skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because some of us see our friends, family, and neighbors as more than a set of genes to pass on to the next generation.

And if those friends, family, and neighbors are clogging up a strained medical system that could even cause harm to us when we require such services for our own well being.
As a current and active member of AA, let me re-affirm that this battle over a "higher power" exists inside the rooms of AA just as everyone is arguing about it here. A great many alcoholics let them selves get hung up on the concept of a higher power, or more specifically, the word "God". The word God appears 134 times in the first 164 pages of the Big Book. For many non religious people as well as non Christian people this presents a huge problem; how can we alleviate the burden of alcoholism without believing in God?

Within the 12 steps of AA, Bill W clearly laid out the answer to this very question. Below I've copied over the first 3 steps of AA.

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

The gist of step 1 is acceptance. Acceptance that our lives are controlled by alcohol. This one is pretty easy for any true alcoholic to admit.

The gist of step 2 is surrender. Step 2 states, "Came to believe a power greater than our selves could restore us to sanity." Coming to believe in something is not the same as flipping a light switch and a light coming on. Surrender here in step 2 deals with admitting that we need the help of something greater then ourselves to restore us to sanity. That power could be the love of your family, wife/husband, kids, the energy that moves the cosmos, or a fucking Zagnut bar. As long as it is a power greater then self, you're good.

The gist of step 3 is faith. The key to not getting hung up here is the statement "God as we understood him". This ties directly back to "a power greater than ourselves". Seeing how the Big Book was initially written in the 1930's, and Bill W himself was a Christian, the word God appears a lot. Before the first edition was published, there was an internal fight between the founding members and contributors to the Big Book on the wording of step 3 in particular. They made a deliberate decision to say "God as we understood him" to include as many people as possible.

I share this with you all because I have been and always will consider myself a non religious person. I have needed to work on the concept of a higher power time and time again. When I first started attending AA meetings I let the God/higher power thing get in the way of my recovery and relapsed many times. Only once I surrendered to the idea that a power greater than myself could alleviate my suffering, was I able to start the road to content sobriety. I hope this helps clear the air for some of you, and if there is anyone out there suffering from alcohol or drugs please find a local AA or NA meeting raise your hand and ask for help.
It opened with breakfast, at 7 a.m., in the Harbor View Ballroom of the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel, where a wide bank of windows offers a sublime view across the inner harbor, steel gray on a cloudy morning, to Logan Airport in the distance.

About 175 executives were expected at the Biogen leadership conference on Feb. 26. Employees from Biogen locations around the United States and the world reunited with colleagues they don’t often get to see.

They greeted each other enthusiastically, with handshakes and hugs, and then caught up over breakfast, picking from plates of pastries and the self-serve hot food bar. They were there for two days of discussions and presentations about the future of the Cambridge-based, multinational biotech firm, which develops therapies for neurological diseases. It was the kind of under-the-radar gathering that happens in this region just about every week.

Full article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/11/nation/how-biogen-lea...
For some reason, it reminded me of Kirix Strata [1]...well, it feels like it in a way.

https://www.kirix.com/
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. You can do that in any general-purpose language - high level, low level, old, new, whatever, you don't even need any libraries - it's all just numbers in and numbers out! So yeah pick whatever you want. Algebraic and object-oriented languages seem to work well in practice as the problems are data-structure-intensive, but many other paradigms also work well. I really love compilers, I think they're the perfect program.
This is not an exaggeration. Just because people are flouting the lockdown does not mean it isn't serious. This is not "a bit different." The PM just raised the severity of the closures today: https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2020/03/11/news/coronavir...
How long would you remain under a government ordered quarantine, or restriction of movement, before you did something about it?
A $5k bump in salary should probably make up the difference in the average year. That's not a "LOT higher salary" by my reckoning. Hell, the difference in tax rate alone would easily make up for that, even if the US salary is lower (which seems likely to be opposite of what would actually happen).
That's right. Even if it is impossible to prevent from spreading, which I believe we will no longer be able to do, it is still much better to be sick at some other time than when everybody else is sick, too.

It also gives more time to develop protocol to treat it.
https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/1237413723658055680...

Same...
Whoops, looks like I forgot to add the link in footnote 5:

[5] - https://newatlas.com/psychedelic-medicine-lsd-psilocybin-alc...
Don't need to be a cost... We could just have 911 send a taxi instead.

I know in other countries ambulances are not always dispatched, because 911 operators decide it's not critical.

Mostly this decision is correct, but from time to time a heart patient dies.
(Maybe the alternative should be to send a taxi)
There is no shortage of meetings where you're expected to submit to the Christian God, where the people will be hostile to someone they find out is an atheist.

