skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Asymptomatic cases (truly asymptomatic or not yet symptomatic) caused the most infections, which explains the ease with which SARS-CoV-19 is spreading across the world.

The WHO initially made a statement warning of asymptomatic transmission which it later retracted. The media has since reported that somewhere south of 20% of asymptomatic carriers are contagious. The research cited in this study to back up the asymptomatic spreader claim are the following:

* https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

Research estimating asymptomatic proportion using a statistical model. That's right, a model based on early rough estimates from another model.

* https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/221/11/1757/5739751

A paper about n=4 patients speculating on how one of them seemingly got the virus from asymptomatic family members. This study states "SARS cases are infectious only during their symptomatic period and are noninfectious during the incubation period."

* https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2001468

This study of n=1 used contract tracing to find a colleague they were recently in contact with. The colleague tested positive despite being asymptomatic and thus the conclusion is the virus is spread while asymptomatic.

Maria van Kerkhove, infectious disease epidemiologist and the COVID-19 technical lead for the WHO has this to say:

"From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual. It's very rare."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/who-covid-19-asymptomatic-spr...
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After 11/22/63 everybody began to think in terms of paranoia. Then it was gone.

You think the culture has not become more paranoid?

We could say that there was a conspiratorial element in the current situation in the pandemic but I’m not sure how seriously the commentators and students of this era take it. Otherwise, I think that sense of conspiracy is less prevalent now than it used to be.

...

It's interesting to hear a longer-term perspective on this topic. It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you. Still, it demands a resolution. If we can't save ourselves, we'll settle for talking about our doomed situation in a different way.
I suppose if there was ill intent, they would have silenced the seller with a NDA. It would be silly to let the seller sink your nefarious plan by letting the world know that ownership has transferred.
Giving anti-vitals early is a significant problem for covid-19 because such a significant numbers of patients will have no or mild symptoms (85%).

So it’s really a no-win situation because if you give it early, not many people will look like they’re getting better relative to control. But if you give it too late to those who have severe symptoms it will be too late.

What they need to do is figure out a way to identify who will get severe symptoms and give remdesivir to them early. That’s probably the only way you will see a benefit,
If there’s even a benefit at all.
I mentioned in another comment, but Planck time is to this as this is to 2 weeks.
Let me guess. Instead of thinking how to solve this on protocol level the solution is to use more Google services.

Reading. ... Yep. The article even includes the obligatory "try harder" bit about security.
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The wording is a bit strange. Their datacenter (self hosted) products are not affected, as confirmed by our Atlassian admin.
Lilly and Regeneron's monoclonal antibodies use exactly that as primary endpoint. Unfortunately, most of them are e.v., with exception of one formulation by Regeneron, which is subcutaneous.
I bookmarked this comment on being a tech manager a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826015

It's quite critical of the position, and perhaps a bit negative, but captures the core strengths an EM needs to be successful
Previous related submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24711004
Probably not. It's become apparant that the timing component is critical. The electric pulses have to have certain timing characteristics.
Is there such a thing as a reverse Hanlon's Razor? Do something malicious but then attribute it to some stupid policy.
I agree. then again i only saw the google popup once. I see the popups in every tiny website and at this point it's just learned helplessness. I dont like being treated like that
I'm on a 2017 MacBook Pro right now with a 300Mb connection, and using the web interface takes multiple seconds to change channels, has a > 1 second delay in typing (resulting in missing keystrokes). My workstation isn't a particularly pleasant experience and it's _much_ beefier than this machine. My partner uses MS teams on a beater of a windows laptop with at most 4GB of ram and it performs substantially better.

I've made multiple support complaints to slack about their memory usage, there's been times where it's been using Gigabytes of memory on my workstation, and I've actually had to kill slack to compile on more than one occasion.
> For serious crimes, because criminals would flee.

That's a good reason for not going simple OR (own recognizance), and may in cases where there is more personal information beyond just a serious crime be part of why particular suspects ought not be considered for bail of any kind, but not a good reason, in any case, for a jail or cash-bail binary choice.

> But "cashless bail" has downsides. People are more likely to just skip hearings.

D.C. uses a no-cash-bail system, and IIRC does not see this compared to either when they used cash bail or to other jurisdictions that do.

> Or they keep committing minor crimes because they don't view themselves as facing consequences.

