skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, the WHO was advocating against travel restrictions, and against calling what was clearly a global pandemic as such.

If they’d switched tune to ‘close your borders’ and ‘this is a global pandemic’ earlier you would have seen some different responses.
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Think of all the protest and conspiracy against Bill gates, 5G, think how many people are still gathering, not wearing any protection, think of how Trump compared it with just another flu, how it would just magically go away. I'd say misinformation indirectly killed thousands of people
It's just a Redis cloud service that has a slightly different pricing model than other Redis cloud services. Nothing to do with AWS Lambda besides sharing a name.
So Google will just use what they built for China then?
You can't have it both ways. If IFR is low, then that means R0 is way higher than we thought, which also means isolating only the vulnerable will not work.

The fact is, the number of deaths is too high in NYC to be able to cherry-pick your way to an argument that supports your view. Either R0 is really high, and we need to shutdown to prevent it from infecting the entire population in a very short time span, or the IFR is way higher than the flu and we need to shutdown to prevent it from killing a lot of people.

The only sane way to open things back up at this point is to implement widespread testing and contract tracing.
Author of a brand new book no one has any copies of yet.
Serverless by AWS standards doesn’t mean “stateless”. It means that you don’t have to deal with the underlying servers and worry about scaling them up and scaling them down.

Classic Aurora for instance is not “stateless”. You still have to appropriately size the underlying server, you pay for it whether you are using it or not, you might need to reboot it, etc.

DynamoDB on the other hand is considered Serverless by AWS because you don’t size the “DynamoDB server”, and it can scale write and read capacity automatically.
So has Newfoundland's response to the pandemic been extremely effective [0]. Where is Newfoundland's data being published by the WHO site? Here is what I was able to find as far as case statistics: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati... No mention of Newfoundland in that document that I can find.

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[0]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/covid19...
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You must have been watching different news sources than me. The comment you're replying to is what I saw as well.
If you’re making greater than say $36k/year (which is well below the median salary range for the US), unemployment will be a (potentially drastic) cut in pay. Sure, it’s better than nothing, but more often than not folks can barely stay above water without radical changes in their spending.
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Grocery stores should really just turn themselves into warehouses and only allow workers in the store. Grocery stores could provide safer working conditions by checking temps of employees before entering the store and providing masks and gloves for all workers. This would help mitigate the risk of covid exposure for both employees and customers.
I will repeat: they said in the early stages that it was too soon to be sure. All the other tweets from this period are saying the same thing: something might be coming, so countries should prepare. So a video saying that people should prepare would not at all be in contradiction.

The kind of misinformation that this measure is aimed at is stuff like saying that it's spread by 5G, or that vitamin C or some random herb cures it, or that drinking bleach or rubbing alcohol will kill it. These are all extremely popular online, and have led to actual deaths.
See: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

Search for "Table 1: Estimated influenza disease burden, by age group — United States, 2018-2019 influenza season"
The CDN will be fronting most of the load, behind that 10 decently specced servers running sanely architected code can scale to millions, if not tens of millions of requests per second.

Drop the servers in HA sets of 2-3 nodes across 3-4 regions, anycast your service endpoint from each cluster. The hardest thing to replicate without AWS is the 6-7 figure bills.
Actually, assuming "a number of fingers" is in the range 1..10, thats only fair for 2, 5, or 10 players (or maybe some >10) (if it's 0..10, I think it only works for exactly 11 players).

In the case of 3 players you get random numbers (reduced modulo 3): 1,4,7,10 => 1 40% of the time; 2,5,8 => 2 30%; 3,6,9 => 3 30%

Two random numbers produce: 1 @ 33%; 2 @ 30%; 3 @ 37%

And after adding the third number you get: 1 @ 30.9%; 2 @ 34.9%; 3 @ 34.2%

(These percentages are all exact BTW.)

So this is biased against player 1 (which is not actually the way I was expecting it to go). And if you want to cheat, you should assume the other players will add up to 3, and pick a number accordingly.

I assume 4,6,7,8,9 out of ten and anything out of 11 work similarly, but I haven't checked the numbers.

If "a number of fingers" is 1..N (or 0..^N) then it's unbiased, but just doesn't work at all for >10 (or >11 respectively).
I remember them clearly doing that publically.
If anyone else runs into this, I've heard that you can say you'll pay only if they remove their claim from your credit report. Suposedly it's not legal for them to offer (I guess extorsion), but as far as I know, it's legal for you to ask.

It sounds like that option has passed for the parent comment, but you did just try disputing it right? Force them to come up with the proof.
>> gives massive efficency over the small scale - it is why the megacompanies can retain dominance

I don't buy this argument at all, especially when you consider that history has shown that they need to get bailed out every 10 years or so. They're successful because they're all running on free credit - Either credit that they took themselves against their own collateral or credit taken out by other entities who fund them (either as investors or as customers).

