Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — kaiabwpdjqn

kaiabwpdjqn

HN member
Joined
Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 3:46 AM UTC
HN karma
169
Public activity
40 items

About kaiabwpdjqn

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #22559633

    What’s been going on in Shanghai? How serious has the lockdown been?

  2. comment
    Comment #22558151

    So here’s my question. China seems to have done a good job locking down Beijing and preventing an outbreak there. They did not do a good job in Wuhan. Per what you have described a…

  3. comment
    Comment #22557417

    Spanish Flu disagrees with you

  4. comment
    Comment #22557108

    And what if China is wrong, lying, or only temporarily correct, causing the virus to resurface when society resumes?

  5. comment
    Comment #22556503

    There’s not much right vs left yet. It’s just the Democrats figuring out who their candidate will be. The pandemic has a very small effect on the US right now. Things are closing b…

  6. comment
    Comment #22552758

    > Do you really think some moron bumbled his way into the most powerful office in the world? Yes, and in light of anecdotes of how decisions are made in the current administration:…

  7. comment
    Comment #22552668

    The sky is mostly empty space when, and only when, there are not flying taxis at sufficient scale for society to bat an eye

  8. comment
    Comment #22551696

    CFR in Italy is lower in every age category than in China. It’s Simpson’s paradox

  9. comment
    Comment #22548541

    It’s a stupid concern. The reason the government is incompetent is that the government is incompetent. That’s not uniquely American, and there’s no evidence that race has played in…

  10. comment
    Comment #22547818

    As an Asian American... no, I don’t think racism played into this at all. Would have been exactly the same if it started in London.

  11. comment
    Comment #22536485

    I think the real takeaway is from all this is that death rate is a pointless metric. It is highly dependent on the local demographics, it requires precise information which is rare…

  12. comment
    Comment #22536020

    There’s an important bit in this that depends on age. If you’re young and healthy, in addition to being less likely to die from the disease, you’re also less likely to acquire the …

  13. comment
    Comment #22535273

    well it’s a good thing I didn’t suggest that

  14. comment
    Comment #22535259

    what is the treatment then?

  15. comment
    Comment #22532555

    My point is that medical staff are trained to respond to many things. Training newbies to respond to one thing would probably be easy and fast. Especially if most people just need …

  16. comment
    Comment #22532320

    What do the healthcare workers actually do while caring for these people? Is this something that actually requires significant medical knowledge? What does arrest mean? Is that car…

  17. comment
    Comment #22529372

    I doubt it would be a game changer. Grocery stores already collect this when you use a card for discounts (They’ll never say no if you ask to put on the store card though...)

  18. comment
    Comment #22529332

    anyone know if this tech can handle adversarial images? Is it even computer vision based?

  19. comment
    Comment #22527108

    The data was small but seemed to be worse for former smokers. That’s hard to judge though, because former smokers are likely to have quit due to health problems. I haven’t seen any…

  20. comment
    Comment #22526731

    Ok but what I’m looking for is an actual example of an intractable problem. Breaking crypto is one, I guess, but it’s also one that makes everything worse, so I don’t take that as …

  21. comment
    Comment #22526623

    I noticed this smoker effect early on! Data from China was showing about 20% of the infected population was smokers, while smoking is closer to 60% in Chinese men (by cursory googl…

  22. comment
    Comment #22526257

    > It took hundreds of hours of human review time to find a single OCR mistake from this process! This stands out to me as improbable. Not in that the error rate could be that low, …

  23. comment
    Comment #22525622

    That makes a lot of sense to me, but it doesn’t seem to be the case and I don’t understand why. Is it oil prices down -> large oil based economies at risk due to vastly lower margi…

  24. comment
    Comment #22521171

    That was my point of confusion on the charts for symptomatic people. I’m assuming that the relatively high rates of non symptomatic individuals implies they’re testing people witho…

  25. comment
    Comment #22521152

    I feel like all of those concerns are nullified if you just don’t quit your job before lining up another... which is what people usually do.