Again, I don't think there's evidence that this is the case, but insofar as it is, it seems it would be a speedy trial problem. (And/or a reason certain suspects ought not to be eligible for bail of any kind.)
To soften up those people up for the plea bargain phase of the american legal adventure.
> The other party would pre-approve you and then you could request location on-demand?

Precisely, and you could set a timeout (5 minutes, 24 hours, whatever) to automatically provide the location unless you intervene to deny the request.
I want this too. E.g. Small business + no permission to distribute/change the code.

I think it would be good to have a list of checkboxes to make your own custom license (e.g. your own definition of small business).
If the cars are sold online I'm thinking that they qualify for 14 day returns in the EU.
Also, Excel is just buggy enough to screw you over anyway, even if you’re trying to use it safely. I can’t count how many times valid formulas have failed on me across various instances of spreadsheets. Or I have to save, reload, or restart just to make things work. I’m constantly amazed by how much it’s used for business critical functions while being so routinely unreliable.
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Just a heads up, it looks like you're using single newlines and `-` for bullet points. If you don't want HN to eat your formatting just add another newline after each bulletpoint.

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> Makes it hard to figure out who’s calling the shots.

Making it very hard to hold someone, well, accountable.

Almost as if not an accident.
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In addition, for those who are interested in learning more, here are two pre-print manuscripts that we submitted this week.

This one talks about the effect of our therapy on local and distant tumors:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.13.337899v1

This other one talks about the potential applications of the CAPAC platform and the versatility of our chemistry approach:

https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.13087715.v1
Its because in most (perhaps all) states of the US it is illegal for a non-lawyer to have an ownership stake in a law firm.
"The more tolerable one is the one that sounds like old tv with no signal" That's actually the other type of tinnitus that I have, but this is actually the one that I find most tolerable (in the sense that at least it's the more silent one, which I can mask with other noises).

This tinnitus crap showed up to me randomly while working in an open office at the beginning of this year (I wasn't wearing headphones or anything) and a bit after COVID started acting up all over the world and I've been WFH since. As a consequence of this, I think I might not be able to ever return to a regular open office. Really funny timing if one thinks about it.
nope. He confirmed its him but denies the accusations
https://twitter.com/cshapiro/status/1317212694529802242?s=20.
I know quite a few people who were required to continue working while "furloughed".
> But as it stands, corporations are found to have free speech rights

Sure. They have those right, just like a newspaper has those rights.

But these companies and newspapers are also liable for their speech.

And the companies that are not liable for the speech, are companies like phone companies.

Phone companies are required to follow certain restrictions, and the courts have found them to be perfectly legal.

> What is the large, philosophical difference that separates them?

Take the phone network, as an example. The courts already treated the phone network, differently than they do a newspaper.
Most business people don't value and appreciate correct software. It's odd but shouldn't be surprising that most people are unable to effectively evaluate the risk of a software defect, especially in a tool like excel.
I don't read that many studies (I'm envious you can do that ;) as part of my (science) job, but as far as I read on airborne transmission, most of the "evidence" presented is actually modeling, or some IMO questionable studies, like the one - was it Lancet, or NEJM? I don't remember - about potential airborne transmission in a hospital setting. I was left with an "and then?" thought after I finished reading.
They do not take "key" into account. In terms of the note-related data contained within a MIDI file, it's just a series of noteOn and noteOff event pairs, with a note number between 0 and 127 for each event. There's nothing in a MIDI file that specifies the key/scale/mode.

They can describe time signatures and tempo.

And yes, they don't handle enharmonics because in MIDI, notes are known only by number, not by any name given to them by any part of any given musical culture or theory.

And because of the MIDI Tuning Standard, you cannot actually say a priori which notes (i.e frequency) a given note number corresponds to, although in practice most things will take the note number and map it to a a 12TET 440Hz standard.
Nice. And that got you from 10k to 1M?
Because English does not have consistent spelling? I cannot operate without spellcheck, yet in a other language I can spell almost every word correctly. I always thought this is happening due to lack of consistent spelling. For those not familiar, in English you cannot tell how to spell a word if you hear it the first time. This because there are different rules for words with French origin (colleague) vs German (leitmotif) vs Latin (anima).
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For a moment--just reading the title--I thought this had something to do with 'Shaq' O'Neill.
The question is being asked but at the same time I wanted to show I was not being lazy by showing the work I've already put in it.

Definitely didn't want to promote anything. Sorry if it comes off that way.

