skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

Death Rate by age
80+ Between 21.9 and 14.8%

70-79 8%

60-69 3.6%

Death rate for those with comorbidities varies from 13.2-10.5% for cardiovascular disease to 7.6-5.6% for cancer.

People you know are going to die. If your parents are over 60 and otherwise healthy there’s a good chance they’ll die. If they are any way ill it’s even more likely.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi%3A1...

Any children that are in utero while their mother is infected are likely to have

> lower educational attainment, increased rates of physical disability, lower income, lower socioeconomic status, and higher transfer payments compared with other birth cohorts
FWIW, Dropbox can automatically pull photos off your phone as you take them. I like it better because less Google in my life is good.
Modern media is really doing more harm than good.

Elevating threat perception for everything has become a daily occurance. One day it's North Korea nukes. Another day it's Russians. Another it's Iran. Another day it's climate, #metoo, immigrants, shooters etc etc.

I grew up at a time where the threats were even worse but we weren't surrounded by unqualified people falling over each other inducing anxiety in everyone as a full time job.

I think journos need to be kicked off social media or put in timeout zones after a particular message has saturated the network (can be easily be auto triggered). They are trapped by the dynamics of getting likes/views/clicks. Most of them I feel are loosing their minds and are on auto pilot. By themselves they can't exist that trap.
Have a UAF in the DOM code which allows a shellcode payload to run with SYSTEM.
Traditions are weird like that, the biggest maker of Lutefisk is in Minnesota I believe.
The idea behind prime number sizes is that you can use a hash function with periodicity issues, which would normally cause collisions. E.g. in C++, it's totally standard-compliant for std::hash<size_t>::operator() to be the identity function. The prime number of buckets will tend to mitigate this.

These days, the preferred solution to this is usually to just use a better hash function without periodicity issues, so the bucketing no longer matters.
> The good/fun/interesting things are gone

Being a grammar nazi isn't good, fun, or interesting. It derails conversations, encourages know-it-alls, and the corrections are often not correct. /r/badlinguistics exists for a reason.

Giving native speakers unsolicited advice is annoying, even if one is correct.

> only stale propaganda and silly nonsense is left.

There are a lot of niche subreddits with great content. Filtering by keywords and a few power users makes for a better experience.

> You could block them.

I hate this argument. The fact that reddit has an API does not mean we should tolerate junk replies from bots. Blocking a bot only blocks it for me; that bot is still polluting discussions.
I would think that association holds all over Europe. They are the 9th largest European airline, with 130 destinations.
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This is also required to get the answer exactly right. It's just that the problem domains they chose -- symbolic integration and differential equations -- can be checked easily. That is, if I have a guess F for the integral of f, I just need to symbolically differentiate F and see whether I get f.*

So the paper does "guess and check," and only returns answers that pass the check, i.e. are exactly right.

There are some problems where all the checks fail, i.e. the paper can't generate an answer. And there are also questions where Matlab / Maple can't find an answer either.

* It's a little more complicated; e.g. if f = cos^2, and the derivative of F is 1 - sin^2, I need to recognize they're the same. But it's safe, in the sense that if I can't determine whether they're the same, I can reject the solution and move on to the next one.
But 40k is still unaffordable for a non small amount of people. And buying "old" ones cheap has problems "because batteries" (and Tesla might just recently have found a way to solve that).

To take over they would need to:

- Release a sub 10k car which is focused on in-City only use case but can also handle your grocery shopping and pre-planned inter City treveling to close by cities.

- Solve the logistic problem that everyone wants to charge theire car. (Note: I don't mean the whole bs. about power grid crashing, all this are technically problems with existing solutions).

- One way to solve that would be batteries with a capacity so large that you only charge once in four days _for the cheap sub 10k version_.

- Another would be batteries so small that they are easily exchanged instead of charging. (Tesla did implement that but the way it currently is, is just to unpractical. It would need a industry wide standard solution and a really easy to maintain exchange station.)

So could Tesla take over: yes.

Will Tesla take over: most likely not, they will just probably become well established for the mid/upper marked segment.

Will battery powered electric cars take over: likely but not necessarily. The often overlooked truth is the race is still on and the winner not yet clear as neither batteries not full cells have yet reached a level at which they can widespread replace fossil fueled cars.

Also let's not speak about current battery tech and fire...
China sends team of medical experts, gear to help Italy fight coronavirus
Yes, Darwin is ever watchful...
This seems very impressive. In my opinion it looks like the best multi-screen phone/phablet to date.
Svelte is a component compiler, not a general language compiler. Big distinction! Being purpose-built for this use case opens up a lot of opportunities.

