skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't take the Canadian medical system out of context.

BASELINE medical which exists for ALL CANADIANS covers vast majority of procedures. Heart Attack? Included. Stroke? Included. Broken Leg? Included. Black Eye? Included. Got a nasty bug on your trip? Included.

You only have to pay for some additional items like eye exam and dental.

Most expensive common dental procedure: wisdom teeth removal, root canal ... Total cost is under $10,000...

How about the optician? The most expensive eye exam? Usually free if you buy a pair of glasses. Glasses start at $100.

Drugs can be expensive, but, guess what? They're free if you're under 25. If you're over 25, it's still covered a lot by the federal government first. You pay less than what it costs in America.

What's our trick? We have price caps on procedures instead of each hospital feeling like it has to engage in a nonsense cat-and-mouse pricing term negotiation game.
> It was hard, but not impossible

Oh great let me get right on that. Wait, no, I have far more important things to do with my time.
That is a good point. So at least there is a default decision. I am still concerned about it being seen as authoritative enough, but it does also increase the likelihood that SCOTUS would align around an existing decision.
I agree with you on almost all points, but testing does help to stop the disease. They are not a cure but an ability to test infected and recovered people en masse would help immensely to (a) isolate contagious people as soon as possible (b) confirm that the virus is cleared and the person can go back to the productive work with at least some assurance of immunity.
What do you mean by poisonous mind game?
There is no "not making a decision". It's not that you can make decisions without evidence, you must make a decision even without evidence. Not wearing a mask is as much as a decision as wearing one.
what also bothers me about this is even if I don't buy one for the perceived safety risk, others can. the risk remains.
Link for more information:

http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218

The whole thing sounds absurd and a huge privacy violation, honestly. Their reasoning is that "..there is little infrastructure for storing medical records, so there’s often no easy way to determine who needs a particular vaccine."

So rather than invest in the ancient technology called paper and file cabinets, they need to embed a high-tech tattoo? Mobile phones are pretty ubiquitous in Africa; why not build a vaccine record system based on that instead?
One thought to reduce data entry (for some people): parse freshdirect (etc) emails, with a default expiration date put in. (The pie in the sky version uses machine learning to make better guesses.)
A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure from COVID19
But why? I have pushed my air quality hypothesis. What other reasons are there.

And you can't just claim social distancing. Unless they have shut down their trains, where people are literally packed in, that just doesn't fly. (So, have they?)
A neat guide on arithmetic and common math symbols
First of all, I saw this on another site (I have forgotten where, unfortunately) that actually showed the comparisons of CarPlay/Android Auto usage vs some other situations. However, it seems like a significant oversight that things like "changing the radio station" and "adjusting the climate control" were not in the comparison. I'd really like to see what that looks like.

Second of all, it's horribly misleading to compare the degree to which using these systems impairs your driving to the degree to which being under the influence of alcohol or drugs does so. I have CarPlay, and while I fully recognize that paying attention to it to change things pulls my focus away from the road, I'm typically doing so for no longer than 2-5 seconds. Being drunk or high lasts much longer than that, and there's no way to just turn it off. Hell, even texting or a phone call takes orders of magnitude longer than that.

I don't know if there's a particularly scientific way to do this, but my gut feel is that a more useful number would be something like the integral of distractedness over time—so find the length of time of a typical phone call, and multiply the phone call amount of distractedness by that, and assign some reasonable length to the total car journey, and multiply the drunk/high distractedness by that. Then compare that to the CarPlay/Android Auto distractedness multiplied by 2-5s times some typical number of times people adjust it during a trip of the designated length.
> Everyone with insurance gets insurer-negotiated "discounts" to around ~10% of the listed cost.

Except when they get screwed.

Friends are middle-class teachers in a good neighbourhood outside LA. Have been so for 18 years, have good health insurance.

She has a baby (should be a joyous time), emergency C section required. The following morning the insurance company says $60k/day is too expensive, and they need to move hospitals this very moment or they won't pay a dime. No transport provided.

A day after a C section he had to drive his wife and <1 day old baby in his own car to another hospital.

That's downright barbaric.
The 30,000 US troops stationed in Germany and the existence of NATO are significant factors in European countries spending so little on defense.
> Saying "properly tested" doesn't seem useful to me. I'm sure people thing most array overflows in C libraries are "properly tested"

It is useful in the sense that it's for a restricted set of constructs, in the same sense that `unsafe` blocks are not outright forbidden but they should be justified and because they're restricted in span they can be more easily tested than your entire C codebase.

