skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22961835&goto=threads%...

See my previous comment here, that is a good starting point for my position. Happy to answer any questions. (BTW I made a statement in that post that covid is an order of magnitude less deadly than the flu for those under 30, I no longer stand by that statement because it’s been hard to get age-stratified influenza IFR data as well as the uncertainty of covid-related mortality data. I still think the statement is true for <18 due to the varying risk distributions that I explained in that post)

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Incidentally, I should have listened to my gut and not posted in this thread originally since I fear I might be derailing this discussion. So, I’m sorry for that. But for now I don’t think deleting my comment in this thread is a good idea at this point since we might end up having a useful discussion.
Yeah, certainly.
Senator is not just a friend to the health industry. He's also a stockholder
+1, these are so well-produced.
There's always "other consequences" you can point to for whatever policy. What about the upside that many can now work from home with flexible hours, and avoid the 996-ICU workweek.
In fact that's the number reported for that demographic from Wuhan data way back in January, so it wouldn't surprise anyone. It's still 20x higher than the one quoted upthread.
Counter-take. Since the SEO content garbage is currently spewed by hordes of content writers making little money, a successful AI can help them find a higher calling.
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> Generally with no regard for POSIX.

To be fair, if I had to pick the heavily-used specification I'd most like to see ground into dust and rewritten from scratch, it's POSIX. There are several misfeatures that can't be easily undone (fork, and its maddening interaction with file descriptors, for one).

I also strongly dislike the shell-based model of development that people usually appeal to for POSIX. Shell makes for a crappy language (witness how you effectively have to ban spaces in your filesystem paths to make things work). Stringification of identifiers makes time-of-check-time-of-use attacks possible. I suspect it's also a driving factor for some of the misfeatures, because terminal programs and the shell need to implicitly share a lot more OS resources, so programs end up doing weird things like passing all open files to your children by default.

Were I to write my own operating system in 2020, I'd not think at all about POSIX until I finished the design, and relegate it to a compatibility layer for people who want to write programs as if it were 1970. Amusingly, when I looked up Fuchsia last week, it does seem that they designed the OS APIs along some of the ideas I had (e.g., ditching signals; handle-based API), so maybe there is some hope for a better-than-POSIX future world.
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> ...risk of death is 0.01% for 18-45 year olds.

Where do you get this figure? Your first link shows 14 deaths per 100,000 in that age range, or 0.014%, but that is for the entire population, not just people who have had the virus. The same data set reports 1705 cases in that age range. 14 deaths out of 1705 cases is an 0.82% fatality rate.

Of course, that 0.82% figure, reflecting only confirmed cases, is inflated. But conversely, some of those 1705 afflicted 18-45 year olds may still succumb to the virus. The true IFR in this age range in this region _might_ be closer to 0.1% than 0.82%. But 0.01% is just wrong.
I personally hate big companies. I don't like red tape, and they've got lots of it. Also, I hate politics, and they have lots of that too.

I love small companies. Clearly, not any company will do - there are small companies that generate quite a bit of profit, so you don't need to worry about tomorrow as long as you're doing your job.

I'm not into startups - AT ALL - (at least, the US version of them), which basically pretty much promote "work your ass off - overtime, and the like -for pretty much low pay", with the possibility of making it big being insanely small.

(disclaimer: I do have a company, with a single employee - me, but I don't see myself as a startup; I do have collaborators; I don't ask for overtime, we always agree on "this is the task at hand, and this is what that will cost me")
I think the difference between you and I is I was teenager in the 1970's
> I would be very concerned about trusting my money with a financial institution who seems to have a tendency to skirt, bend, and outright break the laws.

You mean like all of them? You seem to have some kind of axe to grind.
Just a thought, but it seems like there can be a middle ground where people belonging to certain risk groups (age, preexisting conditions, etc) are encouraged to take stronger shelter in place measures, and in exchange are granted larger amounts of financial aid to compensate.

People not belonging to risk groups can resume working, still taking extra precautions to prevent transmission. The economy can gradually reopen while also slowly building up herd immunity among the least vulnerable population. It seems unsustainable to have an indefinite blanket lockdown, but I’m very open to changing my mind on this.
You might be interested in a book called Personality: What makes you the way you are by Newcastle professor Daniel Nettle. It's a very readable intro to the system of categorizing personality used by academic researchers and that probably has more resolution than thinking in terms of HSP.
As the majority opinion and one dissenting opinion explain, whether a work has the force of law is not the test. If it were, dissenting judicial opinions would be copyrightable, but they're not. The rule is that works produced by judges or legislators acting in their official capacities are not copyrightable. In this case, the annotations were works-for-hire of the legislature; whether they have the force of law is irrelevant.
Did you ever stop to think if something like this should be built?
Imagine you purchased few hours of Evan Spiegel 6 years ago, how much it would be worth today?
>If it's strictly about money, we should cease shutdowns immediately. But, it's not. People are dying.

