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I’m not sure where you’re getting that from. There is no universally accepted definition of “intensive care unit bed“ due to fundamentally different approaches to healthcare in different countries.

What you can easily compare are hospital beds for acute care - this is a much bigger pool than just icu.

You can also easily compare number of doctors per capita.

In both of these measures the US system lags behind places like Italy.
Serious question: we are very soon running out of toilet paper. Because of the panic from the virus, our nearby stores have all been out of toilet papers for a couple of weeks now and we've been unable to restock so far, so it was a golden opportunity for me to bring back up the idea to try out a bidet (SO is reticent but it beats having no toilet paper to wipe with)

My problem is that I don't know how to "hang" the handle when it's not in use. The bathroom is all tile from floor to ceiling and we're tenants so we can't drill to hang an attachment. I've also seen systems that hook over the tank's wall, but our toilet has the tank in the wall (it's a German style toilet for those who know what I mean: tank in the wall and toilet seat hanging from the wall rather than the floor)

I'm also not convinced with the little arms that install under the seat which reaches out when water flows, because I'm very concerned about back splashing on it when using the toilet and being unable to thoroughly clean the arm. This would spray soiled water where we don't want it.

I'm hoping someone in a similar situation figured something out: what system do you use?
I'm an R and sometimes Julia user, although not Python. Can you offer some examples of how Mathematica surpasses open source alternatives in those areas you've mentioned?
Definitely, most city dwellers I know do not feel proud of being an American, but they only choose to do so to avoid nationalism and patriotism from clouding their judgement - not because of the lack of the American spirit.

The American spirit is always there. They will always seek truth, keep a tab on the government and fearlessly criticize authority, value freedom of speech, liberty and freedom of press. This isn't unique to US, but to Canada, EU, UK, Switzerland, India, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and many other democracies around the world.
Most of us aren't medical professionals or researchers, so there's not really a lot we can do to help, other than stay home and avoid spreading the virus.

Meanwhile, life goes on, including the usual political discussions. And those are important. They shouldn't end. The actions of our leaders should be scrutinized intensely at all times, even during a crisis.

"The blame game" is not a productive term for holding national leaders accountable for their actions.
Apologies for the word largesse - I should probably have edited out the adjectives (which always cause me a problem) more aggressively.

I actually find that even though these applications aren't running pacemakers that they still don't work. It's really easy to write what is in fact bad algorithm for accessing (eg) shoe size data when you are working on rows only as objects.

I cannot speak (and am not) for the Rails ORM but the problem here is less about some library people use but about the primary affordances being "get this object by id, edit it, and save it back". This is just not right IMO and is the underlying cause of the famous "object-relational mismatch". I suppose I come down on the relational side of that in that I think object access is the problem.
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Yes - if you want to speculate. Buy puts or calls.
No - if you want to invest. This is not a rational market.

I still see a long way to fall. Wait months until the market is dead before buying.
Thank you for the response, I am so confused when people try so hard to shift blame so their favorite tribe avoids any responsability. Like 2 weeks back this people were trying to say that is just like flu and today when this does not work then China is at fault because this is worse then flu and China should have done a better job handling it in internally, and also convincing this skeptics that is worse then flu to also handle it better in their own tribe. I assume that at the point you discover that is worse then flu you need to have more then one data pont, so the virus has spread already - if skeptics won't believe you what can you do? the skeptics were just waiting for more numbers.

I am not defending China, just trying to address the blame shifting and maybe convince some people that the next one can originate in their own country and we all need to be better prepared.
Believing a proven notorious liar is your own fault.

Look at actions, not words. China locking down Wuhan should have been enough of a warning sign. But realistically, even now most people & governments are complacent (few passed martial law).
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Author here - I'm afraid it is hugely wasteful. The network is really nothing to do with it but instead the fact that you have to make a table read instead of an index read. This seems like a small thing but as I describe it changes the complexity class of the algorithm you have effectively written.
Manjaro comes with them preinstalled, I believe.
Maybe most people would. But I've heard first hand accounts of how devastating it is to lose a war, and I'll go with that.

May I recommend "Savage Continent":

https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Continent-Europe-Aftermath-Wor...

It was so terrible I abandoned reading it.
I don't know how to operate a ventilator, and have zero medical training, but I'm getting frustrated by the comments claiming medicine is trivially easy.

Even using a syringe or blood draw on a patient is something one needs certification to do properly. That isn't bureaucratic nonsense. Having worked with syringes and sterile technique, there are so many ways you can give your patient an infection or otherwise cause them life-altering complications if you don't know what you're doing, even for the actually trivial techniques. Operating a ventilator incorrectly will result in death. Likely a grisly one, as incorrect pressure differentials and human lungs are not a good combination.

Now that doesn't mean we need to stick to these bureaucratic rules as they are for this situation, but the people on here advocating for trying complicated medical procedures while knowing fuck all about medicine (or even biology) really need to take a step back and take an inventory of what they don't know, and can realistically expect to accomplish with neither the technical knowledge nor manual dexterity of a trained clinician. A YouTube video and a technical manual aren't going to cut it, folks.
As individuals we need some reliable way to know if we are immune and not contagious. We probably also need some way to prove this to others. People who have this status should be able to operate normally together with others and keep things running during a long lock-down. It wouldn't make sense to keep people locked inside if they can't catch or transmit the disease.
I'm a full-time software engineer in Seattle and I got laid off today. I have been with the company for about 8 months only. There given reason was re-org. Looking for an opportunity during this rough time, my resume here http://0sl.in/aboutme I appreciate any referrals
Is your source for this a random video on Facebook?
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It's hard to convey what I mean exactly by listing features, it's best if you use it yourself. Next best thing is to watch an expert use it.

Wolfram has released good videos to that end, here's the latest:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/569938853

I find R to also be a lot better than Python and closer to Mathematica (especially if you combine it with RStudio and Shiny) but still not quite as good overall on the interactivity/environment end.
It doesn't matter anymore. The only thing that matters to the world right now is how we go forward from today on.

And Republicans are a hindrance in the effort, through and through.
Go back to Facebook
"Burn the Heretic! Kill the Mutant! Purge the Unclean!"

And I sit in my, partial empty, office and have to work - damn :(
Why not use __attribute__((cleanup))? It's widely used in real code (eg. systemd has been using it for years) and there's effort going on to get the mechanism standardized in the next C standard.
This seems right, provided that I can make the product good enough. It would be a much harder way to make it good enough than to make it opensource and gather users.

I should consider whether the early startup even without funding can afford to choose that path.
The CDC has literally outlined which expired masks are acceptable and which are not:

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/FAQ-N95.aspx

Take that for what you will.
> Yeah, except not every business is willing to wait 25 years for Rust to achieve parity with today's Java ecosystem.

Unfounded speculation. You've made this number up.

> Rust IDEs can't still offer completion that works all the time, let alone all the other IDE features

I didn't see any problems in IntelliJ. If there are cases where autocomplete doesn't work, these are rare edge cases and they don't affect predictivity. VSCode was a bit laggy, but that's probably VSCode problem not Rust's. This is what happens if you base a desktop tool on a browser running JS.

> Rust's has a big selling story for OS low level systems libraries

It is good at that, but this is not the primary reason to use Rust. Rust selling point are explicit lifetimes which make it virtually impossible to create pointer hell I found in every commercial Java codebase I worked on. It is the same level of productivity enhancement as introducing static types over dynamic. Explicit lifetimes make it a bit harder to write in Rust but code is being read 99% of time and written only 1% of time.
Noone's self-sufficient. IIRC Turkey was close, but these days noone's self-sufficient. Look around you — where was your phone made, where was the material for the clothes you wear vowen, where were the weaving machines made? Your neighbour's kid is still in nappies, your other neighbour has asthma and needs that medicine, where were they made?
I overheard an army acquaintance talking about what would happen and he said something along the lines of soldiers deployed would have limited kit to be less intimidating.
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What exactly are we supposed to see in those links?

I see two photos of people standing close together. Neither group is practicing social distancing.

The Japanese are wearing masks (not N95 masks) whose effectiveness is still being debated, but that's about custom, not government response.

The photo from America shows a bigger room, but I suspect that's just a choice of photo and Japanese airports had big rooms full of people in January too. Perhaps not, but certainly a photo of a small room doesn't disprove the existence of big rooms.
Ford too: https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/124041736308791705...
Please don't spread FUD - people are already panic-buying enough as it is.
There's no shortage of people with ailments... A lot just go untreated or are queuing for a long time.
The model I use for some for-profit things I do:

People who pay are your customers. Everyone else is free advertising / marketing / product or service testing / feedback group.

Note that "who pay" doesn't necessarily include "those who might pay" but can include "those who would pay".

