skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All international organizations have the same handling of Taiwan. It's not a WHO specific issue, it extends to basically every other similar intergovernmental organization you can think of, even the ones that aren't specialized agencies of the UN (which the WHO is), like INTERPOL.
I'm also glad we have a WHO as central point of information and knowledge.

But the WHO could have been more careful with how they put out information.
For example: "...no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission,...". This was a true statement, there was no evidence at that time. But they also knew what was going on in China. They could have asked themselves: what if it is human-to-human transmittable? Then they would have never used those words, because those words downplayed the potential risks.

I agree with you the media (and governments) blew this up later when the evidence was there. The WHO never said it was not human-to-human transmittable, but words were taken out of context and suddenly the WHO was to blame.
As a start, the latter of the two options you mentioned.Any insights on the best way to go about that?
* How to exploit it
WHO, being staffed by scientists, should recognize that Taiwan indeed exists, that it has its own government that responded to the pandemic, and that China is not in charge there. Pretending otherwise leads to losing credibility, as everyone knows Taiwan does indeed exist. I've actually seen it.
What's a way to get consent without asking?
The ISPs happily allow brute-force bots to smash away at anything that provides remote access (SSH, RDP, VNC). Why would a web server be considered different?
> which are obviously implanted by the US media narative

As a non-american, please don't speak for us all. Also, using word "obviously" doesn't substitute for factual evidence. There are plenty of people skeptical about WHO's handling of the situation outside US too.
One of the issues I have with todays world is this attitude most have to stopping education once you hit ~21 for the majority of people.

I genuinely believe the world would be a better place if we had as much support for people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, to go back into education as we do for 18-21 year olds going to university.

I didn't have the opportunity to go to university at 18 for a number of reasons (some fault of my own and some not) and would love to go now but it just isn't realistic without negatively impacting my life (mostly financially) for a few years.

Sure you can argue "if you really wanted to do it you would" and that is a fair point but I don't feel the struggle should be so high. Why can't we make it easier for someone in their 30s or 40s, for example, to get a degree and change the direction of their life? So many people are where they are now and cannot change that because the start of their life was disadvantaged through no fault of their own. Now they are adults, give them the chance to be more.

I know I know I am being idealistic but I just hate seeing people with so much potential going to waste because they lost some geographic/privilege lottery at birth.

While I have questions regarding things like UBI I do hope that with automation changing how we work that we invest more in education for older people as well.
GitHub's been banned in the past. It made development work near impossible, so they unbanned it.
The price needs to be at or below $0.09 for people to just unlock the news and read on, no thinking.

An online newspapers might make $3 per thousand views, plastering ads everywhere and maybe videos. That means they survive with way less than 1 penny per view. They have no excuse to try to charge orders of magnitude more.
New employees 4 and 5 are completely fictitious and only exist in your imagination/reality bubble. In the real world no mortal has ever learned how to use Emacs in 2 hours to be able to work effectively. And like the OC said the documentation for extra packages are horrible, full of bugs and may take additional week to understand how to use effectively.
Not very unpopular, any rational actor would not blame WHO for a lot, CCP maybe for few things. The US has screwed up big time for the richest nation, it's state and central govt and people all have acted completely orthogonal of common sense and now they need a scapegoat.
The difference here (as often is the case when comparing industrial vs. consumer equipment) is that the Tesla motor is rated for peak load under favourable conditions while the industrial motor is rated for continuous load under worst-case conditions. That 3hp industrial motor will run at 3hp shaft power at its maximum rated temperature for its rated operational life.

Many DIY electric car conversions use DC motors rated between 9hp and 20hp. They routinely get 100-200hp+ out of these motors for a few seconds at a time.
I'm trying to understand how this solves the trust problem. Let's suppose the Americans are visiting Russia to inspect some Russian weapons as part of a treaty. The Americans show up with their detectors built around the 6502 processor. Even though it's allegedly a simple design, are the Russians going to trust that the Americans haven't hidden something more sophisticated inside the 6502's DIP package to collect more info than they're supposed to? If you have an unlimited budget, you could manufacture something that looks just like a vintage 6502, but has lots of secret capability inside.

The same problem exists if the Russian's supply the detectors to the Americans. Will the Americans trust that the Russians haven't created a 6502 package that's capable of cheating the test?

I'm imagining a possible solution as follows: The Americans go to Russia with 5 identical detection systems. The Russians randomly choose 4 systems to destructively analyze (X-ray or decapsulation of 6502, etc.). When the Russians are satisfied that the 6502 is real and isn't hiding any extra features in any of the 4 systems they test, the Americans are allowed to proceed with the inspection using their one remaining detection system.

Is that how it's supposed to work in practice?
> and my only question is why did it take these people so long to realize they were working for Evil Corp?

Everyone has a different tolerance on how much bullshit they'll tolerate near them.

As for "overpaid": I'd wish more employees, not just across the IT industry but everywhere, were paid according to the value they create for the business with their work. At the moment, many see labor costs as a "race to the bottom" with most value going to shareholders - unsustainable for society in the long term, as all the stuff that companies are selling needs buyers, and it will get really nasty if the only ones able to afford more than absolutely necessary items such as food and clothing without going deep in debt are a couple of rich elites.
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Concept drifts are battle deciding factors in Data Science
Kind of inherent to its nature, pressure sensing device like TrackPoint has too much precision and dynamic range to be hardware zeroed.

Instead the firmware takes average value over time and regard that as the current neutral, and if your finger is on it longer than that integration period, the sum of mechanical imperfection, planetary gravity, heat, whatever noise AND weight of your finger all combined becomes a new zero point.

The solution is to lift your finger off of TrackPoint and letting it wander until pointer stops. There’s nothing mechanically wrong or damaging in and around that, again, just how it is. Same as how digital kitchen scales or body weight scales need to calibrate itself upon powerup, except TrackPoint does it on the fly.
Almost every single one of their statements during this entire crisis has echoed CCP propaganda. From saying that it was not transmissible between humans, to calling travel restrictions xenophobic, refusing to acknowledge that Taiwan exists. I could go on...
We still don’t even know whether immunity to this lasts more than a few months (as is common with other coronaviruses). So it’s premature to talk about herd immunity regardless.
because there is enough people who are resistant in the population that virus can no longer spread
What makes you think immunity is the reason for Sweden's R-value decline? From what I can tell, Swedes are applying social distancing, just without strongarming from the government. That seems like a much more likely cause for the decline than immunity. Or do you hou have any statistics about Swedish immunity?
Hero of our own story bias? The incentives are lined up to make naivete very comfortable for some people.
I imagine that a large percentage (maybe 10%, maybe more) of the children in Sweden have been infected because they have more daily contacts and they "work" in crowded rooms. I am thinking that the kids could achieve herd immunity with very few deaths. Of course, any old person living with kids would have a large chance of dying (maybe more than 5% if over 70).
I think this is at odds with how they achieved that result to begin with. To become the best you have to be willing to experiment. It makes sense to keep iterating the process so long as you continue the majority of good practices and return to a previous iteration if it doesn't work out.
This version is from before Infocom was founded.
But what do you mean "obsolete"? They are still by far the simplest solution for passing a session ID with all HTTP requests.
I‘m „non-American“ and pretty glad that at least some nation in the world is not keeping their mouths shut about the research CCP did in those low safety standards Wuhan labs, and about how CCP is desperately trying to change the narrative. This has to be discussed. There is good reason not to buy all this animal-origin theory research coming from mainland China and there is good reason to criticise WHO if they are publicly following this narrative at this point.

You can point me to a case where the US endangered the whole world with a global pandemic by covering up an outbreak for months if you can find one.
The same reasons a vast number of HN works in either adtech, or companies which don't employ or give benefits to their janitors but have them as contractors, or have very poor privacy, or have a huge rent seeking mindset due to their monopolistic position, and several other unethical companies.

It's because it gives them challenging problems, and money to continue their current lifestyle as is.

If people here are working in companies whose behaviour they find totally ethical in all regards, please give your employer a shout. It will help widen the perspective of others.
This seems to be a "look over there" response. China had a big issue. In Netherlands not much was done. Italy had big issues. Netherlands ignored it. It spread to Netherlands, suddenly extreme measures had to be taken. Meanwhile, not much was done in USA, aside from things like "meh, everything will probably be fine".

Now instead of acknowledging that things went wrong, it's because of someone else, say WHO. And China!

UK had a report saying that a pandemic was the biggest threat. They recommended a tactical amount of ventilators to be kept, plus various other actions. Nothing was done.

> If ever there was a time to take action, point fingers

Blaming doesn't really help anything IMO. Figure out the various causes and take action on them. Blaming, too easy.
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Deep Learning for Programmers book 0.18.0 released (GPU, CPU)
Printed materials (books, newspaper) used to be justified manually. Is it still the case?
An advertising company knows I travelled to wikivoyage and spent lots of time reading about Thailand.

They then know that I (same cookie) visited cnn and read about Ebola

They then know I visited a cycle magazine and read about a new bike.

With proxying they wouldn’t be able to link those three visits together (with cookie data)

When I visit a fourth site, it’s a brand new visit - there is no way for the advertising. Company to know I’m the same version who visited the previous sites.
I believe that in Japan, they deal with this disparity by asking the top students to help teach others in the class. It seems like an interesting approach in that teaching something well requires a much higher bar of understanding than doing well on a test, and it’s an excellent way to reinforce knowledge for the one doing the teaching.

So the top students get a more difficult challenge than just coasting along, and the other students benefit as well. And, of course, it promotes teamwork and solidarity.

I’m sure there are downsides too. Perhaps it could create tension between the “teacher’s pets” and the others?
In the same city district as the wet market that was visited by a number of the first cases, there is a Chinese laboratory that does research on bat coronaviruses, and that has had accidents and international criticism on its safety in the past.

It is hard to provide evidence, but the accusation is that it somehow originated there.

Scientists seem to agree that it isn't an engineered virus, but that doesn't mean it isn't a wild virus first transmitted from bats to humans in that lab.
One could even say the swedish are experiencing stockholm syndrome right now...
Probably some big event had to happen to put a giant spot light, though if you read the comments in the previous HN thread there are many that still don't see any problem with Amazon, as long as someone gets paid 1 cent and can quit then you can exploit the person to the limit the laws allow you.
I have looked at the fact that the United States formally endorses the Chinese position on the 'One China' policy, and its president repeatedly thanked China for its transparency over Coronavirus and conciuded that the United States is also a mouthpiece of the CCP...
are they censoring things like the concentration camps that China has with over a million people in them? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063
Taiwan's handling of Covid-19 is based on WHO's advice. Same for Korea.
They experienced SARS, MERS (for Korea), and prepared.

The WHO have been working on pandemic scenarios for years. They worked out plans to prepare and respond, they alerted on the risk.

The attacks against them are crass political games by desperate and inept politicians.
It's more fun. You have complete control and you learn more. It's like building a Morse code key from spare parts rather than buying one from the store.

Having said that, I think NearlyFreeSpeech provides a great web hosting service for pennies a day for those who don't want to host at home. I've used them for years. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing
First, this doesn't belong on HN.

Second, we already know for weeks or months that ferrets and cats are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2—they even find it in their feces. This paper was released to preprint in March 31st and today is May 8th: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.015347v1

Third, virologists and especially those who have studied Coronaviruses for decades say the intermediate species could not have been a pangolin: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-609/

I recommend HN mods lock or delete this thread.
I went to look since you didn't quote it:
"The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.[1] The WHO Constitution, which establishes the agency's governing structure and principles, states its main objective as ensuring "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.

So what have they done or are doing to stop the pandemic? Like, really, what?
You can downvote here?
Sweden has also very low population density. And then there is the question of why countries like Japan are such an outlier. I think we're forgetting that models can't be replicated across countries due to possible differences in individual strains.
I’ve been curious to play Zork ever since the first episode of Chuck.
A conspiracy is any agents coming together, even if unknowingly, to a achieve a common objective. This is very directly what you wrote whether or not it is factual, though the writing appears very much an opinion.
I don't think this quote implies that cache invalidation is badly named. It's just one hard thing to do. To me the point of this quote / the joke is the off-by-one error applying to this list itself.

To me, the original quote, "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things" is intended to be striking by putting naming things at the same level of difficulty as cache invalidation, while naming things might seem an easy problem… at first. The point of the quote is to be a warning on the fact that while cache invalidation is notoriously hard, naming things is hard too.
The WHO refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan exists. Your comment is laughable. If anything the WHO has learned from Taiwan not the other way around.
Hong Kong’s mass arrests are giving police crucial intelligence: people’s phones
Which is almost precisely what happened. Cincinnati is notorious for this sort of thing.
He's not an MD, but he is a doctor. He has a doctorate in community health, a masters in immunology of infectious diseases, and a bachelors in biology.

Is there a specific reason to think that a "microbiologist and internationally recognized malaria researcher" with a doctorate in community health will naturally perform much worse as WHO director than an MD?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom
From scratch, uses Intel's DNNL and MKL, and Nvidia's cuDNN as backends, with a sprinkle of Clojure's niceties.
Innovation management, an ISO standard is in the work[1], this will help smooth out any irregularities in the consulting industry, by standardising how to innovate, leading to improved ideation of the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_TC_279
Oh great, I probably have a vulnerable tablet (SM-T719 if anyone's curious). However, it's rooted, so no firmware updates for me for years now. And stock ROMs are almost impossible to download.

Does anyone know how to get this tablet at least somehow secure?
Yes firefox is good option. Sendgb is from Estonia. Sendgb allows file transfer up to 5 GB. File are storages up to 90 days for free. Nobody knows which one is more safety.
Sometimes big services have more security problems...like Dropbox, wetransfer etc...
Working on an activity book for kids and was contemplating writing something like this, and then realized it was definitely non-trivial. Thanks for the work!
A ~1% of world's population, the entirety of which is naive [0], is still a huge toll.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-naive
Who is getting paid 1 cent though? Or are you unaware of the fact that Amazon pays in the top percentile for warehouse work?
> And saying that WHO should be dismantled because of some errors on Covid handling (while working with early and unreliable data)

I think they should know better than to publish, what will largely be interpreted as facts, based on what they clearly know is unreliable data.
The problem is leaders should not be basing decisions on a tweet but by listening to experts they have at hand. e.g. someone like Fauci would have told what that tweet means.

The second point, none of the nations did do anything different on 23rd Jan when WHO confirmed the H2H transmission and its severity, so how did that tweet made any difference?
The WHO is an international organization trying to do its best in a complex international political field. They can't straight away say Taiwan is independent or they will be banned from China and what good would it actually do. The best they can do is avoid answering this kind of question which they unsurprisingly did.

Also, please stop paroting the Republican media nonsense. The WHO did warn of human to human transmission in January [1]. They also didn't say travel restrictions were xenophobic by the way. They said they were not usually the solution to this problem while robust contact tracing, isolation and testing broadly were. A recommendation a lot of governments have apparently found very hard to follow.

You can't deny facts but the facts you are putting forward just don't exist.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/who-cited-huma...
Technically herd immunity occurs when R=1, people will continue to be infected after that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics
Can't get much clear cut than a C executive stating it has been open sourced.
With this mindset and approach the US will continue to have 20 million + unemployed all the way through Christmas.
Years ago I had a job task that involved potentially writing a lot of expect code. Pretty quickly I found and switched to pexpect[0]. As someone who likes python I found it worlds ahead in terms of usability and I would suggest anyone considering expect today should also take a look at pexpect.

0. https://pypi.org/project/pexpect/
Which company isn't Evil Corp? I can argue for most every company small and large out there being "evil" in some tangible way.
Do you know of any corporate PR & communication primer? Extra credit for wisdom on how to assess someone's PR-fu.

Your comment makes me now realize I have no idea what "marcom" actually is.

I've worked with two superior marketing people in my career. One was also superior with "marcom" (short for marketing communications, their term). I just got lucky. I have zero idea how I'd find, recruit another.

I've worked with some messaging people for activism, politics. Most notably David Domke [1]. But again, other than seek out a recognized expert, I have zero idea how to judge someone's efforts. While some of the notions may transfer to other domains, I'd just be guessing.

[1] Previously http://www.com.washington.edu/domke/ Currently https://commonpurposenow.org/david
I'm not an expert in this, but I think Twine is one well-supported option. In general the genre is called "Interactive Fiction" these days, and there's a bunch of engines for it, both graphical and non-. There's a broad overview here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction#Software
Matrix: community funded, clearly stated

Signal: ?Brian Acton?
If the propagation of a virus is similar to a fire running through a population, herd immunity is analogous to a backfire.

If most of the people are immune, the fire has no combustible to propagate and it stops.

The level at which this happens depends on the ease at which the virus spreads. If it spreads easily, herd immunity kicks in much later than in the reverse case.
This still does not justify this bizarre behavior by the WHO representative.
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I about to be a little pedantic so forgive this link but: https://phys.org/news/2016-07-rope-years.amp

More on point, if all of these intellectuals were hanging out in the amazon, bored, why didn't they come up with long term data storage like clay tablets and writing? Why didn't they write their combinatorics proofs in stone? I know you're not really saying they had combinatorics, but a few millennia of frustrated brain boxes should leave some kind of legacy, especially in the totally physical space they lived and worked in.
The laboratory people like pointing at is a biosafety level 4 facility. The entire purpose is to allow safely studying the most dangerous diseases the world has.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level