skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly which disease outbreak was due to factory farming? SARS, Ebola, and Covid-19 were all caused by wild animals probably hunted/captured by sustenance farmers and kept in a dense, diverse essentially farmers market.

This is all the exact opposite of factory farming and the industrial food supply chain we have in the west.
You want visas to go into china and research a pandemic? This is how it is done. Not by throwing people under the bus, but by maintaining a very narrow bandwidth of comment and showing appreciation to the powers that be, for allowing you to enter the country and go about your business. I appreciate Xi Jinping and other chinese official's efforts to contain the disease and assist the WHO on their research mission. That's all I have to say about that.
Gasoline is regulated. Trucks transporting large quantities of it requires hazmat registration for the safety of first responders. Zoning regulations limit and regulate how large quantities of gasoline can be stored. Try parking a gas tanker in a residential HOA without proper hazmat plates and see how long it goes "without even raising any eyebrows". Try driving one without a hazmat license and see how long you get away with it.

Now, yes, regulating tiny amounts of phosophorus might be a bit much. But I'm pretty sure you'd object to an unregulated chemical plant next door - those things can be dangerous even with well trained, well meaning personel. The question, then, is where to draw the line, not if it should be drawn at all.
I think more regulation is kinda inevitable. Technological progress gives single bad actors more and more tools to cause damage. The issue is that single bad actors or small groups are far more common than entire developed states. Right now a drone can disable an entire airport.

To give an example with current technology, drones are being regulated now and likely will get remote off switches one day that police can trigger, but for that regulation to be effective, self built drones have to be under a similar regime... so maybe in the future it will become illegal to own innocous drone parts without a permit, etc.

Do we want to distribute science kits that allow people to play around with viruses? Sure, most viruses are affecting bacteria and playing around with them is fun, but if you can also change their genomes with those kits, some idiots might use them to make a superbug.
Exactly, we make a lot of things that are fundamental parts of science illegal. The government bans certain properties of light without a permit to allow radio to work and uncontrolled fission reactions to stop millions from dying.
Hi! Much of the difficulty comes from using blocking libpq calls in psycopg2. I'm thinking to avoid them altogether in psycopg3 and only use async calls with Python in charge of blocking.

Note that you can obtain a similar result in psycopg2 by going in green mode and using select as wait callback (see https://www.psycopg.org/docs/extras.html#psycopg2.extras.wai...). This trick enables for instance stopping long-running queries using ctrl-c.

You can also register a timeout in the server to require to terminate a query after a timeout. I guess they are two complementary approaches. In the first case you don't know the state of the connection anymore: maybe it should be cancelled or discarded, we should work out what to do with it. A server timeout is easier to recover from: just rollback and off you go again.
How can you know you who is in control if you don't?
> This point is incredibly popular because non-experts have less to loose by making dumb choices in the first place and there are way more non-experts, thus the whole set of non-experts can afford to be the fireflies in any industry.

Or the "experts" have more invested in their "expertise" or are more indoctrinated in their view and more stubborn to move from it.

If you look at the history of math, medicine, economics, physics, etc, the biggest detractors of new ideas, new information, etc were the experts.

Take Cantor and his proof of countable and uncountable infinities. It's was the experts within academia who attacked him relentlessly. So much so that it sent Cantor to a mental asylum.
> Free states write laws that criminalize harmful actions. Police states write laws that criminalize possessing things that could be used harmfully.

Would you agree that nukes run afoul of that reasoning?
> Restricting access to nuclear bombs costs almost nothing and saves huge risk.

That makes me wonder, if nuclear bombs were deregulated, who would actually be rich and stupid enough to actually construct their own? Larry Ellison maybe? Probably not even him.
Isn't ibogaine that one drug where you have to go to West Africa to find it due to its being illegal and inaccessible everywhere else and trips last for literal days?
I think a shorter way to write that is to first note the downset representation of reals. Then your definition of min is just the set intersection and there's nothing more to show.
Everything I've read says the Seattle area; specifically, King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. Do you have a source for "all of Washington" state?
If Michelangelo did drafts and studies, why can't I?
> The other car makers have refused to compete head-to-head with them.

Because all their profit comes from SUV's.

The big auto manufacturers would simply stop producing most of their low end cars if they didn't have to meet fleet efficiency numbers.
The presumptive mechanism (dehydration due to the hygroscopic action of wood) may not apply consistently to viruses.

Viruses have a lipid outer layer, but no metabolism of their own. Sometimes dehydration will break the capsule, sometimes it won't.

Soap is usually quite effective due to saponification physically destroying the virus's capsule, fwiw.
Gasoline in the quantities required to burn down a building with people inside it is, for the intents and purposes of an arsonist, unregulated. They might yell at you if you use an unapproved jerry can, but otherwise it may as well be unregulated as far as homicidal nut is concerned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack
> When I moved, the meetings I encountered were extremely hostile to atheists.

