skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
typically on a dev PC you'll have multiple apps roled out for development / maybe feature testing. if this is done directly on the host it's always possible for these environments to influence each other. very common is to forget to script a dependency, which only may get recognized once someone wants to deploy on a fresh installation.
Since the other causes of death remain static in this chart, its hard to tell if Covid-19 are new cases or "take away from other causes" (and by what percentage).

Would be interesting to see daily chart of Covid-19 deaths as % of total deaths and daily total deaths.

PS. Extra points - number of deaths due to lockdowns (suicides, unaccessible healthcare, etc)
There are two sayings which sum up this situation rather well.

> Arguing with stupid is like wrestling with pig in mud. After some time you see that pig seems to like it.

> Arguing with stupid is like playing chess with a pigeon. It will topple figures, shit in board and be proud of winning.

The problem is when their stupidity affects your life.
The sheer mass of dead bodies will be refuting it soon, if it hasn't already. Unless the deniers want to posit a massive increase in non-Covid deaths that mimics a pandemic.
> There is an additional technological cost

Time is of the essence here. I agree that, all else being equal, privacy should be respected. However, if it takes multiple weeks to iron out all the potential privacy issues, this approach becomes much less effective.
First of all, I'm not a medical professional!

I think it's impossible (with the current state of technology) to determine the actual cause in patients with comorbidities. The patients died _with_ coronavirus in these statistics rather than _from_ coronavirus.

Anyway, it's hard to argue with those people. But if you look at the average deaths a country has per month, and see the increase because of Covid, you should be able to infer something is wrong with just a bit of common sense.
I guess this is the crux of it, a NN seems like a concentration of data, more data-y than algorithmic to me (not a computer scientist). Lossless compression has an inference of essential data being intrinsic in the compressed file, but with the arrangement of the OP it seems like some of that data is extrinsic - some of the essential data is in the NN. Whilst you might make that claim for any regular algo, it seems to me this has a different complexion to it. Ultimately an algo could use all extent online images, then use reverse image search and be 'just' providing an internal link to return.

Another way of looking at it is that you could have a 3D model of a person, as used for CG in movies, and then have an error map + config data to return an image of the person that is exactly the same as a mask of a photo that was taken. The error map + config data wouldn't really be a "lossless compression". Much of the data would lie in the 3D model. Do you agree that this would not be "lossless compression"? So, there's a dividing line somewhere?!
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All mortality cause numbers are estimates, and the method is clearly stated in the website.

The title of the submission is somewhat misleading (we can't really say that the leading cause of death on that day was COVID-19), but the information is the best we have and it's helpful to make sense of the current crisis.

What you're asking can only be done months from now, once we have numbers for all deaths and their official causes.
Materialized views are great, but it is just a denormalized form with in-database updating instructions.
Maxwell's equations are an artifact of the Mathematical Formulation and they can be written in a perhaps easer way. If one describes them in Geometrc Algebra terms it is just one equation [0] and one can understand it in a natural way.

During the nineteenth century and the discussions on different formal ways to describe vector fields Hamilton's quartenion system prevailed.
Maxwell had reservations and presented his treatise of electricity and electromagnetism as "the introduction of the ideas, as distinguished from the operations and methods of Quaternions" [1], thus the formulation we know.

[0] Mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_descriptions_of_t...

[1] The vector algebra war a historical perspective https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.00501.pdf
"Of course, the teacher knew this, gave bonus points to the ones who did start in time, and then extended the deadline as he had expected to from the start."
The pig one is very nice, I like this one

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

Attributed to Mark Twain
You need to look at excess mortality. Currently we have a lot more people dying than normal. We know this because we're building temporary emergency mortuaries. Maybe these would have died within a year or two, but they're not, they're dying right now.

When someone has a heart attack and dies how do we know they had covid-19? We're mostly not testing people. We don't test the dead people. So we know or suspect they have covid-19 before they die. This is not a bunch of asymptomatic people dropping dead from expected causes then being labelled as covid-19 deaths, it's a bunch of people with severe symptoms who are dying and having multiple causes listed on the certificate, one of which will be covid-19.

Here's a useful thread that looks at the "they would have died anyway" comments: https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1246866119597621248

> now that currently if someone dies, say on Heart Disease, and has positively tested on Covid-19, that the death cause is counted as Covid-19.

