skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DoD will not hesitate for a second to call in contractors if they aren't confident in their crew. I'm sure they did so in this case.

Even though you're just flying a few guys (say a few acid guys, maybe an engineer who knows the toilets, just in case) out for a day or two, that's stupidly expensive. Not even just the cost of putting them on a plane or helicopter- even though you may only be paying for a few hundred man hours, you need to pay a lot to pull those guys out of whatever they were doing.

4,700 people shitting in buckets is kind of an emergency in the middle of the ocean, unfortunately. The navy is notorious for its sleep deprivation and tight schedules. Seemingly small disruptions and timewasters can lead to major problems and mistakes.
You can do timed instances, and/or make the instances have timed job to shutdown after a fixed time (which is what I use to shut down an instance which only gets spooled up for occasional CI jobs after an hour).
In fact, if only 15% of cases end up in the hospital, it is rather unlikely that patient zero would be infection zero.
Sicken Thy Neighbor Trade Policy Doesn't Work
I’m gonna steal this for a comic I’m working on verbatim.
These seem like really odd criticisms to level against a book which is clearly not about systems programming. The title itself makes it clear it's an introductory text on the subject of C. And from the overview:

>"You'll learn how to develop correct, portable, professional-quality code and build a foundation for developing security-critical and safety-critical systems."

So the stated aim of the book is to build a "foundation" from which you could then go on to digest and effectively use advanced things like the Stevens book.
I did not know this is something KeepassXC could do! So this is basically making it do the same thing as Google Authenticator?
Cool app. How do you plan to monitize?
Same. We had to hand out our first packet to students the last day we were in class (had less than 24 hours to make them, it's a minor miracle our notoriously broken copier didn't break), and then we had to put our next two weeks online, so that the principle could print out copies to have available while they're working at the school still.
Fantastical notions of universal healthcare aside..

This was to be expected, and it won’t be well received. It’s also not necessary, and shouldn’t happen. Much of the US Healthcare expense when insurance companies are involved is fake.

For example, last week I got a medical statement from my insurance. The total cost was a couple grand. I paid 20$ co-pay, and insurance paid a couple hundred. The remainder was “negotiated down, look at this great value your insurance provided!”

If I were to pay out of pocket the 220$ instead of my health insurance premium that month I could have easily paid it. The same is true for emergency surgeries, the actual medical cost of things like brain surgery is around 10-15k. Atleast at some providers, and not hospitals that gouge.

My point here is - Insurance companies have spend decades rewriting the healthcare system to their advantage. They’ve spent years boosting the cost of healthcare, while paying only a fraction and making the remainder of the money disappear. Hospitals have spent years reducing costs while charging 100k for some surgeries in hopes they’ll get even 20k. And have 80k “negotiated”.

There’s plenty of money in the system between insurance companies and healthcare systems. The resolution here isn’t single-payer. The resolution is to force insurance companies to pay their fair share instead of hoarding money.

There’s no reason they should increase their rates right now. They should be breaking into their reserves to handle this.
So, keep the idiotic bargaining wars between insurance companies and hospitals that don't reduce costs but do increase administrative overhead, keep the profit pipeline, keep the cherry picking / lemon dropping, but get rid of the ability of insurance companies to lose money?

That's so cynically "privatize the gains, socialize the losses" that I'm sure the lizards will love it!
There are a number of problems with the US health care system (insurers and providers).

But on the insurance side, it has come to more closely resemble a legalized protection racket. You never know what it's going to actually cost you, you and your family members can be "hung out over a bridge" by the system, and when you really need the protection, the system decides what is protection and how much you can have. It needs to end. It's hollowing out the vitality of the country in its increasing conflict-of-mission.
Like Yahoo?

It keeps happening, and all it takes is one of the places you've used the password to lose it.

Generally "sign in with X" still provides an email recovery option.
This’ll kill more people and likely hurt the economy more than 9/11 did. How much money did we spend on wars and security junk after that? Seems like a reasonable amount to ask for over the next couple decades to help fix our healthcare system and support people.
Yeah, I'd heard that too. It's all so shameful...
Newbies/hobbyists shouldn't be using aws/azure over digital ocen/vultr/linode unless their hobby is learning aws/azure. Most startups shouldn't either.. if you can't afford to hire an aws/azure expert you shouldn't be using it. You are probably doing it in a way that will cost you in the future.
How much does population density matter if kids are still spending 8+ hours in the same room at school, and parents are touching the same surfaces at work?
It feels like this was debunked a couple months ago. Following the citations on the Wikipedia article, there was a documented case on Dec 1 [1], 9 days before this woman developed a cold, and later Chinese government documents described a case on Nov 17 [2]. Trevor Bedford's genetic analysis of the virus indicates a zoonosis in late October or early November from which all human strains descend.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coro...
It seems like winter tries to happen between Thanksgiving and Dec 15, then it's on to "spring".

