skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4.23% is a case fatality rate, or CFR, not IFR.

The issue is the SARS had a lot less cases, and was more virulent. There is no evidence for asymptomatic spread of SARS, and almost every single infection was accounted for using contact tracing.

Therefore, it makes sense to use the best guess at IFR for both. The best guess for IFR for COVID-19 is around 0.3-0.9%, depending on the state of the healthcare system.

SARS however, seems to have a very low rate of asymptomatic carriers : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371799/ , of around 7%. Of those 7%, it is expected that the vast majority are detected, as there were very few cases of SARS of unknown origin (IE, no contact with an infected person). On the other hand, COVID19 is believed to have asymptomatic infection rates of as high as 50%, and even at the very beginning there were tons of cryptic transmission.

Therefore, it is likely that the CFR of SARS is very close the IFR. Using a high-estimate for the IFR of COVID19 and comparing it to the CFR of SARS should yield a very good comparison for virulence of the two viruses.

Therefore, SARS is indeed in the ballpark of 10x more virulent than COVID19.
> maybe 6x as likely to get infected as a random person

That is almost certainly not the case. California has had 350 daycare staff get covid infections out of 100k+ workers. That's actually about a third the rate on average.

Again, kids are less likely than average to have covid. Infectious kids may be less likely to transmit. This is different from flu where kids are large carriers. There are few documented cases of young kids (under 10) spreading to other kids or to teachers.
the it's even weirder because this looks something that required a certain amount of planning
> dire consequences for the funding and regulation of level 4 biosecurity centres and potentially global trade & travel for countries that have them.

This is wishful thinking. Countries would simply lie; push such labs underground, or disguise them as some other kinds of labs.

But even that is a misdirection. DNA isn’t nuclear material; technology to manipulate it will soon be available at home.

More in the podcast with Naval Ravikant: https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/044
I think the average non-technical reader could figure out that "plain text" refers to some variant of "········" rather than "password," even if the understanding is lacking technical depth.
Sure. The issue is that there would have to be gain-of-function research to reduce virulence and (maybe, it's not entirely clear) to increase transmissivity.

There is no evidence for that AFAIK, and I don't understand why a lab would do a gain of function experiment and reduce function instead.
The swamp was drained - into DC.
>There has been a very small uptick in deaths

Ha, I see the talking point has changed. Everybody was saying the increase in cases meant nothing because it was all due to testing and deaths weren't increasing.

Now it is a "very small uptick", meaning, for instance, about 300% in the last 3 weeks in Texas.[1]

Darn scared people, like the governor of Georgia, who is so scared of something that he's suing[2] Atlanta's mayor to prevent the city from requiring masks.

[1]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/

[2]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53429800
Going for a capture rather than a kill was the core mistake in this operation. Shoulda just droned him.
The implications of working without an office
The pooled sample testing method looks tractable.
I'm not sure what you're thinking, but it's perfectly reasonable.

People like you're talking about don't communicate anything of value over twitter. Bezos only follows his ex-wife who doesn't follow him back, barely uses twitter and would be unlikely to have any DMs at all. After the saudi hack, I would be surprised if he has much of anything installed on his phone.

The only real reason to hack celebrity accounts in this instance, and which they should have done, would be to deflect attention from the accounts they actually went after.
I find myself viscerally repulsed by this. Kind of fascinating.
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Most of HN is not qualified either to judge the quality of AI, ML, opsec, renewables or any of a whole host of topics that are actually deeply complex.

But that does not mean it does not classify as potentially substantial news, that at least should be visible.

Nobody is arguing that it shouldn’t be more properly vetted when published via normal scientific channels, as these things usually are.
I’m sorry, but you’re just not right.

The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has a pretty wide reaching authority when it comes to fighting disease. If the federal government can quarantine entire towns and force vaccines, they can similarly force you to be tested.
You lose so much without DNS where each site/service controls their own domain.

