skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point, yes. But that's not the way to look at this. The way to look at this is what will happen over the next couple of weeks/months and to what degree we can avoid community spreading once the virus achieves a foothold, which - sorry - at this point is mostly a matter of time.

Containment can be done early on and if done effectively can get you back into your 'no need to worry' mode. But once containment has failed you are in different territory and will have to play a much more complex game with more substantial impact.

So your present day chances of contracting this in the next 24 hours are looking pretty good but your chances of contracting this in the next couple of months are substantially better than winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning even once. Unless you live the life of a hermit.

A vaccine would be quite handy, but we do not have one - yet , though that race is on - and even if we had it you still need to make it in quantity to be effective. A virus doesn't particularly care about whether you are able to think logically or not. It cares about contact between people and not killing its host too quickly. That way it improves its chances of spreading its genetic code.
Don't forget this absolute banger:

> Obviously Go chose a different path. Go programmers believe that robust programs are composed from pieces that handle the failure cases before they handle the happy path.

A function which only returns an error can have its result ignored without any warning.
Sporklenz for the phones and keyboards?
Before you propagate this information and take action, read this post about the psychology of fear mongering, and ask yourself if you identify with it.

1. Do you tend to mistrust authority?

2. Do you feel powerless to control the course of your life?

3. Do you feel like you have special information and insight the rest of us do not?

4. Do you feel comfort when thinking about the end of the world because once it happens, you will be prepared and validated?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/psychology...
Stress on the U. Given the extreme unlikeliness of alien visitation, either it's a classified vehicle or a hoax intended to drum up public interest in space exploration and more funding for it.

BTW, is there an international equivalent of "air" traffic control for LEO or for space around ISS?
People have changed little evolutionarially over a few centuries (though the notion that all adaptation has ceased is all but certainly false).

Factors such as nutrition, disease, and stress may well affect overall intelligence, if such a thing can be reasonably measured, and there are notions such as the Flynn Effect suggesting increases to IQ over the course of the 20th century (though more recent work suggests this may have slowed or halted).

Modern capabilities owe much to earlier work, recorded knowledge, a much larger workforce devoted to innovation, the capabilities afforded by tremendously increased energy utilisation (including more and purer materials, precision, control, etc.), as well as the (often slow) abandonment of earlier notions, particularly those endorsed by or supporting specific religious or nationalist/tribalistic notions.

My view is that the net total intelligence has changed relatively little, but that opportunities, knowledge, and sheer physical capacity have increased tremendously.
Good point. I go caseless so I just spray both sides of my phone with an alcohol-based solvent and wipe with kimwipes (the same way I clean my glasses).

But I certainly haven’t been conditioned to do this as often as I wash my hands.
Yes. Partly due to Intuit (and others) spending money to keep tax filing complex.

You of course also have to build out distribution channels to acquire users which is also very costly.

EDIT: Changed "keep the tax code complex" to "keep tax filing complex", since someone asked for (and I couldn't provide) evidence of keeping the tax code itself complex.
> There are no French or Spanish clients. The Scorpene submarines were built strictly to be exported by the joint venture. Spain was expected to buy some, France wasn't.

Not french and spanish clients for Scorpene, but a Spanish client for Navantia is the Spanish Navy for example, and DCNS had their own.

> It was settled. Navantia entirely gave up the export rights of the Scorpene. For a submarine built to be exported, that seems pretty damning to me.

Hmm, do you have any source, I've tried but didn't find anything.

> Submarines are a lot more complicated to build.

> Most of the Scorpene engineering came from France. Navantia clearly wasn't ready to be left on its own.

That's true, although my point is that they are not some bunch of amateurs that misplaced a decimal. They've been designing ships for a long time, and building submarines at least from the 60s, so the decimal displacing is probably FUD, specially when the client changed requirements mid-construction phase, and the source of such mistake is Rafael Bardaji, who seems that has never been a Spanish Official but conservative and later far-right advisor, and honestly, is quite a fishy source.
cgo is easy to use but pretty literally opts you into a different language entirely: https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
Ten rules for placing your Wi-Fi access points
People say this, but it's not really clear to me if this is true. When I look at my (more complex than average) tax return I see a lot of ways to simplify things but most of them would involve going against a major interest of one of the two parties.

Consider, for example, the deductibility of state and local taxes. This is a source of significant tax code complexity, but various constituencies have howled quite loudly about even reducing the amount of the deduction. I am doubtful that it can be eliminated completely.
CreditKarma was far from privacy focused, their T&C + Privacy policy gave them lots of grounds to mine and sell user data.

Personal income information about users is generally 3rd party estimates for ads/marketing industry, but by offering a free Tax service, CK was able gather information on actual income about users, which is extremely valuable data.

