skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media reports over the last two months mention many risk factors for dying from Covid-19. But there is very little reliable data on their relative importance.

This new study does exactly that. It compares all UK Covid-19 hospital deaths with 17m electronic patient records held by the NHS (National Health Service).

The headline conclusions aren't surprising: risk factors are older, gender, ethnic miniorities, co-morbidities like diabetes/asthma. Smoking is a mild risk reduction.

To see how the relative factors compare, check out the graph on p12 of the PDF preprint:

* https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v...

The code is on GitHub:

* https://github.com/ebmdatalab/opensafely-risk-factors-resear...
Heh...spun the wheel a few times and found someone's re-broadcast of the BBC4 stream.
Tell me about it.

I'm now very mildly asthmatic and had pneumonia and bronchitis often as a child. I know what not breathing, and chronicly not having a strong respiratory system can be like and most people don't. I think that really factors into why people aren't taking it as seriously, going out whatever.

Contrast that with the fact I basically haven't left my Brooklyn apartment in 8 or 9 weeks even though my asthma and breathing issues largely subsided years ago and I would be considered less than mildly asthmatic now, I imagine other people with my profile are acting similarly.
The site favors leftist rags, not really surprising.
Have you read anything about Facebook’s emerging markets? They want to cater to those people themselves!
Where do crane operators stand in this? Where does the productivity come from?
This is a bold statement, from what I see of Gutenberg's B42 bible on wikipedia, printing as been using justified text from day 1 :)
It is a very very loose analogy ;)
Obligatory "I'm not a physycist, but...".

String theories require extra spatial dimensions (to total of 10, 11 or 26), but those dimension are so small and/or looping so that we cannot detect them.

Other approach is to treat our 3D space as slice of higher dimensional space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory#Extra_dimensions

String theories have a lot of problems (biggest ones is that they are currently unverifiable using experiments and they do not give any meaningful predictions about our 3D view of universe), but many theoretical physicists are working on them.
I am a physicist.

It is perfectly possible to formulate theories of physics in higher spatial dimensions. In fact, many high-energy theories like string theory require many spatial dimensions for mathematical consistency. It is something we actively look for signatures of in experiments.

What we have found is that our observations are incompatible with 'extended' additional dimensions. Extended here means that you can go a sizeable distance. It's not that the other dimensions would just stop, but they'd be more like Pac Man---these dimensions might have periodic boundary conditions, making them circles. If the circle's radius (or circumference, equivalently) becomes very large, such a 'compactified' dimension starts to have a lot of space in it, much like the familiar 3 dimensions. So, we can put an upper bound.

My most recent recollection. We may yet have missed dimensions as large as 1mm in [diameter, circumference, I forget]. The most sensitive probes with the fewest assumptions about the structure + particle content of the universe tend to be gravitational, and gravity is very hard to measure precisely on very short length scales.

edit to add: the latest summary of extra dimensional searches from the Particle Data Group http://pdg.lbl.gov/2019/listings/rpp2019-list-extra-dimensio...

even better, here's the PDG's review, rather than their technical summary: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2019/reviews/rpp2018-rev-extra-dimensions...
I get the feeling, but I rarely think "I'm completely done now, time to comment!" Better to admit that and document a bit earlier than when it's "finished".
The only way to fight it is for having false beliefs to have bad consequences, and having true beliefs to have good consequences. But the advance of civilization is basically the continual reduction in bad consequences from false beliefs and good consequences from true ones. Once upon a time, having false beliefs would get you killed and having true beliefs would help you survive. Now having false beliefs gets you Facebook likes, and having true ones gets you downvotes.
> the 1932 Pulitzer Prize

Ok, I googled it and I still don't get it... are you talking about the cartoon?
Remember when working at a FAANG company was supposed to be some mark of pride?
>Some guys think the web should be usable with a 50€ smartphone

You went to the other extreme though. Most people in high-income countries don't even have FTTH.
They're lucky (or cursed) to have had the same person build so many different systems at the company.
It's really odd that this bug occured, as IB has no issue pricing credit spreads with negative values. Must be an issue specific to commodities futures contracts. I wonder what data types they were using.
My personal opinion is people voted for Obama out of hope. They felt betrayed as nothing really changed. Voted for Trump as a FU, voted brexit as FU and so on.
Exactly, and it doesn't matter whether or not markets are actually efficient when it comes to explaining this price move. People were willing to pay what they paid for stocks yesterday. Today, news is better than expected. They'll now be willing to pay more. If they believe that markets are efficient, whether or not they actually are, that'll support buying even more. So better than expected news makes prices move up. The main point I'm trying to make is that this move isn't because traders are happy there's so much unemployment.
Exploitation of a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Zero-Click RCE Bug via MMS
> Interactive Brokers' software is usually very solid.