And yes I work in gsheets but thought I had removed the sign in requirement. I'll have to check that tomorrow on my computer (it's midnight here)
They are trying to drag down Biden by implying he is the person mentioned in Hunters family texts, saying that half of their salaries go to "Pops".
It's not much different than identity politics, though.
Given the number of politicians and media figures (who have influence over politicians) going along with the "no evidence" line early on, I believe the deleterious impact that I mentioned was real and significant.

That's only ~10% of the reason that people are critical of the WHO though. They also refused to declare a pandemic until until weeks after it had spread globally, even though early R estimates were around 3, which delayed countries' ability to respond quickly. They wouldn't recommend masks until months into the pandemic, even though similar viruses such as SARS were airborne.

The list of heinous mistakes is laundry-list long.
There's so much about programming that I just don't know because someone else abstracted it away from my responsibility.
This comment is arguing against something I didn't say.
They are indeed more important than technique, but technique is a given. Without solid technique, musicality does not matter. Technique is what gives you confidence, it allows you to experiment and fine tune your artistic skills. To work on your expression instead of grappling with what's on the sheet.

Acquiring (and maintaining) technique requires hard work and time, but it's relatively easy once you combine these two factors. Developing a good ear, a good sense of rhythm, when to play on tempo, slightly before the tempo or slighly after, really understanding the music, that is infinitely more difficult so it make sense for a teacher to stress that part.
How is that different from "free speech as long as a centralized authority permits it" like you have now, besides being more specific?
It's so obvious, and an absolutely accurate way to judge the quality of a jurisdiction. People in prison are the weakest people in society, weaker than children (who usually have the ability to walk away from home whenever they want, although they're subject to being searched for and returned.) As the weakest, nominally least deserving people, benefits given to the prison population filter through the culture. You can't give good health care to prisoners while people who haven't committed crimes (including the victims of those prisoners) go without. You can't give adequate housing to prisoners without giving it to everyone. You can't give free education to prisoners without giving it to everyone. You can't give prisoners freedom of speech without giving it to everyone. You can't give prisoners the vote (and convenient physical access to it) without giving it to everyone.

Start with prisoners, and you elevate everything. Instead, in the US we racistly fantasize about interracial sexual assaults, make people shit in front of each other, and make them work for 15 cents an hour. It's obvious what society has to look like outside of the walls.

And were not talking about prison here; this is jail. Everybody there is innocent. The state should keep them comfortable, and spend as much effort trying to come up with reasons why they are not guilty as reasons they are guilty. Instead, it's just pre-prison.
Some recent discussions of this topic (3-4 months ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23713291

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23731891
> with little logic

Do you disagree that common carriers are subject to certain restrictions?

I am not sure how you could possibly not recognize the fact that we have common carrier laws.

> You're repeating the same things

You are misphrasing the things that I am trying to say, so I have to slightly rephrase it so that you cannot misinterprete my statements.
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Interesting functionality. Thanks for sharing.

By the way, why doesn't the perma-share work for you? I totally get that it doesn't. Just curious what you feel is the difference. Is it that it's possible to know when it's being queried and to stop that? I guess I could see a use-case for that.
Everyone pulling in same direction and getting good traction.
The capacity of networking gear isn't unidimentional - most network equipment has both a maximum number of packets per second and a maximum total throughput. I'm not in the business, but I suspect that sophisticated network filtering equipment even at the high end can have its packets-per-second capacity eaten up before it hits line speed, just like low end routing equipment can.

As a result, there are some people whose ability to withstand a DDoS has more to do with packets per second than bits per second, so it becomes a useful metric.
Technically you do have column types already[1], although only available via the data model[2] (another wholly underutilized feature set).

Although it only helps to an extent, since it doesn't prevent bad data from being input into a table, and supports so many implicit conversions (listed out in [1]) that undesired behavior is still possible. Plus it enters into a little known area of Excel rather than baked into the customary workflows.

That said, it still comes in handy. A typical pattern of mine for worksheets I have to release into the wild (i.e. no telling who will end up (ab)using it and when it'll eventually come back to me in a bastardized form to salvage) is:

1. Create table(s) for raw/user-inputted data

2. Use that table as a source for PowerQuery

3. Leverage PowerQuery for type checking, data normalization validation, and data joining.

4. Output to a new table on the worksheet, referencing this instead of the original table for all formulas.

Also optionally putting complex logic into the PowerQuery steps, that way the "output" table is ready for end-use and doesn't require any complex and error-prone formulas or anything.

