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I agree with you which is why I got downvoted too. People with nothing better to do in their lives than get paid to downvote on public forums. My solution I guess is to leave this forum and find one that doesn't enable downvote brigades the way this one does.

Supposedly, commentors here have something of value to offer, otherwise it would just be a news headline site without commentors. I am taking whatever value I have to offer and going elsewhere. I suggest you do the same. Sure, HN will turn into a political echo-chamber but it's really that already, right? I had 10% of my karma- whatever that is and whatever it's good for- disappear in an hour when I proferred the opinion that I didn't blame Trump for the virus.

You get a result like that - people telling you that that should NOT be your opinion and here's the punch in the face to teach you that lesson- and you know the forum is already a lost cause.

Gab has a browser plugin that will let you comment on any website, including this one and not be censored. Also there are scrappy alternatives to Reddit, saidit I think is one, where its not a groupthink party.

It's just a period of time we're living through and technology will catch up with it.

Historically, problems had to go on much longer than people reading about them later realize they did before corrective action was taken. This is no different.

For all the busy-beaver downvote-assassins on HN- way to waste the days and hours of the prime of your life, fighting the losing battle against freedom!

You go girl!
Or you could flip that around and make testing so plentiful everyone is tested 3x (perhaps by independent labs), so the FP rate is more like...

1/10 * 1/10 * 1/10 (1/1000)
If anyone has good data on the asymptomatic proportion, I'd appreciate a link. I keep seeing 50% (or sometimes 'up to 50%'), but to the extent that I've looked at actual sources, it seems that people are conflating presymptomatic positive tests with lastingly asymptomatic infections.
Based on several studies using different methods, the death rate (infection fatality rate, or IFR) is likely around 0.5%

So if you go back the average time from infection to death (2-3 weeks) you can get a sense what the ratio was in your area back then.

[1]: https://mothership.sg/2020/03/iceland-covid-19/ (I did the work on the side, extrapolated to about 0.2%-0.5%)

[2]: https://www.land.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/zwis... (Germany study, 0.37%, decent sampling method)

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32234121 (Diamond princess ship, 0.5%)

[4]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v... (Santa Clara county study, 0.15% - 0.3% if you do the math). Methodological problems with the method of sampling that might increase the number of positives and the test specificity issues might increase false positives, but probably still in the ballpark
This seems like an unreasonably high bar to set.
And they got ratio'd to death, as they should have. Cops don't have law degrees (and well to be fair, neither do I).
I don't see the similarity.

if we're making parables then it's more like rebels stealing the weapons of the standing army to use against them.

Or, more accurately: the FBI using a specific model of camera that only they can buy to spy on people, and that model being known to the survielled.
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How recent was the train wreck? ;-)
When this happens, you can always right-click the back button and select which page to go to.
Counter-analogy: it's the difference between taking screenshots and taking pictures of the screen with your camera.
I feel like if you're not moving to 3, you probably aren't going to be pushing to move parts of your codebase to async.

I have code bases that will be forever stuck on 2, because they're not active projects and are archival only.
It's astroturfing, but astroturfing organizations have the same free speech rights as any other party: unions, NGOs, nonprofits, and evil corporations.
Mike Bloomberg spent over $1B running for president
Because there's nothing to update to. Everyone who was working Python circa 2.7.0 has switched to working on a new, different language which they insist on misleadingly calling "Python 3" rather than come up with a new name like the Perl -> Raku folks did.
You're more likely to attract people of lower incomes, which we already suspect are more vulnerable to Covid given the kinds of jobs they have.
That's true in one respect, but you as an end user can use them to know not to upgrade before your deps have changed what they need to.
Going to the Weed Research Lab in Colorado
Here’s my real world example of some Python 2 code which will never get ported to Python 3 (and the resulting Ycombinator heated discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258527
3.4% mortality rate reported by WHO seems to be not as accurate then https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

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Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died
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That was used as a basis quite a few decisions, how to treat patients, when to close / open various locations, etc. It does say "reported" in the report, but I think often that part of ignored and many officials assumed it to be as a rate based on infected cases.

The article does mention this issue, and I wonder what the new / updated mortality rate is then based on this data.
Lots of things could explain it. Here are some:

- The way deaths are counted in each state

- Daily Temperature

- Comorbidity percentage difference for residents - https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...
The previous tests I'd seen (I hadn't read about the Los Angeles test results posted today yet) had been fairly extremely not random. For example the homeless shelter in Massachusetts and pregnant women in New York. That's why I used the phrase "remotely resembling random."
Nope, I was simply countering that it's not as simple as they suggested. I added the link to the paper to show one approach to given them some context as to what might it look like.
Well everyone understands the academic reasons. (Print is a function and now you can do ‘my_print_function = print’) But really it was not necessary.

