skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to their numbers, less than half the "symptomatic cases" resulted in a medical visit. Based on information from their FAQ[1], it seems that column represents the total number of people the CDC estimates got the flu that year:

> How many people get sick with flu every year?

> CDC conducts surveillance for people who see their health care provider for flu-like illness through the Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet); a network of thousands of health care providers who report the proportion of patients seeking care for flu-like illness weekly to CDC. This system allows CDC to track levels of medically attended flu-like illness over the course of the flu season. CDC does not know exactly how many people get sick with seasonal flu each year. There are several reasons for this including that ILINet does not include every health care provider and monitors flu-like illness, not laboratory-confirmed influenza cases. Also, flu illness is not a reportable disease and not everyone who gets sick with flu seeks medical care or gets tested.

> CDC uses mathematical modeling in combination with data from traditional flu surveillance systems to estimate the numbers of flu illnesses in the United States. CDC estimates that flu has resulted in between 9.3 million and 49 million illnesses each year in the United States since 2010. For more information on these estimates see CDC’s Disease Burden of Influenza page. For more information on CDC surveillance systems, see CDC’s Overview of Influenza Surviellance in the United States.

The way I read that, from the CDC's POV if you aren't symptomatic you didn't get the flu. Similarly, if you are symptomatic it doesn't necessarily mean you did get the flu.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm
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At least for Vit D and B12, the healthy levels were determined by establishing levels in "healthy" cohorts. Deficiency diseases for both of these vitamins are relatively rare, so it is easier to establish a wider "safe" range, rather than "deficiency" ranges.

There's been a great deal of debate on safe Vit D levels, and the consensus (such as it is) is that a serum level of 30 ng/mL is likely optimal. Yet there are many studies that show healthy individuals with serum levels < 10 ng/mL, and they do not seem to suffer the bone abnormalities expected.

There's a similar situation with Vit B12. Reference ranges were established from healthy individuals based on dietary intake, and there is no upper limit. It's also unclear what the bottom of the healthy range is either. A relatively recent investigation by the health authorities in India found that the dietary intake of B12 of the average Indian was less than a tenth of the US average, with no obvious ill effects. B12 deficiency diseases are practically unheard of in India, yet when tested against American references, a large portion of the population is "deficient". The Indian authorities eventually set the recommended intake of B12 to the WHO standard, which is a lot lower than the American or European levels.
Anecdotal, but my wife is a stylist and is very much listening and providing individual feedback. She feels so bad when someone doesn't like what she picks so it's her goal to make them happy. Not all are bad.
I really like OP's approach here but still, find that some kids' specific games are quite good on their own. In particular, Ticket to Ride: First Journey is a great adaptation to the full game.

Another one that nobody believes me about (because it sounds like such a preposterous cash grab) is Super Mario Brothers Monopoly. But the changed some of the fundamentally boring aspects of the game to make it really quick to play and introduced the concept of "hero" characters with unique abilities to it.
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Well, this was my first contact with this company and this was my experience. Probably they pay a lot more attention to their products than they do to their websites.
Some scientists were calling for these studies on YouTube but those videos were all banned sadly... I was lucky enough to catch one of them before they got banned though.
In my experience, Bach appeals more to analytical and mathematical types because the music relies less on dramatic swells and romantic melodies, and more on complex, baroque counterpoint that requires multiple listens to truly unravel. That and it makes people feel smart.
To some extent they do. I've worked at employers who prioritize diet (on site cafe's with posted nutritional information), exercise (on site locker rooms with showers, subsidized gym memberships and reimbursement for employee purchased exercise equipment), work-life balance, etc. I think at this point most employees would bristle a bit if their employer started providing on-site blood tests to check vitamin levels (Imagine the HN threads!), but I could see that changing if it became a more popular thing for people to do on their own.
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Is there a way to report incorrect feeds? I was listening to our local scanner feed last night and growing increasingly alarmed at the amount of activity, until I realized that the scanner audio was actually for a larger city an hour away. I’ve listened before and it’s been correct, but last night it was definitely not.
Yeah and debugging it usually requires me to examine my least favorite and most fragile parts of my build tools.

