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> Sweden's official death toll was 2270 yesterday (2020-04-28). The three worst influenza seasons in Sweden since 1969 killed 807, 674 and 652 people[1]. So we've already passed his "at most" claim. The only way I can see that working out is if he feels that none of the influenza seasons in the past 50 years count as "severe".

> [1]: numbers taken from the Swedish wikipedia entry on influenza. I didn't bother to check wikipedia's source. An average Swedish influenza season kills about 200.

Sorry, but you can't just throw around numbers without explaining exactly what they mean or where they come from. The numbers you're quoting is most likely deaths that has been diagnozed as influenza. To get the full picture you need to look at excess mortality (which is reported by EuroMOMO[1]) and possibly adjust the numbers to pick out the influenza-related excess (FluMOMO[2] is the model most countries use).

If you look at the 2016/2017 season in Sweden [3, figure 17, page 46] you will see that the excess mortality as reported by FluMOMO goes way beyond ~600 for a season. In the peak season we see that it was ~300 per week. There are of course uncertainties in these numbers (which is why you won't see any official "x number of people died of influenza" figures), but it was probably closer to thousands than hundreds in 2016/2017.

[1]: https://www.euromomo.eu/
[2]: https://www.euromomo.eu/how-it-works/flumomo
[3]: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/publicerat-material/publ...
Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address
True, my mistake. In my defence, there is a lot of "reasons" for the lockdowns floating around in the global conversation.

This particular error on my part I regarding the reasons for the lockdown I attribute to Tomas Pueyo and his hammer-and-dance amateur epidemiology blog.
Induction has nothing to do with this. It's about a taking the limit of a process.
Luckily enough we can detect gene deletions using our Office suite's spellcheck: https://xkcd.com/2298/
Are conflicts of interest being managed in gov during Covid-19? The case of NHSX
Six months ago the shelter didn't need money because people had money and donated it willingly. Now the people around there are starving and can't waste money keeping random strays alive when their own children are starving.

And the people running this shelter, knowing that donor funds are limited, are asking for it to be spent on keeping unwanted dogs alive when there are people starving. It's more humane to put the dogs to sleep. They will feel no pain.

But nobody is going to even begin to consider putting the children to sleep are they? Those kids are going to suffer badly, and you're here arguing that the dogs are more important?

These are unprecedented times, and you can't just waste money.
Exactly my point. The value isn't in the video of the lectures.
No real estimates.

The number of hospital and ICU beds are being increased rapidly. Medical students are now allowed to work with patients until the crisis passes ( thus increasing the healthcare capacity).

After carefuly observation the plan is to slowly reduce the stringent lock down measures and increase the infection rate, while keeping the medical staff sane.

We will get the next update in the first week of may, whether the first step of "easing" worked as intended.
It’s well documented that Microsoft did not behave well in the 90’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

However in the case of the Windows NT NetWare client I don’t think this happened.

I think one of the variations on Hanlons razor is a more likely explanation.

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity”

The really worrying thing is that all the major players seem to have the same strategy at the moment. That is to own and control the platform.
Marc Benioff’s $25M Blitz to Buy Protective Gear from China
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No “widespread undetected community transmission” is not quite the same thing as eliminated.
This is disingenuous. Sure, the first X hours of working on a new project are a lot of fun and you can set up the framework for what you're doing and feel like you're making great progress.

But what you're missing is detail and quality. For example, I can set up the structure of my thesis by working out chapter titles, headings, subheadings and drafting bullet points per section. Straightforward. But doing the research and writing up takes years, it's often boring, laborious and the net addition to the document can be as low as a couple of hundred words a week. It doesn't mean the actual work is less valuable as time progresses.

Likewise let's consider a software development project. We can make grand strides in the first X weeks, gathering requirements, creating user stories, creating tasks, sprints, assigning work, setting deliverables, setting up the various ceremonies. But at some point it boils down to writing some code, often boring, time-consuming, detailed and slow. It doesn't mean the contributions made later in the project are any less valuable than the frantic hive of activity in the beginning.
I can give some ground level information. I live in a very densely populated street (total length is just two hundred meters, my guess is at least a thousand people live here). No one is dying here without others noticing. Further, there's a great amount of scrutiny into whether anyone's sick (see the reports of doctors getting beaten up even by the cops).

As far as I know, no one has died in this street in a month. The ambulance hasn't entered the street either. So unless there's a great conspiracy which most of us in the street are unaware, there really doesn't seem to be that many deaths. In fact the death rate is lower than normal, when people normally die, the first ritual is the blowing of a very loud horn in front of their house for an entire day. Haven't heard that in weeks. I live in the middle of the fifth biggest city in the country as well. It's likely many people in the street already have this but it's very unlikely that many or any have died from covid.

