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And yet 99% of the time, the authorities do a great job of running everything here in the west. The 1% of the time they fail, it proves the conspiracy theorists and fear mongers’ point.
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If you do, which web frameworks do you use? If not, why not?
As I understand it, this advice is about prescription meds you have to take on a regular basis due to specific conditions you have.
I Brainwashed Myself With the Internet is another good example from a couple days ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/she-wanted-freebirth-no...
Grassroots-level adoption was key for things like Dropbox, IMHO - it solved a real need for individual people and it worked well and was easy to use. Same for Docker - developers adopted it in droves, and then enterprises followed.

Inrupt is trying to bootstrap a two-sided marketplace of sorts: product builders won't care until enough potential customers demand support for the "data pods", and regular people won't care until "data pods" solve real everyday problems for them.

Hopefully Inrupt's team has enough business-savvy people on it to find ways to gain traction to slog through some of the tough early stages of the product adoption cycle.
Antibiotics do not protect against viruses. This is a viral infection, not a bacterial one.
This point of view is reasonable only if food disruption is actually very unlikely. If there were food supply disruption in Hong Kong, having a great deal of nonperishable and frozen food on hand would be a good idea for most residents, wouldn't it? The fact that rumors were enough to generate shortages for a month in itself confirms a certain degree of insecurity...
> 2 weeks

What a noob

Seriouslu though, if it strikes it'd be at least for a few months.
Good April was a competing product years ago that was acquired by Intuit. They did a lot of of the early tax returns manually for their users under the covers.
In 2020 it's more like 90% of the time, but the point still stands
But wouldn't that stop Google from putting ads into their fonts and AMP into URLs? Does anybody self-host Gmail?
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Of all the national emergencies in the US since 2000, Katrina, Sandy, Puerto Rico, etc., does anyone know offhand how many were handled properly?

Seems like ~20-40% are handled improperly if not more.
There's a few remaining traces of that use of "art"/"Kunst" in modern language: "state of the art"/"nach allen Regeln der Kunst", "artisan" for a skilled craftsperson, ...

Specific to mining, "Kunst" both was used for a specific mechanism and the overall technology and its mastery.
Great experience. Would like to understand more from your experience as we build our own venture in the super computing space for data scientists and AI workloads.
Unless you are doing work that involves lots of tiny particulate matter (and even if you do), I think 50 n95 masks is pretty darn excessive. Most people don't even wear them correctly.
What are the jobs you have in mind? Software testers?

Academic peer review rarely catches these sorts of errors and those peer reviewers aren't paid.
> “turn your phoho into a pencil drawing”

Well.
Well they lobbied to stop the IRS from creating a free online tax thing. https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...

It's slightly different I guess. But since a lot of the paperwork you have to feed into turbotax is already known to the IRS, it's possible the IRS having their own product would have really simplified things. Then again, gov websites are pretty hit and miss.
Yes, NORAD keeps track of every object above a certain size in orbit. Their data is essential to keeping spacecraft from hitting each other.
> You can't controll infections.

No, but you can try to slow down the rate of infection to avoid overloading the healthcare system.

> You can try to fasttrack vaccinies, but you can't really stop a virus with such a transmission way from spreading.

Agreed.

> That is a problem but it is nothing new.

It certainly isn't anything new. But if the past is a guide here than the impact can be substantial.

> Every few years we will have new diseases and unfortunately they will spread and kill people.

We do. But most of those do not have this combined potential of spreading a-symptomatic; long incubation time and relatively high mortality. That makes this one more serious than for instance SARS and MERS, the impact of which was already substantial.

> The flu does that yearly.

If you want to compare what is happening now to the seasonal flu then you are probably not equipped to evaluate the risks. The flu predominantly affects those that are already weakened and it tends to kill people who would have been dead soon anyway. This virus is nothing like that.

> Will it mean the end of the world or have a high impact on countries that have a robust healtcare system? No

It won't mean the end of the world but it likely will have high impact on countries with robust healthcare systems because (1) the economies of those countries depend on everybody being free to move around and interact with each other, something which anti-spreading measures will affect and (2) even the most wealthy countries with robust healthcare systems have limited healthcare capacity, typically on the order of 1 ICU bed per 10000 people. Assuming you can staff them.
Face masks don't prevent highly-infectious airborne viral diseases from being caught by healthy individuals, they mainly reduce the chances of an infected person spreading it more.

This panic buying of face masks and toothpicks to press elevator buttons is hygiene theater. If you're sick, stay home. The. End.
This might sound tasteless but...

What's the probable impact of such pandemy on the stock market?

