alexandercrohde

Every time I see an HN analysis of the stock market, I hesitate to click it. It's only one-degree better than bitcoin spam memes on reddit. For example, the above paragraph is completely hollow u…

Men's average sperm-count levels go down about 3% a year, and have been consistently for over 30 years. No cause is known, but pollutants are the best hypothesis. I'd love to know if we see …

Great question, and I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering this. It seems hard to believe that in a situation where almost every single country has it that somehow China kept it confined to…

Unfortunate that a bad investigator made a professor's life difficult. I liken it to a bad boss who can make one ultimately lose one's job for entirely unclear reasons. Without any evidence …

I guess the operative detail is whether shelter-in-place will get us to a "23%" total infection rate vs 70%. I wonder if that's accurate. I also wonder if this is recurring in the fall,…

How does this differ from a pigeonhole sort?

Meh, it's a hundred times better to let something be made in the next weeks out there that has 90% effectiveness than to disallow anything from being made because the testing process is too slow.…

I'm sorry but what does this title even mean? Define "beat Covid-19." Not to be a hardass, but I'd prefer real information not babyfood. Something akin to "Currently predicted…

Maybe a proposal is to loosen FDA requirements during emergencies, and allow these ventilators to be sold on the free market after minimal testing (and sold with the understanding that they are as-is)…

Is this just an ad for triplebyte?

I feel like this is implying this is a bad thing, which it absolutely is not. Am I the only one who hasn't stumbled onto any conspiracy theories whatsoever? I've found the internet to be an …

Well, if the government was matching a curve to it, on a public website that had updates daily, supported by professionals, then I think there would be less demand for random people to do it.

Maybe people won't like this question. Is there a point at which does "social distancing" do more economic damage than it does health good? (Not saying we're there yet, just asking…

I wonder how this choice compares to using a hosted solution like Splunk (both in capabilities and cost).

The point is that even in the worst-case-scenario, if you bought stock the hour before the great depression, you'd still be way up when you retire in 30 years later.

The burden isn't on me to list every company that won't be affected by this. The burden is on the person making claim to provide evidence for their claim.

Linkbait. Offers no evidence. I see no reason why the vast majority of software companies would be affected at all by this (Github, google, amazon, etc). I especially foresee this being a huge benefit…

Well, to point, at the very least the SRE post-mortem should have said "And we considered distributing monitoring software to all our datacenters for future alerting" [Not to say that every …

I would upvote this if I felt the source were reliable enough. Is Welt.de a well-regarded source?

The point is that the mortality rate estimates are going to be totally out of whack without accurate measurements. As well as estimates of the currently infected. This matters a lot . The first numbe…

Nonsense/linkbait

This is great. One side-effect that might be missed is that people who know their work is going to be replicated are not going to fudge their results, so simply by existing this acts as a filter.

Well, that's only the constraint because the FDA disallows importing foreign kits, and has prevented private companies from manufacturing them, no? So in a sense, the obstacle is (deliberately?) …

In a way that may be a good thing. I'm personally not very worried about this virus, and I think it does a great job of highlighting what various parties' motives are and efficacies are. (e.…

1Pass is great, but it lacks the kind of advanced tooling I'd want for it to scale. Password sharing controls are insufficient.

Well, out of kindness here's why I downvoted it -- 1. Rambly/poetic 2. Doesn't really cite any sources or provide new information

Without defining the central term of its central thesis (let alone citing any sources) it's generous to even call this an article.

Did you even watch the video? The guy is comparing rust to things like Python which is a pretty silly comparison, relative to scala.

I don't know why you'd be dismissive of that comparison. Scala is more like Rust than any other language he discusses.

Can somebody please explain why Rust has so much buzz right now compared to scala? Scala is a strongly typed, very-well vetted, functional programming language in the JVM. It pretty much has everythin…