Except their web portal. 40-50% of the time it is unable to load my portfolio data (even without the current market value, just the number of stocks and cash balances). At the same time I log into the mobile app, it forces a logout on the web app (why?) and it is able to load the balances and portfolio. No explanation. Same network, no adblocker or other browser plugin.
The prominent crimes here from addicts looking for a fix are panhandling, vagrancy and trespassing.
Well, no.

Nobody grew food to feed to farm animals one hundred years ago, and I'd bet the vast majority of farm animals today are still not fed agricultural products.

Your complaint is against American factory farming, which is a whole separate issue of economic incentives and wealth distribution.
It contains different estimates based on different actions taken, and yes, there is a best case estimate, I linked directly to that breakdown.

As I said, there are no published best case death models that we have not come in under. Yes, yes, I know "wait two weeks" (now years).
After IRC we switched to SILC for many years. It was quite nice and very IRCish (+ crypto), but after a long time without new development and maintenance, we went with matrix. Two years ago it was still a bit bumpy. A lot of work went into it and now it's mostly smooth sailing -- can recommend.
or they're raising capital and the end justifies the means

same result of avoiding litigation, but even fewer consequences
Analyzing 1000 ratings of Skype and Zoom rooms videocalls
Just in a few weeks, 200K people started following the @RateMySkypeRoom or the Bookcase Credibility projects on Twitter. Every few minutes a new screenshot of someone on TV speaking from home gets analyzed. Claude Taylor, a veteran of presidential campaigns who worked for the Clinton White House, is behind it.

Since they have already rated almost 1000 Zoom and Skype rooms I thought that would be big enough to turn all these screenshots and reviews into an structured dataset to find some clear patterns on what makes people look good or bad on videocalls.

After getting all the tweets with our scraper Tractor, I uploaded the dataset to Graphext and filter out only the original tweets containing a rating between 0 and 10. Then I clustered all the ratings using our simmilarity algorithm for short texts, which uses word2vec.
These are parallel things. Frontend frameworks let you build more predictable and solid apps than vanilla JS.

Indirectly it leads to better UX since the developers can spend more time on UI tweaking, than doing it vanilla.
No, we don't. I don't think you understand how Remdsivir works. I don't think you understand that its effects are corrected by the viral error-correcting enzyme.

Furthermore, I don't think you understand that Remdesivir has shown to be effective only within 48 hours of exposure. But Covid19 symptoms take 4-5 days after exposure.

Furthermore, Remdesivir reduces viral load. But there is no known correlation between viral load and disease severity.

Furthermore, Remdesivir needs injections. It is not effective through the intestinal path. So, no pill form.

Furthermore, it takes about 8.5 liters of starting material to create a single injection (about 1ml). So the effort to create injections is huge.

Listen to the experts. Listen to microbe.tv/twiv
How has the government protecting the weak and minorities worked out - during the entire history of the US?

In the US “it’s not the strong few”. The majority can and does use the government to impose its will.
Narrow Band of Intelligence
If there were 4 spatial dimensions + 1 time dimension we would end up in an unstable universe.

Ehrenfest (1917/1920) studied the hydrogen in n dimensions and concluded for n> 3 that neither classical atoms nor planetary orbits can be stable, because the inverse square law of electrostatic and gravity becomes an inverse cube law. When n > 3 there are no stable orbits to the two body problem: an incoming light body attracted by a heavy one would either escape to infinity or get sucked into collision.

For n = 3 we get stable elliptic orbits or non-bound parabolic and hyperbolic orbits.

Collision only occurs when the lighter body heads directly towards the heavy body within 2R (R being the heavier body's radius), ie. the impact parameter is zero [2]

[1] https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.19203660503

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_parameter

edit: grammar
This is online Republicans favorite tactic. 30 links compiled, each link having some unique logical issue so that you can’t call them all out for the same reason. No one wants to go through and debunk 30 links individually
Krugman addressed this a few days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/economy-stock-mar...

He basically says the economy is not the stock market and there aren't a lot of better places to put cash to grow it.
The new "Person X has posted a photo" notifications are the worst. Their abuse of the notification icon is getting ridiculous. It used to be focused on when someone interacted with something you had done, now it's just used to drive "engagement".
Agreed but I'd go further and say that if you are 'debating' someone who is in a Gish Gallop, you really aren't debating and yes, you shouldn't debate them.
> This is like saying "cabinets don't help organize a kitchen if you don't put anything in them" -- I mean, duh, you have to use it right. That's not an argument to have no cabinets.

