skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In response to a massive crisis is the perfect time to spend without worrying about debt. What doesn't make sense are the trillion dollar deficits over the last few years of a booming economy to pay for Trump's tax cuts.
Not the parent, nor am I saying I agree with the parent. But I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is: "It also seeks to give workers new protections, including paid emergency leave, with both 14 days of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical leave, as well as enhanced unemployment insurance, which will extend protections to furloughed workers."
Waco like events that get worse, according to him. He said the “civil war” starts in 2005, which would be 2015.

The occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was Jan 2nd 2016 (starting slightly earlier in 2015). If there’s an event that might closely mark a start of a civil war that ramps up, that’s high on my list.

We’ll see.
I guess, but that doesn't do anything to fix congress which controls spending, or bureaucratic morass among the day to day functionaries in government.

Which is to say that I believe Americans writ general expect far too much from the executive.
bitcoin is not really "there" the same way as gold is.

The whole point of gold is that it is a tangible asset. You can hold gold in your pocket or under your mattress and it costs nothing to store it. You can't prove you have bitcoin if you don't have internet access for example. You can't have bitcoin if miners don't run their nodes. Basically, you are depending on a resource in faraway lands to let you "own" what you have. What kind of asset is that?
> Federal government's duty to the people (according to the Constitution) is seeing to their safety from foreign threats

Where does the Constitution say this?
What more couldve been done? Not a rhetorical question. It's just that I dont see how the governement could stop the initial spread since little to nothing was known in the really early phases of the epidemic. Even the early mortality rates were probably... not honestly reported by China.

If you compare it to a country like Italy that oddly enough seems to be getting praised for it's handling of the pandemic, what more should the US have done? Especially considering how much more lethal it is in Italy and just how crazily fast it spread there. Still, as a non american, it seems to me like everyone talks about how incompetent the US is when they are doing the same or better than their peers?
The Neglected Dimension of Global Security [pdf]
Jamm.app if you want to do what 5 different products currently do - all for free.
Communicate across time zones with video stories or video podcasts
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Discover conversations with enhanced presence.
Enhance existing workflows like Slack.
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well, he's a leader of an opposition party. just not the Official Opposition
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I'm not a physicist and this looks legit to me. High quality mumbo jumbo!
I think you probably misunderstand the actual size of this public. Between 30% and 40% believe that the earth was created as is between 6k and 10k years ago.

https://www.livescience.com/46123-many-americans-creationist...

People who believe that the earth evolved over time due to a completely natural process is mostly gaining ground through losses to "god guided evolution" not young earthers who are going strong.
Warming mountaintops put snake at risk of extinction
I agree, but we probably can't have local party officials stand outside of everyone's homes and test them every time they come back.

We could and should set up mobile testing facilities.
I think there are multiple senses of "banned" here. There's "made illegal" and there's "disallowed by a third-party platform." Something can be illegal but easy to do, e.g., driving without a seat belt. Something can be blocked by a platform but still quite legal, e.g., proselytizing your religion on HN.

It's pretty easy (relatively speaking) to run your own transport that doesn't go through a third party, at which point you can just use OTR or whatever. Then you're immune from banned-in-the-sense-of-blocked, and you can make your own risk decisions about banned-in-the-sense-of-illegal. (Also, depending on the details of the law, this might be perfectly legal too, e.g., "big tech must give us backdoors" doesn't need to imply "everyone who runs encryption must give us backdoors.")

It does seem like Memespeech has an advantage if you're using a third-party platform as a channel and you don't want to be blocked, i.e., you want to exchange encrypted-and-not-backdoored messages over Facebook Messenger because you can no longer trust its own encryption. I agree that this seems less likely to be blocked than literally sending base64 over the channel. But it still can get blocked - Facebook is under no obligation to transport all "Free Speech" (whatever that means) from user to user. If Facebook says, on our platform we disallow text with >20% uppercase letters, they can do that legally and constitutionally. The government could force them to do it, but they could also do it on their own (e.g. a spam detector might do it, honestly).

So you basically end up in a steganography arms race: you want to send messages that look to Facebook like actual genuine messages so they don't block you, but they contain coded information that is end-to-end encrypted using modern cryptography. I suppose it depends on a number of external factors as to whether that's easier than setting up your own transport.

