skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appeared to cross some threshold where it really scared people. Personally, the flu scared me. Motor vehicle deaths and hospital acquired infections also terrified me. Those were already above my personal threshold where I thought the risk was pretty bad. I would already maintain a wide berth around anyone coughing or visibly sick.

There's also some paranoia because this is new, and because of the fear of asymptomatic carriers. That makes people think they're helpless and have no way of protecting themselves. A loss of control is an important factor in creating terror.

That being said, this virus does truly appear worse. Wherever that fear threshold is for people, this virus has crossed it.
A lot of people can’t help it, we beat them into the dirt and now they don’t have a choice. Also there’s the (probably correct) expectation that corporations and governments will abuse a lot of the emergency provisions and that feeds the rebellion. Also, it shouldn’t be surprising that young people react with apathy toward a large problem like this when older people have at best reacted towards their problems with apathy and at worst have blamed the younger people themselves.

I’m not saying these people are innocent but this isn’t one sided.
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What is the limit for Covid-19 deaths? We don't know yet if we'll get a working vaccine or if immunity from antibodies lasts long enough. What we have at the moment are educated guesses. If Covid-19 becomes endemic, it could be a death cause that is always present like influenza.

This might be a bit morbid, but every death cause has a limit, the whole population..
Currently with Maxwell's equations you can point to each one and couple it with an experiment.

If you simplify the equations any further, it will be a result of mathematical elegance rather than fundamental undergraduate-level physics.
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There was “flattening the curve.” Now, it's “breaking the wave.”
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Hysteria?

What negates this thinking is hard mathematics ie that all the other things don't kill at a _geometric_ rate. If left unchecked millions of people will die in a short amount of time.

Yes flu also progress similarly but we have vaccines for the flu and we manage it seasonally. Even considering the CFR for covid-19 will drop substantially it is still killing by OOM more people across all age brackets without co-morbidities (not to mention medics) which the flu doesn't do.
As you’d know if you actually read those people’s comments, they believe he had a role in intentionally releasing the virus as a pretext to force his id2020.org human cattle marking system onto the world, among other incentives.

Don’t stop there, let’s see your responses to the other points I raised in my previous comment.
Wow, the rapid increase is definitely alarming.

Side note:
gun violence would average number 3 or 4, if not for the tireless lobbying from the NRA to block health impact research.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
To clarify a bit, I didn't mean cheating in a much negative way.

Using physical goods as reference to color is the basic evolution for everyone. As I understand it "blue" in english for instance was initially pointing to a concrete thing (lead?) as well, but the words went through many transitions isolating the world for the color from its original counterpart.

But I think in english the concepts still stay more separated, for instance "rose" as a color has parted a lot from the common perception of an actual rose's color. Or looking at Faber Castel's color chart for instance [1], pink declinations are all defined relative to "pink", in contrast on the article's chart we'll have declinations like Ume (plum), Sakura (cherry), Ichigo (strawberry).

I am not saying one is better, or one is lazier.

[1] https://www.faber-castell.fr/produits/CrayondecouleurPolychr...
I’m talking about the death toll at the end of the day, not the current death toll. I’m talking about the likely maximum number to ever be infected (roughly herd immunity number) multiplied by the percentage of people that the virus kills. I understand exponential growth. People who have their own opinions are not necessarily suffering from a lack of math knowledge.
On the MPE/ix thing, is anyone actually relying on HP-3000 servers for anything critical?
Spains problem could at least partially be attributed to really bad luck (e.g. a Champions League game against an Italian team)
You can't fix stupid, but you can sit inside while outbreaks rip through them and anyone unfortunate enough to come into contact with them.
Oh huh, I hadn't noticed that, thank you.
Excuse my ignorance on this topic, but what exactly can you do with OpenVMS that you cannot do with a FreeBSD, Linux, or even Windows server? What's the specific advantage of OpenVMS?
For primary age children at least, though, there will be roughly one parent/carer per child gathered outside the school gates, which has to be a major source of adult transmission.
> deniers...

