skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What they're doing is censoring anything that upsets anyone (including themselves) because every mainstream political voice has been demanding that they censor people, and threatening to attack the company financially if they don't.

I don't want them censoring anyone if they're not then held liable for the content they do publish. If they're going to exercise editorial powers, let them take editorial responsibility. This is not an option they're being given. Instead they've been told that the biggest offense they can commit is failing to delete.
Why don't they add in something for comparison, like yearly flu deaths, or road accients so people ca get a real perspective on this.

Personally I feel that it has been hyped up beyond belief but I am aware that many disagree. It appears to be around 3 times as bad as normal flu season (going by infection fatality rate), yet for flu we don't really bother much at all. A bad flu season may get some attention in the press but not much more, though a bad flu may double the IFR.

We are destroying economies because of covid, and I predict that the long term damage will be far worse than the virus. I think its important to keep a sense of perspective.
It seems unlikely such isolation is going to be needed to eradicate influenza. A universal flu vaccine ("FLU-v") passed phase 1 and 2 clinical trials earlier this year [1] [2], and is moving on to phase 3 trials.

[1] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-universal-flu-vaccine...

[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=FLU-v&cntr...
I'm interested, but it seems like you'll need more than buzzfeed news as a source if you're claiming that Stanford scientists are unreliable.
that’s revisionist. usenet was already dead. google extended its life, in fact.
And all it took was the almost complete destruction of society and our way of life. #worthit

Edit: I see this has been flagged with no counterpoint. Congratulations on stifling any attempt at reasonable discussion. Bravo
The ones that remain are tremendously compromised. Our benchmarks tend to be recent: personal experience within a lifetime especially.

For the oceans, little data predates the 1950s, after much damage was done. The degradation since is still staggering.

Over the past few centuries, let alone millennia, impacts have been massive. Few are evident directly, most require geological orother scientific inference ... buried traces of past ecosystems.
I took the time to do this now. It was fun, if a bit shorter than I had hoped.
I honestly dont understand their strategy. These "wins" are only sustainable if they never open their borders. And once they do, covid and influenza will come back. Only option I can see is to maintain isolation until a vaccine is available but that could be a long way away.
The less you spend on produce, the lower the carbon footprint. All* spending in the current economic system results in a proportional amount of carbon being generated.
*Not all, but very close.
They're not doing that though. They blocked an article which contained PII, and info derived from a hack (by the articles own admissions), at least for Twitter I believe that was just policy.

I think they should've just flagged it. But I imagine you and many others would've had the same problem there.

More importantly, you just know any new interpretation will be broad as well? What is your proposed replacement?
Glad to hear you like it!
This is a peer-reviewed article published by the World Health Organization, not a press release from an individual Stanford lab.

Could you please enumerate your specific concerns with this study?
A great question for the folks who actually do CPU design! As somebody who writes JS rather frequently I’m not complaining.
I used an off the shelf controller for my pump. About $100 for a 3A VFD not including transducer
What are you defining as correct?
Would that be so bad? To me either situation shows that the author understands what empathy is and that she should put effort into it.
"Employees don't determine the policies or agenda of a company" - No other industry has employees playing activists at their jobs than technology. What do you think the Spotify employees are trying to do with the whole Joe Rogan thing.
You missed Porsche's Taycan.

The already in production VW ID.4 is a direct competitor to the new Model Y, the ID.3 to the Model 3.
Yes and everyone who was anyone was on usenet at that time. Lines were short, apolitical and open. I really miss that.

In those days I still dialled up daily with UUCP just to get my mail and news :P
When I first bought a Mac back in about 2008 I did a price comparison as everyone was saying they were more expensive in the UK than US. It turned out this wasn’t true as every model I looked at was almost exactly the same when sales tax / VAT was taken into consideration. I was comparing to California, as that’s where I might have decided to buy instead of the UK.
damn, that's not a bad effort, I like it. But it does sort of feel like cheating ;)

Mine is about 140 lines of bash, and I don't /think/ i'm using anything that isn't part of coreutils.
> The result is a language ideal for no one and pushed heavily by Apple.

Does it have to be "ideal" to be worthwhile? I think it fits a similar use-case to something like C# but it's a lot nicer to work with. I don't understand why Swift shouldn't be perfectly usable for data science, or writing server-less functions for example: it would be a perfectly suitable stand-in for Python or Go in these cases, but with a much nicer type system in my opinion thanks to the first-class optional handling.

> Swift as a "compiled python" loses to Go, and that not even Go's design goal (though it is a fairly common use of it).

I totally disagree. Go is a jail. It's optimized for big teams with a lot of turnover, where you want to prevent complexity in the code-base by choosing a language with very limited facilities for abstraction.

Swift on the other hand has a really flexible syntax, which allows you to hide a lot of complexity behind simple interfaces. In that way, it can be a lot more like Python, where the code you're writing is very much at the domain level, and you don't have to think about the implementation details very often. There are many things you can express in swift which are no expressible in go.
It was 100% [ed] due to [/ed] the default wintel behavior. All other architectures have to produce the same value for that conversion.
Flu vaccines are probably not effective enough, even if 100% of the population was vaccinated.

Flu vaccines work, they just don't work perfectly. Many years you'd still get sick, the severity is just attenuated by the flu vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm

> recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to the flu vaccine.
Sure, and materials produced by the government or for wide consumption are written in very simple language. But this is somewhat outside what "typical" native speakers are using.
Young people lose more of their own life than older people.
I've noticed the warning call differs at times, I hear two chirps for land based predator and three for air. Small sample size, city finches.
New Zealand is a tiny island with an authoritative government with a history for banning anything they don´t like and completely shut down the country. I'm still not sure why everyone praises this nation for it's response - they implemented extreme measures on the people and closed the doors - that's not innovative, it's just fear on a massive scale.
I think this has been the case for the 13" for some time, but at least the XPS 15 9550 I have does not suffer from it
Well, it's better than nothing, and if you're doing the producing you can simply stick to words you already know and avoid more difficult ones. In many cases you can come up with a plausible guess by applying regular patterns (e.g., -phy to -fia or -gy to -gia going from English to Spanish).
In countries like Sweden, it's possible that COVID is a net economic positive, by removing unproductive, high-cost individuals.
The amendment against slavery excludes prisoners: Sometimes, they are, indeed, slaves.

And yeah, they have rights. But they don't have the right to freedom as we know it nor do they have the right not to be slaves.
So this invention which could remove a significant portion of human suffering is being squatted on? And because it is patented no one else can remove this suffering either?
The difference in compile times between the AMD 4700U and the 1165G7 is stunning. Sure, it has 2x the cores but in the same TDP. Waiting for the premium Ryzen laptops to ship.

Hoping the Surface Laptop 4 will be the premium Ryzen laptop that I've been waiting for (if I ever need to use a laptop again ...)
To celebrate, there should probably be some sort of dance or ball. It's coming up on Halloween; it could be a masquerade[1]! What could go wrong?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
Having to hole up for 2 weeks after you go anywhere outside the village is a high cost. Unless all your friends and family move into this village, the gains are pretty low...
There's not one single "flu" - when you get a flu vaccination it's good for some particular strains which are (iirc) prevalent or particularly virulent at a given point when they're administered.
NZ already goes without masks because they realized that a short but complete lockdown would result in much less death, and because of the ability to reopen completely, less long term economic harm.
> It's not as if we decided out of thin air the virus was dangerous.

But this is kind of exactly what we did. Go look at a yearly all-cause mortality chart going back the last 110 years. You’ll see this year is a noticeable but not so great uptick (of which many of the deaths will be overdoses, suicides, lack of medical treatment for preventable diseases etc btw). Whereas say the 1918 Flu pandemic was much more deadly in absolute and relative terms both.

Remember we’re talking about a disease that for many is so mild that they never realize they have it. For others like the very elderly it can be very bad, with a 5% chance of dying if infected, but it’s no surprise that surveys that ask people to estimate COVID-19 mortality show that on average people overestimate the fatality by between 10-100x.

SARS-2 is real, but the real virus really is in our minds. I hope one day you will come to see things my way too.

I also hope more commenters here will go mode out what happens when you perform universal rather than targeted mitigation measures: universal ends up with more mortality by slowing down infections in those who are not at risk, which delays hers immunity for almost no benefit.
> Except truth by definition is objective

Except metaphysics of truth has been discussed for centuries and things are more complicated than that. Truth on matters most interesting to us is mostly transjective (neither objective nor subjective but depends on the interaction between the agent and the arena), because which truth you pursue is as important as what the thing is in itself, and the information we could seek about most things in themselves is inexhaustibly large.

“Earth is spherically shaped” is not an “objective truth” if you are calculating the response time of your radio transmission of your satellite over a ground station up north, you need to get more precise than a “sphere”.

> Aren't "fact checks" part of the free discussion?

Certainly they are allowed, but they are posturing an institutional authority they don’t have. It is not a magical epistemology machine that you can put in bleeding edge scientific research in and it will spew “truth”s out.

They are attempts to monopolize truth finding process, cheat the way out of dialectic with more institutions. There is no board or organization of “fact checkers”, no standards, no transparency. It is a branding gimmick.
What does death as a representation mean?
A domestic economy undisrupted by COVID appears to be a larger upside than unrestricted international travel.
During World War I, the population of the world was 1.7 Billion. Just one of many other flaws in this comparison.
> French orthography is also pretty bad (and Portuguese.)

Actually, french orthography is a bit complex, but pretty regular (if you exclude some old names). Also, French grammar would be more complex if the spelling was more inline with pronunciation, as the grammar rules have changed slower than pronunciation has.

If you went by current pronunciation, the feminine or sometimes plural forms of many words, and the tenses of many verbs, would add random consonants, while the current spelling shows that they simply "revive" a consonant that is now elided, but has stayed part of the root of the word (e.g. 'present/presente' pronounced something like 'prezan/prezant'; 'mis/mise' pronounced something like 'mi/miz').

French spelling is also an interesting showcase of what happens when a phonetic spelling is frozen while pronunciation changes (Old French was almost 1:1 with today's spelling, but pronunciation has changed dramatically).
He specifically says "less damaging" ... "on human capital", implying a workforce/economic perspective.

I would suggest you consider toning down your outrage. It's important and necessary to be able to compare and contrast tragedies without devolving into arguments about the incommensurability of human life. Such discussions may appear cold and calculating ("inhumane") but we must have them - ignoring a part of reality because it hurts does not make it go away.

I have seen reactions similar to yours around people unused to discussing issues like medical triage. If we truly want to understand a phenomenon, mitigate its impact, and do the actual most good, we need to be able to analyze and compare things from all angles: social, economic, political, moral, emotional, etc.

So long as such discussions are conducted in a shared context of understanding how weighty and intense these issues are (as it seems to me the parent was doing), they are for the good.
I don’t read the Tesla subreddit, but HN is so full of Musk sycophants that I’m sure a more pro-Tesla place exists.
I'm so sick of seeing New Zealand get praise for it's response. Just like Iceland, it's a tiny ass island, and yes - if you close your borders, don't produce or import anything globally, of course you'll knock it out. Then you open up again (just like we did here in Iceland) and boom, covid skyrockets again. It's not magic, it's just hiding in a cave.
As someone not in NZ, I gotta say, the half-destruction of my way of life for the foreseeable future seems way worse than total destruction for a short period.
It seems like it would be exactly analogous to the formation of pidgins, which takes one generation, not centuries. Also, if I think back to high school I would challenge the idea that every speaker of modern English has "no problems" reading 200-year-old texts.
Flu jumps from animals (birds and pigs) frequently so you will have to do that all the time. Not worth it
I never heard of anyone doing this. I did hear many people, myself included, who bought a Tesla and were delivered a brand new car with immediately noticeable quality issues. You are strongly pushed to “accept delivery” because a) you can always return it within 7 days, and b) Tesla will “fix everything”. Your car will not be fixed in the first seven days and will also not be able to return it. Most forums and blogs strongly encourage buyers to just refuse delivery if you find quality issues. Maybe the 7 day return policy was no longer working to get people to accept delivery.
> I'm genuinely surprised that the HN community thinks a toxic comment like this is upvote-worthy

Is this a̶d̶-̶h̶o̶m̶i̶n̶e̶m̶ [EDIT: attack] really necessary? I'm sharing a thought about the ridiculous nature of bay area hustle culture.

> Contrast this to what the author actually said: "Optimizing learning over money early in your career.

Contrast that to what she goes on to say in the article itself. She laments on how she missed out on Uber stock rising by not ditching Apple sooner. She then pulls a figure out of thin-air about how much net worth you're going to lose by "wasting" your career on any given year by not following her arbitrary framework for self-worth.

"Optimizing learning over money early in your career" would bear far more weight if she actually used an example like going into academia, or joining a tiny startup with low pay. Going from one 150k+ position to another 150k+ position with (gasp) lower performing stocks (!!) is hardly a sacrifice. Moreover, she speaks as if she already knew Uber stock was going to go down when she joined. Uber happened to tank Apple happened to rise. But she acts like she factored that into her decision before she left Apple.

I'm genuinely surprised some people still can't recognize how absolutely out-of-touch it sounds to lament over a "wasted" year of career at Apple, while most of the world is just trying to get by. Likewise, claiming you stopped finding opportunities to learn anything at Apple after only 6 months sounds like self-inflating bullshit.

So, I hope I have eased your surprise. It's toxic to tell people that they're wasting their career by valuing stability and work-life balance over weird learning frameworks, and net-worth. It's not toxic to call out such privileged fools for doing so.
It seems worse than the flu while we're locking down countries. The same measures applied to regular flu seem to essentially eradicate it (see other thread currently on the front page) while covid is shaping up to overwhelm our healthcare systems here in Europe once again, now that winter is coming. I see this a lot, comparing covid under "lock down, wear masks" treatment with regular influenza under what is really a control treatment...
This is dumb. In the best case you might get away with a few new cars for 2 weeks at a time, after lengthy battles with dealerships and legal departments. In the worst or most likely case you’ll be stuck with an expensive car, or have to pay the depreciation of a two week old car (massive) as the “wear and tear” part, on top of a bunch of legal fees after you inevitably fight it
Disagree. The average age of death from covid seems to be pretty much the same as average age of death in a few countries that I have seen the comparison done (Uk being one of them).