it's not about money in my opinion and is about deaths. i could've said "everyone advocating for this has to lose a digit for every person that dies" but i thought people would downvote. guess i was wrong since they downvoted anyway.
I don’t consider appeals to authority when thinking about technical issues.
Funny that this is exactly the same narrative as here in the UK. Initially it was about flattening the curve for healthcare capacity, now we are in some weird holding pattern where the goal is becoming increasingly vague.
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it is a game of Russian roulette where there is one bullet per 100K empty chambers.
You can ease up on the lockdown without ending it.

That's what I read the parent to be implying.
That's a talking point, not an argument. In reality the state governments have broad powers, stemming back to jurisprudence from the time of the framers (cases involving these powers were heard by John Marshal), to employ police powers in the service of quarantines, and those powers were further spelled out by statute as recently as the 2000s in the wake of 9/11. None of those powers are constrained by any notion of "flattening the curve", a "flattened curve" isn't a permanent state, and there are rational goals to quarantines beyond keeping the hospitals occupied at an optimal level.
The Wuhan lockdown was also far more strict.
Lockdown until you can get back to containment (drive infection numbers so low that you have the resources to trace/test contacts and send possible infections into quarantine).

"Everyone becomes immune" will take longer than vaccine if you don't want to overload your hospitals, and bets on long-term immunity which we don't know yet.
The system doesn’t say who your affected contact is, only that you have one. The driver has no way of knowing it was you.
I "lost" 250,000 followers back in the day due to a Twitter change.

People used to think we— @Twitter_Tips —worked for Twitter. When Twitter forced us to change our username to @TweetSmarter, @Twitter_Tips became a "new" account (that no one could use) that started with zero followers. In a few weeks it racked up over 250,000 followers—that were "ours"—because of all the press, blogs, lists, good will, etc we had on that account.

We supported the great software ecosystem that grew up around Twitter, and watched closely as Twitter killed it all off.
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Thanks, Dang. Got a little heated there.
Last time I checked it was entirely possible to enable real location targeting. However in some situations, the default “interested in a location” makes sense even for brick and mortar stores. For example when purchasing ideas and/or decisions for seniors are made by their far away children. Like anything, it depends on the exact situation including the expense of the ad click and the likelihood of it being a remote decision helper.
Yeah, you pretty much summed up all features of skype.
You can chat and you can screenshare.

However, I do expect a little bit more than that in 2020 to be honest - I wanna be able to paste code snippets or the like without having to fear that skype introduces some weird special characters when copying it out of skype again (which caused super weird issues more than once).

I want to talk asynchronously: Skype (at least in the for-business variant that I know) is very intrusive; if someone messages you you get a window in the face, and if you click it away you have to do some seriously weird digging to see the message again.

Similarly, I want chat persistence that is not an absolute pain in the butt: If I wanna check what a colleague sent me three days ago in a chat, this has to be like one or two clicks away, not scrolling through stuff.

I want to talk to multiple people at once regularly (a team, a workgroup, you name it) without having to set up the group every single time.

I want to share GIFs and pictures, not just links.

... hope that gives you a bit of an idea on why I'm not particularly fond of skype :)
My understanding is that they closed plants of their own volition because so many people were getting sick.

What the government can do is (1) find and prioritize personal protective equipment for food processing and (2) do a better job on enabling mass testing, again prioritizing the food supply chain.

Lobbying the government is more powerful when backed up with the popular pressure that will come from this ad and associated media coverage.

It’s a relatively generous interpretation, and I’m not commenting on the wisdom of it or what it seeks to induce, but it seems plausible to me.
Donald Knuth did it first. First with MIX, then with MMIX. http://mmix.cs.hm.edu/
Moving the goalposts was always the idea. That's what the governor here in WA did, and said as much.

I, personally, am livid that the construction site right outside my bedroom window is now allowed to make ungodly amounts of noise for 15 hours a day and I have nowhere to go. This is insane.