The article goes into this more, but Svelte's DSL is an extension of web languages - not much to learn really! Your existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS transfers directly.
Deprive the fire of it's fuel and it goes out. In this case the fuel is people and the virus is the fire. If nearly everyone isolated themselves in their homes for a 2 or 3 weeks the virus would run out of people to infect. Essentially what they had to do in Wuhan. We aren't taking it seriously enough in the West to do this.
To all the companies letting their employees work from home due to Covid-19
Yes, this is why I don't think Unicode is the right vehicle for emojis in the long run. They should be treated like graphics, not characters.

When they were really simple icons, it made sense to treat them as characters. But today they are detailed illustrations.
The past several weeks have been a critical time in US, and the lack of testing — I believe — will be a scandal when the dust settles. People are bringing light to the issue, but we’re also living in the moment and trying to gear up for the storm that’s brewing.

Was containment really never an option? Or are we now just going to live with this thing because the response was completely botched?
Not personally, but I'd also be interested to hear from any posters who have tested it out.
That makes sense. Thanks a ton
A lockdown has worked in only one place: China. And it worked because the measures were extreme: not allowing people to leave their homes (except once a week to go shopping), banning cars on the roads, closing workplaces, etc.

No country is implementing measures nearly as extreme as China, so they won't be as successful in slowing down the epidemic.

Before someone mentions South Korea: Korean CDC explained their epidemic curve is bending because they are finishing testing the 200,000 sect members at the center of the epidemic. So fewer tests = fewer detected infections: "in Daegu and Gyeongbuk region, the transmission seems a bit slow down as testing Shincheonji members is almost finished" Source: https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=00... In other words this is NOT a sign Korea is succeeding at containing it. I have seen zero epidemiologists correctly report on this. They all fail to read what KCDC is saying.
Another Italian here. The situation is far from dramatic. Yes, being forced at home unless necessary is an inconvenience, but damn worth the risk of catching the virus or worse infecting others. We can work from home, and this for many of us is a first and indeed something we can leverage when things go back to normal. We can still go to the doctor, or grocery shopping, bars and restaurants are still open.
On one hand you have 1980s symbolic AI that can produce true, coherent statements, and on the other you have GPT-2 which can produce really nifty gibberish. If you could put the two together maybe that would be some progress. I can see that getting transformers to emulate symbolic math might be a step in that direction.
You just validated my argument: Tesla ships European car early in the quarter and it takes weeks for the cars to cross the ocean.

This is made very clear in the official reports[0]:

>Although it is possible to deliver a higher number of vehicles, we believe it is important to begin unwinding the "wave" approach to vehicle deliveries, where overseas cars have been made in the first half of the quarter and North American cars have been made in the second half. This puts extreme stress on Tesla, negatively affects our working capital needs and adds to our cost structure.

So far, they have been unable to unwind the waves so this means European deliveries will continue to take place at the end of the quarter. And, as explained in my earlier comment, Tesla is focusing on the UK for this quarter anyway, so your stats for NL, NO and SP are even less significant. All car delivered in the UK can't be sold in any other European countries, as long as Tesla remains production constrained (i.e until the Berlin factory is up and running).

[0] https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b2218d34-fbee-4f1f-ac95-05...
It's less about the median age than the numbers in the categories at highest risk. If you compare the population pyramids of the two Italy has many more people over 65. Number of hospital beds per capita is also a big deal.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/republic-of-korea/2019/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/italy/2019/
At a previous company (30-40 employees) the main thing was having a blog setup somewhere that engineers could post to - clearly distinguished from the main product blog. Actually getting engineers to write up blog posts was a separate problem. Besides me there were only a handful, even when it was made clear that it could be about a very small topic. A few hundred words is plenty.
This is great. One side-effect that might be missed is that people who know their work is going to be replicated are not going to fudge their results, so simply by existing this acts as a filter.
You'd be surprised: https://i.redd.it/n95poyxjful41.jpg

(The comments from Finns on r/europe are hilarious)
Wait a minute, doesn't that mean your checker is doing symbolic algebra?
That's a great list, thanks for sharing!
> created: 4 months ago

Nah. You must be new.
Right... That’s why you have an “unlimited” data plan that is “guaranteed” or it’s “free”...

There is no such thing as truth in advertising. There is only a Make Lawyers Rich lawsuit..
There are a lot of negatives comments on this article but somehow it reached the front page. Interesting...
Look at Italy. The hospitals and ICUs are completely overwhelmed. They're out of ventilators. Healthcare workers are being infected and having to quarantine. Italy has an advanced healthcare system. Italy is the US in 2 or 3 weeks. The US has fewer hospital beds per capita than Italy.
you don't mock it, you implement a real one that acts as a remote microservice. Sometimes it's a /health route on the same site, sometimes it's a status.example.com, etc. The only thing it should do is give you a static errors-or-not file that gets regenerated at some reasonable interval by an independently running process, off of all known dependencies that you control.

