skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So let me correct what I said: "BBC only benefits the few who use its services".

Except it's not "the few". The BBC has 81% audience reach amongst adults in the UK across different mediums (source: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/116529/...) and 62% reach for the flagship BBC One channel.

It's simply not comparable to American newspapers with as little as 3% audience (source: (5 / (0.76239))100 - https://nytmediakit.com/newspaper/ and https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-ag...) reach across the country's adult population.

Out of interest, do you yourself live in the UK? I suspect you don't from the way you've written your comment, but I do genuinely think you might have a different opinion if you consumed its output in the same way as the vast majority of people do.
two not one... Zuid Holland and Noord Holland
Thankfully, this is a relatively mild virus. Part of what makes it hard to detect is that most cases (>80%) are mild, and many are actually asymptomatic:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia...

The vast majority of people who have died have been elderly and/or infirm. The death rate under 60 is well under 1%. If you’re young and healthy, this is a chest cold.

The biggest thing the media needs to do is to walk back as much of the panic and overreaction that has been circulating as possible.

(edit: thanks to HN’s
overbearing moderation system, I am unable to respond to replies. The censor-downvoting of factual information is apparently not a problem for HN mods, however.)

JoeAltmaier, to respond to your comment, unless you know hundreds of elderly people, about the same number of people you know will die as in the average flu season. Do you find yourself regularly worried about the flu? Perspective is important.
Yeah, I stopped worrying a few weeks back after I saw the mortality rate. It's basically a highly virulent flu with the same risk factors. Not on the same level as sars and the like.
I thought all the competitors to Huawei were European. They keep telling us that's the problem. (Apparently we need to be more closely aligned to America than Europe.)
Having never heard the terms "trunk road" or "gritter" it took me a little time to figure out what this was. Correct me if I'm wrong but "trunk road" appears to mean something like main road and "gritter" seems to mean plow and/or sanding truck.
Astrocyte-like glial cells regulate aging in C. elegans
> So the committee only reflects power dynamics that exist in the greater browser sphere.

It doesn't only reflect them, but also amplifies them. Quietly nobbling things in committee is surely a lot easier than having to field questions about why you aren't implementing Web standards (insert quotation marks as desired). There's also the danger of being embarrassed when someone writes a library which runs slowly on your browser and fast on others.
Isn’t it easy for these young 30 somethings to spread it to their families? Don’t any of them have young children at home? Interact with elderly parents? Not sure this is the best line of thinking.
yeah so let's not give a damn about infecting others???
It's very obviously a distinction without a difference though. Like the authors say, this is a amazing opportunity for black-market paypal account buyers. It's the only line of defense that thousands of people have between black hats and their bank account. In any case, I'd definitely call this 2-factor authentication - the only difference is the trigger (every login vs suspicious logins). It just so happens that they have different code for each of those two cases, and these bounty hunters have discovered a bug in one of them.
In the paper it says they average 165cm in the past and mentions they were 5..8cm shorter than the average USA citizen.
I provided a link to “actual evidence” in the post. Read it instead of posting rumor and opinion as fact.

Nobody said you “shouldn’t worry” about a virus that kills old people. But if you’re not old or sick, you should worry about it less than other things. Like getting the flu.

”I get that you’re scared and lashing out”

What manner of gaslighting is this? I am absolutely not scared, and I am trying to spread accurate information, in order to counter fear-mongering posts like your own.
> Bayesian statistics doesn’t give a satisfying answer/method for choosing priors

I absolutely agree with you. Priors are the (very difficult) job of the practitioner.

> choosing priors is a part of statistics

Ah so I think I agree, maybe would nitpick and say priors are part of statistics and CHOOSING priors is part of modeling maybe? Not totally comfortable with that characterization either it’s just that “priors” and “choosing priors” are two different things.

> therefore Bayesian statistics has a “hole” in it.

Completely disagree; this is my main understanding of the argument against Bayesian statistics, I just don’t understand how this follows from the last statement. Priors are hard. But they are explicit! And a necessary ingredient of the posterior. It’s not like we can say “oh priors are hard, so let’s not do Bayesian stats but instead let’s do X” what is X?
Please cite defensible sources.

The past weeks have been filled with mostly sentiment-heavy reports either downplaying it as just a mere flu, with no masks worn even in places like Tokyo - or on the other end of the spectrum - overblown sensationalist videos of people dropping like flies.

