skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This was publicly admitted to by Toronto Public Health itself, as early as June 2020:

> "Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

I don't know the particulars of Toronto Public Health, but this wasn't uncommon for immediate reporting vs death record reporting. Since, in many places, comprehensive death records can take a few weeks (or longer!) to go through the pipeline before ending up on finalized reports, it's useful to have more immediate death reporting during a pandemic. Such immediate reporting is necessarily going to be a little rougher around the edges, but it generally gets you pretty close to the real numbers.

But, it's absolutely true that this immediate reporting isn't perfect. Still, it's very useful, and usually close enough for near term needs. Taking the Toronto example, the main tradeoffs are that a) you include some deaths where Covid wasn't actually a contributing factor and b) you miss deaths where the person was never tested for Covid (especially applicable to deaths that occurred at home). Often, these two somewhat balanced themselves out, but only in places with fairly high levels of testing.

Then, in the medium to longer term, you can switch over to relying on more comprehensive death records. This helps to filter out non-causal scenarios (e.g. the "hit by bus, tested positive for covid, died" scenarios). It also helps add in cases that were initially missed (had symptoms of covid, never went to hospital, died at home, etc).

Finally, to validate numbers, we can also look at excess deaths. This helps ensure that we're not wildly off base with reported numbers. Excess deaths isn't a perfect metric to compare to, but it's still a great benchmark.

To wrap up this comment, let me respond to this:

> We have to be extremely cautious when considering any of the death-related statistics for this particular situation.

I fully agree, but.. I would suggest that your comment missed a lot of the accuracy refinement that happens in practice over the medium to longer term. Additionally, it's very much worth pointing out that, with additional analysis (from death records, from excess death analysis, etc), we've found that very few places were likely over-reporting Covid deaths, but that a significant number of places were under-reporting Covid deaths. So, yes, take shorter term Covid death stats with a grain of salt, but know that we've generally ended up reporting too low, not too high.
It's impossible to believe because we know people who say that, and we know that their fundamental belief is that rules exist in two ways: 1) to protect and serve a certain class, without binding them, and 2) to bind the other class, without protecting the other class.

This is not a new phenomenon, the only thing that changes is the terms used to signal the meaning.
Indeed, though not necessarily mutually exclusive.

I have personally seen the claim debunked on numerous platforms almost immediately after it was made, however, I concede that someone else may not have been exposed to that yet.
South Bay (area) suburbs.
I think that you are too narrowly re-defining the point that BlueTie was trying to get accross.

If you look at society as a whole, the tech field dominates in large numbers when it comes to higher paying jobs.

Nobody is saying that professional athletes don't get paid a boatload, or that entertainers can be paid astronomical amounts. But the reality is that there a maximum of 450 NBA players in the NBA, for example, and only the tippy top of them get the massive dollars.

But also, the entire NBA earned $6.41 billion in 2020/2021 season. By comparison, one single company, Apple, earned $394 billion in 2022.

It's the same with executives. While some execs have high social status, you pretty much have to be at a C-suite level. Nobody cares about some mid-level exec. And C-suite is fairly much anomolous. In 2022, Apple has 164,000 employees, but only one CEO. When looking at entire job classes, technical workers predominate over all other jobs in terms of dollars earned. An autistic FAANG doesn't have higher status than an executive, but then again, he doesn't have higher status than the receptionist at the front desk. However, an average tech has high status, comparatively speaking.

Status is clearly complex for sure, but despite what people say, generalizing is just fine, as long as it's within parameters (which I'm not going to define). And tech people have way more cachet than they did 40 years ago, for example.
When it was last compiled from source, the source was punched cards. They were placed in a file somewhere and ended up either getting thrown out as part of a data retention move or shipped off to Iron Mountain to be lost among billions of other boxes.
I think it should be obvious by this point that in the minds of today's "free speech" advocates, the term means "I get to make political statements and nobody can criticize me for them" and not anything like it was understood in the recent past.
Grimes broke up with Musk and started dating Chelsea Manning
Clearly nothing is stopping someone from doing that anyway, but also nobody ever knows if Elon is actually on any of the three planes tracked (unless he posts about where he's going or where he is). They're not even his personal planes, they're owned by his companies and used by other people. If he's that worried about a stalker he should just charter a jet instead of flying on jets associated with him or his companies, then nobody would know.
> History teaches us what happens to tyrants.

Seems like a pretty mixed message tbh.
“ because browsers change over time and electron helps you get a working offline snapshot of something you created.”