The ones wanting your site open source more likely fall into the "might pay" group. I've used a plugin architecture to test the resolve of "might pay" vs "would pay" groups. By exposing APIs for at least import/export I removed the downside of "data held hostage". "Might pay" also frequently turns out to be "won't pay" most of the time.

I wouldn't recommend you open source your site unless you see a lot of potential for open source contribution or where review[1] is expected. I would suggest considering some sort of plugin or API for users. This is a good enough bridge for most people. Especially business to business linkages or even b2c.

[1] crypto is an example where review is worthwhile.
maybe check https://www.rtings.com/ they have monitor reviews divided by categories (for example creative work) and they test every possible aspect (for example brightness in brightly lit rooms, peak brightness etc.) that might help you.

you can also sort, filter and compare the different options. it's really good and they do all their testing themselves and buy all the monitors instead of getting review samples.
I don't get it.

It is estimated that below 50$/barrel Saudi Arabia is basically pushing wealth out of their country. (Balance of payment in negative, it is right?.)

And below 80$/barrel they are running the country at a deficit.

They are now selling to 30$/barrel.

What is the strategy here? Push all "high-tech" producers out of the market and shut up the price again? How long can they last? And how much it will cost?
Its also way faster and less complicated. One query line, one action on the db.
My oldest son (10) also started with W40k - thanks to Warhammer Conquest.
Tangent time?

The power of vibration is heavily under-appreciated (less by Apple than by everyone else).

Our phones are great at precisely creating many different vibration patterns and humans are pretty good at distinguishing them. We're even more sensitive when it's happening on our wrists.

Yet instead of using this to create personal and expressive notification experiences, most manufacturers opt to barely give the user a choice and just turn on the vibration motor for way too long (or do that twice!), simply creating a sensation of pain every time.
Abused in what way? That’s different from any other points moderation system
Woah! Had no idea that PA is still around :) Two decades and still going strong!
Pyrrhonism. n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
>"Good artists copy. Great artists steal"

Who said that? Steve Jobs? It seems so.

The tireless Quote Investigator[0] locates many sources, including a progenitor from the 19th C, but can't find Picasso (who Jobs credited) saying it.

I was familiar with the T.S. Eliot version "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal", or in its context:

"One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."

The point of that is, in part, that good artists don't copy. Copying/imitation of the greats is how you learnt to make art, but it's part of learning, part of becoming an artist–not part of being one, let alone a good one.

I always think of the way Shakespeare took a plot, say King Lear, from historical sources, and made it his own. It's akin to a "cover" (in the rock music sense), but made so completely his own that every other version is forgotten.

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
Florida having outliers like that does not look good.

Florida's governor is still refusing to close beaches, which are packed with people, many of them traveling long distances to get there (spring break), with countless people being interviewed on camera saying they don't care..

Some cities are finally taking measures into their own hand and closing beaches, but at the moment it's only a few.

Given the fact that Florida's population tends to skew older, the data mixed with the public response is concerning.
I'm sure this is good work, but what's actually being tested? Weren't these the medicines the Chinese used in Hubei, what's the question left to ask after that?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32031570 was the top result when I googled. As a naïve bystander I don't understand the difference.
Can't Windows and Linux machines do this by "Sharing" the printer onto the network?
Warning: it is a very expensive hobby to get into. With the complete lack of time I’ve had, I have a box pile of shame that I really should start working on...
Why the shame? Self-deprecation I hope. Because there should be no shame in having a productive and creative hobby.

I wish I had the patience to paint such tiny figures but whenever I've tried my hands start itching, I even feel itching behind my eyes, in my brain, and I just scream and throw things on the ground.
You seem to be summarizing Descartes' "Cogito Ergo Sum" - "I think therefore I am". It does indeed prove the existence of something, but it doesn't actually prove anything about the nature of that existence. Are you an actual human being on a planet, the way it looks like, or are you a mind trapped in the Matrix? Does one thought cause the next, or are your thoughts just recordings on a tape of some sort, played sequentially, so the apparent causality is just an illusion?

My point is, you really don't get very far before you need to believe in some axiom, e.g. "I am a sensing being whose subjective experience of reality resembles the objective reality around me" (I know this sounds very basic, but try listening to someone who thinks they can slow Earth's rotation by meditating, and you'll realize that not everybody starts with an axiom where subjective and objective reality are separate, or where subjective reality is a derivative of objective reality and not the other way around)
There is also the concept of partial consumption. Often you might click on something you think might be interesting, peruse or preview it, then decide it wasn't as interesting as you thought and move on. Did you actually consume that content or did you preview it? There is no way to know if someone is lurking, actually fully consuming the content or simply previewing it. There is probably no way to prove this but my guess is that 90% of the consumers are actually previewers.
IIRC my school district (in WA state) pinned Chrome OS versions for a long time because the state standardized testing software required a specific Chrome version. Not sure off hand if that's still a problem.
> China locking down Wuhan should have been enough of a warning sign.