Even without leveraging the data model and DAX functions, this works out super well. More sophisticated users can easily modify the PowerQuery steps, and less sophisticated users are protected from accidental mistakes by either using it as-is or reaching out for help earlier on, before there's a crisis for assistance.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-data-mod...

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/data-types-in-dat...
Nim doesn't require that you use a gc; one of its many gc options is `none`, which is, as it sounds, no garbage collector at all.
AirPods Pro caused both tinnitus and vertigo for me. Went away after a few days as soon as I switched to the older AirPods.
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My guess is these are Call Detail Records, not account records.
I commented about this in the announcement thread[1]:

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Though the extension requests the webRequestBlocking permission, that permission is not required to perform the collection of data, including sensitive ones.

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[1] https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362#issueco...
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> or a thinly veiled claim that other languages are perhaps "less democratic"

They are exactly that, less democratic, as the language standard is dictated by a committee of academics/politicians, leading to it often diverging significantly from the spoken language. In the most extreme cases language ends up used for the political purposes - for instance in my home country once known as Yugoslavia, following the break out of the federal entities into the new independent countries, there was a big push for separating each dialect of more-or-less common language spoken on the most of the territory into declaratively separate languages in order to backup the whole new politics of separate national countries and to deepen the gap between the new countries. So now we have 4 languages that are in spoken version basically the same, but standard languages differ.
Indeed. This is Tesla adopting an anti competitive stance under the illusion of cybersecurity concerns.

As a Tesla owner, I encourage (nay, plead) any MA residents to vote yes on Question 1. The right to repair should be just that: a right, codified in statute.
"Also Microsoft controls the code they push on your computer, they paid the people who wrote it and they take liability for it. Browsers are automatically pushing other people's code to your computer"

No, Microsoft does not take liability, they expressly disclaim any and all liability in the users agreement.
This is why keeps me from even thinking about buying a Tesla. I see articles comparing cost to own...but my cost to own most vehicles is insanely low as long as I can buy the parts. I have enough tools to perform all mechanical work.

Most of maintenance is in brakes and tires these days for most cars.

Additionally, I just looked on rockauto.com(they sell auto parts) and there is so little Tesla parts. I can buy body panels for other cars, engines, engine internal components, literally 80% of parts that are on the complete vehicle. Tesla is a complete joke as a car manufacturer.
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Whew, for a minute there I thought this was about Unix text editor "nano"
Google Einstein theory of relativity. One of man's greatest achievements.
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I'm teaching myself some JavaScript with this project. Please feel free to make suggestions. I know I should modularize it (is that a word?) but alas, being new to JavaScript I don't yet know how to do that. I also know that ideally there should be comments in my code, which I will add. But please suggest any best practices/improvements.
This article is literally just an ad for the product
> I think that's a very generous reading of what Biden said, especially considering the followup question

In the followup, Biden reiterates the conduct condition and the knowing falsehood criteria, which reinforces rather than weakens the impression that he is calling for the protections of Section 230 to be inapplicable to the actor/action in question due to their knowledge, a distributor-like standard, and not for the law itself to be repealed generally.

I suppose you could read the first line of his response to the second followup ("He should be submitted to civil liability and his company to civil liability, just like you would be here at The New York Times") as calling for publisher-like liability if you ignore the explicit references to actual knowledge as the basis for nonprotection in both the original response and the first followup, but I do think that that is the more strained interpretation, not the less strained.

> and the fact that he's declined to clarify his position in the intervening 8 months.

Why would you assume that he doesn't want to clarify because he wants a full repeal? Its not as if there isn't a constituency for a full repeal, especially on the right, and a key part of Biden's strategy is holding together a Bernie Sanders-to-Bill Kristol left-right alliance against Trump. Keeping disagreements the details of his position on the issue (which is clearly peripheral to his platform, on the grand scheme of things) out of the reasons for people to not feel comfortable with him is as plausible a motivation for that regardless of which side of the full-repeal-vs.-reform his preference on 230 sits on.
Could be, my grandmother's parents were Boston brahmins I think so food was not usually scarce. My general understanding was that it's uncouth to devour or inhale your food at the table.

In that sense the nuance is not that this might be the last food you get for a while - but rather that having food is no big deal, don't make it seem like this is the first meal you've had in forever.

Another rule (not the same but similar) is to finish each course at the same time as the host, not sooner nor later.