skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoned panic over Covid-19 was never really about the individual severity of the disease or even the number of people it would kill.

It's about the rapid spike in deaths and hospitalizations happening all at the same time because of how extremely fast it spreads.

The flu spreads slow enough that our medical infrastructure can usually handle the seasonal surge of cases. Too many cases all at once overwhelms the system, leads to more deaths than necessary, and potentially has even more catastrophic effects on our economy and supply chains than we've had if too many people call in sick at the same time.

To put it physics terms, the scary thing about Covid-19 is the impact, not the absolute force. A million people dying isn't too concerning compared to other causes of death. But if they all die in a single month, that's a huge systemic problem.

I don't think it's reasonable on an individual level to panic about catching Covid-19 compared to other health risks. It's akin to thinking death by terrorism is something to be more concerned about than dying in a car crash.
I wouldn’t have bought one. At least I get two years use.
Why do people feel the need to constantly refute this or bring this argument to the table?

I think you should flip it around and realize that the flu, is actually dangerous too, it's just we're way more conditioned to accept it as part of nature and part of every day life. We don't perceive a flu to be very dangerous although statistically, it's still seems risky for certain people in the same way Covid-19 is.

One could say that if you've survived a bad case of Influenza, well you also lived through a potentially fatal health event with potentially negative long term consequences from the inflammation your body went through to overcome it.
Can you hit a 7 minute mile now that you've been recovered for a while? (How) did it affect your health longer term?
My wife had COVID-19 in April with a medical precondition. She was in bed for three weeks. Symptoms were completely different from flu, mostly just feeling completely exhausted and weak. She went back to work after about a month, and now her health is back 90% I would say.

A few year agao I had a bad case of flu. Temperature rose again after a few days, which indicated a bacterial superinfection, which got treated with antibiotics. I was back at work after two weeks. But I have the feeling that these two weeks had changed by body. It took me about half a year to fully recover, i would say.

We often discuss who was hit worse, my wife with COVID-19 or me with the flu. Probably my wife, but she had her medical precondition, so we have not come to a final conclusion.
"ongoing basis" - that's an oxymoron lmao. If your base is going somewhere then it's not really a base.
Estate taxes are often on the order of ~20%+, so they can necessitate the sale of assets (real estate, companies, etc.) - and in the case of a sudden death, this can come at a very inopportune time, as well as being stressful on people who have just had a loved one die.

An annual wealth tax of ~1% doesn't come with the same complications - just like income tax, it can be predicted, saved for, etc.

Also most people with sizable estates (who have some idea they'll die in the next several years) can gift away or otherwise arrange to avoid estate taxes pretty successfully, so I don't think of them as especially useful.

I don't worry about it too much since estate taxes are usually on quite large estates (>$5mil), but I just don't see it as a very good tax.
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I will use mine for 2 years but I have zero need for social.
That’s just running js files within ts files. Nothing to really do with migrating, unless you’re writing everything by hand and want everything to work while you’re at it.
I believe he may feel it was this slip up, but I highly doubt it. Look at The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden or Norway where practically nobody is using masks. If masks made that much of a difference, we would surely be able to tell.
You really blame people for writing anecdotes on an article that is nothing else than an anecdote?
Ask HN: What is your daily routine? – Feedback Request
Hello everyone,

Will be launching a productivity startup with my co-founder soon, we are first doing some customer development. It would be extremely helpful if those interested in improving their daily routine so they can get the most out of their day to please take our quick 3 minute survey. http://routined.paperform.co/

Hacker News has been very helpful and supportive in the past and looking forward to your responses!

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It’s a super device but I’ll never recommend it again.
Your CDC link is not that different than the OP's statement "So yes, Covid-19 sounds kind of like that bad flu. It is bad, but 2 years ago we would just call it "a bad flu"."

From your link:

- People at risk: Both COVID-19 and flu illness can result in severe illness and complications. 1) The risk of complications for healthy children is higher for flu compared to COVID-19. 2) However, infants and children with underlying medical conditions are at increased risk for both flu and COVID-19.

- Complications: 1) Both COVID-19 and flu can result in complications, including... 2) Additional complications associated with COVID-19 can include: Blood clots in the veins and arteries of the lungs, heart, legs or brain. Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Is Covid worse? Yes, but there are a lot of similarities between the two and for healthy young children, the flu is a bigger risk, but for children with underlying medical condition, Covid is a bigger risk.
The benefit side needs a LOT more attention, but all we do on that is vote once in a while, doesn’t do us much good.
I was trying to make a point about decreasing fiscal competition. So, yeah, good!
But let me guess, it’d be immoral for parent commenter to use their wealth to participate in politics?
Tho very rare, why would you use a database that is at risk to be erased completely, and with a limited set of queries as the main DB? Honest question.
"The loss of smell that can accompany coronavirus is unique and different from that experienced by someone with a bad cold or flu, say European researchers who have studied the experiences of patients.