We know that covid-19 causes myocarditis, and that this is a significant cause of death for lots of covid-19 patients.
Dang are you jerking off or would you remove this violent comment?
At least in my country the overwhelming majority of the people fully supports the measures. How is that not democratic?
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If you want to be cool then you say "fuck the government, fuck the police". Its a big part of the reason, a lot of people want to show off by breaking rules for street cred.
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A Burmese here and thanks for pointing out! I have to explain to other people that we don't follow the father's name most of the time. Some names the father's name at the end. e.g if my father name is Myint Swe, my name could be Ko Ko Myint Swe.
That's already been solved by the conspiracy theorists. They'll move to say that it was the result of 5G.

Nothing you can do can convince them that the coronavirus is real. They fundamentally deny that it exists even as it knocks on their door.
Zoom is getting so much bad press last weeks, and still people keep using it more and more. lol

Any exposure is good exposure in the PR/Marketing world I guess.
Ask HN: How to access my bank account using Open Banking?
My bank (in the UK) has recently switched to Open Banking / PSD2 and switched off their old API. I was using their API to access transaction data and feed that into various scripts to automate some of my accounting.

They suggested I can use Yapily (https://www.yapily.com/) in some cases, but the documentation for that says I need to be FCA registered. All I want is an API for my bank account, not the bank account of anyone else.

Am I missing something here?
You don't need everyone to have it installed. Just getting a large proportion of people to use it would likely have quite a significant effect in reducing infection spread.

One compromise in making it semi-mandatory could be to reduce lockdown requirements for people using and carrying the app, because they'd be less dangerous.
I’ve always felt round things like sushi and burritos could be delivered by putting them into some kind of silicone fairing and firing them from a pneumatic cannon aimed by a computer, no need for autonomous flying robots.
> I don't understand how to deal with deniers anymore.

Consider smoking kills 1,300 per day (480,000 per year) in the US. That isn’t a contagious virus it’s a product you literally have to purchase and use for decades and people still do it. Think about before it was common knowledge that smoking killed and how it was ingrained in culture and how it took decades to remove smoking from air planes, school, restaurants, even hospitals. Even now with knowledge of the risk/dangers and social changes 1,300 die everyday.

I’m not trying to make it a whataboutism, but to highlight the difficulty in getting people to change their behavior even if it means death. For example, this virus seems to kill mostly people with chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, obesity) which are all dietary diseases and responsible for about 1M deaths per year in the US, this is common knowledge and the fact this virus is most deadly to that group...yet how many people will actually take steps to change and improve their diet and lifestyle?

To your point/question I’m not sure how you change people’s behavior...I mean we could right now eradicate all new cases of type 2 diabetes moving forward by getting people to eat a certain way, but people would rather argue about that than actually curb their behavior
This belongs on r/conspiracy not HN.

Also, I am surprised about the hatred Bill Gates is receiving (despite spending billions of his own money on fighting Corona and other diseases). Could someone please explain why?
If you actually need to know such details then it should be stored in normalized form.

Say you have a visa database which must be compatible with multiple naming systems from different countries and where no information can be discarded for security or legal reasons. Then you store the data you need in normalized form. Why would you use weird hacks for essential information?

And if you don't need all that detail - then you just save the name as a string and discard the metadata.

I can't see it would ever make sense to store a name in JSON format inside a relational database. Either the information is important or it isn't.
Someone is filling out the form. They skip MI. Do I mark it as null or blank? The only way to trust this is to have a big check mark that say “does not have a middle initial” that stores a boolean. But realistically, who cares? Unless you’re dealing with legal names, you don’t need to distinguish the cases.
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It’d be helpful if they broke the stats down to

Covid deaths in healthy people and

Covid-related with comorbidity deaths.
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> Of course, the teacher knew this, gave bonus points to the ones who did start in time, and then extended the deadline as he had expected to from the start.

I think what he meant is they 'failed' to get it completed on time and it was meant as a teaching lesson.
Shouldn't that be a localization/translation issue?

My experience living in Japan is that they will write family name first if using Japanese, but given name first if using an European language.
There are still people denying it? Everyone I knew in that camp has been convinced.
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What is Bernie Madoff's take on Covid-19?
There's nothing to refute. COVID-19 may cause additional heart damage: https://khn.org/news/mysterious-heart-damage-not-just-lung-t...

> “Someone who’s dying from a bad pneumonia will ultimately die because the heart stops,” said Dr. Robert Bonow, a professor of cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and editor of the medical journal JAMA Cardiology. “You can’t get enough oxygen into your system and things go haywire.”

