skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> BTW, how do you explain the unprecedented hospitalization and ICU rates in Northern Italy?

A lot of people aren't tested unless they are severely sick, they're just told to stay at home.

When they arrive in the hospital they're already in a pretty bad condition, and only then tested. Which means that no therapeutic actions are made until patients are admitted, with the exception of self-administration of paracetamol.

> The number of intensive care beds in Italy continues to change. Initially, there were 500 public intensive care (ICU) beds in Lombardy, and 140 private ICU beds. However, now there are more than 900.

But a lot of ICU beds were slashed in the past 10 years due to budget cuts, and we were at 80% capacity when the virus hit. If the testing keeps on like this, and we can't even palliatively treat patients until they start suffering respiratory problems, these problems will continue.
What's hard about Erlang's syntax? People keep telling me it's hard, but I was literally failing out of college at the time and still managed to learn it without much trouble (perhaps a month of occasional practice). I give that context because I can't imagine that I was struggling that much with school if I'm significantly above average for our field.
More detail on above: published March 30th, the percentages are expected hospitalisations based on total population of infected (including mild/asymptomatic usually untested).

Data is from Table 3 near end of paper, table title: “Estimates of the proportion of all infections that would lead to hospitalisation, obtained from a subset of cases reported in mainland China“
Thanks I’d have fallen into your category of developers because in large part I never bothered with containers since we have everything running on vms and we’ve already isolated things so I’ve had only partial interest in exploring them ... but now that I know in linux it’s CGroups and namespaces that helps a lot in understanding thanks
I'd be all for holding politicians in charge accountable, but that's where everyone gets squishy depending upon who they support?

One guy's being wrong becomes another guy's "not that big of a deal".

By what metric will you measure "being wrong" for this COVID-19 pandemic? A super cut of video clips showing a reluctance to believe uncertain information coming out of China? Death rate compared to other OECD countries? Whether or not the great Hydroxychloroquine efficacy debate goes one way or another? Whether or not the ban of flights to/from China were effective?
The fact that he's an economist at a respectable institution means that he's eminently qualified to comment the economic impacts of climate policy.

But of course, this has nothing to do with the subject of the blog post, which is whether Cook paper asserting that "97% agree that humans are the primary cause of global warming" is at best a misleading application of statistics.

There is no need to have a particular background in climatology to understand whether the Cook paper was methodological sound, just a background in statistics. The argument Friedman advances is quite straight-forward, and you are welcome address the argument rather than try to disqualify him as a source.
I prefer slides-only to watching a talk, but the spoken content often supplements and extends what is on screen with detail and examples. People who like the spoken content will gain “new features” by having it skeuomorphicized (i.e, “made more familiar”).
Fair point. In some sense, I share your feelings a bit (in a lighter sense). The park closings some Bay Area counties are doing (e.g. San Mateo) feel not justified; I'm also not sure why the SIP was extended all the way into May given the existing downward trajectory. [Looking at both Seattle and Iceland, you don't need full-on SIP to keep R at 1]
Thank you for the well-written reply & inclusion of the table. I think my question from here would be, what does a paper taking 'no position' really mean? I perceive there to be a significant difference between, we have considered both sides but at this time will not endorse nor reject vs. we didn't even consider taking a position because it was irrelevant to what we are studying.

I think the implication in your reply is that it's more of the latter, but if it turns out to be more of the former, I think there needs to be a huge asterisk attached to the 97% number.
Found the point of confusion. “Lord of war” returns the movie. “ Lord of War director's commentary” returns the game.
"The whole thing is just a contest"
You just said it yourself.
There's no contest if one refuses to partake.
The reason they compete for the pithiest soundbite instead on actual progress is Kayfabe.
Through friends in the accounting world, many of the people who had to work for Moldy at PwC note that he was a temperamental manager with little ability to lead and was exceptionally quick to throw his employees under the bus whenever shit hit the fin.

So he's just acting in character.
Parsing Ambiguity: Type Argument vs. Less Than
ASP.NET

After a career of mostly embedded systems development, I'm building my first commercial webapp.
A few weeks ago, Johnson suggested in public that the US 'take one on the chin' regarding Covid-19. How's that working out for you Boris?

I don't care if you think this is inappropriate, because I find it welcome that for once a politician has to personally face the ramifications of his fecklessness. If only more of our leaders would have to face up, we might have real leadership instead of political posturing.
> maxAttachmentSize: 33554432 # 32MB

That works until person 1 updates the value, but does not notice the comment duplicates it, then person 2 spends hours figuring out why he can't upload 30MB file, while he can clearly see in the config, that it allows up to 32MB, and his debugger tells him limit value actually matches that long number.
Looking Back on Four Years at the (New York) Times
That's exactly what the Friedman blog post was for. If you weren't willing to read it there I see no reason to think you would read it here.
It is shallow because it doesn't teach anything to people that are not already familiar with this kind of work.