For instance, if your goal is just successfully sending messages and you don't care about legality, another easy (relatively speaking) thing is to run Noise Protocol over your favorite shortwave digital mode. Then you don't have to worry about being blocked at all.
I once tried to drive a nail with a socket wrench and it went poorly. I have since cleared my garage of all socket wrenches because they are clearly useless.
Interesting. Once a week was status quo in the suburb I grew up in (west of Chicago), is that not normal elsewhere?
Admitting and identifying the problem is the first step.

The Cleveland Clinic just came out with an 8 hour test and hopefully this will help the situation if they share the process.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/co...
Obviously the OP here means on how long 14 days of paid sick leave and three months of paid family and medical leave will remain the case. If it's indefinitely, then this is clearly Democrats trying to attach what they've campaigned for to a Coronavirus bill, in an attempt to make it seem like Republicans are the ones holding up Coronavirus support.

If it's the rest of this year, then it likely should be passed.
Oh this might make a lot of sense to you! http://bit.ly/2Q7AcDa
Without training it is very hard to wear PPE correctly. Even if you change masks regularly, it is hard not to touch the outside (hot side) of the mask with your hands. Reusing masks makes this even more likely.

Most people don't get a good fit of the mask either. Respirators are a bit easier but nowhere near enough of them.

Practically speaking all it does is burn through a small supply of masks.
I'd say it matters a lot for containing and delaying the spread to new states.
Stop using "stop using" blog posts.
An accident of the English language; some people would insist on "chairperson" there, and some older people might still insist on "chairman" but that's becoming less and less acceptable over time. As an even better example, there's "fluke":

1. A fish, and a flatworm.

2. The end parts of an anchor.

3. The fins on a whale's tail.

4. A stroke of luck.

The meanings are etymologically distinct (for the most part) and it's only chance they ended up wit the same spelling and pronunciation.

If that's philosophically troublesome, linguistics is not for you.
CMG is the ticker symbol for Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.

With Schwab you have to apply for level 1 access to option trading, but it's pretty straight forward and quick since buying is low risk.
> intent of the framers

The Framers were not omniscient, and the Constitution isn't a religious text. They allowed slavery, forbid women to vote, and held an 18th-century understanding of economics and science. While their design philosophy for our government is good to consider, we are not beholden to them to implement as they would have wished.

The most successful nations today - in terms of population health, happiness, and well-being - are Western European countries with strong social safety nets.
I use it because it outperforms both Intel and Clang on my code by significant margin. Open MP support in Clang on Windows comes and goes and no one cares (I don't blame them, it's a niche use case but still).
I don't see any reason to switch tbh. GCC does the job, is around for much longer, supports more stuff and generates more efficient code (at least in my case).
New governance model for the Django project
what is the book called? Is it the one by Jason Freidman?
This is a 15-min portion from the complete hour and a half version, if that helps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFhjMQrVts

Not here to state an opinion about Joe Rogan one way or the other, but listening to an expert who has thought about crises like these and dealt with other epidemics can be helpful.
Think that only works in Nebraska.
You can write terrible code with nulls and without nulls, but when all else is equal, code without nulls is less terrible. Same with code without classes.
Seconds since the epoch doesn’t work for times in the future. Consider a contract that will terminate at 2025-02-28 12:00 in New York: will that be -05:00 or -04:00? It could change.
A safety net absolutely is "super partisan crazy talk" in the US, because a large fraction of the population simply doesn't support it, including another responder to this post. This just goes to show how different cultures can be. Your point-of-view is obviously not very American at all, and probably much more European, so the very idea of not providing food and a safety net in a time of crisis, to you, is almost unthinkable. However, for most Americans, this idea is seen as "socialist" and repugnant, whereas for example the idea of not having the freedom to own lots of guns is almost unthinkable to them.

In short, don't assume that most people share your basic values or worldview. You might be living in a place where they simply don't.
Create your own lyric based handwashing guide
jokes on them: I don't use Toilet paper
The software patents you described are consistently knocked-out on §101 eligibility grounds for being an "abstract concept".

IMO people who advocate scrapping software patents are disingenuous - look at what Google is trying to do software copyright at the same time. Essentially, if you take Google up on software patents and copyright, there will be no protection left for software.
Exactly. It's my personal responsibility to single-handedly ensure the medical system is not too overloaded to handle otherwise treatable cases. That means I personally have to starve if necessary. Not at all something that requires a collective effort. m(
I'm not sure why you are resorting to ad-hominem attacks and I'm not sure where you get your facts from as software patents have routinely and generally been knocked out for ineligibility since the Supreme Court's Alice decision years ago.

