skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At peak flu season, is seasonal flu the leading cause of death week over week, month over month, ahead of heart disease and cancer?

I haven't looked it up, but 55,000 flu/pneumonia deaths a year is about 153 a day, compared to COVID-19 running near 2,000 a day:

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1727839/

This visualization is from before the acknowledgement that COVID-19 deaths were only counting confirmed positive / presumed positives from the earlier set of CDC symptoms, not the 3x larger set of symptoms revised last week.

Also doesn't account for second order deaths such as those with other health problems not seeking treatment from an overloaded system, or providers in the system committing suicide from PTSD.
Let the anti-Musk astroturfing begin
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I agree. Though this person can be a bit touchy when constructive criticism is aimed at them, this would most likely be beneficial for them, and also the team, in the medium/long run.
For generally fighting off viruses, I wonder if Vitamin D is the reason why many colds / flues tend to peak in the winter months and subside over the summer.
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It maybe more that immunity within the body fades quickly, not so much that the virus mutates to the point it's different enough. The linked article talks about a sharp drop-off of coronavirus antibodies over time, which doesn't happen with antibodies for some other viruses (e.g. varicella antibodies are lifelong). And it doesn't sound like we really know why this might be.
It's an option, you are just penalized on your taxes. Curious to see whether that changes though.
this kinda comment makes me lol so hard at HN- passing mention of any tech, but loads of stats on financials and personality of the ceo.
Should the Federal government return tax money it took from the people of New York to give to the people of Kentucky? Why or why or why not?

The Federal government can easily tax /discredit those wealthy pensioners to fund unemployment insurance, if they do choose.
> If you reduce a matrix to its Cholesky decomposition you can save about half the space because you only need to store the diagonal and lower triangle.

That's not a space savings for a known-symmetric matrix, though, for which you already need only store the diagonal and lower triangle.
Germany started from much stronger position, so grow rates don't tell us the whole story.

Compare the living standards, so you want to argue Poland with 8.5% growth has higher living standards than Germany?
They also don't get lighter as they lose energy, which is key to large passenger jet operations. Large plants often take off heavier than the plane is rated to land normally expecting to burn that weight in flight.
Why not :) Highly appreciated.
I know I'm late to comment, so this will probably get buried, but I think a key to understanding Terraform and why it is different is to understand that it's an implementation of the Reconciler Pattern. This is a more useful distinction than the usual declarative vs imperative contrast that is usually brought up.

The Reconciler Pattern basically means:

* there is some notion of "expected" state, which is what you define (declaritively) in the configuration

* there is some "actual" state, which is basically what is running at whatever cloud service, etc. you are dealing with.

* the reconciler's job is to query the actual state, compare it to the expected state, calculate the difference (usually in terms of a graph), then make whatever changes it needs to to bring "actual" in line with "expected".

Kubernetes, SaltStack, and others implement the same pattern (just on different levels of resources) and it's becoming increasingly common and important to understand if you're working with cloud stuff.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/cloud-native-infrastruc...
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This product offering is a bit confusing. Not that I don't get the offering - but that the marketing around it confuses me.

It's designed for forwarding applications for development purposes? But then why the in-depth monitoring and alerting (something that seems to imply a production system might be running on top of this.)

The "meaning your website performance won't take a hit no matter where your users are" doesn't really make sense in this context either. My "users" are hopefully my coworkers/the client I'm demoing to. And if I'm tunneling up my site over wifi from my laptop, a "highly available" and "globally distributed" load balancer setup really doesn't make sense, nor is it relevant for the development use-case.

And if it's "6x more performant" than ngrok- is that really relevant if you're using it for a trivial amount of traffic in a development environment? Why is this a selling point to me?

Further - if I'm tunneling TCP, does "end to end" really matter? If I'm tunneling something that's not encrypted on my application (let's say a plaintext redis connection) the link between this service and the person connecting to the tunnel is still unencrypted. Which means the whole "end to end" marketing really doesn't make much sense - unless of course I don't trust the network I'm running on - but for some reason maybe trust the network the person accessing the tunnel is on (super unlikely situation...)

The example also irks me - exposing a database directly to the internet (if it's a database for development, hopefully - it's probably fine?)