Good counterpoint.
Parent comment sound too much like the "TRUE programmers don't use data structures" old meme
I do formal risk assessments as a part of my job, in a context where people are often risking their lives. Both 1:6 and 1:291 as the chance of of severe injury or death are both firmly in the highest risk category under most calculations, meaning that for decision making, you should assume that it will result in death. Yes, they are two orders of magnitude different. But the comparison is not nonsensical.
I'm thinking that until they are perfect these kind of languages lure the developer into a one-way street, convenient until you reach a dead-end at which point your only escape (if you are lucky) is a whole bunch of contrived and difficult to maintain typing constructs.

Still interesting research though.
Amazing how silent some people have got on here about this topic lol...
That plumbing was not in any way up to standard. If you've got s-curves in your pipes you shouldn't have anything to worry about with getting this (or cholora, or norovirus) via your toilet from another unit.

I don't think we've actually had any fecal transmission with SARS-2 either, or even had someone successfully culture live virus from a stool sample. We've seen a lot of virus RNA show up in stool from infected patients but that might be due to swallowed saliva. I'd try to avoid contact with other people's feces in any event but the danger here really does seem to be mostly droplets.
Awesome trackpads, and cohesive hardware from a single maker vs a massive ecosystem of different arrangements of components. Different ethos imo.
The implication of OPs post was that this was a frequent enough occurrence to legitimately fear interactions with police.

My point is that this is excessive, and partly a result of the eagerness that the media to latch onto and sensationalize stories of blacks being killed by police.

It is relevant to the discussion.

Edit: all of this particularly when negative interactions are going to very heavily skew towards people who are combative and/or noncompliant. This is total paranoia.
How I Manage Python Dependencies in Data Science Projects
>> “ COVID-19 is affecting people right now. It, and other viruses like the flu, are just a giant rhythm game: if everyone could be isolated for 2 weeks, it would be over in 2 weeks, and we'd never have to deal with it ever again.”

Above claim includes set of assumptions that are unsaid and likely unaccounted for, for example:

- isolation occurs per person, not per household.

- 14 days is enough; research I’ve seen claims that only covers 97.5% of the population, which clearly is not 100% of the population; meaning that in 2.5% of the cases, it took longer than 14-days for the individual to become systemic; longest claim I have seen is 28 days, but that’s clearly an outlier may have been due to error of some sort.

- 14-days assumes you’re systemic on the first day of isolation, though mean time to becoming systemic in not zero days, it’s 5-days.

- assumes no latent environmental infection, wildlife based exposure, no bad actors intentionally reinfecting a population, etc

- simply put, no, 14-days is not enough, and few people understand the dynamics at play.
"On iOS you can't install different browsers either."

???
Using a website does not imply informed consent.
I think its you that may not understand the problem that's being faced...
Genuine question. Are there other countries in which you can not show up for a scheduled shift, without making prior arrangements with management, and not get reprimanded? On top of this telling your boss that you won't be in for two weeks without their approval...
The problem here is that you're still required to engage with some amount of the nonsense, otherwise you're very likely debating in bad faith. And it will absolutely look like bad faith to any onlookers.

The common rejoinder to your reply will be hammering the fact that they provided sources that you didn't even examine by way of appealing to meta-argument, and they'd be right. This tactic ranks roughly at the same level as "responding to tone" on PG's hierarchy of disagreement.

Better would be picking one or two of the more pertinent sources and demonstrating their faults. This has the benefit of casting doubt on the rest of the list. If you can find a citation loop, even better.
The reality of the situation hasn't been acknowledged in a lot of arenas.
There's no way to fight it that won't be considered censorship and a violation of free speech by many people, and that won't be fought against tooth and nail on principle alone.
The use of Monokai is so off-brand for FB.
Alright, I'll bite - what does it do?
Yep, works fast for me too. Random profile opens in 2-3 seconds max for me. But for some people websites are slow for some reason. I've heard complains about Gmail loading 30 seconds, while it takes 2-3 seconds cold start for me.
Old Reddit is so damn ugly though apart from the Subreddits which have nice custom themes (although does make for a 00's Myspace-like inconsistent interface)

The new Reddit definitely seems a lot faster nowadays than it did when it first launched.
To the Mods Who Blocked This Post About Short Selling
"Excellent article. I have been trading large positions since 2008, with a few hundred invested on any given day. I have seen this eveidenced in the real world many, many times. It is easy to verify if you doubt it. Read the filings of people like Empry, Sabby, and track the penny stocks they buy. It’s like clockwork for these guys.

This is a MUST READ and should be shared in all of penny land."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052058

Pathetic. The internet has been taken over by hoards of self-righteous, naive, know-it-all's from Silicon Valley who for the most part grew up in the Suburbs living sheltered lives...Ideologues who have spent most of their life in school and staring at a computer screen...

We are doomed

Link to rule 105 https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/risk-alert-091713-rul...

