skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess buying sofas “isn’t a thing” by your logic since an insurance company doesn’t buy sofas for people.
Specifically in the case of the ministry of health this almost makes sense. If that becomes understaffed because people are sick, the rest of the country is in trouble.
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> Until that happens, I don't even know what to /do/ with that kind of "advice."

My wife asked once, and was told that 3 month supply prescriptions are common for people that use mail order pharmacies, and was happy to write one. Insurance covered it too, since the refill schedule was every 3 months -- it comes out to the same cost in the end.
I feel like there must be some sort of internet law that says, “gross incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
This is coming from two guys who have made “drawing shitty cartoons bitching about popular video games” into their day job.
I’m confused. SARS and COVID-19 (the current coronavirus outbreak) aren’t the same, right? Which one are we talking about here?
Probably the chinese researcher in a Canadian BSL4?

Where are the intel agencies when we need them....
Here's a hot take from a polyglot who does a fair bit of professional work in Go:

Go is a low-blub language whose advocates are proud of the fact that they never made it past 200-level CS courses. It's the computing equivalent of the blue-collar anti-intellectualism that is rampant in politics these days.

Yes, Go the language is simple - it pushes complexity off to your programs instead! Instead of functional expressions, Go programs are pages and pages of iterative loops and variable manipulation. Without generics, you can't use even the most basic functional constructs like map and reduce. The most boring mainstream languages like Java and Javascript are adopting functional paradigms, whereas Go is actively hostile to functional programming.

Nothing is more tiresome than the continuous prattle about exceptions. "How can you possibly write code that is robust in the presence of errors when you don’t know which statements could throw an exception?" Easily. That's the great thing about exceptions, you don't need to know about them to write robust code.

In general business processing, an exception thrown across a transaction boundary rolls back the transaction. In most cases that's pretty much all you need to know. In the case where you need to explicitly rollback a state change (extraordinarily rare in business processing), you add a try/catch/throw, and you don't even need to look at the exception!

The fact is, 99% of programs need only one exception handler. In webapps, it's the http processor that returns a 500 error. In GUI apps, it's the main execution loop that shows an error dialog.

Go's error handling not only requires endless tedious "if err != nil return err", but each one of those statements destroys stack information. Folks like to berate Java for long stacktraces, but those stack frames are valuable for debugging. By comparison, Go's errors are an opaque bit of text. Third-party libraries can help by wrapping errors in other errors (hand-building stacktraces), but this won't help you when using third-party libraries that don't use these wrappers.

I'll say something positive about Go, and why I still use it: It's a better C. For low-level-ish code that needs performance and fast startup time (CLIs, simple GAE services that scale to 0 and need immediate startup), Go fits the bill. Having concurrency built into the language is nice, although most other common languages have equivalent facilities in their libraries.

But as a language to take over the world: Not a chance.
Have you heard of https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ ?

Discussion of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949154
There’s an English phrase for it “a company that takes VC funding”.

But honestly, there are only a few tech companies that I see were really started with the idea of being a “lifestyle business” without the eventual goal of being acquired. Yes going public is another option but relatively few tech startups ever go public.
That is what every non-commercial landlord everywhere thinks of their properties, they become an obsession.
Rationing. If it becomes a huge pandemic, at least I'll lose all that excess weight I've been wanting to shed.
The difference is that we can recognize that containment has failed and start planning accordingly. I don't think any rational authority is at this point still arguing that this will be contained to within the borders of those countries now affected. So you might as well accept that we do indeed have a pandemic on our hands, which will have substantial economic impact but need not have a substantial toll in terms of lives lost.

Waiting with that declaration is the same as what the authorities in Wuhan did initially: they hoped it would blow over. But viruses do not care about our politics. And if we do not take relatively drastic measures to stop community spreading then the impact will be much higher, both economic and in terms of lives.
That's just how densely populated islands function. If you're a doomsday prepper on a densely populated island, your first step should probably be to move somewhere that's not a densely populated island.
You don't need a doctor to write a prescription for you to go out and buy a sofa. A pharmacy cannot by law let you refill a 30 day prescription less than about 30 days after the last time you refilled it for many medications, so you can't use your existing prescription to go stock up either.
Again, that depends on the med. Your monthly allergy prescription? Sure! Your oxy Rx? No way. My spouse and I are on some meds (not oxy) that they absolutely would not refill for 3 months at a time. My other meds do come in 3 month prescriptions from a mail order pharmacy.
Does anyone have experience running Elasticsearch as a kubernetes deployment? Can you just spin up some big-RAM containers attached to persisted volumes?