What piece of code is taking advantage that print is a pure function nowadays?

[EDIT] I am genuinely curious.
It was all the rage a few years back; everyone had an aspirational blockchain project. It being IBM, they’ll probably vaguely keep at it long after it’s passé.
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There's not enough data to "believe" anything, and most of the pushback is because the studies are methodologically flawed. I think that fatality rate estimates between 0.5% and 1% seem to best match some of the early data on isolated populations, but I'm far from an epidemiological expert. That said, I think people would be a lot more accepting of data contradicting those rates if it didn't have clear issues.
I don't even know what this means. Are you arguing for doing less or breaking up a task into components like with microservices? If the latter, all you've done is changed the scope of the application (now your application is made of multiple services not one), not it's size. If the first ... not all problems are small.
The only issue is I didn't want to lose my pfSense connection when Unraid reboots for upgrades.
I have a lease that's up in May and have been offered an extension a few times. They are even incentivizing it by keeping the price the same which is interesting when you factor in lessee contributed cap cost reductions.
You guys are the best, I had gone through all the debugging steps awhile ago including what you put there (which was required for me). But the culprit to it not working was having some mods enabled that disabled the menu when running on Linux. Thanks for getting me to take another crack at getting it running!
When USB4 standards come into play, which will be in 1-2 years time.

USB4 contains all of thunderbolt3 features, even if it is not 'certified' to be called thunderbolt3.
If I'm following your
Hypothesis right, you're suggesting that maybe they will artificially deflate the cost of a lease to move them, and then pay the price when they get them back because they're worth less than estimated at start of lease?
Is it safe to open up restaurants, bars, retails with social distancing and masks?

Also, I'm skeptical of whether the US has the appropriate culture to handle such a thing.
> very-dubiously-named Local Government Information Services

Not trying to be arch here: Federal Express is an equally hinky name, isn't it? I've always thought it was confusingly, well, federal-sounding.
You should read the followup to all of the “meddling” uncover by the special counsel in the last year. I think you may be surprised!

I’m still surprised that Bloomberg spent $1.2 billion on his campaign and barely scraped a delegate. But Russia spends a few thousand on facebook ads and boom!
It apparently does, I just assumed that it was running on proton since I was having issues with it. But the culprit to it not working was having some mods enabled that disabled the menu when running on Linux. Thanks for getting me to take another crack at getting it running!
I was unaware, I just assumed that it was running on proton since I was having issues with it. But the culprit to it not working was having some mods enabled that disabled the menu when running on Linux. Thanks for getting me to take another crack at getting it running!
How do you sell used Teslas for more than new? Started seeing this frequently over the last couple months. Makes it hard for me to pull the trigger

Today's: https://imgur.com/a/A2PbB7J
I've just discovered PhotoPrism [1] through this article, which looks like a great solution for organising my photos in my homelab/home server - which is an HP N54 Microserver (Gen 7), recently reformatted to run FreeNAS; loving it so far (previously was some Frankenstein mix of Windows Server 2012 running an Ubuntu VM via Hyper-V, with the storage being ZFS within the VM... terrible performance!)

There is also PhotoStructure [2] that I like the look of, but PhotoPrism is OSS and already integrates machine learning for identifying objects in photos... yes I know I can't expect great performance out of my N54L on that front!

[1] https://photoprism.org/

[2] https://photostructure.com/
After a quick scan of the github project I note the presence of a lot of python - in what sense is this system "browser-based"?
More complicated for the JVM to implement, sure, but if anything, won't this simplify the semantics? Users don't need to worry about boxing/unboxing values.
Is now a good time to sell a solid used car? I guess, if I’m in a strong financial position and have a used car and plan on getting something new, am I better off trying to sell it now or before the Coronavirus hit? What do you think?
> Gradients don't provide enough change to see the edges between colors. You can see it on a computer screen because the screen amplifies the contrast of the image (another old lesson I eventually had to relearn so as to compensate when making prints of digital photos).

> Nobody knows what resolution you print things when they see the print.

Well sure, you're right about the gradient thing, but what if you have an image with some really sharp, contrasted edges?

Just anecdata, but my family and I were walking through a seasside town a while back and ended up in an artist's shop. Took a look at some photographic prints on the wall (going for $50-$150+, as "artisan" stuff often does), and I had to call my partner over to look at them because I couldn't believe they were all pixelated! Some of them quite badly. I was about 18 inches away from them, I guess, and they looked to have been printed at about 100 dpi. Sure, you probably don't need 300 DPI for large wall prints, but I'd rather have a margin of error and not have that happen to one of my prints. Most people aren't likely to notice flaws in printed images, and are even less likely to tell the owner if they do.

