skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline is editorialized in a way that is misleading.

> Early implementation of certain interventions, including closure of schools, churches, and theaters, was associated with lower peak death rates, but no single intervention showed an association with improved aggregate outcomes for the 1918 phase of the pandemic.

In other words, a similar amount of people died regardless of these interventions, but the cases were spread out over a longer time period. They also note that the virus spreads as soon as interventions are relaxed, suggesting many cities just delayed the infection.

Edit: thanks for the comments below - my comment was just to point out that these interventions didn't cut the death rate in half, as a quick reading of the submitted headline might suggest.
> Most people know Google’s webapps are slow

Can you substantiate this with more than just your personal experience? This doesn't match my experience outside of the HN bubble.
Simple network effects. You find the most cutting edge web development experts in the bay, just like you find the most movie makers in Hollywood.

Is great work done elsewhere? Of course!

But for better or for worse, the bay is where the most ambitious webdevs go righ now.

Just like I bet the best aircraft engineers are in Chicago and Bethesda because that’s where Boeing and Lockheed are.

It’s not the talent that lags behind, it’s the environment.
It is too early to say anything.
Voting isn't the issue. Campaigning is (or will be cited). Not saying it's a good idea, but it's one that will be out there regardless.
I like birch sap/juice/water with mint like here

https://www.amazon.de/Dovgan-Birkensaft-mit-Minzgeschmack-Pa...

Probably not the "real" thing like the locals who produce it have, but as a city dweller i'm happy to be able to put it in my shopping cart. Once exotic and only to be had in russian speciality markets, it popped up in larger supermarkets with a full sortiment in the russian isles, and in the last few weeks even Lidl had it.
almost 90% of shale is unprofitable at $30/bbl
king behavior
Spreading them out is hugely important if hospital beds and other available healthcare resources are in short supply, though.
Why nobody is stoping Chinese companies from working 996?
Maybe the problem here is building networked services (sounds like synchronous communication between components). How often is it that a well architected microservice architecture needs to do more than push data into a decoupling resource and data store and consume data from a stream or a queue? Is Promise.all( ... ) really that relevant that often?

I've come to enjoy Node.js more than I thought I ever would, but it's still not something that's ever mindblowing to me, and I don't think that switching to Python would be a huge burden. With sensible tooling and contracts, neither would switching to a statically typed backend.
...why is a web-based email client depending on graphics hardware?
But the people who are supporting the present economics, like the rich and the Republicans, falsely claim that things are going just great for the American working class.
What’s this obsession with working from home? Does no one else like going into their office and seeing people face to face?
But hurts all the small businesses and people who are laid off due to prolonged closings.
> The vast majority of work is NOT "knowledge work"--it is schlepping things around. Who are the biggest employers and what do they do?

It doesn't mean that those employers do not have hordes of office employees.

As a manifestation of the local bubble, all comments I read so far seem to believe that only programmers already spend their day in an office in front of a computer, whereas they are only a very small part of the office workers who could more or less easily switch to Work From Home (and who sometimes already do it).
I mostly agree, but for areas that haven’t been hit yet, this kind of up-to-the-minute info can help you decide when you need to put you/your family “on lockdown.” Here in Kansas City, we only got our first confirmed case on Saturday—prior to that, my wife & I agreed we should continue business as usual.
> Legislative and regulatory debt can be a problem just like technical debt

I really wish there was more appreciation for this outside of tech. I'm disdainful of a lot of SV libertarianism, to say the least, but will gladly make common cause on this one point.
Saudi Arabia needs $80/barrel to meet their budget, Russia around $42/barrel.
the analogy is not even remotely valid

taking someone's temperature is a well-known concept with long tradition - fever is not something that started occurring in the last two weeks.

if people would did not know what fever meant and how they should act based on a reading on a thermometer what benefits would distributing thermometers have?
Well, sorta:

> Cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic also showed a trend toward lower cumulative excess mortality, but the difference was smaller (≈20%) and less statistically significant than that for peak death rates.
Some time ago I transcribed Solfegiato into python script and converted to MIDI notes. Then printed it as TAB where each note is shown on all strings if the fret number is in range. I spent a lot of time choosing strings and fingerings to make it playable. It was plainly obvious that a constraint solver (or wave function collapse) would be a great way to select options for a playing style (alternating vs sweep picking for example). I didn't get that far. Congrats on doing the interesting part!
Yes. Or, at least, the second part.

I'm not sure what you mean by "lack of abstraction in C."

"Abstraction" is not a straightforward property of a language; it's a thing you create with programming languages. It's true that some languages make it easy to express certain kinds of abstractions, but C has it's own way of abstracting things, and it's certainly not absolutely obvious that its way of doing so is inferior to others.
Thanks for this. It would be interesting to see a histogram or other chart depicting the age groups.
> wasting 3h+ of the day commuting

It's not wasting, it's time to myself.

