skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a debunked claim that arose from conflating IFR vs CFR. Please source your claim.

In terms of overall IFR Influenza and COVID-19 appear to be comparable. Influenza kills at least an order of magnitude more children, and for those in between roughly 35-55 they both kill about the same, and for the very elderly COVID-19 is multiple times more deadly.

The overall IFRs are very comprable except COVID-19 preferentially kills the very old. This also means when you calculate YLL (years of life lost) Influenza takes more life-years away.

I’d say at most if you take a .1% IFR of Influenza then COVID-19 is about 3x as deadly. Note however that we fundamentally classify Influenza deaths differently than with COVID-19. Almost any country considers any PCR-positive person who dies to be a COVID-19 death regardless of whether it’s a baby born with intestines outside of its body, or a young man in Orange County who died in a motorcycle accident, or George Floyd. All 3 of those examples I gave are real individuals who were PCR-positive at time of death. I know for a fact that the first two were initially labelled COVID-19 deaths, not sure about Floyd.

There’s a concept I call the pathological vs physiologixal distinction that is crucial to understand and has been totally violated with COVID—19. The short of it is that it is a mistake to confuse a virus with a disease. (This is also why the phrase “asymptomatic COVID-19” is an oxymoron; if you have no symptoms you have a virus but not a disease)

I have acne; if you culture my skin you will find the bacteria C. Acnes, which is naively believed to “cause” acne. Yet if you culture the skin of a healthy individual without acne, they also have C. Acnes. The question then is what combination of factors leads C Acnes to be pathogenic in one case (me) and not for another. The answer like most things is complicated, some combination of lipid peroxidation compromising the skin barrier, genetic skin turnover rates, etc, but most pop-sci articles will simplify it to “bacteria cause acne”.

Similarly, it is a mistake to assume that if someone dies and has a positive SARS-2 PCR test that they died of COVID. First of all due to egregiously absurd cycle thresholds, you stay PCR-positive months after infection (again, see George Floyd’s hennepin county autopsy, he “had COVID” despite having recovered from it over a month prior to his death). But more importantly even if you truly have active, replicating SARS-2 in you at time of death, you didn’t necessarily die from COVID.

I really got off on a tangent there but to wrap up, even if you take the official COVID-19 numbers - which I believe are grossly inflated - at most COVID-19 is 3x as lethal. To say it is an order of magnitude more deadly means you’re still stuck in April. It’s October now, please follow the new developments in the field. There was actually a paper released recently that traces the origins of the 10x deadly meme, debunked it and attributed its genesis to conflating CFR vs IFR. I’m on mobile travelling now without my laptop so I don’t have my megalist of research articles at my fingertips but if you search around maybe you can find it.
i dont see real issue here. if they are afraid that landing plane might be hit by him - simply crash a cheap drone into that man, that would strongly discourage him from flying nearby because it hurts a lot
I'd not seen that Cochrane study, that's interesting, thanks for sharing.

Sticking something pointy in your ear seems to carry its own risks. How do you ensure you don't puncture your eardrum?
> There has to be a rule for rules to broken. English orthography is practically irregular (although it's vaguely, chaotically regular if you subject each word to an analysis based on most probable language origin.)

I mean, yeah. The rules governing English are a combination of the rules governing a couple other languages. Divide up the vocabulary according to the applicable rules, and I'm pretty sure you end up with a fragment each of the French, Saxon, Norse, etc. languages, and within those fragments the rules make as much sense as they do in the full versions of the respective languages. E.g.: put "rendezvous" & "accomplice" in one pile, "loan" in another, and the rules of each pile would be internally consistent, and consistent with the rules of French and Norse respectively...accounting for language drift, of course.

A large fraction of English follows French rules - might as well ask the French language to fix their spellings to make phonetic sense. The work put into that would translate directly to fix a lot of English.

> Also, it's far worse than this. The Normans changed the spelling of English words that were unpronounceable to them by adding a bunch of letters. One I remember is that the reason the "-shire" suffix is confusing is because before the Normans it was just "-scr".

Personally, given the entymology of English, it makes a lot of sense to preserve the original, applicable, rules of the languages English is comprised of. Otherwise, it would be like rewriting either Norse or French to fit the other - as you mention, that's even worse than the combination of languages in the first place.

Edit for clarity.
Google+EdX Asking $298 for Pandemic Remake of Free 2012 How-to-Google MOOC
Choice C version 2 - Smash the oil into microscopic droplets so it is possible for the bacterias in the ocean to eat it
Sure. Go to Twitter and search for @elonmusk.

I don’t know how or whether you can link to mentions.

