skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If those people would have survived without COVID-19, does the distinction really matter ?

Yes, it matters. No stat records whether they would or wouldn't have survived without COVID-19. That's the problem with them: they just record the presence of the virus, not whether it caused death (which is at any rate a rather nuanced judgement, presumably).

The idea this virus is hyper-dangerous is coming from comparisons between these figures and other viruses which aren't recorded in the same way. Incomparable statistics being compared can lead to completely false conclusions.

they had 150 deaths this March compared to the usual 20-30 of the previous years

But they had far fewer deaths in December compared to the December of previous years:

http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/caldo/SISMG_sintesi_ULTIMO....

You would expect deaths to be higher in March than in prior years even if the virus was exactly as dangerous as flu, but pushed forwards by some months, because lots of people survived the winter who in prior years would not have done. So excess deaths will appear higher for now, but if you look at the areas under the graph, it looks a bit like it's just the normal winter surge delayed (so far ... it'll probably end up a fair bit higher, but we don't know that).

It seems to me that literally every number being used to support the notion that this is a very dangerous disease is statistically invalid in some way.
Don't forget that Italy and France aren't counting people who die of COVID-19 at home or in nursing facilities.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italys-coronavirus-deat...
Using your first solution (a custom pion SFU relay), and selectively routing the streams between "edge" servers would be similar to Octo, as shown here.

Using TURN servers instead would not have the benefit of SFU (i.e. clients will have to upload to each peer) - i.e. its still a full mesh network.

Using TURN servers with SFU would work similar to your pion solution, however it would also use more bandwidth, as it would be forwarding the same streams multiple times for each peer routed through that TURN server (instead of once per stream with SFU)

As for e2e encryption over webrtc via an SFU - yes, this is possible, but its currently very messy (wasm video encoding and encryption streamed over an SFU-bound datachannel with full mesh distribution of the encryption key). There are plans to implement "Insertable Streams" which you will be able to transform (e.g. encrypt) which will allow this to work without the hacks.
I believe the problem was his numerical method was unstable, and blew up.

Somewhere in this talk by Philip Roe https://youtube.com/watch?v=uaH91P665PI
The US' unemployment rate was much, much lower than many western European unemployment rates prior to coronavirus, so it doesn't make sense to compare the absolute number here - instead you should be comparing relative figures. The US' unemployment rate has tripled in the past 2 weeks based on this analysis.
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Nice work. I was looking for something just like this!
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The comment you're replying to referred to "1% of the people who get it", which has basically nothing to do with CFR. Getting the virus is necessary but far from sufficient to become a case.
Key points you might want to consider before sharing that next Covid-19 stat
I wouldn't try to micro analyze the reasons for your layoff. The "speak up in meetings" critique is a standard go-to for performance reviews. It basically means you are doing pretty good and they just need some filler for the critique section.

This is a time of troubles. People of all personality types are getting laid off.
And of course there's also Wickard v. Filburn, which held that feeding cattle in one state grain raised in the same state is somehow interstate commerce, and Baker v. Carr, Gray v. Sanders & Reynolds v. Sims which combined prevent states from having a republican form of government patterned after the federal model. And there are the drug laws, which are mostly although not entirely unconstitutional. And then there are the many state and local firearms laws which violate the Second Amendment. And there's Maryland v. Craig, which guts the right to confront one's accusers. And then there are all the executive departments with no authorisation in the Constitution (e.g. the Department of Education), which IMHO violate the Ninth Amendment. Sadly, it has been a long, long time since 'this should not be done because it violates the Constitution' has been persuasive.

The Constitution's not perfect, but it's better than what we have now.
They think it will require more stimulus money.
Interesting, what happens next here?
Right place, right price, pretty-much flawlessly working video chats. The latter point is just as important (there's a bunch of free video chat products), and suggests it's not completely trash.
This is useful for some devs in some situations, but let's not go overboard. Teaching newbies to venerate vanilla is almost educational malpractice.
You're probably right. Just proving that broad blanket statement wrong
Honestly, I don't understand why this site seems to hate Zoom so much. They're doing what all of the large players have done in the past. Why aren't they being congratulated for their success?