Something not shallow would be like "only eleven people participated in this study, this is too little to get a clear result that's not due to luck."
Trump is a lunatic, literally. Obama was a smart, measured person people didn't like.

There's a difference.
That's the case because you speak English. Think about the last time you had to navigate a website in a language you didn't speak (in my case e.g. Chinese or Russian). I remember being very happy with a few (incomplete) clues in English about were to look and what to expect.

By all means, advocate for making it easy to change the language back to the original. But this stance will decrease accessibility.
> "... about one in every three people being tested could be getting the wrong result. You can’t build any kind of public-health response on top of information that faulty."

Grim truth.
Rose Market on El Camino across from Castro Street also has good groceries, just don't carry paper towels, toilet paper, etc. But if you just want food they're usually well-stocked.
Ramadan works the same way.
I stopped reading after "sent out slides before my talk." As if my presentation is ever ready to be sent out before I start presenting :-)

More seriously, the author makes their point, but it read like they were impeaching skeumorphic as "bad". The counter argument is that "slides" (what ever you want to call them) are a visual summary of the conversation at the current moment. This lets you get both your eyes and your ears into the talk, and for visual topics can be a real help for the mentally visually challenged[1].

The challenge with having the listener manage their own visual aids is that now you have part of their brain working on "what window was that in? What slide/page? up arrow or down arrow? ..." and that can make it hard to listen thoughtfully while they are thinking about how to operate the visual display tool.

[1] Amazing as it seems to me sometimes I have known people who cannot construct and then "see" a 2D or 3D representation of what you are describing in their head while you are talking. These illustrations are critical for them to follow along, and even for folks who have this skill it avoids a mismatch of what you think you have described versus what they have heard you describe.
How does that work? I’ve seen a lot of copy paste webshops of formerly retired domains. They obviously look quickly hacked together (allthough looking professional enough to the untrained eye)
For those on the fence about learning Lean or some other theorem prover: I highly recommend it if you want to self-learn math. Learning math from a textbook is rather dry and often doesn’t come with solutions.

Lean essentially gamifies learning math and you always know if you got the right answer. Moreover, unlike written math which is rife with ambiguous notation (unless you’re an expert), math in a theorem prover like Lean is always unambiguous.
It's gaining a good track record because big industry giants are using it, but it's hard to force functional languages on people. The majority of people will learn OOP for a number of reasons unrelated to how good it is, while functional is becoming more like a niche artisanal craft.
Right out of Dvorak Symphony 9!
The best career advice I’ve ever gotten
How to add subtitles to your (self-hosted) videos
I'm actually really glad to have seen this and the comments. This has something I've been prattling on about to anyone who will listen for the last couple of years now. Glad to be somewhat vindicated!
Agreeing: This thread of thought comes up semi-regularly here, I've argued similarly to you.

People will rebuy good products, or be stimulated to replace other similar products (bought a new TV for the kitchen, now the lounge TV seems dated, new boots feel awesome get another pair for when they wear out, new $thing is fun buy one for friends birthday.).

There's also a big place for brand enforcement. Show Sony stuff, to remind someone ['s subconscious!] they bought Sony.

A tertiary effect is what I call the "Starbucks Purposeful Bad Naming effect" - you get ads for the exact TV you bought -- beyond the brand reinforcement, etc., you also get to tell everyone you meet a weird story about how "internet advertising is broken ..." and "yes, my new Sony TV is great thanks, you should get one".

Those ad agencies aren't stupid; they have metrics for their metrics and have tracking that can tell you to the second when your gut bacteria burps ...
> a small grocer may be willing to prepick your order and have it ready for you in the parking lot without an intermediary.

This is what I did. A small, upscale grocery near me started offering curbside pickup: you send in an order in the morning, get called to arrange payment in the afternoon, drive there the same day, and they drop off your groceries at your car. Worked perfectly. Yum.

Indeed, prominently advertised on their website: https://www.rosewoodmarket.com/grocery-curbside-pickup/

Unfortunately this is in a different state. But maybe Mountain View/Palo Alto/Sunnyvale/etc. has something similar? Where do all the vegans and serious foodies shop? I'd try there.
Can anyone nominate an Australian equivalent to mcmaster.com ?
I am prototyping something and would love to have a lost of available parts to troll through with prices.
It probably depends who you are taking your information from. For example, here is an expert saying that it is just like the flu[0] (Linkedin [1]).

The other part, is that we shouldn't expect consensus in something like this. Why? Because data is evolving and changing. This is in contrast to something like Climate Change where we have a large amount of post hoc data/analysis. Here the analysis is being done in situ and that is much more difficult. It should be unsurprising that opinions change as information changes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/knutmwittkowski
In me experience using Phoenix, it takes an eternity to compile. I imagine that turns a lot of folks off to begin with.
A lot of the things I used to buy on Amazon I buy on eBay instead using “buy it now”. Even free shipping items are frequently less than Amazon.

