on.

The rules get in your way, but as an entire org, they provide value. A lot of what we do is work with large orgs to actually enforce those rules top down on devs. The difference between our approach and most others is that while we agree with the idea of governance and top down rules, we drive the creation of those rules as a bottom up process. This way the devs get to agree on how they want to work, and as long as there is a degree of consistency, we get to tell management that this is the way forward, and we can now report on things while ensuring we're not getting in the way of the devs.

1. https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/use-t...
I certainly don't think you failed. Once I got what the purpose is, then its quite easy to understand the interface. I don't organize too many meetings, so I don't run into this problem too often.
This is a part of normal human behavior. People often do corrupt things, as they seem beneficial to them. I wouldn't get angry/emotional about it. People often don't care that much about you, unless it benefits them.

Acceptance is important. We all have a human mind with an ego vulnerable to corruption. We think we are the solution to the problem, but we often aren't.

Nobody really likes Skype and Facebook anymore, but I guess short-term it boosted their numbers. Most applications send annoying notifications. The application owners will rationalize and say anything to look good and imply they are trying to improve society. It's just a rigged game, stop engaging emotionally.
One of the founders at my work was really good at designing production software. After working with him for a long while, I picked up some of his insights. After a design meeting where I saw him shaking his head (and I knew why), I asked why he didn’t speak up. He said that you can’t always tell someone the solution; sometimes they have to figure it out on their own. Not sure yet if I fully agree, but there is something to be said for that.
Corporate IT security is always a juggling act - and it's not easy.

I think developers assume those choices are made for political reasons "hey, I did something", but in reality we are often countering known mechanisms of infection propagation.

Remember what happened to Sony? So we disabled SMBv1 and PowerShell - devs complain. Then we see someone in accounting installed a fake version of Adobe something - so we prevent software installs in that department. Then a VP forces us to give him a "dev-mode" OS without restriction and subsequently gets a virus that brings down his department. ...so we have to then role those restrictions to everyone.

...and, you're right, we don't pay much attention to devs setting up VMs and tunneling around firewalls, because the vast majority of risks we combat don't use those methods. But once they do, yes, we'll lock them down too. (and VMs are becoming more common in malware space, fyi).
Nice prior story about dismantling presses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758828
The problem was that oversight roles where hamstrung deliberately by the executive (doers)

Holding meetings in far flung and hard to get to places was one tactic
You can say that about YC or any other incubator and yet they seem keen on maintaining their equity.
Tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things
An Apple business you don't know that bets on big coronavirus growth
This fable sounds so old and dusty that probably the only people that didn't hear this parrot song are occupying a shout forum like twitter because they never listen.

I dare you to use the HN search function on comments and come up with a day nobody mentioned this internal career ladder inside Google.
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It could be worse. At least plastics are relatively inert, unlike other forms of waste.
That's what doesn't work (NAT hole) depending on the endpoint router/firewall. More often than we think.

It all depends on the filter used in the NAT logic in the router. They can depend on any of IP/PORT/Protocol/MAC of the source, and indeed that hadn't been commercially standardize for a long time.

The trouble comes in 'handing off' the discovered address from the TURN server to the peer. The endpoint may or may not accept it, coming from a 'different guy' (the other endpoint now, instead of the TURN server).
That just sounds like shitty procurement, not bad IT.

There's nothing wrong with standardization as long as the standard laptop isn't crap.
I think its a matter of responsibility. KDE is responsible for startup of background applications and not the applications themselves, no? Skype didn't respect this and puts it an update away from being switched back on.
I'm not convinced. It would use every trick in the book to punch holes; stun, upnp, sip, it's own protocol on top of udp, it would even send data over port 80 or 443. And if that failed Skype would use a third Skype client to open a port, or even route the calls through the third party.

I always thought this was the major reason why Skype was so successful. It would penetrate almost any workplace firewall and "just worked" for most people. Shady, yes, but it worked.
> Wouldn't it be fair that tax payers also get something in return of their funding?