How many PR requests go unanswered?
In Our Time: Alan Turing (Radio Programme)
People who think Hillary Clinton was a radical communist.
Rackspace support is not just “help you when you are having trouble,” they will do sysadmin tasks for you, basically as much as you want. It’s more like light professional services + typical support. That’s why it costs more.
Have you worked with Swift at all? Because the features you're complaining about aren't really difficult to understand in practice, and they're a major part of what makes Swift really clear and nice to work with.

> Keywords? Or parens? Both!

Why should they be mutually exclusive?

Swift's named parameters are great! For instance they allow for default parameters, which is something I really miss in Rust for instance where I have to use the builder pattern everywhere.

> And the weird case of having two keywords, one with a colon and one without, because we decided to make the keywords the names of the parameters. Sometimes.

Swift's rules for parameter naming are very simple, consistent, and easy to understand. Given the signature:

func foo(first second: Type)

`first` is the name used outside of the function, or the keyword for this argument, and `second` is the name used inside the function, or the parameter name. If the two names are the same, the second name can simply be elided. So for instance this signature:

func foo(x: Int)

Is just syntactic sugar for this:

func foo(x x: Int)

It's super simple and something which every swift developer can pick up within minutes of starting their first tutorial. I don't really understand why you seem to getting so agitated over this non-issue.
I don't know why you got downvotes.

Here's an explanation of the way Excel stores dates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809037
It's basic biophysics.
I like the intention, some comments from me:

1. The site starts off with "0 deaths" and hovers there for a second or two. I guess depending on how quickly the API can respond.

2. I personally believe COVID 19 is more comparable to the Spanish flu, therefore it should be illustrated on the same graph. I think that is probably 2-3 times the number of deaths due to COVID.
It's brash for sure, but if its garnering upvotes its likely because it struck enough of a cord to overcome HNs dislike for personal attacks. I think people are tired of blog posts telling them what to prioritize in life.
The author, John Ioannidis, is a discredited researcher on Covid-19. He and his Stanford colleages are responsible for a terribly written antibody study done back in March on residents of Santa Clara County. The statistics in that paper were egregiously bad and seem cooked to meet foregone political conclusions. Some reporting:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ioannidis...
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/24/coronavirus-research-...
Here is a book that helped me a bit in my consulting career https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc...
Realistically the could eliminate influenza by staying isolated from the rest of the world, just like they did with covid. Would it be worth it?
The past should also communicate better with the present.

> ...you’d be crazy to think hardware was ever intended to be used for isolating multiple users safely.

But of course it was. Protection rings were invented for Multics, the first operating system specifically intended to isolate multiple users safely. And side-channel timing attacks were called out as a concern at the time.

We may have lost our way somewhere, but let’s not rewrite history.
> There is credible information that this information is a part of a Russian disinformation effort to influence the campaign.

Have you made this up in advance to justify the censorship, or do you have a reference?
Kickstarter idea could be on sale in China before you’ve finished funding it
Yeah, I guess the only way of getting it removed safely would be to the international community pressure a lot and trade it for something Maduro wants (I guess gold and probably some propaganda).

And yeah, that guy is really brave. Especially after that story of the Colombian captain being detained for months and then killed in a raid by national guards that wanted money. I guess now there are going to be patrolling it and Sebin is going to make sure no one gets close again.
same here - I had created a document with some of the vegetables and the best months to eat them that my mom had told me about but this is much better :)
Whatever my personal feelings on the matter, I consider the president of the us to be irrefutably "mainstream"
A few comments from a couple of days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24792515
What Beal Built
I guess they should also withhold information about the existence of Hunter Biden and that he 'allegedly' worked for a Ukrainian oil company. We don't want the dear leader looking bad right before we place him on the throne. Once he's in, we can brazen it out..
I'd lean copyright infringement? Probably has no audible difference from a John Cage song
The problem of consciousness is divided into an easy and hard part. The hard part only requires an observer, but we can not observe the observer without a mind. This wrongly conflates the discussion.

A mind without an observer would indeed be uncanny valley stuff. I always ask people who claim consciousness does not exist if they are indeed undead, or merely confused by the terminology.
> That is unscientific fear mongering.

Please be careful with your words. What I said is clearly scientific, because it can be falsified.

> most reinfected cases have minor symptoms.

This is clearly not true. See
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

The article you linked is extremely old, July 17, when there was no reinfections known.

Besides, it is already known, that MERS and SARS both cause Antibody enhancement in animals, with paradoxical results - lower viral load, but severe damage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement...
Hmmm...

Traditionally, power measurements are done using something like Kill-a-Watt. There's no guarantee that AMD's and NVidia's power-draw functions are calibrated against each other.

With that being said, its cool to see that MI50 is competitive against A100 in scientific compute. Both A100 and MI50 are on TSMC's 7nm node, so that is a pure architecture vs architecture competition.

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ROCm is definitely less stable and has fewer features than CUDA. However, since so much code is in CUDA, its good for AMD to provide a porting framework to their GPUs.

