skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To naive little me, this implies that COVID deaths are also likely to have been reduced to ~1% from what they would have been without said measures.

No, unfortunately this is not true. While the flu season disappeared entirely, covid obviously did not -- it grew significantly. As it stands, the United States has seen just shy of 100,000 confirmed cases per million people; if that represented 1% of a "status quo" infection rate then you'd have to expect everyone in the US to have covid 10 times over.

Instead, you have to think about the logistic model of infectious disease growth. As a very rough back of the envelope calculation, Covid has an R0 of about 2.5. It will spread throughout the population until about 60% is immune/recovered (which roughly matches the critical vaccination level seen in Israel, providing a reasonable check on this number).

That implies that absent public health measures (i.e. where covid quickly spreads to a level that gives herd immunity), the United States would have seen about 200 million cases (330m0.6), or 600,000 cases per million.

What that implies about deaths* depends on your estimates of how comprehensive case identification has been. If you think that we've tested and identified the vast majority of cases, then the "worst case" would be about 6x the current rate of infection and a similar increase in the total death rate. If on the other hand you think we've vastly undercounted cases, then maybe the US has in fact come close to that herd immunity level already, and the public health restrictions only succeeded in "flattening the curve" without changing the cumulative outcome much.

Working at this from another angle, the CDC estimates (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena..., case 5) give an infection/fatality ratio of about 0.25% when you apply their demographic estimates to the US population writ large. If you back-fit an estimated number of covid cases from the currently-observed 500,000 deaths, you end up remarkably close to 200m total cases -- but you can also quibble here by noting that seniors' homes suffered a disproportionate share of infections and deaths, especially early in the pandemic.
Europe as a legal entity is young. It's still formative in many ways. As an economic union its dominated by a view that competitive scale demands Europe present larger entities to face the capital and market weight of China, America, India and Russia. In that model, a single unified steel enterprise, or Airbus, or regulated markets in telecommunications make perfect sense because they tend to quasi or real utility behaviour. If you want cheap steel for construction you need a single market to back it. If you fragment back to 20 competing steel producers the economy of scale is lost. This is a view of steel as a utility and the competition is about import export competitor not about intra union price competition.

The legalism are pretty awful. You're hung by nation state courts, and pan European law, and jurisdiction in the contract outside Europe, and WTO. It's hardly light touch.

I had the privilege of visiting the OECD once, and sat in on a meeting as an observer. It's sausage factory stuff. Remember "europe" as we see it was borne from the ashes of a war, over markets and growth and was borne to try and unify coal and steel. What followed is a function of time and circumstances. It's quite organic, unplanned in some ways: i think we see that in stuff like the European parliament divergences on privacy, and ipr against the secretariats view.
I'd like to think I am a responsible user of cybernetic loops, having some understanding of how and why they occur. I am aware that I am being tracked and sold but as I said I find the conversations on Twitter to be so interesting and useful I consider this a price well paid. HN doesn't seems to be helping the planet. I don't think you could consider me to be addicted to Twitter because I use it less than an hour a day, although I reflexively check it sometimes.
There are a bunch of stuff that make this hard to calculate. One is that cases are undercounted, while deaths are almost certainly not. Another is that deaths are correlated to available healthcare. 3x cases would mean that the standard of care goes down, which means more deaths. More deaths would probably also mean increased "protective" measures. Risk tolerance (and risk of infection) is elastic. Seeing 3x more deaths would certainly mean at least some people would take it more seriously, which reduces risky behavior and slows down cases, etc.

So you're right, if worst case everyone in the US gets infected, we're in for a lot more deaths, but aside from an apocalyptical R=100 type disease, not everyone is getting infected. The more infections there are, the more preventative measures are taken, etc.

It's a hard problem.
When you have a reasonable assurance that your actions will cause harm, and you do it anyway, that is virtually indistinguishable from intent to cause harm.
It was very common in Miami, and I can find it usually in normal grocery stores in NYC.