What's the purpose of scientific funding: to progress science or to make money?

If the goal is altruistic progression of science, then undoubtedly that's best accomplished through free, nearly-unrestricted publication. That includes both work on nonpatentable fields (fundamental science, or advances too remote from commercialization for a patent timeframe to be viable) and not aggressively pursuing the full suite of IP protections for work that may be patentable.

If the goal is to make money, why should there be public funding in the first place? We don't ordinarily expect the government to run business ventures, and treating science funding like a Bell Labs writ large would be just such a business venture.

On the balance, the situation described in this article appears to be close to an optimal outcome: foundational science happened at a university, but a corporation came in with deep pockets and significantly more funding to work on the commercialization process.
> education is mostly a signalling arms race.

There is certainly a LOT of signaling involved in education. As a college dropout and self taught developer this is intimately clear to me.

However, I have traveled enough of the world and lived enough places to see what happens when education systems are weak or non-existent. I think you underestimate the degree to which high levels of illiteracy and innumeracy absolutely destroy the potential for economic growth and prosperity.

It is possibly true that we (the USA) consume more education than is pragmaticly optimal. However, removing public education would result in a loss of economic output that far exceeds the savings. Predicting who will need that education sufficiently accurately is imposy for both society as a whole and for individuals contemplating their future.
Funnily enough, this entire project sprung out of my trying to replicate the Imperial model a month ago. I found the slow part was the community transmission kernel, and was surprised to find no epidemiological literature on applying fast multipole methods to the problem. I was even _more_ surprised to find there was no easy-to-use black-box fast multipole method implementation out there.

So I wrote one! It felt like a nice balance between 'doing something useful' and 'stepping on epidemiologists' toes'.

Incidentally, I believe the Imperial model solves things by dividing the region up into cells of ~half a km across and assuming everyone in the cell is at the center. I didn't know this when I started the project, but kinda assumed it'd do something like that when I couldn't find any work on FMM in epidemiology.
It doesn't matter; politicians already love it because they appear to be “Doing Something(TM)”, and the ~~commecial arm of NSA~~, er, big tech are excited to provide yet one more surveillance tool. What could go wrong? This year it will be for covid, next year for influenza, then u re just going to have to learn to live with it.
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A few line script I made, to manage todos, if anyone is interested.
How much higher can Uber’s
volume get? They will probably never exceed the volume they were seeing a few months ago and they still managed to lose $8.5 billion last year. How in the world do you increase prices by that much without losing most of your customers? Unfortunately in the age of coronavirus, the irrational exuberance is gone now.
My broad guess is that 50% of resumes have lies throughout. typically you can smell it during an interview, but on occasion the interviewers that are available aren't themselves technical and people slide through.
RISC-V ISA is just a programming interface and non-physical IP.

The license fees for ARM Processor families are mostly for physical IP for microarchitecture.

ARM provides selection of 40+ highly optimized physical processor IP cores for different purposes. Maybe you get eventually similar selection RISC-V architectures but they are not free. It takes lots of full time work to test and optimize those cores. If you write processor core implementation in verilog and give it away free you have done just 10% of the work.
thanks for doing this. YEs, the imperial model seems to be "Simcity for pandemics", but i m not sure why it was considered reliable since it wasnt ever calibrated to match a real world epidemic
The the companies were accurately priced prior to COVID then that would be the case. If companies were in an overvalued bubble before COVID then that would not be the case.
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I did as you suggested but saw no trends that would suggest organised manipulation of comment votes. As for "paid shills", that is entirely supposition on your part. Be aware that there are genuine "fanbois" of Apple, of MS, of Android etc, who are often vociferous and even mob-handed in their devotion. This doesn't imply any orchestration or even complicity by Arstechnica.
Yes. The Fedora Wiki has instructions for enabling tap to click on GNOME, KDE, and XFCE:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_touchpad_click
That's hilarious. It reminds me about the insults and alliterations they throw around on Letterkenny Problems.

https://youtu.be/Z0sq3T5fErQ
Thank you! Yes exactly, and so far the people with the deepest pockets are the marketing people who buy millions of dollars worth of targeted advertising.