I replaced my snowblower at the end of the 2015 record snow season and I think I've used it twice in 5 winters since then. In previous winters I'd typically need to use it probably 5 times or more.
Their income source is donations. They do not monetize their users, so an increase in users is pure cost.
"But you're not inheriting random branching statements, I imagine they tend to appear in certain regions of the genome and there influence similar pathways...which would make them valuable points of inference as well, just noisier."

What profession are you in? Do you think this concept works for debugging software, or are you a non-programmer in healthcare?
Canada to stop people with Covid-19 symptoms boarding domestic flights, trains
$72k estimate for a hospital case. That is above the median yearly income, it is absolutely time for the government to nationalize healthcare and provide Medicare for all. I’m not worried about paying a few hundred for a premium for Medicare per month, it’s the Monopoly money hospital bill that is the problem.
If she developed symptoms earlier than they did, but went to the hospital later, it's not impossible. But they couldn't have reliable data about when she or the other early patients were infected; the pre-symptomatic period seems to vary a lot.
in case you are referring to the covid dashboard:

selecting countries does change the hash value inside the ULR (routing), otherwise there is no browser controls hijacking i am aware of.
“Writing code is considered harmful”
How often does a “competitive” bidding process for being handed a temporary monopoly work out? The competition flies out the window the moment the contract is signed.

What if the Navy builds the ships itself?
Doesn't QEMU already JIT? I guess, depends how much [1] counts.

[1]: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/TCG
How Covid-19 Is Effecting Digital Signature Industry?
The city is a bit taller now. Twenty to thirty years ago you could see even further (although only just after rain cleared up the pollution).
When I tried to hit the back button, it was going to countries I didn't even select
Vote for things you like and move on - commenting is just generating noise since it doesn’t affect ratings.
> When the question should really be, why do laptop manufacturers get away with putting 4 or 8gb of RAM in a laptop and mobile phones are catching up.

I think this is comparing cheap laptops to expensive phones.
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Ask HN: Book/ Document reader that syncs with Google Drive
Looking for recommendations - iOS:

Have been using Apple Books for reading EPUB's and PDF's thus far. Experience has been decent except for one mighty annoyance.

The iCloud sync is a huge mess!

Books that are synced on iOS take forvever to download. Many a times, even newly uploaded books, many of them few seconds ago, are undownloadable.
This means that all books which I have synced on iCloud are basically unreadable.

It's so irritating that I have decided to move on to another book reader app. I am specifically looking for one that syncs with Google Drive.

I have hitherto tried Google Play Books and Pocketbook Reader. Can live with G Play Books but Pocketbook UI is nowhere as intuitive as Apple Books or even G Play Books, for that matter.

Does anyone have any suggestions apart from this?

I have heard of Bluefire Reader but will try only if someone commends it.

Thanks in advance for any ideas proferred _ /\ _

#AppleBooks #BookReaderApp #ReaderApp #ios

PS: Another vexed user → https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/344271/books-automatically-deletes-my-books-when-offline-and-when-there-is-enough-spac
The argument I've heard against this is that for certain types of spending, cutting things off causes data loss. Automatically doing that is also a foot gun.

The proposed solution is usually to setup billing alerts so you can detect the issue early and fix the problem in a way that makes sense.

I'd suggest further: new AWS (azure, etc) accounts should have billing alarms at $0, $10, $100, $1000, etc. by default on account creation. Users can delete if they don't want them or want something different. Getting an alert at $100 as it happens instead of getting a >$1k bill at the end of the month is a much better customer experience.
mobile support is not ready yet, so please just test the demos in an desktop based env.

it is on the todo list (adding touch events to the main thread and then polishing some examples to match mobile screen resolutions).
I didn't realize that WebRTC had screen sharing as part of it, maybe I'll try to make a toy version of this during my quarantine down time.
Back when I took health care policy class in college, we did a cost breakdown / comparison tree between the US health care system and others. One striking result was that each head of the hydra -- hospitals, insurance companies, drug companies -- did a remarkable job of evenly sharing the ~2x cost inflation factor vs other countries.

Of course, each head of the hydra points at the other two and claims it isn't the problem.
Not that it killed us or anything, but we hired a Director of DevOps at my company who we tasked with the simple job of setting up a dev server for a Java REST server that would have like 6 concurrent users. It needed a cache, but no persistent database. A task beneath a director and one that the dev team would usually just do themselves, but he was here to show how to DevOps the right way and not be so ad hoc. He somehow managed to set this up to cost like $8000/mo after we have conservatively budgeted for $50. He was fired for myriad reasons and we spent like a week trying to figure out what he had done.
> please don't generalize

I don't, I specifically point exactly against the generalization:

> I am aware that many decisions are up to the regional institutions there, and that's why generalizing and equalizing any statement to whole Germany is by definition wrong.

and additionally give an example of one older affair where exactly the same prejudices that I mentioned resulted in measurable consequences.

