skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. The average age of deceased in Italy from COVID-19 is 81.4. Which is mental and puts the current crisis in perspective.

14.3% Case Fatality Rate, 90+ years old

8.2% CFR, 80-89

4% CFR, 70-79

1.4% CFR, 60-69

0.1% CFR, 50-59

0% under 50

Source: https://www.iss.it/primo-piano/-/asset_publisher/o4oGR9qmvUz...

(Official Italian health service, 7 March 2020)
The wrong way round always seemed more logical to me: you write either slash from top to bottom, so for a forward slash your pen moves backwards and vice versa.
> Does that make it misinformation? I think it's a terrible idea to start using that label any time someone's wording isn't clear enough for our liking.

When someone's hypothetical sloppy wording changes their statement from true to false, it's fair to call that "misinformation". Telling people false things is spreading misinformation. Spreading misinformation with a pure heart is still spreading misinformation. The state of your heart doesn't matter.
You're worried about news not in your area ?
You worried about how much lube I'm using too ? Moron
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A lot of peripheral IC's don't have reset lines. Sometimes this is a big big problem. You can end up with failure to come up maybe 1 in 10,000. Exactly the sort of thing that shows up late in development or worse in the field.

Tip: If anyone tells you power supply and reset sequencing is 'easy' ignore them.
I was kind of in your position, and I ended up taking the totally ridiculous route of downgrading to Mavericks.

I didn't feel like modern macOS was a platform I wanted to use anymore, but between Windows, Linux, and old macOS, old macOS clearly won out. It's snappy, stable, and performant; it's visually beautiful; and it has a plethora of well-designed software I enjoy using.

So I built a Hackintosh out of the fastest 2013-era hardware I could get. I'm hoping to stay here for the next decade. I'm not necessarily recommending this route to anyone else, but it's working out well for me.

The next step is to decide on a Mavericks-compatible portable device, because going back to High Sierra on my too-new laptop feels yucky. I kind of want to Hackintosh a tablet...
Every now and then I hear someone call a radio station using a landline phone -in good repair-. The difference in quality (despite the LL bandwidth filtering) compared to mobile-phone callers is often unmistakable. For one thing, the mobile artifactual garbling and missing audio segments stand out.

So it's helpful to stipulate what kind of 'phone audio' you're trying to mangle into 'fidelity'.
One issue is that if you ask 10 experts with egos you might end up with 10 different opinions. It's not helpful to the public to hear contradictory opinions from the same administration because then how do they know what to believe. Making sure people are on the same page isn't necessarily for the purpose of nefarious censorship.
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Well, depends on the number of cases and the effected area.
If Milan is affected in Italy, you are guaranteed the virus will spread anywhere, it's a key place after all.

There is also a psychological factor to count in of course...

Social and ALL other media have been flooded with the virus 24/7 since the first confirmed case.

It generates good views, everyone wants a piece of that, and now we have this nation-wide phicosys
I took a graduate level measure-theoretic probability theory class. The professor had this rant about how "buy low, sell high" was a bad idea, it's all about how long you stay in the market. He had a mathematical proof that, if I recall correctly, only held if the random process is monotonically increasing in expectation, which of course is not guaranteed.
So you image a world, where if an evil entity exists, you cannot morally do anything to get rid of that evil, if you have signed a contract previously that doesn't allow any of the actions necessary to combat the evil?

If you want to insist on that definition of morality that I would just invent a new word that has a more important meaning.
Then you'd get Wuhan, all over the world. A swamped medical system, 3+% death rates, infected population growing exponentially, thanks to nobody having an immunity.
This looks like a potentially great product, especially if it fits in a 40' shipping container.

It'd enable isolated and remote sites to significantly reduce their dependence on diesel generators.

And I'd guess the defence angle enables increased use of hybrid vehicles.
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It reeks of code base problems or general misunderstanding of systems administration. Easier to just make sure you're not leaking memory (profilers exist) and actually monitoring the servers than having to reboot your servers just in case.
Is it really hearsay if the entire country is on quarantine? I’d say that’s pretty damn drastic.
Yields are low because bond prices are high. It's not a bad time to be selling down your bond portfolio right now.
And long comments full of vivid imagery lile this are EXACTLY why people are dissuaded from making social media posts, exemplified by the poster:

"Sorry, but to me, as a doctor, it's not reassuring that the most serious are mainly elderly people with other pathologies."