In my experience there are two types of atheists who go to AA: those for whom religion “isn’t their thing” and those who are actively hostile to religion.

I think the latter group should find an alternative to AA.
How old is the kid? Only one? How big is the home? Does it has a background to play?

Some painting books may help. There are versions for different levels, from small kids to the Brain/Neuroscience painting book.

There are also some nice educative apps. (But many are boring, with bright color to compensate.) Perhaps you can program one.

Can you lock yourself in a room for a "teleconference"? Perhaps your kid can understand that.

Can the grandparents play with the kid by Skype?

Expect to have less working hours than usual. Can your S.O. help here? Can you take turns to care the kid and work?

It will be a long "week" anyway, get a Netflix subscription.
AT&T cut over 37k jobs in the US despite tax cuts
I credit those for the US and European response being so slow coming.

None of those became major issues in the US or Europe. The media did it's typical the sky is falling thing and then nothing happened.

So, now we have a virus that is hard for us to contain but people haven't taken it seriously until Italy started having crazy day over day numbers.
Yes, one of the egregious cases I was thinking of. I am very wary these days of installing apps. I try to really confine myself to the system apps, or to a few apps that I trust the developer, or build my own helper apps.
Belief in a higher power a serious side effect of this treatment regime, though.
European lawmakers propose a ‘right to repair’ for mobiles and laptops
It's easy to say it'd be great to have diversification now but it also costs more to maintain that capability every day that nothing like this is happening. If supply is not interrupted for a 10 year streak that will add up and you fall behind riskier competitors.

It depends on a company's risk profile as to whether that is tolerable.
If John McAfee ever became terminally ill, I could see him building one, driving out into a desert, and going out with a literal bang.
How do you get a virus from a cooked animal?

I get that vegans want to push their agenda but this wouldn't help stop virus spread. It's easy to safely eat animals, you just cook them.
They do not say death rate, but they do mention the case fatality rate, which is exactly what it sounds like, and as you have described.

It’s the number of people who have died, of the known cases. Not everyone who is infected becomes a case, for one reason or another. Maybe their symptoms did not arouse enough concern, or maybe testing was refused to them since they didn’t fit an erroneously narrow list of testing requirements.

Another thing to keep in mind is that people calculating the CFR from public data on a napkin typically don’t distinguish between survivors and those who just haven’t died yet. So the other side of the CFR (the people who haven’t died) tends to include both the known survivors and will-be-survivors, as well as the people who are in the ICU hanging on for dear life and could be dead tomorrow.

For this reason, unless it explicitly states that it’s only counting survivors and deaths, the CFR is more reliable once the spread has began to decline, when there are fewer new cases each day than the day before.
apologize. put the wrong link accidentally. edited it now.
I don’t think that’s a valid counter-argument at all. The same line of reasoning applies to any service. There’s plenty of products that are essentially 3rd party implementations of features in other services. If you’re going to make a product like that, you absolutely must know that your entire value prop can be wiped out if the 3rd party ever happens to get around to implementing that feature themselves. Apple does plenty of stuff that could be argued as anti-competitive, but I don’t think “implementing my product as a feature” is one of them.

It is perhaps a good reason to think twice before making an iOS app though. But as a consumer I prefer it to the opposite approach, which I’d consider a company like Atlassian to have. If you ask Atlassian when they’re going to implement a rather basic and highly demanded feature, the answer tends to be “never, buy it on the market place”.
I think the parent comment was talking more about battery swapping in lieu of charging to save time, not as a "once in a while" kind of thing. As far as I know, swapping a battery for a Model S will take quite a while at a service center.
According to some of the rumors from leaked code, Apple will offer setting default mail and browser apps, iirc.
I wouldn't rely on nice weather taking care of the problem for us.
Not american here, so didn't read/listen to this, but in all honesty, I would read the last part not as 'calling' the corona virus a hoax, but that democrats were using the corona virus as an attack, as they did with russia or the impeachment (not passing judgement about russia/impeachment, just I would read that as an attack on democrats and not as they calling COVID a hoax)
The employers aren't supposed to do that, but they do. I think TripleByte is high value for a candidate from a no-name company who wants an edge.
Zoom is also free for 1:1 meetings.
HN: the anti-matter doppelgängers of comedians.
Almost all nations allow private ownership of firearms. It's just the degree of hurdles you have to jump through that is different.

Off the top of my head, the only nation that I know explicitly bans private ownership of firearms is North Korea.
One of the (several) reasons I left OTR was the absurd and erratic wait times at shipping and receiving locations. Federal regulation of a driver's hours compound the problem greatly, but little can be done about that directly. I once waited six hours at a dock to then be told I'd be unloaded the next day. I had two hours left and still awaited my daily grub and a reasonable place to park for the night. I told them I'd had enough - they could have someone else deliver it, I was going on my way. I was quite serious and prepared to do so, and I really had hit a threshold. They unloaded me, quickly. I left relieved, but thinking 'I need to get away from this shit'. I did, for other reasons too.