Elastic Co. seems to have an offering specialized for k8s:
https://www.elastic.co/elastic-cloud-kubernetes but I can't understand what it does exactly.

Our data is not crazy-big and it doesn't need to be super performant, but for operational simplicity I'd like to deploy as part of the production cluster like all our other app containers rather than some "special" type of container.
SARS-COV-2 = COVID-19 (SARS v2)
It's probably a mix, but: https://qz.com/1590961/taxpayers-are-paying-turbotax-to-keep...

"Each year, Americans pay billions of dollars to Intuit, the corporate owner of TurboTax, to help them navigate the byzantine nightmare of filing a tax return. And each year, Intuit reinvests a small sliver of that revenue into political contributions and lobbying efforts to keep taxes pointlessly complicated."
Hmm that sounds indeed much better! Sadly not C, but cross-platform JavaScript is still nice to have.

Is it possible to embed this in native apps with an embedded browser? Hmm sounds complicated, or is there a different way to integrate this (using the apis the library uses).
COVID-19 is the name of the disease

SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the new gene.
Without a google account I can setup my Xiaomi A3 just fine.

I even disabled google play services and play store all together. Root with magisk method.

OutOfTopic: At work, I develop an app using Angular+Cordova webview, but it couldn't work on my Mi A3, always crashing like another local banking app I have (which I have uninstalled anyway). The Play store, before disabling, also black screen at google signing in page, unless I have already signed in before rooting with Magisk. Lol I wonder why it is so buggy. Should go with TWRP SuperSU root, but whatever, the A/B partition method uses up a lot of storage as well (I think)

I am thinking next time buying a Lineage OS compatible android phone to use. Android 10 is not reaching all the MI A1, A2, A3 phones at all, with Android 11 coming up already.
Can you think of an argument that would be convincing? The IRS already saying they can do it (when they obviously already do the work internally) as well as other countries with more complex governmental structure pulling it off seems like it would be convincing.
There isn’t inheritance, so there are no hierarchies in the problematic sense.
It feels like this phenomenon has spread to all corners of the developed world - both public and private - in recent decades. Just look at Boeing. Is there a real trend of institutional decay, or is it just that the internet gives us a clearer view of how much mess there is?
Hmm.. yeah it's a bit more of a pencil drawing now. What is your business model?
The insecurity was just caused by people literally filling their trolleys with rice as soon as the store opened every day. The government keeps a huge buffer supply which can be released in the event of genuine emergency.
I use Huffduffer[1] either by searching for someone who has added it already[2] or adding it directly with details and a link to the mp3 myself. Then add your huffduff feed to Overcast (can add based on tags also).

[1]: https://huffduffer.com/
[2]: https://huffduffer.com/neaj/543363
First, it takes time. Second, western cards (especially debit) are not always accepted in China.
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"On February 11, 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, charged with naming new viruses, named the novel coronavirus, first identified in Wuhan, China, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, shortened to SARS-CoV-2.

As the name indicates, the virus is related to the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that caused an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002-2003, however it is not the same virus." [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html
You seem to be doing exactly that, no? You're assuming without having researched the details that the Commission must be correct and everyone else must be wrong. At least that's how your reply reads.

Politicians have criticised it. Journalists have criticised it. The Metropolitan Police have criticised it. High court judges have criticised it. Exonerated members of the public have criticised it. The archives here detail various setbacks and screwups the EC has had, along with evidence for the prior sentences:

https://order-order.com/tag/electoral-commission/

The EC is the kind of thing you find in a banana republic. It's indefensible. You can't claim to be a neutral arbiter of fairness in elections when investigations you refer to the police are repeatedly thrown out because they were so shoddily done, when multiple judges say you don't understand electoral law, when it's been found you issued incorrect advice to campaigners, when politicans from both major parties are calling for you to be disbanded and - most critically - when the people running it repeatedly proclaim their hatred for political causes and parties in public. The idea these people are unbiased is absurd. The director of regulation at the EC posted this to Facebook:

"[Louise Edwards] cannot believe she lives under a Tory PM again! What is wrong with people? Do they not remember the last time? Words fail me, grrr."

and

"Just can't understand what people were thinking. Do they not remember the Tories before?"

and

"[Louise Edwards] doesn't want to live under a Tory government"

How can anyone believe British elections are run fairly when the people trusted to run them literally post on the internet that they don't want one side to win? Unsurprisingly, people don't.

The entire thing is a textbook example of how completely corrupted government bureaucracies can get the moment they're not directly run by people who might lose their job at the next election. The EC should have been shut down years ago.
I believe SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of the COVID-19 disease, maybe similar to how B. anthracis causes anthrax or HIV causes AIDS. (I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist, though.)
It’s really a non concern. Realistically if there was a problem it would present in normal usage when people are charging them in bed.

The amount of superstition about lithium batteries is crazy, given how many of them are used in any household on a daily basis. The battery is functionally not being used if a phone is plugged in and the battery isn’t drained. This misinformation comes back from when people were using Nickel Cadmium cells decades ago, those cells were functionally continuously charged because it caused absolutely no harm to them.
“From 1970 to 2000, the average tenure of California homeowners and renters increased by 1.04 and .79 years relative to that of homeowners and renters in the control states. These figures represent increases in average tenure of 10 percent and 19 percent, respectively.”

10% for homeowners, hardly the smoking gun.
Incidentally, the harryh plan for simplifying US taxes:

1. eliminate all deductions in favor of the standard deduction

2. once 1 is done you can actually eliminate the standard deduction as well and make it a part of the tax tables with a 0% rate up to various income levels.

3. eliminate the AMT and the NIIT

4. move all FICA taxes to the employee side (which is where the incidence actually is anyways) and thus eliminate the self-employment tax.

5. roll back all the crap about S corps that got introduced in the 2017 tax bill

6. standardize all 50 state tax forms (the rates can be different but the structure should be the same)
If only batteries were still easily removable...

I'm currently integrating (project is on pause but one day!) an android tablet into an old car. And the battery was a dealbreaker.

So I've removed the battery and added an resistor to trick it into booting anyway. Only problem is that android think the battery is dead so it won't perform system updates unless I first charge it. Which I guess is fine in this case since the tablet is out of support anyway.
The default refresh rate for ES is a minute or so (can’t remember the exact time). This means when you index a document, it won’t be returned when you search for it until a minute later when the index refreshes.

But you can certainly change the configuration so it’s practically real-time. There will be some performance hit though.
Yes, I remember too when I was younger I had the impession that earlier generations were somehow naive, but boy was I wrong.
I use Direct TV dishes as they are aligned generally south, assuming I can find them while travelling.
This is an old Milton Friedman argument. I think it holds up.

Think of it as announcing a $7B X Price for anyone building this again.
things like this are JavaScript’s way of telling you it is time to switch to TypeScript.
All the telephone sanitizers left on the B arc.
Hows that system doing now?
The numbers are defense against "panic" not the disease. And are useful for everyone.
The ones that were properly handled aren't news.

You never heard about the lead poisoning that didn't happen.. but you'll hear about Flint Michigan.

Try counting all the dams that didn't break and, thus, averted catastrophic floods.

Also count the forest fires that didn't happen because of regulation.

When something is declared a national emergency it's typically because society have failed to prepare.
Then what is the probable possible sources?

If someone separate them by media says, twitter says, science says, conspiracy says? It will be great.
Misinformation related to the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak
It depends on the merchant and they're apple/android pay enabled or not.

Regular contactless limits are 30, otherwise the limit is much higher.

My highest was ~£1200 at an apple store, and I had paid a 500 deposit on a car, but it refused the 8K balance. So there is a limit somewhere between your 2K and my 8K attempts on apple pay ;)
Sure, but what’s your point? Decisions _should_ be based on past information. You don’t expect politicians to be clairvoyant do you?

There’s no doubt that politics, especially US politics and government, are pretty screwed up, but it doesn’t automatically follow that anarchy is better.

Some of it works and some of it doesn’t. That’s the point I’m trying to make.
That's not the actual headline.

We have no way of assessing the credibility of this research.
I've done various versions of this myself, would you mind sharing your code?
Psychology Reveals the Comforts of the Apocalypse
So if a crippled person needs somebody to go to the bank and withdraw $1,000 for them, and they figure they can hire somebody trustworthy for $50 to do the errand, is that person not being paid what they’re worth, because they added $1,000 dollars of value?

If person A in your narrative was capable of creating $100 dollars of value all by themselves, they would do that instead. But they can’t. The $100 opportunity exists because of the company.

The company needs a shovel strong enough to dig up the $100. If one person will sell such a shovel for $40, and that’s the best price available, they’ll take it. That was the market value of shovels. It would be wrong to say the shovel was worth $100. Even if all the shovel sellers in the area knew about the details of this opportunity and decided to set they’re prices at $99, it would quickly become apparent that shovels aren’t really worth that. Two things would happen: sellers would defect and set they’re prices lower than $99 to secure the deal; this would happen as long and there was still and profit to be made. And the company would remember what a shovel was supposed to cost, get suspicious, and look in to manufacturing a shovel of they’re own, or commissioning a rake shop to make one.

This game of price setting is pretty good at approximating worth, especially compared to your proposed strategy of measuring the delta between company profits in reality, and in an alternate reality where the employee didn’t exist and the company didn’t attempt to fill their position with anybody or anything. The latter is not worth talking about.
That isn't an answer to my question. I'm looking for a specific form, or deduction, or rule that exists because of this lobbying.
How is that complex? Just like employers send the government your W2 information every year, the states could also.

Most people’s tax is not that complicated, especially with the increased standard deduction and most people not itemizing anymore.
This is really interesting. I've had ideas about accounting as a specialized spreadsheet for a while, both because most people grok spreadsheets naturally and because accountants only want csv files.

In fact I wrote a small script to extract GnuCash transactions into a csv file that can be used as a spreadsheet as a starter point:

https://github.com/dorfsmay/gnucash_general_journal

(There are still issues with this, especially with the way GnuCash converts currencies)

I'll definitely take a look at WeKeep, it might solve some of my issues, and I might just stop my efforts if you got where I was hoping to get.
I heard that viruses can enter the body by contact with the eye... so some mask with goggles might be safer?
There was no supply disruption, in fact the supply increased. The shops just couldn't keep up with huge numbers of people buying more than they needed because they knew that panic buying was taking place.
How many situations don’t become national emergencies because of good management?
This is one case where it's worth overreacting to. Biological epidemics are the only thing that has had the capacity to kill >50 million people in a year. In my risk classification hierarchy I put pandemics above nuclear war and wayyyy above terrorism. Yet we've spent trillions on the war on terror the past 20 years while there's no coordinated plan in the U.S. for this yet. If there's even a 2% chance of this going pandemic in the U.S. we should be allocating at least a billion with apolitical expert driven policy implementations to prevent spread.

My jaw dropped when I read that the State Dept allowed infected Americans to fly with uninfected persons to the U.S. from Japan against the express recommendations of the CDC. This is what we're dealing with and I'm not optimistic.
I suppose the solution is to just keep donating to and enabling candidates running for federal office who support providing the IRS with the legislation and technology support to do their job (streamline tax processing) and break Intuit’s pseudo monopoly.

On the plus side, it’s a lot harder to buy someone with morals than a VC backed startup.
Ideas rarely take off on the first round, and graph dbs are well known & everyday tech now.
Have you seen the spread in Italy?
It’s worth reading rcpt’s links in a sibling comment, but this analysis ignores a) geographic distributions within California of Prop 13 effects, b) the differences in demographics and population growth between those states, c) in California, properties other than single-family homes, and d) differing rates of renting and homeownership.

I don’t want to imply that you are being intentionally withholding of data, as I don’t believe that — what I’m saying is that this type of analysis is quite hard to do correctly, accounting for all the factors in play!
Another reason to self-host: Google will gladly change the font characteristics out from under you.

https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat/issues/60#issuecomm...
The point of epidemiological containment is to reduce the R value such that R<1. Once this is done, eventually, inevitably, the epidemic will burn out.

Yes, more people will become infected, yes, some will die.

But the level of person-to-person transmission will have fallen below the level necessary for the epidemic to sustain itself, and it will slowly decline and fade out.

Perfect containment, 100% effective vaccines, 100% vaccination rates, (neither of which apply here: there is not yet a vaccine), 100% travel and contact curtailment, 100% sanitation, 100% filtration, are not required. Only sufficiently effective methods to reduce transmission.

Of which, strong, effective, and widespread travel restrictions within or from epidemic zones are a very sensible tool.
I don't think anyone would dispute that. Certainly I did not intend to do so with my comment. I personally have a stock of about thirty days of non-perishable biscuit that can be used to supply calories in an emergency, and a forty gallon canister that could be filled with potable water ahead of a disaster. It's not enough to live on independent of civilization for more than a few weeks, but if more than that is needed we are probably screwed anyway.
And yet your comment does exactly what you complain about - belittle a group of people, with nothing positive to say, to make yourself feel good. Can you not see that?
Go’s tooling is generally straightforward and there is usually one canonical/standard implementation. No insane DSLs to build your program, no daemons required for fast builds, and batteries are included (test framework is part of the tooling). No crazy documentation syntax, no docs packages to publish and link against your dependencies, etc. In general, Go is simple so your organization can focus on business problems.
Your thesis here is that all the layers of the public health system would just shrug their shoulders in the event of an unexplained cluster of sick people. It's unrealistic.
Why didn't the government use some of the buffer to smooth out this apparently artificial demand spike? That is what every other nation on earth uses its agricultural surplus to do.