If the health route says everything's up and running, then you can try a normal request, and if that fails, you back off anew (and you log an error entry that can be used to update the health endpoint's data generator, because something, somewhere, is misreporting)
Italian Doctors Must Choose Who Receives Treatment
What does "feminist" mean in this context? Many of the people who claim to be radically feminist on places like Twitter, etc. are in practice quite hostile to the bulk of female engineers and developers, especially to those who aren't very vocally aligned with their political stance. It's not real feminism, it's just extreme hypocrisy and pushing fringe politics.
It's been more than a week. Where are the answers?
It looks like this is based on Android? I wonder why they used that instead of some Windows version.
Google Enters the Wearables Wars
ESNI I suspect will get the same treatment domain fronting got.
PepsiCo to buy Rockstar Energy for $3.8B
that's not reasoning though. it's not even an expert system or prolog (because adversarial examples exist). it's very close to a million monkeys typing.
Merkel “60 to 70 percent of the German population will be infected”
Maybe because anything other than Android or iOS seems to be dead on arrival..?

Edit: Anything that markets itself as a mobile phone and is targeted at the mainstream audience of course.
I will never buy this.
Even looking at the screen with the borders between the two screens, I find it super misleading. The screen pretends to be one, but you open an app by touching an icon and it opens on the left one only. The icons remain hidden, and half of the desktop is on the right. Can I scroll the right scree? I mean.. scrolling left and right on one screen, and up and down on the other?

Nope. Thank you.
Apple vetoes SPIR-V binary as an option. Google develops a language based on SPIR-V semantics that we agree on. It's clear that at least today, Google is mainly driving WGSL. They also see the value in WGSL outside of WebGPU context. Claiming the Apple primary role in this is ridiculous.
The word "sandbox" is a bad choice -- "isolation and resource limiting" might have been a better term to use, but the idea that containerization does not sandbox at all is not a fair characterization.

It's not a good sandbox, but if we are pedantic about the definition of a sandbox, it fits, especially when we think of the benefits of namespacing (effectively removing access to resources like networks, filesystems, etc).

gVisor is a more focused on sandboxing processes specifically, so it's relevant but gVisor is not relevant to the wider discussion about a packaging format -- unless you're suggesting to run gvisor'd processes instead of containerized ones and containerization is still beneficial in that scenario.
I'd be more interested in an automated news aggregator that timelines top issues, so that you can see the updates. The timeline would be intelligent enough to know when news articles cross into other areas. Sorta like a Git branch looking tree.

Like the dems races linked up to the COVID-19 outbreak, where it largely was not linked up a week ago.

Although I think everything falls into the COVID-19 trunk at this point.

The timeline would have 1 sentence summaries using some kind of NL summary tool.
Which is unfortunate for many of the boomers - they get both!
Secret Service says hackers are exploiting coronavirus fears in phishing email
How does Windows hurt science?
edit: fair I'll retract this
SeL4 Micro Kernel Design Principles
Words to Avoid in Educational Writing
What is the point of this?

The tone will not accomplish anything

the content is already known, albeit most of the points are good advice

no new ideas are proposed

stats (morbidity, % critical, etc) are still not stable or very helpful at this stage

second-order (let alone deeper) consequences are not discussed at all.
Presumably people realize why it’s in place and how it benefits them?
I read the headline and though 'Norway! Surly they're a decent country' and was relieved to see it's a big corp. Unsurprising to see lying in sales tactics but this is really bad. This must be criminal somehow? Fraud at least?
Yeah, but Google copied only "declaration code" (i.e. the class structure of Java to make it compatible). There are a few other lines, yes, but those came about due to being utterly trivial code that looks more like two people choosing the same trivial implementation randomly from what I recall.

Also, regardless of intent, this would have the effect of making APIs copyrightable. That would be terrible for compatibility and would destroy the viability of a lot of work for no good reason at all, unleashing a lot of copyright parasites to go around suing for trivial nonsense.

I'm sorry, but this is basically a phone book that can be used by machines of where to find the code that does X. It shouldn't be copyrightable any more than the actual phone book and the structure was copied only to make it compatible.

It'd be like suing everyone for making similar electrical plugs, ignoring how they have to meet certain requirements to actually fit in the socket.
I saw this coming and avoided moving my infrastructure to the Cloud in the first place. It sounds insensitive, but "I told you so" sounds very satisfying. I mean nobody with 100% Cloud infra is really going to be surprised when some major world event destroys their data, right?

