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I'm not pushing a spin at all. I care approximately zero about the current healthcare debate or its future direction. I think my initial statement was apolitical and factual. If it's being interpreted otherwise, that's by inference, not implication.

But to the point of why people might be wondering about changes to their healthcare policies, well, perhaps it's because they've been listening to the politicians. If folks would like to obliquely sidestep what I feel was a rather small, simple point and have an argument about efficiency gains in healthcare, you're free to, but I'm not trying to participate in that argument.

Edit: Actually, consider this my last post on the topic at hand, as I'd rather not engage in any argument where reputably sourced facts and direct quotes are regarded as "right wing spin."
I knew a guy who had a very common email address (like jsmith at popular provider), and it was pretty common for people to sign up to services using that address.

For well designed sites that require verification before the account is setup, just trash the message.

For other stuff, you may have to unsubscribe.

Worst case scenario for something like a dating sites or whatever, you can just reset the password, then login and delete/deactivate the account.
that seems plausible. but I consider that a reason why we need taxpayer-funded healthcare, just like so many other countries have had for years. not a reason why insurance is a necessary/lesser evil. I don't see how it's better for insurance to be fleecing people rather than medical providers
A lot of search is searcher context sensitive, so I don't think automating this is unreasonable
You can call Facebook whatever but it is not a failure. A company that has grown revenue from 2B in 2010 to 70B in 2019 cannot be considered a failure .
yup, 'stats legend', not history

there's an american math society article about this -- it evaluates the fun version of the story in the context of wald's actual paper and a journal entry by another scientist named wallis
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These people work on commission or quota, which is why they're so pushy.
NYC is younger and healthier than the US average so these are lower bounds for national average outcomes.
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It’s not clear what kind of antibodies they’re testing for, but it can take up to 4 weeks after infection to develop detectable levels of antibodies. It takes on average ~3 weeks after infection to die. There needs to be some time lag adjustment in your calculation, which would likely result in a lower IFR.

IMO the two effects probably about cancel each other out and we’re looking at <1% IFR for the population tested (AFAIK children weren’t included).
considering the cdc's history on this (no masks!), I'd take anything they say with a grain of salt.

The estimated r0 of 2/3 is hilarious. less contagious than sars eh? No amount of down-voting me or cdc papers is going to convince me of that.
Let's remember that even though the CPU in a current model MacBook Pro might reach 100 degrees C, the laptop itself is only going to hit about 50 degrees. Which is still pretty hot.
Agreed. I've had so many problems in the last few months. An incredibly lazy fake that was "Sold by Amazon", a book with water damage in pristine packaging, and food items that had gone stale.

I order everything from Walmart now.
When stuff like this comes up, I keep wondering how Jobs would have reacted to this...
Disclaimer: this is my own anecdote. I'm not trying to spread misinformation. These are my personal opinions.

I think we'll eventually find out COVID-19 has been around way earlier in 2019 than we thought. I've seen both here on HN and elsewhere anecdotal reports of people having a "flu like nothing before" in late 2019 and early 2020 in the US. There's at least one report of Italian doctors seeing a "strange pneumonia" in November (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3076334/coro...).

My own story is this. My wife went with her team to a Chinese karaoke bar here in Seattle, in International District, in mid-November. Everyone fell very, very sick (one person has a lingering dry cough to this day). Fever for days on end, cough, etc. It seemed like the flu, except my wife and others claim it just felt different from other times they had the flu.

I caught it from my wife, and it did feel different. I'd never had a fever run for so long, and the way it progressed was just different. And the most unusual thing was that it seemed to affect my heart. I take a beta blocker to control frequent PVCs. But on the days immediately following "recovery" (by which I mean no more fever), I just couldn't move around too much or my heart would start throwing PVCs like crazy, as if I hadn't taken my meds. I was also feeling very weak and faint, which never happened to me before (I'm usually able to exercise just fine right after recovering from illness).

To add to the anecdote, our daughter caught it too but she just seemed to have a mild cold, which also matches the majority of infant COVID-19 cases.

I hope serological tests become widely available, since I'm really curious to know if I actually had it back then. Obviously in the mean time I'm not assuming I did, and I'm staying home and avoiding all human contact I can.
Spend any significant amount of time in a tourist city and you'll find this isn't necessarily true. People plan their entire lives and balance sheets around these events.
"next-generation sequencing" is a term of art in this case
Citizens would be able to vote with their feet and move to the best systems.

This sounds great for the wealthy and those who don't have trivial issues like jobs or family tying them to one location. Sounds terrible for everyone else though.
Fascinating, I never knew! Though if they're producing organic matter in their castings, this should also be a food source for all the other creatures hanging around..
This seems scripted. My email is not common.