I think my employer's gulp config has had source maps broken for 2 years now, but I'm probably the only person who would do anything about it...
From The Fugitive (25 seconds):
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In 1987, they weren't on twitter, like the US and the Taliban exchanging agreement barbs recently. (unlike in certain quarters, I think these twitter presences have allowed some grievance airing which has actually helped the peace)

Maybe we can get them all to settle their differences with a dance-off on TikTok?
Not wistful, no. Curious.

I ignored canvas as an option because:
1) It has inherent accessibility problems (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ca...)
2) It's not and never really could be a markup language (by design), so a declarative format would rely on some library like Flutter and would never truly be a standard. I was wondering what the state of web standards would be if we had gone (or now went) that route.
They own Pocket, so that's probably related.
Man, I don't miss the amount of spec lawyering that exists in C. All of these pedantic details that don't contribute a single lick to writing software...
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Note the results you quoted are for a test case in which all instructions are back-to-back dependent, which is good for testing the hardware and developing performance models, but not representative of well-tuned GPU codes.

> doesn't answer if there is a disadvantage in having too many warps,

There are disadvantages in having too many warps - the first is that the more warps per block you have, the fewer registers/thread you can use and the lower your achievable instruction level parallelism.

> but considering that the max warps/block/sm is 32, we can say that you need 32 warps / 1024 threads per SM for optimal performance most often

I don't think any well-tuned GPU kernels use 32 warps/block, most are at 4 to 8 warps/block.

See also:

https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas/wiki/SGEMM

https://www.nvidia.com/content/GTC-2010/pdfs/2238_GTC2010.pd...
Whenever I looked at pocket recommendations, I would either get:
1. political content; which is something I barely read. And a lot of the content doesn't even align with me (But again, I don't read a lot of political articles)
2. US Sports; I'm european!

I'd try to mark everything as "Not interested", but that never really changed anything in the end.
I do use Pocket, but mostly as a bookmarking tool. And all the topics that I bookmark are either tech, or self help / phychology related. I never get anything that matches these topics in my recommendations. Not really looking forward to seeing them on my new tab. But I assume you can switch it off.
Now would be a good time to donate funds to the Internet Archive. While you visit to give them money, check out the awesome collection. http://archive.org/donate

It is also a good time to reflect upon the very idea of intellectual property. In this age, 15th century ideas about how to protect printers may not be ideal in the 21st century. Patents and copyright are constitutionally mandated: [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” It is not clear that our current laws are doing the job.
Any specific models/manufacturers you can suggest?
the website itself is, but it aggregates journal articles which are not. there are a lot of academic journals with very low standards for peer review, but PubMed doesn't make any editorial choices.
The rising popularity of Emacs “starter kits” (Doom, Spacemacs, Centaur, Prelude, etc) is exactly in this spirit. While not segmented by audience, each of them aims to provide sane defaults and package collections for a varied set of common use cases.
Salience and specific evidence is a necessary but insufficient condition for these kinds mass outrage conditions. In the end the final trigger is obvious only in retrospect.

As a less politically sensitive topic for most Americans, I point to the Arab spring uprising as a good example. Tensions had been rising for decades, but the final trigger was when Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor, lit himself on fire to protest the local police stealing his possessions & threatening his livelihood. A tragic event, for sure, but after decades of brutality and continual tragedy, who could have possibly predicted that that would be the final straw?
Our family has also found this to be true for Catan Junior. It's a great game on its own with quite a lot of replay value, so we end up sometimes playing Catan Junior even though everyone has the ability to play Settlers of Catan.
I highly second the people saying KMS (AWS KMS, Google KMS, or KeyVault).

* The pricing for just storing keys is incredibly cheap.

* At least with Google KMS you can't delete the keys without a 24 hour waiting period (and you can alert on the deletion attempt), so that's a huge safeguard.

