skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! From the blog post linked there posted on January 23: "Our primary data source is DXY, an online platform run by members of the Chinese medical community, which aggregates local media and government reports to provide COVID-19 cumulative case totals in near real-time at the province level in China and country level otherwise."

I'd surmise that it was the primary source since, at the time, the spread of the virus was still contained within China for the most part.
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I use DDG as my main search engine - for most things it works just fine, when I can't find what I'm looking for I go to google. I find it hilarious that the image search function works a lot like Google used to in the past - I'm constantly looking for reference when drawing and more often than not if you type something innocuous like "man with hand in front of face" you'll end up with a first page full of porn in DDG whereas it's all SFW in Google, even with all restrictions off. Luckily DDG offers a nudity filter which works pretty well - even if it still fails to catch the odd gore picture.
I saw the responses they've recently made to hurricanes and fires and now the coronavirus, and they were all woefully inadequate. Just because they have a big building somewhere prepping for a smallpox attack doesn't mean they're in any way whatsoever prepared for the actual issues that people are having, today and in the recent past.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1235695757652459520.html

> The U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the CDC to create a pharmaceutical and vaccine stockpile to handle biological and chemical threats from disease that could affect large numbers of the U.S. civilian population. The original name was the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS) program, but since the original authorization additional materials have been added to the stockpile.

Again, I think this is way too threat-actor focused. I'm reminded so much of George C Scott's character in Dr. Strangelove. We're much more likely to end up underwater or on fire or without crops or with a water shortage or with a novel virus that simply evolved than someone seeding bioweapons for which we already have medicines/vaccines. This simply isn't about responding to an attack. It's about helping people stay alive when the normal order of society goes tits up. We've seen this again and again, most recently in Puerto Rico and California.

If the federal government has prepared for this in any meaningful way, we've yet to see it out in the field during previous disasters. We have, however, seen them manage to continue to wage the longest war in US history, whilst people in Oakland were making zip-tie homemade not-quite-HEPA filters and wearing "face masks" made out of bandanas because available civilian supplies everywhere had run out when half of California caught fire, to say nothing of the death toll resulting from the long-running power outages in Puerto Rico after Maria.

I really don't think a warehouse full of vaccines and antibiotics sitting in DC is any help to the people in diabetic comas in San Juan because their insulin fridge's generator ran out of fuel after weeks of no power, nor will it be if due to the coronavirus spreading too much, ICUs across the country are swamped with cases of viral pneumonia.

I hope I'm wrong and that the federal government is going to magically pull something actually helpful out of their ass if this thing goes big, but I would put my money on them being about as helpful as they were during any other recent large natural disaster affecting US citizens: approximately zero.

Also, TFA refutes some of the claims at the Strategic National Stockpile Wikipedia page:

> There is no surge capability in the U.S. healthcare and public health systems,[5] or in the pharmaceutical and vaccine industries.[4]
The quality of my Google results plummeted when I blocked and opted out of as much tracking as I could. I'm not really happy with Google or DDG results at this point.

It doesn't help that search engines have been progressively hiding more and more functionality. Just last night I was trying to search for results within a window of "published after 18 months ago" but couldn't figure out how to do it. It was probably just another search away from finding the answer, but why are search UIs removing/hiding their best Advanced Search features?
They should shorten the name - DuckDuckGo.com is too long to type out.
It’s gotten better! I still use google for very obscure things but the vast majority of my searches these days are duckduckgo
My largest meal of the day has naturally become lunch. My dinner is typically a few hours before bed. So, maybe I'm not bumping into what the study above found. I sleep fine.

Since I started TRF ~2 years ago I have dropped BF, and am the leanest I have ever been. I've always been very active and tend to exercise every day, but have never been this 'cut'. I also tended to eat ok naturally. I'm not a sweets person, and when I cleaned up my diet a few years back the main thing I dropped was potato chips (I love that crunchy, salty goodness). But even after cleaning up my diet I still wasn't getting the BF % I was interested so thought I'd give TFR a try. It's been awesome. I have more energy, and am in the best shape of my life.
> "Open as in beer," if I may.

What does this mean?
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Mmmh, if you search for a place in the maps tab instead of the general one you usually have a telephone url you can tap to start a phone call.

I still find that you're using a very specific use case of a search engine to completely dismiss not using a different search engine.
I feel that, I've gone through entire pots by myself before and that's when I started seeing colors and smelling shapes (not really, but it was a distinctly disorienting and uncomfortable experience). I tend to limit myself to 2 cups a day since I know I do have a caffeine dependence and I don't want to spend the entire day strengthening that - it would mean EVERY day would have to be like that, and I don't want to be that much a slave to my bodies caffeine requirements for a baseline, you know?

