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For a significant percentage of people, symptoms are mild. It wouldn't be at all surprising for someone like Bolsanaro or Trump to get a mild case and cite that as evidence - "see, I got it, and it wasn't bad at all!"
1% dies, ~ 10% are hospitalized, and many of those will have lifelong issues after recovering. So yeah, the body count piling up when not even 10% of the population has caught the disease kind of disproves your point.

And 1/3 of the population has "existing conditions", so no, you're not just being insensitive.
I think this is the most in-depth article on Ampere: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ampere-architecture...

Lots of architectural changes like MIG, new floating point formats, etc. Great to see GCP getting VMs out pretty soon after launch so people can start kicking the tires.
I want all of the backend features as a standalone system; I just don't feel comfortable being tied to a single editor, though this one does look pretty great. Are there systems out there with comparable features but which are editor-agnostic?
I agree and would go even farther. This article would be 0% effective if written in a neutral style. When you're trying to reach people stuck in an "us vs them" mentality, you have to identify yourself as "us" before you start criticizing "us". Otherwise the criticism will be seen as identifying yourself as "them" and people will start railing, not against what you're saying, but against all the other arguments associated with "them".
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I think you've just described religion ;)
wouldn't it mean a 3+ month incubation period?

When the government is AWOL, M16 as a tool to "encourage" people to wear masks :

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/americas/brazil-rio-favela-co...

"Young dealers, not state medical personnel, are the ones encouraging measures against coronavirus in the favela."

It is quite notable that the 3 worst hit countries - US, Brazil, Russia - are lead by the populist regimes, ie. governments using propaganda as the main tool which is naturally not an effective tool against an infectious virus. As the saying goes "these days in Russia when people die it is from pneumonia, and when people recover it is from coronavirus" (in Russia there is a criminal penalty specifically for coronavirus misinformation, which basically means any mismatch with the official info)
The article misses an often overlook but important point: burning hydrogen in air produces NOX which can be a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. The solution to reduce the amount of generated NOX exists but the resultant engine is larger and consumes more fuel for the same power output.

Further, as stated hydrogen is typically produced by steam reforming which generates greenhouse gases. The alternative of using electrolysis requires electricity generated from carbon neutral sources.

Taking all this into account:

- making steel requires electricity, the carbon neutral source can be used here directly;

- land vehicles already have a proven alternative with electric engines;

- naval vehicles do not have the luxury of easily recharging electric batteries.

As a summary I think the solution already exists for steel making and land based transport the problem is widespread adoption and politics rather than technology. Naval based transport can benefit from hydrogen as a fuel source but it comes at the engineering challenge of transport/storage and the associated safety concerns.
> In a couple benchmarks Java would probably be faster…

Please be specific.

JMH timing for that spectral-norm program was 0.175s to 0.283s faster than the 4.29s elapsed time (16s cpu time).

That's not 10-20% it's 6.6%.

At best that might put the best Java spectral-norm program a little faster than the best Haskell program.

At best that might mean the best Java spectral-norm program took 2x (twice as long as) the best C++ program.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> … would probably be faster…

Please take those tiny tiny programs and JMH and make your own measurements — you might believe measurements you make yourself.
Have a link to a story about the nfl players? Hadn’t heard that one.
I'd argue that this year we've learned that the percentage of psychopathy in the general population is way higher than the 2% I've seen being estimated before.
> the fact that over-policing seriously hinders economic prosperity

I'm replying to an old discussion, but if you see this comment, do you have a source for this? Thanks.
It’s not just about the specific mortality of the disease. The virus is bad enough that a significant quantity of people need hospitalization. COVID patients in the hospital take a long time to recover or die. So if you fill a hospital to the brink with COVID patients, it takes a while for that capacity to be released.

If the pandemic is left unattended, there won’t be space in the hospital for heart attacks, stroke, car crashes, or any number of other treatable conditions. Mortality for everything goes up.
If we assume that 1% of people who got the disease died, what is 1% of 209.5 million?

When you put it to a percentage it may seem low, but when you calculate how many people would actually die as a result, you get a far different picture. That's just people that died, not counting the people who have reduced lung capacity or other damages as a result of the virus.
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City planners often find it difficult to judge how cities feel. Are they happy or sad? What are they happy or sad about as well. It can only really be done through polls. This is an attempt to get around the difficulty of polling.