In my experience, the hardest thing about ROCm is the lowered expectation compared to NVidia GPUs. In particular, AMD only supports a select number of chips on ROCm, mostly coinciding with AMD's "MI" line of cards.

Fiji, Polaris, Vega, and Vega 7nm (aka: Rx Fury, Rx 580, and Vega64 / Radeon VII). As soon as you deviate from these cards and use say a 5700 XT, ROCm compatibility plummets and you start seeing issues.

In contrast, NVidia supports even a low-end 1660 pretty well. Fortunately, the RX 580 has dropped down to nearly the price of a 1660, but if you make the mistake of buying a 550 instead (or a 5500 XT), things suddenly suck.

With enough research, a computer builder can get an RX 580 and build out a cheap dev-box for ROCm. But this "trap" of not supporting all hardware has probably made AMD lose a few customers.

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With that being said, it seems like Flops-for-flop, the AMD cards offer superior price/performance. MI50 is very similar to Radeon VII (MI50 simply has the card-to-card communications as well as full-speed double-precision). As such, you can get an MI50-like performance with a $700 Radeon VII (so long as you don't care about double-precision).

AMD is upfront about which GPUs they support ("The MI-line"). They however need to be more clear on the consumer-cards that match the MI-line, and show sample computer builds for the hobbyist community.
I'm glad they're introducing these kinds of regulations. My server gets a heck load of brute-force attempts and after visiting the IP addresses, most of these attempts come from compromised routers with default passwords :/

Unfortunately these regulations don't protect against routers with software vulnerabilities, sure randomised passwords help but it would be interesting if router software was more open and could be audited by anyone to ensure we can squash these bugs. Some may argue that this is counterintuitive since attackers could also review the code and for less popular models with less eyes reviewing the code it could mean disaster.
There was also a major push, more than usual, to get people to get the flu vaccination. People who didn't normally get it got it this year.

Edit: I am not sure why I am being downvoted. I am a kiwi, flu vaccinations were very strongly encouraged this year.
And here I thought they created Alphabet because of Wall Street pressure.
Key difference would be the age demographics. Wars are so devastating not only because people die, but it is young people who die. As unethical as it sounds and completely from the perspective of impact on human capital, COVID is far less damaging.
I worked in a industry comparable to RS and we pretty much used same tactics but the call came from the CTO.
If the alternative is a high risk of death then yes, I guess.
Because if I go out into the world and get infected with a disease, that’s one of the risks of living life, and we have always understood that. That’s why if you catch the flu nobody blames the man next to you at the grocery store.

For COVID we throw this out the window.

When you take the approach to its logical conclusion you end up in a very scary place.
I mean, they could just mandate flu vaccine for everyone in or entering the country. I can see that being sufficient, without continuing the cumbersome isolation policies post-COVID.
HP Envy x360 is great. It has a 6 (real) core AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, nice screen and absurd battery life (12 hours or something ridiculously long like that). https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/amd-zen-2-laptop/ The single thing I don't like about it is they've overloaded the backslash/pipe key on to another key.
Everyone did a good job. The government did a good job. The people did a good job. A lot of sacrifices in the right places.

And just last night NZ time, we had the results of the elections. Current government won by a landslide. And surprisingly a Greens candidate won in Auckland Central. On mobile - but Chloe is just great for Auckland Central!
Nothing justifies the prolonging of Javascript torture.
The water supplier said they sent multiple reminders and waited 14 days after the last reminder before turning it off. This is standard procedure in Germany.
Whatever scanner they used, it seems terrible for the purpose of scanning teapots.
Mercedes only has EQC which isn't even being sold in the USA and BMW has no good EVs (i3 is a niche product). I don't know about USA but i think that in Europe Tesla biggest competitors are actually "lower" tier manufacturers like Hyundai, KIA, Renault, Nissan, VW and the only premium competitor is Audi.
I own two XPS developer edition laptops. The second one is up for an upgrade and the CPU is the one thing that is its weakest spot (Kaby Lake in my case), often on its limit when using Zoom for example and runs hot. But I think that with such minor upgrades of the CPU, I will tell bye to Dell.

This is the advantage of good competition. I still wonder if Dell would push a model with Zen in the next say 6 months before starting to look elsewhere.
This is like a physical version of "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0], a classic work of experimental music. In that piece, Alvin Lucier speaks the words "I am sitting in a room different from the the one you are in now..." into a recorder, which is then played back into another recorder, on and on until it becomes unintelligible.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk
While the article seems fine, what is up with the pre-added emphasis? It's borderline offensive.
The FBI seems to be taking that allegation seriously enough to investigate

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/america-votes/biden-emai...
No, that's clang/llvm; gcc handles this correctly (at least by the extremely low standards of gcc/llvm handling of undefined behaviour):

$ gcc test.c
test.c:3:5: error: jump into statement expression
How about we build a village somewhere in NZ or elsewhere with very strict rules for every new person who arrives. Like bringing a negative test and self isolating for 14 days.