It was. Within a week the world was announcing countermeasures like travel restrictions.

That lockdown was on January 23, less than two months ago.
For me it's video games. I do have my music and drawing hobby to compete against it though.
Not talking about today's situation, but I've been laid off during the crisis in 2008. I was in a small startup that cut its workforce in half (because VCs wanted it to stay afloat longer with the same amount of money). Many other tech companies did massive layoffs.

There was still plenty of jobs in companies who were not affected by the crisis as much and used the opportunity to recruit talent that is very hard to attract in normal time.

So if you're in tech, it's unlikely that the job market will dry up to the point it becomes hard to find a job.
I really like this, looks very nice! Well done!

Also I've heard that using establishment-provisioned tablets results in greasy screens, this solution alleviates that by using the patrons own devices :)
28 days lagged.

5-14 day incubation period.
5-7 day low symptom period.
5-14 days to death.
I've seen azithromycin counter-indicated as a treatment to be used at the same time as Hydroxychloroquine, on the medscape site, among a couple others, so this is surprising to read..
Won't this just guarantee that every bus or tram is as full as possible?
anyone without a job here right now: does somebody have a zulip, discourse, slack whatever, where we can all hang out? I think it would be generally a cool concept to have a HN-job-seekers chat site where smart people can network. People in-need might be able to help each other with ideas and / or work together on cool side projects while also looking, or maybe just learning cool concepts from each other ...

Anything really that allows people to focus on solving this problem for longer than the life-time of a HN post being on the FP. I think it might also be good for mental-health. E.g it seems there are lot of us here who are struggling with ageism, discrimination or for other reasons finding a job/gig so this could be a better alternative than refreshing twitter and focus on helping each other?

Burnout is also a real kicker. I went through this in 2013 and it had cascading effects on other areas of my life that caused an absolute meltdown. It took me 3 years to get back on my feet and after 5 years I could still notice that the experience changed me. I'm OK now but I'd imagine having a place where things like these could be discussed in an environment with intelligent people would have helped. I really haven't thought this through but just want to put this out there. Maybe should start a new Ask HN, idk

How this could work is post your nick that is used on the site also in the HN about profile as proof. Or make it open to others too idk, haven't really thought it through lol.

Anyone interested in this?
Not this one:

<a href="https://wanderlog.com" rel="nofollow">https://wanderlog.com</a>
Thank you for your case. I'm still wondering what is the ground for people who want open source to fall into 'might pay' group. I would like if you explain that part more.
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Two perspectives: I worked and coded out on alternative POS solutions right when iPad POS solutions became popular. But it's a dead end. It's too complex and resource intensive for an indie shop, it's not worth it.

For example, you may or may not have finally got this done, got it shipped, all those things are great. But your workflow and marketing are meant for tables. This is now dead on arrival.

Second perspective as a restauranteur: $219/mo is crazy expensive. I pay $300/mo to Revel and $180/mo to Clover for two different types of businesses.

With the $300/mo to Revel they process thousands a day and I have 24/7 phone support that within 2 min a live human handles my problems.

With the $180/mo to Clover they process hundreds a day and I have an easy to use, to easy to service system that I can hack into and custom build Android apps to do whatever I want.

Your $219/mo don't come close to delivering value like that.

Sorry.
Imagine the same scenario, but now Team A and Team B are on opposite sides of the world, and Team A is an authoritarian regime that won't let anyone get near Forest A and won't let anyone talk about Forest A, and instead of a forest fire, the danger is microscopic, invisible to the naked eye and to satellites.

Would you still blame Team B for not knowing about the danger immediately?
Nice!

What does "quality" mean for SVG icons though? I could choose the resolution to be whatever I want.
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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Now (EU/ Remote)?
Special edition for people affected by Corona/economic changes.

European or remote jobs only for easy filtering. I’m sure a US thread will also appear.

No internships or visa needs.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Indeed, yesterday, more people in Lombardy died of COVID19 than on an average day from all causes combined. And they are on a lockdown for 11 days already