Is this trying to compete with ngrok, or something like Cloudflare's Argo tunnels? Because the marketing material leads me in two different directions, which is pretty confusing.
It takes a LOT of effort. Like in excess of 50K UI a day for months. And then it needs co-factors to do harm, like excess calcium intake along with a K2-MK7 deficiency and/or a potassium deficiency (both of which are, unfortunately, very common). All in all, it's a very complex system that interacts with the body's buffering mechanisms.
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>- Musk venting with "FREE AMERICA NOW" tweet makes him seem almost crazy

Musk is on the verge of a three quarter of billion dollar windfall if Tesla's six month average market cap exceeds $100b. I would guess that motivates his desire to open as soon as possible.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-stocks-musk/teslas-...
That's overly simplistic. While the overall system may be zero-system over an infinitely long time horizon, this doesn't typically matter in practice. It can be positive sum for participants over some time horizon they care about.

For example, an HFT trader make pennies from each trade by exploiting tiny price inefficiencies. He essentially takes money from a "stupid" retail investor who does not know how to optimize his trades. However, the retail investor may not actually care about optimizing trades and just wants to liquidate assets or make a long-term (10+ years) bet. He is totally fine with throwing away a few dollars because optimizing his trades through complex algorithms would be too much work. Here, both parties win, the HFT trades gets paid because he provides convenience, or liquidity, to the retail trader. The same would apply to any human market maker, it doesn't have to be HFT.

And yes, HFT liquidity may disappear during HUGE market movements due to risk, but it doesn't disappear as long as both parties get what they want and the risk is manageable, which is "most of the time". Of course, HFT has other issues such as the race to zero and unfair advantages for a few central players, and I don't want to defend HFT. But saying that "it's all zero sum" is not correct.

An analogy is your nearest grocery store. They're a market maker because they buy from the manufacturer and sell to the consumer and profit from the spread. Do you also argue that these are all zero-sum and we should cut them all out and connect all consumers and farmers directly? And their liquidity also disappears when black swans (corona) happens :)
I understand your question. My observations and experience on trying to comment on such posts have left a sour taste in my mouth.

Political posts on HN are a honeypot designed to lure in people with different views. The moment you post something that does not jive with the herd you get down voted.

It does not matter if you are making a valid point.
This was my first instinct. But what about something like a company Twitter account?
Stock price is extremely sensitive to both guidance from the company and analysis. There's almost always an analyst consensus on the expected performance of the stock given the knowns about the companys performance and the market. The stock is usually pegged right at that consensus, so if they lose less money than than the consensus was expecting (even if they lost more money) then the price goes up.
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- Will Elon stop with tweets that hurt Tesla? Appoint a CEO, or COO to run things to take pressure of Elon?

I have read this from so many people for the last 5 years all the time. Sure, the tweets show that Elon wants faster growth, and frustrated, and I didn't like that tweet either, but if you want a conservative CEO, buy IBM or Oracle stocks, please leave Tesla alone.
Also: no personal details on the homepage about the team and the ownership structure. Why should I share my data with somebody who doesn't share his.
This has been Derek Lowe's shining moment; his vaccine coverage has been fantastic:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/23/a-...

It includes additional promising candidates.

As I understand it, and I'd be happy for expert correction: lockdown has additional benefits beyond curve flattening; it also accounts for decreased transmission, which can get us to a point where we can track and suppress outbreaks individually while opening up the economy. That's essentially what seems to have happened in South Korea.
> In other words, when you recover from covid-19, you are immune to it. In other words, covid-19 is just like every other virus, in this respect.

That’s not how HSV works. That’s not how hepatitis works.
by the way, this is FOS https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos
Got it. Thanks. I think it may be because the IFR is less reliable, since for most diseases it requires a gross estimation the real number of infected persons. It is probably more popular these days because people are putting a lot of effort into the comparisons with the seasonal flu.
My bad, I was misremembering the paper, which mentions the exonuclease's role in fidelity. I meant RdRps. The conclusion was the same. Figure 4 shows quite clearly that the RdRp mutation is associated with further mutations.

> We found that viral strains with RdRp mutation have a median of 3 point mutations [range: 2–5], whereas viral strains with no RdRp mutation have a median of 1 mutation [range: 0–3] (p value < 0.001, Mann–Whitney test). The different distribution between the two groups relative to the number of mutations is statistically significant (Fig. 4).
Amazon is cracking down on internal communication after surge in worker activism
After-hours trading doesn't necessarily mean much due to low liquidity and volume. You can get high swing for reasonably low volume in a single after-market trade.
I'm certain HFT vols are up in the volatility. Not sure that proves or disproves anything.

HFT is hugely expensive to maintain. Staffing and equipment costs are massive.

HFT choose not to trade on exchanges with delays because they want to exploit latency advantages. That's why govt should regulate this on all exchanges to just wipe it out.

Consolidation is not good because it will collapse into a monopoly. Which will require regulation also, because markets do not "work" on their own.

I'll check back later, going for a walk outside now.

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Here is my reply, despite not replying for 40 minutes, I've put something about capitalism on HN which immediately gets you a fake "you're submitting too fast".

Cannot post any more after that because HN doesn't like discussion unless it's about a tiny window that they agree with. Perhaps someone flagged my comment - if so they make this board a far more boring place to be.

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HFT != electronic trading. Many firms are automating front-to-back, that is unequivocally a good thing. HFT is latency arb.
It's the rapid mutation of the flu virus that undermines the flu vaccine.

People often have differing immunity to a flu based on their past exposures. People that had been exposed to the 1950s strain were not hit as hard by the H1N1 that emerged in 1977: https://mbio.asm.org/content/6/4/e01013-15
According to their loan agreement w/ China, they must pay off their loans until they can repatriate anything.
file.pizza is another similar project
Or traffic collisions. Not a disease, but I think your argument makes it enter the discussion.
> For a lot of people, this is a choice they make every day, even predating the pandemic.

It is, but I'm not sure where you're going with this—are you implying that the pandemic hasn't drastically affected that decision? Otherwise: what are you saying?
Well at least in my previous companies and the current one we always had one big excel/google/n sheet where all events were organised with their name e.g. "Profile loaded" and the associated parameters "user name", "user id".

And there were sometimes big discussions and unclear documentary about the events.
> Security based on the automation works really well. How well? Google drove phishing of its employees to zero.

It's funny Google solved the problem so well for itself, despite it's utter inability to do it for others. The challenge is preventing phishing of Google employees is a single domain problem. Google knows everything about Google.

But Google woefully fails to have a solution that even starts to work for consumer Gmail or other companies they export their services to. My Gmail account got a phishing email today from Google Forms about a transaction. Google didn't understand it was spam, it came straight from Google, but it was definitely a scam.

Another great example is Google Voice, the source of 9 out of every 10 spam calls I receive. I could write a single line filter that would block all of the spam calls: I'd block all calls from my Google Voice number's own area code (which is different from my own real area code). But Google doesn't give me the tools to do that, it uses it's own automated system, fails spectacularly, and my spam calls continue. Automation has failed because one competent human wasn't allowed or empowered to act.

Automation can get things right 95% of the time, but will never understand the other 5%. And the big problem is, Google refuses to adopt human judgment: It insists automation is good enough, and rarely allows you to reach a human at all, even in an appeals process. When Google's automation decides to cut you out of their system, when it fails to judge correctly, you're just gone, often with no recourse.
This is fantastic! Really nice work :)

The nice thing about WebRTC is this works (pretty much) everywhere! Someone could throw up Python/Android/iOS/Go/Web/C++ Clients really easily. That is really exciting.

Also just a HUGE fan of NAT Traversal/P2P in general. The less dependence we can have on others for sharing our data the better.
It's so sad because there's so much more to do. Socializing with your family, exploring intellectual curiosities, exercising, reading old books, learning something new.

The human brain compute in this modern age is sadly wasted.
Could you provide a source? Happen to be studying this topic for a paper I'm writing
States already have sovereignty. They can simply decline to pay back bondholders.
> financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020

The quarantine period is only 15 days or so for US, a bit more for couple other countries.
If you weren't so worried about having a reasonably-sized airframe or high speed we're getting pretty close to significantly increased duration/range via solar.

http://thundergull.com/specifications.htm

It's got 95sqft of wing and a top speed of 63mph. Drag is usually with velocity squared so going 1/2 as fast might only require 1/4 as much power.

They state in the article that it takes 10kw to fly level. With 100sqft and an average 10W/sqft you're at 1kw. But cut the speed down to 30mph (2500W) and double the wing area (2000W) and you're very nearly at breakeven. The 11kw battery might then last you 10+ hours after accounting for the power required to climb out.

Yes it'll end up being much more of a power glider than a "proper" airplane but that might be a lot of fun.
I believe they authors said "May" in this. Not that this is 100% the cause. Political tinged screeds are not really appropriate for this issue.
A colleague of mine would yell at Visual Studio daily "Stop helping me wrong!"
If you can really, truly get liver-on-a-chip to work, it's going to positively change drug testing forever and will be the first huge win for tissue engineering.

You can throw away animal models for tox screens forever, and that's great news. It will save vast amount of time and money. By using a much better proxy model for humans (slices aren't organs, they have different rheological characteristics and morphology, but they're a damn sight better than mice), you'll wash out candidates earlier and faster, and hopefully enrich the pipeline.