This could not be less helpful or more harmful. There is no useful information (that i got to, couldnt get all the way through). This is not an letter to the who or CDC trying to affect policy. This is a goddamn reddit post to scare people, vaguely, with the feelings of hospital staff. Im glad this doctor cares about comorbid patients, but this emotional non-rational prose is what drives mass hysteria and panics. We need data and recommendations.
I'm in for that. I found myself actually liking those automatic checkouts that are now at most grocery stores. This is even better.
Gratitude is one of the (IMO) more missing traits these days. Great post and a good reminder to be grateful for the opportunities you have.
> Without that irresponsible leak, and the irresponsible

> reaction of people trying to "escape", this total lockdown

> would probably not be necessary.

The leak was far from ideal, but I still think Italy would be in the same situation. I suspect there were already an un-contained spread in the South before the lockdown in the North.

> People sometimes are right shits.

This is still true, but I am not so sure they can be completely blamed. When people are scared they act irrationally and this should be incorporated into any plan.
Good question, I'm thinking that the EU (because at that point this will have become a political issue) will have to put all its geo-political weight to good use and force a debt moratorium, I don't think that just plain old QE (or whatever else they'll decide to call it) will work anymore. That could at least relieve some pressure off Italy, which has one of the highest debts to service from the OECD group.
It's funny you mention that, because I just looked at their website and was very confused why the product listings don't mention prices, only the product pages after that do. Seemed weirdly opaque to me.
Lot of people in hackernews seem to stick up for bad guys, why is that?

People sign things without looking at them, especially when in desperate situations. Why adopt a stance that further weakens the position of the poor and unconnected, are the rich and connect not powerful enough already? Do we really need to allow "don't tell the truth" contracts to stand?
>> There may be a valid reason to sign such an agreement without actually meaning it

Hmmm, I thought that if you sign an agreement... it does not matter whether you "mean it" or not. You signed it, so it has to have some meaning.

Or, can you back out of a signed agreement by saying "Oh, I did not mean it"?

Not an expert, but seems dubious/shady.
Thanks! If they are still looking to offer health benefits, we would love to speak with them.
Areas that were locked down exactly 15 days ago, now seem to have seen a significant decrease in infection rates in the last few days. So there is hope that the system will fire on all cylinders and hold the line just long enough to weather the storm. Also, Southern Italy is significantly drier and warmer than Northern Italy, which might (might) help.

One of the issues working against this scenario is the fact that the worst-affected regions are also the ones with the best health services. The other regions might struggle to respond as efficiently as the "pioneers", although they will benefit from the accumulated experience.
Sometimes the advice you don't want to hear is the best advice, so thank you for giving me hard truths!

I'll check out the book for sure. Good luck with the course.
> I was not very surprised that Italy turned out to be the (first?) major hit in Europe. Considering the strong business connection

Just be honest and say that it did happen from tourism. It's ok to say that moron.

You so full of shit it's unreal. If what you said was true, America would be dead my by now. Hahah

I'll pull myself.

That is more truth than your words.
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Fourth :)
You basically left a global community because two people didn't like you. Just move to a different instance or start your own. Who cares what people you don't know or don't like think?
we have ports for everything else, internet ports will come. it'll suck for me.
I genuinely wanna argue this out with you privately. Email me or STFU.
If overreaction is the problem, do you not think that letting the pandemic get worse, before we act, will trigger an even bigger overreaction?
This will still be slower than the cashiers at Aldi.
Over $26B wiped off cryptocurrency market in 24h after oil price plunge
I had 7 meetings in total today, starting at 8am. Almost the entire work day (8 hours) spent in meetings. I am principal engineer and usually have say in many technical discussions and decisions.

But on a light day I have around 2-3 meetings a day. One of them usually being an interview with the candidate (either phone or onsite).
This sort of comment really isn’t appropriate for HN.
Comments like yours have no place on HN. I don't know how, but someone should ping dang / other admin to address this.
The certificate is signed by Amazon.
Clause 1: we know 80% of the population is going to survive

AND

Clause 2: a typically a 15-20% rate of mortality for those individuals that are both elderly or have underlying conditions

Clause 1 is still total bs even with clause 2 added because it should say 80% of people who are elderly or have underlying conditions will survive. The actually percentage of people will be much higher. It's intentionally misleading.
>Conclusion : ideas are worthless, Execution is key

This was also often the conclusion found during the Dark Ages. ;D
As far as testing goes, can't you just test all the colours? the space is pretty small. It should take something like less than 16 seconds in total per implementation, in each direction.
Focus on the stress tests and worst case scenarios, Netflix.
The latter, "We built a python script to read a joystick and used a panda to send the CAN messages to the FPGA, which overrides the appropriate bits on the FlexRay bus to control the EPS. By combining the results from the previous steps, we were able to control the steering with a joystick."
The reality is that putting the blame on Facebook instead of Cambridge Analytica is more of a stretch than people think.

