jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd like to note that so far we only know the mortality rate under the assumption that every patient that needs to be hospitalized (~18% of infected looking at NY's numbers) receives treatment. That is why the elderly and people with underlying health conditions are dying – they can't survive being in an ICU with a nasty disease a lot of the time.

Once we run out of beds and ventilators, the picture will look very different. I don't know about you, but I'm not old but I'd much rather be in a hospital if I have a nasty case of pneumonia, but we certainly can't fit 40-80% of the population in hospitals, let alone have enough health workers to treat them.
I think our primary focus should be on preventing further illness, hospitalization, and deaths due to Covid-19. But it's worth keeping a log for a retrospective review at some point after the crisis has resolved.

First key external misrepresentation:

"December 31: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus."

links to http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2019123108989

Google translate of key sentence: "The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection."
Here’s one example of him advising that it might be useful: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fauci-throws-cold-water-trum...

And yeah, his language is imprecise enough that you could pick it apart and find a reasonable motivation behind it if you looked hard enough. But even a really charitable reading can only upgrade his remarks from “flagrantly dangerous” to “unnecessary and not very helpful”, and we should expect more from the president than that.
It absolutely is relevant. A layperson will hear "chloroquine works on Covid-19. The FDA's approved it. The President himself said so."
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I don’t think so.

Italy is counting ALL deaths as Covid deaths.

Their Covid numbers are simply incorrect.
Advil is one of the safest drugs to take, but you can still kill yourself with it.
Yes but he has to remember people
I am fairly sure that chloroquine is available without prescription in many African countries, so one-time visitors may have kept a stash of anti-malarials bought during a trip. It is (or used to be) available over the counter in the UK, too.
No, he’s made at least two other games.

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> Exactly one of the following two claims is a lie:

No, a lie is a deception carried out by means of an untrue statement. "1 + 1 = 3" is not a lie, but an accountant claiming such in order to embezzle is lying.

> 1) “Vaccines are safe”
> 2) “Vaccines cause, rather than prevent, illnesses”.

For the sake of getting at the deeper problem with this argument, I'll grant that a version of these assertions could be roughly mutually exclusive.

> If 1 is true, the antivaxx movement is risking tens of millions of lives and >>billions of disability adjusted years of life expectancy.

> If 2 is true, vaccines are a multibillion dollar fraud.

You've framed this as though it's hard to believe that the antivaxx movement would risk people dying and becoming disabled.

Many positions impose a potentially high death toll if you're wrong, e.g. both sides of the debates on war, guns, climate change, health care.

In an alternate history, Neville Chamberlain could have been the man who brokered "peace in our time." He believed he was right and, correctly, believed going to war would be bloody and awful, and took actions based on those beliefs.

But we typically have little direct influence over policy, so what dominates people's views is the immediate impact they observe. In that "multibillion dollar fraud" you have countless doctors and pharmacists administering vaccines to people they know, watching them get sick, and shrugging it off to collect a paycheck.

Unless medical school filters for people who are profoundly unethical, that's not happening.
I would expect more, and more direct language.

Doing business with a fascist state or in a fascist state is deplorable. The message should be loud and clear. China today shares many parallels with Germany in the 1930s. There needs to be open frank opposition because embarrassing them is the only way to stop them until the US is willing to park an aircraft carrier group in HK waters.
Yes, that's a good point on the plots. I'll try to make them more prominent in future docs.

These are some things I've included in the library which aren't implemented in Statsmodels:

- Breusch-Pagan studentized test of heteroskedasticity (available in R)

- Standardized / beta coefficients (still an open feature request in https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/issues/3857 )

- Leverage vs residuals squared plot (there's an influence plot but not something similar to Stata's lvr2plot)

Even the most common metric I use for assessing models – root MSE – isn't stored in the Statsmodels object summary. To assess an OLS model in Statsmodels I'd find I do so much repetitive code, yet in Stata the commands are fairly succinct.

Other things I also added to make encoding of variables easier:

- InteractionEncoder

- DummyEncoder (to cover different ways of treating missing values)

The more I thought about these missing features, the more I thought they can be wrapped up in a more coherent way. :-)
> Comparison with a third party doesn't enter into it.

