skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That ambulance bill is insane. Up here in Canada ambulance charges are paid out of pocket but my wife had a low blood pressure emergency and got an ambulance called and was only out 300$ for a three mile drive (through dense city streets even).

I'm even of the opinion that that bill was a bit excessive.
Most children have two parents. The few cases where both parents work in health care they most likely have immediate family and/or friends who are either public workers or private sector workers who can work from home.
The government should have offered him a job instead of treating him as a criminal, especially considering his autism.
> civic and moral duty of every person

According to which canon?
I find it slightly narcissistic to claim that I would have a moral right to someone else's behavior when it's well within my ability to take preventative steps for my own safety (Wash my hands, dont leave my house, and in between as my risk tolerance allows).

It's a little like someone saying "You all owe me X because I exist". Do we also owe it to the immunocompromised?
Help to fight climate change. Kill old people with the corona virus.
You can choose to be a part of this, but it's the same logic as blaming the poor for societal issues or Muslims for terrorism.
It also provides exposure and recognition for the engineers who write content for them, or who have their technologies features in the blog posts.
It is substantially better to respond to article content, not headlines. Authors don’t write their headlines.

It would be better if they did, but they don’t. So if you argue against the headline only, you argue against a strawman.

(It’s fine to address the headline as well, as that gets a lot of attention. But don’t attribute it to the author)
Bats live long life, have low inflammation, and are perfect hosts for virus
As with all usage-based product, when you start it is cheap (much cheaper than building on your own), then as you grow your resources will hopefully scale with the number of users.

If your resources don't scale with usage, yes, you have a problem, but I'd say not limited to algolia
> It's easy to understand how Europeans look at Americans is if they're brain-dead.

I could easily say the reverse is equally understandable (letting their rights to free expression be eroded, horrible internet legislation for two) and that the covid-19 situation in Europe as a whole seems to be objectively worse than the US.
If the bug was in a library supply by MS and used by SMB and Samba would use that library then the vulnerability would also be present in Samba. But that isn't the case, Samba re-implements the SMB client/server code in it's own library.

A vulnerability that would transfer between different codebases would be protocol-level because all clients and servers that are to be compliant would have to implement the same protocol(s) and perhaps would easily all write identical state machines. Those kinds of errors are often range errors and logic errors as far as I know, which is a different kind of error as far was I have seen written about this compression bug.
It will be interesting to see when this inevitably does affect political mobilization, or even just voting. There's a decent chance that we'll see some of this before the end of the year (and very possibly on Election Day).
Please note: this isn't my own opinion, read this as you would a dystopian science fiction lore

A month ago when I read that the Virus improportionally affects older people, I had a short thought about a movement of young people who embrace the virus against the Boomers. This doesn't exist to my knowledge, but it wouldn't surprise me if it would.

If I follow that strain of fantasy for a moment, a cynic would argue: only once the old, many and poltical established Boomers are affected drastic measures happen. That is why the climate crisis didn't produce tangible results. As a rich person you can mitigate against many problems a climate crisis brings, that is harder with a virus. As a old person you will be dead once the most disturbing consequences of global warming start to really hit home, but a virus that can end your life right now is something different.

If we take a utilitarian perspective and do what prevents most suffering. And the empathic and intuitive thing is to avoid as much human suffering as possible now, but what if our inaction today creates magnitudes more suffering tomorrow? Wouldn't it then be justified to view it as some sort of poetic justice when a virus specifically hits the older generations who's political interests prevent real solutions to even bigger existential questions that are global in the truest sense of the word?
No they wont, schools will shut fully down. For ppl that rely on child care, and cant do it themselves, something will be provided. But the schools are not it.
Brought you buy the Newesweek of "OK, Millennial: Boomers Are the Greatest Generation in History" https://www.newsweek.com/2020/03/13/ok-millennial-boomers-ar...
just remember everyone that there are other 12 step and recovery focused programs and out there. so adventure out, explore, meet people, find where you fit and heal :)

https://aa.org/pages/en_US/meeting-guide
Alcoholics Anonymous - for those who have a desire to stop drinking alcohol.

https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Narcotics Anonymous - for those who have a desire to stop using drugs.

https://secularaa.org/meetings/
Secular AA - same thing as AA except they don't pray nor require a belief in a higher power (no God stuff)

https://whitebison.org/WellBriety.aspx
Wellbriety - Wellbriety means to be sober and well. Wellbriety teaches that we must find sobriety from addictions to alcohol and other drugs and recover from the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol on individuals, families and whole communities. The ‘Well’ part of Wellbriety is the inspiration to go on beyond sobriety and recovery, committing to a life of wellness and healing everyday.

https://heroinanonymous.org/meetings/
Heroin Anonymous - for those who have a desire to stop using herion (basically like NA only herion focused.)

https://crystalmeth.org/cma-meetings/cma-meetings-directory....
Crystal Meth - for those who have a desire to stop using crystal meth (basically like NA only crystal meth focused. the meetings are off the charts)

https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/
SMART Recovery - Self-Management And Recovery Training (SMART) is a global community of mutual-support groups. At meetings, participants help one another resolve problems with any addiction (to drugs or alcohol or to activities such as gambling or over-eating). Participants find and develop the power within themselves to change and lead fulfilling and balanced lives guided by our science-based and sensible 4-Point Program®.