Remember Cambridge Analytica's main founder, Aleksandr Kogan, was working at the psychology department of Cambridge University. Facebook had program to allow academic use of user data which it granted to Kogan. Kogan subsequently violated stipulations that this data not be used for commercial and political access, and upon learning of this Facebook terminated his access to this data and demanded that he delete the data that he already collected.

I'm not sure how one comes away from this thinking that Facebook is the culprit here. Sure, you can say that they were naive to believe in the integrity academics. But at no point did they willingly violate their user privacy policies, and when they discovered that a third party was abusing data they terminated access.
You're wife is an MD and you're worried about the news. Make sure you tell us all where your wife is so we can actually avoid her.

> very few actual doctors around, nurses stepping up, orderlies assisting nurses with basics.

Should probably text that lad
Also, they occupied Afghanistan for less time and with arguably more control.
Would HR at Elon's companies hire people without college or university degree?
I guess this will be the final straw. The whole planet has to assemble and invent a plan to smooth out the bubble.
People in other countries put too much weight in what the president says, Trump or otherwise, because they don't fully understand that there is an entire system of government that can fully function with or without the president.

I won't go so far as to say that the position of the president is a figurehead, but it's been more than a little advisory for several generations.

I watch a lot of BBC, NHK, and DW, and see it all the time. I don't blame the foreign journalists. If you're an overseas news organization working in America, of course the president is going to be fully staffed. But few orgs go much beyond that. Because of this, the European view of how America works is very simplified.
You've responded twice to this comment in insulting and rude ways.
> Social security could have it's date of insolvency extended

As others have pointed out, "insolvency" for SS is nothing more than a policy position.

> Many homes may go on the market as these older folks that own much of the housing stock pass away

At worst this would speed up the inevitable (at least as some see it). This coming change has been talked about for years and is known as the "Silver Tsunami" [1].

> My biggest concern is losing a lot of that voting block as older voters often serve as a check against naive ideas that younger voter

Here's where you go off the deep end. The irony in all this is that the demographic hit hardest may well be Fox News and Trump's core constituency. I certainly don't wish anyone ill here but if it's going to happen anyway, it's hard not to see the silver lining.

Older voters are increasingly a huge problem, politically speaking (IMHO). They have no concept of long term consequences. They're just trying to avoid anything upsetting the apple cart in the short time they have left here. They fight change of any sort. They're easy pickings for fear-mongering and, as a group, incredibly easy to manipulate.

Your concern about "socialist" policies at the Federal level I'm afraid puts you in a huge voting bloc in the US of those who see no way to solve certain problems that literally no one else has (eg gun violence).

Reasonable people can disagree about how best to provide health care to people but the current system of being tied to employment is an unmitigated disaster that simply has to change. Doing things at the "state" level isn't necessarily better either as all you end up doing is creating 50 regional monopolies that all need to duplicate the same effort.

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-housing-markets-will...
You need to consider both the wire thinness and the terminal.
> The problem with this is that a 14 day total economic halt will be devastating.

Yup, gotta protect that shareholder value! sigh
One point for the author - Bertie Wooster is not a passive protagonist. He is endlessly pursuing or running from something, whether the object is aunts, romance, oneupmanship or proficiency with the banjo. Wooster is often embroiled in others' plans, but only because he chooses to do so. He might resent having to look after an aunt's friend's son, but he will choose to do it.
Thanks for the feedback. Also just to clarify we are a b2b saas platform : )
Normalcy Bias
>What in the actual fuck

This person needs to spend less time using childish turns of phrase on the internet and more time understanding the contracts he enters his business into.

If the screenshot of SXSW's force majeure language is real, his attitude has evaporated any sympathy I otherwise had.
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Robinhood after hours numbers mismatch
I just noticed that on my portfolio i saw sudden improvement in numbers after hours. but the number doesnt match the chart number. something makes me worry about the stability.
While there will always be change in the world it certainly feels like the rate has been getting faster.
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Same, I find it very effective for cleaning/degreasing parts without bringing real degreasers/soaps/water into the picture.