...

Another thing that sets them apart is their "true" loss of taste.

It's not that their taste is somewhat impaired because their sense of smell is out of action, say the researchers in the journal Rhinology. Coronavirus patients with loss of taste really cannot tell the difference between bitter or sweet.

Experts suspect this is because the pandemic virus attacks nerve cells directly involved with smell and taste sensation."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53810610
Where can I find csv data on the hospitalization rate and CFR in the USA, broken down by basic demographics? Age, gender, etc.
Required for arena before - I would not buy one if this was mandatory to turn it on.
Cities need to start using technology to constrain their costs rather than just stabbing at anywhere that has revenue they can tax.
Imperative vs. Declarative – A Kubernetes Tutorial
If they're not observable then they're all unidirectional from here to somewhere over there (or from there to here but there is nothing over there, not even vacuum fluctuations).
Super-Human Performance in Gran Turismo SportUsing Deep Reinforcement Learning
I think reticle stitching has been done previously in image sensors and silicon interposers so it may be an evolution of that.
Telemetry in Linux and BSD – why is it important?
I'm pretty sure I caught it 2 weeks before Christmas 2019. I don't get sick often, I'm healthy with no underlying conditions, and when I've caught the flu in the past I've always bounced back fast.

Not this time. In addition to the other awful symptoms you mention, I agree that the worst thing is the cough. It would seemingly just not go away. Painful, congestive coughing fits for 2 weeks. I basically couldn't do anything during that time except stay in bed and tough it out. Fortunately, I'd already been WFH for a few years and didn't feel well enough to leave the house during that time, so I was self-isolating without realising what was going on.
The Nexus of Autism and Title IX (2018)
> Autotools generate a Makefile project

That's what all build systems do. Hell, cmake's description is "cross-platform Makefile generator".

The rationale is quite obvious: the DAG part is solved problem. The hard part is extracting platform-dependent info, perform validations, and use it to generate the DAG.

And a Makefile is a DAG.
This looks very interesting. I wonder how much data would be required in order to imitate a particular handwriting style? i.e. if I know someone with a lovely penmanship and I can ask that person to create such a reference data set, how much should that person write in order for the network to be able to reproduce the style reliably?
418 is actually unassigned.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-stat...

This code has never been officially registered, especially not by that April Fools’ RFC. A number of HTTP implementations added it to their lists of codes anyway; there was a concern that it might create a conflict with if an actual meaning is assigned by the HTTP specification. One of the authors of the specification went around asking libraries to remove the code for this reason. Web developers, like the mature people they are, bullied him into abandoning it.

By the way, if one actually wanted to control coffee pots over HTTP, 400 Bad Request would have been entirely sufficient for this situation. This code has been superfluous from the start. Ironically, it became the very thing it was meant to satirise.
Obsidian stores notes in markdown format. There is nothing more cross platform and future proof in notes, than markdown.

You just have to sync a single folder. Google Drive/ Dropbox/ Syncthing, etc. Any solution works.

Use any markdown app on iOS - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=markdown+ios
Visualizing How Market Volatility Impacts Risk and Returns
While the story is Palmer founded Oculus (and he was the original founder, so there is truth there), really Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell (Scaleform Mafia, all serial founders) negotiated the Facebook acquisition. Palmer was pushed out first after acquisition. He's a nice marketing story (nerdy young white boy reinvents VR) but he wasn't the driving force behind the business success (Brendan and Nate) or technical success (Carmack, Antonov, Abrash and many others like Dean Beeler and Volga Askoy).

We're also in a world where all the founders of Oculus have quit and no longer have a say in decisions like this. Facebook foundational employees and recent hires are running the show and the end game for Oculus is to give Facebook a platform that they control that is as pervasive as iOS or Android (or at least Xbox or PlayStation).

As a former Oculus and Facebook employee I'm torn by this. I always understood how a none trivial portion of the Oculus user base is extremely anti-Facebook, or even how people with Facebook accounts didn't want their Facebook account tied to Oculus. At the same time it would seriously reduce technical friction around using Facebook backend features in Oculus products. I know some folks would see this as a complete negative and I understand where you are coming from, but there are some interesting positive use cases as well.
boostnote.io might be a good tool for you. Its basically a markdown renderer + code coloring with some extra search and other features. The first version is open source and I believe the second version also will be (but not positive). you can also store your folder of notes in a dropbox folder and get decent syncing out of the box. I've been using it for two years now and don't have any complaints. I will have to admit I haven't moved over to their second version yet so I might be missing something.
Masks are more effective at protecting other people from your germs, not the other way around. You are at risk if you hang around people who aren’t wearing masks and you put people around you at risk by not wearing.
While perfectly fair, it would still lead to unhappy customers, which aren't exactly known to be receptive to reason.