If you know or attend other group, please list :)
Google results can drum up anything you like. I've never personally or through second hand seen or heard of any AA group that would kick out an atheist.
It does seem kind of karmic through the lens of NIMBY older folks have been making it impossible for younger generations to buy/build homes near them, and now they want the young whipper snappers to care about their welfare.

Maybe the best way to become a home owner in SF in the near future is to run around infecting everyone there ASAP.

(In case it's not obvious, I'm mostly kidding)
Pharmacies and newsstands can stay open, too. Pubs and restaurants will be closed, but home deliveries will be permitted. Factories can stay open if they take additional prevention measures.
Philosophy Has Lost Its Way
Ideally, sure, but I don't think that that federal government is really going to do better in the near-to-medium term no matter how many such articles are written.

Individual (and state government) action is mostly what we have, so that's more important than ever.
Single payer healthcare for all has always been radical in the US. The Overton Window shifting to the left over the last decade is what has allowed Bernie to have any relevance at all.
> > China's Xinhua News just posted a piece titled "Be bold: the world owes China a thank you", which says if China imposes restrictions on pharmaceutical exports, US will be "plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus".

> How does this make you feel?

Amused. It's just saber rattling and propaganda. They've said similar things before. If they restricted exports it would hurt them too. (At one point they threatened to dump all their US treasury bonds, but that would also hurt them just as much as it hurts the US.)

Besides, plenty of other countries can make pharmaceuticals. It might cost more but we'd buy them.
I'm not sure about hundreds. Could be way more.

In Germany we currently have 28,000 beds in ICU (I expect we will try to increase this number ASAP). If (as expected) we have say 10% of the populace infected and 10% of them require intensive care we need 800,000 beds.
What happens to people who don't get proper care when they desperately need it? A lot of them will die.

If the measures result in less simultaneous infections it will save lifes for sure. The more of a delay we can achieve the better.
Making an RC Car with Ada and Spark
It is, but even if the review is done really well garbage in/garbage out.
Theoretically, if we accepted lower performance, could we design our hardware and software to actually be secure? The number of exploits over the last two years is making my head spin
Let's not get it twisted: nothing is deducted from anything. For workers who _do not get sick days_, they are forced to either take unpaid days off or use up vacation days when they are sick.

I really hope this gets changed in light of all this.
The virus will show up afterwards but could already be slowed by then combined with fewer infections from people returning from abroad. But they will have to see simply.
Switzerland is currently ok, but now I am thinking of canceling my trip.
Ha! So I work adjacent to the insurance industry and, hilariously, sometimes tier based copays on medication fills can exceed the pharmacy's price - usually pharmacists will catch this and just never bill the insurer, but sometimes patients can end up paying more for a drug because of their insurance.

Healthcare is all kinds of insane at every level.
N italy here: cops can now stop individuals for 'being out without good reason'. and even going to work, or medical visits, needs printed (self) permission that can be vetted by patrols. I saw a group of three people outside a gelateria, today - morons. Any authority that allows any groups to gather is being wrong. Hate to say it, but the italian government is doing the right thing - minimize the risks. I do expect panics and social unrests early next week, though, especially when the cops and carbs start getting sick.
Friend I went in for an annual checkup despite being in apparent perfect health. Blood test results led to some other tests which led to the discovery of precancerous growths early enough to stop things. I’m in my mid 40s with a young family. Be careful with advice like this.
I am getting really exasperated, every time this topic comes up there are always some who presumes the worst of ... I do not know who but someone who just wants to use the CoC as a tool to censor and expell people. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't. It never did, it's not about that. It's about making everyone feel safe and welcome. I tried to explain and I feel you didn't read and just parrot the usual bro words. Did you read my blog posts?

