skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No evidence supports the hypothesis that single codon or single nucleotide deletions correlate with attenuation of strains

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/11/1016
I'm confused, what feels unfinished ?

I do have a thing for win2k era installers too.. even though I can't deny unattended package install ala linux (now chocolate and similar on windows) is amazing ofc.
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From the perspective of IEEE-754, they’re pretty close ;)
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To clarify, the Giesecke approach is merely to use the clearer goal of keeping the case load manageable to the health services.

I don't know who came up with the idea that the goal would be heard immunity. Arguably, a "lockdown until vaccine" strategy is more clearly focused on (artificially) reaching herd immunity.
Agreed. Just a casual browse of the TOC will point out that even at the coarsest-grained level, only 40-60% of the book follows the SICP lesson plan.
She's only an obvious outlier after the fact, though; protecting all authors because they are potential outliers is a perfectly valid goal.
Not this bunch for sure:

https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/debunking-bakersfield-...
> Any middle school student can calculate 1/3 to be 0.33333...

I can just do it backwards - is 1/3 equal to 0.33333...?

1 / 3 = 0.33333...
3 * 0.33333... = 0.99999...
and my child brain "knows" that 1 != 0.99999...

In my child brain this proves that 1 / 3 is not equal to 0.33333..., it's just an approximation.

So I agree with larschdk, those problems are equivalent and one can't be used to prove the other ...
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Originally copyright was a bargain between the creator and the government (originally the Crown, but now the people) - essentially it's "we give you a fixed term monopoly, and in return you turn your creation over into the public domain afterwards".

Two things have messed with that deal - corporations are now treated as people, who live forever, and copyright extension allows corporations to extend copyright past the lifespan of the public they've made that bargain with.

I'd argue that a bargain that you can never collect on is not a valid bargain - the whole basis of copyright has been undermined - now it's just a monopoly.
Every approach to Covid-19 relies on certain assumptions, so this is hardly unique to Giesecke. For example, most lockdown approaches assume we will have a vaccine in 12-18 months, and/or that we will be able to suppress secondary outbreaks after lockdown ends (via test and trace or other methods). Neither of these assumptions are guaranteed either.
Yup, aside from the current situation there's total a classic issue of a teacher not realizing they're not the only class being taken, let alone any remorse for those that also have jobs, kids, or any other type of responsibility.
Having tried tmux this week (I'm a screen diehard) and had it entirely disconnect and lose the session without warning because I pressed ... some key combination I have no idea what ... I've put that back into the "eh, maybe" pile for another 5 years.
on the other hand, at least one newspaper in India has an article [1] titled: "India's coronavirus infection rates are among the highest in Asia"

we are under lockdown for more than a month now, and in my state, there's even stricter lockdown for past few days (not even groceries/vegetable shops are open, supplies provided to some extent via government operated mobile vending, door deliveries, etc)

[1] https://www.thehindu.com/data/indias-coronavirus-infection-r...
> he 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".

Or that he doesn't think deaths in past influenza seasons were all attributed to influenza but rather just "normal" deaths.

The excess all-cause deaths will be the figure to look at, but it will take quite a while before those numbers are reliable.
> but 1/3 != 0.33333...

But the issue is that this is easy to verify experimentally via (in this case infinitely) long division that you can do by hand. So it’s hard to convince people of this.
I only see one of these three options:

1. He's aiming for herd immunity, using the people who are the less likely to have severe cases to protect the most vulnerable

2. He believes the death toll will really not be that high to justify the actions that we are taking to prevent the virus from spreading

3. He does not care about the deaths, and the faster they die, the faster we can go back to normal

Of course I don't think he believes in number 3, which is quite horrible in my opinion.

Regarding 2, the numbers emerging of the population that has actually contracted the virus seem to be much smaller than what Giesecke was assuming. So it would seem correct to assume that the death toll is going to be much higher than he was anticipating based on a wrong hypothesis.