For reference, official disease tally for my city is now 570 cases.
If you define "back to normal" as absolutely no restrictions sure. But there's a world of difference between being locked at home and having simple restrictions like no events with more than 50 people, and lower density seating at restaurants. The plan is to find a reasonable balance that's <10% of a full lockdown in terms of restriction and ride that while measuring evolution to tweak the measures. A simple control loop.
> It works just like that if you press shift?

My point exactly. I want to do that without pressing shift.
Maybe I was eating too much learning curve or not gentoo-ing responsibly, but the Kernel and X11 were perpetual sources of woe.
You got the facts completely wrong, India started the lockdown when total deaths were just 10 !

Source: https://www.covid19india.org/
Obviously he didn't do any 'tricks' to make it smaller.
You give it 10 billion worth of ‘stuff’ (or promise to do so over a number of years)

A charity fund of that size will invest its money, anyways, until it has found a way to spend it (well) on its cause, so you can just as well give it bonds, buildings, or shares.
Isn't then the PhD itself partly a failure, in the sense of wasted energy/time to obtain the final Certificate, but not using it at all?
I'm also not asserting we know for sure that there is a 20-50x (or something along those lines) undercount in cases. Just that there is a huge amount of uncertainty with IFR and hospitalization rates, and none of your points really rule out that uncertainty.
Increased BP is probably not a good thing I switched to decaf for that reason.
South Korea is effectively a island nation in this context: ain't nothing much passing over their land border unless something goes severely wrong in North Korea.
A lot of these discussions also sound like lockdown measures are "free". But in reality it's about balancing two unknowns.

On the one hand we don't know how dangerous the virus actually is. If you look around you can find very serious scientists calculating the risks both as very low and very high. There are a number of various complicating factors (like comorbidity, or lockdown measures) to take into consideration.

On the other hand we have some idea that lockdown is going to be really bad. We are likely to face a huge economic crisis, except a lot of the outlets for negative emotion have been cut off. That is going to have a very real death toll as well. But again, we don't know how bad this is going to be. Will it cause wars? Perhaps. Will it cause suicides? Definitely.

I am personally fairly surprised that the Giesecke view isn't more popular around the world. Having a bit more scepticism about the virus before one decides to also sacrifice a lot of people's livelihoods seems prudent to me.
Obamacare IS Medical (aka Medicaid)

No, Obamacare is Covered CA.

Medicaid is called MediCal, except persons in the US illegally can get it, too.

If you pay out of pocket for your regular doctor... you can get Medical to pay for the prescription

That's a felony.
What if we recursively defined 1/3? This will allow us to ignore the infinite 0.333... for a second. As an example, let 1/3 = 0.33 + 1/100(1/3).

A definition of a third that most people agree with is that if we multiplied that value by 3, we should get 1. Let's check the right hand side: 3 * (0.33 + 1/100(1/3)) = 0.99 + 1/100 * 1 = 0.99 + 0.01 = 1. Great!

What other expressions for a 1/3 can we come up with? If you agreed with the previous statement, then you must surely also agree that 1/3 = 0.333 + 1/1000(1/3).

Inductively, we should be able to come up with a general formula that 1/3 = bar(3, n) + 1/pow(10, n)(1/3), where bar(3, n) = sum i = 1 to n 3/pow(10, i). We can check that bar(3, 2) = 0.3 + 0.03 = 0.33, and that our first example fits this formula. Intuitively, this formula is giving us a way to represent 1/3 in terms of n decimal places of accuracy and a recursive term.

The question is now, what happens when we run that formula with n to infinity? An infinite level of accuracy! That expression is equal to 0.333... as we have defined.

The right term, 1/pow(10, n)(1/3), goes to 0, so we can discard that. The left hand side, is a geometric series with 1/10 as the power, and a scalar multiple of 3. Using a closed sum formula for that [1], we can see that the left hand side goes towards 1/3. (Apply the formula from Wikipedia, but remember our index starts off at 1, not 0.)

In the end, we have found that 0.333... = n->infty bar(3, n) + 1/pow(10, n)(1/3) = 1/3

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series#Sum
No, this is a stance that's completely unsubstantiated, with the obvious tie in to COVID-19 that's also unsubstantiated.
The authentication provider runs as a highly trusted account, it can do anything it likes.

