skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 10 QALY lost per death

Average age of the covid-19 dead in Sweden is 82, average life expectancy is 83. The majority of the deaths also occurred at elder care homes where the expected survival time is less than two years. And, just like everywhere else, the covid-19 dead are much more likely to belong to certain risk groups associated with earlier deaths as well.

10 QALY lost per death sounds way, way too high to me.

> To be clear, I think Sweden erred by not mandating masks, which seem cost-effective to me by that standard.

The reasoning behind this, which is the same in the rest of the Nordics and the Netherlands, is that a general mask mandate is counter-productive. No-one is arguing that medical grade face masks properly handled, worn, and disposed of help prevent the spread. The problem, and this should be obvious if you live in a place where masks are mandated, is that people don't have proper masks and don't wear them properly. So masks can create a sense of false security, and make people slack off on their distancing, which means a mask mandate can result in a net negative result.

Right or wrong, I don't know, and I don't know if we'll ever know, but that's at least the reasoning behind it. And it definitely sounds plausible to me.

I'm in Hawaii which has had a mask mandate for months now, and the way regular people are actually handling their masks in the real world is very, very far from the way trained medical professionals handle their masks.
> server (k8s), container (docker), RPC protocol (GRPC), user auth/ACLs, etc. ... At that point, you're rewriting the entire system

You are not writing any of those systems, you're merely writing the glue code between your application and those systems, none of which is application specific.

I explicitly made the point that cross-infra porting is not necessarily trivial, but it is also not cost prohibitive as the OP makes, and certainly there is no secret sauce involved to the extent of justifying a break-up.

> except for some of the business logic

You mention this in the passing, but barring mechanical limitations of the new infra, reusing your business logic means retaining your APIs, auth models, data models, even database schemas, replication and deployment design decisions and tons of portable code. That is where the overwhelming majority of engineer hours go in an ordinary product anyway.

> three do run divergent platforms simultaneously, today, right now

No, they don't. Trying to spin up your custom internal infra (or demanding special internal accommodation from externally available infra) will require justifying to management why you're not using the existing one, and most of the new products coming from these guys are nothing that specialized in terms of infra needs. I'm not saying there is a perfect external/internal service&API parity, but certainly convergence is the normativity here, not divergence.

Let me put it this way, majority of {Google, Amazon, Microsoft} services could be ported to run on each others cloud platforms, let alone on the external APIs of their own platforms, which means there is no secret sauce and there is no reason for smaller players to be complaining about it other than not having economies of scale thus pricing levels.
The research is by no means conclusive but a lot of the factors you mentions are primarily U.S. ones but Europe saw an even larger drop in crime.
Those things are illegal in China . Every country has its own idea of laws and freedoms . We may not like it , but according to their laws it is a legal action

For example , It is hard for me to see why drugs are criminalised so much in the U.S. a little weed could get you 10 years in prison till few years back ,civil forfeiture, abortion laws or why laws in your country all horrify me.

To understand guns laws , I will have to understand the rationale of second amendment the long history of gun ownership.

Similarly to under China today , there is 2,000 year history you will need to keep in context .

Again not defending China , it is important to see how we see things coloured by our own biases.
Drinking culture and alcoholism are not equivalent. Drinking culture is an annoying peer-pressure thing that builds comraderie, but takes up a lot of time. Alcoholism is a disease that leads people to drink alone more than not (to avoid stigma).
It appears the person in the video is Martin Tripp.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

Martin Tripp, a slight man of 40 who’d spent his career in a series of low-level manufacturing jobs before finding his way to the assembly line at the Gigafactory. Tripp later claimed to be an idealist trying to get Tesla to tighten its operations; Musk saw him as a dangerous foe who engaged in “extensive and damaging sabotage,” as he wrote in a staff memo.
You are right. I should have said that they didn't enforce social distancing. ie. They didn't ban church or arrest people that held parties.
Dementia rates per capita rates are soaring due to an aging population and better medicine(we're able to keep sick people alive for longer who are at much higher risk of dementia). But dementia rates age groups are dropping.
“Fight Club” had such a huge impact on my life that I won’t even mention other films.

QUOTES:

"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."

“Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need."

"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."

"Getting fired is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."
Sociopaths can pass this "trustworthiness" test at any time of the day even if they are wasted. More likely, they run the test on you.
And Belgium - the seat of EU power had vastly more deaths. The highest deaths per capita in the world.

As did Peru. Despite following WHO globalist advice to the letter.

Why is your cherry pick right and mine wrong?
Oh, that's cool. TIL. Thanks for taking the time to respond to something pretty far off in the weeds.
RTS and similar sites usually say $250-$300k all in for SWE new grad. Are those sites not reliable?
Russia warns it will see any incoming missile as nuclear
There's no point in testing, retesting if the test isn't precise. Are there any reliable tests available? Statistics points that tests aren't reliable.