It's very simple. Entities which have capital can use that capital as collateral to receive bank loans which they can use to multiply their profits. There is a nice interview on YouTube where Steven Schwarzman from The Blackstone Group (with assets of $500 billion) explains how this works (and has worked for 30 years as he openly brags): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kThTbLUQdU

Basically whatever capital you have to invest, you can go a bank and take a loan against it and double how much of the underlying asset you can buy with the same base capital... Effectively this allows you to supercharge your ROI... Your $1 million which would have given you a ROI of 10% can be used as collateral to secure an additional $1 million loan so that you end up holding twice as much of the asset and 20% ROI (relative to your original 1 million). You just hold the asset for a year or two, then dump and repeat. Can small business without any capital compete against that? No because they're on a different playing field; one where 20% returns are simply not possible.

You could argue that these people are taking a risk, but guess who the Federal Reserve Bank chose to execute the bailout for the covid19 financial crisis? A group called 'Blackrock' https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/business/blackrock-federa... - If that company sounds like 'Blackstone', it's no coincidence, the two companies share a common history. Search for 'Blackrock' in the Wikipedia article about 'The Blackstone group': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blackstone_Group

When you consider that this credit is printed by banks out of thin air, it's no mystery why the rich get richer. The surplus ROI which they derive from access to free credit is basically just free money.
Yes more people will live if they have access to care because the system isn’t overwhelmed. People in the later stages will also benefit from the institutional knowledge hospitals gain from treating patients. There will also be more PPE and essential medication that will make treatment more effective. Time is our ally.
Apparently not, though given our current congressional representatives, are you sure that is a good metric to judge rational decision making?

3% is 3%. It's nonzero, so that's unfortunate. It's not a large fraction, so it's just not a time sensitive problem.

Is it worth tying up media, political and financial resources in blaming+lawsuits over the optics of a 3% fee, instead of just waiting to deal with it next year?

Your question implies that 3% of loan applicants get nothing because of this fee (which is inaccurate, since congress will just authorize more loans as long as it's politically convenient). As I said, it's unfortunate, but it's not world ending.
Very dangerous stuff. The WHO has not exactly done a stellar job in this crisis.
Their decisions aren't completely free. For example malls got designated as public spaces in the 90s and that could happen online too at some point:
https://law.justia.com/cases/colorado/supreme-court/1991/90s...
That index[x] was used in one of my favorite IOCCC one-liners.

http://faehnri.ch/have-fun/
My news source was the actual WHO press conferences. They've been quite clear on this since January.

If you've only heard what some secondary source says the WHO said, then your perception of the WHO is completely determined by what that secondary source wants you to think.
same here, I will never write C or C++ again
I wonder if anyone's ever done A-series chip "overclocking", or at least manual overvolting with active cooling. It'd be cool to see what kind of performance increase might be available.
Ask HN: Any explicable reason for the synchronized drop in stocks at 12:45PM ET?
I wish I could post pictures here. But my iPhone stocks app shows a synchronized 2% drop all at the same time. Yet, no news points to explain or attempt to explain the drop. Anything I missed?
"A better option is to install the YouTube extension on top of Kodi on Raspbian."

Yup, that was how I watched Youtube videos for years (although Kodi was on LibreElec).
Now unfortunately all Kodi extensions using Google APIs require registration, which of course is a huge privacy violation since I'm (still) not forced to do that on browsers.
I always like to note that in Ubuntu upgrades to the next LTS are not offered until after it has gone through the first point release[1] (e.g., if you run 18.04LTS, you won't be told about 20.04 until 20.04.1 is out).

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PointReleaseProcess
The whole point of Instagram is giving away your face to a faceless corporation.
Except the point I was making is that your right to act on your belief of egregious nonsense ends when it results in harm to me.
There also appears to be a difference in the strains. The NYC strain seems to mostly come from the European branch, while the CA infection comes directly from China (and likely much earlier in 2020). There appears to be some difference in virulence between the strains.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20056929v...

and

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
What laptop are you using? I think that would be helpful context. I've been running Ubuntu 16.04 on my Dell XPS 15 9560 with almost no issues (and none that aren't easily resolved with a shell script or a keyboard shortcut) for almost three years now. I get the sense that the more popular the hardware, the fewer issues you'll have running Linux on it. I certainly wouldn't call you "too incompetent" -- but I might call you just plain unlucky.

If you want to go back to macOS because you don't have to be "lucky" to get a laptop that plays nice, I don't blame you. But for me, the tradeoffs to stay on Linux have been minimal and absolutely worth it.
Kenton,

THANK YOU for not only designing Cap’n Proto but also continuing to work on it.