* You get key access auditing out of the box.
I'm surprised they aren't just going with ARM designed chips and moving to a Linux system. This would seem to give them scale, pricing, availability/compatibility and also if they support open source with financial contributions then a really strong level of application security out if the box.

State security is important, but corporate security is critical as a first line of defense, because without those big successful companies and their contributions in taxes, R&D and tech support the state loses flexibility and top talent. Then a state will lose ground in preservation of their independence.
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In practice you will still hear sensitive information from time to time. Psychology is so dynamic that emotion easily finds a way to route around these invisible barriers. It's hard work and they're humans...
Mostly listening in to news about the looters here (Chicago). Obviously I care about the protesters/rioters but they're not who I need to watch out for.
It looks like they are already monetizing it. A few of the articles have a "Sponsored by X" below them. I don't love that, but at least they set it up in a way where they aren't collecting data on users to show them. They have to pay the bills somehow.
Yes, I starting to dislike more and more when random tech companies try to push their political views on their users. Leave us alone.
I was curious about that too. I wasn't sure if it was targeted ads or a news aggregator. I think it's more of a news aggregator.

From the Firefox New Tab FAQ (https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco...)

> Are these stories personalized to me? For the most part, no. Most recommendations on your new tab come from a general list of the best of stories on the web.

> Pocket occasionally partners with select publishers and brands to deliver high-quality sponsored stories to our users. These stories will always be clearly marked

> Pocket’s 30+ million global users help guide our curation by pointing us to thought-provoking essays, hidden gems, and fascinating deep-dives from across the web. Editors at Pocket then sift through the most-recommended and most-read stories and handpick the best to share with the wider Pocket and Firefox communities
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This has been going on for quite a while now. AFAIK you can still disable pocket
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I hope you like high heat, high fan noise, and thermal throttling issues (common XPS issues that myself and others have experienced). I hope you also like random Wifi failures, random freeze-the-world-while-some-app-is-having-a-network-timeout issues.

macOS is getting worse, no doubt. But Windows still has multiple unacceptable problems (ungodly slow unzipping, still!, random heavy lag or freezing, surprise 30 minute Windows Update installations happening during a reboot you had to do during important work, etc. etc.)

Plus, the day to day file management story is still sub-par in Windows. If you've gotten used to Quicklook on a Mac (because it's so handy), you're SOL on Windows. How hard is it to provide a spacebar activated preview popup?

PDF reading and printing is still a nightmare on Windows compared to macOS. Again I refer to Quicklook, whereby you can open and scan/read a PDF near instantaneously; in Windows it's slow and clumsy. Saving (printing) anything as a PDF on a Mac is fast and easy. In Windows it's a slow, multi-click process.

And Linux... on the desktop... still not there. Yes with the right hardware and the right drivers and config, distros like Fedora can be pretty close to perfect. But you still have HiDPI problems sometimes (Windows does as well), random UI-related service crashes, app/package-system conflicts (since there is no one standard package management system that all apps agree upon), and more.

Sadly, the entire computing experience has peaked and declined in the last few years. That said, macOS is still the best desktop OS for everything but gaming.
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I use nearlyfreespeech to host my personal static website. Annual cost is less than 10 dollars. I use namecheap for my domain which is 10-15 dollars/year.

They have a nice estimator https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/estimate
I'm sure it will be able to be disabled but it's so frustrating seeing more advertising being baked into the browser. I really don't want web browsers to subtly (or not so subtly) influence what people are reading.

edit: Like many others have noted before this everything is "free" model of the Internet seems completely broken to me and I feel a bit sad/hopeless about it.
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1. To extend the metaphor a bit, the risk with climate change is burning down the entire neighborhood.

2. You can't really put the carbon back that easily.
Perhaps a dumb question, but how did you restore the data without the keys? Was a prior backup unencrypted?
We use Bitwarden[0] for our secrets. It's open-source with a hosted option. Makes sharing passwords and keys across the team pretty straightforward.

In addition to it, we use envwarden[1], which is a simple open-source wrapper around the Bitwarden CLI to manage our server secrets. It's super simple, but does the job for us well. We can then manage both passwords and keys in one place.

