skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"hey it looks like the CFR/IFR is declining because we have better treatment methods"

It's a claim not many are making because it's not clear it's really true.

Firstly, the bulk of the falling IFR is due to more widespread testing driving up numbers of known infections and sero-surveys indicating that even more people than that may have been infected. It's not primarily driven by better survival rates, although they did get better.

At this point it seems clear that mass ventilation was a mistake. It was actually killing people rather than saving them because it's a last-ditch resort. COVID wasn't actually deadly enough to justify this and the large scale usage was driven more by the lack of reliable information, the somewhat unusual form of presenting pneumonia in early patients, the belief that it was an extremely deadly virus and the fact that ventilators force all air coming out of the patients lungs through high quality filters, so doctors are trained that ventilation stops infected patients pumping virus into hospitals.

But doctors are smart and pretty quickly figured out that the ventilation was making things worse, that they couldn't keep the hospitals virus-free anyway, and at any rate they were about to run out of the machines so their hands were forced and they had to try something new. After that usage of ventilation went back to more normal policies, with supplemental oxygen being deemed sufficient for even quite extreme cases, because of course almost all cases need little or no hospital treatment.

Meanwhile many drugs were tried and some were hailed as drugs that could help, e.g. remdesivir or hydroxychloroquine. But later on more controlled studies done under calmer conditions concluded they actually seemed to have no effect.

Given this progress of events it's hard to argue that treatment methods actually got better, except in a very technical sense that most people wouldn't really mean. They got better in the sense that they returned to normal for this kind of virus and stopped making the situation worse. If there had been no mass panic at the start it's likely treatments would never have got so extreme to start with.

the UK, as an example, currently already has about 30% of the cases in hospital versus the peak in late April, and about 15% of the deaths

The UK has also quadrupled its testing rate since April. The numbers aren't directly comparable.

without careful management it risks getting out of control

I don't believe that's been proven at all. The analysis was done many times by now: every government intervention tried so far has no correlation with the course of the disease. That means attempts at management have failed and it has in fact been out of control the whole time, but, fortunately for us, our bodies are generally pretty good at fighting diseases except in the last years of our lives or when immunocompromised in some way, so that hasn't led to disaster.
How many services do you use even if occasionally and how much toleration do you have for cleverly different things like magically knowing who you are based on device with some way to link an account after the fact. I have zero. I want things to work like other things work. I don't have time nor desire to figure out the non obvious way things work just because the dev is confused about how special they are.
Wiarframe Is No More
Try EVE Online, I lived many thousands of hours in that world.
The experience is analogous to the situation of walking into a physical store and having the clerk harass you the second you walk in. It makes you very uncomfortable and doesn't give you the opportunity to browse before they jump on you.

I find that stores which do this tend to be more interested in making a sale than ensuring you have something you're happy with and want/need.

What should we expect from sites which behave like this?
Academia is (perversely) not incredibly enamored with novel systems from my experience. My theory was that it has something to do with most of the tenured professors being old and stubborn.
I haven't heard of him committing any wrong-think, but we'll have to consult the blue-checks on Twitter to make sure.
No love for Thiel or the mechanism by which he gained a NZ residency visa but the reality is the property in question is a sheep farm 3/4 of a square mile in size beside a pretty lake.

That article spends an inordinately long time speculating that there's an "everything proof" structure been built on it but (as far as I saw skim reading) provides no evidence for that at all. You'd be hard pressed keeping that sort of construction quiet in NZ, everyone knows everyone.
> until VCs do what China does and start pouring money into hard stuff, not just fluffy software

VCs won't do that, it's not their business model. The only way out is government funding - the way it has been for decades.
No, I just block cookies from ALL sites except the few that I need to log into. GDPR is mostly irrelevant to me for that reason.

The unfortunate result is that the goddamn GDPR warnings keep popping up, because ironically, the way those websites remember that you either "accepted" or "denied" the tracking request is to leave a cookie, and I don't allow or want to allow that cookie.

EDIT: Separately, there are many websites that only have an "accept" button and no "decline" button. By blocking the modal dialog boxes, I never actually "accepted", and therefore they never got my permission to track. Ha!
I can't get the page to load reliably enough to test, but I saw the same issue.

Are you running the Dark Reader extension by chance?

I think the author didn't test with Dark Reader, which is fair, but they override the cursor, which is not fair. Please don't do that, it's not as cool as you think it is and it breaks things for your users.
It'll probably say something about arglistige Täuschung, versuchten Betrug, that kind of thing. The magazine's publisher would probably add impersonation to the list.