But sometimes, when no one is looking? I make a third cup.
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Nope, GDPR (and similar legislation before it) is explicit, you (even an individual "Sole Trader" in the course of business) need to explicitly get permission to store or process people's personal information and you need to explain what will get done with it. You can't say "Eh, you know, stuff" and you aren't allowed to change your mind without requesting fresh permission (which obviously most users won't grant). You also need to make it possible for anybody to see what you've stored about them, and ensure you fix any mistakes promptly.

You might get away with being somewhat vague about who needs it, e.g. maybe you can say "Our delivery contractors need to know your address" and not spell out which companies you've contracted with for delivery. But it's on you, the outfit the user gave their personal information to, to enforce that e.g. "This phone number is for calling our recipient about the delivery, you can't keep it after the delivery is successful and you can't give it to anybody else" through contractual arrangements or whatever other reasonable legal steps.

I am in Europe (though it's England, so eventually no longer subject to EU regulations sadly but it does have a Data Protection law anyway) and I see this "Lan Tim 2" crap in my Facebook as well. If I have bought anything from Spreadshirt it was months (maybe years?) before the supposed "Off-Facebook interaction" listed by Lan Tim 2.

I actually wouldn't be astonished if this comes down to:

* There's an incentive (maybe not by Facebook) to create tremendous numbers of "Interactions".

* It is possible to create fake Interactions by generating garbage, e.g. lists of randomly chosen phone numbers or email addresses and sending them to Facebook.

* So somebody creates accounts maybe initially with real business names "South China Air Freight Inc." and then they get lazy "So Lee" ... "Lan Tim" ... "Lan Tim 2" and they upload random garbage to harvest the incentive.

* This publicity drives Facebook to eliminate the incentive or make it too hard to upload garbage so that the incentive isn't worth it, and the "problem" goes away.
I've found it helpful to view this data as time series (so that trends are more apparent). This site uses this same dataset but shows historical trends per country/region:

https://www.covidstats.com
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Yeah I don't like that DDG interface limits you to timeframes of Last Day/Week/Month/Year. There are lots of good reasons to want to search a particular timeframe!
Guess it depends on domain. I've changed the default in Firefox a few weeks ago and find that for "regular" searching DDG is enough that I don't go to Google.

But for specialized searches I frequently reach for the Google override, and sure enough Google has significantly better results. Like searching specific, weird errors messages and such.
Can you share what is the right vocabulary for example?

I have DDG as main engine for the phone and unless it’s Wikipedia level question, I have to use g!
You can use !s in ddg to get google results without google.
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The website is really slow. You got images which are 3700px in width and 1.2mb large on the landing page. You should resize them to the width you really need, probably 1000px in width max. Use .png for images which are transparent and .jpg for images which are not. Also don't forget to compress them. Google Chromes Lighthouse shows an optimization of 16seconds on 4G mobile by resizing/compressing images alone.
Lessons for dealing with coronavirus: A tale of two cities–and smallpox
I don't know. I am using DDG from outside the U.S. but with English as the primary search language. The Google's localized results are just an order of magnitude better. I end up re-doing almost 10-20% of my searches in Google after being dissapointed with DDG results. Most of the time Google results are sadly superior.

And don't get me even started in searching in my native language (Finnish). DDG is close to useless there, since it can not parse the different, obscure word forms we use (although I type word X in form A, I want my searches to include results in of word X in semantically related forms B and C). Google did not initially parse Finnish very well, but it eventually became amzingly good something like a decade ago.
From my perspective, if (whoever is in charge) was really in the business of providing accurate numbers, they would test a statistical sample of these 2,300 people to estimate what percentage of them actually have the virus.
Those hoping to draw lessons from this should be aware that folks who contract smallpox had a relatively large chance of dying, ranging from 30% to as high of 75% for certain strains. It is assumed weaponized form of smallpox would be highly lethal. Meanwhile COVID-19 seems to have a lethality ranging from 1-3%.
The only time I use cash, is when I take the yearly trip to Germany. Apart from that, it never happens. So yes, I'd get irritated if someone gave me cash because it is a hassle to use.

Though I must say Germany too is changing fast - 7 years ago most places didn't take cards, now most places do. And I've even heard of cash-less bars popping up in Berlin. So the change is coming there too, only a bit later.
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For facts like these, I use WolframAlpha. For everything else, it's DDG.
That's frightening. When we drew up our household information for babysitters, we put in codewords to identify ourselves and for the babysitter to identify him/herself to us in case of an emergency.