Consider modern hosting: Load balancers, CDNs, etc all configured and deployed on-demand, with the IPs changing as frequently as the provider likes.

Sure, Amazon lets you get static IPs.. but now I want to re-point traffic at another region because this region is failing, or down for maintenance... sorry, no, can't do that.

Anyone doing even moderate amount of hosting/whitelabelling doesn't have anywhere the IPs they need.
Ah of course. Supply and demand must just be some tyrannical social construct, imposed upon us by an invisible oppressor.

All it is is the price agreed upon by a party who wants to sell something, and another party who wants to buy it. The incentive of each party in the transaction is very obvious, and supply and demand is simply what occurs when people are allowed to choose how much they want to sell something for, and other people are allowed to choose how much they want to pay for it. Because there is no such thing as an objective measure of value, the only way you can ever measure it is via the value agreed upon by a buyer and a seller.

Supply and demand are the most fundamental forces at play in any economy (even centrally planned ones). Trying to get rid of it is as feasible as it would be to try and get rid of gravity.
Carmack loved OpenGL because GPU vendors could (and would) release propriety extensions that exposed all the new functionality of new GPUs.

He would rewrite custom rendering paths for various GPUs and common sets of extensions, allowing him to improve performance and/or improve graphics.

With Direct3D, Microsoft defines a common feature set that all GPUs supporting that version of Direct3D are required to support, and any extra functionality that GPUs might provide on top of that are locked away, completely inaccessible.

Checking the Doom 3 source code, he the main ARB and ARB2 pixel shaders paths (equivalent to dx8 shaders). Then for the older gpus that mostly support pixel shaders but not in a standards compliant way, he has an nv10 code path and a nv20 code path.

Then he has a r200 code path, which I think just improves performance on r200 graphics cards over regular ARB2.
...but I'm not a developer.
Could you provide more context?
The constitution doesn't say you have to wear pants either but it's still required. In any case the workplace link you cited is not in the constitution it's the disability law.
It's indeed a stupid messaging network, but having seen doctors and lawyers happily exchange documents and other sensitive data about their patients and clients through Facebook and Whatsapp, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turns out that Twitter is being used for sensitive information as well.

Scanning a document and sending it through mail has been swapped with taking a photo with the cellphone and sending it through Whatsapp, and whoever took the photo very often forgets about it, so we have thousands of people out there with their phones loaded with sensitive data about their clients in the same directories they keep photos of their cats.
Want to get sensitive data about someone? Just know where his doctor/lawyer lives or works, then open a cellphone repair shop nearby and be ready to copy everything when they bring you the terminal for screen/battery replacement or other problems, probably at least twice a year overall.
They also use teams, not individuals. That’s way more risky.
I kind of would? If you’re running a private backbone with these number of PoPs, wouldn’t things be more sophisticated?
> The ex-Googler said they provided substantial guidance on a 2015 Wall Street Journal article headlined “Some Things Should Not Be ‘Forgotten,’”[1] which advocated against the ‘right to be forgotten,’ a policy that allows people to force search engines to remove certain personal links. “It was a successful op-ed,” the ex-Googler said. The Journal article does not mention Google’s involvement. Its author, Jason Wright, declined to comment.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/jason-wright-some-things-should...

http://archive.is/n3QwI
I recommend handmade hero project to learn how to create a game from scratch
The "Open Letter to the LSA" by what what you describe as "crazed and radicalized students at Harvard" asks:

> to remove Dr. Pinker from the LSA fellows list and the list of media experts falls within the purview of the LSA because of the goals that the LSA has set for itself ...

> We want to note here that we have no desire to judge Dr. Pinker’s actions in moral terms, or claim to know what his aims are. Nor do we seek to “cancel” Dr. Pinker, or to bar him from participating in the linguistics and LSA communities (though many of our signatories may well believe that doing so would be the right course of action).