"I work for Google and we'd would like to … with you", "I write for the Spiegel and would like to interview you for …", "I'm a Nigerian prince and need your help to …", deception all three. That one of them involves a specific profession is not relevant.
Bank of Central African States wants solution to fight illicit financial flows
I suddenly feel like it's a good idea to print everything and store it safely. Just in case someone survives.
It doesn't have to scale, it just has to be possible. I would argue that it is, especially given how many people are in jobs that just don't matter.
Qt 6.0 Beta Released
Have a look at this project, there's a bunch of us that hate these things!

https://github.com/bcye/Hello-Goodbye/
Big Data Will Be Dead in 5 Years
For some basic introduction to some of this work check out Strogatz nonlinear dynamics book, highly recommend.
> I find those chat boxes to be completely irritating.

The supermajority here does, or so I would guess.

We aren’t representative, and that’s important to remember when designing user interfaces.
As a data analyst I have evaluated the performance of chatbots in particular and modals in general for several clients.

And I can agree with you. There is actually nearly always a customer segment that finds chatbots and popups totally annoying. This usually ends up in this segment leaving the site disproportionately due to the modals, which leads to a loss of revenue.

At the same time there is a segment (usually much larger) that appreciates chatbots and FAQ modals - even on the first visit. Here these functionalities lead to a significant increase in sales.

I think that it is quite difficult to automatically assign the user to the appropriate segment and adjust the behavior of the website accordingly. Unfortunately.

Du such popups annoy me and I belong in the same segment as you? Absolutely. Am I an empiricist and do I have to advise most of my clients on such functionalities after appropriate tests because they boost sales? Also absolutely.

And on the question of GDPR modals, I'm afraid I have to say that they are an absolute legal necessity. Unfortunately, the way they have been implemented in most cases I know of is designed to put the user behind the scenes and make him accept more tracking/cookies than he would like to. These things annoy me so much and should be banned from the net.
TLDR:

> "Bletchley is not the war winner that a lot of Brits think it is".

> But he said Bletchley still played an important role.

> "Intelligence never wins a war on its own," says Prof Ferris.

The latter seems to be a trivial statement. Of course: if you know the enemy will launch a 100-megaton bomb at your capital in 2 hours, and all you have at your disposal is light cavalry, you will most likely still not win the war.
My bank has my money. Shoul I feel robbed, from security point of view?
Expression Pre-Processing in After Effects
your scrollbar is dead
Ecstatic's Past, Present and Future (2019)
Archive.org has it: https://archive.org/details/microsoftencartapremiumedition20...
The agency you’ve been searching for
Because arguing points based on who can have the biggest temper tantrum and scream the most slurs is something most are proud to have grown out of around middle school.

This applies especially to important and complicated subjects that affect many people (the type often discussed on HN) which demand reasoned thought for coming up with good responses.

If you want to argue in bad faith, use logical fallacies and hysterically scream at opposing ideas rather than use rationality and reason then what's wrong with reddit or twitter?
All form factors are wrong. They expose the butter to air.

The proper form factor would be a cartridge for a caulking gun. The extra leverage provided by the mechanism means that cold butter works fine, and the protection from air means that warmth doesn't cause much loss of quality.
I can barely fathom that allowing this has even crossed browser developer's minds. This feature is just evil from the start and every browser feature, no matter how trivial or benign will eventually be abused.
Stupid question, how do these 4 SoCs share the 2x SATA ports? Do you assign them to a specific processor somehow? Are the other machines booting off of PXE boot?
It's great that you responded to something this rude in such a positive way.
> Fluffy software drives demand for fancy hardware.

Fluffy hardware drives demand for fancy semiconductors. Intel valuation wouldn’t be where it is without... eh, what?

And this is where the skeleton in the closet is. For a major silicon vendor, it becomes more, and more scary to not simply get on the wrong side with chip manufacturer, but even just missing on the next best deal possible.

Companies that actually make all those chips don't matter as much when you are a 3rd-4th-5th tier company in your niche, and they don't care much about you. But the moment you become a bigger fish, your stakes become much, much higher. If a popular part (like a cellphone SOC) vendor gets a 10% worse fab deal than its competitor, that part vendor is likely on the way out.

In fact, it's a long going "conspiracy theory" in the industry that chip makers keep playing their biggest clients against each other to prevent any of them getting too much negotiating power.
Just to add some colour... You don't PAY 1m, you INVEST 1m in a Maltese business and they GIVE you the citizenship as you still own whatever you invested in. Find a nice hotel you can buy a share of and you're laughing...
As the headlined page is about portable shell script coding, note that the -n option to the echo utility is not portable. You should be using printf here, to be in the spirit of the headlined page. (And you should also be quoting variable assignments for safety.)