Excess deaths aren't reliable either, because it can happen independent of any new disease.

The fact that strikes me most is that people have the same flu symptoms, but no "new" symptoms different from the diseases we already know.
I've heard it expressed in Japan that coworkers who were unwilling to drink in the obligatory after-work bar visit were untrustworthy. They were taking advantage of their coworkers. The drunk coworkers would share unguarded thoughts while the sober one wouldn't. All taking and never giving was unscrupulous.

Years ago, it was almost a requirement to participate. One rationale was that being drunk excused someone who spoke their mind. As speaking your mind to your boss was not allowed in sober company, but sometimes critically important to the success of a company, you had to at least pretend to be drunk and go along with everybody else's pretense. That's oversimplifying it, but you get the idea.
> The occasional misbehaviour of police officers is a small price to pay compared to the oppression and privation wrought by widespread crime.

What's the going conversion rate on that? How many thefts should we expect the police to prevent for every person we allow them to rough up?

We can live in a society where police are held accountable for their actions and where they do their job. Pretending otherwise is a false dichotomy.
Show HN: Streaming thousands of data points in real time with redis and webgl
Being able to stream thousands of data points per second was challenging but satisfying. All of this data is being generated in real time, on a server. You can watch your training runs, to keep a pulse on them.

I had to fix webdis websockets; no one streamed so much data before.

All the data is also stored. Redis can handle as much data as you can throw at it. Theoretically I can view the entire history of every one of these streams. Every data point, at every step, with zero dropouts.

You lose so much information when you average losses over a batch.

Since this link will die eventually, you can find a video here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vxwjh9gcc2U
Everything you need to know about Martin Tripp: https://twitter.com/enn_nafnlaus/status/1291854536924168195
Funnily, the one data that seems to matter for Siri is the web and wiki data for question answering. Siri still uses wolfram for many trivial questions. None of this is about privacy or user data and Siri is behind the state of the art here.
FAANG doesn’t support remote work. If they do have a local EU office then they adjust for local wages, so you’re still competitive.
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You can always hang out with them but not ordering any alcohol, or is it frowned upon there?
To recap: there's nothing creepy about bullying people into drinking -- pretending to drink if they must! -- to prove their loyalty to the group, and despite the fact that should be common knowledge for everyone, you've never seen it happen?
To build on that: Jobs was absolutely someone who did everything "for the love of the game." It's just that the game that interested him was marketing and design, not engineering.

I can't imagine Jobs as someone motivated put his head down and do busywork to collect a brass nameplate with a fancy title after twenty years.
Asking someone why they don’t drink is such a deranged thing to do. I can’t believe how often it happens.
Or when you say you don’t intend to get married. They take it as a personal attack on their decision to get married when it actually has nothing at all to do with them or their marriage. Even the most progressive people can be weirdly defensive about the cultural norms they’ve adopted.
Huh? Amphetamines are extremely popular in successful organizations, from banking to biking to booking (college studies).
It still sounds like excuse-making because Apple are behind in their own chosen terms: their competitor launched on-device machine translation a long time ago. The only remaining part of Apple’s AI privacy story is insinuation.
> I said first hand, to all of that and more.

After thirty years hearing people say "I saw/heard/felt it. It's real." I call bullshit. Bring tangible evidence. (Decades of earnest investigation left me empty handed.)

People with suicidal tendencies don't need conditioning, judgment, "salvation", or imaginary love. They're more likely to benefit from human attention, communication, and understanding; ideally not motivated by some salvation quota.
Whether the NSA cares about it or not doesn’t matter because the data controller can still be sued for collecting the users data if the users opt out. The controller has the motivation in this sense to comply.

My point is that if the USA is monitoring citizens from EU, it isn’t through American businesses that intend to comply with GDPR.
Alcohol as a way for alcohol companies to get rich at the expense of young people's health and sometimes lives.

I actually think there is kind of a conspiracy around alcohol. Because the effect of alcohol is to reduce your cognitive function, and that often causes normal people to become drunk since they have an impaired decision making ability about stopping. Drunk people sometimes make mistakes that interfere with their lives.

But if you become drunk and make mistakes multiple times, which I assert is actually a completely normal consequence of regular drinking for everyone, then people will literally say that it was not the alcohol that caused the problem, but that you have defective genetics (are an alcoholic) if you decide to stop drinking.