> "Spain consequently expressed anger about having its produce linked with the deadly E. coli outbreak, which cost Spanish exporters US$200 million per week"

Is there anything that you dispute in what I've written?

If you want me to additionally support my claim that there was downplaying of the seriousness of the coronavirus epidemics, I have also:

"Of course, people will still die, but I lean out of the window and say: It could well be that in 2020 we won't have more deaths than in any other year."

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavi...

"Virologe Hendrik Streeck : „Wir haben neue Symptome entdeckt“ 16.03.2020"

A virologist, less than 2 weeks ago. Two doctors openly downplaying is already a symptom to me. I can imagine that slipping to the educated politicians, but the doctors...

Regarding which deaths are reported Covid-19 in Germany, my initial observation, please see other comments in this whole topics, e.g:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22720011

or

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719448

linking to the Guardian explaining:

"Unlike in Italy, there is currently no widespread postmortem testing for the novel coronavirus in Germany. The RKI says those who were not tested for Covid-19 in their lifetime but are suspected to have been infected with the virus “can” be tested after death, but in Germany’s decentralised health system this is not yet a routine practice."

As I also already mentioned, Germany is big with a lot of local policies which aren't unified across the federation, so let me stress it again, all that should be taken with grain of salt.

EDIT: it also appears to me that even the "debunking" of that first doctor guy didn't even try to address that he's misusing prejudices against "the southern people" etc. I haven't tied to analyze the "debunking" too carefully (not enough time) but my general impression is "oh, it's too early to tell if he is right."
Do you know of sources/research that shows this "get-as-much-money-as-possible" and hoard it? I'm interested how insurance companies' financials show this.
Ask HN: Would now be a good time for a kickstarter?
Hello HN. I'm debating if I should launch the Kickstarter campaign I was planning before the Covid 19 pandemic set in. My product is non-essential and and the world could very easily go without. At the same time it's also a novel addition to an all time classic product that has been getting some great laughs and some serious responses.

In today's environment, would you part with $25 for a non-essential product you wouldn't see for a couple months?
As I understand it, most shale producers have tremendous amounts of debt that they can't service when oil is below $40...investors and shareholders will be holding a useless bag if this continues for much longer.
I know this is an old topic now, but that's not true. I've installed a firefox plugin that disables the visibility API. Result - now youtube in a firefox tab keeps playing even with my screen locked.

It is most definitely the page doing the muting.
For the frontend, PureScript (or Reason, or OCaml with BuckleScript) work well; Rust inherits most of Haskell's type system as well.
The idea of supertankers storing 100 million barrels of oil at sea is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen, especially if the boat is old, as is sometimes the case.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-oil-storage/in-lates...
Most mainstream news has moved away from their earlier “we should more worried about the flu” consensus they were pushing during the democratic primaries.
Understanding and Using C Pointers is 2013 not 2003.
> Reform, make transparent, and amend the Constitution to legitimize this entity, say I.

Dismantle this entity, say I.
>within hundreds of metres of accuracy in a city

or basically a few city blocks.
> Do you want to offer syncing? Use my Dropbox or iCloud for that. You want some shared library? Use my Dropbox of iCloud for that.

> Give ME control over MY assets and don’t take my work hostage.

Ah, but Adobe is enterprise software (enterprises of creative talent, yes, but still enterprises.) Enterprises don't want their employees keeping things in their personal cloud storage. They want enterprise-controlled cloud storage with ACLs on every step. They want your experience of making a layout to closely resemble the experience of a journalist writing+revising+publishing a story through their enterprise's CMS: a workflow where everything is actually a (perhaps automatically) requested-and-then-granted permission that can be audited and metric-tracked in the middle.

Mostly, this is because this approach allows the enterprise to know how much to pay out in IP license fees. Your Dropbox storage—even if it's Dropbox for Teams—isn't going to let them query out the set of status=delivered projects that have ownership=external assets linked to them.

You can't really sell this sort of thing as non-cloud software, unless you're selling an on-prem Asset Management Server to go along with your on-the-workstation software. (As many enterprise B2B companies used to do!)

One thing that could "fix" this is if an enterprise cloud storage provider (e.g. Box) offered the ability for other B2B SaaS providers to create deep "plugin" functionality for their system, such that your Box storage could contain Adobe assets that were ACLed, linked, and tracked (by callbacks from Box's servers to Adobe's servers) just as they are in Adobe's cloud. But until that happens, I don't see any other solution being practical for enterprise customers.
I think we will look back on this as a specific marker as the defined end of an era. April Fool’s Day is as close as anything is to hacker christmas.