This is not meant to be snarky. They are literally living by the move fast and break things motto. Growth at the expense of everything else to win the market first, fix it second.

How are they not the golden child of SV right now?
>> ... such a privacy-preserving bluetooth contact tracing app (provided it's open source and auditable

Hey, whip that for the the world, if you don't mind?

Queue the inevitable deluge of "it's not that big of a project, more than 5 Devs would be a shocking waste, etc." comments...
Reason we use electronic voting machines since the 90s in India:

(1) The problem of booth capturing. In a massive population, law and order is a unique challenge that most of the western countries do not face. Local goons used easily get hold of a lot of ballots and mass vote in 5 minutes and then run away before the law arrived. EVMs are made in such a way that every button press needs about 45 seconds to a minute after which you can vote again.

(2) The problem of illegal votes. Button based voting is precise. No chance of illegal votes.

(3) The problem of counting votes correctly from such a massive population. The chance of making mistakes is a lot higher and this is a unique problem that the west have never handled.

> The convenience of getting results a couple of hours earlier

Its actually a matter of many days here. The window for corruption is too high. And there are too many human vectors who can be compromised by bribes. EVMs just throw all of that out of the window.

(4) I will just mention environmental factors, although its not my main point. More population = more paper. We have 1 National Election, about 29 State Elections (28 states, 1 NCT), 1000s of municipal elections, and 10s of thousands Village headman elections!

This means some kind of elections all year round are always ongoing!
Not really, sadly. I just heard him on an internal conference call we have twice a week, so don't really have a link to provide but don't think he's published his views in writing just yet. I expect a lot of similar predictions to come out now that the unemployment claims number is out (as of ~1 hour ago)

For general views of very smart people on the economy and markets, I recommend Bloomberg Surveillance every morning on the Bloomberg app, radio and on your favorite podcast app
Hopefully most of these people will be re-employed once the crisis has subsided a bit and our ability to handle the likely echo peaks of infections happen over the next year increases. There will certainly be starts and stops as the highly interdependent parts of the economy try to get streamlined again in a rather herky-jerky manner. No doubt some companies and maybe even large portion of industries collapse. Also companies that are healthy might take this situation as an opportunity to cut away what they consider to be dead weight under the cover of the crisis.

Unemployment numbers, if we're lucky, will crash quickly but there's going to be a long tail on the recovery.
I know. But we don't know the true fatality rate yet and we won't know it before it's way too late to act. I don't think it's okay to literally risk millions of lives on the off chance that we missed 95% of the cases with our testing.
impressive, if I use -o option to get a pretty printed version, it comes to 68 lines
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That's a big oversight, the list should be in the order of learning.
> I hope that tech industry employees do not feel immune to this.

Our client services team is in overdrive making sure all our customers are as happy as possible. This is something every company should be doing right now.
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How much of this is temporary and how much will be long term? Also how does the stimulus help here?
Here's the answer:
https://gist.github.com/al45tair/73be245ab87a66a885742b98be9...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome

This is something I have been struggling with for a long time. The symptoms I have are dry eyes (which I dont notice much) and double vision (which can be extreme). If I forget to follow basic prevention tips for a few days, my eyes cannot focus on anything further than 10 feet from me, and the doubling distance is huge.

Beyond following the 20/20/20 rule, which helps a little:

- Are there specific monitors that anyone can recommend that reduce eye strain?

- Another option I was thinking of was buying a 60" monitor to mount on my wall so I can sit as far from the monitor as possible.

- What other tips have helped you reduce eye strain while working on a computer?
I don’t wish a bad outcome but if it happens, hopefully people realize we need a different system for healthcare.
Despite our vote-by-mail ability (which is nice, don't get me wrong), our voter turnout for primary elections has hovered around 50% or lower since the 1960s [0], with a few exceptions of course.

General elections see much higher turnout [1], often hitting into 80% or more, but generally staying in the 70s.

[0] https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/Voter-Turnout-His...