The only tricky bit would be not opening massive security holes. After all, a regular windows box you can't do anything at all with without a password. With my proposed solution, you'd be able to log in and browse the web with just any old random gmail password. Thats a massive increase in attack surface - now any buggy printer driver or router web interface is suddenly open to attack by anyone with access to the screen and keyboard.
Yes. Don't be a fan of Disney.
While implementing, I found that there is a large number of disk hops (and hence greater time required to read), and accessing data is slow. Only a chunk of data fits in a disk block (remember, there is a predefined size limit for blocks).

How to get around this?
Donated as I know how hard it is for animal protection efforts to raise money right now (we are a foster home for cats from three protection societies).

I also forwarded it to my network - maybe this helps at least a little bit more in terms of donations.
Rumour tells me the problems were mostly related to unaccounted selection bias of the test group, not the lab methods used.
stupid question, what exactly does this mean in practice? that all video calls are end-to-end encrypted now?

if that were the case, it seems like they would have made a bigger announcement out of it
RHEL and CentOS make great sense in the office, where we do NOT want to waste time faffing about with the configuration. All of that is moved to the package manager.

You will NOT use the walrus operator in python until the distro supports it.

When I want to live closer to the edge, and get the latest QGIS going, Arch and AUR are there for me.
>>Cost is generally regarded as an invalid reason for pollution. Surely it costs less to dump industrial waste in the river as well.

You know, I'm feeling idealistic like this quite often, but then the reality hits hard sometimes. In Poland where I'm from apparently 35% of residential properties still use coal for heating in 2020, which to my modern sensibilities is insane, but then I speak to some of my family living outside of the cities and the reality is:

1) there is no mainline gas supply, so gas is not really an option, unless you want to pay a lot of money to have an external tank installed at your property(look at point 3)

2) electricity is far too expensive to use for heating, every back of a napkin calculation shows that it would simply eat your entire salary to heat using electricity in colder months. Electricity in Poland is both hugely expensive and almost entirely from fossil fuels, we produce most of our electricity from coal power plants(and building more of them!). I can keep telling people that "surely their health is more important than money" but it would literally by a question of "heat or food for the month" if they used electric heaters.

3) there are some "eco" options like converting your boiler to eco-pellets, but even with EU grants, realistically, it's still like 2-3 months worth of salary to fit a new boiler for a lot of people. Simply not an option.

4) coal is very very cheap. You can buy supply that will last you entire winter for about ~400USD, maybe less if you're willing to burn poorer quality coal(which theoretically shouldn't be burnt anymore but yeah good luck enforcing it).

>>If some people can't afford it then give them money instead

Again, that's cool as an idea, that's just not how it works in reality.
NY attorney general calls out Amazon’s ‘inadequate’ Covid-19 measures and
What do you think the goal is of any strategy? Minimizing deaths from Covid-19 in the 2020 spring season? Minimizing deaths from Covid-19 overall (until the disease is "over")? Minimizing all-cause deaths this year? Minimizing some more abstract thing like "quality adjusted lives lost" over many years ahead?

I'll let you know which one it isn't: the first one.
All of my headphones are wired. Sure, I have BT earbuds, but I'd never be able to use my headphones with any of these phones and the audio quality on them is far superior to any BT headphones I could buy at a similar price. And no, an adapter is a terrible solution (especially a BT one, really?).

The problem isn't that we think you should put the jack back in. The problem is that you're non-empathetic and believe everybody should have the the same opinion that you do.
Anecdotally I know ex-colleagues who got Covid19 in the US and one of them has died.

I literally know of no one who is sick, much less with covid19, here in India in my friend circle, in my family circle and across the 1000+ employee company I work in. Either there's asymptomatic sick in my circle or no one has it.

Granted I am anxious, and hope things don't get worse, but international media has been pathetic on reporting this. I like the work that local The Print is doing. Very informative reporting from them - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuyRsHZILrU7ZDIAbGASHdA

Here's a good example and relevant to this discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWuRA_2by-Q
That difference seems to arise because the report you cite uses a broad definition of influenza deaths. Page 2 says they're counting patients who "have influenza as a contributing or underlying cause of death, plus patients who received specialist care with an influenza diagnosis who subsequently died within 30 days".

In any case, boosting the number to 685 still isn't enough so that covid is "double at most", and boosting it to 1100 isn't enough either.
Nice to see somebody else go through the exact same thought processes I did - there's no need for tiling when everything other than the terminal is fullscreened on its own workspace. 2D workspace grids are crucial to this flow though, which is sadly something that seems to be slowly being removed from most desktop environments. I can recommend https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1485/workspace-matrix... for Gnome.

My tmux bindings are also different, but the logic behind them is the same. Mine are available here - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/dotfiles
The TL;DR is in the final sentence: "we don't know".

