skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the counterargument is to that what is worse, 1/15 of the population losing 15 years or the entire population losing 1 year keeping in mind that 1 year in your prime is probably worth more than 1 year in your old age. These numbers are not COVID specific, just going off your ~15.

For COVID numbers, even with 1M deaths, that would be 1/330 (US population) losing on average ~15 years vs. everyone losing almost 2 years now. It's emotionally tough to pick a policy when you are condemning one group to statistical death, but you still have to try and be objective. My personal opinion is that we'll be writing books about the "the lost generation" in 10 years about children currently in school.
'users who clicked on also clicked on' is at the core of a lot of the tracking Apple is banning in many cases. This is why Google is pushing FLOC and 'anonymous' cohorts in Chrome.

This happens on every single HN thread on this topic. I'm not a total expert but there is a lot of arm chairing that's wrong.

Tracking is profitable and more so than contextual for a lot of direct response in a lot of industries.

Not in all cases, e.g. usually not for brand advertising. But it works.

For my clients is the direct data I have - and we have extensively tried every single other option. FB is the only platform that delivers strong ROI and we use the targeting iOS blocks. And yes - it's always retorted - I know 100% the donations come from the ads, it's incredibly simple to track even as simple as making a new page or individual product only linked from that ad.

So far this change is definitely effecting our ads and FB seems pretty buggy with the new ads manager changes. But they 'always find a way.' But so far it's not as bad as I originally thought it would be.

Plus you can still upload offline conversion data. most purchases have full contact info. We'll see if Apple comes after that, but they would then have to go after the entire ecosystem including Visa.
yeah, the whole point is that we demonstrate that stuff works before formalising it in the spec. Pinecone itself is pretty early (and keeps changing) though and hasn’t even got an informal spec yet. But we will soon!

edit: meanwhile, https://spec.matrix.org/unstable/proposals/ is the index of all the spec changes which are in flight. and if you’re interested in understanding how the matrix spec evolves, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkZz60RRfc is an hour of yours truly trying to explain the process and its rationale.
The Complete Hypercard Handbook (1988)
German panel to recommend J&J Covid vaccine for over-60s
Could you please stop creating accounts to post like this? I realize you have some strong opinions about Racket. I have no doubt that there is some truth in there. But what you're doing here is absolutely not what this forum is supposed to be for, and you're hurting it. If you would please stop, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or even, don't access Facebook at all?
I know, I know, just kidding.
It's odd - I've messed around with this kind of thing too, and while I can recognize the perfect intervals sound cleaner, I generally prefer some dissonance and waiver in the chords. Depending on the style of music, it just sounds more interesting to me.
I wanted to add that the nature of those thin horizontal layers and the patterns they form is similar to diffraction. A laser beam passing thru a thin slit forms a pattern with the sinc-wave distribution of intensity, and so is FFT of a rectangular window used in these spectrograms makes a sinc-wave shape that "diffracts" the "true" sound frequency.
I am not familiar with the scope of JFR, but there have been some very recent movements around profiling in C#/.NET:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-mon...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-dotnet-mo...

My experience overall with the C# ecosystem has been fantastic. We started out on .NET Framework 4.x back in 2014-2015, and today are now talking about moving to .NET 6 and rewriting our native apps to use MAUI as November grows closer. A lot of the same code we had back in 2015 is still running today with zero modifications.
Lots of people will read this headline and think 'rich' doesn't apply to them. Judging by the income thresholds in the article, I think most HN readers might be in the top 10% and therefore in the most polluting group that should take action.
FYI, if you have had chickenpox, you can get a shingles vaccine https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shingles/public/shingrix/in...
(also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27061804)
Surely you'd agree that "2020 excess deaths are going to be predominantly covid" is a very reasonable hypothesis though, right? And you agree that "2020 has an extraordinarily high excess death rate", because that part is easily measured data, right?

Basically: your response seems a bit nitpicky to me, which tells me that perhaps you're starting from a perspective where you're assuming the article is wrong and looking for holes to poke.

Look, nothing about this paper's conclusions is surprising at all. At all. We all know true covid deaths are higher than reported, because all such metrics underreport, for all diseases (and frankly almost all causes of death). The only question is "By how much?". So you don't like 400k. What's your counter?
Isn't "total mortality due to COVID-19" different than "total mortality from COVID-19"? As I understand the cancer treatments were aborted due COVID-19, therefore, more person died due to COVID-19 but not necessarily from COVID-19... does it make sense?
Wondering how this compares to just a sharpening filter?
Except even if they report fake numbers if there was actually significant outbreaks we would hear about it still. It would leak. Something is super odd.
> west being founded on slavery

The "west" was not founded on slavery, this is incorrect. This is the kind of "woke revisionism" that things like the 1619 tried to push through and were inaccurate.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/24/editorial-1...

https://reason.com/2020/03/06/1619-project-fact-checker-niko...
Scammer used fake court order to take over dark.fail
> I would think all that pastureland would be pretty good at sucking up carbon and storing it in soil, but I don't know.