> bro crowd ...

> dense crowd ...

> bashing their heads ...

Maybe it's your tone?
I don't have enough F-words to explain how I feel about the new address bar.

@Mozilla: Can you at least not remove about:config entries to disable it, in the later releases, please.
Because for the vast majority of purposes, ease of developer use far outweighs performance.

Also, JavaScript has long had a monopoly on the worlds most popular deployment platform.
I have no idea, but at least it should reduce pressure on reagents required for other techniques.
But what if the weakened immune system because of Covid impacted the severity of the heart disease? Covid would still be responsible in that case, no?

People have a tendency to look for 'one' cause for an outcome. Sometimes there's just multiple causes I think.
This is so very cool. Great job stepping up like this to the whole team!
I'm not sure it's that simple. I think most people breaking the rules just think it doesn't apply to them. Like they're healthy, they're low risk, they're good at following all the other rules ("we won't get close to anyone while we're out, we won't touch anything we shouldn't").

I assume it's a bit like washing your hands after using the toilet. Most people do. I don't think those that don't are saying fuck you to society - they just think "I didn't pee on my hands, there's no mess here".

I guess if something doesn't immediately affect you, it's easy to think it will never affect you and it's not your problem to deal with.
How I wish for nothing more than an alternative to SQL to communicate with databases, something that automatically infers coupling tables too. Set theory is nice. SQL.. personally, hard pass.
WHO – Up to 650 000 die of respiratory diseases linked to flu each year (2017)
Ask HN: Does anyone know what New Jersey is running COBOL apps on?
Recently the governor of New Jersey mentioned they needed volunteers to maintain their systems written in COBOL. Since COBOL runs on just about anything that was built after the 60's, from computers less powerful than my analog watch all the way to the newest IBM z15 monster, I'm curious about what they are doing and why are those systems a problem.
I love the latest commit messages at the emulator repo :)

"Fuck you JavaScript, an array with 1 int in it is not a fucking number. Why are you like this you piece of rotten garbage"

I share your hatred :)

A very nice guide and introduction both to x86 asm and buffer overflow. Thanks for this.
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One data point: in New York City, deaths at home have increased from about 20-25 per day to 245, averaged over a recent week.

https://gothamist.com/news/surge-number-new-yorkers-dying-ho...
>I was called in to consult on a database problem and they did the same but with XML. It was really bad, and bad for performance and comprehension.

I can see XML being really bad for performance, but given that json column data is handled like native data in modern databases (and you can index/query on fields in the json, which pretty much negates the performance impact), using a json/jsonb column is actually a decent guide.
And if we follow your premise that this is hysteria and we go back to work how many absolute numbers of people will die vs other causes of preventable death?

Herd immunity would still mean millions of dead people you'd have to step over.

The countries that thought they could go this route did a hard reverse once reality hit them.
No, I mean simple face masks that every single person must wear so they don't spread the virus in case they have be it.

Very simple machines to produce these things.
I think their point was that the concept could be expanded as per their suggestion, as a simple way to fix the security issues.

Having the server send a 'this is my site base' header would be helpful even without having path support. At the moment, browsers need to magically know about all multi-level domains, like example.co.uk, so that they don't lump together all *.co.uk domains as the same site.
> When you look at the amount of death caused by unremarkable things and the amount of death caused by covid 19, they are the same. Compared to 7 billion, they are basically the same in that they are a drop in the bucket. After covid 19, will we care about all the people dying from other preventable things? No. Because this is hysteria. It’s not logic.

Should we be lucky enough for Covid-19 to have the same disease burden as the worst flu season as of late, and not the disease burden it's actually projected to have, several orders of magnitude more people will die than they would from the flu. So no, compared to 7 billion, they are not basically the same.

Your "really good points" hinge on a shaky understanding of statistics at best, or just outright ignoring the available data at worst.
They are still linear switches though. So silent in tactile feel as well
What if going outside is explicitly allowed? Does your tirade makes sense then?
It's a reasonable hack though. Where else do you put "how to interact with this domain" data, you can't serve that data (eg via http) because clients need to already know how to interact with that domain before they interact with that domain?