While I may not always agree with Apple's approach I can understand their reasoning and don't believe that it simply comes down to earning a few extra bucks with the 30% cut in question and all the seemingly drastic measures that come with it.
Lots of home-grown analytics are very privacy focussed these days and do not use cookies. That's a good thing.

For simple sites like blogs, simple low volume ecommerce, etc.

But for more "serious" eCommerce, SAAS based applications and sites that are concerned with marketing on email, social and web then then optimizing what you show then and finally generating leads for salespeople to call or actual sales...

Cookies or local storage, or some way of tracking the customer across all the channels and their actions are essential.

If one can avoid using Google Analytics, then that's a good thing also.

But let's get real -- the idea of a cookie-less future is not gonna happen because people actually do business in the web.
>This is utterly terrifying, I barely go out but to know someone following all the precautions could still get it freaks me out so much.

In the end, almost everyone is gonna get it anyway for it to stop spreading, precautions or not. Lockdown/masks/etc are more about flattening the curve (spreading the infections) than about people not getting it ever.

And a vaccine could be perpetually "one year in the future" - for many coronaviruses we still don't have one after decades, so all those announcements that we're "18 months from one" are mostly media BS and labs competing for funding.
Yes... but years of working in ads has made me realize that fucking with unfilled rates will cause a lot of grief to the company fucking me over... so I'm tempted to just tarpit the incoming data, not the outgoing one.
Is this a surprise to literally anyone? If you buy into a corporate platform you get a corporate platform.
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>I work there

An adage about difficulty trying to convince someone whose salary depends on their not being convinced comes to mind...
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Exactly, this also ignores that we have treatments and a vaccine for the flu.
By what specific metrics is Uber a bad name? Uber is a short, catchy, two-syllable name. Libretaxi is a mouthful. The only good thing about it is that it's descriptive. It doesn't really stick in your mind like Uber does, or their branding.

Disclaimer: I think marketing is a parasitic industry that gets way too much money for the value they provide. But marketing is important because it works.
Watched the talk at Hot Chips today[0]- 400,000(!) cores on a single wafer is absolutely remarkable! There was a slide not posted in which there were virtual segments of the wafer designated for each step, and the example given by the presenter showed a perfectly in-order workflow execution.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14758/hot-chips-31-live-blogs...
Make fake facebook account. All problems solved.
Funny thing about net neutrality is that even the greatest propo
It doesn't, at least not in any form you'd want to rely on. Bazel makes it easier than CMake to pull in externals in source form, but you'll still want to write Bazel build rules for them in most cases. In practice for C/C++ externals being built in a Bazel project, almost all of the build can be captured by a couple

cc_library(...)

and

cc_binary(...)

rules.
If I'm reading this right, Uber is doing payment calculations based on the straight line distance, whereas drivers expect to be paid based on the actual distance travelled.
I am a person who understands the difference between personal opinion, social norm and rules.

I understand that we do not know enough about Covid-19 yet and that the best way to act right now is by taking necessary precaution to reduce spreading the virus. In this case I accept that my personal opinion is less relevant than the social and political decisions and thus I stick to the rules and recommendations of my local government. I am still allowed to have an opinion on things and a different point of view than the politics and most of society, though.
Where do you live, and have you had an antibody test? I've heard so many people who've said they had it back in December, but I'm really doubtful. All the ones I've known who've had an antibody test have come back negative.

I had a flu back in October that matched the COVID symptoms almost exactly, but obviously wasn't it. It was still probably the most sick I've ever been, though.

I think there's going to be very few people in most countries who actually had it pre February / March.
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Traditional cable TV you would sit on a sofa and flip through channels with a remote control, yes, but your typical Comcast/Charter/Wave/RCN type cable multiservice operator is morphing into a DOCIS3/DOCSIS3.1 or GPON fiber based last mile DIA ISP.

The cable tv operators care about their municipal franchise agreements and aerial pole+underground right of way very much, since it gives them an incumbent ISP operating position over a large geographical area.