Goya Malta and O'Doul's are the brands I'm most familiar with.
Yes, I am saying that, and I don't know what "proof" you want? He isn't cited in the paper, he didn't work on the research.

But here you go if you want to read more about the research. You'll notice that the messages/ patches are all attributed to those cited in the paper.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/full-disclosure.pd...

And yes, you are being misled. That's why Greg needs to publicly retract his accusation and apologize. That's why it's so frustrating that LWN did not clearly explain that Greg was flat out wrong.
The embedded RustConf talk said a big thing internally at FB was rewriting stuff like existing/well-used Python scripts into Rust...
How much better is homemade bread compared to hearty 12 grain bread at the store?
The key bindings for traditional text editors are awful. Micro uses the same normal key bindings that every GUI has used since 1984. A Unix should ship with an editor that has default key bindings that a normal user can guess how to use. Vi is an inexcusable choice for the default text editor although I understand why it’s popular for aficionados. It should be an advanced user choice, not a hazing rite of passage for newbs. Nano is close but still has the wrong bindings. Micro is actually correct. It’s not my actual daily text editor, but I use it when I just need a simple TUI editor.
Stopped buying storage appliances when my old drobo went out of support. Now I get a suitable case, fill it with drives and go from there. Even a usb tower with ten drives is far more preferable than some proprietary linux derivative with a downward ticking support window.

I genuinely believe you're better off with a combination of:

A. an integrated solution like freenas/truenas, unraid or even ceph if you want even more steps. Install and configure. Done.

B. a base linux install with just the particular file servers you need. Install and tinker. Auto-update. Remove unnecessary packages.
There's a new clone just out: "GPT-Neo Dungeon" https://colab.research.google.com/github/finetuneanon/gpt-ne... , which is a GPT-Neo-2.7b finetuned on Literotica for NSFW AI-Dungeon-like dialogue; EleutherAI's GPT-2 performs noticeably better because it was trained on cleaner data, it seems. Still not full GPT-3-175b, ofc.
> Which will be "fun" because our societies now have a hyperactive immune system, and there will be considerable political pressure to "do something" about the next flu wave.

So, do something by taking a flu vaccine like is already available and recommended for annual use by the CDC?
The old radio metaphor would work pretty well!
"no knowledge required" -> game development without knowledge... YMMV.
The sad fact that Leetcode is still a required part of the interview process for a developer with 20 years of experience shows that there is no social trust in this industry. Company B has no faith that Company A employs competent developers. That needs to change. Perhaps what is needed is a standard competency that everyone in the network agrees to.
The Math That Explains the End of the Pandemic
How about the fact that Broadcom essentially enabled the Pi to be created in the first place?
How does that explain Sweden? Or Germany. Or any of of the stats the person above you was replying to.
No, sorry, that's not how words work. Greg very clearly was implying malice, and intent, which there was none of. I don't care how bad you think the research was, you're welcome to call it negligent, but it was not malicious and it's totally absurd to try to change the definition of the word post-hoc.
I don't quite understand -- we know that, for example, correct program analysis is theoretically impossible. There is no tool to verify a general software program. Why should there be a tool to verify a general theorem? Verification is at least as complicated as writing the program you are verifying.
Here is the one I look at (might need desktop version), https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Inheritance is just a tool to mostly avoid. It tightly couples different class implementations. So will make later refactors error-prone and tend to scatter logic. It's misunderstanding OO as messaging between objects.