They'll still use the "your higher power can be the door knob!" bit, too.
Agreed and clearly we start infringing on pretty basic american rights if we wait until summer to stop convening jury's.

That said, reasonable people are avoiding being in closer quarters with sub-1000 people, and it seems like some assurance besides "call if you're so symptomatic you should see a doctor" might be prudent until a little more is known about the virus.

Maybe I'm just salty that I have jury duty this week (:
A Botnet Is Taken Down in an Operation by Microsoft, Not the Government
Nope, cafes/restaurant will be close, period.
Infected people are more likely to be symptomatic than not, as far as we know (for example from the Diamond Princess).

Even if it was only 10%, should I find reassuring that 6000 people (less than 2% of the population) would have to get infected for the collapse of the healthcare infrastructure to start?
It worked for me. Could you have it set to Never Ask? (I'm using Firefox Nightly on Mac OS.)
If you have a solid data model and team or person that is charge of preventing people from implementing bad ideas, it becomes trivial for people to do data discovery on their own. The problem is many orgs have pushed far to the opposite direction, unstructured, undocumented, unspecified data structure. While this is better than "no data" is puts tremendous burden on the user to interpret it later. As the old rule says: crap in crap out
Ask HN: Crowdfunding for Healthcare Workers?
Since health care workers are - generally speaking - underpaid but play one of the most important roles in containing the current outbreak, including risking their own life, I'd think it'd be fair to setup a global funds from which health care workers can get a share from.

My expectation would be that anyone who qualifies as someone involved in containing the current outbreak can register somewhere and receive share of the totally collected amount.

Is there a crowd funding action already in place? I'd readily spend at least 500€ to it.
and several cases from Exabeam folks at RSA...
Google is different to other FAANGs though even there e.g. SREs might be pretty overloaded at times.
I love it. I built something similar a few days ago.

https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/1237413723658055680...
it's not like you can guarantee that I will not loose my time and money, or can you?
> China's ability to control crisis like this scale is going to be valuable assets to global investors.

Their ability to control the crisis is useful from a public health perspective, but they're doing it by shutting down production. Look at how the markets have responded. Are you claiming investors wouldn't have been better off if these companies had invested in a more diversified supply chain?

For that matter, having a more diversified supply chain makes it easier to implement these kinds of public health measures in general. Shutting down production is much less costly when there is another region capable of quickly picking up the slack. And making it less expensive to implement measures to contain a contagion makes it more likely they'll be properly implemented, which helps everybody, investors included.
This has happened to me. I'm an atheist, and experienced verbal abuse when others found out.
What do apples and software have in common?
$300 is a user fee, a fraction of the actual cost, which in Canada we do pay for through an insurance scheme called taxes. (Most other medical expenses are covered through our single payer insurance, funded though provincial income taxes, but ambulance service is paid for by property taxes, I think).
The government is not going to shut everything down. Obviously grocery stores, pharmacies, hospitals, doctor offices, etc., need to stay open. They've all remained open even in Wuhan and Milan.

No one is saying to shut down everything, because of course you don't want to starve everyone (starvation has a mortality rate much worse than COVID-19).

It's shutting down most things that is being suggested. Healthcare and food stay open.
I used to live in Austin and have experienced SXSW many times. It's still an amazing time and experience. Take all of the comments with a grain of salt (including mine).
You say that like it's a bad thing. This kind of situation is the only real justification for it, and it's actually a pretty good temporary measure. Key word being temporary.
It's wrong to think of this as a disease that impacts 65+ year olds.

It impacts all ages, a significant proportion of young people also get severe breathing difficulties and need to be intubated/ventilated in intensive care units to be able to breathe, it's just that for young people the ordeal is harsh but survivable, while elderly people are more frail and die.

And the current situation is given the availability of healthcare. While everything is (still) good, it mostly kills 65+ year olds. If it spreads so much that there's no capacity to hospitalize young people and provide them with oxygen, then it will also kill large quantities of young people.
Microsoft is already had an internal Rust summit,

https://twitter.com/ryan_levick/status/1225837057186000896?s...

and are doing other experiences as well,

https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/microsoft-exploring-rust-...

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/11/07/using-rust-in-win...

Kenny Kerr, the original author of C++/Winrt, which replaced C++/CX, has now turned into Rust.

https://kennykerr.ca/2020/02/22/rust-winrt-coming-soon/

They are also motivated to actually make C safer, with Checked C project, something that ISO C doesn't seem to care that much.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/

As per MSRC advisory, new code should be a mix of .NET, Rust or Core Guidelines compliant C++, depending on the use case.
Discovering strategies to make money during down market. There are lots of opportunities
yes, but that's happening in every big company.
> new cases per day decreasing dramatically since February

some good news
No. Cost per outcome is still higher. More is wrong.
In other countries they do that so aggressively that we have stroke victims dying, which an ambulance being dispatched.