Since array indexing would be recommended against by default (and either iterators or `get` would be the normal way to handle it), the number of places where it is used should be small and thus easy to check for, and test extensively if not exhaustively.
I drive a lot and quick glance is usually fine I'd say, but touchscreens often require more than a glance because the UI isn't as static as a typical dashboard. You lose context between apps, and so you end up having to look a bit longer. But the worst part isn't the glancing to be honest, the worst part is that when you're driving there are all these little changes in the road that makes you miss your target on the screen. Maybe it's a little bump or maybe there's a tiny adjustment in the steering that does it, but you end up tapping the wrong thing so often you then have to go back and fix things, and that's where you get into trouble I find because now your attention is truly divided.

I like CarPlay, and found in the Mercedes models that had the little control wheel in the center console it worked well, because you had a physical switch to interface with CarPlay, but had the flexibility of the screen. I'm no expert, but I drive a lot of different cars and that so far is my favorite way of interacting with CarPlay.

I'd still prefer a simple dashboard with physical controls though.
Epidemiologist are working, and they are saying the same as throwaway_pdp09 - that this is bad. If throwaway_pdp09 were claiming otherwise then it would be a different story. No country is going to change their country's healthcare response plan based on some random conjecturing on HN, and regardless of any numbers that pop out here, the instructions are the same - self-isolate until mid-April, at the soonest.

throwaway_pdp09 isn't spreading unnecessary panic and their attitude has been anything but arrogant, pompous, or dogmatic. They are very open in admitting that they are not an epidemiologist. Saying f(x) = 9 and asking why their 'f' is wrong, and wanting to understanding its shortcomings and how to improve it, seems entirely fine to me. You are going to have to be far more specific on the harm caused by a lay-person projecting that we are fucked in 9 days, vs an expert's opinion that we are going to be fucked in 11.

If it helps, pretend this question is being presented and asked at TA office hours during Epidemiology 101 at university by someone who is considering going into epidemiology.

We are all here to learn.

Meanwhile, there's actual, harmful nonsense out there to rail against. Half-remembered gossip misinformation that spreads like an infectious disease with an R0 of 5. Complete crap, like holding your breath for 10 seconds will test for Covid-19, or that essential oils cure Covid-19 or that its eventual vaccine will cause autism. Fight that misinformation, not people who's latent interest in epidemiology has been awakened. Who knows, a reader here could be deciding to get a degree in epidemiology because of an interest sparked because an exp curve is too simple.
I get that, and I feel the same, but a lot of jobs require time entries with work descriptions. I have had several of them.

Finding ways to minimize that burden on your workday is really nice. I hate time tracking.

No comment on this product specifically, I'd have to try it. But a lot of us can't just say no thanks to time tracking.

I should also add some people benefit personally from making this effort. I have ADHD and though I hate time tracking, the information it gives me is invaluable. I have a terrible sense of time (honestly almost none) and being notified of intervals and knowing what I did is an excellent aid for keeping on track and improving self awareness.
I suspect it'll have to get solved the same way as seat belts did, too. For the same reason: Cost. A low-distraction interface is going to be more expensive to develop and manufacture than a touchscreen that can be largely assembled from commodity parts and some software.
But there isn't a big spike in pneumonia/ER/ICU numbers either. So it's supposedly not a case of high undetected number of infected running around, laying in hospitals, and it doesn't seem like the government is trying to downplay it either, even if their testing protocol is not extensive enough. (Though they are of course incentivized due to the Summer Olympics.)
There's actually value beyond them just IDE hints. They can help expose mixed type operations (e.g. foo = int + float) and other places where you may be unintentionally casting between types. Eliminating those can result in notable performance improvements, particularly in tight loops.
Ah! prefer inaction to potentially imperfect action argument, I see.
In-domain tracking and ad obfuscation have both been around for years. And uBO has evolved to address them. There is content-based blocking/filtering for in-domain, and script injection to defuse obfuscation. I'll agree there's an arms race between ads and ad blockers, but it's like DRM, in that the home team (ad blockers in this case) always wins eventually.
> That's only done on a targeted basis to people who are being monitored. Your location history however is being passively tracked.

Except Amazon was caught with their hands in the cookie jar listening on 'regular' people's private conversations on more than one occasion.
Phones have flash now. Except budget phones.
You're deliberately excluding the rest of his sentence. If things were normal, yes, buying 1-2 weeks of supplies would be fine. But they're obviously NOT normal. Stores/businesses are closing, supply is inconsistent, and wanting to limit unnecessary interactions make it prudent to plan for greater than your normal 1-2 weeks.
A simple script to add right click context menu for your best Windows terminal
Completely incorrect. Amphetamine releases massive amounts of norepinephrine, which is the direct precursor to epinephrine (adrenaline). This causes a cascade of physical effects, including suppression of insulin, increased blood glucose and a massive boost in cellular energy production.

