skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how Steve Jobs is the example you bring up. It is known he did several conventional treatments and also consumed animal protein quite often. With your logic, I can point at any one of the 600k chemo patients who die every year and say, guess chemo didn’t work for them did it.

I have been involved in natural healing for over 30 years. I have seen countless people cure cancer. I know this is not something HN crowd welcomes, and that is unfortunate. Cancer has been solved a long long time ago. Grape fasting, aronia fasting, combined with periods of dry fasting + specific herbs + kidney glandulars can heal pretty much every disease known to man. Cancer included.
Just for fun I looked up the dictionary definition of fraud.

fraud, n., wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

When Dmitri Dolgov said that Waymo's cars are safe enough to drive his children, I think that he committed fraud. Maybe not in the legal sense, but it's wrongful and deceptive and results in financial and personal gain.
>> It’s possible that COVID-19 will be similar to a bad flu year but there are a number of indications that it will be very much like the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

This, right here, is horseshit. There is no way whatsoever it will be like the 1918 Flu Pandemic, unless we've utterly failed as a society and did not invent anything in the last 102 years. In 1918 we didn't yet have _penicillin_, let alone antiviral drugs.

More accurate prediction: this will be only slightly worse than the seasonal flu we endure every year. In fact, it's quite possible that this year in the US more people will die of the complications of the flu, than of COVID19.
> I was effectively offering to cover all the companies infrastructure costs

So basically what CF does today? Except he would have reengineer everything to fit a new setup? Was he snarky or just explaining himself?
This NEJM article you referenced (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387) is a poor estimate of the Case Fatality Ratio. I'm perplexed it passed peer-review (I'm not even an expert, so why am I finding such glaring flaws?)

It's citing two references (ref. 4 and ref. 5) that estimate CFR at respectively 2% and 1.4%, however both use the naïve CFR formula (deaths/cases) that's known to underestimate the CFR due to deaths lagging cases in a rapidly growing outbreak. I wrote about this bias and provided 5 peer-reviewed epidemiological papers that also document it, see: https://blog.zorinaq.com/case-fatality-ratio-ncov/

Then it remarks that many mild cases are probably not detected (ie. high underascertainment) but strangely makes no effort at quantifying it, or referencing other papers that do quantify it.

The 4 best published studies that correct for these two aspects (naïve CFR bias + underascertainment) are:

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/523

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/nCoV-public/an...

https://github.com/calthaus/ncov-cfr/blob/d30f02e1c20e06103a...

(3 of the 4 above studies are even referenced by the WHO in their Coronavirus disease situation report 30 (references 10, 11 and 12) and in situation report 31: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati... and https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati... )

And they all estimate the CFR to be between 0.5% and 1.6%, or about 5x to 16x deadlier than the flu (0.1%)
Steak tartare and sushi exist.
It's a way to cement power and the perception of power. Skirting international law like this sends a message that you can do whatever you like. It's not a lie, either. Abu Dhabi is a pretty clear signal that America plays by the rules until we don't.
I have a theory about language, which I've formulated by living all over the world for 50 years.

It goes like this: If you have two villages, maybe separated by a lake, or by a mountain, and one village has goats, the other has sheep - or maybe one of these villages has brown goats and the other just white goats - or maybe there are a couple of cows in one and a coal mine at the other - then it doesn't matter how close these villages are, they will fight for their own dialect, which will eventually become a new language.

(Austria problems.)
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I think it's per memory controller. Probably per socket.
> The number of new cases was highest in early to mid-February and has been lower in the past two weeks.

What? That doesn't matter at all.

The number of new cases globally is growing at an increasing rate- the number will eclipse that from early-mid february shortly.
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Foreign foods are modified by the locals according to a lack of ingredients, and on the basis of the local palates.. in Austria, for example, I've gotten used to eating ultra-bland Asian or Mexican food, since Austrians rarely have the disposition to weather the more exotic spices.
> I'm trying to imagine a need for something like this, and

> maybe I'm not imaginative enough, but I can't figure out

> why such awful conditions were built in the first place.

For somebody who is a high escape, high assassination or generally high risk. Somebody with enough money for example could arrange for an escape attempt at the court itself.