I guess it's possible the shots sent to the printer were badly compressed JPEGs, but that seems unlikely.
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While it's nice to get rid of the weird special-case syntax and to be able to call print in expressions, I do prefer the old print statement syntactically (even after several seconds of thought) because it's easier to type.

Maybe in Python 4 we can have Nim's approach[1] (allowing both) and another decade of arguing about it.

[1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#procedures-command-inv...
We'll know soon enough. The blood serology randomized trial is underway. I suspect some neighborhoods might be at 50%, but the city overall won't be.
I understand Fox has a really good news organization. If such things exist, why don't they report on them? Are they part of the liberal conspiracy too?
It's hard to imagine anything other than a flood of used cars at some point in the near future. It sure feels like a lot of people are going to be cash-poor, and need to sell whatever they can. I have no idea how lenders approach repossessions when they might be stuck with a vehicle they can't sell because of a glut on the market.

We were going to replace our 15 and 20 year old vehicles this year, but we're holding off for now. We're hardly driving anywhere now, and who knows what the auto marketplace will look like over the next 6-18 months.
How many healthy people do you think that dies because of the flu?
The sensitivity and specificity of these new tests is not established. It's part of why the FDA hasn't approved the tests yet. Scientists are doing their best with tests with unknown reliability, but it's a statistical mess right now.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22925490 and marked it off topic.
I believe "kakistocracy" is the proper term (it encompasses kleptocracy but that is just one aspect of it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316

15.6% of pregnant woman at a given hospital were PCR confirmed over 2 weeks. I haven't seen strong arguments this wouldn't be broadly characteristic of the overall population. Worse (or better depending on how you look at it), there's significant false negatives with PCR testing.

It's credible NYC could be at 30% by April 4 and given that confirmed cases doubled since then, could be at 50%+ by now.
Are you kidding me? I presume that the referenced poster is an NZ citizen. NZ is a democracy. (S)he has every right to express an opinion about who is able to become a resident or citizen of their country, as well as decide who can own its land. In fact non-NZ residents/citizens are not allowed to buy property in the country.
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I am sure you are right, everyone on HN is always right about everything :) Probably those of us that loved Louie just felt like he was like that.
http://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/police-alabama-woman-ar...

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/490445-lou...

These are not isolated incidents. To be clear, I don’t agree with their actions. I also don’t agree that what they were doing should be illegal.
I think all the serious scientific papers I've read have long put fatality estimates far below what early WHO press releases suggested.
How does Facebook distinguish from those who are protesting because they want to plant seeds, from those who want full reopening today?
Some experts argue that "fact checking" sites are a waste of resources. Those who believe the misinformation would not accept the "fact check" as plausible and those open to questioning the misinformation generally find the truth on their own.

Relevant lecture from US Army War College:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpCiA0WZ5k
One thing I really like about ESXi the last time I used it was the built-in virtual switch, other solutions in KVM world where not up to par. Maybe it's different today.
By the way, it's not my take (OP), it's the VMware ESXi's official take on the matter. I don't think my take is much relevant because I don't have experience with it.

Well... I sure love CLIs and shells... :)
I wanted to believe, though
Yeah but in this case the liquidity drop is artificial -- trading has been stopped.
There are three different entities mentioned in that quote, along with rental car companies and the leasing arms of the other automakers. And yes, of course these major volume producers are taking steps to limit their losses. They aren’t colluding, they don’t need to. It’s not illegal, nor unethical. Nobody has an obligation to dump cars into a falling market.
They mean that it’s more likely to cost the world utility (in terms of starting a flame war, often between third parties who are neither the OP nor the downvoter) than produce any utility (by satisfying the curiosity of the downvoted person.)
First two questions: 1. Do you understand the difference between Java Nd JavaScript? And if you do, 2. Why do you want to learn Java?
Gasoline is not a single molecule. It is whatever the refinery wants.

Plenty of ethanol advocates have successfully stored ethanol fuel (no gasoline) for years without issues. It can have problems, but they are over pushed by oil shrills.
Noticed something interesting, if you search for 'shirt without sleeves' in google images, you DO get sleeveless shirts. So why doesn't this work with stripes?
I was almost sold to bhyve as I intended to have FreeBSD on this machine, but at the last minute I decided to give ESXi a try first.
I'm not American and because of the name I've always assumed federal express was government-related.
Have these tests been antibodies though? Normal tests otherwise only test for active infections afaik.
Email the mods using the footer Contact link and they’ll fix it.
It’s cheap money on their part - keep the car in your hands and on your insurance for 3-6 months until the market settles.
Those who tell the truth shall die,
those who tell the truth shall live forever.