We need more credible and helpful reports not just hearsay.
Marathon Infinity was the absolute jam. It came with its own software for making levels/scenarios, and there were all these community-made Marathon games online. No one ever talks about it!
(Disclosure: I work at Cloudflare but wasn't involved in this decision) Spectre variant 1 still affects patched chips with any sort of speculation and the price of fixing via compiler is substantial. It's a multi vendor structural issue. The hardware industry is stuck with some very unpalatable decisions to fix this. In some cases there are tricks to protect particular arrays but it's very finicky especially if arrays aren't a power of two in length.
Mind Patterning – Phase 1 with TensorFlow on the Raspberry Pi
> confiscate as much of my money as possible to pay for someone else's stuff

_You_ get healthcare as well. It's not just "someone else", it's you, your family, your friends, and everyone you care about. No one should go into a spiraling life of debt because they broke an arm or got sick at an inopportune time.
Who gets to decide what makes you an ‘actual’ engineer?
> And what should each of us do, beyond staying informed and washing our hands frequently? Keep calm and rational. It might be worth stocking some reserve of critical medications, for example — but not too much, because hoarding could create shortages.

> We, as individuals, can also try to plan for basic contingencies. Companies can cross-train key staff members so that one person’s absence won’t derail the business. Family members and friends should be watchful of one another’s health and welfare, and stand prepared to care for the moderately ill if hospitals become overtaxed.

> “Pandemic” isn’t just a technical public health term. It also is — or should be — a rallying cry.

I would add that it is helpful to have a stock of at least 3 or so weeks of food and supplies so that you can, if needed, quarantine yourself and take care of yourself and your family/relations well. There isn't enough hospital space for everyone and a lot of people with the virus aren't sick enough to take that space from the those that really need it.
It seems like nothing is secure anymore these days. Not even Signal. Let‘s go back to sending ravens.
For perspective, numbers from the regular flu this winter: "At least 14,000 people have died and 250,000 have already been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, ..."
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> So what's your plan? Socialized medicine? I mean, it's working out so great for those Chinese folks, right?

China has until recently had a less socialized healthcare system than the US. They've made massive strides towards trying to provide a universal system over the last few years, but they are still a developing country, so I'm not sure why you think comparing with China is a good idea, other than, I guess a knee jerk (and incorrect) assumption that it'd all be government run...

Meanwhile socialized healthcare systems are working out fantastically well for large parts of the developed world, but really the most important factor is universal healthcare - universal systems range from fully private multi-payer systems with some system for subsidizing those who can't pay, to fully socialized single payer systems.

What the vast majority of them have in common is that they result in far lower total healthcare spending than in the US thanks to actually regulating healthcare with the public in mind rather than insurers and healthcare providers. In fact, a large number of countries spend less total on healthcare per capita than US taxpayers pay towards Medicare and Medicaid alone, before you even factor in US private insurance.
I would suggest that being in favour of open borders for some purposes whilst closing borders in completely different circumstances for completely different reasons should be permissible even in our very polarised political climate.
It can be a major pandemic and still almost everyone will survive it. If it kills 1% that would be huge, but 99% of you will still be here.
So some of the fake-innovators are finally failing (long overdue). Startups are no longer a "fashion", so hopefully there will be less posers and less people who brand as startups businesses that are more fit for slow organic growth. Like really, WTF did Uber or Airbnb really innovate or invent?! Grateful to them that they finally raised the bar in areas of the service industry where everything sucked for the consumers... but there should be other stuff to focus on if you want 100x ROI. What they did was pretty much mundane and incredibly boring, they succeeded by incredibly-smart-business-sense and uberhuman bubble-surfing-skills!

Finally more breathing room. And hopefully less competition for capital, so that the people actually really innovating and inventing new stuff have more chances of getting it.

Overall there's only reason for optimism!
Learning about history is not the same as then being able to do research in history, nor being able to apply the principles learned from it in context. So no, reading a history book is learning about history, not necessarily being able to "do history".

> You're making a weird distinction.

As someone who has done a PhD, done research in math, done research in computing, worked in research and development in industry, taught math, and headed a team doing research in technology, this is a distinction that I can clearly see. My inability to explain it to you is regrettable.

> People learn in different ways.

Yes they do.

> Some by doing exercises and some by just playing with the objects.

Doing the exercises is playing with the objects to try to answer specific questions. Good exercises are carefully constructed to help the reader learn how those objects work in an efficient manner.

> I wonder how you think actual research mathematicians learn new math from papers that don't include exercises lol.

In my experience research mathematicians learn now math from papers by, in essence, constructing their own exercises based on what they're reading. In general it takes significant experience and training to be able to do that.

Clearly you don't think one needs to do the exercises subsequently to be able to do the math. Good for you.

I disagree.
Good God. I had a small surgery in Germany about 10 years ago that is usually outpatient, but I passed out afterwards, so the doctor had me admitted for overnight observation. Total bill for surgery, lab and the stay in a room with another American lady who was on bedrest with triplets (!!!): 1400 EUR, which my American insurer paid with absolutely no arguments. This was the full retail, premium “private patient” rate - most Germans wouldn’t have even seen a bill that size.