Of course we haven't hit those limits yet and I'm sure the major players involved have failover/load balancing capabilities that we haven't even scratched the surface of yet. I honestly believe that this is not the Cloud-ending event that the world is destined for one day.
This post is totally accurate. I am a corporate blogger, and when I started at this company, we had a ridiculous approval process involving legal. Now, we just don't do that process, and focus on getting the engineering stuff right and doing absolutely no other content: engineering only, no marketing crap. By removing legal approvals, we went from publishing once a week to publishing once a day, and our hits have doubled in a year. Approval processes that extend past engineering are evil.
Funnily enough, I had the opposite reaction. This is the first tablet-like device that I would consider buying. I use two screens with my computer which works really well, and this seem just like that.
peertube attempts to address this pain and supports the activitypub fediverse

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
Right. AV software seems really poor quality.

I recently updated my Windows app. VirusTotal showed 14 AV products detected my program as malware, when it clearly wasn't. I tried to report the false positives, but the vendors had terrible and inconsistent ways to do this (or even none for some). Even Microsoft's website didn't work when I tried to upload the program ("upload failed - please try again later").

I searched on the internet, and at least I found a workaround which was to recompile a library I used. This fortunately reduced the false positives down to a few products I hadn't heard of.

At this point, it's very hard to trust AV products with anything.
If you see any tech tools or data please add them here:

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I got a good chuckle out of this comment. Thanks.
The Canadian government did a similar thing about 2 years ago and Tesla then tweaked their cost structure so that they qualified.
I definitely dig the PDA form factor on this, classic!
Where I work they don't allow any, at all. So if you're out, say to take care of a sick relative for a few weeks, you can't make up any time, or get credit for trying to stay up to date. Even if there's something urgent and you end up spending hours in teleconference and then more time working on the issue, you're not allowed to put those hours in to your time sheet as time worked.
I have a Caribbean cruise scheduled for mid April. Royal Caribbean is offering free rescheduling up to 48hrs before boarding.

Haven’t taken up on it yet but likely will. Cancelling the test of the trip is going to be tough, financially, so I’m looking on how this progresses.
I think it's very intentional. As hackneyed as the phrase is, the current political atmosphere has seen this rise of demographics change as a feared thing.
I get my news from the “mainstream media” almost exclusively, and I am well aware of the the caveats around CFR. This is some bullshit Streamen the article starts with.
Cable TV news was a massive experiment to try and find out if there is actually 24 hours' worth of news that happens every day. One which failed to reject the null hypothesis.

Social media journalism is merely a replication study.
I don't think it would be in bad taste if it's clearly hyperbolic and perhaps it is coupled with informational messages. PornHub is famous for doing this.

There's also a funeral services company in Rome whose death-themed ads have become a meme ("don't worry antivaxers, we will always be ready to help if you die"), we love it. :-)
There's been consistent - IMO unprofessional - confusion between Case Fatality Ratio and Population Mortality.

The >1% numbers are all CFRs, calculated from diagnosed cases. They don't account for people with no symptoms, or those who aren't tested.

It's very hard to estimate unmodified population mortality, because the real numbers are lowered by quarantine measures and health care.

But real population mortality seems set to be well under 1%, with the bulk of deaths among the over the 60s, heavily skewed to the over 80s.

That's hardly trivial, but it's a long way off the 240 million who would die if the population mortality really were around 3%.
The problem is, though, that we live in a very connected world. If absolutely everyone, worldwide, isolated themselves, then yes, the virus would die out. But if everyone does so except Iran, say, or Oklahoma, then Iran or Oklahoma reinfect the world and everyone has to do it again.
I'm unfamiliar with this person. Do you have a reason to doubt that the author has the MPH that they assert that they have?
Coronavirus Is the Wolf on the Loose
Oh, yeah, sorry I wasn't clear on this. If App A allows fallback SMS OTP and App B doesn't allow fallback SMS OTP, then you will never be able to login to App B with just having your phone number verified.

Our product have 3 features:

- Cross-app phone number verification. The phone number is used only to check if the phone number is active. This is never used for authentication or logging in, and don't have anything to do with the Trusted Device. (For example, sometimes you would register to a website with email and password, and then somewhere in the flow they ask you to verify your email. This email verification has nothing to do with your password)

- Trusted Devices for authentication. The trusted devices are done using cryptographic keys that are generated upon registration. This keys are unique per app, per account, per device. No Cross-App trust here, we don't want any app to be reliant on any other app on authentication.

- Pin/Biometric as additional features.

So the cross-app is only for verifying the phone number. The trusted device is not shared across apps.
Could you share the source for this? It's very useful for understanding the situation.
Same with WW1 and the Spanish Flu.