Using composition or lay out data differently may yield designs with more desirable properties. There's no one answer and it depends.
c2 has some interesting thoughts on the topic.

https://wiki.c2.com/?KnowledgeRepresentations

https://wiki.c2.com/?TypeInferenceStory

https://www.cin.ufpe.br/~mtcfa/files/in1122/Knowledge%20Repr...
Wolfram Application Server
This is a ridiculous judgment from someone who has barely a glimpse into someone else's life. You've extrapolated, from a mere association that you know virtually nothing about, that Aditya must be both stupid and selfish.
Does this mean the excess death rate is undercounting covid then? Since the baseline death rate is counting normal flu deaths.
Great teaching language. I wish I'd chosen the other door and done LISP as my introductory programming language back in 79. (It was literally a binary choice)

Never liked pascal systems, pcode, UCSD. I think it was a dead end but I know devs who said it worked well.
Built this to send notifications for webapps on iOS without having to wrap it in an app and go through the hassle of submitting it to the app store.
If you want to learn more from first hand accounts, listen to a former CIA agent talk about his experiences.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5jTbsvd3rA

"Wherein we are joined by Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA officer and victim of what may an attack by a directed energy weapon.

Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA before retiring from the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2019. His positions included field and headquarters operational assignments covering the Middle East, Europe, Eurasia and CounterTerrorism. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Intelligence Commendation Medal, and the Intelligence Medal of Merit."
Travel Together: Top Questions to Ask Your Travel Partner Before You Go
See e.g. Baez & Stay 2009, "Physics, Topology, Logic, and Computation: A Rosetta Stone". [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340
In your view, how is "interfaces with default implementations" different from "inheritance for code reuse"? At a minimum it looks like a virtual function with a default implementation in the base class. If a derived class doesn't override it, isn't that code reuse?
I'd guess that the median economic value of the contents of some random container that's been saturated in sea water is probably pretty low. The container itself is worth a bit if it's still usable as a container, otherwise it's what it's worth as scrap metal.

I'm having trouble imagining many things that would still be valuable. Even things in sealed containers might be crushed by the water pressure. Other than gold bars, what would still be useful? Construction-grade lumber, maybe?

I could imagine this being a rich person's hobby. And maybe the basis of a Netflix series or something, like shows about the gold miners in Alaska.
This is a free ebook, so i'm not complaining, but this part did make me laugh

Atomic Operations

Explain what it is.

and in case anyone is curious: https://wiki.osdev.org/Atomic_operation
If the importance of dairy was invented after the war, why did humans evolve a tolerance to it?
> I dislike every interface so I'm never happy anyway...

It sounds like you might have some good constructive criticism after trying several options. Care to elaborate on the shortcomings of various options?
Huh, I started that book once and never finished it. Maybe I should.
as consultants, our earnings came from having the luck of being included in an elaborate cargo-cult ritual.

There's the nutshell
Show HN: Plain Document Status
The government doesn't want to do its job. Nothing to do with labor laws.
The best practices I've read mostly say that inheritance should be limited to one non-interface parent. I.E. obly one parent with an invariant. For everything else composition. That mostly lines up with my experience, but I mostly deal with problem spaces that aren't terribly OO like DSP.
That makes sense to me: I specifically think that employer provided health insurance is problematic because it means the wealthy and powerful in the US have no idea how painful it is for the “average joe” to deal with insurance. If all the executives in the US had to buy their own coverage via our system, I think there would suddenly be a new huge and well-backed lobby for reform.
> Hey anurag, big fan of Render!

Thanks Connor!

Did you consider creating CNAME records with your existing DNS provider to point to the target cluster proxy for each repl.co subdomain?
That's a great video! I have never seen it. Thanks!

The thing that complicates it is four on the floor has lots of predated "almost but ok, not quite exactly" versions. Such as in Brazilian pop, take Participação from 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DP6hRt9xvw ... those percussion aren't far away from late-70s orchestral disco. Almost same BPM.

This drum style kinda came out of everywhere. Here it is in Pakistan also in 1971 for instance, Runa Laila, Rushdi, Shaukat Ali Khan & Munir - We Don´t Care, starts around 1 minute in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9uYjpkTkNo ... that's the 73 columbia release pictured in youtube, not the original 71 odeon one.