If that's "cancel culture" - how do I tell the difference between "cancel culture" and any other sort of advocacy which results in removing someone from a couple of lists?

Because I've been trying hard to understand what "cancel culture" means, and the descriptions of it don't seem to make any sense.
If that constant view only ever promotes a single narrative and doesn't engage at all in HN comment streams about typical HN topics elsewhere - no, I don't think we should.

Also, I think it's unhelpful to pretend that propaganda isn't a thing, or that HN isn't monitored by any number of state and corporate actors with a narrative to sell.
Interesting. But also to GP’s point, I never thought of that perspective.

It is quite unsettling to realise the strangeness of odds that it occurred right next to the Wuhan lab...
I wouldn't be so sure with Musk, for example. He even met his partner via DM.
No rational person that has lived through age discrimination would engage in any kind of ageism and again, my career spans over 40 years. (How many people my age in the Fortune 500 company 40 years ago? ZERO! Maybe down in mailroom or something, but they weren't even allowed in the tech areas so I would have to assume.) I also strongly disagree with your assertion that Google has "young" engineers developing "a lot of Google products", at least in the sense that they are doing so without guidance from experienced engineers. As far as Facebook, I don't find their stuff very interesting (though I thank them for helping to all but destroy HP with their open hardware) --it's a website with a big power bill and a non-ACID database, right?
You could mine the crypto yourself, or buy it from someone in person. Bitcoin ATMs verify phone numbers, but if you have a burner phone you could also get BTC from them— they're surprisingly common at gas stations near me
Firewall rule in the router to hijack port 53 traffic and send it to their own dns instead?
Multi-cam instantaneous shots do work though. And way better than noisy film.
Because it's becoming increasingly hard to explain this hack otherwise.

Imagine you walk by the beach, and see that the sea has washed up a pirate treasure chest. You crack it open, and see it full of gold, jewelry, old manuscripts, letters. Would you just throw the chest back into the sea, taking only a single ring, and a nail from the chest to hang a price list on your lemonade stand with?

Because that's what happened here. The attackers hit gold, and threw it all away.
I'd also suggest Baconreader premium.

Its fast and lightweight. A superb third party reddit client.
> Mandating that every one of your customers has a Yubikey is somewhat trickier to do in practice, and a nightmare to manage the logistics around lost keys.

Mandating that everyone that has access to your admin console has a U2F key, on the other hand, seems like a perfectly reasonable expectation for a company of Twitter's stature.
> Spread your name servers, and use short-TTL weighted CNAMEs, defaulting to say, 99% Cloudflare, 1% your internal load balancer. The minute Cloudflare seems problematic, make it 0% 100% to bypass Cloudflare’s infrastructure completely. This should be tested periodically to ensure that your backends are able to scale & take the load without shedding due to the lack of CDN.

If your service does scale at first place, then you don't need Cloudflare most of the time.
> How is having a standard API to draw 3D graphics not a solved problem at this point?

It seems like it mostly is? The problems described in the article appear to be due to a mismatch between how QT and Krita do things under the hood.

OpenGL has broad support (except Apple). The OpenGL ES subset adds web browsers and lots of embedded devices. ANGLE provides translation of ES to D3D, Vulkan, and soon even Metal.

Vulkan seems to work pretty much everywhere (except Apple of course). MoltenVK provides translation of v1.0 to Metal.

If departing native hardware APIs is acceptable, gfx-rs appears to work today. WebGPU is well on it's way to being fully implemented. Plus (as the article mentions) apparently QT6 is intending to introduce their own custom abstraction layer?
I'd prefer to use another analogy.

The head of the US National Parks Service decides to sell off Yellowstone(1) to a property development company. Massive outrage ensues, and the guy quits to become CEO of that same Property Development Company.

While those two things in and of themselves might not be unlawful, it certainly sounds awful fishy. It might be worth investigating if there was some kind of breach of the law.