If the browsers change in a way that makes the website not work, the electron application will still work.
Obviously he followed the car from the airport — how else would he identify the car with Elon Musk’s kid?
Halo Anniversary came out 11 years ago, and it ran on hardware from 2005.
Are you also doing with secret (not anymore) data in public repositories on GitHub? Note context of your comment, in thread about secret scanning for public repositories on GitHub.
Thank you. That's a very reasonable suggestion.
> which is nice because browsers change over time and electron helps you get a working offline snapshot of something you created.
A single strong moderator, or even a team of mods and admins with loosely coherent policies, can work fine.

I think the largest community where I've seen this kind of autocracy go well is Fark -- people are generally reasonable, for whatever reason the trolls do not do as much boundary-pushing and rules-lawyering as on other sites, and it's generally a calm and funny place to hang out. Drew Curtis is just, like, a nice normal person.
I think the Atom editor + Hydrogen plugin for running interactive Python sessions inline with the code is still unmatched by anything available in VS Code. This setup is what I migrated to when I ditched Matlab for the "scientific Python" stack, and I'm still here.

Multiple concurrent kernels, the ability to connect any .py file to any running kernel, sharing variables and imports across multple .py files, inline matplotlib output that persists on-screen and inline with the code even when running other code cells... the list goes on. I'm really fond of this setup. I use it daily--it's an essential component of my day job--and intend to do so for the foreseeable future. VS Code does seem to be the way of the future but there have just been too many friction points for me to leave Atom.
In general the marketing and branding of Atom was awesome. The retro-futuristic design worked well with the idea of bringing a text editor into the 21st century. I love that they call their docs the 'flight manual.' It will be missed.
Loaded question.
If nothing else, this story (along with countless others) really affirms the value of full-disk encryption.

A stranger should not be able to unplug your hard-drive and access your nudes.
Thanks, that's an interesting read. Not sure that I trust pose estimation algorithms with my life, but still interesting!
I couldn't figure out how to find people to follow and had to quit. I was so close to ditching twitter.
Right, that would be the "rash actions and lashing out" part. Decisions made in fear are pretty well known for making things worse, not better, even directly with respect to the reason for said fear.
He already confirmed it was intentional
Free speech for me, not for thee. So predictable. It's always the places that proclaim the loudest support for free speech who are quickest to ban people and censor their speech.
Check out Petoi Bittle robot dog(https://www.petoi.com/products/petoi-bittle-robot-dog) for under $270. It has a complete set of tools for entry-level robotics. The motion controller is a Arduino-like controller and can connect to many third-party sensor modules such as camera, gesture & microphone. It supports C++ and Python API

It runs on open source software OpenCat and can integrate with Pi or ROS.

Here's the review by MagPi in its Nov 2022 issue:
https://images.ctfassets.net/2lpsze4g694w/2A12bpCahduZNgNQZv...
I'll bet $5 this inflection point never happens. Godot is good but it's no Unity/Unreal.
It's usually because that information relates to other sensitive intelligence sources.
> I think at that time it was reasoned that it was fake because they could have shot down Erdogan's plane he was on.

They should have been able to shoot it down. However that they werent able to do so and encountered problems with their aircraft suggests outside intervention. Erdogan being aware that his location was being targeted by the coup's special forces and swiftly moving away from there is another indicator to that end. Which are likely reasons why Turkey is quite friendly with Russia at the moment - the only power that has enough intelligence strength and the means to jam equipments of aircraft.
> People hate on electron, but it's a pretty amazing piece of tech if you ask me.

It really does come down to how people build on top of it.

I tried opening a 2gb log file in Atom and it took like 10 minutes before crashing.

VSCode on the other hand, while a bit slow, opened it and I could search quickly and scroll it without any issue at all.

That was what caused me to switch.
I'm still confused. Which instance should I use to create my account? Does that have any future repercussions? (says, if the server stops/is offline)?
Makes a pretty damn good car for a con man, though.

This kind of argument seems silly to me. The world is complicated. He can be both a fantastic manager able to push out successful products in markets that don't even exist and a narcissistic thin-skinned asshole. We can celebrate SpaceX and Tesla while we condemn his censorship on Twitter.
I thought this was a joke, but you weren't kidding [0]. He remade the poll with just "now" (55.9% right now) and "in 7 days" (44.1%) [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603600001057185792

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603609466301059073
You should rotate your keys more often! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34005685

Or at least put some honeypot server in your bio so I can keep playing your game.
I've moved to VS Code (or rather Codium, the OSS build of Code) long time ago, but still keep the Atom keybindings and icons (both available in the extension gallery). RIP.
All Ukrainians I know are paying for Starlinks and the fee have been recently increased.
> nor fit for a comment on HN

You're right, we should all emulate PG and just assume Musk is right instead of having the intestinal fortitude to call out grifters and stop encouraging idolatry of these pieces of shit.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603555493238435840
I resisted switching to VS Code for a long time because I far preferred the UX and design of Atom, but I eventually caved not because of performance gains I wanted in VS Code (honestly I found Atom plenty fast for the work I was doing), but because many Atom extensions were left to rot and slowly broke over time as most maintainers moved to VSCode extensions.