Unfortunately it's also used for anybody who acts "against the state", i.e. whistleblowers. Such cases do not occur without consent from high levels of government.
> The proper way to make things fair is to tax landlords on the land value of their properties. They are the ones pulling in all the unearned income in high cost areas.

Bernie owns 3 houses, he will never support land value tax. Almost all progressive Berniecrats in Bay Area are NIMBYs [1].

Bernie is right about healthcare, but he is wrong about virtually everything else, in my opinion.

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2020/2/20/21122662/san-francisco-bay-a...
It's both. When a virus like this taxes your immune system, the risk of secondary infections becomes far greater.
The plan is to get NymphCast into a 'good enough' state, before sending an inquiry off to various services to see whether they're interested in getting their service on NymphCast.

As they say, you already got the 'no', so why not try to get the 'yes' or 'maybe'? :)
> they prefer to hold cash at -2% real return.

I'm not trained in any sort of finance, and not that this invalidates your point, but I believe it's not literal cash cash. It's just low-risk, liquid investments.

From the Alphabet Investor Relations page (https://abc.xyz/investor/), you can find a link to their 2019 Form 10-K (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204420...).

P. 50 of that has a balance sheet, where you can see that at the end of 2019, they had $18.5 billion in "Cash and cash equivalents" and $101.2 billion in "Marketable securities". So about 15% of it is cash, and the other 85% is some kind of investment.

Then, on p. 56, they give a little more detail what these categories mean:

> Cash equivalents and marketable securities consist primarily of time deposits, money market and other funds, highly liquid debt instruments of the U.S. government and its agencies, debt instruments issued by foreign governments, debt instruments issued by municipalities in the U.S., corporate debt securities, mortgage-backed securities, and asset-backed securities.

Anyway, they are probably getting a real return better than -2%. Maybe even slightly positive.
I think it's pretty clear that the US government has an interest in downplaying the risks in order to buoy the stock market - government spokesmen have repeatedly told falsehoods[1] to try and calm the public. The CDC is much more independent and analytical than anything coming from the white house, but I still think it's fair to be skeptical, cautious and certainly a good idea for companies to get contingencies in order. One of Stripe's offices is in Seattle where they've had at least 6 Corvid-19 deaths.

1. Like that there are only 15 infected people and that number will only go down.
Already the case, per what I read on HN last week.
The amusing thing is, Australians never fail to create a new cultural device, bound to cause confusion. s'truth, no wuckers, cunts.
I tried to reply to this thread, but the thread was flagged for a while. Not sure what that was about.

I generally agree with the author's assessment. It seems as if the goal of his treatment is to mask a suicide or cause one. It just goes to show you that we the people should always be suspicious of those in positions of power, because it may be abused.
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If you look at it rationally, this has the "least bad" impact on society among the possible scenarios.
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I propose a simple Constitutional Amendment that will fix all problems in the USA:

All Rent Seeking Is Hereby Prohibited.

The End.
5-10x more deadly than influenza is “only slightly worse”?
> The number of new cases globally is growing at an increasing rate

That's just not true. The daily increase in total cases globally has been going down since mid February.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594... (Link fixed, thanks)
> > Expect people you know to die.

> Aside from this likely being inaccurate, is this language even remotely helpful?

If it is accurate I appreciate someone informing me in brief and plain terms.
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What about for long distance rides? I could imagine wanting to pay basic car rental fees for a car that would drive me and my family across the state from Seattle to Spokane.
For mysql there is https://github.com/Preetam/explain-analyzer

haven't tried it myself.
Good to know. But when you stop using it, do you do it because you feel sick or for normal non-VR related reasons? i.e. is simulation sickness not a factor at all?
Nobody knows if it's 5-10x more deadly because nobody knows the denominator - the _total_ number of cases, including the cases which are mild (which most of them are), and for which people are unlikely to seek treatment. Also, even allowing hypothetically that it's 5x as deadly in China, that doesn't mean its CFR is the same in the developed world.
That's basically what we've done with https://safepass.me/ and https://pwncheck.me/ ... and HIBP is the dataset we ship to our customers by default. If you are still looking to validate passwords when they're set, give me a nudge :)

We don't advertise the linux/PAM support since we have failed to find a market for it (usually things end up being hooked up onto AD one way or the other)...
I had to "vouch" for the article, no idea why it got flagged off of the front page. I read back through the guidelines and I'm pretty sure this is a useful and insightful article for the community [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's true for drag&drop tools that provide a user interface as an alternative but Looker or similar tools introduce their own language that limits your capability by sandboxing the environment but still lets you programmatically define your models. See LookML for Looker (https://docs.looker.com/data-modeling/learning-lookml/what-i...) or Jsonnet for Rakam. (https://docs.rakam.io/docs/compose)

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> Close to unbreakable and getting stronger over time (you won't be able to build a better search engine than Google unless you have as much data as Google).