I should note that cable TV operators in a given city might have many different types of last mile architecture. Some of which can be taxed by the city, and some of which cannot. There's cable TV operators with their wholly-owned wood utility poles installed in the ROW (right of way), there's operators where they occupy a strand on a municipal electrical grid operator's poles, there's operators which are on poles shared 3-way between electrical grid operator, local telco, and cable TV. In newer housing developments some might occupy their own fully underground ducts between handholes and manholes with the ducts in the ROW. Or the ducts might be in land owned by HOAs. It depends very much on the history of how the analog cable TV system in a city got built out in the 1970s and 1980s and other factors.

In places that are unfortunate enough to lack real competition between the cable TV operator and the local phone company for last-mile, it can give an operator a near monopoly advantage. For instance you might be able to get 200 Mbps downstream service from Comcast while the local phone company can only offer 10Mbps ADSL2+.

Some smart people at the local phone company probably have your area on a map targeted for a single-strand to the home GPON FTTH overbuild, but accomplishing that in the near future is either limited by budget concerns or lack of manpower/bucket truck, lineman and splicer crews to accomplish it.

On the part of the city that might be bringing in 450,000 dollars a year in cable TV franchise tax revenue, it's such a short sighted move. Yes, maybe your cable TV franchise tax will continue to drop, as more people disconnect cable tv (taxed) and move to pure internet services (not taxed).

But the economic benefit to a city of having multiple, overlapping competing gigabit-class services to the end user is greater than the tax revenue. For instance the parts of Seattle right now where you can work from home and have your choice of centurylink (telco ILEC) GPON 1Gbps FTTH, or 1Gbps DOCSIS3.1 or GPON from Wave or Comcast.
I’ve had some bad flus the last couple of years where the coughing has gotten much worse, that part could be age related (I’m 45). This December could have been COVID of course, but I don’t remember it being worse than last year.
And my comment was about temperatures in July.
Thanks for looking deeper, I was hoping someone would. You're right about the purpose of the simulation.

What I'm confused about is, I would expect them to say that they ran that recording through SpiKey, and it output 3 (or however many) candidates, and the actual key was (or wasn't) one of the three. But instead, that bit.ly link is provided for "better understanding", and the rest of the section it's in is about the tool in general, rather than a specific test of it.

Was it one actual recording they tested, you think? Do they say whether the actual key was among the candidates?
I'm in the Philippines. I haven't had an antibody test, and I haven't been sick since then.

To clarify, I have no real evidence that I had COVID-19. It could have just been a bad case of the flu.
A relatively high percentage of people getting it require hospitalisation.
It's not the bubonic plague, but unchecked, it will overwhelm any medical system and the death toll will be much higher (it's already at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu).

It's not just about one person's flu-like symptoms, which may make them one of the "lucky" one who can stay home and don't require more care (although read other testimonies in this thread because some experienced way worse than your bout of flu).
It's also about people with other medical needs not being taken care of because of an overwhelmed system.

There are only so many available beds, respirators and medical staff.
There have been plenty of examples of that in the past months, in Europe, in South America, in NYC, in Wuhan even, where people are left to die at home or in hallways because there are not enough resources to care for them.

They don't just die of COVID, they die of cancer, they die of heart attacks and accidents that would otherwise be non-fatal when cared for in time.

We're getting better prepared, but not everywhere. Under-estimation is the danger here. Saying it's no worse than flu is not true. It is a lot more dangerous and insidious. It kills more and, left unchecked, will stress any local medical system to the point that even more will die. Many of those who get it will also end up with years of health issues.

You may easily survive getting it, maybe even without symptoms, but are you OK with spreading it to your family, your neighbors, your colleagues, and their families?

It may also affects older people but the original SARS virus -a cousin- affected mostly young healthy adults, with a much higher death rate. Who knows how this thing will mutate and how it will change if left completely unchecked to evolve in the general population.
Exactly, Steve Jobs would involve himself deeply with product development and be in the loop on a lot of product detail.

What you don't get to see with Apple is all the stuff they don't launch or that lingers on some shelf for years and years. They only talk openly about stuff that they are ready to show and productize giving the false impression that these things just popped into existence.

By the time the iphone shipped, they'd been working on it in some form or another for over half a decade or so. Giving people enough room to do stuff like that with an open ended agenda and strategy is exactly how you move forward as a company. The value of people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk is recognizing the strategic value of efforts like this in an early stage and then making sure it happens. That requires being clued in enough to recognize the strategic value and focused enough to then make it happen. If you look at the timing, this was shortly after they launched OS X and apparently went "what else can we do with this?" (IOS is based on the same architecture).

Corporate R&D labs are where this stuff gets parked by companies that are too impatient to wait for that. That's exactly what happened in Nokia.
Seems to be an App to implement a “Zettelkasten“ type knowledge store:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten