skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 – First Public Working Draft 27 Feb '20
In the case of the Diamond Princess, all infections, mild to severe, have been identified. Out of ~800 infected, 4 have died, which suggests that with the best case scenario the mortality rate is 0.5%.

This also should be read with the context that cruise ship passengers tend to be older.

Also, that number will climb a bit.

The biggest risk isn't the bare mortality rate when properly treated, but the actual mortality rate when the healthcare system is loaded to capacity and there are additional patients to handle. And since the worst patients end up in respirators for a week or more... Well, it makes the problem of load balancing keepalives very literal.
You can just say "source available" or "freeware with source", either one of those work. I don't understand this obsession with trying to co-opt the term "open source". It has a specific meaning, trying to use it for marketing purposes when your project doesn't fit that meaning is misleading to your users. You don't win any points for using it when they later find out that it's not true.
Is that a faang company? How about greencard status, is thst underway? Different companies offer help for transfer, so if you are in the bay area getting a competitive offer might help still.
Venezuela Is the Eerie Endgame of Modern Politics
Because the queue for a US residence permit is currently ~100 years for Indian citizens, and there's a very low acceptance rate for work visas for Indian citizens. It's far easier for employees from other nations to change jobs in the US.
Some people would still come up with:

echo "<unsafe>$comment_content</unsafe>";

and feel falsely safe.
Yeah he's rolling with what he's got. The antibody studies that come at the tail of these things would be definitive.
Uber and Lyft's rise may be fueling climate change
The point made was, software is supposed to solve a problem. Not create a new problem and provide a paid solution. Kinda speaks the truth that something is fundamental isn't made simple yet.
About 1/3 of my estate is in the stock market. I sold 1/2 of that 1/3. I'm prepared to sell the rest. I may sell the remaining 1/2 in the coming days. Cash is more prudent in an emergency, and I'm prepared for that too.

I have the usual spectrum, ranging from more money in safer, long-term investments, to smaller amounts that are liquid. All I've done is to move things moderately toward the more-liquid end of the spectrum.
Can it be that smoking plays big part in this? As this also explains gender statistics.
A "paranova" is an interesting concept, but it'd probably be more effective to build multiple smaller ones closer to the settled worlds.

We may want to build a smaller scale parasol for Venus so it cools down and can be eventually settled.
It's even worse than that, the price to beat is the Honda Fit and Toyota Corolla at about $20k
I suspect this played out on the diamond princess.
I really don't see the point to US federal export control regulations on high-end x86-64 processors.

If somebody in a foreign adversary country (Russia? China?) were determined to build a really powerful supercomputer using the latest and great Intel or AMD CPUs, without sourcing them all in one batch officially, with sufficient financial resources and shell entities spread out around the world they absolutely could purchase enough processors by smurfing. Have dozens of small entities purchase small enough batches to fly under the radar.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smurf.asp

Or just set up a fake cloud/VM/web hosting operation in a friendly country and buy thousands of Supermicro, Quanta or similar barebones servers with CPUs already installed, and then divert them.

It's just as futile as trying to stop people from buying high tech things in Dubai and shipping them to Iran.
Thank-you. I can confirm it does indeed work on Safari with WebGL2 enabled.
A bit off topic but Iran is mostly only under American and Israeli sanctions at this point after Trump unilaterally pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal. The rest of the world can trade with Iran though many companies are still unwilling due to the American pressure.
Let's look at China's flu death stats to get an idea of how honest the government tends to be. From a 2018 article in a CCP-owned newspaper[1]:

> The total number of flu deaths last year was 144, compared with 56 in 2016 and 41 in 2017.

A recent article in The Global Times (a tabloid owned by the CCP's official newspaper) gives similar figures.[2]

So China lies about flu deaths by 2-3 orders of magnitude. Who knows how much they're juking the stats on covid-19 deaths.

1. https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201902/22/WS5c6f11daa3106c65...

2. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml
Yeah... once every few weeks is one thing. Once a day is getting really annoying.
> a better approximation of evaluating your survival chances is to look at the death to recovery rate (dead / (recovered + dead))

This formula is still fundamentally wrong because it assumes that the time between infection and death is the same as the time between infection and recovery. I don't see why that would be true.
Generally each bank has many fund managers and analysts that do a lot of public speaking about their bets, thoughts, and speculations. You'll see them on public news stations as guest commentators
No, she's a Judge. A Magistrate is a lay person as you say, but she's a district judge. It's just that the particular kind of judge she is has the word "Magistrate" in the full title.