[1] https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/Voter_Turnout_His...
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"Forecasting is hard, especially when it's about the future"

Whether or not you need ammo probably depends on where you live... but I'd stock up on non-perishables and necessities if you can afford it.

Not sure you need vodka at all, but I think that's a matter of personal preference. I'm actually trying to be as healthy and fit as possible to fight the weirdness that is self-isolation and to be ready for the virus when it inevitably comes (if 80% of us really are going to be infected...)

Am also hearing PE funds are forecasting anything between "18 months until we're back to normal" to "it will never be the same"..
You're right.

The idea to enforce it was each country Data Protection Agency is the key contact for any data/security issue - doesn't matter if it's reported by the company itself, or by a consumer who denounced a breach in data protection terms.

Then the country can issue any fines, reporting to EU agencies, etc.

The problems are:

- This process isn't clear for companies, let alone consumers;

- Not all Data Protection Agencies are the same, neither have the same resources. Here, in Portugal, when GDPR was live, the director of the agency came out to the public and said it was impossible to enforce anything because they didn't have the resources to do it. He was fired.

The reality is that it's extremely hard to control so many players, and delegating it to each country, some of which underfunded, doesn't get us anywhere.
How you ended up implement it in the code? Is it just a heuristic implemented as a series of if/else/case statements?
Minimax? Thank you

EDIT: sorry, I found out that source code is available, I will try to find it

EDIT2: Looks like it's up for sale, not open
You say that with such conviction when you don't have any better info on what the future holds than anyone else.

The unemployment benefits (which for many of the unemployed will actually be higher than their regular pay) last for the next four months. If the quarantine lifts by the end of May and businesses reopen then it will be enough. Obviously that's a big if, but for you to come out here and act like you know something with 100% certainty is absurd.
Tor is an absolute pain to use if you visit any sites using Cloudflare, which is quite a lot of them.
While the benefits amount to something small for cities... they've largely been the ones hit the hardest. NYC residents are more or less being ignored in these stimulus packages.
> The death counts record the number of people who died after testing positive for this coronavirus

Probably important to point out the large regional variation.

In the UK the doctor has to be able to say to the best of their knowledge and belief that covid-19 was the cause of death before putting it on the death certificate.

We're not testing everyone, not even the ones in hospital for severe respiratory illness. We don't test dead people. So this feels like it's going to under-count, not over-count the deaths.

If this was just people who were going to die anyway we wouldn't have the huge rates of excess mortality. We know we have excess mortality because (again in the UK) we're having to build temporary morgues to hold all the dead bodies, and we're having to change the process to register deaths.
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Wasn't Sony caught using an open-source PS1 emulator for their recently-released(ish) Playstation Mini?
That company is one of the most corrupt ones - it is the real virus.

You know how they say, Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Pretty good! My only wish is that the site would be like http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/, so that the content would be viewable just by clicking the heading and having new space for it, perhaps in a fixed window, instead of separate pages.
Does anyone know how they're handling the E2E situation? Are they removing it from their marketing or trying to actually implement it?
What's the problem exactly? I assume you looked into putting that input element inside a dialog element and it didn't work, is that the issue?
Nice collection of recipes! Just a few quibbles about the website design:

* The back and forward buttons lose scroll position.
* Visited links look the same as non-visited.
* In each recipe, top 70% of the screen is headers and whitespace, bottom 30% is content (on my laptop).
Before anyone says this doesn't expose anything that's not already public:

>The system did not simply automate the manual process of one user looking up the name of another participant on LinkedIn during a Zoom meeting. In tests conducted last week, The Times found that even when a reporter signed in to a Zoom meeting under pseudonyms — “Anonymous” and “I am not here” — the data-mining tool was able to instantly match him to his LinkedIn profile. In doing so, Zoom disclosed the reporter’s real name to another user, overriding his efforts to keep it private.
The risk is that the economy might behave like any complex machine, or the electric grid: once it’s turned off, it might take a really complicated sequence of steps to turn it back on again. And unlike machines, nobody knows that sequence for the economy.
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What has the language it’s written in got to do with it?
It's often targeted at young voters, because they're "tech savy" so we should "speak their language". Despite the vast majority not being poor and having lots of free time they can't be bothered to vote today, why would this change anything?
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That's assuming that 1) the said business will still be around after the lockdown (after 2-6 months without revenues), and 2) consumers will not have changed behavior, and I am concerned that people who spent several months watching the economy collapse, and wondering how long before they get laid off, will not start consuming like if there was no tomorrow when the lockdown ends.
Currently the majority of cases are reported in Europe, and it seems to be reaching in the main countries there. Hence probably the impact on global figures.