(1) I know NPS doesn't own Yellowstone. It's an analogy, roll with it.
Do you know how the job market is for English-speaking developers in Montreal? I'm curious if lack of French fluency would be a barrier for a few, many, or nearly all development jobs there.
How did police find the kids felon tags spewed all over the apartment if he didn’t do it?
Where do you think you will find more info -- the DMs of a PR account or the someone's private alt? Or the DMs of a twitter celebrity or the DMs of a hedge fund manager or member of the board of directors of a bank?
No, they haven't. There's no such precedent in U.S. history.

They can't quarantine towns from the federal level. Not in the least. A state might be able to, because the 10th amendment is a thing, but Federal government cannot. And neither state nor federal government can force vaccines because it violates the 4th amendment. You don't get to search my body for diseases and use them to discriminate against me. Sorry. Furthermore, Roe v. Wade was argued on the basis of a right to privacy that's implicit. So no, I'm right on this.
Which country are you in? I’ve been looking for a list of prices per country for YT premium but couldn’t find any.

It’s interesting to see how prices vary, for example Netflix UHD costs around 20.- per month in Switzerland but only 3.- (equivalent) in Turkey.
Neat idea, but the inverted warp that straightens the tree feels quite arbitrary.

In particular, the facts that 1) the "intensity" of the warp doesn't seem to taper off with distance 2) the branches don't seem to have been straightened in any meaningful fashion.
Unfortunately, the labs reside in China. Even if we had hard scientific proof (and consensus, despite many in the scientific community deriving funding from CCP backed sources), it wouldn’t be enough.

China would either:

1. Refuse outright and militarily prevent anyone seizing the land

2. As a UN Security Council and WHO member, promise to conduct their own investigations with some oversight from the WHO - and subsequently release the wonderful findings freeing CCP from accusations and claims.

So unfortunately, nothing can be done.
The very complex and ambitious solutions they engineered, are currently a nightmare to maintain, as it's hard to hire people who can understand them (thanks to the technologies being very new and/or niche). Meanwhile, the requirements were bog standard and there's no demand to be scalable, to have high reliability etc. The system could probably be coded by a bunch of interns and grads in whatever language they fancy.
Can you ask him to come and comment on HN?
It's silly to talk about this as if we'd throw out dns entirely...

To address the original concern, all we'd have to do is throw out the ICANN root and replace it with a root controlled by a new NOTICANN organization. People were already talking about this when the .org debacle was still playing out.

It might even be healthy for the internet to do this every so often as a warning to those who would dare to try something like this again. They serve at our pleasure.

We're all just agreeing to use their root for convenience. As soon as it stops being convenient, we can literally just decide to give it to someone else.
I got it for a mild cough. Opiate cough medicine that I liked a little too much.

Scary.
Thanks for this. Read his Wikipedia page[0] and a few blue links. Crazy how wild the 60s were with racism! The police did nothing to stop mobs because of people riding on a bus... Mind blowing

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(civil_rights_leade...
There are abstraction layers utilizing either, but many implement their own.
And with the slightest, tiniest scroll movement accidentally made with my thumb on my mobile, the cookie popup disappeared. Since I'm scrolling that must mean I consent to being tracked, right?
Its a government program. Why are people surprised at this point. It literally always happens. Literally every single time.
Who wants to update the wikipedia article for this honorable gentleman?
If doing image processing (or NLP with rec nets), I wouldn't save on VRAM. 11GB minimum (2080/1080TI). Otherwise you can't even run the bigger nets with good image resolution.
It strikes me as reducing virulence would be a responsible first step before conducting research on increasing transmissivity of a deadly virus.
Making something scale and scale cost efficiently is two different things.
Hey, maybe you can post a blog and share the link to HN ?
Inalienable rights and differences in outcome are unrelated things, hence mentioning tariffs as protection by attack with slave labor. It's the primary job of a government to protect it's borders, physically and economically.