Do you have kids?

I get a lot done during that time, I need that.
It says "lower peak," not merely "lower." It doesn't seem terribly misleading to me.
For a better viz tool, here is one from john hopkins: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
> Pfff - That's completely wrong. SPAs are all about performance.

Why are they consistently slower than especially when there is low bandwidth or bad reception (lost packets)? Your large JS script has to be downloaded and parsed by the browser. This is fine when you have high bandwidth and low package loss. But if the opposite is true that initial hit to get all your JS code can be really painful. Writing really fast JS is hard and is not normally something that can be done in a framework. I know React is better than things like Angular, but there is nothing faster than vanilla JS.

I write a lot of pure JS and I write stuff to be very fast. However it requires more effort and a higher skill bar (to the point where I am weaker at server side development and terrible with databases).

A lot of SPAs can be replaced with with a post back mechanism and some caching of assets (CSS etc) and a sprinkling of Ajax. The less you have to download, parse etc can really make things less painful when you are in that situation.

The problem is that many developers don't bother to learn JavaScript properly so unless you give them a framework like Angular or similar you end up with the jQuery spagetti of the past.

> Says who? I understand that the underlying structures of the web are all about transferring documents and other resources. But Gmail showed us that web 'apps' are useful. Why shouldn't we pursue that? Just because the original web architecture didn't account for it?

Documents and other resources are content. It is about displaying content in a meaningful manner to the user.

If it is something that the browser can't render (word docs for example) you need to deal with that appropriately.

Sometimes a plain page with some links to download your files is more than sufficient. I used the old gmail lite version for years because it was faster and did most of the same things. If you gave that interface some nicer CSS most people probably couldn't tell that it was quite old (if done right).

> Why shouldn't we pursue that? Just because the original web architecture didn't account for it?

Generally the browser already knows how to deal with HTTP and the OS knows how to deal with documents you download (if it has the right programs installed). So I think generally things just end up better when you try to keep as things were intended to be built.

I do however have the attitude of "the water takes the shape of the container" attitude to development. Whereas others don't.
Porter tried to go around the problem by partnering with the government to revive a disused island airport, accessible only by ferry. Part of the deal was going to be a bridge.

The community organized vigorously against the prospect of new flights, and succeeded in kneecapping Porter by killing the bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Airlines#History
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The only reason those people are even there in the land is the federal army, sponsored mostly by taxes from the East of the country, killed off lots and lots of Mexicans and Native Americans until they gave up.
Everyone being in small coop they live < 30 minutes away from that voluntarily joins and leaves larger organizations (and not in some bullshit primordial john locke way) should be the goal almost everyone can get behind.

WFH is right that autonomy is good (being away from a boss) and commutes are bad, but denying the social nature of our species when work (for better or worse) consumes so much time is ludicrous.
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Your ‘in other words’ is flatly incorrect. No single intervention had an association, but cities that enacted those interventions did have a lower cumulative death rate.
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Doesn’t seem unrealistic for a list price. List price for a standard baby delivery and 3 day recovery around here can be up to ~$80k. Of course, the real insurance contracted price is $10k. The list prices are completely absurd, and it’s even more absurd that hospitals try to collect that clearly fictional amount from patients without good coverage.
We already had that on a federal level with ACA coverage penalties, now repealed but still enforced by California.

I think it would be much more viable if we get rid of the employment requirements.
Of course it's just my personal experience, but almost all of that's with "normies". Teachers (they live in Google webapps), writers (=avoid because terribly slow and input-laggy on low-end hardware, which ought to be all you need if you're trying to make money writing rather than impress people at coffee shops—and anyway it's not a ton better on good hardware), various other non-tech folks. The ones who don't complain about it do complain about its effects on their machines, without realizing that's what's doing it.
I don’t think that’s correct. If you look at the graph, the area under the curve is much lower for the city with the later, lower peak.

The full area you’re quoting seems to say that implementating multiple interventions had an impact, but no single one had an effect if done on its own.

Relevant section:

> Cities with more early NPIs also had fewer total excess deaths during the study period (Fig. 2 b, Table 2, 1918 total), but this association was weaker: cities with three or fewer NPIs before CEPID = 20/100,000 experienced a median total excess death rate of 551/100,000, compared with a median rate of 405/100,000 in cities with four or more NPIs (P = 0.03).