I’ve already phased out AWS, I hope to stop using amazon.com by the end of the year. I don’t like doing business with military contractors.
I've been pretty happy with newegg, and my recent electronics purchases have been split between it, Amazon, and direct from manufacturer (preferring direct unless there is a significant price difference, due to counterfeit-wariness).
Fox News is the only organization that continue to let their opinion anchors downplay and politicize the virus well after it was clear it was deadly and inevitable.
vehicles killed more than WW2. Coal kills more than Chernobyl, but our instincts are bad in assessing risks like that.
In terms of the gameplay, Quake III has nothing in common with Quake 1 or 2.
We've been doing this locally. I haven't been hearing about it happening in my hometown, which is why i want a platform specifically promoting it.
> but based on prior coronaviruses not something that would significantly impact the West.

If we talk about a lot of media, they simply had the priority of making Chinese look bad in any possible way, including blaming them for "misinterpreting numbers" and ridiculing them for implementing lockdowns or wearing masks.

Which just shows how stupid some global agendas are. Media don't do that in vaccuum, but they are the reflection of the power of the interest groups that want to push the agenda.
This really bugs me. I have throwaway Google accounts that I don't want to add my phone number to, so I can only access them from the location I created them.
This was surprising to me because the advice I am hearing lately (time restricted eating, intermittent fasting) is to eat within a restricted time (ideally shorter than 12 hours).

So, at first glance I expected that the protocol here was to eat only while the sun is up, but it's actually the reverse.

It seems that the benefits of fasting outweigh the downsides of eating outside a restricted time window.
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as symptoms worsen
Perhaps it's different with a store like Home Depot where products are much bigger and perhaps harder to scan, but do people actually dislike self checkouts?

"Doing the work for the store" seems like such a non-argument to me. I would much prefer to scan things myself as I feel I can often do it faster, and I don't have to wait in a line if the store only has two cashiers staffed at a certain time.

You pump your own gas. Why is checking yourself out so much more controversial?
The last "real" Doom imho. Although both Doom 2016 and the new Doom Eternal look and run amazingly well, the thing with weapon alternate firing modes and weapon mods are just not my cup of tea. I don't want a shotgun that fires grenades and has full auto modes and whatever the hell the other mods do. They lost a bit of the nostalgia with all those extras, or maybe I'm just getting too old (?).

This browser port runs really great, when the game came out it was one of those that made people have to completely migrate to the next generation of hardware.
> Almost everybody who goes on a ventilator dies.

That wouldn't be a problem if so, to be honest. The problem is that a patient usually survives, but it takes 3 weeks in the ICU to do so.
radiusbank.com does.
I have long since learned that dismissing languages based on their syntax is very punitive, as novel and powerful languages very often come with unfamiliar syntax. Syntax is the least difficult thing to learn. Things like type system, approach to concurrency and memory management are orders of magnitude more important.
The less you know, the more confident you are in believing what you are saying is accurate.

It has been my experience that as I learned more, my statements became more and more equivocal until these days I tend to think more about various probabilities of what might be correct. I miss the surety of youthful opinion.
One might add social media to that list as well. If there's a Dunbar's number in real life, there definitely is one for online communities too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
I do nearly everything except distance well if I am forced back to work and have to take public transportation. I live in Boston and this is my fear. I avoid people now but I doubt much people can keep this sustained for 6-months.
Yeah. I phoned an implement dealer, to buy a mower I saw advertised in their online store. Wanted to make sure he had set actually eyes on recently, because we've all had online listing be wrong. "Yeah we have that. I saw it … yesterday?"

So I rent a trailer and drive 4 hours, and guess what? Just a square of yellow grass on the lot where the mower used to sit.
I learned to charge my customers
Can you link one that has to do with webasm? Are you saying that you think javascript is less secure than flash?
But if "instead of" means "I expected," doesn't that also mean that Javascript and Python don't do what you expected?
however one political quarter stayed in denial much longer

Now you're splitting hairs. You know who the first politician in the USA who was banging the drums in alarm about Wuhan and the coronavirus? Tom Cotton. Republican Senator. Do you support him now? Does his early conviction of the severity of this event put you behind him and everyone who echoed his concerns? Are you likewise now opposed to the people who were ridiculing him as a conspiracy theorist and fear-monger?
A more technical post would get more traction here. How are you calculating where to put the logo, a 3D model or gut feeling? Illumination? Do you support crappy lens or you hope the lens are good enough to get an ideal perspective?