> But Bonow and many other cardiac specialists believe a COVID-19 infection could lead to damage to the heart in four or five ways. Some patients, they say, might be affected by more than one of those pathways at once.

> ...But Bonow said the damage observed in COVID-19 patients could be from the virus directly infecting the heart muscle. Initial research suggests the coronavirus attaches to certain receptors in the lungs, and those same receptors are found in heart muscle as well.

> In March, doctors from China published two studies that gave the first glimpse at how prevalent cardiac problems were among patients with COVID-19 illness. The larger of the two studies looked at 416 hospitalized patients. The researchers found that 19% showed signs of heart damage. And those who did were significantly more likely to die: 51% of those with heart damage died versus 4.5% who did not have it.

> ...That work has already resulted in changes in the way hospitals deal with the cardiac implications of COVID-19. Doctors have found that the infection can mimic a heart attack. They have taken patients to the cardiac catheterization lab to clear a suspected blockage, only to find the patient wasn’t really experiencing a heart attack but had COVID-19.
Sure, I am not saying that all denials are from people with financial interest, some just think they are expert statisticians or maybe they are part of some political group and when his favorite politicians says is just the flu then he will put all his skills to prove that is tribe is right.
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Actually the “flu bro” crowd has some really good points. For me, it’s impossible to ignore the inconsistency. Imagine tens of thousands of people standing before you before they perish gruesomely. These people who died of preventable things other than covid 19, are ignored by society — nobody cares. You aren’t considered a murderer for going to work with the flu (but you technically are) and you aren’t considered irresponsible for taking your kids on unnecessary car rides. 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.

I think hospitals should maintain enough capacity to handle influx. I think that people should wear masks and wash their hands. But none of that changes what I wrote above. And it doesn’t change the fact that many, many people have a fetish for doom. It’s the same with global warming or the second coming of Christ — a kernel of truth or good intention becomes a mass fetish for doom and no reasonable discourse can survive.
No doubt there's big layoffs coming
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It's sold out on the online store here.
VSI (the new owners of VMS) have created a new Hobbyist program. It is intended to run inside a emulator, but I imagine with some creativity it could be deployed onto real hardware.

The big downsides are:
A) You have to reinstall/recreate the emulator image when it expires - they don't hand out new keys.
B) No images for VAX (probably the most popular platform for emulation due to SIMH)
I'm not an expert in KDE but I mean this applet: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet.git

I assume that I can't really install the KDE applet without installing the entire KDE suite, so this was my goto solution.

Edit: I see that wireguard support is in the works but is not merged yet: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/merg...
Not a medical professional as well, but I can imagine a picture of a patient dying from coronavirus - say, due to the lung failure - should be quite different from the one dying from the heart disease. Shouldn't it?
> I have no opinion on this but I have read multiple times now that currently if someone dies, say on Heart Disease, and has positively tested on Covid-19, that the death cause is counted as Covid-19.

You have read incorrect information. Only deaths "where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death" [1].

Of course, there will be errors. As with any number, especially one reported daily.

BTW: there are also reasons for COVID deaths being underreported, so the bias in the number isn't really one way.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...
the link to the data for the CDC does not seem to match the graph...perhaps im reading this wrong?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

if we're mapping based on the 2018 numbers the CDC provide then 49925 per month or ~12k per week is the cancer rate...

Diabetes is around 1700, not 200.
I suspect a large proportion of people would install it if requested to by their government.

"Please install this app to save lives. Don't worry, it collects less data on your movements than Google Maps."
You don't manage your career by programming.

You manage your career by being able to deliver projects or at least participate in meaningful manner and then building meaningful work-relationships.
I don't think such a distinction can usefully be made? And we don't do it for other things. "Road traffic accident with diabetes"?
As a side note, Android requires an app to get location access when using Bluetooth (not sure about iOS). So any Bluetooth contract tracing app will request location access.
> What about governments with authoritarian regimes?

They're probably not going to care about people's views in the first place. Such regimes are already mandating apps of this type to be used.
I think people will deny reality as long as possible. And then tiny bit more.

If you throw a rock on a dude he will deny the existance of the rock until right after the broken nose stage.
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I think it's not going to be feasible for them to do 2-day shipping this or next year. I don't think anyone should renew.
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WireGuard’s protocol was also formally verified by a third party [0]. That makes me more confident in using it than any social proof whatsoever :)

[0] https://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/cryptover...
Sure, economy of scale should prevail and hotels should be cheaper. But they aren't.