Google actually lost market share of search last year, mostly to Amazon (lots of people just do their product-related searches on Amazon now).
Have you considered analytics? I think of it as progression and you might want to continue the web-dev work with a new hire. They make a decent story together
There is MySQL Workbench, and a collection of Percona tools:

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/03/01/visualize-this-mysql...
Trust me i want to believe but where’s the documentation? Who was cured, who wasn’t cured, what was their initial diagnosis? Did they try any standard meds too? What was their level of compliance with this therapy?
At this point there’s nothing differentiating your claim from so many others that claim weed or mushrooms or liver purges or whatever cured their cancer.

Chemo is barbaric, but it has kept people alive.
Just charge for disposal at the point of production. The consumer still pays but at least the manufacturer "feels" it.
He just has convince every other private investor, every government, every bank and pension fund and the owners of existing plants to all agree. Literally every single one.
I think his thesis is that the 1918 flu allowed co-infection with bacterial pneumonia which could probably be treated today.
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And for some reason they didn't succeed with Mars which has way softer conditions.
FF needs to straighten out memory usage issues. It was using 12GB of ram earlier before I had to kill it,i was running more tabs/workload on a webkit browser and it was using around 3GB.

The UI is a lot better but for some reason the memory hogging seems to just get worse. Why can't it pause tabs after a memory usage limit if it can't manage the leakage? I keep trying but even when putting up with it's slowness I can't have it basically freeze my system. This only applies to windows too. I think,maybe they test on Linux and Mac too much but most people are on windows.
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I actually learnt programming 7 years ago with the codecademy Python class after a career in marketing. I'm now a confirmed Data Engineer. I feel blessed.
> I'm happy to pay more taxes so people poorer than me can have healthcare.

Hmmm, I’d like to not pay more taxes and for healthcare to be cheaper
Thank you, that is a much better article on the subject.
To see how well a fruit diet works, look at what happened to Steve Jobs.
I wonder how our planet would be characterised in the context of the whole galaxy.

We have no reference point(as in, other civilisations), so the fact that we're e.g. tilted somewhat, rotate at a decent speed or are in 70% covered by water might well be the weirdest thing in the universe.
Fantastical job has done! Maybe there are other non-digitized materials from any past missions, which could be digitized?
I love simplifying things.
I am seeing some harsh comments here out of fear. I dealt with the same reaction from family members.

The U.S. is doing very little to prevent this. A lot of people, especially elderly people, will likely die.

It will also likely have a severe impact on the market. The sooner we can all accept this and prepare the better.
> Expect people you know to die.

> There will be significant economic disruption

> Daily life will be impacted in important ways

> The acute pandemic will probably last at least for several months and quite possibly for a year or two.

Agreed, this seems very sensationalist.

Any or all of the above could be true, but at best, she is guessing right now.
The Earth wasn't first covered with water though, the article says the earliest continental material is even older at 4bn years. It may have been covered with water at some point 3bn years ago, but if we're talking about when it 'in the beginning', there's no reason to choose to start the clock then and not earlier.
Usually, being easy is confused with being simple. Easy to use systems usually tend to be very complex but they'd only hide it from the average user. Once you go one step ahead, do something outside of quick start, you find yourself helpless. In that sense, the article is on point. Not only the management of the ship is simple, machinery behind the scenes is simple as well.