Not perfect, doesn't solve any major problems. There can be many major improvements, such as data cleaning (no astroturf detection for instance). But, I think this is a pretty cool tool that, in the right hands and with the right improvements, can really help city planners.
We should have the UN mandate IPv6 adoption everywhere, then that a block of public IPs for everyone is considered a human right, and great part of the issue would be over.
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> ideas as either "safe" or "unsafe"

"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates left unguarded".

Thing of it is, there ARE safe and unsafe ideas (or, more commonly, safe and unsafe presentation of ideas). And it's critical thinking skills that render you capable of safely handling unsafe ideas / presentations.

You're right that the introspection is valuable, and that encountering "unsafe" ideas should lead to it; so I'm going to suggest: it's a person's attitude towards introspection that realizes the risk posed by an idea.

> who want to silence debate

IMO these people are just very badly communicating the idea "stop talking about other people's lives, and have those people speak instead" (plus layers of baggage and trauma). Halle Berry's recent controversy over a trans role is a good example of this; people talked about how she should't play the role (and some other issues), what they meant was "someone who lived this story should tell this story".

> people are strong/wise enough

Yes. Do you support massively more funding for education? Or do you see something else as a means to fight for this?
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Depends. If the malware's job is to just pull the Messages database off the device, then no, this wouldn't find it because the exploit would likely make minimal patches to things it cares about and Snapchat would not be aware that the kernel has been compromised. But if the spyware tried to inject code into the Snapchat process–which is the only thing that malware would do that it can really check for–it's possible, but depending on the sophistication of the malware authors it's quite possible to bypass these checks.
That's the CDN model, but what about the peer to peer model? I can stream a video over bittorrent with just one good seeder.
He definitely seems to be handling it quite alright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0WaCmO56E
I literally don’t care. I’m going to live my life.
Why is Barr going after Google?
Not to be insensitive, but we can’t assume a vaccine will be developed.

Flattening the curve of infection (under this assumption) still has a similar area under the curve... (i.e. people are going to get infected, people are going to die because the virus is not going away).
its been politicized so people have taken sides and people cant have their ideology be wrong. it will be many years before there is a consensus on how this pandemic was handled.
>Most services existed before, with a variety of models. E.g. Both subscription and ad revenue based free news papers existed long before the internet.

Yes, but aren't most of those newspapers essentially partisan politics? Every free newspaper I've seen IRL has been backed by somebody trying to push for politics. From my experience they also tend to not be that informative.

>Maybe, we would have had more invention and uaee acceptance in different ways to pay and consume services instead of this race to the bottom of cheap ads.

The problem is that there is no price equilibrium that will work. People from poor countries can't afford to pay what is a reasonable price for people from rich countries. Poor people in general can't afford to pay. Kids/teenagers can't afford to pay. And this gets complicated even more by the fact that we don't even have payment methods available to everyone. Even if you could afford it, you couldn't pay. Ie I've never owned a credit card in my life and as far as I know I'm not eligible for one. They have a minimum income limit that I fall under.

I'm saying that the ad model is what made the internet so commonplace for a lot of information.
Bring the data to where your users are. This approach implements this idea to the core. Loved it!
500,000 or more dead is a lot regardless of what their age is. I'd work on your empathy
When this situation occurs, I always pause to pet the computer and say something nice to it, as to make the other person believe the server is listening.
I hope he doesn’t make it. The death of this person is likely to be a net positive for the health of the Amazon and thus the planet. I don’t usually wish badly upon people. This is one of the few cases where I do.
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It goes up to Question 247.
> Dude don't be dismissive, this shit is serious.

So is type 2 diabetes, so are traffic deaths, so is terrorism, so are heart attacks. All of which are somewhat preventable.
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There's no possible way this is going to lead to a good discussion when any sensible person will say "Hope he dies" or similar, which is unfortunate because it's such an interesting thing.