On the other hand, given that triage failures are rare -- cost/benfit wise it's probably better.
update - it has now been confirmed that the T2 chip is vulnerable to the checkm8 vulnerability which made version-agnostic jailbreaks available for all iOS devices up to A11 CPUs. So, it would seem that Apple is only slightly in a better position.

AFAIK, the Secure Enclave stores the actual disk encryption keys and Touch ID data, so that should be safe. But the secure boot validation, firmware password, startup security policy, etc. can now be bypassed (once a full exploit to do so is written). Also, it is quite possible that the Intel ME and UEFI firmware validation can be bypassed by simply disabling that part of the T2's bridgeOS code.
Here is some info about this. https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/03/10/2-mn-masks-1000-...
There's at least a 99.99% certainty here it wasn't COVID-19, likely a lot more nines. It just doesn't add up.
That seems to have the smell of incompetent bureaucracy…
Here "Not uncommon" means "Very uncommon" because of course as this story illustrates US medicine is _ludicrously_ expensive and so the only reason you'd _travel_ there to get medical treatment is because that's the only place offering some obscure treatment you want.

Also is that list of really weird stats "all objective measures" ? No. It's just "Here are some numbers somebody seemingly randomly picked from a _vast_ array of statistics kept for the OECD".
We know so little now that it's better to be safe than sorry! We're talking about millions of lives!
Ha! Thank you.
Yes, this is absolutely true, in a dictatorship. On the contrary, in open societies, it is precisely the fact that policymakers have to justify every single thing they do that provides the stability and prosperity that democracies generally enjoy and prevents the abuses of power that are endemic to dictatorships.

It is definitely not normal for public health emergency planning outside the military to be classified. If there is information in there whose public availability would cause serious harm to national security, something has gone terribly wrong — a far more likely explanation is that the classification decision is the kind of quotidian lie that undergirds the self-serving corruption that habitually ruins authoritarian societies.
Is it? Unless you have some sort of evidence that “they didn’t try this because guns,” that’s less than speculation.
Even under 250 needs special precautions and plan
> What I see here is that those with critical thinking skills will do just fine.

The problem is that it's extremely easy to overvalue one's own critical-thinking skills, and so think that one is immune when one isn't. (In fact, when experts are fooled in areas that they think are covered by their expertise, then they tend to be worse fooled than non-experts.)
Implying which? That they'd have to share people's information? That the truth would come out?
Microsoft is fully aware it is reached the tipping point.

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-s...

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/11/07/using-rust-in-win...
You're totally free to share all your dotfiles on github and encourage others to use them...
we can basically guarantee that a very short snippet of code (say, a few lines) is secure, right?

I’m not sure that’s true, but even if it is, you have to ask: Which few lines?

Let’s say we have the technology that can analyse (say) five lines of code and prove them completely correct and secure. That doesn’t mean you can prove a 500 line program to be secure by running the analysis on each 100 sets of five consecutive lines. Code in one place can affect the logic elsewhere. So now to prove a 500 line program correct, we’d need to analyse every possible combination of 5 lines chosen from the 500 => 255244687600 different proofs to check!
The Ubuntu-like distros are getting ever-so close to being a great candidate for a standard Linux desktop for general users. Ubuntu and Kubuntu are close to this and probably are great for a specialised user such as the author. Unfortunately, one thing that's still a problem in many Linux distros are the inconsistent support for system-wide shortcuts and the still in progress transitioning from X11 to Wayland. i.e apps complaining about Wayland support on X11 DE and vice versa.

I have confidence that distros from the Ubuntu family are at least getting there in making the Linux experience more pleasant, but it isn't as consistent and integrated as macOS whenever I use system-wide shortcuts recognised in the OS and all apps and Time Machine being able to backup instantly to another Mac. If I told someone to do the same from Ubuntu to another distro, you're just 20-30 Duckduckgo searches away to type the solution in the terminal.

Thanks, but I'm perfectly fine with macOS on my Macbook for now.
HN likes to downrank anything regarding the current outbreak. This was posted 53 minutes ago and received around 100 votes in 20 minutes, but was downranked shortly after:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550623

Now this post has inevitably been downranked as well. I'm setting up a HN downranking-watch site right now ;-)

If you know some crowd-funding site where one can donate money to health care workers, please let me know (berthold dot alexander at googlemail dot com)
So it's basically fraud, then. OK, nice to have that clear.
God damn. I've seen some pretty thoroughly wrong articles before, but that one takes the cake.
good for him. he only has one life and he aint spending it in a sandwich factory. hes exploring some of the most exciting chemistry this world has. and its a shame we live in a place where people are terrified and manipulated by tv into thinking anyone who shows interest in these things must be placed in a small room for a long time. 300 gears ago governments would be giving him money and patting him on the back. some people we not not born for this time. a time of sol destroying mortgages, overbearing laws, 1000's of unwritten rules and a general utter boring existence unless you were born into wealth.
> Is there any economic theory which explains how such odd of an system can emerge/survive?

