skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where we live 70% of the COVID-19 patients which are currently in intensive care are very overweight men.

Not really true.

Here's data from the UK ICUs. Page 15 shows BMI.

Here are the numbers of people by BMI. First column is BMI, second column is the percentage of people in ICU.

BMI COVID-19
<18.5 0.64
18.5 to <25 25.79
25 to <30 35.04
30 to <40 31.33
40+ 7.20

And here's the numbers of people dying or being discharged from critical care alive.

BMI

<25 54% discharged alive
46% dead

25-<30 50% discharged alive
49% dead

30-<40 46% discharged alive
54% dead

40+ 43% discharged alive
56% dead

Risk increases with BMI, but it's simply wrong to say that the only people dying are obese.

https://www.icnarc.org/DataServices/Attachments/Download/c31...
> Why is that? Investigating that seems to be more fruitful avenue.

To know you have to investigate that you first need the number that indicates that, no?
The coronavirus crisis will end, but the distributed newsroom is here to stay
Sadly not holding my breath for this to happen in America. After they tracked those spring breaker cell phones with ease, I’m afraid human rights are already being trampled.
If there's no word for the colour you're perceiving then surely you make one or transliterate one? That's going to tend to create linguistic enclaves but mutual intelligibility should survive.

You can place where I grew up in the UK to within about 20 miles based on the word we used for lunch. Like the difference between bagged lunch (en-us) and packed lunch (en-gb) I suppose.
Wasn't there a similarly childish fight between Taleb and Pinker, too? That kind of thing is embarrassing. I haven't read Taleb but I enjoy the occasional Pinker and don't want to see him engaged in pointless ego fights.
Ed Snowden discussing the topic on Vice:

https://youtu.be/k5OAjnveyJo
I read many books and came to realization that I don't understand how economy around me is going to turnout. Yes, I know few things about economy but whatever I know has no predictive power.

So I kept it aside, I bought a piece of land and now I setup hydro and solar pvs, to generate my own power.

I am growing my own food (mostly potatoes, tomatoes, beans, raising few hens for eggs) and I've shelter, that's pretty much all I need.

So now I don't care about economy going down or smth, yes I might lose money which is in economy but it isn't going to affect my livelihood.
The Austrian School seems to have been wrong about the last 15 years' money printing causing inflation. In particular, the general Austrian school would have predicted a lot more inflation by now. The prediction on this has fared so poorly that the last 15 years has given rise to a school nearly diametrically opposite to the Austrian school: modern monetary theory. (My understanding of the Austrian response to this is some amount of semantic contorting: "well... let's define inflation this way and there is inflation... or will be... lots of it!")

Also, current consensus, of course among mainstream economists, is that countries that more believe the Austrian school, like Germany, has caused unneeded pain on themselves/their neighbors by advocating of austerity versus stimulus during downturns. If you want the mainstream steelman against the Austrian school, you can search Paul Krugman's take on them.
Retrospectives with Distributed Teams
Understanding WebAssembly code generation throughput
I'm reminded of this story:

https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
I'd caution against the notion that dealers make much more money off of selling used cars than new cars... At the end of the day car dealers make their money from the Service department, not from sales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B41twMsMW-Q
Unlike most companies featured on HN, including several which compete heavily with Google, the end-user Google consumer and G Suite and GCP terms have never included an arbitration clause. They did have one in their US employment agreement for a while but were successfully pressured to drop it.

That said, if they already stopped cancelling customers yesterday (my $7.99/mo is still active) as another commenter said, it sounds like a glitch that they'll aim to fix, so a class action would be premature. Some customers have even reported ad-hoc fixes.

They've always been bad about communicating externally in a usefully sensitive way, even when they really need to. This is unfortunately no exception.

(Disclosure: I used to work for Google until about 5 years ago, but I have no inside info on this incident and certainly am not speaking for them now.)
When prices of a thing go up, people buy less of that thing. If that were not true, I think somebody would have noticed by now.
Edit: Sorry, I made a mistake.

Trying to measure Rt seems to be a good idea.

However it's not clear how the proposal calculates Rt. No formulas and no references to raw data. So I am afraid this is not very useful.

This said, I could imagine that an approach which takes the number of confirmed cases and the total number of tests could work to estimate Rt. The idea is that while the number of cases is not a good estimator we can try to get a better estimator using the number of tests as well. It's a bit tricky, however, because a low number of tests could mean that only the probable cases are tested which skews the numbers.
> youtube ad-free premium has kept me on google play music

I've been a subscriber since 2016 as well and this is as well as music uploads is what has kept me on Google Play music. YouTube music has this functionality now, but it still lacks a proper library feature as well as a migration option for existing library's and uploads.