Before today, I had slight concern that in the face of Sandstorm, Cap’n Proto would fall in priority. Perhaps Cloudflare Workers are now making a great case for it?

My usecase has been Cap’n Proto w/ Python. Being able to do RPC is icing on the cake.

I will be looking into streaming fields of entities (classes) soon - the idea being decentralized microservices have local knowledge on how to transform and output a field and other modules/microservices just reach out to them and ask for the same.

A silly question: do you forsee any issues getting Cap’n Proto 0.8 to work over a completely locked down Docker environment that only allows HTTPS proxy as the connection between nodes that use Cap’n Proto RPC?

PS: Thoughts on why Cap’n Proto did not win over MessagePack? MessagePack had a better JS implementation? Is it the convenience of not needing to define a schema when using MessagePack vs Cap’n Proto schema requirement?
Yeah, sadly there is a sucker born every minute.
That article provides zero evidence of "racist trolls who were outwardly Taiwanese". It's a fiction.

What is not a fiction in Mainland China evicting Africans and blocking them from Shopping malls after the government accused them of being diseased.

Where is Tedros' comments against China amid this actual documented racism?

The WHO have handled this horribly at just about every stage and deserve every bit of criticism sent their way.
I thought Amazon was already organizationally constructed in very small functional units which each are encouraged to export their units "interface" in an formal way. Is the source data traceable if it becomes anonymized product sales samples exported to apis that mix into a pile of legit data and all fed into some sales analysis engine?

The unit could be the "open sales modeling unit" that just supplies one data feed among thousands.
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This is an absolute disgrace.

Ok YouTube - what is the plan if Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai becomes the next Director General of the WHO?

This creation of sacred cows from institutions is ludicrous. At one time YouTube associated itself with the SPLC to determine "hate groups", and Majid Nawaz from Quilliam successfully sued the SPLC into making a video apology and paying him millions - because they had previously placed him in their "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists".

The tech industry seems to have a fetish for authoritative sources in a world that is constantly proving that these gatekeepers of canonical knowledge are fallible, and often to the detriment of many.

Centralization of canonical information is not a solution to determining what's true and what isn't - it simply creates a structure where the truth can be determined by some organization, and all that's stopping it from being abused is blind faith that people in these organizations will do the right thing 100% of the time, infallibly.

Everything ought to be in a position where it can be criticized freely. When you walk down the street there can be crazy people who yell all sorts of prophecies. The scale at which people can do this on the internet is higher, but that does not automatically mean that they necessarily need to be addressed.
> Also nobody is arguing for "lockdown until we have a vaccine"

Some pepole in Italy were actually arguing for stronger limitations for 18-24 months until a vaccine was ready, and IIRC someone mentioned on HN a similar strategy (2 months closed - 1 months open) suggested for the UK.

So, there are people (in the authority chain) proposing for that. Whether they'll get listened to or not, it is another matter entirely. Personally I hope they don't.
I’m not reopening an old argument (which I didn’t fail to make but you failed to address), I just disagreed with you and mentioned that I recognized your username from a similar discussion.

You didn’t directly state your conclusions but obviously they differ from mine.

It doesn’t matter how large they are if they factually published total bullshit. That’s enough for me to fundamentally distrust them and I do think you’re gullible if you don’t because they are “large and diverse and award winning”.
> Sure all of these studies are potentially flawed but they're all generally pointing in the same direction

That's unfortunately not the way statistics works. Combining multiple bad tests just makes the results incorrect or highly uncertain; the devil often is in the details. The Stanford/Santa Clara County study is a good example of how the details can really undermine a study.

Things do indeed seem to be converging to the idea that the CFR is not near the IFR, but none of this is new news, and the IFR remains very close to what most epidemiological predictions indicated early last month. If anything, it confirms that COVID is a difficult beast to tame.
It may not have explicitly stated that there was no human to human transmission, but that was strongly suggestive that there wasn’t.

The default assumption should be, that a virus affecting hundreds of people already, could be contagious. Suggesting otherwise, with no reasonable evidence to support such, is deliberately obfuscating if not deliberately misleading. There was absolutely no reason to make such a statement other than to parrot without question what was being reported by the PRC.

Considering Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus received support from the PRC in his candidacy for leadership of the WHO, and the significant ties between his home country of Ethiopia and the PRC, I’m skeptical that it was just absolute ignorance without any political influence or bias that prompted such a statement.
Our local Kroger affiliate, QFC, offers grocery delivery via Instacart. The pricing appears to match the in-store pricing. A delivery fee is layered on top.
I agree with you, but you said this and I thought people may be interested in experiences from England about online court appearances.

> (Courts, for what it's worth, continue to function).

In England we split courts up, so we have a variety of criminal courts, courts of protection, family courts, etc.