It has nothing to do with economics, but rather with law. My first reaction upon seeing figures like $300 for ibuprofen or $750 for iodine (both elsewhere in this thread) is imagining I'd tell the hospital to fuck right off (ie respond with written notice disputing the validity of such charges), but clearly there are other details that pressure people into actually paying the nonsensical bullshit.

Regardless of single payer, private insurance, subsidies, out of pocket, etc, I do think much of healthcare could be solved if providers had to charge/publish uniform prices and couldn't post-facto bill, you know, like every other business. Imagine going to the grocery store, paying at the register, and then two months later receiving a bill in the mail for the cashier's time!
Is it? You can fix rowhammer by simply re-mapping all memory banks after executing every instruction.
Yes, Apple has some serious supply issues. I am already waiting three weeks to have my Mac repaired :( Temporary bought a new one to get work done.
Will do! thanks
It's textbook Innovator's Dilemma. Can't cannibalize your existing product. Good idea, but let's do it some other time. The someone else does it instead. Whoops.
Do you have a source? I pasted from the original article.
My point as well. Things are not gonna be any better 2-4 weeks from now.
>If you sort the line items by cost..

Do you really think current health care is giving accurate line items on your bill?
I work for a company with significant manufacturing in China, our source is people on the ground. So, Anecdata, but well-connected anecdata.
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I don’t know how they compare, but consider that in the north of Italy there is one of the most advanced health care system in the world.
Do you really think current health care is giving accurate line items on your bill?
Just recording those things isn't sufficient. What if the person hasn't read the archive? What if they don't have the capacity to understand what they are reading in the archive?

It's an old saying, "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you." And that's what Chesterton is ultimately driving at: don't reform something if you haven't taken the time to understand why it is the way it is. Documentation helps, but is not sufficient.
You're almost right except that the damage to the stock market overwhelmingly impacts boomers who are trying to retire, not the young who hold nothing but cash

Crippling the global economy hurts old people worse than it hurts the young because the young are far more resilliant to disruption in their daily lives.
Misplaced sarcasm aside, the military makes very excessive use of basic triage.

Medevac is not called for 'asthma attacks' I can assure you.
People comparing it to the flu do have one thing right. This will likely be a new ever-present thing in our lives with rapid mutation and seasonal outbreaks. USUALLY these things get less deadly over time due to evolutionary pressures. It will be interesting to see if this has lasting impacts on our social norms and, like you mentioned, desire for high density living.
I built an Active Directory template to deploy Microsoft's mitigation:

https://github.com/technion/DisableSMBCompression
So you can absolutely "stop" the spread with an absolute quarantine. I don't think you can absolutely "stop" the spread if everyone is using enough infrastructure to go register for a brand new basic income program that might work better than say, public options for healthcare, or alternately keep going to work, if they keep going to the grocery store, including any public transportation required, keep working at required services like fire, police, medical, etc. and if they keep doing any number of other essential things we're forgetting here.

And were there not videos of government agents welding bars on windows and destroying food to punish quarantine breakers recently?

I think you're dramatically oversimplifying how this all works.
An awesome research project in this area:
https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/sieuferd/
They did.

All public gatherings are banned without special precautions. All larger than 250 are now banned even with special precautions.
"CFR" = case-fatality rate.
Nothing will change or it will get even more expensive. There is way too much money to be made with the current situation so doctors and hospitals will fight tooth and nail.
> Many don't have more than a few days of food in-house

At this point if you don't have at least a week's supply of rice on hand you're just being careless. It's dirt cheap and large sacks are readily available everywhere.
70% of the country will get infected. No matter what we do. The only difference is how long it will take. Even with the most drastic measures imaginable, 70% will get infected. If they all get infected in the next month, the death rate skyrockets. If it takes 6-12 months, the death rate will be ~0.5%. Heck, we might even have reliable clinical results indicating a useful treatment by then. Right now on that front all we have is a very small amount of anecdata, but we should expect some decent data on Remdesivir from China soon, and I guarantee you that every pharma/biotech in the world with a nucleotide analogue is doing testing/screening today.
"Classy" in this case doesn't mean "class." Some people are turned off by vulgar language.