skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - I was trying to provide a counter example to your statement on the lack of a contribution of ignorance to addiction. I think most addicts are well aware of the negative effects of their addiction at a conscious level and at the very least, if asked if their addiction was harmful, would reply "Well yea a bit" or "Well yea it could be" - people with drinking problems don't live in a happy go lucky land where they think everything is a-okay, they are coping and trying to survive. Most are quite aware that their habit is destructive but either don't see another way to move forward or endow a lack of personal strength with all the guilt of their habit - "If I could stop I would, but I'm too weak."

So I think mentioning that people are generally aware of the bad side effects of junk food isn't helpful - some people indulge due to perceived financial pressures (especially time pressures) others because of the short term pleasure- "Everything is going to hell - at least I can enjoy this milkshake and forget about things for a while." Additionally you have just plain old cravings and other factors.

I agree that the obesity epidemic isn't caused by a lack of information - so I think your point is important, but I think it's also important to realize that addictive substances almost never have that lack of information. Booze and cigarettes both tend to come with really heavy warnings about side effects but those warnings don't really have a noticeable effect.

Forcing manufacturers to put those warnings on products is essentially a big cop out by the government to avoid taking any real action.
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Those are the kind of people that are not going to reach out to this guy to get help. Its a hard step to make as the author mentioned it too.
I found this video, (linked as required reading for lesson 2), really interesting:

> 21 fairness definitions and their politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXIuYdnyyk

It feels accessible to people with stats 101 under their belt, and pays a lot of attention to the human factors involved in these problems.
Having or being vulnerable to a virus isn't a protected class.
> But for myself (and them) I'm willing to take the risk

I truly don't think you have the education, training, or exposure to the field to actually make an informed judgment about what such risks would be.

This isn't an insult to you, it's simply a fact of life: We can't all be subject matter experts in all things. This is precisely why regulatory apparatuses, licensure for the practice of certain disciplines, and product safety standards exist.
There developer story was way too confusing. Adobe Air just wasn't a good idea. Blackberry had been Java, and I wonder what made that a pain. The Runtime for Android was a good idea, but they really needed to pick something.

QNX is doing fine in cars, shame it never really got a chance. The 2 screen Doom and rebooting drivers over the network showed some amazing stuff.
I think the link you cited states that 48 is the median age of infections, whereas the person you're replying to is talking about deaths. I don't have national data, but in my state (Indiana) 51.4% of deaths are 80+ years old according to coronavirus.in.gov
>She says that experts and officials should stop referring to all nonhospitalized cases as “mild.” They should agree on a definition of recovery that goes beyond being discharged from the hospital or testing negative for the virus, and accounts for a patient’s quality of life. “We cannot fight what we do not measure,” Alwan says. “Death is not the only thing that counts. We must also count lives changed.”

I've definitely wished for months now that major media at least would work to include both not just a "mortality rate" figure in general reporting but side-by-side a "morbidity rate" figure as well. It's not as if this is some unheard of thing, the entire actuarial industry does detail morbidity rate calculations because it's critical to calculating proper premium costs. Death is certainly not the only thing that counts even from a pure cost perspective, ongoing complications and disability is a huge deal. Military planners have long considered it as well, again for heavily practical reasons beyond common humanity: just because soldiers have "survived" doesn't mean their fighting power is undiminished, or even exists at all any longer. There is a reason for the old saying that an enemy left disabled might be more militarily valuable then a dead one, since they may tie up multiple other enemy forces.

So it's really kind of odd, but for whatever reason "morbidity rate" doesn't seem to have entered the common discourse this pandemic. There's a lot of "1% mortality rate" (or whatever figure) tossed around without further stratification, naturally implying that the other 99% aren't a concern. But morbidity may well exceed mortality by quite a multiplier, and it's looked for months like there's enough evidence that at least it'd be worth funding some more rigorous and organized data collection including followup weeks/months later. It's unfortunate the general collection, graphs, maps and so on seem to pretty universally remain split between "infected" and "dead".
> How much empirical data do you need to convince yourself that jumping out of a window with an umbrella is unsafe?

A non-zero amount, at least:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U
> But from an economics standpoint it’s not a complete plan ...

I don't know much about the economics. Curious, how so?

> UBI is largely about symbolic equality, the kindergarten-level fairness of everyone getting the same amount. That’s important because symbols of equality are important.