This would be very lucrative for data-brokers or sold as targetable and proprietary 'audience data', which can be combined with other data-sources to support marketing activities.
Project tree is on the left not right side (for me) and can be toggled on and off. No sense in making things more difficult for some idea of purity but I always like seeing the way others do things because sometimes there are gold nuggets.
>>> do you also instrument your own monitoring,

Our architect wrote some cute Datadog wrappers that I implement in every pipe I roll out (and is that instrumental in diagnosing bugs). He also programmed in a call to keys in a store that times out from too many requests and hangs the whole function the wrapper is decorated on, that took me a while to diagnose pinpoint

>>>are on call if one of your models breaks and have built the system where you "just drop a container"?

Our motto is ‘you wrote it, you fix it!’ If the container pipe works, and you dropped a bomb in it that doesn’t work, why should the DE have to pickup the DS’s garbage?

>>>If you are, then you are a data engineer too,

:D

>>>otherwise you're standing on the shoulders of your data eng team and they make it look easy for you. Go buy them some donuts first time you go back to the office.

I actually support a few data scientists in the manner you described above where they generate some metrics notebooks or container and I have to diagnose their crap in a DE capacity (recent problem involved optimizing their pyspark code to be less memory intensive)
Zipper (Data Structure)
I wonder how those questions would be answered by that doctor that tried to ring the alarm but was silenced.
Running Windows 2000 on WSL
Advising people to store food en masses is quite irresponsible. We have had rice, noodle, pasta, bleach and toilet paper shortages for around a month in Hong Kong caused by panic buying triggered by a rumour that there would be a supply disruption. We also went weeks where all of the fresh food was being bought out and frozen.
Fish antibiotics
This is what we do where I am now and it’s worked well.

You can’t pre-correct for some things, but you can for others.

Having someone speak in detail about their experience isn’t easily faked.

Having someone speak about their experience in brief and then giving them a “skill-testing question” as if they won the lottery can be gamed.
Modeling How Infectious Diseases Spread
> Secondly the mortality rate is higher too, estimated at 2-3%, with the serious cases at around 10% (please correct me if I am wrong).

I don't think we actually know that for sure. The flu mortality rates that get tossed around are the overall mortality rates, but for COVID-19 as far as I know we only know the mortality rates among those who have tested positive. Especially in a situation like what's going on, this is going to be a heavily biased sample.

Fwiw I'm not advocating idleness or putting our heads in the sand. I think taking extreme measures to prevent the spread of this disease and eradicate it is smart. I am just hoping people can keep things in perspective.
This is spot on and a pretty realistic way to look at what is happening. What goes for Iran goes for large swaths of Africa, Latin America and Asia as well.
Regardless of the other three points, it is generally rational to mistrust authority because many authorities have repeatedly failed in the past to protect lives during emergency scenarios.
> You smile in delighted satisfaction, knowing that the compiler will protect you and your team against this all too common form of bit rot

The one which is purely aesthetic, has no actual relevance, and can trivially be checked for if you want to?

> a protection that, until now, had to be enforced merely by convention and review.

`-Werror -Wunused` is not a convention in any sense of the term.
Right, I actually avoid using JUCE for my personal projects for this reason :) But it has resulted in a ton of plugins being available that would otherwise not have had native Linux support.
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Those are not dev tools, they are libraries.

Also, even though there is no default built in unit test framework in Java and C#, it would be hard to claim JUnit and NUnit aren't essentially that. Ditto for log4j in Java.

By the way, I'm not sure you can claim to have a logging framework in your language when it can't even differentiate between debug messages, info and error messages. I'm not sure there is any significant project that can rely on Go log that couldn't as easily use stderr/stdout.
What medicine should we purchase? What antivirals work well on it?
A pragmatic approach to global state in a 3rd party library called from Rust
These social safety net tax credits happen because it’s politically difficult to create new “big government welfare” programs.
Or replace it with Namaste - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste which is probably easier to do.
CDC says no facemask isn't necessary for healthy people. Apparently

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-t...

> facemaskst “end up creating a false sense of security and most people don’t wear them appropriately,”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-don...
Well. Infection rate is going down already. Death rate is starting to slow down. Death rate was never higher than a common flu. Healing rate is increasing drastically, many heal without medical needs.

So, should we really talk about a pandemic? A flu pandemic?
Or has the virus changed in the last few days and I've missed it?
Ok sure they call it "telemetry". It still sends the keys I press to some remote server for "analysis". What difference does the name make?
Microsoft also tried this with Project Spark in 2013 [1], but eventually closed the project at the end of 2016. It was actually pretty fun to build and play games on box XBox and PC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Spark
The problem with Prop 13 isn't that it keeps taxes too low, it's that it disincetivises downsizing by making your taxes jump when you move into a smaller place.

I don't think it's all (or even most) of the problem, but it's bad legislation and definitely contributes to the housing shortage.
> Secondly the mortality rate is higher too, estimated at 2-3%, with the serious cases at around 10%

Even worse... The mortality rate is 100% in fatal cases...
Fair enough, there is still a good amount of uncertainty. But even so with the data available 2-3% seems realistic taking into account that some under-reporting will also be happening because people die that were never tested in the first place. The testing capacity of the countries where the virus has now solidly established itself is maxed out.
I suppose I don't really know much about Switzerland[1] or Belgium's tax codes. My working assumption is that the population differences (both are the size of US states) leads to simplicity. But I'm perfectly willing to admit I might be wrong here. I really don't know.

I do know that there are weird and frustrating intertwinings of US Federal and State tax codes and I wish I didn't have to deal with that. Kill the SALT deduction!

1. Er, not sure why I brought another small European country into the discussion. I meant to replicate your example but brainfarted.
> - Get extra prescription medicine now if you might need it

I hate this advice. It's not "wrong," in the sense that technically it would be a good thing to do, but it's also so wrong that it transcends categories of right and wrong.

Your refill schedule will not allow you to get extra prescription meds early. And if it did, your insurance wouldn't pay for it - which means paying sticker price, which means ... well, depends on the med, right? I used to take an antacid that had a sticker price of about 800/mo.

For almost anyone, "stock up on an extra month of prescription meds" isn't a thing. It's just not a choice. For it to /be/ a thing, someone actually needs to write a law stating something like "once per calendar year, a physician can write an extra parallel prescription for a supply of medications not exceeding three months, and insurers must pay for it," or somesuch.

Until that happens, I don't even know what to /do/ with that kind of "advice."
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/related-stig...
Search for ArrayOfStructures or StructureOfArrays to see benchmarks similar to what you're asking for
InfoWars types. Arrogant paranoia often manifested in tribal communities that reinforce similar delusions.

Recent example: the mom who killed her husband, brother and kids because she and her new lover believe in an "apocalypse" summer 2020.
For healthy adults death from a pandemic is rare, but in a true pandemic large parts of society are expected to stop working.

If you are only interested in your own well being (which is fairly uncommon, do you not have family or friends?) Then make sure you have stocks of food, water and small bills.
Ross, the main issue with ALSA these days is not the API at all. It's the cases where the people responsible for the code cannot get (easy) access to the information required to program whatever hardware mixer is present in the device.

This can be true for devices following the Intel HDA "specification" (which is still so loosely constructed when it comes to the mixer that it's barely a specification at all). It's also true for many of the USB interfaces out there - the audio/MIDI I/O part works flawlessly on Linux (thanks to iOS' "no driver" requirement), but there's no way to configure the hardware mixer. MOTU went with a web-based configuration process for some of their devices, which is truly lovely since it works on any device with a web browser. But companies like Focusrite (and many more) continue to refuse to openly provide the information required for the ALSA internals to control the hardware mixer on these devices. In some cases, they have been reverse engineered, but often only partially.

Note that the same limitation applies when using those devices on iOS: you cannot configure them fully, unless the manufacturer makes an iOS version of the "device control panel".
I don't think that's true in many cases. For example their are all kinds of deductions for green energy usage.
Why does Go need web framework? What's wrong with net/http?
You'd want to use db connection pooling for any nontrivial application, a goroutine per db request is a recipe for connection exhaustion. That being said, go's concurrency model is indeed a huge selling point of the language.
I’ve read BRAT diet is not recommended for kids any more.

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2012/0601/p1066.html

https://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/37/8/313

https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/digesti...
Researchers fool autonomous vehicle frameworks with phantom images
You are special then!
It's responsible to have built up the food supply over long periods of no shortage. Unfortunately the people who have that foresight are often called paranoid.
If somebody wants to try to convince upstream to do it then they can, but that's a lot more involved task then getting a distro to do it.
Can you point to a specific rule in the tax code that is overly complex because of intuit lobbying and not because of the interests of one of the two main political parties in the US?

I cannot.
They mean prescription medicines, that your doctor has prescribed for things unrelated to the virus.

During an outbreak you can expect a pharmacy to be super busy and possibly mobbed. Not ideal if you're out of medicine you're dependant on.
The internet was also just that little bit nicer then :) I miss those days ! :/
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None yet. Make sure you have an adequate supply of whatever other meds you need.
That's exactly what's happening:

- https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/939q35/heres-how-chin...
- https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20976964/chinese-america...
There is a lot of panicky misinformation out there, the WHO is calling it an "infodemic"!

This Wikipedia article is doing a respectable job tracking some of the conspiracy theories and falsehoods:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_related_to_the_...

Wikipedia also has a good summary of the overall state of things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_ou...
If you remove all the people that died you end up with zero fatalities!

The problem with those clusters is that in close proximity the virus spreads very fast. There are quite a few communities where people are living together about as close to each other as if they were on a cruise ship. Hong Kong comes to mind.

Rural communities where people are less likely to have intensive contact and shared resources are less at risk to begin with. You don't remove those either to get 'more interesting curves'.
Ok. But you get to stop discussing some style choices, and instead you lose a decent debugger, a decent (open source) IDE, any graphical profiler, good package management that is separate from your source control tool, and probably a few others I'm missing.

And if you care about style trivialities ,you'll still need an external linter, since go fmt doesn't enforce anything about variable names , line length, function length, comment placement, line breaking and many other things some people like to obsess over.
You kids have it so easy. I got my start making terrible games in Basic.
Assuming the pandemic will happen, people will buy in bulk and cause shortages anyway. So we are better off getting people to buy food sooner rather than later. This gives more time for stores to replenish stocks.
It was based on the number of stars/forks and the size of the repository.
Closing borders isn't easy.

Most of the time there are still ways you can cross, so instead of having known routes where you can test and treat accordingly,
you have an unknown number of people crossing the border on unknown points and spreading the virus in unknown regions.
It is recurring investment though, every year tax codes keep changing, you need to keep it all updated . That’s an enormous cost and relatively unique to this kind of application.
Perhaps that's why there's no point declaring a pandemic.

If you do, some prepare, some panic, the panicking ones clog the ICU and the virus spreads like wildfire, the ICU can't keep up.

If you don't, nobody prepares, everybody's sprung upon and taken by surprise, the stampedes oversubscribe ICU capacity in much the same way as above.

At the end of the day I think the two variables all of this boils down to are infrastructure capacity limits and individual survival rates - and that no relevant models exist that can readily catalyze this specific set of circumstances with confidence. IIUC, what models do exist are not precise/disambiguating enough. So it all comes down to unresolvable clique interpretation. Officials can't work with that. :(
Sounds like the people who thought there would be a supply disruption were right, and the people who didn't see it coming are blaming the people who did see it coming.
I have a UV sterilizer (phonesoap XL) at home and put my phone and keys in once a day for 15 minutes. No water involved.
NB: "Sprague", with a 'u' before the finial 'e' rather than following 'a'.

You might find a copy in a nearby library:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/man-and-power-the-story-of-po...

IA have a copy for lending:

https://archive.org/details/energypowerhowma00deca
I was under the impression an n95 could last much longer (Days/Weeks). Could you help me understand why you feel it will last just for hours?
PSA: spreading FUD and panic isn't helping anyone. The common flu is a "pandemic" every year, so should we freak out and buy 1000 kg of wheat while inconsistently not having any means of food production? Don't act out of fear; act out of reason, honesty and proportionality.
I do not have a great example to try on my phone, but are results deduplicated? That's my big peeve with GitHub search is getting 5 pages of the same forked repo.
The mortality rate for hospitalized flu patients in the US is about 10%. Mortality rates of categories like "serious cases" depend on a bunch of arbitrary and unverifiable assumptions, so I don't think this proves the coronavirus is bad or isn't bad, but 10% isn't as high of a number as I think you're intuitively expecting.
Unfortunately most commercial engineering software is probably too general to know to check whether the sub floats or not automatically. That would require reading the engineer's mind. That check would need to be at least turned on by someone, if not coded into the software itself. And my experience is that few even consider turning these checks on.

If you're writing the code yourself, then it should be easy to have all sorts of automated checks. Another HNer recommended using assertions to check that the sub floats when you want it to and sinks when you want it to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396621
This article does not read like cogent CDC advice. It seems written in a more page-6 OP-ED style. Not sure this is the perspective we need.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f... dives in, but it’s been covered on a gazillion mainstream news coverage over the years.
I take these as examples of how quickly things can go wrong if they go wrong.

People seem to overconfidently brush this off as isolated incidents because religion is stupid and we're not all in a cruise ship. It could also serve as an example of how bad things can get if one person goes unidentified and happens to go to a crowded place. Like a teacher, or clerk, or waiter.

Just this past week a coworker returned from Beijing, and there was nothing in place at Frankfurt airport. No questions, no flyer asking you to wash your hands frequently, no phone number you're supposed to call if you feel sick... It's left to the common sense of the individual, which I don't trust everyone to have.
I'm also interested in what drugs are commonly used on COVID-19 positive individuals.