Spotify just does everything so much better, so I'm so close to moving.
And Justice for Us: Metallica vs. Napster 20 Years Later
Yes, I was aware that years not being zero-indexed can create confusion, but I never noticed this particular consequence of that.
I thought the 80/80 was getting paid 80% of rate for 80% of hours, which was just a way to make 65% look bigger. I didn't think it meant working those 80% of hours for 80% of pay, which is just an hours reduction.
My favorite fight between two economists - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
It's unfortunate that HN is still plagued with posts like this (and worse) about "Chinese", "China", "CCP" or even "MSS" that would (I hope) not be tolerated for one second if the words were, say, "Jewish", "Israel", "Zionist" or "Mossad".
Google said to be preparing its own chips for use in Pixel phones and Chromeboo
>For a EU citizen buying from Italy, Greece, or Spain makes more sense than buying from Morocco because it's far more likely that a weaker local EU economy will negatively affect their country or the EU than a weak Moroccan economy.

No. You are implying that buying locally strengthens the domestic economy whereas importing weakens the domestic economy. That reasoning is flawed as a general principle (even though it may well be true in specific cases or circumstances).

>What happens to the UK economy if all or many UK citizens start buying stuff made abroad out of some moral obligation?

Well, that would be extremely stupid and I'm not advocating it at all. There is no such moral obligation and I didn't say anything to that effect.
That's rather nitpicking.

On the consumer side perpetual contracts are unfair, and subscription consumer contracts essentially always include termination clauses on both sides.

In the end this usually means having to give reasonable notice, which can also be an implied term.

Now, if you consider commercial contracts in general that's different.
> On the technical front, CSS is extremely well-placed for this, with the comparatively recent shift from absolute axes (margin-left, border-bottom, &c.) to directional axes (margin-inline-start, border-block-end, &c.), with what those axes mean depending on writing-mode, direction and text-orientation.

Yeah... even if CSS itself is, the browsers are not at all, not even close. Recently I tried to use a vertical `writing-mode` in a relatively simple application and encountered a massive amount of layout bugs and issues; it's pretty much totally broken in both Chrome and Firefox (unless maybe if you set everything to a vertical writing mode then it might kinda work?), and no one seems to care.
What fixed costs would a freelancer have?
I play a game called human resource machine. You succeed by implementing algorithms and then try to optimise them for space and time. It reminds me of what I like about programming.
Somewhat ironic that lattices are missing from this lattice of algebraic structures :-) Though I guess they might not be as important in mathematical physics as in some other areas.
Anybody living in CO has already self-selected for being able to adapt to lower oxygen levels, maybe you were at less risk of getting really bad than the average for the US.
Scientific Experts Release Proposals for Loosening the Lockdown
The thing I love the most about programming is that it cannot be boring (at least in principle). If it is becoming boring (usually due to grind), there usually is some meta-process that you think of automating, and by devising how to automate the grind, it ceases to be boring.
> This is why I've not seen a roll of toilet paper on shelves in my local supermarkets or stores for three months now.

Whereas my local Costco has had continuous stock of massive piles of toilet paper available for over 2 weeks now. That's an arbitrage opportunity that's not being exploited because of the difficulty travelling.
Intersecting GPS-Tracks in PostgreSQL to identify infected individuals
From the date, in Arabic numerals, on the president of Mongolia's website, it looks like they solve that by simply rotating lengths of none Mongolian-content 90° to fit.

If you're learning to read Latin (etc) script for the first time, it doesn't much matter what it's orientation is - they're just symbols.
Lol, I'm not as familiar with some of the other economists, but these days I'm always amused by the bloviating of Peter Schiff when I hear him on TV.

The biggest thing I find incomprehensible is this belief that when a recession or crisis hits, you have to let pretty much everything go to shit so the bad firms can get wiped away and better, more innovative firms can take their place. On the face of it, that is very reasonable, and I certainly worry about the moral hazard of bailout after bailout.

But at the same time, Schiff seems to incomprehensibly believe that our political systems live in a world separate from our economic ones. There is just no way the populace at large in a liberal democracy would stand for a deep recession/depression without demanding the government do something to soften the blow. There is even less of a chance of that happening with a command-control/fascist type economy. This fantasy that he believes that people would just stand idly by thinking "thank God the free market is clearing out the detritus!" while they lose their jobs is laughable at this point.
I'm even more terrified by what's going on at the not-so-virtual level. In Poland, where I come from they have been exercising a crawling coup d'état and turning the country into a police state. They passed laws that go directly against the constitution, they refuse to postpone presidential elections in early May and they started terrorising whole communities with overwhelming police harassment.

They event chose to give a raise to the police and not the healthcare workers.