I hope that I can find several companies who would "experiment" by putting 1-3% of their adspend budget towards something that actually benefits the world.
wow.. was looking for a tool lime this this week. will give it a try! also, how on earth did you get software.com?!
Many of the ccTLDs are. I don't know about the gTLDs.
I don't hate Java. It was my 2nd or 3rd language, and the one I first used professionally. But O-M-G, this feature exists in most mainstream language and has for the past decade at least.

This is nuts to me how behind Java is. Is it only due to the backward compatibility? Or is there some crazy red tapping every time something is added?
> My favorite which I could not spell out here

Ironic, considering the highly phonemic orthography of Castilian.
Uppercase exports are great once you get used to them. You can know whether an identifier is exported instantly without having to look up its declaration.

Agree that the multiple declaration/assignment syntaxes are unfortunate. Another example of this is that := can't be used for top-level declarations. Once you learn the rules you stop having to think about it, but if the rules were more consistent, they'd be easier to learn.

The other big issue with Go's variables is shadowing. Again, one of those things that you pick up fairly quickly, but will bite newbies a few times.

If-declarations are nice because they restrict the scope of a variable. I like knowing that I can see instantly that a particular variable is only used in three lines.

Defer is a great way to clean up resources without the complexity of destructors and exceptions. Defer is also ubiquitous in code that needs to wrap accessor functions in a mutex. It's been adopted by a few other languages, which shows that it has merit. My only gripe with defer is that it only works on function scope; it'd be nice to have a defer scoped to a for loop.

The other stuff is your personal preference, which I disagree with, but can't argue against :)

I'll add another personal gripe of mine, though: typecasting is indistinguishable from a function call, e.g. Foo(bar) might be calling Foo on bar, or casting bar to type Foo. Those should really have different syntax.
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I feel like your straw manning here. Shouldn't you be criticizing her work and not how she came to do the work? The how is just a story, sure it's fantastical. Sure she probably did drug tourism explicitly. Does that detract from the outcomes? Does it make the data less trustworthy?

I assume you know a little bit about the startup scene since you're reading HN. Do investors buy tech or do they buy compelling stories?
Unless you're more than 700 years old, you're not older than common usage of singular "they" (which entered common usage in the 14th century). It's honestly not that new of a concept.

I'm honestly always a little surprised when this topic comes up with the number of people who find this grammatically jarring. To be fair, I am fairly young, but I do remember learning about singular "they" while I was in primary school in the early 2000s. Is the issue that this isn't taught in US schools, hence all the confusion?
That's good points Schneier does not make in this post imho. The conditioning / slippery slope argument also applies to countries that currently go with the, imho, more sensible architecture of DP3T. We've seen worrying calls for including a bunch of additional features in Germany, e.g. (voluntary) epidemiological data collection and an "immunity pass" (not from the government yet but still, worrying). I think the privacy community, at least in my bubble of the internet, was excited that the scientific consensus of DP3T > PEPP-PT/ROBERT/(the NHS approach) won out over lobby interests and from their perspective was deemed the safer option.

It's not like they aren't discussing the broader implications of digital contact tracing from a bunch of angles, and I see calls for evaluating the proportionality and efficacy of these apps on Twitter pretty much daily. OTOH I don't really see how shallow dismissals of "it's plain dumb" like this blog post help the overall discussion honestly.
encryption password ≠ root password , at least not for me :-)
Where did you get this "90% of the time" statistic? "I believe"?
I think RISCV will just end up occupying the same space that MIPS did before --- ultra low cost (and performance) devices.
Iirc, the last time I looked into this, .test is the recommended TLD to use because it’s reserved for non-production use I.e. it will never be bought or sold.
Would it be so hard to use less packaging on foods, especially snacks? It's ridiculous, why does a brownie need 3 layers of packaging?