The founders are gone, the company participates in PRISM for warrantless email snooping, they got reprimanded for conspiring with Jobs et al to cheat staff out of wages, the staff have to fight with management to not take military defense contracts or promulgate lies for the CCP, and now finally no more April fool’s jokes. Microsoft famously banned easter eggs a long time ago; I never would have thought Google would take this step.

For me personally, this is the final nail in the coffin, although I’m sure many people with closer relationships to Google probably believe that the ship sailed several years ago.

It’s tragic. I remember when they were the upstart.
Most definitions of perfect free markets include some element of perfect competition. The math essentially assumes there are an infinite number of saudis producing at $10 a barrel that compete with eachother down to marginal cost. Obviously these aren't realistic assumptions and pretty much everyone has some form of monopoly power, such as the saudis in your case which have monopoly power coming from lower cost of goods.
tragedy of the commons is not the best way of describing it. a large fraction of the US workforce works in healthcare (doctors, nurses) and related fields (insurance, pharma, etc.). they may have their gripes with the current system, but ultimately it pays their bills so they don't want to see too much of a change to the status quo.

then you have most fulltime employees getting insurance through their employer. even the ones on shitty plans are somewhat protected from seeing the full costs because the employer doesn't usually disclose their share of premiums. I have a decent high-deductible plan that I pay zero premiums for; I have literally no idea how much it costs and no real way to find out (short of harassing our benefits manager).

on top of this, you have the powerful institutions/individuals who are making real money of the situation and lobby to perpetuate it. the small subset of the population that isn't more or less apathetic faces an uphill battle to change anything.
I don't disagree, but see it as a different problem.

I'm presuming regulations wouldn't be updated/waived quickly enough (for feed grade produce, etc), which is part of why famines of this level come to be in the first place.

It's not that stores wouldn't buy it or be willing to sell it, but that companies are much less likely to go against regulations than an individual, even in times of distress.

And to get to grocery store shelves, a product has to go through the hands of multiple companies, depending on level of refinement. But probably at least a producer, a wholesaler/packing house, a distributer, and at least three transport companies. All of which would need to be willing to take the risk of breaking regulations. Which is normally a good thing, since it keeps our food supply chain safe.

It's part of why EPA/USDA/FDA/etc regulations focus on what companies are allowed to grow or manufacture or sell, instead of what consumers are allowed to buy.

So what you're describing is true, but if we're talking about normally illegal-to-sell-food, depends on many people deciding to flout regulations.

This is all in addition to any rationing or other emergency rules that might be put in place (like attempts at government controlled distribution, ala Venezuela)
Wouldn't you expect the rate of return to approach the risk free interest rate, rather than profit being zero?
Exactly, this anti russia / china rhetoric has become pathetic.
They could include it as an option with a big red warning advising against it.

Depending on what you're doing, data loss might not be nearly as big of a threat as a massive bill.

I could also imagine it being configurable on a service by service basis to mitigate against the data loss downside - e.g. maybe you have a hard cap on your lambdas but not your database snapshots.
With a more revenue driven model (aka stop giving anything away for free), Kahn Academy would be deriving a lot more revenue from the added traffic. They are still giving away a significant amount of value away for free and asking for donations back.

Someone set-up a GoFundMe for their credit card bill, which they ran up buying supplies to make masks for doctors in need. You are saying that, because they treated themselves to Olive Garden once for dinner, instead of only ever eating the cheapest thing off the McDonald's menu, that they need to repent. Meanwhile, actual fat cat CEOs are eating at $250/person steakhouses while raping the Earth.

800k is a lot of money, but it's really not for that sort of position. CEOs regularly make tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. The ones that famously don't, like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, are able to do so because they are already obscenely wealthy.

Have you heard of the phrase "throwing the baby out with the bathwater?" Because that's what you're proposing here.
loading masks are on the todo list.

using the mouse wheel while the helix is mounting definitely breaks things. should be fixed when this issue is resolved.
This is exactly why "fair trade" products like coffee and chocolate exist. There is an agreement to have an absolute minimum purchase price to prevent a big corporation from clobbering the competition by taking a loss, then jacking up the price.

See also: rideshare. VC pumps in billions so that Lyft & Uber can be cheaper than taxis at a HUGE loss -> taxis go out of business -> Lyft & Uber jack up their prices because they own the market.
You're right. I think some English names would be hard to be transcribed with Farsi rules. Although in my experience, most of them are easily pronounced (with a bit of accent) by native Persian speakers.
Not because of repo ops, but repo ops are the indicators of underlying liquidity issues that signal collapse.
Wouldn't that proposal get rid of the incentive of cherry-picking/lemon-dropping?
> why aren’t premiums going down

The same reason that airlines added a ton of fees (fuel surcharge, checked baggage fee) when oil prices were high, but never got rid of them when gas prices fell way back down:

People will pay them because they have no other option.