I am getting ~300 of these from different websites, newsletters, etc.

https://assets.avi.io/Contact_form_-_avikensodev.com_-_Kenso...
Where did i call it a "different distribution"?
I get an error about the browser not supporting cookies. In the browser console I get this:

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attribute. It has been blocked, as Chrome now only delivers cookies with cross-site requests if they are
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It's not necessarily finding drivers that's the problem so much as correctly patching the ACPI tables so drivers can find stuff, especially on laptops, excluding some stuff like wireless cards which often have sketchy to no driver support. Options are certainly better than in real mac land, but be prepared to spend at least a week working through every device one-by-one. Once it's working, though, it's stable.
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Oh yeah, facebook is the worst, someone signed up using my email address (they don't do verification of email addresses), I get so much spam ..... however there is no way to contact facebook without a facebook account - no email address, no contact form, nothing - their world view is terribly inward looking
Not much of a stretch, though. From [0]:

The Federal Reserve

1 conducts the nation's monetary policy to promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates in the U.S. economy;

2 promotes the stability of the financial system and seeks to minimize and contain systemic risks through active monitoring and engagement in the U.S. and abroad;

3 promotes the safety and soundness of individual financial institutions and monitors their impact on the financial system as a whole;

4 fosters payment and settlement system safety and efficiency through services to the banking industry and the U.S. government that facilitate U.S.-dollar transactions and payments; and

5 promotes consumer protection and community development through consumer-focused supervision and examination, research and analysis of emerging consumer issues and trends, community economic development activities, and the administration of consumer laws and regulations.

Other than #4 (which as you say is clearly is nothing like a think tank), all the rest have significant policy or regulatory actions.

[0] - https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/structure-federal...
So close to being an amazing essay just to end by making the very mistake it so eloquently showed through the essay is hindering any form of change.

You can't change the system from within. You have to crush it and build something completely new or you just end with the same filibuster situation just about what system of systems to build.

You can't change a system with the very principles that create the system to begin with.
It should disconnect eventually. And the timeframe for "eventually" has been changed in recent years.

Originally there was a grace period because of pulse dialling. Each "pulse" is actually a hangup - so the system had to tolerate that hangup != disconnect. But the grace period was far too long, and eventually end-users adopted it as a feature - if you wanted to take this on your bedroom phone instead of your hallway phone, you could hang up the phone, go up stairs, and pick up the bedroom phone.

So now we have two problems. One is that the bug has been adopted as a feature. The other is that precisely because of 999/e911 systems, the phone system is incredibly backwards compatible. Most exchanges still support pulse-dialling - it's never dropped intentionally (some exchanges don't, because they're too modernized. But it's not a conscious "lets turn this off now" thing.)

There has been a move in recent years to reduce the grace period, precisely because of this abuse. But until it's dropped short enough to be a non-issue, my advice for anyone who thinks a call is suspect, is to call the talking clock (123 in the UK). It is a paid service, but I don't like bothering the operator for such things. But if you call 123, and reach your bank, you know summat's up.
If we prolong it a lot with all the associated cost and 1 and 2 never happen, we've lost not just a large part of the economy, but also lives without anything to show for it.
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In China, 86% of 22 COVID-19 patients didn’t survive invasive ventilation at an intensive care unit in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic began, according to a study published in The Lancet in February. Normally, the paper said, patients with severe breathing problems have a 50% chance of survival. A recent British study found two-thirds of COVID-19 patients put on mechanical ventilators ended up dying anyway, and a New York study found 88% of 320 mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients had died.
Not sure why comments change to the degrading quality of Amazon retail.

The article is pretty obvious. The CEO needs to always focus on the most critical matter. Sometime it's long-term strategic investment, like Alexa. Some other time, it's a ongoing emergency that will have profound long-term impact.

And Mr. Bezos is doing the right thing to align the company right now.
> are doomed to fail as Facebook did

2.4 billion monthly active users is "doomed" now? Just because in the tech bubble Facebook is viewed negatively it doesn't mean they are not doing just fine.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
Yes, the study is really good news for NYC. My thinking is that the state of emergency, currently in place until 5/15, will be extended at most once to 6/15. After that we'll be somewhat open for business. I imagine everyone will be advised to wear mask/gloves, to keep the social distance and to keep washing hands. Lots of people will continue to work from home, others will bike to work. Being summer, the virus will not be that contagious. When the November rebound is forecast to happen, the herd immunity will be much higher, hospitals better prepared, the medical world will have learned the most effective ways to treat this disease, so the fatality rate will go down to levels seen in Germany, or lower. Bottom line, I don't think we'll have another shelter-in-place in November-December.
They apparently have sway if you are willing to jump ship to wayland.
I switched from a macOS laptop to a Linux laptop and it’s been completely the opposite for me. I’ve been spending so much time fighting the OS, I’m actually considering buying a Mac again even though the laptop is just a few months old.