It's clear you have no idea what is involved in getting a patent, it's also clear that you have no idea what a patent gets you. Without litigation, generally nothing. Software companies are well aware of how flimsy most software patents that have passed actually are, and routinely knock them out in IPR proceedings or §101 claims.

And your quote is silly as it describes something that should not be patented. In fact, patent law specifically prohibits the patenting of anything "commonly known" or simply a computer-operated process that is something a human otherwise previously did. This is a very difficult area of the law, to prescribe what-yet-unthought-of-things are patentable and which aren't. That's why having a patent doesn't mean that a court will find it valid once you attempt to litigate over it. You seem to not understand this! The patent system isn't perfect, and it doesn't purport itself to be. We struggle to get criminal law right and that involves people's actual lives. So I'm not sure where you get the gall to call other people emotional when it's clearly just a projection of your own situation.
Do you believe the same thing about email spam detection? Various authorities decide on the validity of email and webspam.
I don't think that's a great reading of congress' enumerated powers. The shall refers to the powers being powers that can be used when appropriate, to achieve the intended goal of the power. Must language, here, would imply a constant duty to use each power.

My reading is that Congress has an OBLIGATION to promote the arts and sciences, and has the power to use copyright and patent law to achieve those goals as congress sees fit.
Exponential growth. It's the growth phase that matters.

People keep mentioning the exponential because both of these curves, at an important point in time, grow very fast. Much faster than anything you're likely to encounter in daily life, so the public really doesn't have the requisite intuition.

But I can see you're not interested in understanding the point. You asked for equations, I gave you equations. Good day sir.
> WE the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity...

The Constitution itself states the role of the Federal government is to prevent mass turmoil and to help the general public. In fact, it lists both of those objectives before it mentions the securing freedoms and liberty; it is generally believed that the preamble is ordered in terms of the priority of its objectives. I understand that there is a very real argument that the Federal government should not be responsible for the well-being of every single citizen but a safety net in times of pandemic is, in my opinion, nowhere close to a Constitutional overreach based on how these objectives have been interpreted.
>What in the world is going on with the tests?

It appears the main driver has been lack of chemicals and in the beginning, the cdc required tests to be sent to them. The states can now test on their own.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/co...
At what point does it become OK to point out that the "orange man" is, in fact, bad? Fox news and republican leaders spent weeks (weeks that we can't get back) trying to tell people that this wasn't a problem, that they shouldn't prepare, and that this was all a partisan argument against the president. And that was all wrong. It's real, it's happening, and we've lost critical time.

That's bad, right? And it's bad in a distinctly partisan way, because the "other side" didn't say or do that stuff, and was broadly correct in its pronouncements. Can we say that? When can we say that? Or is any amount of wrongdoing or incompetence allowed as long as you get a whole political party to do it at once?
€50 for 2L is still absolutely insane for something that costs pennies per liter to make.
My pet theory about the abundance of classes is that they only gained popularity because of their inherent complexity. There's no one, authoritative way to use them, so a bunch of people can went to conferences and wrote papers about SOLID or encapsulation, or whatever. So people thought there must be value in them.

It takes a long time for a lot of developers to realize anything you can do with classes you can do without. And if you structure your code without classes, it tends to be more refactorable because moving chunks of code in and out of different contexts is a breeze.

The only things I find potentially useful about classes are:

- portability (but you can get that with modules, caveat that not every language does modules well)

- auto-complete in a noun->verb context
Not the first, nor second, but the third opposition in fact.
This tells me that the average person wasn't washing their hands properly.
Do you not see value in more experienced people giving you feedback on how to tackle a problem better?
The idea that "nothing more could have been done" by the government is a laughable farce, the US federal government continues to incompetently bumble and lots of people are going to die as a result. They are sticking to their guns on cutting CDC funding for crying out loud.
> The only way to actually prevent the spread of this type of disease is independent of government - changing personal behavior.

There are all sorts of governmental actions that can change personal behavior.
> Was it the people saying to remove all the extras, or the people who put the extras in?

What extras?
I've been all over the board on this throughout my career. Currently, we are looking at a substantial reduction in the number of types in our codebase. This would imply fewer & larger classes. Which is totally fine, as long as you know how to manage that complexity.

Our approach for managing this complexity is to simply say that each class in the domain model aligns to the bounded context of a particular business unit, process, or activity. So, instead of modeling a bunch of different types within some namespace, the type itself represents the entire extent of that business concern, including any business facts as instance properties. Complex types are modeled as nested classes within each context. Nothing is shared between contexts except for trivial domain-wide concerns in the outer scope. This allows for very easy serialization of business state in and out of a database (among many other things). Consider the power that a method override might have in this realm if you wanted to construct a hierarchy of such contexts.