This applies to programming languages, too. Python is easy but when you do advanced stuff, often without realizing, you start to grok many complex details to make it work or make it work in a performant way. On the other hand, Go (and Rust supposedly, but I don't have experience) is simple. It doesn't let you do many things and that results in fewer ways of doing a specific task but when you do it, you feel safer because in the end, it does look and feel simple although you spent 1+ hour than you'd normally spend compared to coding in Python (this assumes you're doing some advanced stuff, not quick start).
True. Mars is a "cursed" planet though. European lander has failed there also. NASA really knocked it out of the park with the rovers. They're the only ones who know how to really do it properly.
What about 16-bit or 32-bit floats in linear space? They can go way below and above the [0, 1] range while maintaining a lot of precision in that important range.
The problem is that for different people 'simple' has different meaning.
According to the post which introduced the project be was already using them and they referred him internally

Back in April during a regular catchup with the folks at KPMG about some otherwise mundane financial stuff (I've met with advisers regularly as my own financial state became more complex), they suggested I have a chat with their Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) practice about finding a new home for HIBP. I was comfy doing that; we have a long relationship and they understand not just HIBP, but the broader spectrum of the cyber things I do day to day.

https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have...
This feels like it is stating the obvious. However it is easily forgotten.

A lot of Software Engineers / Developers in my experience tend to over engineer projects or they are mandated they do so by so their dev leads. It is easy to get caught up into abstracting almost everything away almost for the sake of it while it provides no real benefit.
Probably because people are getting tired of this deluge of Assange stories. From this blog alone we have one every day.

And I haven't seen a "new comment" in months now. It has been talked to death. You won't convince me, I won't convince you. It's all well-rehearsed sound bites.
So nobody knows, but somehow you know better?
Please stop posting duplicate comments in these threads.
And thus, a new law was born.
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Financial Times. Articles relevant to work and comments section makes for good reading i.e. often well informed commentators and debate, usually the journalists chime in too.
A child does not possess the experience required to appreciate life and death in all its complex meanings, or to have experienced a life which amounts to meaning or legacy.

The completion of life for someone who has truly lived can be as beautiful as it is tragic. Many cultures, including Christianity, celebrate death in some capacity.

Of course death is never desirable, but it is certainly possible for it to be not undesirable in the right context. People who have had near death experiences and lived recount a sublime experience of understanding as if every part of their life and history, every part of reality is exactly in the place it belongs.

I don't imagine this experience is typical for a small child being prodded by strange people in tyvek suits speaking in metaphors about sleeping and telling them white lies about feeling better... So all that is possibly left is the tragic experience of death.
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Look up the Pfand system in Germany. Most domestic beer comes in one of two brown glass bottle shapes with brewery-specific labels. Any brown glass bottle of that shape can be turned into a few cents (I think it was 12.5) at essentially any grocery store's machine. Bottles are washed/reused up to 40-50 times before they even need to be melted down and recycled. Because of the reward there are people who roam around and pick up bottles every day, so a glass bottle in a park has a lifetime of about 1/2 day max. A few other drinks come in those bottles, e.g. Spezi. But coke? Nope. Plastic and aluminum. Imported beer? Nope.

The system in Germany isn't perfect, but it's pretty damn good.
The denominator was estimated by multiple teams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22405204 That's why we are fairly confident in the approximative CFR range of 0.5%-1.6% See more details in all the studies I link to in my post at: https://blog.zorinaq.com/case-fatality-ratio-ncov/#updates--...
Yes this is common. There are a ton of unused IPv4 adresses.

Companies, governments, universities bought ranges and maybe use 10% of them.
I don’t see that as a problem. The color would be undefined for humans, but they would still be colors. It would make sense to have them if only to be able to perform operations on them and retain quality (like working with HDR/raw images even if almost everybody will see them in sRGB).
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Again, please do your job and delete astroturfing comments and ban these users. This company has been exploiting HN for so long to promote itself whenever a post about Wireguard go to the frontpage. They don't even have a ready product. This website encourages really sneaky types of marketing if you don't take action.
Because wasting someone else's time isn't great, and we're all human beings and should probably care about that.

But more importantly for the faceless hiring entity itself, because it is very short sighted.
It leaves a bad impression at the very least to some people.
And more importantly, you are most probably filtering out a lot of people who want to avoid useless work (thus are more likely to optimize processes) and are too honest to simply copy and paste an answer off the internet (thus would likely be honest in their interactions as coworkers as well).
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Foundation DB might fit the bill: https://www.foundationdb.org/
Is there any evidence for this? I suppose instincts are 'nature' driven evolved memories of a kind, but I'm not sure that's what you are referring to.