I'll also mention a personal observation of the federal regulations of hours. It caused me more grief than any other aspect of driving. I know when I can drive safely or not, and can contend with a single nag. Having two, eg my company <i>and</i> the regulations, forced me to drive in some pretty difficult circumstances. The hours of service issue is a powerful potential marketing point for your endeavor - one seriously neglected by shippers and receivers, and carriers. Regulations are necessary, but they do introduce complexities that are not insignificant.

I hope your efforts succeed in improving an industry that begs it. Unfortunately my coding is shit and I can be of no service there, hence me going OTR in the first place.

And if you do succeed, you'll be doing good not only for drivers, but the industry and public safety too.
It's noteworthy that all but one of the studies quoted in that meta-review were conducted in the United States. The usual criticism levied against AA is that it takes a religious approach, but that's not even true, it it built on evangelicalism. If you are in the US, you are either evangelical or you at least understand evangelicalism because that's what your friends and colleagues profess. You wonder how AA would fare in other countries, where their approach would meet with bafflement or hostility because the background is not understood.
> The book expected them to do a proof by cases, with some sort of case split on the order of a , b , and c . What they turned in was mostly pretty good, actually, but while grading it I became disgusted with the whole thing and thought there has to be a better way.

This is how it's done in the Idris standard library[1]:

total minimumAssociative : (l,c,r : Nat) -> minimum l (minimum c r) = minimum (minimum l c) r
minimumAssociative Z c r = Refl
minimumAssociative (S k) Z r = Refl
minimumAssociative (S k) (S j) Z = Refl
minimumAssociative (S k) (S j) (S i) = rewrite minimumAssociative k j i in Refl

[1] Or prelude, or whatever it's called. https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/blob/master/libs/pre...
Agreed. I want to see more tools like OpenRefine.
Me, maybe every 2-3 months. My wife, every 2-3 weeks.
We should all be prepared but developed nations have a much smaller interface with the natural world meaning this kind of crossover is less likely, and many developing nations have a smaller global role meaning it won't spread as easily (see Africa & Ebola). I think China is somewhat unique here.
"A silly program to update a GitHub user's status with the current weather"
On point, but I like it!
scary if it is true.
I actually think its' success is largely due to the low mortality rate.

At the extreme if it killed 100% of the people it infected then everyone would've locked down borders immediately and taken it very seriously.

But instead it's only 10x as deadly as a common virus (the flu) that most people have personally had. Which made people not very wary of it until they saw the exponential spread problem illustrated in Italy. (China also illustrated that but Westerners really only feel something can personally affect them if it happens to other Westerners)
Dr. Macchini talks about his life on the front lines to combat coronavirus
> That power could be the love of your family, wife/husband, kids, the energy that moves the cosmos, or a fucking Zagnut bar.

So, either you actually believe that a Zagnut bar is an agent that can help you out of your desparate situation by using its special powers. Or you are intentionally obfuscating the rather obvious fact that indeed, people do not need to surrender to anything or anyone, because obviously it's not the Zagnut bar doing the work, but rather exclusively they themselves.
At least it has better grammar.
Indeed. Any feature-oriented startup or company will eventually find stiff competition from other companies which can copy the feature, while adding to a portfolio of other related features, giving a net benefit to the customer, while the feature-only company has little to compete.
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I recall that being his response to Dropbox (if I recall correctly Apple made a pitch for buying them and they said "no").
It's free to download on dataschool.com. I agree on the gap and that's why we wrote this book. We launched that on HN here 5 months ago

https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/
The big one is Tile. The company so afraid of a product that is only a rumor at this point they testified to Congress about how evil Apple is.
> The great thing about compilers is they're conceptually pure functions - take an array of characters as input and produce an array of bytes as output.

While this is undoubtedly strictly true, it seems so high-level that the same could be said of essentially any programming task, with I/O suitably modelled, and so gets awfully close to "the C language is purely functional" (http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...).
Depending on the size of the local store, it should be sourcing its goods through a reputable distributor or have its own supply chain that connects directly to manufacturers (eg. for Walmart and other large chain stores).