Lockdowns have a tremendous cost in mental health. There's a point at which the toll is simply too high. We're not there yet, but it's not far. And waiting until "the data shows it" through elevated suicide rate is... not how I want us to play this, as a society.
Here in BC we don't have such restrictive conditions, and yet we still have very few cases. Vancouver has about 76% of the population of SF, but has half the number of cases. Restricting people to be at home has no benefit, no logic behind it, but has significant repercussions on mental health.
But Google now offers you the possibility to turn some things off, as well as to receive a copy of your data and delete it. Same for Facebook. This is an achievement of the GDPR.
> let's set up a peeing section for the swimming pool" position

Ha ha. I am going to borrow that line.
Lol I may or may not currently be using a Twitter account and cron to broadcast any changes to my (non-static) home ip address, encrypted, so I can ssh into my workstation when I'm on vacation.
It has been, but it's like the old scooter analogy, you don't tell you friends about it
This reminded me of “The Office” episode when Michael screams “I declare bankruptcy”. This is not how this works, Disney...

https://youtu.be/C-m3RtoguAQ
I think IDEs make things look more complicated than they actually are. Especially new students have trouble understanding what the difference between a programming language and a programming environment is, because they are exposed to them as one unit.
Sadly you seem to be of the opinion that we can cower in our homes until the disease magically goes away. That's not the way this works - it doesn't just go away.

I'm really disturbed by the number of people who seem to be perfectly happy moving the goalposts for these lockdowns as long as they're politically popular. Here's a hint - freedom and constitutional rights weren't intended to be politically popular (or particularly safe) as the popular opinions don't need protection.
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Yeah, it's something that would only need to be put on the landing page for the ad, not elsewhere (until you're worried about bots creating accounts on your platform for other reasons)
HN has San Francisco specific stuff with nothing in title indicating that sometimes, leave alone the US. I think most people just assume it is about US anyways.
I love that too! My config is almost the same, but I have "pager = ..." under "[core]"
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There is dated data (from 1981) showing a 37,000 increase in deaths for each percentage-point rise in the unemployment rate. It comes from a book called “Corporate Flight: The Causes and Consequences of Economic Dislocation” by Barry Bluestone, Bennett Harrison and Lawrence Baker.

From the article citation below:

> Here’s the paragraph from Thomas’ book that applies: “According to one study [the one by Bluestone et al.] a 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate will be associated with 37,000 deaths [including 20,000 heart attacks], 920 suicides, 650 homicides, 4,000 state mental hospital admissions and 3,300 state prison admissions.”

The data is stale, for sure, but the correlation (economic downturn->increase in deaths) is arguably proven.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/explaining-the-link-between-un...

(I was unable to find an online version of the book to link to in Google Books or openlibrary.org; I bought the book used from Amazon, it's headed to the Internet Archive for scanning).
Yeah that's definitely a day-of-week/reporting dump effect making that spike. The 7 day rolling data for deaths shows CA is only 6% below the most recent peak:

https://www.deptofnumbers.com/covid19/california/#deaths

nb: that's my site
You know I remember a Motorola v120 having that. It appears that's what it was.
Sort of related: as I never made diff-highlight work correctly on Windows, I wrote diffr[0] which goes a little bit behond what diff-highlight does.

[0]: https://github.com/mookid/diffr
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I like these kind of comments. For some reason, in most discussions, We fail to address the fact that we all don’t react similarly to foods, drugs, etc.
You don't need your site to be #1, especially if you can manipulate one that is already high-ranking-- just astroturf GetHuman with fraudulent numbers.

But I admit-- having just done a search for every institution I could think of, it seems Google AMP has done a lot to promote legitimate numbers. It used to be sites like GetHuman competing with or outranking the actual company website for contact information.
It's a good clarification of their intent, but I don't think it puts them on legal ground that's any less shaky. They'd still have to prove users had any intent at all of complying with their TOS in undertaking a public action that is only tangentially related to Disney's little slice of Twitter (hell, they'd have to prove users were aware of the TOS to even be compliant or not), and good luck with that if it ever came to court.
Then what's happening right now is a refutation of that data, right? Because we have sky-high unemployment and nothing resembling those numbers. It's almost as if unemployment in ordinary circumstances is not the same as unemployment caused by a discrete, universally-applicable crisis.
The fine is pretty standard practice to discourage repeated nuisance calls. Resources are not infinite and if time is spent on a nuisance call when a real call is delayed, you end up with avoidable injuries and even deaths.
Are dynamic DNS services no longer a thing?
I agree that there are a lot of problems with continuing the lockdown as it currently stands. However, the phrase "now that we've flattened the curve" could be interpreted to imply the curve can't quickly become unflattened, which would be wrong.
If many people get very sick simultaneously, they would not only overwhelm hospitals, they would also inflict a disorderly, involuntary shutdown of large swaths of the economy, driven by fear -- instead of the orderly, voluntary shutdown we have at present, driven by government mandate.

We all want to avoid that.
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> In places like India I know that bribery and misinformation is more widespread than anyone could ever imagine.

> Instead of a writer writing a clickbait article / low quality SEO (written by someone off-shore) article in 5 minutes, they could generate an article with our AI

So you acknowledge that there is something harming the world, and you want to make that harm even easier to do. And if you can profit from it, so much the better. Did I get that right?
I had never heard of the "government edicts doctrine" before. Doing a little research, I see why. It is a judicially created doctrine created by the Supreme Court ~130 years ago, and this is the first time since then it has been back to the Court.