How would you do it?
the source reporting the US surveillance is kinda murky at best. Apparently the US sources their information from ad trackers and a company called lotadata which has a "geospatial AI platform "

if most of the tracking data is coming from FAANG its nothing new, however, it may not exactly be accurate with the latest iphone and android devices which have fairly overt controls for the user to restrict data collection.
You can do a binary search to efficiently locate the positive sample.
> I don’t blame governments. I blame all you idiots who won’t stop going outside.

It's precisely this kind of reasoning that this article is having problems with. Pre-COVID19, it was because of the terrorists, drug dealers, and pedophiles that we'd have to give up our freedoms. Now, it's because of "us idiots." We the people are "too idiotic" to decide for ourselves, or so you say.
The chart is showing deaths per day
Google Fit redesign makes step tracking much more prominent
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Europe Failed the Coronavirus Test
I'm guessing run one of the mentioned HP servers/mainframes?
I grew up in the alps on the countryside and I am thinking about people like my neighbour and my father. Other than them I do understand the reasoning behind contact tracing, while they don't. If they were forced to use such an app they would work against it just out of defiance. And they are by no means special people. They have no idea about computers, they are more or less center conservative or center left.

Especially in the german speaking parts of Europe the scepticism towards government data collection has historical roots that I probably don't have to elaborate on, with people who died from said collection still in living memory. While safety is a fundamental right, it doesn't outweight all the other fundamental rights automatically. These rights need to be balanced even (and especially) in times of crisis.

I think the right way here would be to follow the CCC recommendations, and make it about a voluntary utilitaristic action, rather than enforcing it from the top down. People have to want to do it, just like they did in China. How you will get them there is different in Europe however.
Please take your racism somewhere else.
Lung failure causes a drop of oxygen in the blood, which leads to multiple organ failure. Direct cause of death is often kidney shutdown.

Heart failure causes a drop of oxygen in the blood, which leads to multiple organ failure. Direct cause of death is often kidney shutdown.
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It is worse for sure. I was stuck in a hotel for the past two months so all I did was watch cnn. It was amazing to see the sentiment of the language on cnn actually become politically neutral as the disease spread in the US. That was when i really knew that this is something big. Anderson cooper actually defended Donald trump in a minor but explicit way at one point and I thought I was dreaming. The people at cnn were definitely scared for a little while there.
There are three big factors at play. These factors are magnified in cults, but you can actually see them working at the small scale even in your office or family about completely trivial subjects.

The first is hierarchy - most people get their idea of true/false right/wrong through the social structure they're embedded in, and from who they consider senior and look up to. This is pretty fixed even if the senior figure gets something conspicuously wrong.

The second is consistency; beliefs usually come in sets, and they're often tied together by being supported by the same sources (see above). And it's especially tempting to have a consistent set of beliefs that happen to be wrong, rather than deal with the messy inconsistency and uncertainty of the real world. This is why people don't get partially deprogrammed from cults.

The third is loyalty and identity group membership; this is the peer-to-peer version of "hierarchy" above. Disagreement is an attack on the peer group. The extreme version of this is seen in religions who will ostracise unbelievers. If you want to stop being a Mormon or a JW you may have to walk away from everyone you've ever known.

"Sources" are fairly useless in this situation unless you can find one that's already inside the target's perception of loyalty and hierarchy. Anything from outside can be easily dismissed.
Most of them already know this, they are just trolling you - despite this being a matter of life and death.

Please read the newspaper article about the crona-denying pastor who went to Florida, got infected and died. According to his son he very well knew the virus was not a hoax and his stand came from "being frustrated with the media pushing Corona with a political agenda" (not a verbatim quote but it's in the ballpark).
Indeed, this is the key question, what are the number of excess deaths compared with this time last year. Are mortality statistics available to that sort of granularity and speed (e.g. "number of deaths registered last week") for any country or region in the world?

If you die of heart failure and happen to be covid infected (which is likely given how widespread it is) do you go down as a covid death rather than a heart failure?
Of course they can.

But people can also critic sexism, can't they?
This may tip the pedantry scale too far, but the comment you are replying to is in reply to a comment that suggests confusion over the idempotency of GET.

I'm not suggesting that it's named wrong or anything like that, this is just about your comment.
> Is there a cure or a method to convert such dense crowd? (well, besides bashing their heads with something heavy)

It's not really the peoples fault, it's all the disinformation, bad reporting and incompetent governments. I work at a critical facility on a skeleton crew. I hide in my office, wear gloves out in the shop, and wash wash wash wash my hands. Though, at work most people have these impressions, all parroted from bad press and advice:

"you only need face masks if you are sick to prevent the spread."

"It's the flu, you can't avoid it."

"everyone is going to catch it eventually"

"you only need to worry if you're really old or have an underlying condition"
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Thanks, indeed i missed that !
There's nothing stopping you from splitting a module across multiple files in Python

Yes, it will result in sub-modules

If you hate addressing code in the sub-modules via the sub-module path you can import them in the __init__.py of the parent module

Personally I dislike languages which add another layer of (IMHO worthless) complexity by decoupling the owning module of the code from the file path, so you have now have to resolve that before you can understand it.
I'd love to have others high grade researcher pitch in about the art of good theory. Often it's more a matter of disregarding your own perceptions, and aim for the out-of-the-box stupid.
For JavaScript, the answer is pretty obvious: there simply weren't (and still aren't, really) any alternatives.

For Python, it's really a phenomenon of trends. It's got all the right pieces (easy to learn and use, good community, good library ecosystem), but lots of languages have that. Like so many other things... It became more popular because it was popular.

Runtime performance is only one factor in the programming language game. Many other equally important factors are purely emotional. We are human, after all.
And crucially ignores the reduction in deaths from heart failure, road traffic, etc. at this time
Very curious to hear expert commentary about this. I have a family member who is an RN and is working with covid patients. This sounds very similar to what she is seeing.
Yes I know what they do. That wasn’t the question.
I have used them, like many.
But that doesn’t mean they should be sustained in the absence of a viable market. The employees should all be supported, like anyone who is living through this. No question.
But the company? Why do we, as a society as a whole, need to sustain the company in the absence of a market? Someone else would create the same business again when there’s a market for it. If there is again.
Hmm this could be called put your laptop on a shelf?
Ask HN: How can I make Miro like whiteboard?
I want to build a canvas of sort like Miro[1] in which we can drag and drop blocks, each block can be connected like a flow chart. I want to build this using javascript. I am ready to use any pre-existing libraries. I think I can do this using D3 but not sure about where to start.

[1]: https://miro.com/
That's the minimum they have to do under the contract between KDE and Qt Company. Qt core/essentials must be released under open source license after 12 months. https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreeme...

If you look at what Qt is doing, their business is moving away from the KDE type uses. They get their money from embedded and appliances. Qt on MCU's moves Qt more into this direction.
Tagged unions, if I understand what they are, can be done in SQL:

create table Foo(
fooId primary key autoincrement,
type integer /* tag/discriminant */ );
create table FooA(fooId primary key,
/* data specific to FooA */ );
create table FooB(fooId primary key,
/* data specific to FooB */ );

They're not quite markup though. Markup has a string/stream with associated records. The number of these records, their kind, and their placement varies, so it can handle ordering issues or multiple similar names or missing name (e.g. missing middle name), or ignore parts of name quite naturally.
Intended to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22783497
Also, calculus was much messier on the theoretical side until Weierstrass, Riemann etc. "fixed" it.
Heart attacks are a common consequence of the lack of oxygen, which is the consequence of failing lungs, be it by Covid-19 or COPD etc. So these things are closely linked.
Some people think Bill Gates is investing.