I'm unsure, but my understanding is that carbon sequestration of the old-growth "permaculture" of the prairies and other grasslands comes from their extremely deep roots. [1]

I'm not sure what the pastures of a typical large cattle farm look like, and whether their roots travel anywhere near as deep. However, as we're already establishing, I'm not an expert.

1. https://www.fws.gov/news/blog/index.cfm/2011/6/27/iowa-the-p...
You said historically, by which I assumed you meant older Java versions, not later ones.
I don't speak for my employer, which is Amazon.

FWIW, single data point, YMMV, etc., but where I work (under AWS) I have never seen behavior that is exploitive of the customer like you're talking about to be encouraged or allowed.

Yes, AWS may be different from how things are done in retail, and we're huge so I'm sure it does happen here and there -- but from my admittedly limited vantage point, Bezos' heavy emphases on long-term thinking and earning the customer's trust have taken deep root everywhere I've been able to see.

Doesn't mean peeps always get it right, some choices are difficult, compromises have to be made, there are outliers, etc., but still, it's there. I've just never seen cheap thinking around customers, so to speak, and I really like that aspect of working where I do.

If that ever changes in a broad way, that'll be the beginning of the end of Amazon's dominance.
JFC. This is insane that you're making it out to be Facebook's fault for having terrible people in your life. HN comments have gotten worst than even Reddit.
How the U.S. locked up vaccine materials other nations urgently need
Due to trees being dark, afforestation has a weaker impact on climate change than the stored carbon would make you think. They also evaporate a lot of water, which is also a GHG.
Forests only store carbon when they're young -- mature forests are in a steady state, the rotting wood releases carbon at the same rate that it is absorbed by growing trees.

Mature forests also release methane, which is 25X worse a greenhouse gas than CO2.
There's nothing unsafe about HTML as a language. You'll never get an XSS issue from pure HTML. All of those "bugs" and "security vulnerabilities" come from mis-configured frameworks not properly sanitizing external data, or from (mostly PHP) ad-hoc code written by people unaware of the issue. But even then, any mainstream templating language escapes by default.
Why the Ford Mustang Mach-E Is So Important
While I have never been involved in jet engine manufacturing, probably because those same engines and their repair parts are sold to a number of US allies and temporary-allies-of-convenience who use US/NATO spec aircraft and systems, where having a classified piece of technology would be impossible to maintain chain of custody on. I'm thinking specifically of all the foreign military sales for the F16, F15, etc.
Any business that cannot survive without paying its employees too little for them to live comfortably (not "extravagantly", but also not "desperately") does not deserve to exist. Period. Its business model depends on being subsidized by government programs that support the destitute.
Yeah among the younger crowd there's actually more of a respect towards Asians because many of them here started wearing masks very early into the pandemic when our government was saying they weren't useful.
I think that allowing people to pay and genuinely stopping mining their data would hit FB a lot harder than just $30-40 per year.

I’d bet on a correlation between users that are worth more than average and ones who’d pay to avoid being tracked. It’s a claim I have no evidence to support.
I don’t understand that argument. All function arguments still would be on a single stack (just as in Forth). That would only be a valid argument if some FORTRAN code inspected the return address, for example to behave differently, depending on the caller.

I would guess it’s more because early systems had small address spaces. If your heap grows up from the bottom of memory, and one stack grows down from top of your address space, how do you know where to place that second stack, especially in a system with, say, a 64kB address space?
1. I think that was just poor phrasing by the parent.

2. There were some "get covid" parties at University of Alabama (probably others): https://abc3340.com/news/local/university-of-alabama-respond...

3. There are shingles vaccines: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shingles/public/zostavax/in....
> All I implied is that your location data is being tracked and put into some database somewhere and you don't control it.

This is patently wrong. Exposure Notification apps (those using the official APIs, anyway) have no access to location APIs. The absolute worst they could possibly do is to log your IP address when you reach out for new data, but this is also true of every app you use, and every website you visit.

You don't really seem interested in understanding how they actually work, but if anyone else cares, https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/ is a pretty reasonable explanation.
Bill Gates worries about global warming. His house is 66,000 sq ft. I find the hypocrisy astounding and it helps global warming deniers to claim that 'if the people worrying about it are not acting as though they're actually concerned, why should we worry'.
Apparently you don’t know most immutable structures are optimized for modified cloning in ways mutables aren’t.
Falsehoods programmers believe about (video stuff) [2016]
The ability FB had to target ads directly to people was their biggest value add.
Air travel has a relatively small global impact because almost nobody can afford to fly. For globally "rich" people it has a much bigger impact.
> Do you actually have any evidence in which to compare and contrast how a government behaves when trying to cover up a manmade virus vs how a government behaves when trying to cover up a natural virus that has hopped species?