They also noted second waves of infection only occurred once restrictions had been lifted. If we delayed a peak till a vaccine was developed or an existing treatment discovered, we could lower deaths further.
US banks lend frackers over $200 billion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/the-next-financia...
They were squeaking by oil fell from $110 to $40 in 2014.
Many will go belly soon triggering bank failures.
The same reason your desktop based email client probably depends on it. It’s 2020 and developers are starting to make use of all the modern browser features. It’s time to stop thinking like the browser is some fickle thing that needs to be caressed and treat it like a sandboxed OS environment for delivering apps and content.
my offer is that in two years we look back at this and a reasonable majority of health professionals will say:

"you know that home testing by Gates was not such a good idea, overall it caused more harm than good"

My view is that is a dangerous idea to have untrained, panick people decide if they are sick or not. Too many things can and will go wrong.
Kopia Hits v0.5 – Encrypted, Deduplicated, and Compressed Backups
Because it’s more expensive and the plans don’t cover enough.
I don't have anything against either furries or sex workers being there, just that between this and half of the public feed being in languages other than English the "what is this all about ?" experience is rather deterring.

Two basic things they could do is add some categorization and have users opt-in to topics for their public feed and limit the posts shown to English plus the languages that can be deduced from the user-agent data - it is after all one of the few legitimate purposes it can be used for.
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> No matter what, and the end, you will get accurate numbers for death

Not necessarily. You only get accurate numbers for deaths if you test deaths. Some countries reporting zero cases may have had deaths that will never be reported. The US likely has also had unreported deaths.
This is where the government should step in with stimulus and direct aid.
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I have that book on kindle and just checked the contents. You’re correct. The book is split into three sections called books.
Ok, they own a lot of BAT, and have a strong influence on how it’s spent. They created BAT. This is the premise of the parent article.
Use comments to unit test your code (JavaScript)
What is “async” communication that everyone is taking about? Isn’t that email/irc/slack that we had since forever? How are things going to change all of a sudden?
and mobile version..

https://arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/85320e2ea54...
Bloom Energy blew through billions promising cheap, green tech that falls short
Here's your answer: yes, Americans have an obligation to help working class Americans. Full stop.
and guess what, bees go nuts over stuff like that.

if you have access to a lot of raw birch sap you can have birch honey which is dark and robust, and quite dear unless you have acreage of birch trees and a ^lot^ of bees in spring.
Maybe this will be the turning point for universal healthcare. The current status quo is only barely tolerated, where many don't get any healthcare at all and most of what people do get is sub-par. If only a minority had it, there might finally be the political pressure to push through a total reform.
Yes, I was surprised too.

Probably there's a serious but unknown-sized effect about what would happen if it wouldn't be a trial. (There was a link and a discussion on HN a few days ago.) The folks in the trial went to school and so on. (And that's included in the 10%, so who knows, maybe those would cancel out.)
The issue is that Germany is testing ferociously while in the US this is not the case. It's therefore likely that the US numbers are severely underestimated, while Germany's are much closer to their true value.

Worth noting that Germany not having any deaths despite such a large number of cases can also indicate that they discover the infection very early, and similarly the number of US deaths can indicate late discovery.
↔ SSD ↔ spinning rust ↔ tarsnap or something
America is that way because rich people like Bill made it so. They worked hard at it and still do.
I was considering things like Hotmail and Yahoo mail to be competitors. Free, ad supported, web based email. Was Squirrelmail that? I don't know I've hardly heard of it.
This^! +1

Also do it on a Raspberry Pi, it will allow to touch that low level better. Only flashing an LED through GPIO pins and is enough to grasp the basics.
Every real scrum environment I’ve been in or heard of in my career has turned into “sprint at a time” planning. Perhaps short sided management is at fault?
And the rich software people will put even less of their money into the rest of the economy, it’ll be great for everyone who’s doing a job that requires being at a particular time and place. Absolutely great!
I'm about 99% sure the store on the PS3 was webtech. That beast of a machine could barely run its own store. They lost a lot of money from me as a result of the store being super-slow, input laggy, and crashy (OOM I assume), and I can't be the only one.

PS4 feels like they've taken webtech all over the OS interface. Its store's snappier than the 3 but the rest of the interface performs way worse. Usable, but far less pleasant.

[EDIT] store should be snappier than the 3, mind, since it's way more powerful hardware—it's still kinda slow, considering.
I find it interesting all this happened in Wuhan over a month ago but we are just starting to hear actual in person stories.

And I think it's mostly language. Censorship plays a role, but less than language.

Anyway this will be in your own community soon, so you'll be able to talk to mates about it in your local dialect.

You'll always have the lag from Wuhan which is x weeks ahead, a little time machine. You can easily extrapolate how bad it is, but it seems people need the finer details of a person telling a story.

[edit] Also a interesting comment how they are using surgical masks in the thread, how cheap(or any) N95/FFP3 masks can't be supplied seems like a issue we should have thought through. We put a lot of money talking about attacks, not so much preparing it seems.