IMHO, what you described is justice. Equality. Not kindergarten-level, or, rather, I guess it is, in the sense of it being fundamental to our moral understanding : ).
They work out in groups because they congregate in places with pull-up bars, bumper plates, barbells, medicine balls and so forth. Otherwise only those with houses and garages get to work out.

Not justifying it, I'm just jealous because my bedroom has turned into a gym and it sucks.
Right, so if BP drills for oil in South Texas that means that the Texas oil reserves should be under their control? This viewpoint reeks of racism and Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism.
> Virtually all the people who died of covid were fat[1].

Your source doesn't support that. Viewing each of the separate country-specific statistics as being generally applicable you could conclude:

* A majority were obese, but a significant minority were not.

* Virtually all had some preexisting condition that COVID aggravated, and some (but not all) of those were preexisting conditions for which obesity is a risk factor.

> If the military forced everyone to exercise (and diet, but that's harder to mandate than exercising) it would have been much more effective than forcing everyone to wear masks.

That's not at all supported by any evidence which you've presented. For one thing you seem to have not considered in dreaming this up, people (especially, but not exclusively, of advanced age) with the kind of preexisting conditions involved often can't just pick up an exercise routine even if doing so before developing the conditions could have prevented them.

> Most of us are going to get covid even if we stay inside all day (I got it twice)

While there is some concern about whether getting it gives you long-term immunity, AFAICT there is no confirmed reinfection and most indicated potential reinfections are more likely to involve at least one testing error rather than an actual reinfection.
Yes but presumably electricity is order(s) of magnitude cheaper than jet fuel. And also order(s) of magnitude more available than jet fuel. And also order(s) of magnitude cleaner than jet fuel (depending on the source).
https://archive.is/R8WCe
what ?

" After exclusions, data for 1,320,488 (94%) cases were analyzed.Median age was 48 years"
> What's the difference between a homemade pastry and store bought pastry?

I can't effortlessly and cheaply acquire a honey bun when I've had a bad day if I have to make them at home.
You see this in product packaging too: Domino sugar cubes come 198 to a box. This yields a much more pleasing and practical box than 200.
> and the low hanging fruits have been picked

Only the low hanging fruits that can be patented have been picket. Cheap paths are blocked by incentives.

Between the size of typical government funding and patentable drug there is huge gap of few hundred millions.

> There's no such thing as a cheap drug

Existing molecular entities where the patent has expired are cheap. Besides, the it does not have to be new drug. Effective treatment can be something else.
Datasheets for Datasets (2018)
Personally I think the larger concerns are that if you provide UBI to everyone (not 120 random people) you're going to see severe distortions on the local economy that will encourage outsourcing wherever possible. Basic economic reasoning states that income has declining marginal utility, so wages will need to rise to incentivize people to do the work they were doing previously. Or it'll just leave.

Feels unsustainable to me.
Unrelated but @dang: I made this comment 1 hour ago and it shows so in https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=24212997. However when I check the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197668 it shows "10 min ago" (the one I'm replying to has the same issue.) Is this just cache or a bug?
In https://www.vox.com/21296067/coronavirus-covid-symptoms-supe... you will find the following passage indicating that community spread doesn't merely happen in gyms, but gyms are actually a prime location type for it to happen:

Researchers have been tracking many superspreading events around the globe, and there seem to be recurring locations no matter what the country. In addition to those we have heard most about, like prisons, food processing plants, and elder care facilities, there have also been numerous large superspreading events at bars, churches, offices, gyms, and shopping centers.

(Note gyms are on the list.)
I'm not confident about the 2008-present effects of QE, but I think it's more likely to affect stock and bond prices than Baby Boomers retiring.

The announcement of the most recent round of QE is one of the "policy shocks" of the kind referred to by the 2014 Fed paper. Prior to the announcement, Apple, S&P 500, and bond funds were at 1-year lows. This month they are at all time highs.
In the long run, time in market (how long you've been investing) is more important than timing the market.

This is in part because it is so hard to time the market, and in part because some stocks pay dividends, which you can compound by reinvesting them. Those count as part of your returns too.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/gehaltsrechner-geh...
An article in German, but 1943 Euros a month in Germany is the median income. And it takes only around 6100/month to be 1%.
> All of the epidemiologists and experts seem to think otherwise.

What do all the experts think about whether Epstein killed himself or not?

