skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny I discovered that effect last week in react-spring examples: https://codesandbox.io/embed/8zx4ppk01l
Send the bill to China.
In Germany? I doubt it.
"Treatment" I guess but if she was hooked to ICU machines it could have reached $1 million in no time.
The problem is that each individual country will (reasonably!) not allow critical medical supplies to be exported during a crisis. It worked out mostly okay this time, because the countries with large domestic mask production all got their crisis under control before the rest of the world got it. If the next pandemic happens in China and the US simultaneously, we're not going to have any masks at all.

And note that "mostly okay" here doesn't mean we have anywhere close to enough masks. Just that, with extreme rationing, we can ensure most but not all doctors have the absolute bare minimum of protective gear.
Read the first sentence of the second paragraph.
Yes, the past was different than the present.
Coronavirus pandemic changes how your privacy is protected
Eg. with Vec, every operation that may trigger reallocation should return Result.
It does. Whiteboard - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/whiteboard-in-a-tea...

Sharing oversized monitors or when you are vertically oriented is a problem. I often have to resize the window.
What was the hack? PWM to an RC filter?
that is ... sad? I was hoping that the audience here would do a more critical reading of news , so the info at the frontpage would at least be useful. Plus we need to motivate hackers to create solutiosn for this crisis. I think HN is underestimating the gravity of the crisis , and it's obvious by the absolute triviality of the posts right now (how to create a pencil effect in SVG? Seriously?)
I was literally just about to say the same thing. This is almost exactly a rip off of it
I don't think NSL can even be used request the actual content of the recordings (vs. "just" the metadata) - a judge would have to sign off on that.

Now, clearly there's a lot of questionable practices like secret courts, gag orders and ineffective oversight in general, but this is still far from "for data on big corporation's servers, the NSA already gets a copy of everything", and very far from "being forced to deploy a firmware update that turns a smart home devices into a bug".

Companies act exclusively in their own interests, which I would hope includes to not engage in covert surveillance of their own customers.

This will only stay this way if we keep demanding and expecting privacy, and push for stronger oversight. But defeatist claims like "the NSA gets all data anyway" are not useful.
What I get from the testing kit rollout is that the government is massively incompetent and I shudder at the thought of them getting their hands on anything to do with my healthcare.

Make the federal government work and then we can talk.
I am not arguing they are mathematically identical. I am highlighting some of the meaningful differences. Stock buy backs make stock prices go up. Dividends do not. Stock buybacks have timing risk dividends do not.

If an executive is paid in stock, and has compensation tied to stock price then there is an incentive to conduct stock buy backs and not issue dividends. Further, declaring a dividend sets future expectations of performance that management is hesitant to be tied to as missing dividend payments lowers stock prices.

My point is that these incentives causes management to spend more company resources on buy backs than they would on dividends because there is a personal benefit. This harms stockholders because they lose the option to use the dividend. Not every investor wants to reinvest, some want to use the dividend. So no, they are not equivalent as you say. There are meaningful practical considerations that make dividends better for shareholders and buy backs better for managers.
How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent?
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US destabilizing the middle east and causing a refugee crisis is not helping european social welfare programs.
> And what are the deductibles and co-pays? What are the bankruptcy rates and how many of them are because of medical bills?

Depends on your insurance, but obviously lower than in the US. I don't know what US-insurance companies usually cover, public health care in Germany is so-so, e.g. if you need glasses, they won't pay, so you've have to pay for those yourself.

The US system certainly has plenty of issues, and I'm not saying that European systems aren't superior, I'm just saying that we pay much more. This obviously has a smaller effect in low-income people as their healthcare, social benefits etc will be subsidized by others, but if you're working in a high-skill profession, you'll take home a lot less of your paycheck than in the US.

Unless the high earners in the US are fine with significantly reducing their net income, I don't think you'll find a lot of support.
i don't understand why you got downvoted. We don't consider someone dying from a cold if he's 80yo with heart attack.

We're introducing a novel way of counting casualities, and this is problematic whenever we want to account for the severity of the virus.

Now on the other side, hospitals usually aren't flooded the way they are at the moment, or at least that's my impression. So there is definitely something special about the epidemic (although we don't know why : maybe it's just extremely contagious, and makes everybody become sick about the same time, instead of a natural spread for the flu ?)
They tried that in the US with Obama's mandate. You had a choice of getting of getting health insurance or paying a penalty roughly the same cost as getting the insurance.

Trump getting rid of that mandate is one of the few things I'm grateful for in his presidency. No longer am I forced to pay for terrible insurance that had high copays and ridiculous deductibles.

I'm a low income worker and in exchange for almost 7% of my income I get 1 free doctor checkup a year and catastrophic coverage.