Farewell friend, you will be missed.
Well... WPF is unofficial officially dead now. Wonder what the VS team thinks about this.
Let's be clinical:

"unhinged": Elon Musk's actions for the past few months have been intensely erratic. He clearly meets the definition of "unhinged".

"pathetic": can either be interpreted as "pitiable" or "inadequate/disappointing". Watching his descent into madness is certainly capable of eliciting pity. As for the second definition, everyone who is now being disabused of their formerly high opinion of him could call him inadequate or disappointing.

"ignorant": this is the easiest one, Elon Musk has repeatedly (some might say incessantly) expressed beliefs that belie a complete lack of understanding of the topics at hand (made all the more frustrating by his extreme arrogance and overconfidence). Whether he is doing it deliberately for attention or whether he is truly as gormless as he appears to be, this description is accurate.

"fuck": sadly, this is one of the most flexible words in the English language, so it will be difficult to ascertain its descriptive veracity.
They were working on it when fortnite got big, in fact it was kind of a cool experiment where they involved the community in the process and development, halfway crowdsourced in a way. But when fortnite got big the team got moved to that, so here we are.
> I prefer being able to see a variable's type easily, even when skimming over code. Type inference makes code less readable to me.

An IDE can still show the inferred types!
> Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything you ever say for eternity.

Gabe Newell, 2013
Ah an attempt to appeal to authority with no proof of any credentials. That’s when you know you lost.
> would you went to actively or passively do business with someone who just rewrites the terms whenever an unwelcome outcome results?

It's actually somewhat kind of him to rewrite the terms - no, I'm not being sarcastic. He could simply ban anyone he wanted to without any consistency, it's his company after all. Creating rules at least allows some kind of consistency, for what little it might be worth.
I thought the same thing as well but apparently the law is broader than just direct interactions with government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Ac...
'Luddite' Teens Don't Want Your Likes
This 'yard' thing with cut grass covering VAST tracts of land around the houses in the US and that being enforced this strictly is literally crazy when seen from overseas. SO much space lost, doing nothing but having grass on it, with a lot of money, effort, water and energy being spent to keep it that way.

Eco-friendly yards look like a revolution compared to that delirium.
https://archive.vn/YdqJZ
You can't post like this here, regardless of who you're attacking. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You may not feel that you owe $UnhingedPatheticIgnorantFuck better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

Since this isn't just a matter of one topic—that is, since you've been breaking the rules badly in other contexts as well (e.g. attacking other users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33938700), I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with—it will eventually get your main account banned as well.

Also, using multiple accounts to upvote yourself is a bannable abuse in its own right, so please don't do that*.

Since someone is now going to respond with "you're just protecting $BillionaireCeo" I suppose I need to add: no, there is plenty of criticism getting posted, as anyone who looks at any thread on the topic can see. This is about protecting HN. The rules don't stop applying just because a bunch of people are mad. Actually, these are the situations in which they matter most.

* Edit: actually, the multiple-account manipulation you've been doing is egregious, so I've banned a bunch of your accounts. Please don't do that again. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
This makes sense from the perspective of the individual developer, but it's also a sad reflection of the sorry state of technology that the only way to be sure a website will work in 5 years is by shipping your own copy of the browser.
Trans is a Western cultural import applied to the hijra, this isn't how they traditionally see themselves, nor wider Indian society, e.g. if we look at misogynist cultural practices such as sati, with widows immolated on their husband's funeral pyre, these never applied to hijra as they aren't considered to be women, or men. If the idea of hijra was imported back to the West and applied to transwomen here there would be an uproar.
Have you tried using "holes" in the Z3 solver to generate faster optimizations or guards yet?
Maybe https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
All it took was a crowd booing him for Musk to get so bent out of shape that he abandoned all pretenses of being in favor of free speech. That must have really hurt his feelings.
As others have said, it is not allowed to post links with tweets to any Mastodon instance (see https://sigmoid.social/@thegradient/109521197175376332 for a screenshot)
> Queue times got better

I'll take the shorter queue times thank you very much. Waiting for half a day for one battle was not acceptable.
The Web’s the Place (2003)
mastodon.social seems to be the closest to a "default" (though it's kinda ideologically opposed to admitting that explicitly)
I've dived relatively deeply into mainframes as a small, intermittent hobby the last few years (https://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/). Read (and organized!) a lot of IBM documentation, played with JCL more than just on the surface, explored corners of the OS, and dabbled with some s/360 assembly and PL/I. At some point I inspected hex dumps of the disk ("DASD") images to prove a theory I had.