It's also really useful for spraying down bicycle/motorcycle chains after they get wet to prevent rusting. But it does require some fresh lube after things dry off.
> news came out that they only sold their shares because of this.

Why would this be kept a secret? Why doesn't Sequoia, upon realizing their conflict of interest, say "Attention everyone: we have to sell this investment for conflict-of-interest reasons. We can't reasonably give you our board seat and other influence, just the financial state, so we will sell it for a large discount."

Why would any of that tarnish Sequoia's reputation or open them up to litigation? (I mean, other than the minor reputational hit they have already taken for not doing thorough due diligence, which is being revealed regardless.)
It looks like he bought boothspace. I doubt that whatever laws exist about contracts of adhesion apply to that kind of business agreement.
They may want to, but the real world is one in which contracts are honored either to the extent that it's convenient, or that the penalties for not honoring them are worse than the result of doing so. In other words, "breach of contract" is basically a cost of doing business, especially for a corporation. And, if your counterparty doesn't have the resources to sue, you can get away with almost anything.
That's her story. She very much could be terminated for all manners of failure and error that we don't know about.

It's an HR nightmare to fire a pregnant woman, most would rather just avoid that particular claim and pay a few more months of salary
You can find that information in box 12 code DD of your W-2.

https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/form-w-2-reporting-o...
Most of their other domains seem to be registered with MarkMonitor Inc. domain registrar.

Even if they recently bought this domain and it was pushed to one of their GoDaddy accounts, you think they would immediately initiate a transfer to MarkMonitor to put it in their portfolio of managed domains.

In July of 2019, the domain had a coming soon page on it, that was in German:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190709115714/http://justwalkou...
I'm not a medical person, so I thought I'd pass this along ... information from a major King Country hospital, citing the CDC (and an eye-opener for me ... see site for more helpful details).

"1 person out of 200 people who are exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual, will become COVID-19 positive (0.5% transmission rate in the general public)"

https://www.evergreenhealth.com/coronavirus
I'm pretty sure they didn't add C++ kernel support at least until CUDA 5, and it had beaten OpenCL at that point.
No no no, I genuinely ask.. Why is it okay for the popular message to get the favour, yeah Italy is extending it, but shitty information is supposed to be the antithesis of HN.
Interesting, will check it out, but your Show HN link shouldn’t be to a tweet. It should be to the product itself:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-con...
> But I don't agree Facebook isn't to blame.

> Power comes with responsibility. At least that is what most countries believe.

But the question remains unanswered: what is Facebook to blame for? What responsibility did they shirk?

Cambridge Analytica lied about the purposes of their data and subsequently lied about deleting the data they collected. But Facebook remained true to their agreement to only share this data for academic purposes, and when they discovered that some university researchers were violating this agreement they terminated this data sharing program. With the benefit of hindsight we can say that Facebook should have been more doubtful of the integrity of academics - but without that hindsight I'm not sure what Facebook did wrong.
BINGO - this is basically the ultimate play for getting rid of the networks almost entirely if not entirely
The story goes that Microsoft advocated for a UNIX like path separator for DOS, and it was probably IBM that pushed for the backslash so that they wouldn’t be confused with the option switch character.

In any event, blaming Windows for this is a bit silly.
I don't think that argument really holds up when Robinhood is the subject. I mean they still don't even have phone support or same day guarantees covering them responding to your email.
so we're gonna a see a n-therapy to cover the whole span ?
Yeah, I've seen a lot of bickering over what the "correct" fingering is for some songs that produce the same notes. For example, the repeated two-note riff at 0:17 in Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [0]. In the top tab for it on UG [1], it's tabbed as:

E---1
B-1--
G----
D----
A----
E----

But there are TONS of people in the comments saying it should be:

E----
B---6
G-5--
D----
A----
E----

Both are going to play C F, but there's so much fighting over which one is correct, and while I know due to the different thickness of the strings, there's going to be a very subtle difference between them, but I bet most untrained ears won't be able to tell, especially without having the two of them played back-to-back.

As a guitar noob, I know I'd be more inclined to play the 1-1 version over the 5-6 version. It's going to be a lot easier to finger.

[0] https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg?t=17

[1] https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nirvana/smells-like-tee...
It's okay to say tourism spread corona.