That’s a far cry from “all in your head”. It’s a systemic response that affects every part of the body.
Here is a widely-used example of a zero abstraction cost, type safe red black tree in C:

http://libredblack.sourceforge.net/

It supports a few modes of operation, including codegen, and preprocessor tricks. It’s clearly maintainable, given its age and continued use.

Your third complaint is that C with preprocessor macros is ugly. That’s subjective.

I think C++ is more elegant than C + macros, but the GTK people clearly disagree.
They know how to google how to bake.
As the owner of a modern car, PoS systems are in a whole different league than cars. In particular, PoS vendors actually care about making usage efficient.

In my car, if I want to increase the fan speed, I need to tap a small target, wait while the system lags out, and then tap a new target on a popup. Meanwhile, I’m trying to focus on the road at (effectively) infinity. It’s distracting and unsafe.

In my old, very well designed 1991 car, I could push the button to do this. It had two major benefits: it never moved and I could feel it. Touchscreens can’t replicate the feel of a button, but they could at least have the decency to keep controls in the same place.
As a freelancer, you should track what you worked on when and for how long.

If the client comes back and says "you billed me for 4 hours yesterday, what did you do?" During that time you might not have something presentable yet, but you need to track what you did (which might be 'write unit tests for {featureName}"

With that said, I'd hate getting interrupted every N minutes. Personally, at the end of a work session, I stop my clock (I bill by the hour) and note any PRs, meetings, or glue-work I did during the work session.
Pngminifier – a program that strips out ancillary chunks out of PNGs
Perhaps, but the context I heard it in was self-deprecating from someone working in industry, relative to engineers with PhDs.
The use of the term “insurance” is used for non-optional programs where the premiums are taxes. Perhaps not in the US though.
A Coronavirus Explosion Was Expected in Japan. Where Is It?
That's quote from wikipedia. I think you're right with your calculations, so I don't really know where this number came from.

What're you going to do with that collected CO2 other than releasing it to the atmosphere?
I am not arguing that virus is more widespread than the reported numbers, that much is obvious. I was replying to the idea that virus has been circulating “for months” undetected. With a doubling time of 5 days or so, with “for months” circulation we would be in a totally different territory right now.
Disheartened that Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant did not comment on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.
Did you finish though? I've got a year and a half remaining and I'm working on some side projects and thinking about not finishing the remaining year...

PS. We have to study PHP and "AI" next year here. And the final semester is an unpaid project at some local company.
> In practice, you don't really need one - the safe alternative to "xs !! n" is pattern-matching on the result of "drop n xs", as that's [] if xs has ≤n elements:

Great so instead of `xs !! n` you're supposed to write

case drop n xs of
[] -> …
x :: _ -> …

that seems… less than likely?
Let me try to put that another way:

Tests are information. I think we have enough information to try to err on the side of "Let's just assume everyone is a danger. Let's just globally reduce our cavalier, casual exposure to germs as a matter of course."

To me, it's crazy to insist we need to keep testing and we need to know who has it to protect people.

Social distancing and good hygiene are effective whether the person has been identified or not. I wish we would just go with that and stop acting like "a return to normal" is the goal and just around the corner for most people, if only we can identify the parties guilty of being infected and Target them.

It kind of doesn't matter. Just stop touching your face, among other things.
We should be building palliative care centres across the country, not pop-up hospitals.

Pay everyone who contracts Coronavirus in the next 4 months and is refused ICU care, $100,000. If they die, the amount is divided between their surviving immediate family members or previously registered carer.

The current panic seems to be driven by the guilt of not being able to treat everyone. This payment should alleviate that guilt and allow us to continue with life.
Mo Willems is teaching kids to draw over YouTube
curl https://corona-stats.online/
Just from trying the demo, there are default "shelf life" numbers for the vegetables. But it expects best-by dates for the other stuff. It looks like defaults could be entered in.
> it won't be a good business decision

You don't think it might be better to assume all this data will leak or be hacked? You most likely have decades of life ahead of you, and once a file is free on the net, it's there forever.
Mine was activated many times in the past when it shouldn't have been, e.g. while watching TV (no, nobody said "OK Google"), and my mom has a tendency to somehow activate my phone by just talking...

Once it is activated, it starts recording and sending audio data to google.

Every such device has a false positive rate on keyphrase activations, and of course the do, there is only limited processing available in those phones (that also try to conserve power), and people tend to mumble sometimes so you have to be a little generous and balance false positives against false negatives - the latter of which people refer to as "shit don't work".

Devices in lawyers' home offices aren't any different. And if the device encounters a false positive and activates, somewhere on some server some recording of your confidential conversation may get stored. Or worse, you buy 100 copies of "The Art of the Deal" off amazon by accident.