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_...
Fascinating! I was skeptical at first how the monochromatic light would "turn red", but on investigation olive oil is flourescent!

https://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/physicsathome/fluo...

I was looking around with a 532nm green laser pointer the other day, and found that it was almost totally attenuated when aimed at the red (cheap/fake) nectar in my hummingbird feeder. Further experimentation revealed that orange Gatorade was similarly super-absorbent, while beer was pretty transparent to the green light.

Just bought some Tonda Iblea DOP-certified oil and will be interested to try this! It's subjectively delicious, curious if it's objectively flourescent (and if my everyday supermarket olive oil is not).
This is absolutely the issue! I wish companies would consider small satellite offices.
Uber and co need to lobby hard for non-employment-base healthcare and other benefits. It's very enlightened, and very self-interested.

The thing is I suspect bullshit jobs are the easiest ones to do from home. Once (hopfully!) non-labor-tied welfare and UBI break the oversupply of labor, we'll have less of those, and in turn the jobs that remain will be more intense, pay very well, and often require in person coordination.
And low quality crude means they can't afford to pull it out of the ground when prices are low.
We had rich desktop email clients - with more features than GMail - running on sub-GHz CPUs with integrated graphics. They also had better UI.
2x2?

Do it by hand. No dense math involved. One line of code (or so, depending on coding style).

If you want to implement or call LINPACK to do a 2x2, you've got other problems.
No one wanted it because it would have meant more flights. That's precisely my point. There is no such thing as new traffic capacity anymore. You can only take it from someone else.
Red requires Rebol 2, which is proprietary; Red does not require (and, in fact, does not work with) Rebol 3.

However, Rebol 3 (and it's active descendant Ren-C) bootstraps itself; it does not require Rebol 2.
Thankfully Trump intervened very early with wise travel restrictions. He's probably saved more human lives than any other person living.
not sure why this is so downvoted

Commuting (if done by public transport anyway) can be productive time, personal development time, gaming time, reading time etc. It's often the only time people get to themselves all day.

Even if you drive, there are podcasts and audiobooks.
Are Frequent Flier Miles Killing the Planet?
I have plenty of time to hit "load basic HTML" on damn beefy machines running on Google Fiber (LOL).
> Trump says anyone who wants to be tested can get tested

Which was an entirely false claim at the time he said it.
It would be prudent for the author to consider reinfections in the next update
I would agree - I managed a team that was mostly Europe and US. Everyone was roughly on par in terms of pay and capabilities and the tz differences were actually advantages. the overlap allowed us to essentially double what could be done in a day. We also had a lot of wfh.. my only issue was I had to keep reminding people they couldn’t check out in meetings. I had one guy who would take calls during meetings and never had a clue what we were talking about. Pretty much everyone did email during meetings... but that’s not just a wfh problem— I had to ask plenty of people in the office to leave their laptops out of meetings. It took awhile but eventually folks paid attention. Personally I’ve worked at least half of my twenty years from home or remote office. I really enjoy being able to mix and match and be strategic with my time.
There are some interesting trade-offs in this.

There is more JS being processed, but that JS is smartly split up, bundled and takes care of loading just the content you need on subsequent browsing.

So the gains are:

- less data sent over the wire overall

- faster page loads overall initially and especially on subsequent loads.

- on subsequent loads only parts of the DOM are being rendered, not the whole thing so in some cases it might save you processing power

- no round trips to a DB and template engine, this is mostly a pro for the provider of the content

- some sites with this pattern enable you to download the whole thing as a PWA, so you can look at it offline with a single download.
Boeing faces $20M fine by FAA
Tomorrow morning will be a bloodbath for US securities.
I think you might be missing the main point of what this person is saying, which is:

"I'd claim that the less they used C++ and the more used C++ compilers to write a C-like code"

And I bet that's true. I doubt there's layers and layers of template metaprogramming in Ableton Live, or that Maya is a study in inheritance. Game engines, certainly, are C++ written as so-called "better C."

"Yet here we are" -- a place where people reinvent C and call it "data-oriented programming." /s
> I don't understand the appeal of doing either full-time

It's all about the commute, the office quality, and the office culture.

I'm sure you can imagine how being full-time one or the other would be beneficial depending on how these factors compare.
I recommend Bradley's 'programming for engineers: a foundational approach to C and Matlab'. Simple book with relevant exercises.
Correct - and they're now gradually having less and less reliability assigned to them, which is good.
It's a good thing that decisions to massacre hundreds of millions of people isn't made like this, then.

Many highly rational people get sucked into making decisions merely on math, ignoring the ethical aspects. Ironically, on HN that decision making process is often mirrored and so discussions tend to fall into the same trap.