We felt more than a little paranoid (and the babysitters probably thought we were nuts) but anecdotes like yours reinforce the need to be careful when relying on easily-spoofed caller ID for identity protection.
SAML is not that common an acronym. Would it have killed to start out with a definition?
> Google could handle "boston restaurants" if your location is in Boston, TX.

Location is the single biggest implicit factor for Google search results; "restaurants" would probably get you what you are looking for (well, ignoring that it's an overly broad query, and most places have too many restaurants for a simple ranking of them to really be that helpful).
DDG does that too. Most restaurants I search for have a box on the side with phone number and info pulled from Yelp, and a map in whatever provider you want to use.
Fires are a serious concern where we live. It gets dry enough in the summer, and keeping it unmanaged and wild just increases the amount of detritus, dead plants, and other potent kindling.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/it-would-be-an-issue-mal...

>Malcolm Turnbull has warned Boris Johnson that allowing Chinese company Huawei to build Britain's 5G network would compromise the ability of the Five Eyes countries to collect and share intelligence.

>Mr Turnbull said the main risk the Australian security agencies had identified was not through potential Chinese interception of intelligence but by denial of access to the network.

If you follow the story closely, the intelligence community began to intervene loudly once US escalated to severing intelligence sharing if countries didn't ban all Huawei gear. To the point where you have UK firing defense minister over Huawei leak. Which is understandable, FVEY domestic security is built around hacking each other's citizens to get around domestic legislation and only NSA has access to western tech giants.
DDG is great for anything that has many results. Obscure errors? They decide to ignore half your query and show you pages of completely unrelated results. Even when there is no result, I wouldn’t know with DDG. For normal searches I never need !g, for obscure problems I always do because DDG (or maybe Bing? I don’t know how the integration exactly works) for some arcane reason deliberately breaks their own search.
I live in Rochester, MN, and that's how I can say with some certainty that google doesn't do a good job of using your location in their search algorithm. If you just search for something simple like "Rochester library hours", it'll default to Rochester NY. Everybody in my town has learned that we have to use "Rochester MN library hours". I get that the one in NY has ten times more residents than we do, but it's not like we're some backwater here!
The main argument for Capitalism is choice and competition. Any argument of freedom without choice to me is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I'm not sure laissez faire capitalism if there is such a thing has proven it doesn't consolidate into monopolies or cartels. Especially when it comes to distribution, communication and software(with bundling).
> Why isn’t there a strategic nationwide domestic reserve of supplies for emergencies?

There is: https://www.phe.gov/about/sns/Pages/default.aspx
> it is far better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.

Except it wasn't 20. I was 2. One for free and one for the enterprise.
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A lot of DDG fans on HN blame the user or social conditioning and use that as a crutch. It’s BS.

You need to provide clear examples of the differences in order to really make this argument to someone who might switch.

What specifically are the differences? The last time this topic came up someone told me I was a total noob because I didn’t know how to use search and that was basically the extent of it.
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Trained in what way? I type a couple words(misspelled) on Google and it magically returns me exactly what I need. Typing special keywords back in the day sucked.
In Seattle, there are not enough tests to test everyone diagnosed with the disease based on symptoms any more. So some patients are getting diagnosed with COVID-19, but if they are not in severe condition, they just get sent home without testing. These patients also don’t count toward the “confirmed” numbers.
I've been wondering how much value a privacy-focused search engine has when the links in its search results are full of privacy-invading trackers.
I agree, I use it as my main search engine as I'm trying to go Google-free at home but finding UK-centric things is annoying. I guess we must just be a much smaller market for them.
There are a bunch of services that will let you do this.

At your stage, probably put up some notices in your local university offering an hourly $ amount (or beer/coffee) in return for some manual labour.

Also look at Figure Eight, CrowdAI, Eureka, etc. There are a lot of competitors in this space.

If you're looking for tools to help with this, look at https://prodi.gy/.

Amazon Turk doesn't require a contract I think. There are a lot of other freelancing platforms out there where you can find low-skilled labour.

Feel free to contact me (details in profile) to discuss more. I am exploring this area at the moment in any case.
We'll see, the governor has ordered insurers to waive all costs (https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/485622-new-york-insure...), and actually California just did the same.

Maybe tax payers will end up paying in the end though, either through civil courts or some kind of backward-effective legislation.
A few parts of your body can't operate on ketones, so there's a backup mechanism to produce glucose from protein (from muscle breakdown, if necessary) called gluconeogenesis.

