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No, I don’t think I am missing that. Which is why I used those words.

I have no doubt covid is worse than flu and have no issue with being more cautious than reckless.

But if you can find me a model that shows we’re no where near peak deaths and are still looking to 9 to 44 times more, I’d like to see that.

Edit: anyone? Sources? Models?
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Rather than being a balance, doesn't this fact leave a giant hole open for biases and the influence of personal connections?
A brief history of the security protocols (2019)
Are you using socket activation or something similar? I think there are really interesting use cases around that paradigm for packing services onto one host.

Some blog posts I remember from when I was exploring this idea a few years ago:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activated-containers...

https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/running-drupal-in-li...
Thanks for the feedback, wasn't aware of the curated list rule before. Good to know for the future.

Also, fixed up the naming for the HN template as well, cheers!
> For the same reason the telephone company isn’t allowed to arbitrarily cancel your phone service based on who you choose to call with it.

That's not an analogous case. YouTube is more like a broadcast medium like TV or radio, and those have never been treated as common carriers. A sexy phone call between two people doesn't affect AT&T's reputation, but pornography hosted on YouTube would affect theirs.

> This is precisely the problem. Before, the bar to be silenced was the law; now the bar to be silenced is arbitrary application of “mainstream social mores”. Surely you see the problem there? Have you never derived benefit from media or creative works that fall outside of “mainstream social mores”?

Being taken down from YouTube does not equate to being silenced. There are many other ways you can express your ideas and opinions, especially if you are willing to do so in non-video form.

And the bar to expression on someone else's publishing platform has never only been legal. Every medium has had gatekeepers, generally far more stringent than YouTube's.

> Even if you haven’t, YouTube’s been deleting videos of war crimes in Syria, making it harder for investigators to track them down and document them. How’s that for “mainstream social mores”?

I don't see why it should be the responsibility of a for-profit entertainment company to provide hosting for war crimes investigators, any more than I would expect Hulu or Netflix to do the same. It would make far more sense to me for journalists or NGOs or governments to provide a place for people to upload their video evidence. There is no need for them to host it publicly, which is the expensive part of YouTube.
I agree. But within that same batch of people, faced with undeniable first-hand evidence of the severity of something like covid-19 will inexplicably choose to blame 5G antennas. Nutso people are nutso is my only conclusion.
> Why can't we compare apples and oranges?

We can! But, we must do so carefully.

"They're both sweet" cannot be used to conclude "they are the same".
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I can recommend this [0] book. It's focused on financial time series and trading, but the techniques covered in the book are generic enough to apply to all kinds of time series, you can just ignore the finance parts. If you search hard enough you can find the PDF for free online. The way they treat convolution operators and efficiently approximate them with fixed-size EMAs was quite interesting to me. It's definitely a bit dated, but that's some of its charm.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-High-Frequency-Finance-R...
I have a simple covid related question, hopefully someone can answer this here.

We have been under lockdown for over 6 weeks here in chicago. But chicago had highest number of deaths all of this week[1]. If we were under lockdown 6 weeks ago how did the people who died this week get infected. Does this mean ppl aren't following the guidelines properly ? I feel like I am missing something obvious here.

1. https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/4/28/21240216/...
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We do. There are only a few hundred professional athletes making millions a year. Look at all the tech millionaires. Compare that to the hundreds of thousands lower league athletes who make shit. Or just in less popular sports where you might get a few thousand a year in sponsor support.
I've covered insurance companies for a number of years, and here's the rundown:

- Like any other financial services company, insurers' primary concern is risk management. In contrast, a retailer knows exactly what its profit margins are before the product is sold - its primary concern is to sell as many products as possible profitably. However, insurers and banks can sell infinite policies/loans so long as the price is low enough. They also don't know their margins for sure until the policy/loan is complete.

- The average insurer makes more than half their profits from investment income. Most insurers are garbage at writing policies, with the P&C industry averaging around mid-single digit ROE in a year with average catastrophe losses. When I checked a few years ago, aggregate combined ratio (sum of losses & expenses divided by premiums) is in the high 90's percentage.

- Loss costs are getting ridiculous these days (trial lawyers, social inflation), almost across the board, so you're seeing insurers start raising prices across the board. Add to that zero interest rate policy courtesy of our unaccountable central bankers, and insurers are forced to push premium hikes.
I don't think you can compare V8 with the JVM. For starters, last time I checked, V8 is still single threaded, isn't it? Also it seems like future versions of JS are embracing things that make it look like they're envying Java, which seems like it's going in the wrong direction.
Any contact tracing will produce false positives and false negatives. You will notify 20-50 people per infected person, most of them will not be infected. We only have a problem if the number of false positives is in the 200+ range and the rate of infections is relatively high.