Really, come now, I have grown up behind the Iron Curtain, do you think I don't know what censorship is?
I fully agree with your experience here. We have a super hard mission at Chartio - it's not just about the interface but also how the data is setup. The interface, being as flexible as it is and also enabling full schema (instead of dataset) browsing is a pretty big part though in also allowing a more agile version of data modeling. It had that very much in mind and we've written a book (soon to be published with Wiley) on proper modern data governance techniques.

https://dataschool.com/data-governance/

Our next phase is to help people get to that cleaner source of truth much more quickly than traditional dimensional modeling approaches. Tools like Visual SQL and DBT (https://www.getdbt.com) are really changing the complexities here.
> encouraged to work from home

That doesn’t seem very drastic.
If they can still carry and spread it, and may show very few symptoms (if any), that can be quite dangerous.
A related question, does anyone have good resources on how to set up WFH for a small company from an IT/security perspective?
VPNs? Teamviewer to a desktop at work? BYOD or company laptops only? Use the cloud? Help!!!
Old people still need a functioning society and economy right? So therefore maybe it makes sense for the less vulnerable people to keep doing things.
Price controls, de facto or de jure, seem to be one prominent, common factor in the health care systems of every other advanced economy. Even Singapore, practically the only "see, the market can work for health care!" example I see used, has them.
That's actually the big issue, when talking about system overload. A second wave + coronavirus will put Europe in another Category of right wing..
Yeah. A lot of people focus on the insured vs uninsured gap - if you're uninsured you're fucked. But the reality is that, even with insurance, medical care is a disaster. Finding a doctor in your network, waiting months to see them, completely unpredictable costs that, to me, borders on fraud, etc.

I've recently started a company, and at the same time a friend was laid off, and over the last 6 or so months I've gotten to experience the absurdity of this system from a few angles. It has been eye opening.
What baggage? The label of 'democratic socialist'? No Presidential candidate in recent memory has been as devoid of scandal as Bernie Sanders.
There’s numerous cognitive biases in play that cause people to disproportionately weigh near-term risks/rewards (hyperbolic discounting). Not to mention one is a direct threat while one is more abstract
I've witnessed online discussions about how this is a "boomer cull" and had to point out that we all have family or friends that are not likely to survive it.
There's this weird conspiracy theory that it's only as bad as the flu, being passed around by a lot of strange groups. It's disconcerting
Emergency daycare facilities will be available for those that have no other options.
Climate change is real doesn't mean NYC will be flooded.
No country is quarantining itself for 12-18 months
Churches can (and should, voluntarily) continue to operate without meeting in person. Many already stream their services online for the convenience of any members who can't be there due to sickness, travel, etc.
A single postgres daemon- a unit of scaling- can support many datomic transactors, each talking to a named "database" hosted by that one daemon.

You don't have to scale your postgres daemons with your microservices- each of which have their own transactor- which would be painful and out of the ordinary for an ops team.

Scaling datomic on top of postgres is no different from scaling any other microservice.

That all said, the architectural point that did sound painful in the presentation- and which is a common pain point in microservice architectures, not unique to what NuBank is doing with Datomic- was having to maintain an ETL for analytics purposes, to pull together all of the distinct microservice-specific Datomic-hosted data sets into a single uniformly SQL-queryable data set. The details of that implementation, and whether it made use of the new SQL interface supported by Datomic, were not discussed. But it smelled brittle and fragile.
Counterargument: China
separate line items, typically
This may sound extreme, but it is scapegoating/systemic apolgia.
Important is that they are then able to quickly disperse local outbreaks once they are familiar with how to handle it. Right now they are fighting to keep it contained nation-wide, i.e. reducing R0 to under 1, that should last up to 4 weeks if China is any kind of a reliable indicator, then local outbreaks might still happen but could be quickly quarantined without overloading ICUs.
Just FYI - the best case scenario is a CFR of 10x the flu. All those stupid "Over 20,000 people die from the flu every year, so don't worry" posts are going to look really bad if 200,000 people die.
A lot of now-developed countries had 100% domestic textile production 60-70 years ago and yet nobody went naked (OK not 0% obviously but very few). People owned fewer pieces of clothing overall, but everyone could still afford to be clothed.

If textile manufacturing became 100% local again, local wages would also rise by a similar amount. $400 wouldn't seem unaffordable for a sweater. Or the sweater would cost correspondingly less.
So you want to go remote?
It's exactly what force majeure clauses are for. If something gets cancelled or becomes unreasonable because of Covid-19, this gives a reasonable way to exit contracts without penalties, and that is a good thing because given very unusual circumstances, we want people and organizations to be able to adapt instead of being pressured financially to execute things that seemed reasonable last year but are not now.

The first area where I'm seeing widespread uses of force majeure clauses is the cancellation of large events, conferences etc with limited or compensation for the cancellations. And again, while this hurts some people a lot, this is mostly a good thing, because we do want to give the organizers the ability to break their commitments and cancel the conference with much smaller consequences (to them) than an ordinary cancellation would have; we don't want the organizers to be pressured to hold the event at all costs.
Right, but you also benefit from the fact that it's an HDHP, right? Must you be on an HDHP (because the other plan is too expensive, or because another plan is not offered) or did you choose the HDHP even when presented with the options?