What they decided way back then was that opinions of state court judges, like opinions of Federal court judges, were not copyrightable. They also decided a little later that annotations written by a state-employed annotator where the state did not claim copyright on the annotator's work could be copyrighted by the annotator.

What's new in this case compared to those cases that originally established the government edicts doctrine is that it was a state that was trying to assert copyright ownership of the annotations.
As usual, American leaders are choosing OPTION 3 which is the worst option:

OPTION 1. (SWEDEN) Control spread just enough to not overwhelm the health care system, but no more than that, in order to get to herd immunity as quickly as possible. This assumes that the area-under-the-curve will be very similar to any option that spreads the time-frame out. This level of lockdown is possible to implement for long periods of time because its impact on regular life is relatively moderate and it doesn't require extreme testing availability or extreme population compliance.

OPTION 2. (S KOREA) Control with aggressive contact tracing in order to attempt to eradicate or outlive COVID. This assumes that COVID can be controlled and that doing so will ultimately reduce the area-under-the-curve (because if it didn't, spreading the time-frame out would be pointless). This level of lockdown is possible to implement for long periods of time because its impact on regular life is relatively moderate but it does require extreme testing availability and very high population compliance.

We don't yet know what the full impact of 1 vs 2 will be because of externalities that are hard to model, but both seem like legitimate approaches.

OPTION 3. (USA) Control spread aggressively so herd immunity won't be reached for a very long time, do this using a shelter-in-place model that will destroy the economy so you'll be forced to abandon it at some point, have no post shelter-in-place plan so resurgence is practically guaranteed since the goal isn't herd immunity nor aggressive contact tracing.

Option 3 is the most destructive, so let's choose that one.
> Our political leaders (in California) are being fearful, afraid to take leadership and base their decisions on data.

Or maybe too much “leadership” that ends up just being another form of authorianism.
A word to the wise - we are keeping a blacklist of all the fascists on this site in favor of the illegal, unconstitutional "shelter-in-place" 'order'.

The support you have voiced here will be long remembered.

It is becoming painfully clear now this is only political.

Open the Country Now!

Lock Gavin Newsom Up!
No one is advocating going back to usual. Just to stop the irrational hope and actions that seem to target impossible benchmarks - you can't eradicate the disease, not a chance - instead, learn to live with it. And you do that one step at the time, not locking down further.
Given how much Bezos has added to his personal net worth during the pandemic ($24B [1]), perhaps its time for governments to expect better treatment for Amazon employees... or else. Charges of pandemic profiteering could be convincingly brought to bear.

[1]https://fortune.com/2020/04/14/jeff-bezos-net-worth-2020-bil...
I am over 50 and have immediate family members in high risk categories.

I was onboard with what was clearly a panic response by policymakers since the testing and the healthcare infrastructure was not in place. To the best of my understanding, there has been no movement from this initial panic to working through strategies that transition from massive shutdown to identifying and isolating the sick or those they have come into contact with. If we were moving forward on that front, I'd still be supportive of buying some time... I see none of that.

I see dull minded politicians and bureaucrats doing what they got away with early.

This has to stop and endless hiding in a hole waiting for some miracle vaccine or the disease to just go away of it's own accord simply is not acceptable.
Shady? It's great. Little increases site culture in a more positive way than a community taking advantage of a flaw in the software it's running on, especially on a site wanting to encourage curiosity like HN. I'm surprised you disagree; reddit had some of the coolest examples of this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/2pnpu/_/
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This is only possible with widespread repeated testing. Unless you can quickly identify and isolate all of the carriers, we are flying blind.
I don't think you got it quite right. No one would ever see microsoft-teams.com and you wouldn't need an SSL cert for it. The CNAME affects the DNS lookup, so if you ask "where's abcde.teams.microsoft.com", the server replies "it's at the same IP as "microsoft-teams.com, so go look there".

Since you control the DNS for microsoft-teams.com, you can point it to your server. Now both domains point at your server and you get all requests to abcde.teams.microsoft.com. That's how they get cookies.

You can get an SSL certificate because you can serve anything for abcde.teams.microsoft.com. That includes abcde.teams.microsoft.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/* and the .gif (or other) resource you use to steal cookies.

Either abcde.microsoft-teams.com is a typo or you seem to think CNAMEs work like an HTTP redirect, which they don't.
> If you're going to outlaw an activity because a small percentage can't control themselves, you'll have to outlaw quite a few activities.

That would be a good thing overall.
Meaningless violence is too easy, so is ham fisted moralizing. True classics find some kind of meaning, even in the meaninless tragedy of life, like the Iliad.