It is important to not that a short encounter will not put you into an at risk status. You need 15 minutes or whatever the health authority is long enough to make the tradeof between false negatives and false positives.

If people follow the app or not will be mostly legal protection. Countries with weak worker protection will have a harder time getting people to comply voluntarily.

I find slippery slope arguments weak. They can be used on anything to make the outcome much worse.
For a few years, most of my consulting gigs used Clojure and I donated financial support in the early days. Great community around Clojure. That said, I like Common Lisp and Scheme better.

I had not heard of Janet, thanks for the link.
The paper you cited only deal with cell lines (i.e. in-vitro studies), whereas you can find good quality in-vivo RCT studies about both low grade inflammation and cytokines storm. Hell, you can event find meta-analysis for specific conditions and related inflammatory state (CHF, type 2 diabete, ...)

For example :

- Heart failure meta analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29348609
- Type 2 diabete meta analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29490085
- Type 2 diabete meta analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945132

Hell, we even have preliminary human studies dealing with just that: clinical outcome for patients admitted in intensive care unit, with or without a single mega-dose of vitamin D: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/
I think it's likely we'll see some remotely-controlled terror incidents before car manufacturers begin to take security more seriously.
That is no excuse for ageism but being an athlete is financially really shit except for a super tiny minority
This time it isn't AMD which gives them trouble but TSMC. Intel doesn't lack a good architecture but a good fabbing process.

AMD just has a good architecture and are using good fabbing facilities.

Intel can have the best architecture in the world but that won't matter much if they are stuck with their fabbing at the current 14 nm process.
Fair point, changed that now, thanks for the feedback!
it seems to me that often the people who decide whether to use Atlassian products aren't actually using them personally...
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Our IRC channel is open, and many people watch and participate in discussions there. Many of our contributors and maintainers are also friends, people we ping for advice on unrelated things, and so on, and sometimes discussions happen incidentally. We don't go out of our way to conduct discussions in private, and we make our primary communication mediums available to the public. Just because you don't like IRC doesn't make it less open. If you ask for more details, we will also often entertain your question, especially in the context of "I want to know so I can write a patch". But if you're just another grumpy user bringing their bat up for a swing at the dead horse, then no, we're not going to entertain you.

We're human beings, and we acknowledge that. I don't go out of my way to try and build a community which avoids that fact. Treat us like human beings, people with feelings and knowledge and a limited amount of time. You didn't pay for it, so you're not entitled to support, features, or yes, even explanations of why decisions were made. It's a collaborative effort, run by volunteers, who can stop volunteering whenever they want. Some users get burned by this, but contributors don't, and contributors are more important than users.

Sway is not some abstract concept of a project - it's made out of people.

I know this doesn't directly address many of your comments, but I feel that it hits on a deeper and more important difference in our beliefs. User entitlement is a huge problem in open source, and it burns out maintainers faster than anything else. I don't stand for it.
I think comparing just reported deaths is probably even worse, the rate of undercounting of flu deaths and undercounting of covid deaths (in a pandemic with a ton of testing / heightened observation) is not going to be comparable.
> have been 'substantially' inflating flu death numbers to manipulate public behavior (e.g. to get more people to take vaccinated).

This is the article writer opinion, it is not the CDC official stand on the matter. Similar calculations are currently done for Covid-19. Many articles show the discrepancy between total reported deaths, Covid-19 reported deaths and medium values in previous years. It makes sense.

That the numbers are not perfectly correct does not mean that they are not good enough to use for policies and to inform the public.

> This patronizing behavior from the scientific and political class is destructive.

I like the transparency of publishing the data and the methods to calculate it. That is the contrary of patronizing. I hope that transparency continues to be the norm, even when makes the number easier to criticize for people with little information.
Yes, it does that too. It's an "and".

That said, I will still take "biased human picking what to prosecute" over "a prosecution sufficiently funded to prosecute literally everything". I mean, sure, I'd prefer "real justice", but "biased human" is still constrained in their actions and has to produce enough results useful to society to be able to hide their corruption in, whereas totally perfect enforcement would be a nightmare.
I fail to see how an ISA is better than an unforgivable loan, and to be honest, this seems a lot more like indentured servitude/wage slavery without the pretense of a loan. If the investor (Purdue in the article) has to step in and say we won't make more than 2.5x our investment on you, you know the student is being taken advantage of. The problem is that the ISA model is still bound to the private market by virtue of the fact that the investors are private and not public entities. The carrots and sticks that are in place are not there to benefit the student.