Sure it does. Mathematically. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21600914

Reviews and ratings only function as a pairwise ordering. If there's only one of something in a category in a marketplace, the reviews don't have any signal to them. (Before you say "maybe the numbers don't, but the text does!"—consider a true monopoly product provider, like a bread line in the USSR. Would you trust a review of the bread, given that the bread line itself is the moderator of bread-line reviews?)

Mind you, I'm not saying it's impossible to accurately review these products. I'm just saying it's impossible to accurately review them in this particular marketplace (the Apple Store website.) If you want real reviews, you need an efficient market. Try eBay.
Love the raw sql queries here.
When you need that guarantee of isolation you are picking your solution for different reasons than when you need a particular workload. So there is no point comparing the workload if that wasn't the deciding factor in the first place.
Personally, I feel no need to complain about SpaceX, whether they blow up rockets or not. They're powering a new golden age of rockets. There's no room in my worldview for complaining about SpaceX. You are free to waste your time asking people why they aren't complaining, of course.
Twitter calls them "snowflakes". It's a 64-bit ID of that consists of a tuple of sorts of a timestamp, machine code, sequence ID. They start with timestamps to mostly give them monoticity in the direction of time (ie, sort order them), but they definitely aren't simple sequence IDs.
Heh, sorry to have fulfilled your prophecy. But, weren't you deploying a schema-free SGML app by virtue of not using implied end tags a couple of years before? Because that sure sounds like XML to me...
I paid for a VPN specifically to improve my terms-compliant Netflix streaming performance when Comcast was throttling it.
Frankly, I feel this is the situation with the US. So many people say so many things, from threats to talks of secession to revolution. But it wouldn't be until those people have actual influence or potential to take action that people are taken out - MLK, for example.
Pretty sure the copyright owners who are evidently behind this couldn't care less about network neutrality; but for some reason they do care quite a bit about who can watch what in which country.
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There's a bias that interviewers need to watch for when they interview candidates. People who write interview questions often find the answers easy, and for the obvious reason that they are the ones that have spent the most time with it.

From a candidate's point of view, the question is new and every solution must be thought through, lest the interviewer thinks that the candidate isn't very smart.
Is that website made from a template? I'm looking to put up a landing page for my new app and would be very interested in using that layout.
Except that the mineral deposits weren't 'just discovered'
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/no-the-military-didn...

Considering the US position in Afghanistan, this seems like a strategic plant on behalf of the Pentagon/govt to justify our continued deployment there. The NYT has certainly played a willing role in the past (google Judith Miller and Iraq).
“The researchers found that the new material’s elastic modulus — a measure of how much force it takes to deform a material — is between four and six times greater than that of bulletproof glass. They also found that its yield strength, or how much force it takes to break the material, is twice that of steel, even though the material has only about one-sixth the density of steel.”

Emphasis added.
I think they generally don't go to the exchange, but yeah, pretty similar.
auto submission is a myth. someone is typing in the captcha, whether that be the end user, airbnb, or someone else.
Not many people have unique addresses.

ETA: the author isn't claiming to have found a preimage attack, but brute force is a legitimate tactic when the search space is constrained, and I'd argue it counts for claiming that those particular hashes were reversed.
No, addition is commutative and associative, subtraction isn't.
We ensure the CRDT is synced with at least two nodes in different geographical areas before returning an OK status to a write operation. We are using CRDTs not so much for their asynchronous replication properties (what is usually touted as eventual consistency), but more as a way to avoid conflicts between concurrent operations so that we don't need a consensus algorithm like Raft. By combining this with the quorum system (two writes out of three need to be successfull before returning ok), we ensure durability of written data but without having to pay the synchronization penalty of Raft.
My favorite article on Andre: http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html
Learn React on your own, put React on your resume, don't claim mastery over it but a vague 'know' or 'learned'. What's to lie about? But sure, it might look better in a professional context instead of just being in the keyword soup. Add at your present place a blurb: 'worked on migrating frontend to React'. You can make this true enough by simply talking to your boss "Hey, why don't we move [our native UI/command line/custom JS] to React?" and getting a "No." If it comes up in an interview, you didn't get very far and it wasn't completed. Your lack of expertise may show up in a test of ability, but then again it may not, interviews are about both sides resolving what's true enough about the resumes and the job description/requirements into what they actually care about.