My only thought that has much public value is that the timing of the US President's sudden and strange willingness to wear a mask after mocking them for so long looks suspicious under this light.
And flag the HN article.
This is great! I especially love the PET De Lux. Saving this one for later.
Many of us are concerned because when lots of people die, we think it's bad, even if those people "had other health issues." That doesn't seem so hysterical to me.
> It also suggests that you may get back more than you put in

You can also get back significantly less than what you put in.
No computers of that era (or any era) are going to be heirlooms. The C64 shipped with a power supply that failed often and in a way that fried the computer.

https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-...
It is quite possible for someone to have all the credentials you specified and still agree with OP.

Trying to credential-shame someone out of the conversation doesn't help anyone.
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/16-06-2020-who-welcomes...
This is a strawman. No one reasonable thinks that you can eliminate deaths. But, when all it takes to avoid _the majority_ of fatalities is some mask wearing, hand-washing, and effort on the part of institutions (testing, contact tracking, etc) you can avoid _unnecessary_ deaths quite well; see South Korea for an example.
Didn’t see this mentioned anywhere:

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The vice president would become the president. He is an army general that sounds more reasonable and less frantic - but there is a risk that we will steer towards dictatorship.
Somewhat unrelated, but I saw the mirror on bitchute of this video and dear lord are the comments toxic. Like they make YouTube seem tame.
...no matter the damage it causes to others.
> e.g. Many hospitals are almost empty and they have to furlough doctors/nurses...

Hospitals are huge organizations with many different functions. You can be maxed out on ICU capacity at the same time you're furloughing the folks who work in elective plastic surgery, dermatology, mammography, etc.
I always have to step over the oil pool by the mailbox when the mailman stops. Would be interesting to know how much they spend just putting oil in these old things.
You say that you are legitimately asking, so in the spirit of HN, I will assume good faith.

Here is a RAND corporation whitepaper on chronic disease in the USA. Right at the top, it states that 60% of american adults have at least one chronic health condition. Obesity is also a big risk factor and we all know how many US adults have that comorbidity.

http://www.fightchronicdisease.org/sites/default/files/TL221...

Excluding everyone perfectly healthy from the coronavirus death statistics is the ultimate exercise in data cherry-picking.
Let's say you were granted complete immunity, would you willingly kill all your family members that are above 80?
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He will probably (according to mortality rates) survive, and prove himself right that he could shrug it off. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter that he was wrong, because he won't be in a position to care.
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I agree that switching browsers is too much to ask. But forcing websites to act against their own interests is not going to work either. It's like forcing a tiger to treat a deer with love and compassion. It's just unnatural. Do you seriously think Facebook is ever going to genuinely give users a way to opt out of tracking? Or Google? Never. They will always try to weasel out of all the requirements, always adhere to the letter but go against the spirit of these regulations.

At least browsers don't have that inherent agenda against their own users. There will always be a Firefox which genuinely strives to serve its users, rather than exploit them.
It's also experiential - people reaching out in good faith for debate have consistently had their hand chewed up in return; and then a whole audience that sees that exchange and cements their opinions further. I'd argue the problem is often the choice of venue, and the expectation that internet strangers are truly going to come to a debate in good faith, but it still sets a consistent tone.
For azure, NC is for vms with NVidia card. Seems that they deliberately choose different terms.
I think that's another issue. Surgeries and therapies are being delayed and rescheduled. That part (empty hospitals) is not about intensive care.
Is your county a fair representation of all demographics in your country?

Are you taking into account the rise in annual deaths this year when Covid related deaths are removed?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Why are there more people dying from non-covid related deaths if everyone is in quarantine?
It won't. Again, this is well studied.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crime-and-punishment...
This in unrealistic Sweden tried that and failed. It still imposed some limitations though, yet they have very large death rate. Besides, no one really know how susceptible he or she is to the disease; there are hundreds of examples of sickly 100+ old people having light cold and young seemingly healthy 35 y old people dying. Even more importantly, the diseases seems to have long term consequences even for the healthier people.
I believe they're referring to his aides that contracted the virus in March, not the President himself.
All cookies are allowed, with no popups required, if they provide functionality that the user wants (e.g. shopping carts, login sessions, etc.). Remembering that the user has refused to consent to spying is perfectly valid functionality, so no consent is required to store that in a cookie.

Explicit consent is only required when the user's personal data will be used for purposes other than implementing the functionality the user wants to use. In other words, spying.