Even worse if your client's name, or their wife's or mom's name, is Alexa... or Alexandra/Alexander, which also cause a lot of false positive activations, or so I heard from a friend of a friend with that name.
Quick now do the same for the 50 other countries nearby. What was their reason?
It almost feels as if we pretend that "hands free" solves the distraction problem. In practice, I find that voice commands don't work reliably enough most of the time and, as you say, add the increasing frustration of repeatedly trying things and cursing at Siri or Google.
Yes, that is more or less true. EU countries can afford to spend so little on military because the USA protects Europe's interests in other parts of the world including the ocean and middle east. Trump toyed with the idea of withdrawing from NATO and EU panicked because they have no military.
Did they swap numbers by accident? I expect 9 out of 10 to default.
The tale of "capitalism / free market is good for providing options and competition" has been debunked time and time again. Look at telcos or nowadays cable providers. Yeah there are several , but they conspire to setup geographic micro monopolies. Same with airlines and computing (Microsoft in the past, Google in the present, apple as well)

That is fine for goods and services that are not essential... but for health? It is a terrible idea now, as it was for firefighting 200 years ago.
Other countries have price caps on their procedures. This makes sense to make the price for a procedure the same across hospitals. It's the same work. Marketing and Sales people should not be involved in the pricing structure of healing a broken leg.
I believe the Disappointment Islands have one of these [1], in a community of ~40 inhabitants.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190319-a-journey-to-the-di...
When I’ve seen “zero abstraction cost” used, it generally has meant that writing high-level abstract code is the idiomatic way to use the language, and that it comes with zero runtime overhead. (This is the main selling point of modern C++.)
Yes it will be leaked or hacked eventually. That is given.
uLisp – Lisp for Microcontrollers
So true. I hope we could listen to real expert (like Pr Didier Raoult) instead of so called expert like this Derek Lowe (PhD in organic chemistry, he is no expert in infectious disease at all).

In France, when Pr Didier Raoult in 25th of February [0] said that the chinese found that chloroquine was effective like it is effective against SARS-CoV (2003) [1], it was considered a fake news by "Le Monde" one of the most read journal in France...

Only now, because he has published a study [2], people are starting to say: "may be we need to check further"...

Everybody was saying: "Yeah, but there is side effect". Their team has used this drug for decade and know exactly how it works and how to use it...

So people, please, please, let's the real expert do the talking.

[0] https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/coronavirus-vers-une-...
[1] https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-42...
[2] https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/hydroxychloroquine-an...
For those not in the know

SICP = Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

PAIP = Paradigms of AI Programming
IMO, this current crisis exposes a very strange dichotomy: government is essentially shutting down parts of the economy over shelter-in-place orders, but when people lose their jobs and (for some) employer health care, the government doesn’t deal with the repercussions.

Look, I think shelter in place is a great idea for humans. But this is a case of doing the right thing for the masses hurts the individual. Sad times.
Heat a some oil in the pan, roast some chopped up scallions and a little sesame seed and bake a sourdough pancake at medium heat from the discard. Delicious!
I have private insurance with a Fortune 500 company and I am still not happy with my insurance. I still have no clue what my bill will be after each visit.

Doctor's office bills for X and Y, but insurance will only pay for X and half of Y. Then I have to fight the insurance company to pay for Y.

This back and forth between the doctor, patient, and insurance company is highly unnecessary and the only benefactor is the insurance company. One could argue that the private health insurance industry is actually causing costs to go up because doctors, hospitals, and clinics have to submit detailed medical billing codes to get properly paid for their services.
Not a ham, but this is at the "further research is needed" so I predict more papers and grant money.
USAF is already testing starlink and has been for quite some time. They have a $28m three year contract running since 2018.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/11/spacex-starlink-28-mil...
German Government in Talks with Startups on Survival Package
Be warned that high temperatures can crack the enamel off of enamel coated dutch ovens. Found this out the hard way... Now I only use that one for bread. Best to use a un-coated one for bread if you have one.
A new message on coronavirus in hard-hit areas: Don’t get tested
Agree, I love the idea and wanted to make this work for my home, but from personal experience I'd say most people would find this more trouble than it's worth.

I wrote something very similar to this a couple years ago for our household. It runs on a raspberry pi and uses a barcode scanner and when we go shopping we scan everything in and then scan things out as we use them. We live far away from town and shopping trips are rare, big all day events. It's easy to forget to scan things out and then things that don't have barcodes like vegetables are hard to track so we don't bother. Manually entering it all in and then remembering to remove it while cooking is too much trouble (we tried).
It's a great idea... from tech billionaires point of view. They could then link it to your Windows license, Facebook & Amazon accounts etc and potentially withhold treatments if you're not a good spender. The zero privacy world they dream where they can monetize every bits of our existence will then come true.