So many keystrokes and clicked bait on something nobody has any concrete insight into.
With -fno-builtin. It's still "cheating" as b is local.

https://godbolt.org/z/U5VGxt

Without cheating:

https://godbolt.org/z/rzcXg2

It doesn't optimize the two stores to b away.
I worked at FAANG as well as several small startups (<100 people).

The perhaps biggest downside of working in a big company is politics. You are no longer working to provide value to customers. Instead, you are playing a game of politics to get ahead of your peers. Sometimes these are correlated - you can get ahead by providing value to end-users, but often there is no correlation at all. After a while this really started to get to me to the point I could no longer stand it.

In terms of learning, I found both environments to be similar if you are motivated. It's true that in a startup you are forced to wear many hats and learn about things outside of your comfort zone. However, big companies will often give you these opportunities as well, they just won't force you take them. It's easy to become complacent. In a startup environment you can't do that.

In terms of risk-adjusted payoff, working for a big company is probably a much better choice than working for a startup.

Personally I prefer startups or small companies at this point, I don't think I could deal with the politics in large corporations again.
>"but you're no longer talking the same language as the rest of the world"

yes, in the standard real numbers 1 = 0.999.., but people have dealt with numbers like "pi" and "sqrt(2)" before the standard real numbers were defined.

Hence the question, if we define such a system such as 0.333... != 1/3. what are the consequences?

by 0.3333... I mean a countably infinite sequence of 3s.
I bet someone could create a HN comment generator and it'd be very close to the actual discussion.
Show HN: A no-code web app to calculate your shares value
FTR, at least the preprint written by SinoVac about their inactivated vaccine (which is in Phase 1, and Phase 2 beginning shortly IIRC), claims that they observed no ADE in rhesus macaques.
The entire gist of the article isn't "it can't be true they're hiding something", it's "if statistics in the West are underreported which they likely are, why on earth would one believe they're not underreported in a country with far more limited access to medical care for much of the population where deaths from respiratory diseases are far more commonplace in normal times"

India's lockdown started the day after the UK, and whilst undoubtedly the government has taken some strong measures to make the lockdown viable, it also faced unique challenges like significant parts of the urban poor population attempting to return home to families in their villages. Of course, despite being later than Western lockdowns chronologically, India's lockdown was earlier with respect to the known spread of the disease, but that in itself is a phenomena worthy of explanation.
A keen photographer would point you to an image like [1] as bokeh removing 'clutter' and 'distraction'. Cues you would get from depth perception seeing the same thing in person.

Like so many things in art, these are all subjective judgements and a matter of taste. If you want a more objective reason, crisp-subject-blurred background is associated with high quality because it's what professional portrait photographs often look like [2]

It's not the be all and end all of photography, of course - few people would want their selfie with the Eiffel tower to blur out the Eiffel tower!

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aperture_and_bokeh.j...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=the+queen&tbm=isch
No. It just isn't following the "whataboutism" logic.

Following this we could say: As there are always young able people in need, why care for old or disabled people who doo not contribute to society and only cost society's money?

Why "donate" taxes for care facilities and such unnecessary stuff?
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I was talking about California. CA has no such limitation right now.

https://www.coveredca.com/individuals-and-families/getting-c...

I don't see any evidence you can start using the insurance without paying for it first,

Because there's no limitation on pre existing conditions, it's effectively the same. You can sign up the day you get sick and have a free ride until then. That's why the CBO scoring was all bullshit.
I'm sorry, but I can't understand why you don't see the utility in listening to what a highly successful person has to say about their personal work ethic.

Reread the quote again. He wasn't giving advice. He was explaining his own mentality. You jumped the gun and started criticizing him as if he is proselytizing on the streets.

If there are any criticisms to be had about what Kobe said, they could be made in good faith without an unnecessary mention of his career as a limiting factor of his experience.
This comes from the fact that most people don't learn limits. Once the definition of the decimal representation is understood to be in terms of a limiting process, the meaning becomes clear.

For most purposes hyperreals are too much machinery when learning and manipulating limits would be simpler.
> But then they failed to make the "One account all of Google" true of Gmail and Gsuite accounts (there's a long list of things you can do with one account that you cannot do with the other, and this is with Google products and features).

The clients of GSuite explicitly do not want any of that - even more, they (and the media and HackerNews) is very vocal that GSuite data should never be merged or touch the GMail account data, ML advertising systems and other non-enterprise data.

Did you consider that perhaps you're not the target market for these kind of features? It is an Enterprise cloud system after all.

(The arbitrary GSuite limitations are pissing me off as well though.)