You can call me too incompetent or whatever but I’ve been running into stupidly obscure bugs that even stumped some of my Linux guru friends.

Just as one example of many, when the device is connected to a Thunderbolt display the Intel wifi driver crashes and restarts periodically which freezes USB input for about 15 seconds every time. This issue persisted across different Linux distributions, kernels and firmware versions.

Don’t ask how long it took to figure this out. I have now connected a USB wifi dongle to the displays USB hub.

I really miss the plug+play nature of macOS, I think Linux has it advantages and it might be better on desktops but it’s just been horrible for me on a laptop. I might have to try a MacBook plus a fast Linux desktop next.
NYC is on average younger than the broader US population.
Jury trials have been postponed all over the country.

And we can't go 2 years without jury trials while waiting for a vaccine. We'll have to find less restrictive ways to coexist with this virus.
The fact that gc is well suited to this application isn't suprising but what I thought was interesting was that subtracting the time to do the deallocation from the C++ benchmark brought it into line with Go. In other words, ignoring mem management, for this application, Go and C++ performed on par.
I think that’s less about being afraid that Amazon will steal their data, and more that they don’t want to give any money to an entity already steamrolling them
I would say that as a free enterprise they are free to do whatever that want. Why do users think that they should have access to Instagram’s data without signing up for an account. LinkedIn does not let you do that so do hundreds of other companies.
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I'm not speculating about the long term effects of covid19. I'm saying all sickness carries a cost as currently understood according to our theories of cellular senescence. You've missed my point entirely.
- your messages always processed by proprietary/closed source server

So, it just like Telegram (or any other proprietary cloud/VPN/proxy service) - you really don't know what has happen on server side.
No, best experience is when I do not have to open my phone if someone links me something. Best experience when I don't have to waste time creating a user and logging in.
I think you are misreading the L2 sizes. It looks like 1x8MB L2, 1x4MB L2, and 1x16MB system cache. So you are correct that a lone thread could get up to 24MB of cache, but that's not per core. It's a total of 28MB of cache on the die.

Zen2 has 2x16MB L3 and 2x4x512KB L2 per chiplet (36MB) so it's not like Apple is throwing down afore-unheard-of quantities of SRAM. It's true a single A13 thread has much more accessible L2 capacity, though.
Only if you think cuomo presentation is wrong because that what they quoted. Also you numbers are wrong 15,000 is only .18% of 1.6 million not 1.8%.

Also death lag infections in numbers but that wouldn't change the ratio of deaths to infections. Unless the infection rates are going up or down. Right now infection rates are lowering so you'd expect the death to infection rate to continue to stay in line with the 0.5% infection rate.

Also we have never shut down the economy with other disease it was generally assumed that you'd at least have limited immunity to disease with antibodies. I don't think swine flu or bird flu had this react why should this.

If we know only the sickest people are getting sick why don't we lift the quaretine on the people less likely to get sick or people with antibodies. It seems like we made the lockdown decision based on a lack of data. I don't know if continuing to do it when we do make sense. Especially because it could make people more sick not less.

Edit: correction used 8 million as denominator. 89% is correct
A person capable of becoming an MD can most likely do many other things. But to be a doctor, they have to sacrifice their best years of life all the way until at least age 30, and work a minimum of 80 hours a week with sick people. And you have to move wherever you find a residency, so you don’t even get to be around or see family and friends.

You’d have to dangle a pretty big carrot to get me to do that. Otherwise, change the system so that you don’t have to sacrifice the best decade of your life and more.
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We'll see. Yahoo grew revenue too.
I guess I was wrong with this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22959600

1. Reference counting is a form of GC; you could implement a JVM that used reference counting (though in order to be general a small amount of additional work is needed)

2. Reference counting causes extra work every time a reference appears or disappears. Tracing GCs amortize that cost across many allocations.

2.b. This is particularly hurtful to performance for short-lived objects, since most tracing GCs have zero GC overhead for short-lived objects (the cost of a nursery collection under most implementations scales with the amount of live data in the nursery, so objects that appear and disappear in the time-span of a single nursery GC are freed at zero extra cost). Furthermore a tracing GC

3. Malloc cannot move allocated data, so many implementations have a lot of complexity to avoid heap fragmentation, which comes at a cost to both allocating and freeing data. Many GC'd languages allocate small objects with a single instruction in the typical (just incrementing a pointer, the non-typical case would be when the nursery is full and a GC happens).