I only drink carbonated water, so I use one plastic bottle that's always with me lol (I do throw them away after a week or so as they get dirty), but it would be nice if more people did that. Not really possible for soft drinks though.
Install urbit. Boot a comet (free). Join the chat groups. Ask for a planet (free). While not certain, in my experience, if Tlon people see interest, they’ll send you a planet. Or maybe just write to their support, they are super responsive.
I am scared to use full disk encryption or $HOME encryption because of potential loss of speed, hardware failures because of fragmenting or SSD grinding, the inability to use file recovering tools and being locked out if anything goes wrong. I just read changing the password might lock me out if the key is encrypted (or something).

Any tips?
They're the guys buying .org so they can jack up the prices.
I'm a former life insurance and annuity pricing actuary (credentialed). When you say actuarial loss, I think you mean the mortality margin (aka underwriting profit) is zero. No insurance company wants a product priced (or experiencing) a negative mortality margin. Zero is OK for some products.

Insurance companies do not crave float (aka reserves and required capital). Capital requirements in the life insurance business are onerous and interest rates are at historic lows. Regulatory requirements encourage diversified, highly-rated, fixed income investments, so the spread on what products are crediting (e.g. whole life, universal life, etc) vs. what bonds are earning is greatly diminished.

Companies and investors would rather have minimal capital requirements with high income cashflow from underwriting profits. This is the reason that the main benchmark of insurance companies is Return on Equity (ROE).
I didn't think his tone was being condescending and superior but I may have missed it. But then again, I care more about the topic than the tone one uses.

I've had to use Microsoft teams for university lectures and I've faced the same issue. I hadn't bothered to solve it thinking I'll get rid of it as soon as the situation gets back to normal, but there are legitimate issues here that you easily dismiss with your comment.

- Microsoft teams shouldn't _by default_ autostart on my computer.

- Microsoft teams should respect the platform's settings (KDE autostart settings).

These issues are not negated by having a button in settings that stops this irritating behavior.
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Which would be completely impossible to obtain without giving the profits to the rich.

It wasn't science or engineering that built the modern world, it was privatisation.

(end of sarcasm)We won't get the technology we want, we will get the technology Google wants us to have. We will get decades of fighting Google over their abuse of the technology. We will get an Edward Snowden releasing files to show how Google allowed Governments to spy on their own people, with the technology.

Or just live in your bubble, whatever.
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Yeh if you want to use Java from 10 years from now minus alot of garbage and questionable decisions in Java look into Kotlin which is also 100% interoperable with Java libraries so you can lean on decades of code.

We switched from Java+Spring to Kotlin+Spring and havent looked back in a few years now, for backend microservices
https://twitter.com/eredmil1/status/1255934130753204224 this had preliminary results on questionnaires w.r.t. user acceptance . This https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/scie... paper looks at how effective it is given N% of the population using it and I've not seen any info that it hurt the situation in Singapore.
Then we should ask, can we fund them more? Moreover, if we don't live in California, can we lobby our states to help pay for the Cali AG?
I have a theory that plays into that, which is that Google wants new projects all the time, even if they are new projects, because they think it will keep them relevant and prevent them from being seen like the IBM of our day. Hangouts is a perfectly good product, but that's so 2013!
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Yes. Still, I thought the comment you responded to made a refreshing change from 100 successive HN comments saying they have to watch youtube videos at 1.5x speed cause they're boring and a waste of time otherwise! Can't please everyone I guess.
Vanguard’s VT tracks the world (including US). They have other indices that exclude the US.
I'm in my 30s and I grew up in Sydney. I have never ever heard the phrase "fair suck of..." until your post. Mind you, the first time I had ever heard any phrase involving sauce bottles was Rudd's famous usage. Which I feel brought it back into common parlance. With people mostly using it as an ironic exaggeration of country slang, and in tribute to Rudd.

It's worth noting, that Rudd was an actual country kid. While certainly not representative the average Australian, he would definitely have been exposed to more authentic bush slang than most.