I don't think this means anything globally.

In fact, unless this virus is significantly less potent in warmer climates, with Africa and India (and the US and Americas as a whole) this seems far from having reached a global peak.
How do you put the two halves together when they come out of the molds?
Remember that 100 years ago, and then again 80 years ago, large percentages of men in Europe were removed from their own countries and sent somewhere else; ships transporting food and supplies were actively sunk, houses and factories were bombed to smithereens. In spite of the massive economic damage that caused, civilization did not descend into anarchy, and very few people who weren't prisoners starved to death.

COVID-19 isn't going to destroy any of our infrastructure, and if we mobilize properly, isn't going to kill nearly as many people. If our [great-]grandparents made it through WWII, there's no reason we can't make it through this.
As in most code names there is no order, if you want an order, maybe in terms of favourite to least favourite parks/lakes of the Intel staff.

What you are looking for are monotonically increasing version numbers, which code names are definitely not.

If you are looking for details about generations of chips, https://ark.intel.com/ is your friend.
You're making it sound as if the economy in the abstract sense is the thing that is employing people. Those people would still definitely be employed in a "different" economy, since an economy is simply a space in which people trade goods and services.

And I don't think his framework actively excludes people, it's just that economies almost never contribute to all individuals equally.
Not necessarily interpreted as "good news", probably more like "already priced in".
> than whatever the cost it will be a rounding error.

"Whatever the cost" disregards the non-monentary costs of giving a player like Palantir access to this data. If you need to implement digital help for contact tracing, at least pretend to do it in a privacy-preserving manner (plenty of attempts out there). There's no need to give surveillance data to the security apparatus of another country just because they have a few spreadsheets already.
>He's chosen to prioritise growth over end user data privacy protection and then lying about it with marketing

I feel like I'm in crazy town. Isn't this the actual, living, real motto of SV? Move fast and break things.

That's a thing that exists. Why are you people hating on Zoom when they're doing what you're all (seemingly) trying to do? Have I lost my mind?
And you want us to believe it will be okay if the government just "does something"? When will people quit turning to the federal government to solve their problems and take responsibility for themselves? Everyone ought to make his own decision whether to stay home or go to work and deal with the consequences accordingly.
How did you do the digital sculpting? Any tutorials?
Teaching newbies that they can gloss over fundamental details with some extra NPM commands is certainly educational malpractice IMO.
well no, you write about surfaces (also called fomite transmission). Aerosols are a totally different topic. Please see the historic, massive outbreak of SARS-CoV-1 in Hong Kong Amoy Gardens. There, the aerosols from stool caused a massive outbreak in the whole building and several neighboring buildings.
What the actual fuck?

The staff probably have grounds for an OSHA case (if this is in the US; equivalent body in any other developed country) and/or a lawsuit.

The media is probably the way to get the quickest action; but you may want to also look into getting legal representation.
In New York the hospitalization looked like 17% before I stopped following the news
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For me the Fetch API is basically that:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

fetch("http://www.example.com").then(res => res.json()).then(json => {})

Only big downside is no IE11 support but thankfully I don't have to worry about that so much these days.
Ah I see, okay thank you.
And if it did in this case or the next? The docs go on strike? C'mon, that would be saying "don't call my bluff."
I think the feature set is similar. I went for self-hosted in the hope that I wouldn't suffer from bandwidth/server load problems from using Jitsi's servers.

Quality was acceptable with 4 family members participating from 2 countries, including elderly folks on French rural ADSL.
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