And of course if you tried making a short demo as part of the learning, you can show that to the boss/the UI team, and be able to tell more in React terms how (not) far it got, though your current boss might also say "Ok" and now you have a chance to learn it more professionally. Like, that's how a lot of us learn new things -- I wanted to learn property testing, fortunately I didn't have to ask any managers (just a legal/security workflow and pom changes signed off by another team member) to add Java's QuickTheories to my team's test code. After that I used it in a few places, did a casual lunch-and-learn demo on it for the team, used it in various other places over time. I'd put property testing on my resume if a job app needed it, and just be honest that I haven't written nearly as many property tests as unit tests. It's a mindset change to write them, too, and maybe my lack of years and years and thousands of tests would be clear to someone needing such deep expertise. Or not.
I didn't see that article, but that seems to be a two-step process for SoftBank to sell their shares on the open market without spoiling the market by public ally divesting themselves of shares. They sell new shares, then use the money that generates to buy a percentage of SoftBanks shares.
Without any knowledge in the field I wonder if the timescale difference could be attributed to the measurement methods used for the last centuries vs literal ages ago.

I.e. if we (or someone a million years from now) tried to estimate the 21th century's temperatures using the same techniques used to estimate temperatures a million years ago, would we be able to detect that 4 degree change?

Conversely, can scientists today detect or rule out that there was an outlier century a million years ago in which temps varied as much as today?
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As a front-end developer I constantly go from Figma to code / site, but it’s tedious… I decided to automate the process with this plugin. It works great for simple projects. I can see it working well for:

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So, not a Webflow / Framer competitor (yet). If this seems interesting, you can install it here [1] and give it a try.

—

For a bit of context, I'm a solo-founder and I started Makers after sharing my idea on the Figma subreddit [2] about how awesome it would be to have a button in Figma to publish my designs. A good amount of people seemed to agree, and that was enough to start working on it. This is turning out to be a super fun project, and I’ve been working full-time for the last two months.

[0] - https://twitter.com/joaodmj/status/1488216877511884805?s=20

[1] - https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/991438050654881175

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/FigmaDesign/comments/p65vnp/should_...
For new grads and current students, we have a much more generalized position to apply to: https://grnh.se/f510c9d31us
> The hurdle everyone goes through when they learn to program is the unforgiving nature of the machine - it's not what you think you are saying that counts, it's what you are actually saying. And, that's an important lesson.

Spot on, it's also a lesson everyone would benefit from as it makes you learn to think and communicate clearly.
Can they demonstrate the procedure works well enough that an insurance company would underwrite them for the full value of the cold wallet?
It would be possible but not that straightforward, you can change how log4j loads/finds properties file, for example, so it would be hard to enforce that.

Its pretty easy to unpack an APK, change log4j stuff to DEBUG, repack, and run vs. unpacking APK, disassemble class files, go through files, find how key is stored, routine for deobfuscation, etc,.
nice project... I just updated a couple of minor gofmt, go vet, and golint issues I had overlooked in google/go-github, so the score is a little higher now :)

Just curious, at what level are you raising the cyclomatic complexity as an issue? Looks like around 12?

It might also be worth considering test coverage as another factor.
I worked for NETGEAR, just until recently. They are quite a bureaucratic company of nature and your best bet would probably to just open a support ticket with them and hope they escalate it. If you're looking for some sort of reward it's quite unlikely.
Getting email addresses to higher ups with this little information also seems tough.
I appreciate that big-time... it's been a great trip and experience. And yes, I want Desk to be a "great" product but it's going to take time for it to really mature in that direction... I've had a great start and I'm glad that software is iterative... always room for improvement.

The community has helped a ton in helping to qualify new features (that make sense) and reward me through my execution.
Great post!

I'm also really curious about the future of Dev Tools and hope to see it applied to other uses. I think there is a range of tools we could be building on top of or around Chromium/DevTools/etc to provide real-time workflows for animations, visual programming, shader authoring, WebAudio editing, and plenty more.