I’m not GP, but GP used the term “lab escape”, not “man made”. Lab escape could just as easily apply to a naturally occurring disease that was being studied in the lab.
Well, the whole reason to choose bash in the first place is that it just works on every single machine I have access to.. Ruby and js aren't installed everywhere. As for python, I have to be willing deal with versioning hell and the whole virtualenv vs venv vs conda mess.

Maybe C could work, but I have to make sure it's statically linked.
"Hey, you're great at what you do, but you're causing some strife on the team because ... to be honest, folks think you're a brilliant asshole. I know it might sound silly, but you hurt their feelings and it makes them not want to work with you. They need to be encouraged and supported more often than they need to be disrespected. Keep doing what you're doing, except for the asshole part. You're leading the pack right now, what we'd like to see is you help others succeed as well and that benefits all of us, including you, the most actually. There's a great place for you here if you can do that. Can you do that?"
If SARS-CoV-2 evolved on a farm, then shouldn't it be particularly easy to find an intermediate host? No need for wilderness expeditions, just go to the barn and start swabbing. But more than a year later, we're still waiting.

And how does that explain its affinity for human ACE2? At least initially (right after it makes the zoonotic jump), the virus would probably show highest affinity for its animal host, and lower affinity for human ACE2. But SARS-CoV-2 shows highest affinity for human ACE2, and only primates with ACE2 very similar to humans show comparable affinity:

> The very high classification had at least 23/25 ACE2 residues identical to human ACE2 and other constraints at SARS-CoV-2 S-binding hot spots (Materials and Methods). The 18 species predicted as very high were all Old-World primates and great apes with ACE2 proteins identical to human ACE2 across all 25 binding residues.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/22311
Correct but at the same time, the grain production wouldn’t be there if humans were the only market for grain and that grain being produced is not for human consumption. No one should think that people are going hungry because grain is being fed to livestock. Our food needs are met by agriculture.
Thank you! We did not plan to regularly update the index.
But as it takes only 24 hours to index 1B pages, the easiest way would be to reindex everything, upload it to S3 and update the metadata so the search engine will query the right segments.
Western Governors University has this really interesting test-based approach. If you pass the tests, you pass the class - however long that takes. You can get a degree just by passing tests, with out ever watching a lecture, even online. That doesn't get you the prestige of a "name" college, it doesn't get you the network of people, but it documents that you provably know your stuff. If I were a hiring manager, I could see regarding that as a plus over a traditional university.

The thing that WGU lacks is breadth of majors. I could see such a system replacing[1] traditional universities in the next couple of decades, but it has to expand to cover more majors, and it needs more than one school doing it. But if it happens, the way it's going to happen is by managers and recruiters realizing that it's better because it's provable.

[1] Well, such a system could replace traditional universities as a source of knowledge. It can't replace them as a source of contacts or a source of elite prestige. Traditional universities will probably survive on students who want those things.
Numerous problems.

1. The current death toll is with the existing lockdowns. There are good reasons to think that without (especially the early) lockdowns the death toll could have been way higher.

2. Being dead for 1 year cannot be equivalently compared to being socially distant for 1 year (not 2). Is that not obvious?

3. This is before we get into life long disability, etc. due to covid. I know someone whose parent had a covid caused stroke, essentially ending their existence as the person they were before.
Which is why LiveLeak was so great, you got to see what death actually was.
I think that's exactly the criticism of this paper. They are precisely saying "total mortality due to COVID-19" = "total mortality from COVID-19". From the paper:

> for now we assume that total COVID-19 deaths equal excess mortality
Thanks! When I was pretty young, I studied a language that used word terminations (and other means) without word order. I was too young too appreciate the linguistic differences, nor did I understand why a certain word order was chosen. It would give a lot more flexibility.

I am going to lookup what you wrote about the evolution and use of active voice in English - something I always wondered about.
I once bought a product from Amazon India, the manufacturer had literally printed on the product, that if I give a 5 star review and send a screenshot on Whatsapp they'd give me X cashback. I outed them on amazon reviews, and amazon decided to not publish my review.
Comparison of expected versus actual outcomes is a reliable method to estimate the overall effect of a new input. Can you specifically point out how such analysis constitutes "shenanigans"?
>The reason (I believe) is that complex things are like hard drugs for smart people.

>That is the golden explanation I kind of understood internally but never formulated consciously.