People choose to believe what they want, because they can't rely on believing the government/media/public opinion.
Reasonable possibility nobody involved signed an NDA or filled out any paperwork, given how unofficial it was. It's been fifteen years, it's likely the hardware in question is long deprecated in favor of covert hardware that looks like a modern smartphone or something.
Pretty sure they're referring to isolated modules, this is a great video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3XYAx30CNc
What are your thoughts on the (in my experience more common) phrase: "I would rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle"? When I really consider this phrase it brings tears to my eyes.
and how many unconfirmed cases? I personally know 10 people who have had symptoms that are likely covid, but not serious enough to go get tested. The fact that the least symptomatic patients are also least likely to get tested means that the calculation you presented gives us, at best, an upper bound. A better way to get the true measure would be based on population-based antibody testing.

More info available at the WHO website: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/estimating...
> Does your figure include people who couldn't get medical attention because the health system is completely overwhelmed?

Do you have any articles about people being turned away from hospitals due to lack of capacity?
Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader
Look at digital signage / business TVs, if you're willing to pay a premium for it. For example, there's stuff like this: https://amazon.com/dp/B08651PB1J
We keep a low profile. Separate network, very limited interaction with "corporate IT" (which is outsourced). We keep infosec onside by making our liason feel we are across things. Allows us to sidestep a lot of problems, because ultimately in a large company people don't have to

Took me 15 years to realise that incompetence is at worst ignored, and often leads to promotions.

I've spent 3 years telling corporate IT they have a problem with a router config that limits throughput, we got 3mbit rather than 1Gbit. They spent 3 years insisting it wasn't them, and it was the upstream ISP. I even managed to get read only snmp access, and generated cacti graphs of their router showing 400M (iperf2 in udp mode, so 400kbit/ms) going in on port channel 1, but not emerging on the ISP interface.

My shadow-IT deparement spent 3 years paying for a completely separate network connection to bypass the corporate IT one and meet our requirements (easy to do when it's a remote branch office in another country), other departments just suffered it. It was the backup link so only used about 1 day in 10.

Eventually a senior member of (non-tech) staff resigned over the issue and it started being taken more seriously.

The way this system is designed (giving the front door to corporate IT) was done over my objections, and the objections of many others, but on paper it was good. Corporate IT provide shiny SLAs (which mean squat).

Last week, 12 months after the resignation and the beginning of taking it seriously, it had been escalated through 4 different layers of corporate IT, and eventually they came back and said "we've found an errant access list and removed it, and it's now fixed".

That's it. 3 years telling them what the problem was, 3 years of being ignored, and what happens? Certainly no blame for the idiots that made the decision to use this, no comeback on corporate IT provider, but if people find out about shadow IT they kick up a fuss (so the trick is to keep quiet and keep good personal relations with potential pain points).

Oh yes, we outsourced our corporate IT. Obviously there's no money coming back, I suspect we'll get a bill.
Fairwashing: The Risk of Rationalization (2019)
So the host device does need support for a wifi SD card? I thought it was an perfect abstraction.
Median wealth says absolutely nothing except how many homeowners you have and to what extent the housing market is out of control.

The metric that actually reflects people's lives is consumption adjusted for purchasing power. Disposable income (again, adjusted for purchasing power) is useful as well.
https://twitter.com/zeynep has been very critical of the beach photos thing, and you'll find we're in agreement on that point.

Even in articles about house parties, major media outlets go and grab a beach photo for some reason. It's bad reporting.
The British have a horrible history of imperialism, but just to be clear, this was mostly carried out the by US, who also have a horrible history of imperialism.
> Productivity growth has been driven by capital, not labor.

What does capital produce?
Enough with the Trolley Problem (2018)
the health system was never "overwhelmed" except for brief periods and in specific locales. My spouse is in healthcare, they have still not recovered their normal census. If anything there will be a huge spike in cancer deaths due to late diagnosis etc as people have stayed away.
The old billions wouldn’t even be alive but for capitalism.

Well if capitalism is responsible for all the good it must be responsible for all the bad, like industrial warfare like WWI and WWII.
The Marxist perspective is that the employer is incentivized to pay as little as possible to extract the maximum amount of value from the person's labor, realizing the difference as profit (even though crucially that value was created by the worker). An example of this would be software engineers at companies like Apple and Google, whose labor has been shown to produce several times the value of their compensation. Unions and worker cooperatives are meant to counterbalance these forces by giving workers more negotiating power in the case of the former, or aligning the profit motive with employee compensation for the latter.
Ask HN: Long Term Covid-19 Complications
As someone who had a mild COVID-like illness in March, but never fully recovered (with the primary remaining symptom being body fatigue, sometimes post-nasal drip, and some tingling in the extremities, none of which are showing signs of improvement after 5 months), I want to survey the HN community about similar complications.