To me it only leaves number 1 as a potentially valid approach that does not rely on quarantine.
What? The use case for an optional type has been been documented for decades and iirc is sourced from type theory. See it’s usage in Haskell (Maybe type) as one aged example. Also, that stack over flow is pretty well clear on what it should be used for imo.
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I had the very same problem. Especially, I could not jump to the string I wanted to copy. I wrote a tmux plugin for it https://github.com/schasse/tmux-jump
Maybe it helps you too. Works great with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
MIT has an IP-equivalent in the form of the exclusive right to tell people you graduated there. Plus a regular property right in who frequents the campus, and it's known that much of the value comes from the network one forms there.
New Zealand I believe.
As someone in NY where at least 17,000 people have died of SARS2 in the last ~6 weeks including two middle aged people one older person I know personally I am absolutely certain that this is nothing, "like the flu" no matter what anyone claims. We don't get 500-1000 people dying (especially middle aged people) of the flu every day - especially when we are in virtual lockdown.

There's no question that a lot of questions remained unanswered, but one question that has a concrete answer is that this is nothing like the flu.
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Poor article, not even a single mention of the most likely reason for low death rate (apart from young population), the weather!
Strong Sun (UV light) and high humidity quickly kills the virus. Warm countries like Thailand - despite millions of tourists from Wuhan - have low death rates. In Spain cold Madrid was affected much worse than sunnier south. Summer will soon rapidly kill of the virus in southern Europe.
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The title is ~amusing for many who have experienced consensus-based decision making.

But anyway, maybe this could be applied to helping people work together cooperatively.
Am I missing anything if I’ve always just logged in somewhere and used Emacs within screen? I get to use all the navigation, window management and clipboard commands I’m used to. Very rarely I’ll need to fire up ansi-term which is slightly less integrated I guess.
Here's an article discussing different epidemiologists, the UK is estimating 0.8-0.9 percent. [1]

NY city numbers are 0.8.

Risk is the issue, it's irresponsible to risk the lives of an entire nation when that number is still unknown - even at 0.8% that's pretty high to try for herd immunity.

[1] https://unherd.com/2020/04/which-epidemiologist-do-you-belie...
On the other hand, if we don't get long term immunity from the virus we wont get it from a vaccine either. In my opinion there is three paths through this. Two of them depends on immunity.
1. Slow down the spread with soft lockdown, let it pass and get immunity. Will take a long time.
2. Try to severly limit spread with hard lockdown. Either to open up and do lockdown again as necessary or stay in lockdown. Untill vaccine. This is a long road. Optimistic figures is a vaccine somewhere second half of next year.
3. Contact tracing and severe quarantine for infected and contacts until the virus is eradicated. Quick, only possible if the spread is limited. You can't open your country to others until they have done the same or a vaccine is here. The unicorn exit is of course every county doing this and a total eradication of the virus.
A country could possibly change track from strategy 2 to 3 if the spread is down really low and contact tracing is in place. Testing without tracing wont do it.

So soft lockdown in maybe a year or more, deaths will be in the 0,5% vicinity, more in some countries, less in some.
Hard lockdown in the same timespan as above. Less deaths but will you have any society to return to? If you do hard lockdown for a while and then lighten up you're in situation 1 basically or forced to lock down soon again.
Number three is very attractive. Had we all been prepared and had plans for this like South Korea and being island nations with easily shut borders like NZ it would have been simpler. But most countries were not and are not any of that.
Repeating decimals may be introduced in a mathematics education long before any other infinite series or the methods used to tame them, such ass limits.
> I would probably just stick with the Dell XPS line

From the product line I think officially they only support the XPS13 on Linux. For larger screen sizes you're probably better off with something from the Dell Precision product line.

I have an XPS13 Developer Edition and have also been pretty happy with it. I like that the experience is improving over time as Wayland and Firefox get better. IMHO the XPS13 is somewhat like a 11" MacBook Air but with 13" screen and a quad-core processor.
During the last four influenza seasons the average deaths was 685 and the worst season was 2017−2018 when a bit more than 1100 people died.

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the quotation was from a work of fiction, which I provided a link to, and not meant to represent my own view of reality.

on edit: my son, however, is a menace, and giving him a mild stimulant would make him a nuclear level threat to the surrounding environment.
But they might want to understand.
Ah yes, Systemd-resolved puzzled me too. From what I could tell this is actually the fault of Golang. Historically Linux implemented DNS control using config files read by the C library. On Linux for not really good reasons the C library is perceived as an optional gateway to the kernel rather than the primary OS interface as it is on other operating systems like macOS or Windows, so statically linked programs or programs that don't use the C library ended up bypassing your configured DNS resolvers.

Arguably they shouldn't have done that and directly invoking syscalls is a bad idea, but Go does it and Linus encourages it, so to make DNS configurable again means making the DNS resolver on the network card a userspace daemon that can then apply/reapply the configuration.