There's a long history to this, which starts with the fact that adding any option support at all to the original echo breaks stuff. The result over the years has been quite a mess. The current Single Unix Specification has an note stating outright that one should simply not use -n or escape sequences at all with echo if one desires portability, and also stating that one should use printf instead.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/65803/5132

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/e...
Just use a simple linear non-causal filter, i.e. low pass filter forward in time and then backwards in time. Do this for any desired bandwidth and iterate as many times as you want. No need for neural networks in here.
> And on the question of GDPR modals, I'm afraid I have to say that they are an absolute legal necessity.

I block cookies from all sites by default, and make exceptions for the few that I need to log into. The result is the GDPR modals keep popping up because the modals can't set cookies to remember whether or not I accepted.

So the only thing I can do is inject JS/CSS to block them.

(Also by de-modalizing it and hiding it, I never actually need to accept anything, and nobody gets my permission to track, hee hee.)
The lack of this pre-processing on code in external files results in around a 25-30% increase in speed, according to Adobe.
As bad as you make it sound, they are teaching kids stuff, even at less-than-wealthy school districts.

Adult Literacy in the United States:
https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp

It's not perfect, but from the most remote deserts of Arizona to rural Appalachia, to Compton, to rural Colorado, our public school system chugs away.

By hood or by crook, or by underfunded inner-city/rural public school, we're teaching a hell of a lot of kids to read and write, multiply and divide. Skills that many parents can't teach on their own, and that most kids wouldn't go out of their way to learn if you left them alone.

I attended elementary through middle-school at a district too poor to offer a high-school chemistry class, and still learned my times tables and how to write a paragraph. I even went on to Community College, a state school, a state-school masters, and an MD on scholarship. Sure, I didn't get the chance to take AP classes, and I didn't have some fancy robotics class, but I just can't bring myself to bash the public school system that got me to where I am. Sure, I didn't get everything a kid growing up in Pasadena got, but California has a robust-enough public-education system through the Community Colleges and UC/Cal-State system that it wasn't a dealbreaker in the least.

I don't know what district you attended, but if you took nothing away other than 'boredom, authority, and pointless busywork,' I'm curious as to how exactly we are debating this point in written English.

I think it's a slap to the face of a lot of teachers doing their best, as well as their students, to say that kids in disadvantaged districts learn nothing other than how to sit still and listen to authority. I learned quite a bit, in fact.
Read lots of blogs/posts by ex-Valve employees who portray this libertarian dream as a terrible place to work though. Although that could just be because its the gaming industry and not Valve specifically
For those young eggs not getting the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ohDB5gbtaEQ...
If this gets traction please remember to allow hiding cursor if the user has full screened something! -- person trying to watch a video without a lil pointer in the way
The+Best+Poison+Ivy+Remedies:+Soaps,+Creams+-+Health+Lines
He did claim to be an employee of a specific publisher, writing for a specific big magazine.
I strongly second Aurora. This is about as close as it gets to a good fun simulation.
Great country meets great prospective citizen, love ensues.
A KSP and Moonbase Alpha baby?

Children of a dead earth is realistic space combat and it's pretty dry.
You can play any system any way, and popularity of D&D (especially online and in English-speaking countries) means that you're more likely to find the 5% of D&D players that want narrative-focused D&D than the 50% of World of Darkness or Call of Cthulhu players who want narrative-focused games. But there's enough of both to find someone on the internet.

Also systems come with setting and genre - if you like medieval fantasy and political intrigue Call of Cthulhu might not be for you (because it takes place in more modern times in real-world+ universe and it's mostly focused on horror/mystery). World of Darkness has a culture of focusing on narrative and acting over mechanics in this system, but it can be a little too "emo"/"existential horror" for some people. Or maybe it's my prejudice, I've never personally played it, just watched some games in the 90s.

If you don't like crunchy mechanics there's a very simple d6 system:

1 = you failed AND something bad happened

2 = you failed

3 = you failed BUT something good happened

4 = you succeeded BUT something bad happened

5 = you succeeded

6 = you succeeded AND something good happened

Your character sheet is just a table with free-form description of what you're good at (you roll 2d6 and choose better result) and what you're bad at (you roll 2d6 and choose worse result). DM can also give you more/less dices depending on how hard something is to do.

That's pretty much it - you can play it now :). I don't remember what was the name of that system but it's commonly played late-night at conventions - almost no setup required. And it tends to create games with little focus on combat.

Voice-acting is a matter of personal preference I think. I don't usually do it and I've never had problems in games where some people did it and some didn't.

Anyway - the key to having fun is to set expectations on the first session. Better to talk about it in advance than to waste time playing with people who want to have fun differently than you. The system is secondary (and you can always houserule stuff away if it's too complex for you).
The former Soviet Union built approx 250 nuclear powered submarines.

Many of which rotted alongside piers for decades in the post Soviet collapse.

Literally rotted.

Western aid was provided to fund decommissioning and secure removal of nuclear materials with an emphasis on preventing nuclear proliferation.