I wrote about it a bit here: http://mattdesl.svbtle.com/motion-graphics

You might also want to check out Thrust and atom-shell as alternatives to node-webkit.
Can we please add this prison testimonial to the tailwind website?
Thanks, interesting example.

I wonder how much the company saved on avoiding taxes in that way, until it didn't work any more. (Didn't see any numbers, having had a look at the linked page)

I wonder if there's any table of all different methods companies use, to avoid taxes, and how much they typically save, and what could be ways to stop it

Maybe could be helpful for lawmakers

> required to pay 30% withholding tax

That's quite a lot is it? Compared to company taxes. Seems like a strong incentive to stop cheating
And the other side can point to the congressional hearings that didn't conclude he directly incited any violence. It's a tit-for-tat sort of thing, which is incredibly dangerous when we're talking about how the general public is "allowed" to consume information.
Are you implying that diabetes is an extremely contagious, transmissible disease that only requires one infected person and poor air circulation to spread?
...I don't know, I'm a user, and uh, I hate the advertisers, and their dumb standards, they're killing creativity, only allowing brand safe content to exist, and be consumed. I think that's an overall net negative for the users. The need to make everything conform to advertisers is destroying the online spaces we congregate on, making them shallow, and vapid feeling.
We use .NET Core + Self-Contained Deployments on Windows Server 2016+ only. This vastly narrows the scope of weird bullshit we have to worry about between environments.

The CI system running the same way on everyone's computer is analogous to MSBuild working the same way on everyone's computer. This is typically the case due to our platform constraints.
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I don't think profits of a private company should be a justification for such invasion of privacy. There is plenty of ways they could make it work, but we need a legislation to compel them to do so.
That option should be mandated by law even if it turned out to be niche.
That's not a credible control, because influenza and respiratory conditions are not a plausible placebo for Covid-19. The subjects knew that they are not having Covid-19, which makes them different from subjects which got Covid-19 and knew it.
Wonder how did they measure the individual skill of participants. Because as far as I am aware skill is what helps teams to succeed most. And if everyone was of the same skill, it's not that surprising if those with other advantages, like better emotion reading, performed better.
So you're saying that if i die i can't give my money (which i already paid taxes on) to whomever i want?
Thanks for the pointer to zeronet, https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet
You know the transmission in those cars is computer controlled, too?
I don't get what's so beautiful or brave about this blog post. I personally felt it was more cynical and attention seeking.
A few of these points are just ridiculous:

1) If you want "SQL and Joins", use SQL. This is like complaining that you can't play Halo on Linux.

1A) There isn't full text search. If you need full text search, use a system with full text search as a feature.

2) Some of the points are out of date (or will be out of date soon). The 30 second limit for cron jobs will be 10 minutes after the next release. As noted, the 1000 results per query limit is gone already.

3) Anything can fail. If you assume your own system won't fail, you're going to be in worse shape later.

4) What objects would you cache that are >1MB anyhow? In almost any case, you'd be better off caching it as multiple, smaller objects.
>So you don't mind people jerking off whilst you're trying to enjoy a coffee and a cake or get a book in the library with your kids?

We have public indecency laws to cover that. There's no reason to place further restrictions.
Um... you could go into the scanner wearing a radiation-measuring device on you that sends data live to your server. I even doubt that would be illegal, although you'll probably end up on a couple lists.
A similar see-sawing battle that's also nicely explained:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6820
I worked at a Burger King in 1991. We counted our 'food cost' for a medium soda drink at about 8 cents (IIRC large was 10 cents) - that included the cup and an average amount of soda. I'd think that the cost may have gone up a bit over the past 20 years, but probably not too much.
If you want Reddit, you know where to find it.
Two years ago, when dilbert.com was redesigned, Adams talked about the Linux/Unix fast page in a blog post: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/04/dilb...

He doesn't explicitly say this, but I think the only way he could convince the owners of the site to have a stripped-down page was to say that the normal design was not usable on Linux. Certainly they want to push people to use the other features and spend money; neither of these things are pushed on the fast page.