Any low hanging fruit to invest on? Any category of assets to stay away from?
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One area where this becomes apparent is that in complex and layered system at least some of the bahaviours of a single layer do not make sense in terms of the system as a whole. Often it is wrong to attempt to let a layer on its own do the thing that seems most logical because actually the output of that layer is the input of another one and the total result is an interplay between the two. Attempting to make each one separately more logical would make both layers a lot more complex and would essentially be duplicating the relevant concerns into multiple layers, if not outright introducing bugs by introducing speculative logic that often turns out to be wrong in yet unforeseen cases.
I would like to see some time-based permission scheme, for instance the ability to share my credit card information with Amazon for the next five minutes as well as the ability to share my address with Amazon for the next year.

My hope is that this could eventually be built out to support discrete identities, perhaps one for personal use and another for work and a third that is meant to remain anonymous.

A PKI based infrastructure comes to mind, that would provide the ability to revoke access. Technically I don't see a way to force systems to stop using revoked data but maybe the revocations could be used to provide legal proof that a specific company no longer has access to specific data.
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It is wonderful you were able and willing to opensource the IP after the startup didn’t succeed. More founders should try to do that and plan for it when raising financing - including in investor rights documents or the company’s charter.
Also, the account was created right around when nghiatran_feels first started posting about Proxyman (5 months ago).
There are two points worth separating here: tax code complexity and for-profit filing. The two are obviously interrelated, but different: Intuit wants for-profit filing so TurboTax makes money, and Intuit also wants tax code complexity to increase the barrier to entry.

But the IRS gets to bear the brunt of any complexity in the tax code, and they've already suggested free filing. They also clearly already know what to expect in significant detail anyway, since they adjusted my return last year.

This was part of my point with Belgium elsewhere in the tread: Belgium has tremendously intricate (and sensitive) governmental structure, but that hasn't prevented them from making tax filing a postcard for virtually everyone. The actual tax code is a lot more complex than the postcard (though still far less complex than the US' tax code), but the tax authority does the math, suggests a number, and if you have some reason to dispute it you go file a "proper" return. So: yes, maybe we can make the tax code simpler, but that should not preclude us from making _filing_ simpler regardless of how complex the tax code is.
Affiliate revenue. Lenders, like lending club pays them $200-$400 for each loan it funds as a result of a referral. Credit card companies (chase) pays $500+ for each approved credit application.
My problem with all those pro-privacy apps is that privacy has a price[0], and a price most consumers (me included) are not willing to pay.

There are, essentially, two business models on the web. One is to provide the services for free and sell ads, the other is to charge for the services directly. To earn substantial amounts on ads, you need to track consumers massively.

As a consumer, I definitely prefer being tracked than paying for all the services I use. That's the stance of most consumers. If there's a free alternative with a lot of tracking and a paid alternative with good privacy, the free alternative will win. That's how the free market works. Privacy has a price, and a price most consumers are not willing to pay. Forcing them to pay it for some antiquated notion of privacy is just... wrong.
Yes, I've read that before. I think there is some truth that Intuit has had some role in limiting tax software rollouts by the IRS. However I think it's probably overstated. There is a ton of complexity in the US tax code due to various political interests of the DEMs or GOPs. It's this complexity that is really the source of most of the problems.

Unfortunately there just isn't much of a constituency in the US for eliminating tax code complexity.
The time that border closures would have stopped the spread is past. Those measures are useless now, 25+ countries have the virus within their borders now (and likely, many more without knowing it) so it will spread within those communities unless measure to stop that spreading will be taken.

This sucks but if you live in a wealthy country you will likely survive this, it may still impact you economically.
I appreciate such softwares and possibilities, but I would not recommend using an old smartphone: continuously charging its battery represents a huge risk, history just reminds us about battery explosion, detective cables, defective wall chargers.

If you add also that batteries, when aging, are a real risk, then, thanks but no.
This is hilarious. Isn't 2012 the underlying model they use for everything today?

Fearmongering is the go-to default for absolutely every issue the media covers. Then during an actual literal pandemic they take a short break from every other the-world-is-ending story to give us the "don't fearmonger" lecture.

If you ever find yourself split in doubt between your own sanity and that of the media's, please for the love of God assume they're insane first.
Conspiracy theorists tend to mistake incompetence for malice; or partial incompetence for total incompetence. Hurricane Katrina doesn’t invalidate health and building codes; education; law enforcement and EPA, FAA, and SEC regulations. Decisions made are both bad and good, but it’s irrational to think the decision makers are generally untrustworthy.
If you had to spend 3-6 weeks homebound, literally not leaving at all, what would you need? Include the usual over-the-counter meds you might normally use in the course of a year.