So I think they idea of alcoholism as a genetic disease is actually a really effective propaganda by the alcohol industry. No one can really safely consume significant amounts of alcohol regularly without making mistakes. Some people are more susceptible, but that doesn't mean that they are genetically flawed or that other people can't easily run into problems also.
Some just replace it with something else. In my experience khat culture is effectively identical to drinking culture in much of the ME and in ME enclaves in Western nations.
It reminds me of the Spanish word "paisa"...
Better? There's no reason to say so. The author even says:

> Reyes (2002) offers an additional intriguing explanation for the decline in crime: the reduction in
levels of lead in the blood due to the elimination of leaded gasoline and lead-based paints. Because of
the highly speculative nature of the Reyes conjecture at the present time, I do not discuss this hypothesis at greater length, although it is clearly an area worthy of continued future
Ask HN: Why can't macOS handle unpluggung a USB drive?
Windows machines can handle unpluggung a USB drive, why can't Macs?
Tesla had (has?) many defects in their batteries and they were putting dangerous units into production cars when they should have been thrown away. They were also hiding the defects in the financial accounting by marking them as test units instead of scrap.

Tripp tried to bring the issue to management's attention. Musk and management ignored him. Tripp then went to the press. Musk then fired him, put him under 24/7 surveillance, tapped his cell phone using a stinger, and seemingly[1] ordered someone to "SWAT" him by calling in a fake threat that Tripp was armed and coming to Tesla to "shoot up the place". Tripp is now suing.

[1] Hard to believe that it wasn't done a Musk's direction given that similar things have happened to other whisteblowers (child services was called on another [I believe she is now suing], Musk personally called the boss of at least one other, Musk tried to get another external whistleblower arrested by falsely claiming vehicular assault [and also tried to get him expelled], that person is now suing).
I feel this. As someone who has seen some real shit... I feel like that kind of intimacy in a professional environment could actually be detrimental.

I don't want to see my boss wasted. Nor do I ever want to fall in love with the hot scrum master again.
If you read to the end, he claims Covid-19 isn't worse.

I think this so called Doctor is just trying to push a narrative and links to no research or sources for any of his assumptions or data.

This article has no credibility.
So are muslim cultures, at least the ones that I'm familiar with.
Drinking occurs in Muslim and Mormon households. Some are okay with it. Some have immense guilt for perceived sins, which can feed into a negative feedback loop in alcoholism, other substance abuse issues, and mental health issues. The advertising industry has blood on its hands where alcohol is concerned, at least, but alcohol is addictive enough to bring addicts out of the woodwork.[0]

Alcohol is also a part of society and culture. It’s neither good nor bad inherently. It’s only bad to use it against your own moral code, or that of others, or that of your local jurisdiction. What you do with that abuse potential is up to you.

Please drink responsibly, if you do at all. Drinking’s perceived minor heart benefits give people license to drink when they may not otherwise, to little benefit. However, social drinking is an opportunity to socialize, and with the intent on the socializing, the potential harms for overindulgence can be curbed. It’s easier to not get addicted to begin with.

You have to be able to stop drinking for your choice as to when and why you drink to hold water, or your drink of choice.

Cheers, HN.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.13284
It's also the best way to find where you lost something.
FWIW this is being pushed by fringe elements like this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR8d4wQT-iOj7bJynoBTEeg

edit: also state backed TRT https://twitter.com/RachaelRuble/status/1291957654697455621
Once again some callous sociopath is pushing the narrative that the economy is more important than saving lives.
Apple is behind in AI. Google has Google Lens, real-time transcription of audio recordings, live captions. And Google Assistant is leaps and bounds ahead of Siri in nearly every way.

What is there in AI that Google doesn't beat Apple at?
I've done it before when offered/given, but I'm not gonna buy a $10 glass of wine as prop just to fit in.
Show don't tell. You don't lead in AI or anything else by insisting everybody who noticed you're bad at something "has it wrong".
I am one, for the simple reason most of my male ancestors were alcoholics and I decided the easiest way to not be one was to avoid it entirely.
Is there any verification to his core claims? His videos meander so much, his claims are vague, and the statement about firing his attorneys is concerning.
Alcohol has been been a popular favorite for millenia.
Hmm,not trying to get acquired then? Is the Microsoft deal overblown by media? Or is this some legal thing they have to do?
We do work in two week sprints, so that is when work is noticed. I am a software engineer.
I think you'll also need it if you want to use docker-compose in your CI.
https://www.scribd.com/document/471770054/TES-TRIPP-0028348-...
Except that people really do lose lawsuits based on the lawyer's misinterpretation of what they say. The classic line from the Google-Oracle suit where a Google engineer says, "We need to license java" cost them millions of dollars in litigation, and some felt it was the smoking gun.

Rules that forbid such statements in the future aren't common sense, and make a lot of sense from a legal and financial perspective, annoying though they may be.
The Dutch startup I work at [1] is active in the semantic web technology space. It's not pretty much inactive. The industry is simply not in the foreground of things.