An example of one of these concrete types might be SelfCheckoutContext (if you were working in a retail business domain). This type could be derived from a wider CheckoutContext which could be simultaneously shared other concrete contexts like HumanCheckoutContext.

In our approach, there is also a lot of stuff that exists outside of each context (Views, Services, Repositories, etc). We basically treat these items as a platform layer for the contexts to operate on top of.
I thought this polymerase chain reaction test was something you could do at any university hospital?
>We personally and responsibly elected officials to provide government assistance for various things rather than just hoping charity covers the gap.

Who's "we", and what jurisdiction are you talking about? If you're talking about the US federal government, you're factually wrong, especially for the executive branch, but also the Senate.
Any chance you recall the name of the short story? Your link was a fun read, but disappointingly not the story you described!
So do it anyway, and then 12 months later, after everyone is released, maybe the Supreme Court says you can't do it.

I'm not sating that it is a good idea, just that judicial review doesn't seem particularly effective.
The Democrats could pack universal single payer healthcare into this bill and it would still pass. It would be political suicide for Republicans and Trump to block it. They would of course scream about the Democrats playing politics, but they do that about everything already, so what's new. The Democrats would be able to say they tried to help the country in a time of crisis and were blocked. It would be a win-win for Democrats.

Disclaimer: I am an independent and don't think Medicare for all is a good idea. Still though.
FreeCAD (which uses OpenCASCADE under the hood) can open OpenSCAD CSG files. This should get you a BRep
> everyone talks about how incompetent the US is when they are doing the same or better than their peers?

This has to do with who is currently POTUS. The media in this country are far left leaning, to the point that most at the national level panicked when he was elected. If a person's only source of information is the big 3 or 4 outlets, they will never hear anything positive about the current administration.
It's basically really crude steganography.

I don't think the method was meant to be taken too seriously, it seems to be some kind of statement.
Protect Our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill
> In short, don't assume that most people share your basic values or worldview. You might be living in a place where they simply don't

I think that's covered under his "something very wrong with us".
Thats why I started this thread - in the hopes it can be a mega thread on ideas, tools and possibilities and hopefully inspire some folks to take action while the time is ripe and situation has provides space to surface and think about these things a very broad and almost global level.
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> more debt to pile up...

So, lets pile up bodies instead?
If those provisions go away, then they just become a problem again within a few years when the next novel coronavirus strain appears, and in the meantime all the money spent on setting up the necessary bureaucracy has been wasted by just chucking all it out the window.
The Grim Reaper act only works when there's no risk of voters paying attention. Senators have to win reelection. Their positions can be shifted if enough of their constituents demand it.

Call your Senators and ask them if they will be supporting passage of a Senate version of this legislation.

If they won't, ask why. And let them know that their answer will affect your vote.
Wasn't this somewhat well documented during 2016 where most of it wasn't some coordinated attack from St. Petersburg but teens from south-eastern Europe making money from ads and therefore driving clickbait to its limit because they literally just wanted clicks?
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 arrives
I flew in January from SJC to John Wayne (and back) and they told us to keep our shoes on.
I live in Cleveland, and it sounds like they're considering the drive-thru testing approach as a possibility. Hoping this ramps up this month.
There are ways around this. I use ttrss and it has the option to fetch the actual page and replace the RSS content with it. It has a few bugs with formatting and such on some sites, but generally works well. There is a built in Readability plugin for it, but I also use a plugin called Mercury full text for some feeds that don't play nicely with Readability.

Mercury works better than Readability usually, but the downside is that Mercury uses a third party to process it, whereas Readability is all local. So some sites will block Mercury from accessing it, because it's seen as a bot (Forbes does this, as do a few other sites).

This combo works great for reading entirely in your RSS reader. I use my phone to download my feeds for offline before flights, so I can read the actual content as well without an Internet connection (assuming it doesn't have formatting errors).
As a consultant (not the OP) one of the best parts of writing code is having it solve real business problems (and getting paid well for it). It's a point of personal pride to write reasonably good code, but the structure doesn't matter to the person paying the bills - the outcome does.

It's like living in a house: as long as it doesn't fall down and doesn't cost unreasonable amounts to maintain, I don't really care about how well-formed the mortar is, or that the drywall is hung perfectly according to company standards. I just want to live in the house and not worry about it.