Disclaimer: I created envwarden. I'm not affiliated with Bitwarden in any way however. Just a happy customer.

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[1] https://github.com/envwarden/envwarden
By the way, I found this yesterday:

https://bl.ocks.org/rleddy

My first thought looking at that SVG code is "we're better off with what we've got." But then I thought of it as looking inside the component code for a React/Ember/Angular/Vue/Svelte/etc. component and thought maybe it wasn't really that much more complex. And out of the box right now it would be possible to re-use at least the markup with SVG's use tag, which, in combination with HTML templates, could be pretty powerful.
Quality doesn't really matter for status objects, they just have to be the most expensive.
I suspect it's exactly the opposite.

During quarantine, you have far fewer people spending most of their waking hours in huge concrete coffins.

How many people even get to see the sun during a typical workday, much less spend time in direct sunlight?
Yes of course - saving work regularly is good. However apart from long-running tasks you can still lose things like the current state of your desktop and applications. Consider if you were working on something involved and had many applications running all with some complex state set up. You might not lose any data but you have lost the 'working memory' of what you were doing.
A friend of mine did exactly this. Physics Ph.D., was being courted for postdocs. Decided to go work for a Beltway consulting firm. Left after a few years to work for a startup in Virginia, still works there and feels not an ounce of regret for leaving physics.

Anyhow, consulting companies in particular seem to like Physics Ph.D.s, especially if they can wear a suit.
Definitely! And it depends on what key you're storing, but if you use AWS Secrets Manager, you can setup automatic key rotation to run periodically.
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We keep the encryption key stored in plain text files on client offline machine.

Catch: Client machine is encypted with VeraCrypt. Veracript hidden drives, one password is kept by product owner and another password is kept by head of security.

Offline client machine is key for us.

We rotate encryption keys after quarterly security audit.
The writer has his blog sourcecode on Github.

https://github.com/MartinHeinz/blog-backend

The frontend is built on Vue.js.
I believe this. I love the idea of StitchFix but have not had great experiences with them. I finally had a stylist explain that they just don't get much inventory that matches my style preferences. This makes perfect sense, since they need to stock clothes that will fit/suit the widest variety of people, which leads to a lot of baggy, shapeless choices.
Understood and accurate so far as I'm aware. As my other response notes, the tradition of copyright maximalisation began in Europe in the 19th century before being adopted by US interests in the 20th. Nationalistic attribution of traits answers far less than monopolistic power expansion.
Sorry, I call it like I see it and if you think looting is helping the cause (the part you omitted) then I stand by it. I was talking about young people who would say their actions are helping and I was also talking about their supporters who rationalize it as ok and helping.

Using adjectives to describe the headspace of people who are committing crimes or supporting those that do that aren't even related to the injustices at hand, destroying businesses and other people's places of work, etc, is not name-calling.
Everyone not happy with pocket recommendations, what is the alternate source of revenue? Not enough will pay for the product. On the other hand Mozilla has to compete with Apple, Google & Microsoft, all of whom are fighting hard for the Web.

Mozilla is doing good overall. They are doing some fundamental work to get back the technical edge, still trying to keep the future of the platform open with WebAssembly and their products have become much more reliable now. We have to cut them some slack.
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There are note taking systems that enabled that. Obsidian (from here a couple days ago) and Trilium both track links and backlinks, which can let you integrate that to a degree. It creates a web of information, as opposed to a strict hierarchical taxonomy. So you can link across those to hopefully maintain discoverability.

I generally dislike labeling systems. My interpretation of a label is too context-dependent and liable to shift over time. I.e. "architecture" could refer to either systems architecture or building architecture. And I frequently don't think that I'll have a conflict until some day I decide I want to learn about Napoleonic architecture for some reason. And then when I separate them, I'll end up forgetting what I called the label (was it systems-architecture? tech-architecture? application-architecture?) and I end up futzing around to figure out what the label was, breaking my flow of thought.