It was a long-term and very messy project with numerous accidents and high likelihood of corruption and lack of audit and accountability.

If I had to hazard a guess, the die off is related to improper decommissioning and handling of Russian nuclear submarines.

Imagine the horrifically corrupt world of Italian organised crime brought to life by Robert Saviano(Gomorrah) with terrible examples of improper hazardous waste disposal scaled up to 1000x in the remote region of Kamchatka where Russian organised crime has had great influence and you have a recipe for disaster.

Just the known incidents involving Russian nuclear submarines in the Kamchatka area are horrific.

Preventing this disaster would have required even more aggressive effort back in the 90’s.

Commercial Uranium prices were suppressed in the 90’s/00’s due to the program to decommission Russian nuclear material and recycling it in western commercial reactors.

But the big effort made clearly wasn’t enough to stop this disaster.

The effort may have prevented nuclear proliferation, but it didn’t prevent environmental disaster.

You couldn’t pay me ten million dollars to swim or surf in proximity of old Russian nuke boats.
The server boost graphic mentions boosts increasing call quality from 128 to 256 and higher kbps, would that make a difference?
Seismometer noise includes storms, 'footquakes' from soccer matches (2011)
Aaaaurghh!!! [brain exploded]
Thank you for this fascinating write-up. It's given me a lot to think about. I'm quite curious as to why no existing social networks have tried to implement your ideas in a meaningful way, and to a lesser extent why no new start-ups have.

Perhaps when I have a few hundred million to invest in a better platform I'll reach out! (One can dream).
He's a great writer, his post on privacy and privacy abuse was eye opening for me

https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to...
I'd be a little nervous to be a lightly-defended island likely to still have arable land and pleasant weather in 100 years.
You need null pointers for system programming.

That said you can already declare `type MyPtr = ptr int not nil` but the compiler is still clunky on proofs and needs a lot of help.

it is planned to have a much better prover in the future and ultimately Z3 integration for such safety features: https://nim-lang.org/docs/drnim.html
Speaking as someone with two children in secondary education at a "bog standard comprehensive" in East London, I think you are entirely incorrect.

I am very pleased with the level of critical thinking and lively argument we get over the dining room table about the issues of the day. My youngest daughter hs just started GCSE history and sociology and I am being constantly schooled on the ills of society.
Intelligentsia does not mean "educated people". For example, capitalists or the tzar's family were not part of Inteligentsia. A lof of the military officers weren't either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia
You mean politics that's not on your side.
> It would be hard to be clearer that the purpose of the “education” system is indoctrination.

You call it indoctrination. Someone else might equally call it social cohesion.
Flight Simulator with 3D printed DualShock yoke adapter
What I learned from preparing for the end of the world
I remember a similar comparison with Tony Blair back when he was the Prime Minister of the UK; the response was that while Wikipedia did indeed say more about Pikachu than Blair, Wikipedia also said more about Blair than did whichever “proper” encyclopaedia Wikipedia was being compared with at the time.
I thought it would be a fun challenge. It is an amazing soundtrack though, I think your daughter has great musical taste :)
Being able to consume it offline certainly helped, I had Encarta 98 and dial-up, so I had the choice between going online and paying per minute, or just spend my free time reading an encyclopedia.

Ha when I was even younger my parents actually got me a Disney-themed encyclopedia ( https://www.gumtree.com/p/books/walt-disney-encyclopedia-boo... ) and I'd actually spend time sitting somewhere reading them. A kid version of me nowadays would probably be watching YouTube, sadly.
Show HN: Creating types using closures explained (Erlang)
Using standard crypto primitives isn’t enough. I tried to find a review of the security of telegrams new protocol a few months ago and came up empty.

So asking the parent to “ do their research” isn’t helpful. And it isn’t FUD to treat an unknown system as insecure.
>Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain

Wrong.

An author (or heirs) cannot put creative works in the public domain. There is nothing in the statute that allows this. Only after the expiration of the copyright does the work go into public domain.

Copyright stays with the author (or heirs) and is subject to license termination after 35 years. This would mean the declaration of "use freely" can be revoked. Which is why these works cannot treated as if they are in the public domain.
To be very honest, a diary. I’ve always viewed diaries as pointless items until I was enticed by one simply due to its aesthetic and ended up making a purchase. It’s quite convenient to have something available to just scribble ideas in and declutter your mind. Of course, I don’t use it in the traditional sense for reflecting everyday, however once in a while, I jot down goals and future plans, as well as accomplishments. And this offers a peace of mind, increasing daily efficiency, which is great for my startup.
> He said because GCHQ was able to intercept and break Argentine messages, British commanders were able to know within hours what orders were being given to their opponents

GCHQ were only able to break the Argentine encryption because the Dutch gave them very strong hints on how to break it.