For C19 unsure what's better. Cramped place or randomly distributed. I hear cruise ships are not very popular at the moment.
The sibling comment to yours has a link to such documentation, and a link to a really nice discussion re: reverse engineering this behavior on various clone VGA chipsets. The IBM RAMDAC documentation is pretty authoritative, IMO.
It seems like a no-brainer to subsidize an on-ramp for professionals into their proprietary platform. VSI should probably do that.

I'm looking at you, IBM, and your restrictive z/OS licenses that prevent me from legally using anything newer than MVS 3.8j on Hercules.
Or, apply modus tollens and maybe the arguments for those positions could be better.
What a supremely stupid suggestion. It solves basically none of the problems escape characters do.

How would it allow you to write a regex that matches a dot? Or text in an XML element that includes an ampersand?

Even for quotes contained in string literals it's a shitty solution because string literals are part of programming languages and having to count characters every time you change a String literal is just about the last thing you want in your language (and it would be horrible to read as well).
"tis just a flu" is probably the least harmful of the lot.

There are fairly influential figures out there pushing far more dangerous stories. The virus was manufactured by Bill Gates in order to push a vaccine that contains a tracking microchip. The virus being caused by 5g is another one.

For those, I just don't have a clue how to deal with.
You see this with political parties (we have a multi party system here). I don't know if it's rehearsed, maybe they had an event with some communication consultant. Or maybe they just pick it up naturally from each other since they spend a lot of time together. But suddenly they all are starting every other comment with some awkward pre-phrase, for example "it is a known fact that..."
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How about we loan them the money at 16% interest, which is about the average interest rate for an airline credit card.

And the loans go to the front of the line in any bankruptcy proceedings.

Then I’m okay with allowing them to make their own silly rules.
All the other, regular preventable things don’t grow exponentially and as rapid as COVID-19 does.
Similarly, it's not good teaching practice to trivialize deadlines.
Funny how whenever there is good or exciting news, it's 'Elon Musk' that's quoted.

But bad news like this comes from 'Tesla'.
No these are the "silent" reds. They don't make a sound when bottoming out and also not when coming back up.

Regular: https://www.cherrymx.de/en/mx-original/mx-red.html

Silent: https://www.cherrymx.de/en/mx-original/mx-silent-red.html
Its the leading cause of death despite the preventive measures. If we didn't take them, it would suck a lot more.
In a sense they might be rational; anyone under 50 has a 95% of being out of action for a week or two then getting back up unaided. That is much less punishing for them than the lockdown unless they are the unlucky 1 in 20. Not prudent, but about the same level of risk assessment people use when talking on mobiles while driving.

One of the major issues is the Boomers are hitting that delicate age where things start to kill them instead of being shrugged off. Trying to protect the 50-70 cohort is the real dance here.
The rki (they are the ones tracking Infektion Numbers etc here in germany) is apperently Building an App based on Trace Together. This (german) article says TraceTogether is linked to your phone number though https://www.golem.de/news/corona-app-per-bluetooth-kontaktpe...
Perhaps their ability to influence is tied to decades of trust lost in the mainstream media?
Ah, looks like a fork of my friend jkb's work. Used to live on frevms.net, nowadays squatted. ( see https://web.archive.org/web/20110310093558/http://www.freevm... ).
The lack of scrollback is what stopped me from using mosh before. I never knew about Eternal Terminal, but I've just installed it and it seems to work well (my issue is unreliable connections, rather than latency, so the lack of prediction doesn't affect me as much)
When events make craziness sane
You are not missing anything - open banking is a sham. It’s designed to offer the illusion of choice while in reality only the big players have the resources to go through the FCA certification process.

You could try using TrueLayer (which is FCA certified) as a proxy. Alternatively, switch to a bank like Starling or Monzo which allow you to create an access token for your own account.
In other words, the gap between the developer's natural language and his/her programming language should be minimal

I'm not sure that follows from the original claim at all.

Mathematics has plenty of problems in when it comes to obscure terminology and regrettable notations, yet still vast numbers of people prefer the conciseness and precision of mathematics to using natural language when they want to discuss concepts in science, engineering, programming, etc.

At some point, if you're going to work in a technical field, you're going to need terminology and notation to match. Newbies to the field need to learn those before they can understand what is being said "naturally". The alternative is to attempt to dumb everything down to the point where newbies can understand it straight away but, assuming it is even possible, this risks losing a lot of effectiveness in communications between everyone who does have more experience.
It could help develop a strategy and protocol for opening the economy if it mostly of greatly affects people with identifiable preëxisting conditions.
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