I read the nohup thread linked to elsewhere in this discussion. Poettering doesn't seem like the best communicator but his point was that systemd had to choose between a security-oriented default and a compatibility-oriented default, and they chose security. I can see that the security argument here is rather theoretical (how many systems got hacked over the years because of nohup?!) and the compatibility argument is real, also Poettering's belief that distros are either security or compatibility focussed and would know about this setting is a bit off. But this isn't really a systemd specific issue: macOS and Windows have also upset devs and users a lot with security-oriented backwards incompatible changes.
Very good summary. I still think DP-3T is far preferable due to privacy and the ability to more easily implement it. It'll also get more data as more people will actually use it.
How much of that is actually possible within the windows third-party authentication framework?
Related from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141996

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141996

Plus ça change.
I think the concern is about still qualifying for them when you return
You're forgetting that there are some businesses that have a special strategic importance for a country, for example airlines or defence-related stuff. The rules of capitalism don't really apply to those kind of businesses, because governments would like them to be around even if capitalism itself happens to come crashing down.

Also, since a government has to take into account the political fallout from any bankruptcy, e.g. joblessness, the decision to bail out a company can be a rational choice inside capitalism's framework of rules from the government's perspective, especially in countries with a stronger welfare system.
To which ever rational scientist downvoted me, here are the good doctors' claims from 26th [1] :

"So if you look at California—these numbers are from yesterday—we have 33,865 COVID cases, out of a total of 280,900 total tested. That’s 12% of Californians were positive for COVID. So we don’t, the initial—as you guys know, the initial models were woefully inaccurate. They predicted millions of cases of death—not of prevalence or incidence—but death. That is not materializing. What is materializing is, in the state of California is 12% positives. You have a 0.03 chance of dying from COVID in the state of California."

Even a child can figure out why this is not even wrong.

[1] https://www.aier.org/article/open-up-society-now-say-dr-dan-...
But the excess death data will also be tainted because people, especially older people, avoid going to hospitals out of fear of catching covid19. Cancer screenings are way down, and fewer people go to the ER with heart attacks and the like. This will inevitably lead to excess mortality down the road --even among otherwise healthy people--, but it will be very hard to determine the magnitude of this second-order effect.

Of course it's also very hard to distinguish between people dying with covid19 and dying because of it. And we've never even made a serious effort to track the cause of death of the elderly.

Meaning we don't know how many people die each year from the flu, and we don't know how many people are dying of covid19. When you add it all up, it will be very difficult to learn the right lessons from this pandemic.
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I think this is generally true but with two significant complications:

a) People running out of money is only the surface level problem. Money is an abstraction over value. We can and should mess with the abstraction, but we can't do anything about the underlying value in the economy going up in smoke. "Bullshit jobs" notwithstanding, the things people do at work all day do actually have a role in our collective standard of living. There is a reason we can do modern medicine while the third world can't, and we could lose it.

b) Social life seems frivolous in the small, but in the large it is not. Years without human contact will seriously fuck you up. Not only are individuals in distress, but friendships, relationships, families, communities, and society itself are all in rapid decay. Screen time can only slow that down a little.

Becoming a world of 7 billion hermits for as long as it takes carries real risks and real costs, too.
> Shouldn't we have those 2nd-time sick people by now?

Maybe if there was no infection induced resistance, but with even moderate resistance lasting a few weeks, probably not outside of Wuhan, and it's not like we can be confident we'd get accurate information on that.

> Shouldn't the null hypothesis be that immunity works like most other colds?

Colds are mostly rhinoviruses, this is a coronavirus, so, no, you wouldn't by default generalize from colds. Coronaviruses don't particularly consistently produce long-term reliable immunity, instead what immunity they do produce typically wanes quickly. So the best assumption would be that whatever resistance getting infected confers is likely quite limited in duration.
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I really wish I took a gap year at that age to learn new skills. For instance I went to school for mechanical engineering but I would have loved to have learned programming back then. It was always on my to do list but never had enough time. If I had done it then, I probably would have received a degree in CS or IT instead.

Even for my friends that went for CS, they also said they would have loved to have had more time to apply and actually create things vs just learning theoretical/ engineering side of things in school.

Or for instance my brother if he took off from school he would have had the chance to go pro in the MLS, but it was too big of a risk to put off school at the time. Not that sports are happening now, but just gives a more diverse view.

