skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation, please.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/doctors-...

Quoting the article, and if you go there, there are numerous links to the actual studies:

Some physicians and scientists in the United States have lately also announced findings that the disease is getting weaker. One of them, Donald Yealy—the chair of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center—claims that "some patterns [of COVID-19] suggest the potency is diminished."

"The virus may be changing," he said earlier this week, adding that fewer people in the Pittsburgh area are contracting the disease, and the infections themselves appear weaker.

Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, told media after Yealy's remarks that neither the virus's transmissibility nor its severity have diminished as Yealy claimed. Yet several other American scientists, including some at Arizona State University, announced findings in May that could bolster claims that the virus is less deadly than it once was.

The scientists at ASU said that they had detected a gene deletion in one sample from several hundred Arizona patients that potentially reduced the fitness of the disease. Notably, they claimed it was similar to a deleted sequence observed in the 2003 SARS virus that was observed near the end of that disease's epidemic—possibly signaling that COVID-19 may be bound for a similar fate.

Those conclusions were echoed by scientists in Spain this week, who proposed that COVID-19 may have adopted what the researchers call a "don't burn down the house" strategy, "reducing the severity of the infection and tissue damage without losing transmission capability." In effect, the disease could be opting to become less lethal so that it can spread more easily—a hallmark of evolutionary behavior, and also a boon for anyone who gets infected with the milder strain.

Data do appear to indicate that the virus may be losing its edge. The statistics website Worldometers, for instance, shows an unmistakably lopsided trend: Though the number of confirmed global cases has been increasing since the start of the pandemic, the number of global deaths has been trending downward since mid-April.

If that pattern holds, it may point to the conclusion that these few skeptical doctors are correct: That the coronavirus, like SARS before it, will eventually burn out in part due to its own viral mechanisms, without the need for a vaccine or for lockdown measures that have slowed the global economy.
You’ll get the ability to downvote when you reach about 500 karma.
Only for the 1%
Ask HN: Looking for research done with shallow CNNs and lo-res data
Isn’t that the premise in Silicon Valley where Gavin(?) has the young guy giving him blood/plasma
I can't find the source for it now but there was a story on Marketplace probably a year ago about how a lot of Western companies were scared to report the theft for years to their respective governments due to the fear that if the Chinese government found out, they could be at risk of losing their license to operate in China.
Here's a GIF of the belt trick they're talking about in the paper: https://www.gregegan.net/images/DiracAnimation.gif
^^ This ^^
I like water cooling, but there is no replacement for displacement.

You can have higher tech radiators with better fins along with better fans and airflow modelling etc of course.

But it is always better if there is more of it.
There is also this study which says smoking in young adult increases the risk of Covid progression - https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418081/1-3-young-adults-ma...
Beheaded, Dismembered Tech Entrepreneur Found in Luxe NYC Apartment
Yeah. Once you’re above a certain level of karma points you can downvote.

I can downvote but rarely do it. Also a comment can only be downvoted 4 times. After that downvotes are not counted anymore if I remember correctly.
The Last Grain Race
And more generally, always question the authenticity of any information you receive electronically (email, SMS, PMs, websites etc.), as a basic security principle. "Are they asking for something valuable?". In this case red flags are obviously 1. bitcoin, 2. too good to be true, 3. why would these people just give out money randomly.

In the future the scope may grow to include visual and audio communications which could be faked using AI.
If your only argument to not providing a mate was "the state of the world", I would say yes. There are other arguments that carry far more weight in that regard.

It's extremely weak/arrogant to take a look at "the state of the world" (typically via news/blogs/etc) and then declare you absolutely know the future, and it sucks so hard that there's no way your children will have a decent life under any circumstances, regardless of your personal situation.

There are many valid reasons not to have kids, "the state of the world" isn't one of them unless you're living in the middle of one of those negative news stories, and then it's less "the state of the world" and more "the state of my immediate surroundings", which is far more reasonable.
Codepen collection: Draw with code (nice for young coders and artists)
I have a cartoon penguin as my LinkedIn profile picture. I’ve considered changing it to an actual photo of me to appear less “unprofessional”. But, I never have and honestly I don’t think I ever will. Why do people need to see what I look like to consider giving me a job?
Understand Terraform (infra-as-code) in 5 minutes
> I was still getting tons of messages after covid and shelter in place started. My snapshot is from 2 months ago, not 4 months ago. Covid definitely caused some drop-off but not much tbh, I still got a ton of recruiters who are playing the long game.

https://twitter.com/yipe/status/1278504924284772352
What is US Tax Day?
You're referring to the CPE which is owned and managed by the ISP just as they own and manage other routers in their network.