It's not impossible to get counterfeits, but it's a lot more reliable than marketplace sellers with no real brand to protect.
As Jed and Riskneutral already commented, sometimes you need to speak to an adult about whatever.. sports, the weather, a movie you watched, discuss a new food place, discuss a new bar.. anything. We don't live ours lives through Yelp (or whatever app people discover places). Also socializing is a human need literally "since forever". Perhaps you are an introvert, and still at some point even you would have the need to interact with a fellow human.
It's fun & pretty raw. It's also a great way to talk about the intention of this product.
Well, they've removed millions of products. From the article:

"The company scans billions of price changes a week and has removed 530,000 offers and suspended 2,500 accounts because of coronavirus-related price gouging, he said. The company also removed millions of products that make unsupported claims about the coronavirus"
The tree of life works better, there were many branches even earlier that died off and the ones that survive did so through evolutionary pressure. The ones that required circumcision for instance weren't great at attracting converts.
This seems like an insane policy based on what we know about sars2-cov and the demographics of Iceland. Over 25% of the population (95K) is in the most vulnerable age group. If just 1% of that cohort becomes sick, you'll swamp the entire healthcare system. And that's excluding the effect on the other 75%. Just because they're risk is lower doesn't mean they won't need hospital care.
In my wayward youth, a friend of mine and I made nitroglycerin and had a lot of fun detonating it. This was a very rural area, nobody said a word back then.

I've often thought that if I were 20 years younger, I'd be in jail for a long time for my youthful indiscretions.
I always see computers as instruments for creating an approximation of a Platonist mathematical space from a physical space. Theoretically, digital computing can be done to any precision we want, until the non-ideal physical properties and constraints kick in, such as time, space, processing power, physics, in other words, leaky abstraction...
Ludicrously expensive. The largest SRAMs that are commercially available are around 288 Mbit (32 MB with parity), and cost hundreds of dollars per chip.

I'm not sure you could even physically fit 16 GiB of SRAM onto a CPU with current technology. SRAM cells are much larger than DRAM.
> If you’re going to make a product like that

It's... it's basically all products. Virtually any product on iOS would function and perform and integrate better if implemented by Apple. It's just a question of at what point it gets popular enough that they want to bother doing so.

> The same line of reasoning applies to any service

iOS is a special case because of how locked-down it is. Not only can't third-parties do things like draw over other parts of the UI or add items to system UIs, they can't even (truly) run in the background.

Of course, on Android, apps can do all of these things and that's part of why it's a security nightmare. Which is why as I said, there's no clear answer to the problem. But it is a problem.
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Exactly. You state that reporting a bug/potential feature, or issuing a pull request, are inherently "confrontational" processes

Well, don't stop there, the exact quote is

> all these bug trackers, issue queues, mailing lists are inherently confrontational spaces. Someone consideres contributing, OK? They write a patch, and what happens? They need to compete at least for the attention of others .

> in well-managed projects.

Show me the well managed projects which are not short on reviewers.
That vaguely touches (warning going off topic here, my apologies) my main problem with python. dict.keys() returns an iterator, this is all fine and good, very efficient I suppose, however, the only reason I ever use dict.keys() is so I can sort the keys and you can't sort an iterator so every single dict.keys() in my code base is in the form list(dict.keys()). And it is not even like you need the iterator. A dict works perfectly fine as a key iterator on it's own. /rant
To quote justice Robert H Jackson 'The constitution is not a suicide pact.' In sufficiently bad circumstances (wars, emergencies) governments will tend to enforce first and worry about legalities later.

And in cases like this, where the emergency is biological rather than political in nature, pedantic legalism is going to lose to common sense and pragmatism.
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In the case of the native Tile and Airpods, though, Apple is using their walled garden to provide an experience that's pretty strictly better than what you'd get from competitors. It's not a hole in Apple's OS per se, it's more like a privileged route to the OS.

For your analogy, it'd be as though the Starbucks owned the street the two shops were on, and gave the entrants to the Starbucks a privileged position on the street.
> No one is saying to shut down everything...

Comment by "luckydata" in this thread:

> they have to shut down EVERYTHING now.
https://www.databrew.cc/posts/covid
Is a really good blog post on the data behind COVID-19.

Once countries get to about 150 cases their trajectories are very similar. So far the USA has not been too different to Italy.
Wal-Mart is notorious for their knowledge of the supply chain for their vendors, whether the vendor wanted to give up that information or not. On the other side of things, I've seen some pretty questionable items in dollar stores including food products that weren't labeled for the US market. The gas station near my house buys some of their products from Costco and breaks the packs into individual items, complete with "Not labeled for individual sale" warnings. Hopefully Costco is like Wal-Mart when it comes to supply chain knowledge.
Not your fault, you're in the middle of using a messy term. People call Google a startup.
I specifically said the title is worth commenting on. Just not the only thing or the main argument.
"for each additional A.A. meeting attended, health care costs fell by almost 5%"

Wow. It's really quite stark to see it in such austere terms.

The cost nature of this is quite exceptional if you think about this.

Without even unpacking anything to any degree, it would seem that dragging oneself to a meeting, socializing with others in the same plight, re-affirming one's commitment to 'getting better' probably really goes a long way to changing behavior.