Sorry but $2000 cash is worth a lot more to me than an imaginary $100,000 hospital bill. Anything less than $2000 I spend on my health in a year is cash money in my pocket. Being "rational" about insurance is a luxury for wealthy. I would rather dispute the cost with my hospital and let the debt go to collections where I can reduce it even further.
Medicare for all doesn't give people a choice between private insurance or government insurance. It's a non-starter, i am happy with my insurance like tens of millions of people in the US. Government option gives us a choice proposed by the front runner. Everyone wants to compare us to Canada. Canada gives you a choice and 25% have private insurance.

Edit: going to vote me down for just listing facts.
my experience is similar, but never 10%. more like final bills end up being ~60% of original. We had a $3400 ER bill for a cut hand in November. Our 'final total' after 'negotiated pricing' was closer to $2400 - approx 30% reduction, not 90%. (fantastic savings for $10k/year premiums!)
The more extreme this virus gets, the more it is in the interest of the candidates to annonuce their support for it. I can just see Trump going for it and spinning a story about how he always wanted that. And what would people say? Go against it?
I was more thinking that CT scans would happen in advanced cases before the patients die. I did a bit of googling and found CT scans are not a definitive diagnosis but they are distinct from flu at least (just as koheripbal said).

But it's a good point that we might have more deaths than we've counted, and this might just mean we're further along that we realize. The rate of growth is probably not just an artifact of more testing; it's similar to the growth rates in other countries that haven't gotten control of the disease. And we definitely don't have it under control.
No. It has nothing to do with politics. It is a labor and economics problem that I don’t see the pandemic solving for. Few people in the US who can easily afford health care are willing to advocate for universal health care at their own expense simply because it’s too expensive. This is a problem with health care in the US specifically.

Health care in the US is excessively expensive due to intentional market inefficiencies. There is a lot of research on this. Simply speaking the industry employs too many people. Consider the number of people employed due to medical insurance, medical equipment industry, pharmaceutical industry, medical administration experts, regulation, and so forth. Unless you are willing to kill a large segment of commercial medicine and put many people out of work this industry will remain expensive, and so long as it remains this expensive a universal medical service simply isn’t going to happen.

In the meantime the closest thing to universal medicine in the US is the VA.
the part about preexisting conditions is completely wrong since the ACA.

the person who replied to you is wrong about out-of-network services though. they seem to be describing a ppo plan. my high deductible plan is quite clear on the fact that out-of-network is not covered at all. doesn't even count towards the out-of-pocket max.
Much more than twice. The per capita cost (across all Americans, not just those eligible) for Medicare and Medicaid is higher than the healthcare costs of most other developed countries before you even factor in private insurance.
A cold oven works well for me with both sourdough and dried active yeast. If you have time enough and flour, do your own A/B test!
One of the most absurd consequences of CarPlay is the USB car ports are often 1 amp. So my phone dies faster. Combined with Apple forcing you to use Apple Maps, makes me cynical of basic technology. This is partly what makes it more distracting.
I'm sorry you are under so much stress.

I'm not being negative. I'm trying to provide solutions and hope.

I know a lot about coping effectively in the face of a high need for germ control. I've done remote work for years. Etc.

Maybe overlook the one sentence you focused on, go checkout gigworks, give me some constructive feedback (as penance ;).

The world has been on the brink before and gotten through it. It can be done.
I'm going to try that
Show HN: Keep your communications secure while you're WFH
Is begging (negotiation without leverage) a remotely reliable move for those without insurance or is it just an excuse dangled by apologists when in fact the reality is that it usually results in a very small discount unless you get the story to go viral?
Wake word recognition happens on-device with Alexa as well.
Speaking of that, if free/universal health care does come to pass, is it more likely to be federally or state funded/organised? (I'm European, so please bear with me if that seems like a basic question)
Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan
Are you trying to say europeans have money to spend on an almost fair medical system because they are spending far less money on military because the USA spends enough to „protect“ the europeans? Because that would sounds like a joke.
Europe is spending less money in military because its not entering so many wars or conflicts.
A more tyrannical justice system and more incarcerated people are not necessarily bad per se. Remember that the US is vastly more heterogeneous which translates into more crime. Keeping criminals in prison is freedom--freedom to own a store and not being robbed, for instance.

Not sure how common civil forfeiture is, I'm not American, but it sounds quite fishy indeed. As I said below, I didn't mention the US at all...
Skimming through the numbers in the article[1] linked to from here, it's very interesting to see the dynamic that Apple has managed to create around depreciation.

A 2 year old iPhone can still be traded-in at roughly 50% of the value (whether to Apple or a third-party). The effect that this creates is that it becomes quite reasonable to buy the latest iPhone every two years after trade-in. I'm sure this has a big impact on new device sales, one of the factors as to why Apple beats records every year.