Before Covid-19 they were all trying to "go digital", and were having mixed results. Now, because of Covid-19, they've just had to make it work somehow.

Here's some discussion from (the excellent) Transparency Project: http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/remote-hearings-a-gulf...

They link to quite a few different blogs and comments, but I really want to highlight this one. It's from the courts of protection. http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/remote-justice-a-famil...

Sarah's father had a stroke. He was taken to hospital. He started to refuse to eat or drink. The doctors decided he did not have mental capacity to make that choice, and so they fitted a nasogastric tube. He told his daughter that this was wrong, and he pulled out (!!!) his tube several times. They gave him a PEG tube, and he was eventually discharged to a nursing home. He wants the medical treatment (feeding) to stop; she wants what he wants; so now they go to the court to get an order. They lost the case.

This is, of course, a very distressing case for all involved. But this woman says that the informal nature of a skype case, with people's pets wandering in and out and people talking in a casual way to each other made it worse.

There's some sense that because Sarah wasn't in the same room as the judge and the lawyers that they didn't recognise her distress.

So, court cases are going ahead, but there's some considerable adjustment needed.

Also, they're not always going ahead. Here's a case about a form of child abuse (fabricated or induced illness). It's a really serious case, and the mother risks being separated from her child (or the child risks remaining with an abusive mother). The judge decided that this isn't a case that can be heard remotely. http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/p-a-child-remote-heari...
"Republic of China" sounds like something related to China. Maybe some sort of separatist organization? If the PRC invades it, that must be some sort of civil war, an internal Chinese matter. Can't blame China for conquering itself.

"Taiwan" doesn't sound related to China at all. It implies no more "Taiwan, province of China" than "Taiwan, country in East Asia".
More importantly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_arms_sales_to_Taiwa...

Like, it's ok that we sell Taiwan fighter jets and tanks to defend themselves against China, as long as we say that Taiwan belongs to china.

I'll never understand politics.
I would put my money on they don't want to have to support server side image processing. Since their mobile apps all scale images client side its a huge cost savings vs having to support that server side.
And Amazon hasn't just said "yeah, your stuff might get delayed", they've actively asked large affiliates to cut referral traffic by 50-70%.
Indeed, I couldn't find a boring one. So much for the famed understated-ness of the British
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That still doesn't seem like a contradiction to me since they are not explicitly recommending not to do it, only suggesting to be aware of the possible downsides.

That said, they also don't explicitly recommend to not take vitamin C or turmeric so the examples given by YouTube are already in conflict
I've been to the doctor many times in my life, and absolutely none of them were critical in any way. This is what the vast bulk of medical care is.

They absolutely can be shopped around for best price and service.

Consider also that nearly all medical conditions have a variety of treatment options available, varying in effectiveness, time, pain, risk, and cost. For example, I recently had a tooth problem where the dentist laid out quite a range of options, all varying wildly in terms of efficacy, pain, time in the dental chair, risk, and yes, cost. It also had a year or so before it would become an emergency situation.

No, I don't have dental insurance. This is what a more of a free market approach would look like.

I've also had success negotiating the fees doctors charge for office visits, it's as simple as asking in advance what it will cost, and then just asking for a discount. That's all I do, and I often get a third off just for asking.

You bet you can negotiate. Doctors are not offended by this. The ones with their own practice are businessmen. If you don't ask/negotiate you get the sucker price, just as if you went to a car dealer and failed to ask the price and negotiate.

What you cannot negotiate with is Obamacare. I am forced by law to get health insurance at the price set by the state insurance commissioner.
I really dislike dealing with large engineering systems in Python, but I fully agree when I just need to solve a self-contained problem and don't need to worry as much about it being maintainable or readable (or more accurately, don't need to worry about interacting with Python code that other people have written). I currently work a lot with both Python and C++, and I find myself occasionally trying to write C++ Pythonically and it's a huge headache (eg map/filter or list comprehensions are infinitely more readable than stuff like std::transform).
The problem starts with the design decision to stream the file into memory; if you map the file instead you can directly use the mapped data and only have to allocate supporting structures (if required). And anyway, the "Therefore" part does not follow from the "Phase 1" statement.
> Everybody knows this is just marketing speak in a way

I hate this idea that, as a society, companies are permitted to bullshit people and the onus is on the consumers to be able to parse the borderline lies from full truths. My wife used to work closely with people with moderate mental illness - you wouldn't believe the predatory scams, advertisements and "offers" they fell for.
> when you do the math on mortality due to suicide and overdose it’s not clear that containment would even save more lives in the long run.

I'm waiting for people to do the analysis of mass unemployment from lockdown leading to people losing their healthcare, just in time for the pandemic to widen or return this summer or fall.

You're exactly right to consider all of the externalities of our current approach.