I wonder how society would react by making student loans forgivable. Would banks stop giving out loans because there is no collateral? Or would they require a cosigner to rope in an adult with collateral to lose? Would schools get cheaper as a result of people not being able to afford the already high tuition, would they become a status symbol for the mid-upper class who can afford it? It is definitely an interesting thought experiment.
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It's possible, and it's being done.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/27/upshot/corona...

> The recent death count reached six times the normal number of deaths for the city at this time of year, a surge in deaths much larger than what could be attributed to normal seasonal variations from influenza, heart disease or other more common causes.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

> These numbers undermine the notion that many people who have died from the virus may soon have died anyway. In Paris, more than twice the usual number of people have died each day, far more than the peak of a bad flu season. In New York City, the number has spiked to six times the normal amount.
I see plenty of "dissenting voices" online, they're just not very worthwhile. I assume that a lot of what used to stand out as "correct" contrarianism has since become mainstream, or close enough.
> There isn't a dichotomy.

I simply meant that this

"without ubiquitous, cheap, fast, and accurate testing, you can't confirm the app's diagnosis. So the alert is useless."

was turned into medical professionals asking someone about contacts, a la

"Someone you report you had coffee with, but who doesn't get the disease, is a false positive"

to show that getting asked about contacts by medical professionals isn't better than a contact tracing app, which is a straw man, i.e. Schneier didn't ask for medical professionals to ask those questions, he said those questions are useless without tests.
overwhelming relief they "won" this one, deep grief in the knowledge there is no way the leeches give up on it.
>Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 14 countries analysed by the FT

https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac8...
Agree! Actually just added full-screen mode based on your suggestion today
I imagine anyone interesting in investing in learning to communicate with plants is well versed in the ideas of plant medicine. It makes sense that this story would set up bullshit detectors here. This is a tech startup aggregator, not a biology science aggregator.
If you count excess deaths, globally where we have data, official Coronavirus deaths are always about half or 2/3rds the excess death.

In other words, it’s likely we are undercounting deaths caused by COVID by a factor of 1.5 to 2 in places which are actually properly tracking COVID deaths.
Flu are caused by the viruses, pneumonia is the serious bacterial infection of the lungs potentially caused by having influenza.

You would count seasonal pneumonia if you wanted to see how serious that seasonal flu was.
This guy went from being the CEO of an underwear company (that I love) to an ICANN board member in 2018, interesting.
It seems the term scaling changes everything, SOA is good but in many cases scaling the SOA might not solve the problems and you need to pick the path of optimization, and microservices are the possible way to optimize the service, Now if you need transaction (not in all cases) as well then It becomes tricky.
> they could provide the same API in the browser through a shim.

Oh, so in the browser, it would just fall back to the native WebRTC implementation? That would make sense.
(This is my first comment on hacker news) but I would like to see more content targeted to people who know how to program but don't know the slang and words in this specific field. For example Sebastian Lague did a great tutorial on machine learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQUSndDllU I would love to see something like this but from the angle lets pick a random programming language and lets program this together from scratch.
I'm not an expert on this subjectrobably the best thing the JVM has going for it is two things: many world class extremely tunable garbage collectors and acres of software written for it already. V8 has tons of software written for it but the focus is somewhat different (see Apache projects)
in the most affected countries in Europe, it is significantly higher (2, 3 times) than the worst flu seasons in recent times.
In my experience, one of the the problems is that Macs are hilariously underpowered for many modern dev and analytics use cases. So the workaround is to work off remote machines/clusters over web interfaces/SSH but for many development use cases that's just slow and clunky - the have merit more in productionising. The series of hardware clusterfucks on Mac haven't helped ether.

So I've seen Mac users who work in these areas get sick of the issues and limitations and switch to Win 10 + sometimes WSL.

The people remaining with Macs are executive suite (who go for iPad pros) and account execs who do sales where it looks cool to go pull out a Mac. However even there people are increasingly looking dumb when they want to present something and go on 5 min dongle troubleshooting hunt because Mac killed HDMI and VGA ports and start their presentation appearing incompetent. Sometimes over web screen shares, only the desktop shows and not the applications.