On the flip-side, I believe the reason they are able to do this, as the article here notes, is that their phones just last long (hardware/software). My iPhone 8 is not very old, but I'm not planning to stop using it for another 2-3 years at least (unless it shatters). In some ways, this reminds me of ThinkPads, just in terms of how long they can serve their purpose.

I'm honestly getting kind of "bored" of Apple devices, but I fear Android devices may not have the same solid 5 - 7 years of support, and as is evident from this article, trade-in value.

[1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/cell-phone-depreciation-repo...
Any reference about the W.H.O. "not suggesting"?

I understand how the matter is ever-evolving but EMA published this 3 days ago:

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-gives-advice-use-non-s...

>There is currently no scientific evidence establishing a link between ibuprofen and worsening of COVID‑19. EMA is monitoring the situation closely and will review any new information that becomes available on this issue in the context of the pandemic.
Steve Jobs said in an inteview that Apple did pretty well on the privacy thing. He wanted to ask the user for permission to access private data, others wanted to take it all without asking.

That gives me enough information to guess there's people who would make apps that take the private data without asking, whether the option to turn off privacy feature blocks them all or not is the question.
Coronavirus Bay Area: Oakland neighborhood throws 'social distance' block party
Well, you know, at some time in the future, those "healthy young adults" will be the "unhealthy older adults" and other young people will subsidize them then. That's pretty much how those social insurance systems work.

Maybe Americans are missing something to understand that, but it's not socialism or communism if you actually care about all people in the state, no matter how healthy or old they are.

Maybe Americans will understand one day.
Also, how does "what we know" make this unlikely?
Embedded in certain geographic and demographic sectors. Always remember the Republicans have a demographic problem that cannot be overcome long term.
> What they do accomplish is preventing prices from rising quickly enough to justify new production lines.

How does this matter, if either way the new production line won't be up and running until after the emergency is either over or has been seriously exacerbated by poor allocation of goods? It seems like you're still trying to pretend that markets are efficient and can always respond quickly, and that's simply not true.
You can read barcodes with your phone camera. No additional hardware required.
http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

That’s a cool PIC32 home computer - PIC32 is MIPS btw far beyond the old 8 bits though...
If the Supreme Court doesn't reach a majority decision on anything, then the decision of the relevant appeals court stands, in this case probably the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
You'll 'sign up' for the only one your employer offers, because so few people ever consider getting direct coverage, partially because... if you have an employer that offers insurance, you can't effectively buy direct (you can't deduct the expense if you're 'eligible' via an employer, whether you take it or not). insane...
Hospitals and Emergency rooms are "licking their Chops" and sharpening their teeth $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ at the massive wave of sick people expected . . .

The uninsured are screwed . . . which coincidentally are all those millions standing in unemployment lines right now . . .

Hospital bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcy filing these days . . . go figure.

About 10 years ago I went to hospital emerg. room for shot of antibiotic in my butt, got bill for $2,000. Went and complained and wimpered and they sent me to office way in back of hospital with beastly lady with reputation, known as "the grinder". Took like 12 visits and calls, had to show my IRS tax filing showing I was not making any money, they finally reduced bill to $200.

Interesting that most States Attorney Generals actively arrest contractors and common folk for allegedly "price gouging" during any crisis, but our upstanding "pillars of the community" doctors and lawyers NEVER get visited or arrested for shaking people down everyday.
Thanks davismwfl, what we do at forestpin is to help companies find mistakes and fraud in transactions, the customers who use the product really like it. How ever some of the discussion goes on and on. The longest sale took 2 years from the first meeting and the shortest sale was about three months. We pitch to the finance director of the company. In its pretty hard to find the correct influencer in the company since no body in a company is responsible for collective mistakes. Lot of companies have no insight to the cost of transactional mistakes they make. We got customers after doing proof of concept projects successfully. These take time, since once a POC is agreed, we need to depend on different teams to get data and the associated time lags. I had a one on one session with a YC partner (SUS online) and he recommended the book "Impossible to Inevitable" I am going thru the book these days its pretty helpful. Thanks again on your helpful insights. Hope you and your loved ones stay safe from COVID19
Millions of people are about to lose their "chosen" insurance when they get fired from their jobs.
Smugmug was also there around that time.
You can unlock yourphone before you plug it in. There is a security feature that will require the phone be unlocked when connected to a USB device after not having been unlocked for a period of time.

Change it here:

Settings>Touch ID & Passcode>Allow Access When Locked
Spend a year away in the mountains or somewhere with fresh air, then come back.