I only hope the EU steps in soon or we'll see Poland drifting towards an authoritarian regime
In most US and Canadian jurisdictions I'm aware of, small claims court can only award money damages, not injunctions or other court orders. I'd guess it's the same in the UK but don't know. So they could probably award damages in the amount of the grandfathered discount from list price for the remaining expected lifetime of Google Play Music, which would be a very enforceable award (at least after any permitted appeals) since Google is too widely present to dodge paying judgments.
I disagree that it's nuanced, it's very blatant. Listen to coverage involving Bernie Sanders before he dropped out to hear it. But as long as you realize it, it can still be informative.
I guess you disregard the nature of millionaires :-D
The question is clearly determined by copyright law. If I call a function, this doesn't make the calling function a derived work.

LGPL is the GPL variant which is usually reasonable to use, as it doesn't require any other parts of the program to be put under (L)GPL. However, there are some technical details with the license which make problems. It basically assumes that the code put under LGPL is delivered as a shared library. But that doesn't work with many languages. Especially the requirement, that the user needs to be able to modify and relink the code under LGPL is a big headache, if not a deal breaker in many situations.
Scaleway ending ARM64 server support
There's a difference between price gouging and covering expenses.

The guy buying up all the masks and reselling them for 10x the price is price gouging. He doesn't make anything.

If a manufacturer ramped production and billed the current inventory to cover costs, then that's a very different thing. Of course all of this is why the Defense Production Act even exists.

A perfect use of the DPA would be a mask manufacturer ramping up local production - if they had predictability of pricing beyond the current crisis, then it would let them forecast what they could and could not make, or get subsidized at the higher rate to ensure their business could ramp down gradually (or be retained at the subsidy price to ensure local availability for the next time).
It seems to be that they are looking to phase out Play Music in favor of Youtube Music. If that is the case, then those « lifetime » subscriptions meant that if was good for the lifetime of the service, and that is coming to an end soon.

If they shutdown Play Music, it might look similar to the end of Google Reader in 2013. They might be looking to get people off the service until they announce it.
So the 8c is the price of economic independence from China and stability in times of crisis, could be subsidized just like agriculture is in many countries.
Plenty of poor people are hoarding, at least here in the US. They make room.
I remember my friend complaining that the same happened with the GameMaker community few years back; there was a lifetime with all future major and minor version updates included, but then boom no longer applicable after few months:

Src: https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/why-do-i-have-...
Again, never subscribe to a service assuming the terms won't change or be removed. Never assume that you 'own' anything that lives in, or relies on a company's cloud. This doesn't mean that services are bad, but they should be seen as ephemeral.
great but no workout list :(
If anything the western media goes easy on China. They have imprisoned a million muslim men and have soldiers living in their homes raping their wives. They've take over the lives of an entire section of the country. There have been articles about it, but it is the making of another holocaust. China is trying to wipe them out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uighur-monitor-home-sh...
If I might, digital surveillance technologies cannot actually help fight the pandemic. It's a fantasy. What can hep are masks, medicines and good hygiene practices. Everything else is only the use of shock doctrine to push old agendas. If you're interested, that's what I argued in the French newspaper Liberation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3...
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The picture seems to be mixed, not just in the contract market. That might mean those out of contract are swarming around what's available, but you only need to land one contract to get started.

Personally, I don't know anyone who's not moved to a new contract for the same client over the financial year boundary, but that's obviously just anecdotal and most of the contractors I know are in the same sector.
It wasn't intended to attack you or your points. Just adding a little more info. That's all.
Why positioning Covid-19 patients on their stomachs can save lives
Did you miss the link to the notebook containing all the code and calculations?
My sense is that freelancers become a lot more attractive in the short / medium term because:
- WFH / remote work will be the norm for a while, and if there's no benefit to having a FTE in the office with you, why not contract lots of work out?
- freelancers are a lot more flexible in terms of overhead than FTEs, and the economy will likely be jittery for a while
Belgium has this specifically for our country [0]. It has a 4 week lag, but they've started to include interim data in the weekly updates by the national bureau for epidemics. The last weekly update included the "excess deaths" compared to previous years: [1]

Week Monday Observed Expected % Deaths
Deaths Deaths Excess Per 100K

2020-W11 09/03/2020 2,220 2,302 -3.6 19.4
2020-W12 16/03/2020 2,531 2,275 11.3 22.1
2020-W13 23/03/2020 3,116 2,249 38.5 27.3

In other words: in the last week of March, we had 38.5% more deaths than usual. Or 7 extra deaths per 100K inhabitants. That's terrifying.

Side note: Belgium is one of the only countries that includes deaths in carehomes and at home. The deaths in carehomes is almost half of all covid-19 deaths here.

[0] https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/momo/

[1] https://epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_Da... (NL or FR only, sorry)
I'm glad they made the correct decision of moving back to a script actually suitable to their language. I always found it ironic that Mongolia the country used Cyrillic despite the significance the creation of the Mongolian Script under Ghengis Khan had to their ethnogenesis.