She is (or was at the last time they updated their lists) a "District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)" which means ordinarily (this case is anything but ordinary) she would not be assigned to a Crown Court but would work alongside Magistrates in their court. Unlike them she can sit on her own (as she does here) deciding things for herself.
Surely it's clear we're talking about home and small business servers?
Maybe you're confusing Google Earth and Google Maps? That happens sometimes.
As my123 kindly pointed out above, it is possible to enable experimental support for WebGL2 in the current version of Safari. I presume this is something they are cooking up for the next release of MacOS.
There's also the possibility of reinfection and false negatives. The best data we have is not even close to perfect.
It's x86, so if you count ME/PSP as a back door, then the answer is almost universally going to be yes. It would be like commenting on the new release of Ubuntu and asking if it was still using a Bourne-like shell by default.
Imagine if people would get as excited about actual problems like global warming and the unfolding mass extinction as they do about a new mild flu.
I agree that this behaviour should not be 'normalized' ever, its not acceptable.

I find it hard to justify that companies should not collect any data.. It should just be the minimum required. Such as GDPR attempts.

It's so frustrating that there is no recourse usually.
Organising class action suits just takes too long to co-ordinate in a timely fasion that would point a larger spotlight on security.
There's a good discussion on today's episode of the Daily podcast (Feb 27). Basically the theory is that children often get the 4x regular coronavirus strains and this provides a bit of protection against the new coronavirus strain. Therefore they tend to get subacute cases of coronavirus but can still spread.

Here's an unintended consequence of closing schools though. Who often takes care of children when schools are unexpectedly closed? Grandparents. So in a way, they could be making this worse.
Brexit: UK negotiating objectives for trade with EU, in a nutshell
This is also how I think software engineering should be organized. But most orgs seem to want hard thing with big priority done now.
Some major players in the "GraphQL in a box" space:

https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

https://hasura.io/

https://www.prisma.io/

There are plenty of "REST API in a box" solutions as well:

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest

https://github.com/prest/prest

https://resthapi.com/
"You can't legislate against failure, but you can focus on fast detection and response"

-- Chris Pinkham
I don't think a sensible mortality rate can be computed at this point, because we have no idea, not even good estimates, how many people contracted the pathogen. 10 dead out of 1000? Or 10000? Or 20000? In Wuhan they apparently checked ~almost everyone for symptoms - temperature - but showing symptoms != infected. So far it seems that there is an exceptionally large proportion of infected people showing no or barely any symptoms.
Gaming Is Eating the World
It also makes the difference in the sense that the wait list from H1B to Green card is the toughest for Indians (and probably Chinese) compared to other nationalities due to the 7 % limit per country in terms of granting Green cards.

I think the wait for the lowest priority EB3 is like ~150 years as of now ?

I came back to India after working in USA on an H1B for 6 years due to the uncertainty. I do miss working there but not much can be done unfortunately.

We cannot do much that we are 1/6th of the world population , hopefully Green card limit will be raised at least to the proportion of the country's population (or some other logic that makes more sense). I have known a few people from Nepal and Bhutan working in easier jobs who are well settled there now. They got the green cards because they are smaller countries. Nothing they do is really high skilled but then these things can get subjective so i do not want to wade in that debate.

It took me 2 years to really negotiate my first salary raise and it was not a lot either.
they're doing the usual corporate status page uptime lying:

https://i.imgur.com/vy7onDT.png
https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime
You don't need to change the data to make it less dangerous. Just fix the program processing it. It's the program that's dangerous, not the data.
From Lasserter's Wikipedia entry:

> The films he has made have grossed more than $19 billion (USD), making him one of the most successful filmmakers of all time.
Ask HN: How to “scare” teens wrt privacy issues
I'm teaching some high-school teens (~15 years old) about privacy, but they seem to completely disregard the issue, giving away their data without worry.

I'd like to shake them up a bit, show them something creatively "scary" to help them realize the issues that come with giving away data.

Some additional information:

- This is a Western European country (no real issues with privacy since WWII);

- They don't mistrust the government ("Big Brother"-style arguments have little effect);

- They have little financial/working experience (arguments such as "your insurance will cost more" or "your future employer might not hire you" are inefficient);

- They haven't had enough partners to be really concerned about things such as "your future partners will know everyone you went out with".

Some ideas (untested, since not practical):

- Compile a virtual profile with everything publicly available about them, especially photos, which seem to provoke a stronger reaction than factual data such as addresses, names of relatives, etc. Problem: requires too much manual effort.

- Find out their e-mail addresses (if publicly available) and trigger "Forgot password"-style messages, to simulate them being targeted by hackers. Problem: borderline ethical.

- Apply some form of spear-phishing using information publicly available, such as "Hi Jane, this is Mary <family/friend's name found via public information>, I got this link from John <another family/friend's name>, it's quite funny!". Problem: requires too much manual effort.

Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll have to resort to listing some actual cases of teens abused due to exposing their data, which is not as efficient ("that would never happen to ME!").
Being VP of Software Development Is Harder Than Being CEO
The IRS even has a way for you to tell them "I think the law says this".
At least it doesnt outright drop packets like the USB audio on modern macs.
Hardly the same as temperance with online presence
I made this fake cable website[1] years ago that let you find all kinds of silly and impossible cables. There's a funny story about how I got Google Product search to implement a policy that all products submitted to their database had to actually exist.

[1] http://cabledimension.com/
I'm sorry if the below sounds harsh, but even in the best of circumstances, I can't come up with a better angle on this.

I don't think you are in a position to help your colleague. What you are suggesting would be a complex task even without the colleague having Visa.

Not complex in the sense that asking raise is complex, but complex in the sense that you would affect 1. the behavior of your colleague 2. how your employer values your colleague 3. how your employer assigns raises.

Your message does not give enough context to verify you could "coach" him. Coaching generally requires the experience of successes and failures in similar situations. If this is an unfamiliar situation to you, then you are in no position to coach him.

It's well-meaning, but at the same time a bit condescending to think that you can assist him by some techniques picked up at an internet forum.

In addition, based on what you told, you don't know if he already has asked for a raise, and been denied.
> It's a huge opportunity for a startup/company to create a home test kit for COVID-19. Massive global market for the product and growing exponentially.

If someone has a list of materials thatwould be required to pull these affordable tests something could be put together for sure.

the worrying thing is to keep the costs down, one would think a lot of those materials and components would need to come from Chine to be cost effective.. The tangled web.

Edit: the problem wil step from China's supply chain being slowed down.
Is the F in 'TFA' what I think it is?
Someone once wanted to play a music CD on my computer. You seriously think I bothered to buy a CD reader for this thing?
I would also be really interested in them but didn't find anything yet.
Maybe their new notification system has something to do with it?
It's more that they don't want to be regulated.
Japan to close all schools starting Monday March 2 because of coronavirus
Rare disease warrior shares what he's learned
You wouldn't use VRRP in these cases these days - since the networking world has moved on and now L3 is generally pushed to ToRs, you would use BGP to announce a /32 or /128 and configure an ECMP group on the ToR. This gives you not only redundancy then, but also traffic splitting. Maglev does use BGP, too (although in a way indirectly due to scale reasons).
What is bizzare about all of this is that I honestly do think that when Amazon figures Drone Delivery all out they will basically eat everyone alive in the food delivery business. They totally will automate the storage and picking systems, do it in warehouses (that also do normal delivery and act as Go/ Whole Foods distribution networks) and the Drone systems will be AI piloted possibly with human oversight. (one human, 10 drones, they may also use fleets to ease air clearance)

Once they solve all of this you chop distribution to the store, shelf stocking, checkout staffing, picker payment, driver payment, property and lease fees, the margin will be higher, the experience faster, the costs lower.

I bet Amazon will mass produce the drones at a rather low cost over time, maybe produce UWB tracking devices (like Apple's Tags will use) so you can be hand delivered products without the landing pad they currently use. It's a real infinite game and that's okay if it all takes 10+ years.

I'm not saying this is a good thing for mankind, but might be a reality.
All of this may be true, and yet, it’s not a very strong argument against regulation. I’m glad that we have safety regulations, despite objections such as yours, because they have demonstrably saved lives.
> I can't really think of a better language for implementing MLIR than C++.

C++ being the language of llvm, it makes sense. But surely any language would be good, and memory safe ones with stronger type systems as well would potentially lead to higher quality output, no?
They used low inertia cloth and solids because these are the kinds of scenarios that this technique can best approximate.

Once you buy into the concept that your simulation can be represented by a very limited number of parameters it's not hard to suggest that this small state vector can be mutated from state to state using ML.

The issue with this technique is PCA not ML.

I can certainly see this technique being used in place of some existing simulation or animation based secondary motion in video games.

Note that adding up the contributions of 256 basis vectors might be more expensive than a per vertex cloth simulation.

I am experienced in these areas and have done grad computational physics and work on game engines for a living.
Are you aware how long a Green Card application takes to be approved, and that you cannot switch employers once the application is underway? Take some time to talk to your colleagues from abroad and learn how fucked up the system really is.
This is really amazing! Want to make sure I have a comment on the original post when this is huge!
The fatality per mile rate is also wildly lower for commercial flight, so driving instead of flying is 750x [1] more likely to result in you never making it to your destination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
Are they migrating to azure?
>This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic.

Your anger is justified, but perhaps you are not it's intended audience. The Spectator is prone to virtue signalling and is a sister publication to The Telegraph (aka The Torygraph).