A friend in the US had the same procedure outpatient, and it was $6000, $1200 of which she was responsible for. On the upside, they gave her 30 Vicodin for the post-op pain and no follow-up about said opioids, where I only got a week's worth of Tramadol (much less potent) and a follow-up with my regular doc who wanted to know at what rate I was taking them. My friend was slightly tempted to sell her leftovers...
There are some people that think if something isn't illegal, then it isn't wrong. It's really weird.
and now its seven

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/24/coronavir...
At minimum you would be looking at "nothing". Between that and 2%/10 million there are many possibilities. Requiring to answer questions, warnings, requiring some changes etc. And even once it gets to the fine territory, getting things from the max end is not something that would always happen. Out of documented 208 cases (https://www.enforcementtracker.com/), there have been 6 fines that exceeded 10 million and another 4 that exceeded 1 million. Median seems to be around 10 000.
Not just Bosnia, but most of former Yugoslavia. I had no idea people in the Balkans were so tall.
ICE DESTROYER!
This is the type of article that new engineering managers should bookmark and re-read every few months. Is the advice perfect? No, but it will probably bring some new perspective to some problems you'll have along the way. There is no one size fits all management strategy that works in every situation, but every manager should be aware of the common pitfalls on the growth path of engineering managers.

In my personal experience as an engineering manager and in mentoring new engineering managers, this is the tipping point where managers either succeed or spiral into burnout:

> I found myself and our product manager becoming the bottleneck in planning out who will work on what project, next, and who will be the lead.

If you find yourself bottlenecking the team, you're either micromanaging or your team has grown too large for a single level of management. You need to take the time to develop a new system that removes you as the bottleneck. Don't try to push through the issue by putting in more hours. That's not sustainable. Find a new system.

The "everyone is a leader" strategy described in this article is a good perspective on what every manager should be doing: Clearly defining ownership boundaries and expectations, while avoiding micromanagement. It's a common mistake to assume that because the manager is responsible for the success and failure of a project, the manager should also micromanage the critical decision making. That's the first trait that needs to be trained out of almost every engineer promoted to manager in my experience.

Some engineers instinctively reject anything that feels like a management responsibility. Others will demand promotions or raises for taking on basic ownership tasks. Often, these engineers started their careers in toxic environments where accountability was synonymous with "you're going to be fired if this fails". It's important to show these engineers that your environment really is safe, and that good things come from taking ownership. You have to back up your words with your actions, of course. IME, most engineers truly enjoy autonomy, ownership, and leadership once they can reasonably expect that it won't be used against them.

And of course, it's important to screen for these traits during the hiring process. It's also important to filter out engineers who can't or won't learn to take ownership of their work.
Microsoft continue to produce proprietary software, i.e. software which infringes on its users' freedoms to use, examine, modify & share software; that is wrong.
That number is still only for extremely at risk segments of the population, and the study has such a small sample size that it should be taken with large grains of salt.
I see, thanks. I do have some experience with proofs and maths in general, but I never went through a text dedicated explicitly to developing proving techniques.

I might give it a go anyway, but do you know of a more advanced version of this book as well?
That’s awesome, and maybe I misunderstand his argument (very possible, in fact my main reason for posting this comment). Am I not understanding the arguments being made here? I have not been following these developments regarding using Bayesian stats in QM, it’s just that if Bayesian stats doesn’t help us understand QM it doesn’t mean there’s a “hole” because Bayesian stats makes no claim whatsoever that it has any applicability to QM. Am I just not understanding?
It is a highly virulent flu with the same risk factors and no vaccine for those that are at high risk. It may not be something to worry about, but I'd think we should do something to prepare.
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Salt, rocks and lots of diesel.
Nobody but you used the statement "artificially limit wealth" anywhere. Obviously the Japanese have some policies in place which discourage these social menaces from growing and taking over their political system. What's wrong with adopting some of those? Works for them, and doesn't impact their prosperity or standard of living in any way.
Just downvote comments you don't think add to the discussion. That's what the feature is for. It's not up to you to censor the comments section, and your comment is even less useful than the one you're replying to.
Last week google had a promoted 'fact check' snippet for searches about covid-19 being released from a lab. Predictably, it was an article debunking the story as a crack-pot conspiracy theory. Today stories about covid-19 being released from a lab are front page at news.google.com.
> Are big actors hurling resources at this now?

I don’t think so.

> How could the platform detect the emergent intelligence, if it did put in an appearance?

Very interesting. I took this for granted. Divide and conquer anomaly detection? Inject “consciousness” which self-reports its intelligence in a third dimension with higher barrier to entry, requiring intelligent creation to break the smooth regular pattern of that dimension?
For those who are worrying, don't bother with medical masks.