I find it worrying that some in this thread oppose this move on technical grounds. As an industry, software has to acknowledge that technology is subordinate to the needs of people, not the other way around. Especially in this case where the technical barriers are wholely artificial.
Why don't you consider mutual intelligibility across nations to be good? I love the diversity of the many languages we have, but that's not really a useful aspect of the World - greater cooperation seems to me to be a noble target for the human race and commonality of language seems to aid that. People can share their unique culture with me because they speak a language (native, domestic, or otherwise learnt) that I can understand.
> There's only two types of people who die from it:

> - People with a pre-existing health condition

> - People with a pre-existing health condition who don't know about it yet because no doctor has diagnosed it yet

This is untrue. From the UK ICU data:

First column is discharged from critical care alive numbers (percentage), second column is died number (percentages).

Assistance required with daily activities
No 715 (50.5) 700 (49.5)
Yes 66 (37.3) 111 (62.7)

Any very severe comorbidities
No 744 (49.8) 749 (50.2)
Yes 48 (38.1) 78 (61.9)
Work with constraints. Try embedded bare metal programming, or programming for a fantasy console like PICO8.
July 4. To do it before then is problematic. By then we'll have a vaccine that can be used, though it will bypass most of the testing. By then the virus hopefully will not be as widespread. And by then we should have widespread testing available, and therefore widespread contact tracing.

To do it before then is irresponsible and an invitation to an even greater pandemic spike that we might not get under control.

The symbolism of July 4 will also play well with the American people, which will help lift peoples spirits. We will have to be careful to still have bans on gathering in groups more than 10 though, so no massive July 4 celebrations.
I like what I heard Tyler Cowen say a long time ago: a degree in economics is a great way to learn about a lot of ideas that sound good but don't work. (I'm paraphrasing, of course)

I thought his point was great. There's some well-trodden ground in economics. If you learn nothing more but where the alligators are, you're probably going to do a lot better on that trip through the swamp you plan on taking. If nothing else, it tends to elevate the conversation.
Not really, individuals may make mistakes, but it's nothing to the insanity a mass of people is capable of. (Source: Mass Psychology, by Gustave LeBon)

Distributing wealth is self-destructive behavior. Generally, you want wealth in capable hands, who can use this wealth to create more wealth. You don't just want to piss it away.
Here's a recent HN discussion about the story behind Weird Al's "World Crimes": Jarrett Heather presents: Word Crimes (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22820457
Yes, it turns out we disagree.
This may work if you are single.With family and kids its hardship. I did this with my family ,now after 3 years i wanna move out but the kids find it difficult and my wife has her difference after kids.
> But you can't grow wheat or raise chicken in 2 weeks, no matter how much money you pour into it.

I can get a lot more for sale though; at some point it becomes cost effective for people to start moving chickens over from other countries by air freight.

There is a price where people will start going out and hunting too. In Australia if the price of meat went up enough we'd start harvesting kangaroos, for example. The meat is a bit tougher than chicken but it is pretty good.

The argument in that sentence, and I don't mean this unpleasantly, is that you are a limited human who can't imagine a way of getting food on the table quickly that costs a lot of money. That is a fault in your imagination rather than a real limit. And if the situation is so dire that no food can be found at any price, people are going to starve whatever is tried so it isn't like it makes much difference in the big picture of this hypothetical. But anything up to that and more people working on the problem will help.

> Massively increasing the profit would help only...

There is a price point where Goldman Sachs employees stop trying to figure out how to screw over the little guy and start trying to get food to people. Until prices have reached that point, more profits will help increase production ASAP.

There is ample evidence that a shortage problem is better solved with subsidies rather than quotas. The main complaint is that subsidies are too effective at triggering oversupplies. There is no faster way of going from shortage to sufficient than throwing money at the problem - so the suggestion here is maybe at least try throwing money at the problem. People don't have to starve; governments can step in and buy them food - but if we need more food paying more to food producers for food is the single most effective way to get it.
In theory, yes, in practice (I speak from experience) it has a massive amount of bugs when you actually try to use it for something that is not completely trivial. And the bugs are different for every browser, so working around them is pretty much intractable.
Support in; Complain Out
Contracts need consideration. Basically if the company stops charging you, they don't owe you anything. This is also backed up by explicit clauses that say this.

The exception would be if somebody paid a "lifetime guarantee fee" initially to get that promise of service.
You should take a look at austrian suggestions 2009-2019.
I am using this on and off.
I have some trouble with its adblocknig etc.

Some apps and some sites do not work well.

You could easily say that this is due to the pages or
app itself and I agree. Still. I have to use some of them.
Are you aware of the stock market, housing market, bond market, precious metals? Asset price inflation absolutely is happening. The FED up until now was able to keep the CPI increases fairly low even though they were creating trillions of dollars, because the money was locked into assets. This has had a severe effect on anyone in the market for these assets that have risen.
I think they eventually restored that data.