(name of an album by postrock band Explosions in the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3H8y4ohO-s)
Nurse here. As the epidemic started to get international, I went online and bought a couple boxes of N95 masks, gloves, glasses, and Tyveks. I went to the store and got a few litres of grain alcohol. I told my friends and family this would become a pandemic. They did not believe me.

These items were still easy to find two months ago. What I cannot comprehend is why was I preparing for this when most institutions were not taking this opportunity to do the same.
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> Your never going to have a completely random test.

You are not, but on the full spectrum of somewhat random selection methods, talking to people on the street is about as biased as you can get.
This religion of 'lockdown' is righteousness is pretty indicative of normal human behaviour now.

If you actually read the 'lockdown' scriptures it does state the 'lockdown' will end, it also talks about how the devil of herd immunity will eventually live amongst us.

The exact time of rapture of ending the 'lockdown' is not stated in the scriptures but it's not totally unreasonable to think it's now.
Speaking of oil tank fire prevention, videos of foam fire suppression systems are pretty impressive. A gasoline tank fire goes from massive flames billowing into the sky to totally extinguished in 40 seconds.
For example: https://youtu.be/OxLPvNdv2t4?t=210
The company being bought by Epic happened before this news about the Linux effort. So I don't think that timeline is correct.
You think someone is going to resolve this solved problem by running wine on linux on wsl, which would still require dosbox?
Good point about the old syntax putting the file at the start rather than the end, but if you have a lot of code like that you could just do this:

p = partial(print, file=fp)
p("foo")
p("bar")
Out of curiosity - what are some complaints about Angular? In particular, 8+?

I'm asking OP as well as anyone else who wishes to comment.
No, how do you beat the wide bus memory bandwidth of a discrete GPU with the standard dram bandwidth? Even if your processor was not competing with the GPU for bandwidth you'd still have a small fraction of the memory bandwidth available.
I don't know but the problem is more with low infection rates. Suppose you have 3% false positives and 3% false negatives, and 0.1% of people are infected.

The false negatives will be 3% of 0.1%. The false positives will be 3% of 99.9%. You exaggerate your infection rate by about 30X even though the test is equally inaccurate in both directions.
True but at the same time if you refute a claim someone made in the comments, it seems only fair to give them a chance to reply.
Rules for Rulers by CGP Grey is a fantastic lesson in how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
“Public health experts already knew Chelsea had the state’s highest rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases and that the actual rate was probably higher”

Should be 1/3 + in town with highest confirmed case rate. It may be a random sample within that town but it’s explicitly not representative of MA
We lost a month at the beginning of this pandemic waiting for FDA approval of the tests confirming coronavirus was spreading in the US. I am unconvinced that this approval offered any value at all, and we can't afford to lose another month waiting to see how far it's spread.
I think you misread “notebook business” as “business notebook”
Same goes for the Federal Reserve, which is why there's so many conspiracy theories around it:

>The stockholders in the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks are the privately owned banks that fall under the Federal Reserve System. These include all national banks (chartered by the federal government) and those state-chartered banks that wish to join and meet certain requirements. About 38 percent of the nation’s more than 8,000 banks are members of the system, and thus own the Fed banks.

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/federal-reserve-bank-owner...
Marxists call this "accelerationism": making things worse to hasten the revolution.
Snopes is already seen as a 'leftist' source by those folks who need it most.
I am stunned by how many people actually like working with go.

As a language, I've always thought it was horrible. But as an option for tasks like network programming, devops, setting up a web service, it's one of the best.

So I understand it's popularity, and I reach for it frequently as well, but not happily like others seem to.
Alright. So what's the rate of false positives for that test?

In other words, if this test (and similarly the stanford study in LA) have even a small rate of false positives, combined with any sampling bias, it's going to lead to some misleading conclusions.
Based on the article it sounds more like a case of shitty developers.

There is no job security in mobile apps.
Maybe? Most people need their cars. It would seem that the far more common pattern would be to hold off replacing a used car that's still serviceable.
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This also came out today. http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/media...
We really have no idea what the IFR is, just that is probably in the .1% to 1% range.
Also, it takes around 2 weeks to develop antibodies, so the tests are showing how many people had covid 2 weeks before testing.
Well, R0 is probably still about 2.4 in most cities in the United States (NYC, like Wuhan, considerably higher).

Source suggesting this: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20062943v...

I think it has been pretty obvious that IFR is not 3% for a long time. Imperial College had dropped it to 0.67% in China 3 weeks ago (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...)