Compilation of financial scandals (probably the most extensive online) https://thefinancialoligarchs.com/scandals/

See this is the problem with micromanaging forums. All the naysayers are completely wrong, and now the post is flagged, even though hundreds of people read it and seemed to enjoy it.

Truly sick

Oh by the way, nobody knows about Gun and Run. It's a niche industry secret that I just shared with you for free...

Truly pathetic and sick that you would flag this
Niko's (Rust current lead) blob[1] talks about it among many other Rust things. I'm on mobile atm, so I can't give you exact links, but you should find what you're looking for.

[1]: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/
The best way to combat that is to not design anything too far into the future. This is where agile and sprints can be very helpful. It also means you are checking the work of the subcontractors on a regular basis. After a while you will learn how to communicate very well, you'll see the strengths and weaknesses of the staff and you can operate within those constraints.

That is the real work here; discovering acumen. Once you know that, you can hand out work that fits within their wheelhouse.

American developers excel at this because there's less of a communication gap. If an American can not do something he will tell you. If you are wrong about the way you are doing something, an American developer will tell you. Outsourced subcontractors will blindly do what they understood they were supposed to do without questioning anything resembling rationale.

Just know that going in.

You know what else is like that? A computer.

GIGO, etc.
You may think hackers are purely data-driven rational beings, but they are in fact humans too, and prefer an enticing headline.
I think it's especially necessary to combat this kind of inaccuracy when the word "strain" also has strong non-scientific connotations.

Completely ignoring what "strain" means to a virologist, when you tell a layperson that there is a new strain of something, they generally will worry, and think one (or more) of the following: a) the existing vaccine or vaccine in development won't cover the new strain, b) existing treatments for people who are sick won't be effective, c) it's easier to catch, d) they're more likely to die of it. The fact that a new strain is related to a distinct biological difference doesn't matter; what people care about is what a strain means for their health.

So even if you ignore the scientific-jargon meaning, it's important to recognize the layperson meaning, and ensure that you stamp out inaccuracies based on that meaning as well. As much as you'd like to educate everyone as to the true meaning of some terms, it's a losing battle, so you might as well just recognize how people use a term and speak to that usage. In this particular case, the scientific and layperson meanings aren't exactly the same, but it's just as important in both arenas to clear up misinformation.
Just to continue the analogy about carpentry / home construction. About a decade ago when I moved into my apartment it came with a wall mount for the TV that had a tricky mechanism that would not be clear to a casual user how to mount/unmount from quick looking. And it would be even more difficult to figure out with a TV in the way.

10 years later, it's time for me to move out, and I'd left the TV as the last thing because I had forgotten how to work the mechanism to get the TV off the wall (and it would require all sorts of annoying face-against-the-wall maneuvering to see how to unscrew, etc).

I look from the floor up behind the back, and what do you know -- I'd left myself a taped note, extra bolts, and instructions on exactly where to turn the hidden lock screws (in the state where the TV already mounted) to release the unit from the wall.

I was marveling at my foresight for a self-satisfied minute (and thanking my past self).
there is of course a bit of difference in some use cases, my point is that in a real world scenario you often do not have

<class="card"> vs <class="a b c d e">

but more something like
<class="card"><class="stuff-inside-card"><class="other-stuff">

vs
<class="a b c d e"><class="b c f"><class="c d e g">

so in the long run you tend to have more repeated strings across even completely unrelated elements and that usually balances out the possible increase in non gzipped bytes.
But to be honest we did not had a detailed comparison with edge cases and it would be interesting to see when it actually may be a bad idea and when it is totally fine
France had Covid-19 on November 16, hospital says after analysis of chest scans
You should link to the actual study, not to a yellow press blog post. If you do that you then need to explain what a 'loser' is, because that's a subjective truth.

Of the top of my head I can name three big conspiracies that played before our eyes and were only later uncovered to the public:

* weapons and mass destruction and invasion on Iraq
* mass surveillance and data collection program by the US government
* Project MKUltra

Not to mention countless of conspiracies in European football that enabled individuals to get rich by rigging matches. A theory itself is nothing wrong, otherwise you could say that most science is nonsense.

There are theories that have been proven incorrect and are completely crazy to believe in; flat Earth or fake Moon landing for example. Those theories you could say are most likely to be believed by intellectually lowered population, but you need to be careful with generalising. If you simply say 'conspiracy theories' and don't discuss at length which types of conspiracy theories you're referring to, you are labelling everyone who posses critical thinking faculties as a 'loser'.

We need to be scientifically rigid when looking for correlation and drawing conclusions, otherwise we are merely expressing our opinion under the label of science misleading the reader as a result. That's bad science.
I also like the idea of being my own CA instead of pretending a bunch of random companies are trustworthy.