If you see a "cookie banner", it's because the site you're visiting wants to act against your interests, and GDPR made that illegal by default. Ask the site to stop acting maliciously, and then they won't need a banner.
That trans women are women.
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Most likely cause was they were probably delicious.
Assuming an effective vaccine doesn't come anytime soon, which thusfar seems a safe assumption, other countries will have many deaths as well, just spread out more over the coming months/year[s?]. A flattened curve has the same area under it.
Boris Johnson gave speeches sounding relatively fine a couple days before winding up in the ICU. We'll see.
A federated system is better for this, since the instances can decide to ignore / blacklist other instances hosting content they deem unsavory, and each instance can set their rules, like PeerTube.
This.

I have lung damage from sloppy drywall mudding without a mask and overusing an orbital sander. It was my first time doing a large-scale drywall project, like 15 years ago.

Let me tell you, it sucks. I have borderline asthma now. When it gets bad the wheezing sounds like an accordion in my throat and keeps me up half the night. On bad days I can taste the lung damage. When I do physical exercise I hack like a dying smoker.

This is mild lung damage. And it does not heal fully - it's a "rest of my life" thing. As I understand it, this is what many Covid survivors have to look forwards to.

Buy stock in corticosteroid inhaler manufacturers.
With seeing more letters like this recently, I wonder if they can really have much of an effect. They seem to just ask kindly that people act more kind, which often doesn't do a whole ton. What is needed is to change the way communication is occurring away from viral algorithms promoting the most viral content (outragebait), which only certain companies and people can do.
>These are people in their 30s and younger and in some of the best fitness in the world.

Professional athletes are known to be playing fast and loose with performance enhancing substances. So I am not sure that fitness and healthy are synonymous for them.
This is just another step in a broad-based program to make sure as few highly qualified people as possible can come to learn and work in the US.

(1) F1 visas have been effectively banned in much of the world since COVID started - the required interviews could only be done in now-closed centers.
(2) H1B, L1, H4, and J1 visas have been suspended until the end of the year, leaving OPT transfers, H1B lottery winners (already a 1 in 3 shot), H1B transfers, and others in the lurch.
(3) RFEs (a first step to visa denials) have been on a steep rise.

As a result, not only are we kicking people out, but international applications to US schools have absolutely collapsed; fewer people are even trying. The US is actively abandoning its goal of being the land of opportunity, and it makes me sad.
Writing software is easier in 2020 than it was when I started in 2002. Coding education is more accessible, Coding platforms are more inviting, languages are more forgiving, IDEs are more helpful, we have millions of answers on stackoverflow, and there are open-source libraries that have probably implemented whatever irks you. That being said, for the professional, I have found no substitute for the academic rigor of a good CS curriculum to shape how we think about organizing and engineering code well.
They help, but there are other ways that something like minds.com could be inconvenienced that don't relate to financial issues. Gab.com, for example, has been dropped in the past by at least one domain registrar, by at least one web hosting company, and by a couple of different payment processors.
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I'm expecting universities to begin to encourage international students to sign up for in-person lab classes to bypass this rule.

Are any HN'ers aware of policies emerging to this effect? I expect there to be some back-and-forth between educational institutions and the government on this one.
The problem with that quote is that it is all too often adopted by people who wish to use it to prove that their pet "ridiculed" or "violently opposed" idea is one of those that will become self-evident, when in fact, it states nothing of the kind.

Many theories that are ridiculed deserve it.

Many ideas that are violently opposed should never see the light of day again.

Very, very few of those that reach either the first or the second stage ever make it to the third, and it is a classic logical fallacy to argue that being ridiculed implies that an idea will be proven true in the end.
I find my peer to peer video streams higher quality and more reliable than my paid streaming services. Seriously, they've gotten quite good, and a unique feature is sensible buffering. The peer to peer stream will buffer through the whole video so you can seed it. The paid streaming service buffers only like the next 30 seconds to save on their bandwith, and if you are regularly running past that buffer you will have an awful experience, compared to the peer to peer option where you might buffer initially for 30-45 seconds, but then never buffer again nor drop quality. There is an advantage to frontloading more buffering time.
I remember reading a recent article claiming chrome tracks users even in incognito mode. I doubt those buttons to clear cookies and data do anything that hampers Google's ability to track you.