As that documentary nicely lays out, there is no constitutional law that anyone can point to on individual income tax. The IRS commissioner admits it.

Recent interview with former IRS agent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXua-6xr_Kw

She asks in the beginning, "At what percentage is it not slavery?"
When I said your perspectives, I meant your perspective and the commentor your responded to perspective.
Likely he meant soup.
OP obviously didn't mean hobbyists but the black helicopter owners.
I'm assuming it's related to the MSU study and the VP of research at the university who was quoted in a WSJ article and subsequently fired due to his role talking about it to the media.

A rough outline by the authors is here, you can search scihub for the actual paper.

https://research.msu.edu/the-truth-behind-racial-disparties-...

As for the Professor Hsu controversy, here's some additional data:

> the main thrust to oust Hsu came because the professor touted Michigan State research that found police are not more likely to shoot African-Americans

> The graduate union told The Fix that administrators should not share research that runs counter to public statements by the university.

> “It is the union’s position that an administrator sharing such views is in opposition to MSU’s statements released supporting the protests and their root cause and aim,” Ackles wrote in an e-mail to The College Fix.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholar-forced-to-resign-over-...
No, sorry. The US was prepared, we just have an administration that failed us and an entire political party that cares more about short-term politics than protecting its citizens. We have to reform our system because it should not be possible that someone like Trump is head of the executive or Mitch McConnell is head of the Senate. Arguing counter factuals is hard, but I entirely believe we could have whipped this thing had we competent, good faith governance.
It looks like corruption, it probably is corruption, and I bet you my bottom dollar nothing ever comes of it.

To send someone down for something like this you basically need a note written in the defendant’s own blood saying “I am deliberately and knowingly carrying out corrupt deeds which are prohibited by the law”, and even that would probably be seen as weak evidence. Hell, a videotape of them discussing how to be corrupt, how they will profit from it, how to launder the money would not be enough. It hasn’t been in prior cases of this type, where they’ve got as far as someone looking at them.

There’s practically no recourse for this kind of crime. It’s a wonder to me that more people don’t embezzle and defraud, given that the chances of facing any consequences seem to be practically zero.

I cast my mind back to working for a large brokerage in 2005, and them hiding nearly $500m in losses through accounting fraud for years on end, and eventually rinsing investors for a few $bn. EVERYBODY knew about it - pretty much down to the mail room guys. The entire upper echelon of the company were in on the scam. The CEO went to jail because he threatened to squeal on the guys at the SEC who had turned a blind eye (the things people will do for a nice meal out and season tickets) until a whistleblower ruined the party.

As far as I can tell the only time people face prosecution for fraud and what have you is when they are small, unconnected people. You know, life in jail for $20 out of the register, summary execution for standing funny. Well, either that or connected people who lost their protection or failed to give the right politician a bribe.

Steal a public utility? Welcome to government, my friend.
Am I missing something? This is not "your entire web application" - this is the static piece of it, it still requires an application server doing the dynamic stuff via XHR.

Bad title. Should say "how to host the frontend to your SPA for pennies on CloudFront + S3"
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberal...
Byng is not actually a “source”, just the one who has been killed:

“He was sentenced to death and, after pleas for clemency were denied, was shot dead by a firing squad on 14 March 1757.”

That’s what apparently got Voltaire to write “in this country it is good to kill an Admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”

As the article shows, this was known to Lord William Pitt Lennox in 1863, who referred to that while describing another even in his memoir:

"Later in the day he had to . . . run messages, and do his little marketings . . . with the risk, if caught out of bounds, of having a flogging, to encourage the others, as a Frenchman said of the execution of Admiral Byng."
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American average wellbeing

Does that mean if Americans are, on average, deeply unhappy and far less well off than the median, it's evidence that the capitalist system is failing? Because I have some news for you...
I tried to upgrade from vue 2 which using the minimized cdn js but couldn’t get it to work. Is there a minimized version of the vue 3 code somewhere that I could try?