By refusing to focus on hardware/software quality and power users, Apple has lost the game on high end.
We might also see a rise in mysterious car accidents involving high-profile people.
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Here's the charts for a number of states in the US. It's pretty dramatic.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronaviru...
I get the pandemic being priced in now, but surely that implies a pas point in time in the past when the pricing in happened? Ie at some point or over some period, somebody looks at the looming global pandemic and goes "fuck! Sell everything!"
Sure. But bash scripts and pipes break way, way more often then a .service file does.
Worked in the industry - wrote collaboration tools including media nodes, media endpoints, proxies and servers. Tried all the tricks in the book. Started out by running snoop tools on Skype to see what they tried, went from there.

Lots of endpoints in the world flatly didn't allow p2p. Some whole nations disallowed entire protocols (Ireland, UDP). Some routers dropped every other UDP packet (ATT). Some reordered UDP (swapped packets in pairs). It was a total mess.

Anyway we ended up with something ok, and a high-performance media node to handle most of the traffic which wasn't p2p.
Are you talking about OCaml. It's widely accepted community practice to have type signatures in separate interface files. Those make it pretty easy to navigate the code.
The effort towards the design of ventilators likely would have started when there was peak anticipated demand. The NY Governor was asking for 40,000 ventilators last month. So, we should not dismiss the effort.

There will be lots of wasted effort during the sprint to plug things in a hurry. But it may not be really wasted effort, given that projects like these can be fountainheads to unknown future innovations or relations.
If this caught on, the mpaa and riaa lawyers are going to be out of jobs.
There are two important reasons, and one medium reason...

1. These rules are usually distributed via GPO, and the AD system it uses may or may not have a useful and/or well maintained notion of who is a "developer". At best it's done at the departmental level, which isn't that great - since a lot of IT/dev people work in all departments.

2. Whenever you make an exception to a rule that restricts behavior, it's always the worst actors that game that system to get the exception. It's exactly that one VP who thinks he's tech "enough" to handle the risk that'll figure out how to get the exception for himself - he's also the one to run a torrent client to download a free copy of "PDF Writer" or a malicious keylogger.

3. GPOs can be complex to apply - errors happen. The simpler you have your rules, the less likely there is an error that leaves core/critical systems unprotected.
Two important takeaways here.

"In fact, in the fine print, the CDC’s flu numbers also include pneumonia deaths."

"If we compare, for instance, the number of people who died in the United States from COVID-19 in the second full week of April to the number of people who died from influenza during the worst week of the past seven flu seasons (as reported to the CDC), we find that the novel coronavirus killed between 9.5 and 44 times more people than seasonal flu."

For the average person, COVID-19 is better described as "highly contagious and extra deadly pneumonia".
Slash at the end of the line serve the same purpose in Java
Parent asked 'why Java?'

What makes these arguments specific to Java?
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Agree that lying to people (even by selective omission) is a great way to undermine confidence and trust.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23040385
What region doesn’t have it? What model shows we aren’t near peak death now?

Edit: seriously asking questions.
If Yarvin is mentally ill, then so was Gurdjieff. Both wrestle with ideas that seem to be too big for them, and both clearly struggle in so doing, or at least in making their big ideas comprehensible to those less inspired.

Of Gurdjieff's work I'm comfortable saying, in paraphrase of the apocryphal Dr. Johnson, that what is worthwhile is not original, and what is original is not worthwhile. Granted that I haven't studied him deeply - but I haven't done so because, where I have looked at his work, I've found nothing that other schools of enlightenment theory haven't said better both before and after him. Robert Anton Wilson is in my estimation much more worth anyone's time, not least because he doesn't seem nearly so much to deliberately cultivate opacity.

In Yarvin's case, I suppose time has yet to tell. Certainly his opinion of the status quo, with regard to tools ostensibly for communication between people, is one I share. I doubt Urbit is the solution, but as I said, time will tell.
> no one is looking for something they don't even know exists.

I would be happy to direct your attention to the "Show" link on the top toolbar, where no one can miss it
I love YSAC, but he's not really ranty. Plus I think he's Canadian.
Does anyone feel like this happens with some approaching hurricane coverage where the scientists may overestimate things like storm surge to try and prod people to evacuate? Now when the next hurricane approaches they remember what happened last time and might be less likely to leave.
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Inaccurate comparisons like this one are often made in bad faith by someone who knows full well that it's misleading but it serves a political purpose.

Assuming good faith intentions by the current US political leadership is comically naive at this point.
Your not wrong you need a strong chair and a commitment to good governance - I suspect there where a lot of buggins turn appointees with no experience in holding an executive to account.
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