4. the JVM and Go both have a lot of effort put into their GC; the ref-counting implementation used by this test is probably a bit more naive. In particular they talk about large delays when a chain of links cause many allocations to die at the same time. A less naive refcounting implementation would queue deleted objects and spread that work out across a larger time period.
Can you charge one MacBook with two chargers? Maybe that would spread the heat out a little more.
The key is testing, contract tracing, and quarantining when the number of cases is small. That's what South Korea, New Zealand, and a few other countries did and they've all suffered relatively few fatalities. You still need a massive amount of tests to contain an outbreak, but the upside is that if you contain it early you don't need toe enact clumsy and broad measures like lockdowns.
Or truly random sampling that includes appropriate proportions of sub groups, e.g, socioeconomic status etc. Otherwise you have to know on all of the doors. But it's still a lot: for a 95% confidence level and 2% margin of error, for NYC you would need to test about 2,400 people. Assuming a response rate of 10%, you need to knock on 24,000 doors.
You've missed my point.
> Sorry, can someone spell out how this might be good news?

It's good news because it strongly suggests that mortality is much less than previously suspected. There were numbers floating around from anywhere between 10% to 3% a few weeks back. A mortality rate < 1% is very good news because it means fewer people will die in the long run.
Sure, I just think this is a liberal or neophyte idea about how institutions should look like. Conservative or neophobe idea is to keep the democracy as it was
>But that's going to happen anyway because people will catch it until we hit herd immunity

It's about managing the hospitalization rate so that the medical system doesn't get overwhelmed.
Many coroners in my state have been quoted as saying they are unable to test the dead, as tests are prioritized for the living. Our state health department says that they do not report suspected COVID-19 deaths to the CDC if the person did not test positive.
It's pretty anti-competitive that a company can operate a marketplace and sell on the same marketplace. It would seem like an obvious law to enact.
Genuinely really tempted to try this. Should fix any of the issues with AMD compatibilities as well...
I got a credit card fraud alert sms text once that asked me to call a number that was different than the phone number on my credit card. I called the card number instead and the alert was legit but they still should have used an easily verified phone number.
FYI. The 5-6 number is also from the CDC 0_0
Sort of, and only really starting in the last year or so, and still limited from the real version, but the market for adobe products among anyone who wants to use Linux is pretty much zero.
Infection fatality rate, the big number everyone is trying to figure out, best guess is somewhere around 1% right now, with a confidence interval of something like 0.3%-2.5%

Case fatality rate, calculated as "number of deaths" / "number of known cases", usually something like 10% in most countries, although occasionally much lower or higher for the odd country that has really good or really bad testing.

Resolved case fatality rate, calculated as "number of deaths" / "number of recoveries + number of deaths", which has been around 40% in the countries that have been hit hardest for the duration of their outbreaks. Tends to go down after the curve is bent, because it takes people longer to recover than die in most of these cases.
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But if that held then we'd eradicate flu and the common cold two. Quarantines don't eradicate disease they slow the spread but the area under the curve is constant. I doubt will change the number of infected is a constant regardless of the rate.
I use a cf domain on cloudflare for testing purposes and just got this response via the cloudflare API:

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You cannot use this API for domains with a .cf, .ga, .gq, .ml, or .tk TLD (top-level domain). To configure the DNS settings for this domain, use the Cloudflare Dashboard.
```

Anyone know any news about this? Maybe since those TLDs are given out for free, Cloudflare is using this as a sign of spammy users?
I think this applies to any kind of advanced software development or programming languages, not only C++.

There may be many reasons why scientists who are not computer scientists feel more comfortable with Go than with C++, but performance is certainly not one of them.
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I would be interested to know whether they tested this WITH FOOD. If I were just drinking a few sips of some soda, I probably would prefer Pepsi. But if I'm eating almost any kind of food, I prefer Coke, because it's not so overpoweringly sweet in comparison to whatever food I'm eating. And in general I don't just crack open a soda and drink it straight, I'm usually drinking it with some food, so 90% of the soda I buy is Coke despite what would show up in too-simple market research studies as a preference for Pepsi.
YouTube is pretty annoying when not logged it too. It constantly pops up a "you're signed out of YouTube" box that obscures part of the video until I close it. On every single video.

Maybe if viewing a single video of Anthony Hopkins (for example) didn't replace half of my feed with Anthony Hopkins videos, I might be more inclined to not open it in a private tab (logged out), but alas.

But hey, at least you can watch the video. That's more than I say for half the news and image sites out there anymore.