Do you really think keeping someone alive in a care home (where most of the deaths occurred) for an extra year or so is the same as someone in tehir 20's being killed?

You seem to underestimate the suffering that the economic damage will cause. It's already predicted that more will die from hunger due to the measures that have been taken than from the virus itself.

https://time.com/5864803/oxfam-hunger-covid-19/
On page 4, for code compilation:

> Given the core advantage of AMD Renoir, for those doing software development / frequently compiling code on your laptop will find even the Ryzen 5 outperforming Tiger Lake on Linux.

As people have mentioned elsewhere, maybe you’re looking at the XPS for the form factor, but it’s getting blown away in terms of compiling code.
Not necessarily, or yet, but it would certainly fit IV's MO if it were.
-s light works for me

Is there a way to set a default?
I did buy a Volvo V60 hybrid (which is now called "recharge", which used to be called "twin engine") in July :)

Maybe they aren't having a lot of problems selling cars as I'm still waiting for it to be delivered - the current ETA is December :P

I had a wagon during the last 14 years and it was nice - I hope that the Volvo will be a good successor (first time I buy a Volvo). I never felt the need for more height (SUV) but the extra length of a wagon has been often useful , of course especially when carrying around long stuff (e.g. mattress, furniture, ...).

The on-demand AWD of the Volvo hybrid without having the maintenance costs for the mechanical transmission to the rear axle was one of the things that made me focus on that car.
UK scientists: Emergency six-week plan to reduce COVID cases in England
Me neither. This would be the most anti-immigrant and anti-tourist policy I could imagine and something a far right government in an Eastern European hell hole would implement to keep undesirables away.

That it's being celebrated as a victory by supposed progressives is giving me a headache. Turns out immigrants are dirty disease carriers who we must be isolated from the rest of us clean volk.

And all it took for people to agree to this is for Trump to be against it.

I can't imagine anyone being for it if Trump locked up every Mexican for two weeks before letting them in the US and fining/arresting/deporting everyone who tried to avoid the quarantine - no humans are illegal.
What is the meaning of the "Entrepreneur", "Forbes", "Fortune", "Inc 500" and "The huffington Post" logos on the page?
Wow, there’s a lot of eugenicists on tonight.
(1) is totally unproven speculation. We can’t even prove this happens for SARS-1 which per case is far more severe than SARS-2, its less deadly yet more infectious brother.

(2) absolutely does happen in bad flu seasons, and by the way most of those images are misleading or taken from prior years. Seriously. Even in say, New York, you’d have hospital A overflowing yet hospital B 10 miles away was at 30% capacity remaining. At least in the US a true overrun scenario never happened yet most don’t realize this.

You have to understand the role that mass collective delusion has played in our misguided response. And the media’s selective reporting doesn’t help.
Wise words. Wish more people took this measured approach to complex issues.
The Jaguar ipace is competition to the model S. I see them a lot in NL.
> the half-destruction of my way of life for the foreseeable future seems way worse than total destruction for a short period.

That makes zero sense. Is the plan for NZ to remain a prison island forever?
One thing to consider: This "3 times as bad" happened during summer in the northern hemisphere.

Influenza and corona viruses thrive from November to March, so it might likely get worse.
That can’t possibly be true. Even if the server integrates all in bound streams into one, doing so takes a non-negligible amount of additional time per user, surely.
That doesn’t solve the problem.

If other people buy insecure or faulty devices, I can be harmed.
Quality-Adjusted Life Years is a common measure of disease burden. Also, I think a parent who has lost a child would have something to say to you about the difference in emotional impact
The older I get, the less I value the rest of my life. So it's fair to say that younger deaths are worse than older deaths on a society scale.
The obvious test for that hypothesis would be Sweden, who's numbers have been pretty similar to most of Europe. The models used to justify lock down predicted 40,000 deaths there and nothing like that occurred.
I guess I have a hard time understanding this strategy outside of an expectation of a viable, long-term vaccine. Aren’t you simply just trying to wait it out? It’s not like the virus is going to give up after a few years.

A slowly building immunity among the lowest risk group seems like a better long term strategy, and put the old and at risk people into something like New Zealand.
United States economically gained on WWII. So at least economically, that was not bigger loss.

So I don't think he meant economic loss from the event.
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