The big up-front deductible and an HSA is pretty much the point of the plan, and it's mostly advantageous to those that are young and/or don't have to go to the doctor that often, with a max downside of their deductible + catastrophic.

EDITL To be clear, I also believe significant reform is required, but there is also a lot of misunderstanding about how plans work which is not helping. The whole industry is extremely opaque.
Modern Newsweek is just the print-equivalent of a radio station that only features shock jocks.

They weren't always this bad: they used to be quite good. At some point within the past twenty years, they got restructured pretty heavily. Now it's more or less the same as any old rag.

They're at least willing to air views on any side of the aisle; they'll take anyone, as long as they're as simple-minded and as vitriolic as the average Newsweek reader.

Actually, it is just like radio.
Do you care for common sense for social policy on viral epidemics? Common sense in many places means toughing it out is professionally normal, even if you're getting your coworkers sick. The same applies for kids in school.

These kinds of medical judgments on viral epidemics are exactly where we want the government to communicate clear vision and leadership on emergency medical policy...
I'm not going to lie, this really hurts my brain to try and wrap around, it's a lot of cognitive overload in one place.
+1 small whiteboards

If your mind wanders while working, quickly write down the smaller tasks you need to do, no matter how small. Keeps focus.
Is that true? I feel like the mainstream scientific picture has been alarming (correctly) for that whole period, and people (using ignorant heuristics) have incorrectly discounted the warnings since they don't feel the pain right now.
Not mad at anything, and there's nothing to gloat about. I'm really just wondering if anyone is attempting this.
> It’s not nearly bad enough to prevent me from working

> Many people with coronavirus are completely asymptomatic, recover fully and don’t even realize they had it.

I'm not disputing any of these. YOU will be fine. The problem is, you will spread it to a lot more people and eventually the serious ones with underlying conditions will need medical care and eventually the health care services are going to be overwhelmed and rendered helpless (like is happening in Italy right now).

So basically, they're asking people not in the risk like you and I to at least not spread it to other people who might be at more risk.

You're being too skeptical of the news. WHO and other organizations are very clearly warning to take this more seriously. Pandemics are not declared every other flu season.
NCAA to Hold March Madness Without Fans in Attendance Due to Coronavirus
I know you're joking but there could easily be a great shift in voting patterns if this pandemic reaches deeply enough into older populations[1], presuming older voters generally vote conservative. But even for someone like Joe Biden it could mean a big change since apparently [2] his base is older voters as well.

[1]
https://www.axios.com/2020-election-youth-vote-gen-z-895c7c4...

[2]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/20/older-vot...

It would mean far more than just changes in real estate, although younger folks would still have to get out and vote.
The city of SF forced this on them with a rule against >1,000 people gathering in the same place - the team didn't want to comply as people have been asking for this for a few weeks now.
Yeah? It isn't reasonable to expect no accidents; so that doesn't really tell us very much. It might be part of a broader pattern or it might not be. But it is evidence that there will be a lot of Tesla drivers out there leaving the car on autopilot which is pretty good support for naming the system 'autopilot'.
We are telling a billion impoverished millennial-somethings that they can murder their wealthy elders with minimal risk and guilt.

Heck, there's a whole generation of food-service workers who couldn't take a sick-day even if they wanted to. Will they weep if that pizza kills a retired plutocrat?
Do you mean flooded from some specific storm, or from rising sea levels? When do you think NYC will become flooded? I've heard predictions of a sea level rise of 50 inches by 2100, but I don't know how much the levels need to rise to flood NYC.
That's only the tip of the iceberg.

So many people don't even have sick leave and are working paycheck to paycheck drowning in debt.

People in the US are essentially doing what they're told to or permitted to under their current financial and employment situations from my anecdotal observations. Very few have the option to forgo their work activities (public transit commuting, wide exposure in service industries, etc.).

Don't point the finger at the US at large, point the finger at US leadership that's more concerned about next quarter's ROI and less on the health of the country. Most people I've talked to have been limiting their exposure and intentionally distancing themselves from the more elderly and or immunocompromised population when they can.
I did. It is clear that you have no idea how bad this have gotten in other countries.
> Do we also owe it to the immunocompromised?

Yes? For example, get your vaccines so those who cannot get them have herd immunity.
I am a pessimist - I think that once the dust has settled another Shkreli like ass-hat will be hung out to dry and everyone will decry how much they were charging for such-and-such component of the treatment while drawing attention away from the unreasonable prices in every other portion of the treatment.
Just as important as anything we can do to contribute on the tech side is how we can take advantage of the privileges this line of work offers in terms of working style. Programming is far more suited to remote work than most fields. Advocate at your company for them to allow remote work! If you want to bring your tech skills into it, develop Slack bots, bookmarklets, bespoke web apps or whatever else it takes to make it easier for your company to work remote.