I am thinking would it be fair to say C++ are for the wicked smart but C are for ones with age old wisdom.
China emissions exceed all developed nations combined
Curious question — why do people insist so much on fields being private and there being getters and setters, even when all that getters do is return the field and all that setters do is set it? What kind of problem does this arrangement solve? Why not just use public fields?
Many of those 'additional causes" are things caused by COVID-19.

e.g. per that table, out of 560K deaths coded as COVID-19, 257K were also coded as "influenza or pneumonia". That's because Covid causes pneumonia.
> Surely you'd agree that "2020 excess deaths are going to be predominantly covid" is a very reasonable hypothesis though, right? And you agree that "2020 has an extraordinarily high excess death rate", because that part is easily measured data, right?

I don't know the answer, and neither do you. But given that the top-line is asserting that there are 900k excess deaths due to Covid, the choice of assumption here is not some minor detail. There are lots of other plausible alternative hypotheses.

Aassuming X, then building a model that shows X is true, is not validating a hypothesis.
Signal strength is the aesthetic.

If you were a bird, you'd spend so much time trying to change what you were that you'd forget to eat your worms and die.
> Is "pointing out" data considered downplaying? ~5% of deaths had "covid only" while the remaining 95% had other factors with the average having 4 other factors.

Is this a useful metric, though? If covid is the catalyst to cause death with preexisting conditions, is not covid the actual cause of death?

Covid in these cases is an acute condition that is the direct cause of death.
Yes, it's considered downplaying to try and attribute these people's deaths to something that didn't kill them.

If the answer to the question of, "Would this person be alive were it not for COVID?" is "Yes", then COVID killed that person.

You should be able to be fragile and still survive, that isn't an excuse to let someone die.
This is new, I think this is the first time I saw the climate and all the evils of the world being blamed on someone other than your average Joe.
Everybody needs to cut their carbon footprint by 100% if we want to stop global warming. The rich probably should go first, but in the end everybody has to.
Is it uncommon for the PRC to have their rockets perform uncontrolled reentry?
I like this description of hubris: the pride that blinds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris
Montana has become absolutely inundated with CoVid refugees fleeing the cities which has massively driven up housing prices and rents to the point where it's completely unaffordable for anyone working class. Businesses first got hit with being shut down by CoVid and now can't fully re-open because no one wants to work. It's a complete shitshow here and I know numerous people that have been here for decades that are being forced out.
"settlenetwork.com" seems to be unrelated to this, other than having the words "settle" and "network" in it.
Ultimately it sounds like you're trying to find a gold nugget that's just lying around online that you can start coding up. Even if you could find such a nugget, you'll probably find that 10K people are already executing on it, have traction, VC money and you'd give up. It's what I do and it's an endless loop of teeth grinding.

An alternative is to go out and meet people (obviously the last year has been hard), who are NOT like you. I would even say not online, but face to face and try and talk to people and get them to open up. Don't interrogate them (I have this bad habit), but get to know them and generally be interested in their problem space. Don't try and sell!

Go to EVERY social event that you are invited to and think will be boring (they will be but it's exposure). Meetups in domains you might be interested in (not tech) but don't know much about. Places where you'd never hang out.

Next build something small, that's useful to these people. Don't think that you're going to be a gazillionaire and you have to pick something worthwhile (go big or go home attitude). Expect that you wont make any money or much traction. What it does is expose you to people who will give you suggestion on direction. This is valuable. Learn about the problem domains and why people are operating the way they do.

I think you've got it right in your last paragraph, put yourself in a position where you can start learning about other peoples problem. Get out of the building! Cue:

You might like this video: (Steve Blank is the father of Customer Discover)

Steve Blank: Want Your Startup to Succeed? 'Get Out of the Building'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-J_SwmMJyo

Next stop reading "Top X for Y". As you said it's all vague rubbish just to drive ad-revenue. It causes the illusion of action without movement.

Start today and good luck!
I'm fine with a carbon tax, but this entirely ignores that it may end up being regressive in the US since so many people in lower income brackets depend on older cars, and can't just upgrade to a Tesla if gas gets more expensive.
Prior to April 2020 the diagnostic criteria for a covid death required 0 testing whatsoever. Combine that with financial incentives to record something as covid, and the lack of other income for hospitals as patients wouldn't come for minor things and elective operations were cancelled and you have a perfect storm for bad data
Range headers are also how DownloadThemAll works.

If you're pulling a single TCP stream across a crowded network, you get maybe 1/40th of the available bandwidth. If you do four range requests instead, you might see >3/40th of the bandwidth.

This place we were contracting at, the managers were widely rumored to stream sports games at their desks, and our release cycle happened to fall on a game day. My poor coworker was downloading our installer every week, and the ETA was over 40 minutes. "Are you using DTA?" "No, what's that?" <fiddle fiddle> ETA: 12 minutes.

12 minute pauses in the middle of a manual process are a lot easier to stomach than 40 minutes. Especially if something goes wrong and you have to do it twice.