A more HN example would be to create a business or side hustle.
> There's no evidence of that.

Aside from the fact that the price of oil was 4-5x in Europe compared to the US.

>> there was an artificial limit on the price of gasoline

> Such price controls lead to shortages.

That was the whole point. You constrain the price so everyone can afford a little of it, rather than a small percent affording for of it.

>> the supply was repeatedly cut to almost zero

> That never happened.

OAPEC literally embargoed countries that financed Israel (hello, United States) for months at a time. Great for Texan oil companies! Bad for everyone else.

> Yet he didn't. Reagan did, as his first act

His first act was literally in movies. His 2nd act was keeping the Black Panthers from arming themselves in CA. At least his third act was negotiating dirty deals with Iran. The Contras hadn't offered enough money yet.

> such as multiple MAJOR wars in the middle east

Oh, those wars where Western armies marched in to secure oil fields? I can't imagine why Western oil companies would do well in that market...
I agree. The argument ignores the rule that infinity is a point which can never be reached; it can only be approached.
So repeating 9s infinitely many times will still not reach 1, it will only approach it.
I don’t think this reasoning is correct, because the limit of an expression does not have to be the same as the value at the point the limit is being taken. For example, if your sequence is “sin(1/x) * x“, then it’ll slowly appear to converge to one as x approaches infinity, but it cannot reach it. So there’s really no relevant conclusion you can make.
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This also bothers me. As a keyboard guy it mostly bothered me that I could not jump to the thing that I wanted to copy. I found https://github.com/schasse/tmux-jump, which works really well with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
> it has the potential to change discourse slightly on this topic

[looks a bit further down at the lengthy headphone jack comment thread]

Maybe!
"There is no widespread undetected community transmission in New Zealand. We have won that battle," Ardern said Monday. "But we must remain vigilant if we are to keep it that way."

Asked whether New Zealand had eliminated COVID-19, Ardern replied: "currently."

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
In a time where economists have a lot of soul searching to do, the realists are a good place to start.
If you're unproductive, that seems more like a personality thing vs a being 18 thing. There's hobbies, things 6i can learn, pick up new skills, exercise and get healthy, learn to cook, start a business, etc.
Or it could be that in tech entrepreneurship, goals are quarterly instead of long-term, they're measured in dollars instead of happiness and welfare, and completely failing, folding, and starting anew is admired and encouraged. This approach seems incompatible with the public good.
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> but then they let an infinite sequence be treated as any finite number

Technically it’s an infinite series (sum of an infinite sequence), which is a finite number in certain cases like this one.
yes but we have proven that one will cause cancer.

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The Advent of Code challenges are really interesting as well, you can often code golf those by a lot. I never get that far though :/.

But, what I did last year was visualize one of the assignments; the assignment was something about overlapping areas on a field, the naive solution (for me) was to create an x by y bitmap and just add the overlaps, which could then easily be converted into a visible image, which helped me with visualizing the problem and my solution.
To point 1, you’re right we don’t know for sure, but past experience with Coronaviruses (4 are endemic plus SARS and MERS) suggests that 0.5-3 years is not unreasonable. Past that the question becomes how much immunity, I.e. even if not completely immune, do you get a milder illness. Again we don’t know for sure but it’s a good Bayesian prior to assume yes, recovering from a legitimate SARS-COV-2 infection yields useful immunity for a meaningful period.

For 2, it’s unlikely to mutate to the point of not being recognized within a relevant timeframe. We can track how fast it’s mutating reliably, and it’s not dangerously quick. The good news is if we have immunity, it should last for several years if considering only what we can see about the mutations. Follow the NextStrain project and Trevor Bedford on Twitter for a smarter analysis than I can provide here.
> or they need to remain at current levels indefinitely until an effective vaccine or other treatment is available

It isn't quite so bad. Lockdowns are a continuum of measures, and you can modulate them over time. We're having to do such strict lockdowns because we were so slow in responding. Once the R is below 1 you can release measures to keep it at that threshold and modulate it over time to match your health care capacity. Merkel seems particularly well informed about this, having even explained what the curve of healthcare capacity versus R looks like for Germany.

This was a good discussion on this at the beginning of the lockdowns:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...
Yes although antibodies aren’t the only mechanism. I’m not worried about post-vaccine enhancement with the attenuated strain, I’m worried that you can’t reliably demonstrate the vaccine doesn’t cause enhancement after the real infection.