The other person said that they can push firmware to private modems though, which is not possible without that modem being configured to accept such pushes.

Perhaps you're thinking of CWMP (TR-069) which is a protocol that ISPs often use to push configs to modems configured to receive them, but again, it cannot be used to arbitrarily flash the firmware of private modems.
The strangest thing about jumping through big tech corp take home projects and multiple interviews is they then place you in their internal training boot camp and you realize why didn't you just stick me in here in the first place then rank my results when we finished training instead of wasting money for a week shopping me around departments so highly paid senior employees could all stop what they were doing just to have a go at me with the whiteboard and multiple on site lunches.
I wonder if this will help solve problems created by shelter in place. It seems like it would be easy to spin up a website to stream classes to students using this.
This would be sweeter if TwitterDev was now compromised.
I agree. My profile picture is not of me, either, but one of those generic "web avatar" thingies that kinda vaguely looks like me.
The hack itself, on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275
It really is insane to do this during COVID-19 where companies know that the US is on track for a second lockdown and thus slowing hiring. And doubly so around July which is EOFY and where hiring is massively impacted either side of this date.

Also I am probably unique but I prefer keeping my work and home lives very seperate and wouldn't be that keen to work with someone who was so publicly looking to blur that boundary.
Agglomerators vs. Specialists
You shouldn't say that anyway, since the protocol is called Matrix
Is the address also sending out money? It appears that way.
The proliferation of half-baked services at AWS needs to end. There are way too many services that are just enticing enough to get you to play around with it, but then you realize it's totally crippled and unusable for most actual workflows, or that someone else already does it way better. They need to focus on a few that are commercially viable and let other companies prove out the rest.
I'm honestly suspicious of anyone that posts photos of their young children on public social media. It shows poor judgment and security/privacy precautions.

I think the point of this post was that they're trying to show that somebody who publicly demonstrates a commitment to their family, vs full time dedication to career, will be offered fewer senior roles.

But I see it from a different perspective. How would you feel as a 14 or 16 year old teenager someday in the future knowing that your parents had posted hundreds, or possibly thousands of photos of you from birth up to early teenage years all over the internet with no privacy precautions whatsoever?

I think at least some of us are fortunate enough to have grown up in the time period before widespread full-saturation use of camera phones, and parents who take pictures of literally everything and share it publicly as widely as possible.
I use the historical perspective to illuminate how far back the orthodoxy goes; we can‘t undo that orthodoxy within two or three generations. Women are raped, stalked, harassed, and murdered because men feel they are property, and they feel that way because of lingering orthodoxy. Black people are cut out of spaces and disallowed the same dignity as others because people feel they are uneducated or dangerous, and they feel that way because of lingering orthodoxy.

Yes, the orthodoxy of one’s immediate circle is important, but human society is interwoven across many levels. Some orthodoxies result in uncomfortable Twitter arguments. Other orthodoxies lead to the election of a sociopathic dimwit who has led a completely failed pandemic response that has left 140,000 dead and triggered the greatest economic crisis of the last century (if not more).

To say that a progressive orthodoxy is a threat at this time is to claim that a fire ant is a threat in a wildfire.
My guess is that major apps will simply ignore Linux phones, until they get noticeable adoption.

The web is the only saving grace for any of the upstart mobile devices and new operating system projects, when it comes to compatibility with incumbent/major apps.

That's also why open protocols/APIs/formats, data portability, are important. So that people who care can write an independent clients. One of the banks I use has an open, docummented JSON API for end users (as a basic feature of the regular bank account, that everyone gets access to by default). I can easily write a bank app for that, to be able to do some basic account overview and wire transfer payments.

It's not a locked down platform, so if security means that everything has to be signed/verified/locked down and unmodifiable by the user, then it will not pass.
At this point people are only doing it for trolling reasons
That actually makes the most sense to me. Even makes me wonder about whether it could be an insider leak - someone who knows of an unadvertised exploit that has been patched internally and sold it at the last minute or something.
I'm so sorry. As a person with a LinkedIn account, I can't even imagine what your lived experience must be like. But please know that I'm open to learning.
How long has Bitcoin working without any central institution?
Would you bring your kid to the job interview? Being able to separate your work and family life is important to productivity.

It's not discrimination, it's that the author lacks professional boundaries.
One per Twitter account would have worked better in this case.
The market crash happened in mid March, and immediately started to recover. I don't think that had anything to do with it.
I have an android phone with a custom UBPorts build maintained by an XDA forums member. It runs many android apps very well within anbox. I have tested many apps from F-Droid with success. Even the android buttons (recents, go back) work which is very convenient in android apps.

Right now the performance is better than on my pinephone but there are also some issues, like Libertine not working correctly.