Then, if the economy tanked as a result of an epidemic, for 3-5 years, what would you wish you'd bought beforehand?

That's about all you can do.

Remember, if you're homebound, you'll really want to exercise after a few days. Some way of doing that indoors is wonderful.
Have you ever heard The expression "the exception that proves the rule"? Do you understand the meaning of the expression? It means that the rule is so good that exceptions to it are so rare that they seem significant. The prototypical examples are plane crashes.
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No, sounds like there wasn't any "supply disruption", rather a "demand excess" from people who thought there might be one. Those are different things.

Bill Gates could cause a potato shortage if he started buying up all the potatoes in America. But that wouldn't be a supply disruption if farmers are still growing potatoes at the usual rate.
That's not known.
It would be funny if it weren't sad.
There's an English blog for it... https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Regardless, it is always a good idea to have some backup supplies in case of a natural disaster. Whether it be an earthquake or pandemic or a storm.
Can you provide detailed steps to reproduce? What strings did you search? Two examples of repos that appeared in the results? What is the link to your repo that did not appear in the results?

Details like this would help the OP to track down the exact cause of why it has indexed the forks but not the original repo.
This particular article and advice seems quite proportionate and level-headed. (In contrast to about 80% of Covid-19 articles posted on HN, TBQH)
They may not have been perfect (and I was aware of their policy), but there's no scenario I can see where Intuit won't be dramatically worse.
Or, you know, if you’re okay with the GPL. :)

But agreed, you need to be aware of the license obligations of any code you use.
express.co.uk is a very low quality source of information we should aspire to seek better sources for HN.
and then have to continue with "except Joe"

Yup. Exactly.
Real article at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-23/tesla-riv... (Estonian firm Skeleton Technologies Group OU wants to replace lead acid batteries by supercapacitors)
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I think the point is that cheaply manufactured devices based on natural stochastic processes are already a solved problem, and a new wacky process involving chemistry doesn't bring anything worthwhile to the table.
Long prose does not benefit from those fonts. A system font is usually used for UIs and is optimized accordingly. There's more to font selection than "use the same font as native applications".
How can a culture of checking for errors be developed where none exists?
Keep in mind that "following ISS" just means "in orbit near it". Given how many satellites are out there these days (and how easy it's become to put one up), plus recent efforts like the "space force", it's not at all shocking to see a satellite that's "unidentified" to civilians.
Ask the doctor to write your prescription for three months. Call up insurance company and get a "vacation" flag/whatever which will pay for three months. (Source: I used to do this)
Yep. Thunderf00t did a video on the power of net infectivity rate as dominating the outbreak irrespective of mortality rate.

Infection can be most basically modeled by an ordinary diff eq. And what happens is when everyone knows about it, the infectivity drops off a cliff and the illness reaches a carrying capacity rather quickly and dies out with good sanitation and quarantines. It could be Ebola-deadly and it still dies out because the transmission rate drops to almost 0.

Because of self-preservation and global news, a modern pandemic would only work if it were like Hepatitis C and norovirus: very long incubation period and airborne.
My first reaction is NOOOOOOOO.

I first used Credit Karma in college, which made me aware of my credit score. Credit Karma had a credit simulator at that time, which I would play around with to see what was the best course of action to get my score up up in a very short amount of time. I got to where I want and will maintain it.

Credit Karma's tax solution is the best I have ever used for my case! I still use Mint, but it is in maintenance mode. I can only hope that the CK's tax solution stays intact in not a transition to TurboTax.

The for-profit tax companies already screwed up with the IRS revamping the agreement, so as to compete with them: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-is-still-trickin.... I hope the government will take good advantage of this opportunity.
English-language Wikipedia does not have a great article on Belgian taxation complexity, but it has a great article on structural complexity that highlights the weird "almost-entirely-overlaps" structure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_langu...

Mind you that this does not even anything at city level.

Imagine if Illinois was mostly part of the Midwest Region (a governmental entity that transcends states but is not federal and also has a tax authority), but not including Chicago. That'd be close. Also the largest party in its government wants the Midwest to secede from the Union.
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What you're saying is true in the United States, but perhaps things work differently in Australia?
Yes, two different but interrelated things.

I'm skeptical that much progress can really be made on the latter (for-profit filing) without significant work on the former (code complexity). Perhaps I am wrong though.

Maybe I'll go read about the Belgian tax code. Sounds like some light reading for a Sunday afternoon. ;-)
I have. Both C# and Go 500k+ LOC codebases.