A decent DIY rebreather for spray painting, sanding or house clearance should work.

I have stockpiled gloves and goggles along with a rebreather FFP3 level.

Total cost along with sanitization wipes and alcohol gel - £49

Piece of mind - priceless!
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What's it with the obsession with tallness? 300 years ago the Prussian kings were already fans of "the long guys". Outside of basketball, what's the point?
AWK live editor: like JSFiddle for AWK
Atlas experiment searches for natural supersymmetry using novel techniques
Disagree. The more people are conditioned to be vigilant the safer people will be. You don’t think you have any skin in the game, but I bet you wouldn’t be saying that if you were in Northern Italy right now.
Age in low 60’s is not really “elderly”...
Our media is referring to "patient zero" in Italy as a 38 years-old man. So either he is known or our media is full of your-know-that. Which would not be surprising.

Edit: a commenter below correctly pointed out that that 38yo man is being referred to as "patient one" not "patient zero". My bad.
Yup. That’s what I did.
I wonder if the modern genetic composition of Dutch society impacts that statistic. The massive growth in length is something that happened to the indigenous Dutch population, but the effect won't be present in the Dutch who hail from immigrant stock.

Basically, when you are the tallest people in the world, any immigration will tend to shorten the average length.
Oh, you're right. But that's a rare case where it's an important thing to mention. Anyway, that's a health-related problem and my point was to bring it to a specialist. I think it's a terrible idea to ask that kind of questions in internet.
You don't need to stock up if you can get food delivered. They can leave the delivery on the doorstep.
I'd like to see the EU contribute to the Signal (or Keybase!) ecosystem. A rising tide lifts all boats.

From various comments in this discussion, I've discovered that Signal is open source and has reproducible builds, and the server is open source too. It would be possible for the EU to create its own "EU-Certified" Signal environment for use by people who wish to see their data remain in the EU.
I can't really evaluate #5, but their screenshot undermines them -- it shows a chat session between the victim and "PayPal Virtual Agent", with the virtual agent offering some canned text.

If that's all you can do, then this is a self-XSS, which is excluded.

#6 is much more clear; that one's very obviously a self-XSS.
Is this more common in English or does it happen in other languages also?

Example:
Q: What you call your country?
A: Deutschland
Q: Ok, then we'll call it Germany

???
I tried this recently. Bought something from the manufacturer, paid extra for shipping & handling, waited longer, the whole bit. I felt good about myself, because I don't want to be taken advantage of anymore, and hey ... I'm buying directly from the manufacturer, so they get a higher cut. Right?

No. I bought directly from the manufacturer's website, paid them, got email from them, the whole bit ... and it was fulfilled and delivered by Amazon. I got an amazon box, and an amazon invoice, and an amazon product.

You can't win anymore. Online commerce is subverted. What you see, no matter how savvy of a consumer or how much experience you have with online shopping, is not guaranteed to be what you get, anymore.
For further perspective, Coronavirus' death rate is 10 to 40 times that of the regular flu. Of course, this number is an early estimate, but there is no doubt that this virus is much more dangerous than the flu.
I'm talking about UI/UX, not about shortcuts. If you switch my important sidebar with a marginal one it's a problem to me, from the UI/UX point of view. If you really want to talk about shortcuts: I don't want to learn the shortcut for the directories tree, because I just never hide it. And I'm talking about my flow, which might be different from yours.
They should use Briar [0], if they want something actually secure: no servers involved whatsoever, tor-enabled, adding contacts works by exchanging private keys, etc.

[0] https://briar.app.
particularly the US. i hear democracy is bad and apparently the us is ebil for giving those people an opportunity to organise instead of terrorise. funny world we live in. where we now support dictators and call those who liberate “destabilisers”. but yeah the others are pretty toxic.
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What's the obsession with beauty? People can't help what they're attracted to. This is only one of many factors feeding into attractiveness.
> screw it and stopped worrying

Wouldn't that logic only apply to people whose family, friends, and neighbors were only in the 30-something, healthy cohort?

The estimated mortality rates for COV19 is higher than Swine Flu but not quite SARS. So anyone who care about, cares for, or comes into contact with someone who is immunocompromised (including grandparents, etc) would do good to keep an eye on this.
The distribution is strongly biased toward the elderly no matter how you cut the data; above 60, most of the deaths are in the oldest cohort.
So does buying more lottery tickets. Surely, the odds at being lucky are better than in playing lottery. However, they are much less predictable than people assume. We tend to systematically overestimate our own influence and underestimate external factors.
The difference is we know what the flu can do and how bad it usually gets. And it's less lethal -- it's just more cases that's why there are lots more deaths with flu.

But that wont necessarily the case if there's a corona pandemic.
Does Briar have an iOS app?
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