It seems like it isn't uncommon to have lingering COVID-like symptoms after testing negative for the live culture, with varying degrees of severity [0][1][2].

Please leave your story if you've had similar symptoms. I'm especially interested in how you've been treating it and if you've had any success.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-months-in-these-patients-are-still-ravaged-by-covids-fallout-11593612004

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-damage-covid-19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientists

[2] https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/12/after-covid19-mental-neurological-effects-smolder/
Hacks at the MIT
If doing yoga or going to the gym are the only reasons someone has to live, they need mental health counseling.
That's fine. The problem people have is when the government bans the dog biscuit company from operating for arbitrary reasons and they go under
Yes, I second this. That was an absolutely critical read for me.

As an aside, All The King's Men and All The President's Men are books I recommend too.
A weirder one for me that I like now: my RIGHT pinky has been hurting recently. Not sure if it's emacs fault, but I've been using "Enter/return key as CTRL when held"... When you hit return it's normal return key, but if you just hold down return it acts like control! It was weird at first, but now it's awesome - especially useful on a Mac lappy that has no right ctrl key.
No, I'm saying that the response in regards to the number of people who have contracted it is utterly ridiculous.
And consider forcing any non Pihole port 53 traffic back to the Pihole. I use a cheap Edgerouter from Ubiquiti and it works well.
In the cited article, the only statistic I see on weight specifically is that 74% of critically ill UK patients were overweight or obese, which makes it a risk factor but not the be all and end all, given what fraction of the whole pop fits that category (~65%).

It also says that 99% of deaths in Italy were from patients with pre-existing conditions, which would included weight related and non-weight related ones.

Regardless of COVID, maintaining a healthy weight is probably one of more important lifestyle changes one can make to reduce risk of overall mortality.
The stock market is a lot more about gambling than an objective measure of value.
its splitting hairs but not really. Rust's proc macros need to be explicitly invoked using special syntax at the usage site, either by annotating a statement or enclosing a block of tokens. On top of that, they do token replacement (or addition, with derive macros) which means they can only take valid input tokens as an argument (compared to macro_rules which can take arbitrary strings).

Textual substitution is less rigorous. It tells the compiler to replace a string with another, wherever it is seen. There's no restriction that it must be valid token input to be replaced or that it needs to be an explicit usage of the macro.
These days, those corporate insiders have a lot of their wealth tied up their company's stock. So while it's a terrible way to think about running a company, a lot of companies are run that way because it benefits the people running them.
List of International Organization for Standardization standards, 1-4999
"Don't do people favors if they don't ask for them."

Sometimes in the corporate life, you imagine that X would like to have Y, and you put in a lot of effort to make Y happen. And then X is not even aware that Y took effort, or worse, you misinterpreted, and X is annoyed that Y happened. Better make sure that X really wants Y and asks for it.
The oil rigs, refineries, and pipelines were the British resource, not the oil.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.

Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23

1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

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You can either give people unemployment (wage without work)[as per 22 or 23(3)] by taxing the companies you mention, or you can make the companies to give money directly to the people in return for work. There is no third way. You can't deprive people of a dignified life by ignoring them.
It's ignorant to simply look at the mortality rate of the disease. You have to also consider how transmissible the disease is. If you infected the entire US population with the flu over the course of a few months it would be complete devastation even though it's just "the normal flu" in terms of how an individual's immune system deals with it.

By this logic COVID19 is nothing compared to SARS or EBOLA because those have higher mortality rates, but obviously COVID spreads much faster and farther so it has had a huge international impact.
Sony took a loss on PS4 sales:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/20/sony-to-tak...

This is normal.

The price increase would not have been mild - at the time this was written, it was the cost of a full game. When most only own a handful of games that's a significant difference.
True, there is probably a reason for some stupid requirement, but that reason might still be stupid.

Remember that upper management is people, and as people they have their own biases, fallacies, ignorance, etc. They are just as prone to make wrong decisions as you are. In fact in an area of your expertise, they are indeed more prone to make a wrong decision out of simple ignorance or bias. If you think a requirement from your area of expertise is stupid, it probably is a stupid requirement. If you can’t see a reason for that requirement, there probably isn’t a good one.

The fact that the decision to make this stupid requirement comes from people in power gives you even more reason to question the validity of the requirement. People that hold high position and a great amount of power often face less scrutiny and questionable decisions made by them are far less criticized, then similar decisions made by people of less power.
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