Compilation time between them is a magnitude apart it's not even arguable.
Do not tell people to stock up on food. There is no need and this is how you create runs on supermarkets and panic. If the situation becomes severe enough for this to become a problem, this will be organised by authorities.

Keep calm, follow basic hygiene, and be ready to work from home at short notice. Maybe don't travel unless you have to.

This is not the end of the world and the risk is low. Change course only if the risk to you becomes high based on facts.
Yes, we're the same team. Sorry for that : /
The article is pretty short and straightforward. Can you name a specific thing that's wrong with it?
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I don't know the specifics for thread parent, but on many construction projects there is only one engineer, and even that engineer may be a sub to an architect. In my experience, architects are offended at the suggestion that they check the work of engineers, and engineers are offended by questions from clients. So, entirely due to the emotional preferences of the "one person", that one person is really totally responsible for a great deal.
Some of the companies I worked at were indeed shitty, and what I wrote is a caricature. And I never said other fields don't have problems, most in fact are worse than what we've got.

But I'm concerned that the popular perception is: go to a coding bootcamp for a few months, or even study CS at university, and that is your golden ticket to a solid, happy, lifelong career. Which I believe will be untrue for many people.
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I don't think the idea is to be sustainable for 2 weeks, it's to mitigate the stress on the supply line by staggering demand.
What do you think the chances are that I haven't heard about that? What do you think makes this an exception?

There is a lot of politics happening around this theme. Can you trust the numbers put out by the authorities? Yes, within a margin of error due to unreported cases.

The article is not at all in the fearmongering category. It appears to me quite level headed and simply acknowledges that we are past the point of containment, something that seems born out by the facts.

To continue to deny that there is a pandemic will do a lot more harm than to accept that as a fact and act accordingly.
He took it too far, granted, but overall there's a valid point. By coincidence, I'm writing an applicant tracking tool in rails+react now, and I also wrote one in perl about 16 years ago.

The modern app uses so many javascript libraries, 3rd party fonts, and is generally just so... ouch.

I remember demoing the perl app internally at my first job, and in many cases our page could render the page about as fast as it took to click. Our boss thought it was a static html demo just based on how fast it was.
Didn’t all of these agencies come about after some incident happened that was disastrous?

The SEC came about after/during the Great Depression. Building codes stiffened after terrible hurricanes.
> 1. Do you tend to mistrust authority?

If you think the entire government has your specific best interests at heart, isn't that a sign of schizophrenia? That sounds not much different than people who think that songs on the radio or TV shows were created for them specifically.

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

Most people are following this story very little or not at all, so if you're even remotely paying attention then you have special information and insight that the vast majority of people do not.
I was considering to use ElasticSearch to replace my CouchDB indexes that are way too slow, memory hungry, and not optimized. But I read somewhere, can't remember the source, that ElasticSearch doesn't offer any guarantee that all your data will (eventually) be saved or returned when queried. Is that the case?
(I don't necessarily disagree, but...)

It's probably changed a lot since, but at least back in the 90s demo-scene code was absolutely 100% written for the result alone, even perhaps when it should perhaps have been say 75% for the sake of reusability. Imagine "decent" 90s game code quality, then dial the qualitynotch down a bit, since it will only have to work once on a well-defined machine anway.

I'm long since tuned-out. I do seem to remember Farbrausch making some waves when they started applying the concept of reusability and structure to their work in the early 2000s.
No, just food and meds for fever. I'm actually concerned there will be a shortage of food just because everybody is stocking up at a sudden panic, not necessarily because we actually end up with a huge pandemic (which might or might not happen at a later point in time). So for the first time in my life I'm thinking about actually doing this.
This could easily be an issue of colloquial interpretation barriers, but there is a significant difference between healthy skepticism and a mistrust driven by assuming the other party is always acting in bad faith.

Like I said, this could be a simple misunderstanding of concepts, but there is a percentage of the population who have drifted from a healthy skepticism into paranoidTown where they assume good faith people/humanity are out to get them. This mistrust is causing many of them to fail to apply basic logic in their decision making.

Hopefully your post was advocating for what I would call a healthy skepticism.
I don’t think that paragraph was referencing compiler guarantees.
Like every other "free" financial product, they try to manipulate people into consumer debt. Oh and selling your data as a side hussle.
If journal editors were less easily wooed by technical stuff they have no idea about and were able to bring in specialist reviewers, this would not pass. Unfortunately in specialized journals, if you publish something that sounds overly complex and highly technical for the reviewers of the journal, there is a good chance the paper will go through unarmed, except for picky comments about misplaced commas or not citing the work of the reviewer that is only remotely related...