The main issue with anbox right now is that video/audio playback does not work. Apps like NewPipe and AntennaPod run fine except that no playback is possible (results in blackscreen).

Dual booting a linux distribution with something like glodroid seems like a promising solution!
Constantly Dismissing Apple Reminders
Covid lockdowns started 4 months ago. Companies took longer to react. Google only rescinded contractor offers end of May. My organization was hiring right through April. Things take time to propagate.
At this point, no one really knows much other than that they've managed to get several prominent Twitter accounts to post scam messages. There were also replies posted and tweets pinned and recovery emails reset, so the attack seems deeper than just "ability to post a new tweet".

Some accounts were protected with 2FA, so it probably is some exploit in the API which affects many accounts (possibly all?), some intrusion in the Twitter infrastructure, or some exploit which allows people to hijack accounts. But that's really just an educated guess.

Considering it doesn't seem fixed yet, I'm not even sure the Twitter people have a complete understanding of what's going on yet.
I used to have a Sidekick, I could type out texts so fast with that thing. Weren't there a few big celebrities who had their Sidekicks hacked back then?
Doubt it, that would open up too many vectors on an otherwise easily anonymized operation.
There are plenty of companies thoroughly locked in to AWS infrastructure. They don't need to lure in new companies with these services (though the wide variety helps). The point is to get companies already locked in to start using these services and lock themselves in more, so they have even more difficulty ever leaving.
I really don't like seeing this cited as a "proof" that 0-based indexing of lists is better. It is too shallow and ignores too many important facets of the question.

The main contrast Dijkstra is drawing is between closed and half open intervals. Typically, the choice "starting from one" is tied to "closed" intervals, but that's not strictly necessary. Nothing stops you from using half-open intervals on Lua lists any more than you can used closed intervals to index into C arrays.

The main advantage of the typical coupling is avoiding `+`s and `-`s in your "typical" loops over the first n indices:

for i = 1, n do -- closed
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { // half open

but what if you want to go in reverse? Getting the _final_ indexes requires arithmetic with half-open intervals, but it doesn't with closed (which also requires changing the operator from exclude-eq to include-eq):

for i = n, 1, -1 do -- closed
for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) { // half open

Of course, probably the most important property of half-open intervals is the way that they can be broken down into two disjoint intervals: `[A, C) = [A, B) U [B, C)`. But if your indexes are integers this is straightforward with closed intervals too: `[A, C] = [A, B - 1] U [B, C]` or `[A, C] = [A, B] U [B + 1, C]`.

But again, if you're using this property, you probably don't actually care about the "absolute" indexes at all; indexing with `[1, #list + 1)` isn't a problem _at all_ in Lua.

Plus, between the operations of "get final index" and "split interval into non-overlapping pieces", "get final index" is far more common (it's crucial to stacks, queues, etc, in addition to various uses like iterating backwards). Choosing "closed" intervals is then the cleaner option to avoid an ugly "+" or "-"!

Dijkstra mentions that requiring -1 to refer to an initial interval as "ugly" since -1 is not a valid index, but he has no qualms with using the length of the list, n, and allowing it to not be an index!

This is all said without even going into the awkwardness of having [k] being the {k+1}th element (e.g., [4] is how we write "fifth" in C -- I distinctly remember at least one conversation at work where the wrong thing was communicated because someone said "fourth" to mean [4])

Now, don't take this as a serious argument that 0-indexed-lists are inferior to 1-indexed lists. It's just a demonstration that it's easy to argue either side. That's because it's really just an unimportant convention. Pick one and stick with it and everything will work fine, modulo confusion about what "fourth" means.
Literally no one stops tracing you when you opt out.
https://github.com/in3rsha/sha256-animation
There's a big difference between symmetric and public key cryptography when it comes to this sort of explainability.

Public key cryptography like RSA, Elliptic Curves and Lattices have elegant mathematical theories behind them. Learning those will teach you much about why things are the way they are and how the security boils down to well known hard problems.

Symmetric key cryptography like SHA2, SHA3 and AES don't have nearly as much theory behind them. It's a bit of a dark art where functions are designed to thwart known attacks. There is no foundation like a proof that shows breaking SHA2 is equivalent to prime factorization or anything like that.

This doesn't necessarily have to be the case, there is research in 'provable secure hash functions', but these tend to perform worse, and we value performance a lot in symmetric crypto.
Many OSs have put effort into supporting these devices.

I don't like the "powered by Linux" and "postmarketOS" branding in the device.

What if I buy it to run netbsd on it?
I knocked together a little simulation.

Suppose programming ability is normally distributed with a mean of 100 and and SD of 15 (values cribbed from IQ). A team starts with 10 people drawn from that population.

More applicants are drawn from that population: if an applicant's ability is above the median of the current team, they are hired, replacing a randomly-selected member of the team; otherwise, we pass.

At the first timestep, half the applicants get hired right away. It takes a few hundred total failed interviews to make the 25th hire, and a few hundred thousand(!) for the 100th hire. These have very long tails too: the longest run (of 1000) took 800M total interviews to hire 100 people.

There's no way this rule is actually being applied in practice.
That dude is talking the exact way a lot of execs think. If this is due to one person's screw-up, that person is going to get railroaded out of the company's back door.

I saw this happen before. A newish IT guy accidentally deployed a script to a few hundred machines that took down the whole worldwide intranet for a multi-billion dollar juggernaut for an hour or so. He was supposedly forgiven, but ended up on a "performance improvement plan" where he had a bunch of impossible tasks, and every shortcoming was documented to use against him until he was fired.

I wish things worked the way you think they do, or if not that way, I wish they'd at least just shitcan the dude on the spot (with a few months' severance) and be done with it.
> Programmers largely oppose industry-wide regulation

...of programming (because the regulation would never be able to catch up to the state of the art), sure. Of HR practices? I don't think I've ever heard an engineering lead lament that their company's restrictive HR practices prevent them from testing candidates the way they want.

> and it's not something that a single company alone can fix

Sure they can: micro-credentials. Someone needs to be the CompTIA of tiny programming challenges, where you prove once-and-for-all (in a proctored situation) that you can solve FizzBuzz or whatever, and get that fact recorded in some database.

Hopefully, candidates could then put their MicroCredentialsCorp username on their resumes or into companies' application forms or what-have-you; and then first-stage HR automation (the same kind that matches resumes to keywords) could run through a bunch of RESTful predicate-endpoints checks like https://api.example.com/u/derefr/knows/fizzbuzz (which would return either a signed+timestamped blob of credential JSON, or a 404.)

Hopefully also, allow anyone to create a test (maybe have the end of that HTTP route just represent the username+repo of a GitHub repo where an executable test for the micro-skill lives?), such that these micro-credentials can live or die not by central supply, but rather by market demand.

(I think someone suggested doing this with a blockchain once, but there's really no need for that.)
To clarify, by a senior engineer I don't mean a manager, I meant someone that is going to contribute technically in a meaningful way to a project (by writing code). I feel like it's a big red sign if the candidate doesn't know how to write a for loop. People will lie about experiment when they are desperate for work. Moreover, there are some people that are just great at talking...
Please go ahead and do it.
The reason that we stopped building nuclear wasn't because of anti-nuclear forces, but because of terrible mismanagement of builds in the US, mismanagement that didn't happen elsewhere in the world.

Rates of builds were declining before Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and those were the events that turned the public against nuclear.

There was a great 1985 article about this in Forbes, which I highly recommend:

https://blowhardwindbag.blogspot.com/2011/04/forbes-article-...

Ideally we wouldn't have wasted those decades, but we must go forward with the greatest speed with the best tech we have now.
They would need time to figure out which API endpoint is affected. Twitter is not going to shut down everything just because one endpoint has a possible issue.
Almost every parent and grandparent I know - even those who work in tech - post pictures of their (grand)kids to social media.
because people are shallow,

a really intelligent platform would include more important data, like smell

you can't tell how bad someone smells until they come in for the interview, that's where zoom is lacking
I find it concerning that so few people are aware of the differences between their middle or upper class lives in the US and the average life for a citizen in less privileged places. To many, the thought of carrying a weapon or wearing armor to protect yourself is insane. And then there's the ones who have seen what the world can throw at you buying ar-15s and plate carriers and being villainized for it.

The diversity of human experience is truly staggering.
That's what my partners and I did. But we bought refurbished 1080 cards for about $300 each and Ryzen 9 hardware.

We're waiting for the 3000 series to come out which should be a large performance/dollar improvement over the current gen cards due to the smaller transistor size.
If you eliminated vulnerabilities due to evil doping, you can use a free electron laser to holographically capture the 3 dimensional structure inside, and then you can compare the enlarged+scanned/digitally-captured patterns with those that you expect from simulating the holographic imaging.

In certain settings this should work non-destructively, but that might require something like lapped (grinding the backside after fabrication to thin out the substrate) non-stacked >=22 nm chips.
Probably won't be bothered at all. Your face is publicly available information
It should be but it is not, in the bounty program the actual payout for owning accounts is 7k ish, that is assuming you met all the criteria and they still accepted the bug, which is not always the case.

Having said this attack was not best way to monetize this 0 day either, it looks like something else is happening behind the scenes we wont't know about, which is paying out the kind of money this attack should have been worth.