Slowly but surely, and it's good to see steps in this direction.
55k/yr is also much higher than the actual average number of flu fatalities per year, which is closer to 35k even if you include the preliminary stats from the last 2 years (which captures the particularly bad flu year we had in the '17-18 season).
On the one hand the memes aren't very funny, but on the other this is about what you'd expect from a science fiction depiction of "teaching a computer how to be funny".
It should have a sane default. The current default presentation is not sane.
'Last Friday, AECJ members used dozens of Amazon internal listservs to invite thousands of their colleagues to skip work in a mass sickout and instead attend a virtual panel discussion about Amazon warehouse working conditions and environmental policies. Although the invites to this event mysteriously disappeared from workers’ calendars and two organizers were fired for organizing a similar event the week prior, it went on as planned with more than 300 people attending virtually.

'With the new enforcement about these rules on email communications, employees say it will be impossible for workers to use listservs to mobilize their colleagues in a similar fashion.

'“Everyone seems to acknowledge (subtly or overtly) that this was in response to the employees getting fired and the sickout,” another Amazon employee told Recode. “I think part of what Amazon is trying to do is make average employees upset at AECJ because of this new inconvenience.”'

Original title too long; removed the word 'a': Amazon is cracking down on internal communication after a surge in worker activism
That's how democratic societies are typically intended to work; on issues of great social importance, everyone's encouraged to think about them and decide what they'd like to happen.
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I can agree with: "These aren't ipso facto constitutional rights violations."

Totally disagree with: "By definition, these aren't constitutional rights violations."

So I think we do probably violently agree, and I probably misinterpreted your: "These aren't constitutional rights violations by definition." statement.

Another way to think about it is that they obviously do violate Constitutional rights, but this is actually allowed only under very specific and limited circumstances, of which COVID may in fact be one of, but such a thing has never been tested in front of the Supreme Court as far as I'm aware.
I think they may have been referring to more of a SpaceX leadership situation.
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What minority are you even talking about

Any of them.

Some of them, I'm in. Some of them, I'll never be in. The principle is universal: A just society protects the minority. Any of them.
Gold and assets that won't go to zero, essential companies and real estate. Just don't expect them to not get hit as well in the short term.
Any chance you can share what company you're at?

I've built these spreadsheets in a Marketing Operations capacity for my marketing teams and our engineering/product/data science counterparts that helped with implementation. I've also done this agency-side.

I can see some value here as a nice UI around it, particularly if there's various roles and permissions I can set for who does what. Also, props to OP for showing screenshots large enough to see what's actually going on in the product.

I'd echo your suggestion about actual events. These should probably be funnel-related events and not random product activity.

Another thing I'd like to see is some sort of version control and changelog/commit message functionality. Having access to the current events and their context is one thing. Having context around what changed and why is another layer of value that is critical for teams that may not be closely interacting on making these changes.

That's really getting into the workflow aspects which include things like notifications and alerts, as well as piping into analytics tools to monitor for things when an event stops reporting data (which may indicate something broke).

CaveTech, are you aware of any other tools on the market that try to productize this common use of spreadsheets like this?
If you read up the comment thread from my reply, we're talking about socialism, not democratic socialism. So Canada is irrelevant as an example (which was my initial albeit snarky point).
if anyone is interested, I made a thing that tracks (among many other things) RTL support in various frontend frameworks

https://react-ui-roundup.dimitrimitropoulos.com/

github: https://github.com/dimitropoulos/react-ui-roundup
So this is a schema tool for javascript events?
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Men do have to worry about retaining too much iron. Women before menopause typically don't have to worry as they lose a bit of blood every month.

https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id...
> Did you actually read the post you're responding to?

> ... you're not equipped to participate in this conversation.

Please review the site guidelines and take a more charitable approach to this conversation. There's some irony that your argument around ideologically pure free speech is punctuated by insinuation that I should self-censor because I'm not ideologically pure enough.

I provided a handful of reasons where speech can do harm, and where forced publication impinges other rights. I'm saying that yes, "platforms" (which are also publishers / promoters / marketers due to features such search, recommendation, featured content etc.) have an obligation, ethical or legal, to take certain content down. In the case of spam, that content is taken down or shadowbanned for the greater good. That's a free ethical choice, not a legal obligation.

By all means, there are cases where publishers should resist external pressure to censor, and I fully agree that Congress shall make no law. But youtube isn't the government. They have a right to curate the content that they distribute that is just as important as your right to produce and self-publish your content.