However, There's no evidence I've see that gluconeogenesis can kick you out of ketosis. As far as I know, gluconeogensis is demand-driven, not supply-driven, so there won't be any extra glucose running around for your ketone-consuming cells to use, regardless of your protein intake.

Disclaimer: I'm not a nutritionist or biologist.
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If you read the parent comment between the lines, it implies that Synology feels worry free in comparison to FreeNAS.

My point is that both options have similar chances of breaking unexpectedly.
I always thought it wasn't recommended to stay in ketosis for more than 2 weeks at a time?
That's a f###ing bad idea given the current state of knowledge about this infection. Your chance for doing more harm than good is huge.
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Don’t use natural language, use keywords and quotes. Essentially the way people searched 5-10 years ago. I rarely need !g
Try using a google mirror instead, like Startpage. The google results without the spying.
Another anecdote, but when prepping for any sort of competition I used to be a hard-core caffeine consumer (measurable in grams, instead of mg) and it sometimes led to some weird effects.

After a day or two of that level of caffeine intake, I go into an almost trance of productivity and performance. It feels like I'm watching myself do what I need to do, not that I have to 'do it' myself. It's a very strange sensation. It's the same sensation I get when I'm 'in the zone' and competing in something with 100% of my focus on it (emotionally engaged, you might say).

I don't get into that state anywhere close to as easy without caffeine. I've been off caffeine for about 4-5 months now and I've noticed a change. My productivity isn't worse in any measurable way, but it feels different. I wish I could describe it in more relatable terms but I have nothing I can really relate it to.
Oh, but you still need to make a deb, rpm, nix, whatnot then compose with the os tooling, conventions and expectations. And use those to provide your conf/update/failure, menu integration, permission system, logging, init system, notifications, etc.

This shouldn't need to be done? The distribution's packagers handle most of this. Except for Nix, maybe? I hear they have a particularly fucked up ecosystem for packaging.
I use DDG, I'm not in the US and I never really felt that was an issue. If I'm looking specifically for something local I'd sooner use google maps directly anyway, not just a random web search.
I never remember to put comments in when I am beer-coding.

Caffeine-code is much easier to follow later.
In a lot of cases - esp. distributed systems - it's not up to a database to generate a UUID, but the application. In theory you can have a hundred servers that generate records and send them to a central storage platform (which may or may not be a database, or event bus, etc).

UUIDs are not meant to be generated by databases.
I think you could get a paper towel and use that to cover your hand while you operate the gas pump. Or your sleeve. Yeah people might look at you like you’re paranoid. Tell them that only the paranoid survive.
The mobile version is actually sort of useless, because it has tabs at the bottom but it’s not scrollable so you can’t get to them.
Everyone is talking about the quality of results, but how much better is it in terms of tracking and sharing data?

ATM I'm using quant.com, a french company bound by European privacy laws. It has its own index and I rarely need to use google.

I have no idea who is better in terms of privacy but I'm preferring the french company over the American duckduckgo atm.
I’m confused because I thought the brain liked sugars:

“The bold implication of this idea is that the effects of ego depletion could be undone by ingesting glucose, and Baumeister and his colleagues have confirmed this hypothesis in several experiments.”

Kahneman, D. “Thinking, Fast and Slow”. 2011. pg. 43, para. 2, Se. 5.
That’s the thing. The vast majority of my searches are development/coding related. I always find what I’m looking for in the first few returns. I sometimes wonder if I’d get even better results on google?
I still don't understand the tech bro fascination with disordered eating.
>Please don’t shame me.

You're the one picking on me for just handing out some advice to someone.

>I think the fact that you are not angry about this situation

Where did I ever say I was OK with the state of affairs here? You're projecting your own biases and assumptions onto me.

All I did was give some advice to someone who is a victim of a crappy situation. You lashed out at me for not coming up with some magical solution to fix all the ails of the American healthcare system, or instead just whining about how bad the system is, instead of offering constructive advice for his particular situation.

Suppose you need inhalers, and you're living here in America with our crappy healthcare system, and suddenly your inhalers cost $300 instead of $30. But you make $100k+ at a tech company, like so many people here. Someone suggests taking a vacation to Canada or Europe or whatever and stocking up. What are you going to do, so "no!! All the poorer people here can't afford that, so I'm going to pay full price for these inhalers even though I'm going to Canada next week!" Or are you going to take advantage of your ability to travel and save some money on inhalers? Personally, I don't see how it's morally justifiable to not stock up on inhalers on your trip to Canada, and instead enrich the domestic companies that are screwing you over.