Here you can get it in part of this 1971 Phillipines release by Dakila as well during the chorus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUKDKXSA2-8

Or what about Sophy, from Puerto Rico also in 1971: No Quiero Que Te Vayas ... a very slight change in the drums and you get disco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bhdOpVs9hU ... this one-step-away stuff was common, here's Polish artist Halina Frackowiak - Do końca świata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgrUUfXesdM or ピンキー グッド・バイ from 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeRtlpY96B0 ... ok that last one was just for fun.

Anyway, I've been trying to compile this narrative for a long time ... all the soda flavors at once smashed together. That's all I can come up with.
What Bullets Do to Bodies (2017)
I'm the author of the post. I can confirm that I 100% enjoyed it.
consider this 1d graph

1.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 1.0

now, blur it just a bit

1.0 0.8 0.4 0.8 1.0

you'll notice that instead of 100% contrast in the center, it's only 60%, which is just barely enough contrast to see. Why the blur? Old eyes with stuff floating in them, along with the slow but certain onset of cataracts

do the same thing in dark mode

0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0

0.0 0.2 0.6 0.2 0.0

The contrast in the middle is still 100%, even with blurring because most of the page isn't white pixels.

The older you get, the more aware you become of accessibility issues, especially if you've learned to dread the phrase "new normal" from personal experience.

The problem is most "dark modes" don't actually include black, so it's only part way there.
Nobody seriously thinks they can automate mathematicians, arguably the most creative people on the planet, out of a job.

Edit: also, I think you're wrong in saying that mathematical research "is driven by about 2-300 of the smartest people alive," but that's a rant for another time.
> nobody is ever happy or at least willing to just settle for things that are "ok" but not "perfect"

I hope we never settle for things that are "ok" but not "perfect".
Why put something else than meat though? I never understood this.
The only reason people use garbage like Pulse is compliance with stupid federal bullshit like FIPS 140.
How is it that c2 has remained so quality?
"slack" means there's more supply than demand. Imagine a bunch of strings, maybe some sort of graph, that aren't being pulled very tight.

So in this case there are more junior devs than the employers want to hire.
One important thing about typical config language is that they are much simpler to do static analysis upon than full fledged PL.

Static analysis, even just simple parsing, is a quite common need when you need to migrate or take statistics of something related to all configurations in a given code base.
All I know is, I don’t wanna hear anything about left-pad ever again.
Just FYI, the alarm functionality is live now. I think that in the future, I'll enable customization so that one can choose what sound (if any) they'd like to use.
Earth Realm vs. Outworld – Mortal combat 2021
Some viruses have a mysterious 'Z' genome
It turned write-only before the Eternal September of wikispam set in
Where can I find the best Oceano Coupon?
> We automatically detect the web server and open a webview in the workspace

And you have to use one of their package buttons to make that happen. Super frustrating that they don’t just have an button to open a web view on a port.
It’s a misuse because (if you really are only using it for code reuse) it’s creating an essential relationship between different objects that is actually incidental.

A list containing two different subclasses of your avoiding-copy-paste base class is now most likely a logical error.
The killer feature could be a file type named after the kinds of websites people make. Say .blog or .forum or .store or .social perhaps even .aggregator or .hn (lol) each would work like a straight jacket or like a website on a platform (.blog like blogger, .store like shopify etc) it could be distributed and insanely fast. Every other link just opens in the normal browser.
I’ve come across McKinsey and BCG a few times in my career. The author’s description is in line with what I observed on the other side of the table. Their teams really had no clue what they were doing, but it gave otherwise clueless executives cover to say “the experts recommend…” which somehow was to make bad ideas something others should get behind.

Armies of consultants would try to do “analysis” to justify their recommendations but the analysis was a total charade of numbers nobody checked and models full of inaccurate assumptions. It was a lot of complexity designed to make it look like someone knew what they were doing. Teams would send you crazy Excel templates at 5 PM, say this is needed by 7 please for the CEO, then they’d work through the night to prepare stacks of terrible PPT nonsense for a 9 AM meeting. In the end their recommendations nearly destroyed the company, which was a surprise to nobody that actually knew what was going on.