[1] triply.cc
Wait so there was the old P2 and now there is the new P2 but at one point there was O2 which was supposed to be the next version of P2 https://geto2.com/ ?
> I really hate that in typical US manner this issue gets pushed to the extreme so in the end a reasonable discussion can’t be had

That's kind of the intention. It's easy to argue against "Abolish the police! Anarchy for everyone!". Not so much against "maybe we shouldn't send people with guns drawn to respond to unarmed individuals going through a mental health crisis" [1].

None of the real proposals for policing reform that have come out the protests are calling to get rid of the police. Pretending that they want that is a political fearmongering tactic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey
It’s not possible to know if it’s a nuke until it hits so it’s just obvious that they would treat incoming ballistic missiles with unknown warheads as a nuclear threat and retaliate appropriately.
I think you're overstaying things a bit, but you do have a point.

She probably has never experienced poverty, and no doubt believes (probably correctly!) that she could easily walk out and get another job for a similar (or higher) wage.
There's a piece of dialogue from a show I really like which has stuck with me for years.

---

Person 1: "Is everyone out here really so lifeless?"

Person 2: "Yes. Yes we are. That's why we drink."

Person 1: "Well, I drank just fine before."

Person 2: "Yeah, because your world was so overwhelming and scary and you needed a break from it all. Now, you're going to drink because each day is so goddamn dull, and that takes a lot more booze."

(Edit: formatting)
>Those things are illegal in China . Every country has its own idea of laws and freedoms . We may not like it , but according to their laws it is a legal action

Oh please, give me a break. There's no rule of law in China, only rule by law. Just ask the Canadians that just happened to break some law right after Meng got detained in Canada.

Also, "damaging property" as a crime and being detained near the scene of a protest turned violent is way more universally accepted as illegal than whatever trumped up charges of "spreading false rumors" that the Chinese legal system levies against dissidents.
If division can be fomented by giving everyone a megaphone, then the people were already divided, they just didn't know it. I don't agree with all of Twitter's moderation, but this is a symptom, not the disease.
> why DIDN'T you post reports of large scale verifiable

> oppression instead of a posing model?

I'm not OP, I didn't post that particular link, I just commented here on the subject.

> for whatever reason you chose the news report that was

> about as credible as Trump

I don't see why you are comparing the social media model to Trump.
>>>And yes, she believes that all police, except for investigating detectives, could be replaced by social workers and the like. Many of her friends believe similarly. So it isn't a straw man, these people really exist.

Show them content like this and ask them how a "social worker" is supposed to handle it (graphic warning?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRF4yOIY00I
It could still be always accesible, without the middleman actually being able to read the data.
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> What part of that is supposed to be pro-Trump

The intentions of the author(s) seem inscrutable; all the same, it seems broadly positive. Which part isn’t pro-Trump?
Drone strikes are blunt instruments it indiscriminately kills innocent men , women and children just in collateral damage , even if the target was justified . Many times target is not even correctly identified.

A responsible government would not kill without a trial , without the chance for the accused to face his accusers, there is no judicial oversight to any of this .

I am not sure kidnapping people( bad as it is) compares to a drone strike . No national security concern should justify killing children and lack of real outrage makes the amercian public complicit too.
The only example I have is the LibreComputer S905X based board - it took years of work with a small team to get the kernel changes upstreamed. Hell, look at the Raspberry Pi - I think mainline support is pretty recent.
Berkeley threatened with lawsuit for mandatory diversity statements in hiring
> If one party can lawfully fire or destroy the other party, the latter is subordinate.

But who decides what is lawful? The judicial branch.

And who carries the guns and has the physical ability to ignore questions of lawfulness? The executive branch.

Each branch has a measure of power over the others.
In my and several of my friends' experience, Google Photos search is simply much, much better than Apple Photos. Even though I use Apple Photos personally, I have to admit Google's is just better. My friends always say "if I can't search for my photos easily, what's the point in amassing a large collection?".
This seems a little retconned, kind of like how J.K. Rowling says that Hermione was black and such.
I don’t think they had to do anything illegal. One of the things they could have done much earlier can be felt in the App Store nowadays. Notice the lack of emphasis on charts now. It’s not perfect now, but developer laments that getting featured doesn’t drive sales like it did before (because chatting didn’t have the kind of up front visibility and that features don’t last for an entire week anymore). That’s a good thing.

There is always downward pressure on prices because well-funded startups can provide their product free. But charts and the emphasis on them were very very unhealthy. I don’t think Apple can ever fix it now.

This is a serious problem for the entire consumer and prosumer industry. While competition that drives prices down is often good, but past a certain limit and it can do long term harm to the industry that is irreversible. I fear we might have already crossed that threshold.
No much new to me!

Hmm, the Chinese say that helium flash also produces a great deal of lithium.