Also, please not don't use new accounts to praise your product.
And then came Unreal - the most advanced single-player shooter of that time.
I have no idea what, if anything you did, but it works for me now.
Comparing this to 9/11, which in the end will most likely taken far less American lives, it really is a tiny increase. George Bush's approval rating went up about 30%. Trump's moved a single digit amount.
I have decent luck with Microcenter as a Newegg substitution. + if you live in some cities, they have brick and mortar
If we started to include McMaster-Carr I would also say I have very good experience with Digi-key and Mouser.
I'm a Pepsi guy. It always annoys me when someone offers me a Pepsi and then gives me Coke. I can tell, and I don't drink it.

People don't get my attitude. "How can you even tell the difference?" they say. "It's pretty much the same!"

This is because when your favorite soda is Mountain Dew, you can barely tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. They're both a heck of a lot different from Mtn Dew, and there's only the tiniest difference between Pepsi and Coke when you contrast with Fanta, Mtn Dew, Sprite, 7Up, etc.

(I'm not making this up merely as an argument - the above is my reality, and yes, people do say that to me).

When you get accustomed to good quality journalism (which WaPo isn't), the differences between CNN and Fox are miniscule. When you consider all the news topics out there, and all the diverse perspectives on them out there, you'll see that CNN and Fox more or less cover the same tiny fraction of topics. Sure, if your world consists of only that tiny fraction, then the differences between CNN and Fox seem stark.

I think a more concise way to put it is: If you assign 100% to the universal set of topics/opinions, then perhaps Fox is at 2% and CNN at 3%. Sure, CNN is 50% better than Fox, but from a whole picture standpoint it's really only a 1% delta between the two.
I think one can view things through kayfabe lenses even if the parties are not consciously working together to achieve something: for example, in a wrestling match, the visuals are of "which of the two is strongest" but the reality is that the conflict is artificially created for the purpose of your entertainment. In politics the visuals are of "which policy is better" for a given topic, but the reality is more one of politicians acting in self-interest in a highly tribal environment.
It's fascinating how different sequences of chords can evoke emotional states associated with everything from sadness, love, wonder, outer space, etc. Not sure I agree with all of the examples in the app, but I could spend hours on it searching for better sequences.
Eternity? My 50kloc Elixir project compiles about the same time as my 10kloc next.js/React project.

I've never noticed any compilation issue on my machine, though it's a beefy one (and still JS takes ages)
What about just `git reflog`? Then, you get to see recent branches _and_ you get additional context about what you were doing at the time.
> The proper name for the deep state is civil service employees

It's funny how that has become the new explanation/softer excuse. I remember when "Deep State" was used to describe groups like the Koch Brothers and similar power brokers well before it was adopted by the right-leaning popular media to describe the puppet masters of the 'establishment' on the other side. Now it's spun as an attack on simple 'civil servants'...

I guess it means whatever people want it to mean, depending on the context of your ideology or position on the matter.
An all-encompassing conspiracy orchestrating events across the globe, sparing no effort or expense to weave us all into an inescable spider's web of connected threads, that then says "eh, probably nobody is even going to listen to those guys, let's not bother with having the intern fire off a few boilerplate take-downs"?
At least Regan was able to admit that he was wrong (even if he didn’t admit he was lying). I wonder if Trump has ever admitted to being wrong.
Late reply, but yeah, this is roughly my view. I think the Naturalistic Fallacy label should be applied to absolutism: the old/"natural" thing must be good, the new/"unnatural" thing must be bad, both of which are clearly false. But I think there's an argument for taking the history of selection pressures (or lack thereof) into account when making risk assessments. This could also be compared to Chesterton's Fence [0], or even the Lindy Effect [1].

> I am often not equipped to determine if it was a sham funded by industry

Yeah, this is a problem. :( While I trust that there are good actors in most subfields of scientific inquiry, many domains (health in particular) are exorbitantly expensive to empirically research, inevitably leading to perverse incentives, or at least the absence of incentives to do thorough and holistic research.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
"People keep telling me it's hard"

Shouldn't that be enough to let you know that people at least don't find it to be intuitive?
Good ear. One of my favorite symphonies but didn't notice that.
Re: Personally, I would be looking for an exit

Agreed. If you have options, leave. You can't fix jerks. Then again, every job will have some, but if it's your supervisor, then polish up your resume. The stress is not worth your health.
I don't know what point you are making here. These projects could have been done by compiling to asm.js - webasm isn't what makes them technically possible, it just makes them faster, smaller and parsed faster. You have been told all of this before.
Ah that's lame, I saw the 2FA app support and assumed it would be any app.
Pretty sure this is the least likely concept to improve anyone's cognitive toolkit on the entire list. Its presence almost seems like an inside joke.
We're going to have to turn to adaptation initiatives even if we go net-zero-carbon tomorrow - that's kind of baked into our future planning at this point.