Then slowly grow this village this way and celebrate life without masks and social distancing.

Of course, there would be a Covid outbreak at some point in time. Would that be the end of paradise or might there be a way to get back to zero infections? 14 days of full isolation of a whole village seems like something that might be possible.

What do the digital nomads among you think about this?
Have you any tips on how to avoid fakes? Is there a supplier or something that can be used to prevent this.

I have zero knowledge of electrics and buy the bits I need then cobble them together. The thought of a “spectacular” failure with a relay or similar makes me twitch a little.
Considering that there has been tens of millions of people with a covid infection, where are these people with chronic symptoms?
To paraphrase Charles Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an answer.

Might I suggest that you take advantage of open course syllabi from a major college/university and do some undergraduate readings on the history and moral foundations of law?

There is far more to philosophy and jurisprudence than Ayn Rand.
According to the iTunes page it is licensed under GPL [1]. So in this case apple would be violating the GPL by distributing it under their terms of service (which in turn would then probably be a violation by Savoir-faire Linux for uploading it). The question then is, who except for the copyright holder could really enforce the GPL.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/ring-a-gnu-package/id130695105...
Isolated from the rest of the world forever? Probably not worth it
Outside of the quarantine zone, New Zealand hasn't had a new case of Covid in three weeks. Every detected case in NZ in the past three weeks has been from people getting off planes, going into quarantine, and testing positive.

Also, outside the quarantine zone, no one in New Zealand is in the hospital with Covid.
Ahhh the era of blahblah");drop table users; -- , and unencrypted unhashed password databases :+ I'm still amazed the internet didn't just blow up in those days. Strange enough that was sufficient security back then.
Every Michigan State student learns about the Beal experiment. Beal garden is right next to the library so every student has walked through it, especially in he Spring when all the plants are in bloom. I've actually attended weddings held in the garden.

Beal's is not the only continuing scientific experiment to l last nearly a century beyond his death. There's also one that looks at bacteria that has been running for decades.
In public health, mortality and morbidity are often expressed in units of DALY (Disability-adjusted life years) or QALY (Quality-adjusted life years).

Because COVID deaths are being predominantly borne by the old, and deaths due to war are predominantly borne by the young, I would be very curious to see the equivalent charts in DALYs.

In other words, not "what is the number deaths" but "what is the expected number of healthy years of life lost."
We have all lost our damn minds.
Ranges are an absolute pleasure to use, and besides the great template system, my favorite part of D
I'm confused as well. Another possibility is the "up" is relative? If there is a mountain already buried in looser soils, rain could wash away and expose the mountain, which will appear to be going up, because everything else is going down.
And with gmail, don't be evil. Lol were we fooled.
Seeing as JavaScript was designed and implemented in two weeks, I'm betting this is the answer
Maybe I’m crazy, but I view doubling a chance of dying in a year, and then returning to normal mortality for the next year, as far preferable to mass business closures, suspension of civil liberties, pulling kids out of school without evidence, mandating everyone wear masks, etc.

I guess I never realized how risk averse people apparently are. I imagine these same people never drive a car since those things are deathtraps by comparisons.
That is a completely inhumane statement.

You may not believe that "the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members"; but how dare you say that someone losing a parent or loved one is "less damaging". And less damaging to what? The economy? The economy will survive. Your grandparents won't.
My ~750ish one to split the difference.

https://sr.ht/~jpgleeson/piaine/

I do think this is one of the most enjoyable projects I’ve ever done.
Unfortunately influenza has animal reservoirs that COVID-19 does not seem to. It is unlikely we could permanently eliminate it. Maybe a few seasons of reduced numbers, but that's probably the best you could expect.
SARS-1 has been eradicated in humans;its precursor still probably is circulating among bats.
why would you need a usenet similar service? usenet still exists and the barrier is, as you say, high enough.
American Pikas show resiliency in the face of global warming
Have you seen the "Eat Shit Bob" episode of John Oliver? They say many not true things about a coal executive, all harmful to his reputation. But no serious person could take them at all to be truthful. And he isn't even the President.

Section 230 repeal would just mean lawyers name Facebook under rule of the deepest pockets. It doesn't stop Facebook from saying things about politicians.
So release it in the public domain and let someone in Africa make the choice between a small chance of minor vision damage vs crippling and possibly fatal malaria
Can NZ produce enough food for its population? If so, that definitely seems like the right place to be in case of the apocalypse. Beautiful land, gorgeous ocean, intelligent populace, and far, far away from everyone else.