What attracted me to it is just how different it is from the UNIX/PC world I'm coming from, it's endlessly interesting, it challenges what you assumed were ground truths. So is AS/400 (or IBM i as it is now called), which is also completely different but in some ways opposite to how the mainframe world is different.

Those two rewired my understanding of OS reality like Haskell rewired my understanding of programming language reality.

At this point I could probably dive into COBOL and pivot my job into maintaining mainframe stuff, and some part of me thinks it's fun, but I have a fun low level programming job, so I don't know if I'd ever really do that. Maybe to fill time during retirement?
> At least they appear to be making progress on removing child exploitation.

I am not aware of any source for this claim except Elon himself.
> > Declare your intent with a pubkey

> > -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

Probably a mistake :)
I said when he announced the Hyperloop ages ago the man was increasingly unhinged and nobody believed me. Welcome to years later, rest of the world.

He ruined something beautiful in Twitter and knowing HN, there will be people who defend him.
I think it's a fair assumption that #2 happened, but as time goes on with no transparency (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598858533608431617), it begins to look like #1.
The people dying are almost all unvaccinated. In any age group. Period. It’s a fact you can’t change.
I actually think it could be related.

Elon claims that "lil X" was in the car, which could either be the rapper Lil Nas X or his son (with Grimes) X Æ A-Xii.
If a given rule can be unilaterally rewritten at the instantaneous whim of the person in charge of enforcing the rule, then that rule does not exist to guide others or provide consistency, it merely exists to justify authoritarian caprice.
Or another way to phrase it is that the experience sucks equally on all platforms, so you might as well switch to Linux.
Senate sends $858B defense bill to Biden’s desk
There was a time when he could have been as close as our mundane real world would ever have gotten to Tony Stark. It has taken a concerted effort on his part to degrade his public image to the extent he has. At any time he could have just, you know, stopped. He's been huffing way too many of his own farts.
Their COBOL stuff is positively modern when compared to the oldest part of the IRS stack, which is written in IBM 7074 assembly - that’s IBM’s pre-S/360 business mainframe line, from the early 1960s. It runs under an emulator on contemporary IBM mainframes.

(I know IRS has been working on rewriting it all - the 7074 assembly, the 360/370 assembly, and the COBOL - in newer languages such as Java. I don’t know where they are up to with that, so I don’t know if they still have 7074 apps live today. But certainly they did as recently as 4-5 years ago.)
> It was days after and nowhere near the airport.

> [Other comment:] days after. so by musk's own rules.. fine to post. wasn't real time.

Location of the jet was shared in real-time to my understanding, checking with the link given on https://grndcntrl.net/falconlanding/

> And again, no police report filed. You were dooped.

I see a video of the supposed stalker in a balaclava. I do think Musk took the opportunity to get rid of something he already disliked, but I don't yet believe he faked the attack if that's what you're implying.
> Makes a pretty damn good car for a con man, though.

In 2018, yes. By today's standards, almost everything his car does, the competition does better.
There's a lot of ignorance in this thread around the JVM, which is forgivable I suppose since it's not the hot new thing atm :)

The parameters they are tuning are available in any good VM with a JIT. You won't see these tuning knobs with Go because there's no JIT. These are trade offs. Scala is also known to create more garbage than Java.

The reason for the CPU spikes are code is getting compiled via JIT which takes CPU. If isn't enough space for JIT compiled code then you'll be recompiling code often, burning CPU.

This is similar to database cache tuning. Too little cache and you burn CPU and IOPS. Too much cache and you don't leave enough memory for other operations.

These parameters have good defaults but large apps can surpass them. It's important it's not automatic as this could have dire consequences (oom etc).
It's a question of aligned incentives. If your team (not you necessarily) only have a priority to ship features than your team needs to be alerted for performance and reliability issues because you are thus incentivized to fix said issues. If these issues are thrown over the fence to some other team who doesn't know your codebase and have the domain knowledge to improve said code then things (usually) never get fixed.

Likewise error budgets that say "your service has not been reliable enough this period so the next sprint will be dedicated to improving that and no new features will ship" is another way to make sure quality is not an afterthought.
Wow that's pretty bad yeah. Routing cables differently and some pull release adhesive tabs would have made this easily doable and hardly cost any extra.
In Western countries, in peacetime, and in regular shared airspace, yes. They broadcast on ADS-B and are visible on flight tracking websites too.

ADSB Exchange even has a ‘military’ filter to focus on them.
Moment of silence.