You'll be shocked.
If I didn't have to do the input myself I would subscribe to this for life.
... and half the time people bragging about the spectacular insurance they found have just fallen for one of those "fake insurance" scams that are now legal again. Sure, you get $1,000,000 per year of coverage -- with a per-incident cap of $1000 buried in the fine print.

And even though fake insurance is cheaper than real insurance in this country, it's not cheaper than real insurance in most single-payer countries, which is just nuts.
Their number is listed in the info brochure.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1010/0544/files/COVID19Bro...
Agreed. If there was some kind of tech like Amazon's just walk out idea that could automate keeping track of everything it would be great. But having to do this stuff manually kills it. It's the same problem I have with personal money mangers; I have to manually import my bank transactions and then further manually categorize and label them (I've scripted some but can't do most) for it to properly work and give me good graphs and breakdowns.
Keep in mind though, that the way the data is represented is a form of lossy compression and the size of the images may not be.
There is no evidence the average Chinese person is "much more capable" than the average American.
And the Chinese were evidently not "diligent" enough to shut down wet markets despite years of repeated warnings from epidemiologists, nor were these civil servants forthright enough about what was happening fast enough to prevent spreading this illness to other countries.

Stereotypes in either direction are dangerous, unfounded, and unproductive.
”If COVID19 was spreading in the US since November then the US hospital system should have been overwhelmed by now with intensive care patients.”

Or the fatality and hospitalization rates have been overestimated due to severity bias.

We know this to be true, actually. We just don’t have good estimates of what the true rates are.

It wouldn’t be shocking at all to find out the virus is already widespread, and only slightly more dangerous than influenza.

Even in Italy, if there is widespread infection, the ~4k dead would reflect a low mortality rate.
Yes the last few years have given a chance for all birds to rise on the updraft from the burning trees. That's ending as we speak and the flood that's coming will be sucked back up into the hierarchical class system, the invisible org tree, with "trickle down" economics.
I think the reason it's inexplicably low is that they haven't really been testing.
I think this sort of inventory system combined with automatic updates (a la Amazon Go store style OCR embedded in smart fridges, etc) would go a long way. Have always thought this would be useful, but agreed the amount of energy required to manually update everything would be unsustainable.
You’re wrong. In Canada and most countries with government single payer insurance you can buy private supplemental insurance that covers more elective or less necessary things the single payer doesn’t. I haven’t seen a Medicare for All proposal that bans that.
It's not about programming languages, but it contains a lot of information about the birth of cybernetics in the USSR: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford.

Highly recommended!
The amazing thing to me is she didn't get any advanced treatment. She didn't even had to spend the night there.
If it's regular, by definition it is not a black swan.

What other events are you referring to?
> You really cannot and should not compare confirmed cases / tests vs deaths when the calculation of confirmed cases or tests varies from place to place.

That was my point.
My only oven is a https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/ovens/bov900.html

It fits a 5 qt Lodge Dutch Oven just fine.

It actually works better for baking than a full sized oven because it’s easier to keep a consistent temp.
I'm not sure anyone knows where the "Spanish" Flu originated, but it may in fact have the US. It was certainly spread by US troops. The only reason it is called "Spanish" Flu is because it happened during WW I and neutral Spain was the only country reporting it in the press, as opposed to US, UK, etc which were censoring the news so as not to look weak during wartime.
As a matter of law the federal government controls the international borders and inter-state boarders. It is up to the state governments to limit movement within their borders. https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...

As it so happens, President trump has been limiting international travel starting all the way back in January.

Why do you think the federal government isn't "doing much" (https://www.usa.gov/coronavirus)?

And what exactly would you have it do that you don't think it is doing?
The future margins only exist if only one person succeeds in a given area, and the telecom industry is perfectly aware of this. It's the same reason why there are so many places in the US served by only one internet provider. I wouldn't expect there to be serious competition with the satellite provider for customers best served by satellites.
I highly recommend just reading the book "Flour Water Salt Yeast", which is where this recipe comes from:
https://kensartisan.com/flour-water-salt-yeast
Presumably power is disconnected by the T2 chip. Different from mechanical disconnect via a physical switch, but equivalently effective if you trust the T2 chip. (And if you don’t ... well, you can’t use the MacBook securely at all.)
Getting https setup with S3 is the easy part. What I'm struggling with is getting www->root redirect to work with https. I've tried quite a few setups and none worked perfectly.
There’s a BSD 2.11 port for PIC32:

http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php/start
Math and Coding Resources for Homeschooling
With your upper bound estimate it would be a 360% increase if you included the 2.6M from all causes.
The wider this disease spreads, the more likely mutations and new strains will appear. This could very quickly spiral out of control. If you are insinuating that an economic shutdown will cause more deaths, you are probably incorrect. Although, we will never know the answer for certain.