The experience taught me a lot about business and business leadership. Many times I’d ask myself “what would McKinsey or BCG do here?” Then I’d go do the exact opposite. That’s proven a good course of action at many critical junctures.
These are those different features. Delphi / ObjectPascal for example support either.

As for what benefit - your example with Ruby can be reversed and I can ask you the same question.

Anyways large part of a programming is an art and different people have different approaches. If you do not like the concept do not use it. Just do not assume that what you think is the "right way".
Unbound is pretty popular with the folks I work with, but in this case, they are only serving up things they are authoritative for, so they don't need much.
It's a good book of introduction of CS. I hope I could read this book when I was a student at university.
3D VR:
http://www.cmse.gov.cn/vr/vr/index.html?scene_id=55299440
It's great for making "Pokemon style" top down RPG's, if that's what you want to make, but as of the latest release you are fairly locked into that style of game.

The tools feel very nice to use, and the developer is still actively adding features. I'm excited to see where it progresses.
SDK abilities don’t depend on the storefront, that’s up to the OS. Apple store is just informational.

Either way users should be able to choose what they install and from where.
> The paper you cited supports the other person's contention: that r0 of influenza is lower than that of covid.

As "the other person[1]," I'd like to point out for the sake of accuracy that the paper you mention here does not in fact study covid. While published in February 2020, the "SARS-CoV" it talks about was SARS 1, not the virus behind the current pandemic.

I've taken my prior for covid's R0 from sources such as the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...), which seem to report a best guess of about 2.5 with some room for variation.

[1] -- Who is also leaving the argument. We've both made our points well enough for others to form their opinion, and I don't think there's much unexplored territory.
Most companies pay you to sign a non disclosure on the way out.
Twitter’s revenue jumps 28 percent in its first post-Trump quarter
Reaper whips ass. Masterpiece. This is basically a single developer. Compare the breadth and depth of the feature set to the average web app - likely funded by millions of dollars and a big old team of people - and weep!!
This is a fair point. I honestly don’t know the exact details that would make the best solution, but it seems like we should be seeking to regulate this kind of “platform work” to specifically target the problems that it has, rather than sweeping it all under the broad brush of “freelance vs employee.”
"Working hard and creating value" and "biological desires" are multiple inheritance, which is outside the scope of this article.
> keeping it in a sealed box

A patent has to disclose the invention in order to be valid. An invention, however, can comprise a new and non-obvious combination of pre-existing components. Most inventions, in fact, comprise new and non-obvious arrangements of familiar components, some of which may be patented by others. If a component is patented by another, that just means the inventor won’t be able to actually build his invention without buying or licensing the component from the other inventor. I’m not familiar with the Marconi case, but that may be the situation.
Seems pretty logical. Most companies try to screw their customers as hard as possible. When you're shown proof one of them isn't doing that, you're much more open to doing business with them.
CVE-2012-6470 should have been patched (in some of the last Presto builds) if I remember correctly.
Yes, it actually is how words work. They're imprecise, layered with meaning. Deliberately introducing bugs into the most widely deployed OS in the world has severe real world consequences. If you drive 100mph down a residential road, it is no longer an accident when you kill someone.
In the mainframe era (e.g. up until the late 1990s maybe?) the big US consulting firms did the same thing. Andersen Consulting would hire smart history and english majors and teach them COBOL in 6 weeks and then dispatch them to a client site to work 60 hours/week. Granted their approaches, designs, and code were highly standardized, but the work got done.
Because interfaces don’t confer a relationship between implementations, only that they have some common method signatures.
Was there ever a relationship between Frankel and Shawn Fanning (Napster fame)? Somehow I remember something about the two together. Could be as trivial as a quote about Fanning in an article, I suppose.