The excerpt below has been used so many times, that it is practically a trope, and easily identifiable. The premise being, telling it's intended audience: you are rich and priveleged, this matter is trivial and does not concern you, continue as usual and pick up a few bargains whilst there is still blood on the streets, screw the poor.

We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it.
Rather than requiring users to give them information, the city might improve things by providing real-time information about its traffic. This would enable individual users to make their own decisions as to where and when to travel possibly with help from third-party companies who specialize in providing advice. Google, Apple, and the wireless companies may already have a good-enough version of traffic data because they can track people via their phones.

There is no need for the government, the organization that fixes the roads, provides the police, administers a court system, etc, to also be in charge of traffic management. It can be handled through the market.
Baby monitor exploit allowed hackers to creep on your toddlers
Computer Scientists Are Trying to Predict the Coronavirus's Next Moves
The one ISA-on-USB I saw some years ago came with SDK and you had to write your custom software for it, no transparent automagic isa mapping on PC.
My eldest has married a 6'1" Amazon. So yeah.
I hope they catch up with this. If you guarantee SLA than you need to be honest with it or guarantee less.
Exponential vs logistic growth. This is far more of a threat.
An early preprint from the team of China’s leading expert Zhong Nanshan tagged smokers and non-smokers among the 1099 cases they analyzed. 85.4% supposedly never smoked, with 14.5% of those cases severe. So it’s not like non-smokers are very much immune.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...
"Everything in JIRA is the default 'medium'."
It buys time for three letter agency to counteract bad intentions.
looking again, the reporting under 'API Requests' downtime seems accurate but none of the earlier outages report downtime under 'Git Operations', which were also broken.

didn't notice there was a selector for which type of downtime on that page that didn't default to all.
>We impose restrictions on corporations in the name of the public interest all the time. It is completely reasonable to require that a company that has a de facto monopoly on personal video distribution uphold the principle of free speech.

Yes, but the First Amendment doesn't apply to corporations, and so it isn't relevant to any argument about restricting the speech of corporations or private citizens, or about the ability of the public, states or private companies to do so.

Also, these companies don't have de facto monopolies on anything. Facebook et al. are not the modern day equivalents of Ma Bell or J.P Morgan. They don't control any scarce resources, and aren't capable of preventing anyone from publishing speech outside of their platforms, nor can they prevent the existence of other competing platforms, nor is it more difficult, time consuming or costly to reach the URL of a Twitter post or Facebook page than that of any other service or even a personal page.

Information propagated perfectly well across the web prior to the existence of FAANG, and their existence and relative popularity doesn't render the rest of the web or its capabilities obsolete. Free speech doesn't require them, and their actions don't pose an existential threat to it.

Also, what is the "principle of free speech," exactly?

Because again... free speech isn't defined by the First Amendment, so if you want to put the force of the government and its monopoly on violence behind taking over private companies, declaring them "public" and forcing them comply with upholding it, please specify exactly what this principle is and what legal doctrine supports it.

Bearing in mind that, of course, speech in public spaces is regulated as well, so you're going to have to explain why Facebook should be forced to allow speech that might not be allowed in actual public squares.
Anecdotally, I know way more people who avoid the doctor due to unknown treatment costs than go too often. My relatives that work in healthcare seem to agree.
The Case for Nonvisionary Mayors
You've probably not been around in the jolly days of PHP automatically adding quotes to all $_GET parameters and stuff like that, before it was even known where the data will be passed to, lol. Be glad.
I don't get it. Their own incidents tab on the same site shows four incidents this month: https://www.githubstatus.com/history

I'm not sure how that results in 99.98% uptime on the other tab.
This is very abstract to me. It'd be nice with an example
Management Role in Employee Care and Development
> On the flip side, it's very likely that mild cases will never be reported, which in turn would decrease the mortality rate.

Indeed. This calculation ignores severe underreporting of mild cases--for example, Johns Hopkins researchers (the same ones who made that map you linked to for data) estimated that only ~10% of cases in mainland China (mostly Wuhan at the time) were being reported [1]. That would put the mortality rate at under 1%, which is close to the evidence we have from elsewhere (e.g. the Diamond Princess).

dead / (recovered + dead) is only a reasonable estimate if you actually have good numbers for the recovered count. We don't, so it's irresponsible to use it.

[1] https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov-model-2/
The War on Israeli Democracy
(small typo in the post title: "90% more than" should be "90% more expensive than")
> wHy DoEs IT MaTtEr tHAt HeS InNDian?

because sometimes race and ethnicity really are germane to the issue because we don't actually live in a utopia and certain classes of people are actually exploited and mistreated principally because of their race or ethnicity.

i also love the irony of your handle "codingslave" (i guess only the people of your ethnicity and race can be exploited).
turns out it's bad/misleading UI, there's a dropdown for which type of downtime which defaults to 'GIT Operations'