skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt most people here realize the emergency room can't refuse a real emergency due to lack of insurance but I almost guarantee fear of large hospital bills is the reason the urgent care was the first stop, it's the cheapest place to get care without needing an appointment. So unfortunately I don't think it was confusion about what an urgent care offers (it's a pretty well known service for the above reason) as much of fear of cost over going straight to the emergency room.
Also, "I don't need it right now, therefore nobody needs it ever".
You are confusing "masks" as "surgical masks" aka. N95. He is meaning just the regular masks with no filtering whatsoever, that are very easy to manufacture. Hell you can even make them yourself. The N95 however, are quite difficult to build and require specialized machines to manufacture the filtering part, somebody linked a good article to it a couple days ago.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...

All in all, there is in my opinion no excuse to not to have everyone wear government provided masks, even though they don't offer complete protection. That would make it culturally the norm and hence many of the people who start coughing, but aren't sure do they have the virus, would at least have the mask covering their mouths to catch most of the escaping droplets. And also it would make it a little more difficult for everyone to rub their facial areas with their hands.
Agreed, it's an arrogant and condescending comment that does not belong on HN let alone at the top. It's sad.
What is the actual value of that?
it definitely has the potential to be misleading, but it makes sense in the overall hierarchy of urgency. in increasing order of urgency: general practitioners office, urgent care, emergency room. I believe each tier is also more expensive (although idk about urgent care vs GP's office). if you have insurance/money, you really want to avoid going to the emergency room when you don't need it because it's very expensive. the catch is, if you're broke, you go to the ER for everything because they can't turn you away and the debt doesn't really matter.
If people didn't raise the "selling drugz" thing every time. Selling drugs should not be a crime anyway.

I don't like crypto currencies (and coffee is my drug of choice), but saying "drugs are bad mmkay" and "how are we going to pay the generous pensions to our public servants [while most of us are never going to be able to retire]" is almost an incentive to try Bitcoin once again.
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If this gets any sort of public traction it'll be built in to shop doorways, public transport, police cars, and street lights within a couple of months.
I was thinking the same thing! I think it in itself should be useful as a starting point for learning many languages, by just translating them literally into the language of choice.
By asking friendly ;)

I know it won't happen. But it would be for the best.
My state publishes its statistics hourly. I looked at it just this morning, and was surprised to see that in the age breakdowns that there are more confirmed cases in people 20-40 than in 60-80.
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It works really well.

One that has been a total game changer for my company is when I'm hosting a conference call, I can simply "Invite by Phone" my participants. They get a phone call, are prompted to "Press 1 to enter the conference", and boom they're in. It's drastically reduced people fumbling around with phone numbers + participant codes, ending up in the wrong meeting, or getting stuck in some unnecessary software install loop. If someone is more than two minutes late, they're getting a phone call that brings them instantly into the meeting.

Also a really nice feature, again for phone conferences, is when people dial-in I see their phone number handle in the UI. But during the call as they introduce themselves or I look up their number, I can then rename their user to something recognizable. Now if I'm on a call with 5 people at another firm, I appear really impressive because I know who each person is by their name. When someone is speaking on the conference call, their icon lights up. If someone has a ton of background noise I can easily mute them.

Zoom Phone (addl paid feature) is awesome too. Virtual phone numbers, IVR, call routing, busy hours, I can instantly turn a 1:1 conversation into a zoom meeting that other people can join, etc. Zoom Phone works on my iphone like a regular dialer, and I can place/receive fully digital calls on it (pretty similar to how Google Voice works), so it doesn't matter if I have actual cell service.

I've never used Microsoft Teams, and does look really snazzy, but Zoom is an absolute joy to use compared to every single other conferencing software I have ever used. The video chat and screensharing is fast and responsive and just works exactly like you would expect it to.
Particularly when excellent privacy-respecting alternatives exist.
>Therefore, I would propose to shut them all down.

OK the author clearly has no idea how a blockchain and a set of validators work

I would gladly hear his plan to "shut them all down"
Thank you. This is extremely frustrating and shaming individuals who buy masks is dumb. Why are they in the retail system at all if they are so important for healthcare workers?
In my experience, it actually is a good thing to have to do that, especially in a context-logging world. The actual refactoring is rarely at all difficult in my experience, and by doing so you can make it so logging context is automatically threaded everywhere more ergonomically than other languages even!

And usually when you're logging, it's near other IO anyways. So that makes it even easier.
The extreme energy waste is the most salient point to me. Imagine what you could have if you took all the energy spent mining crypto and instead had spent it on building solar panels or N95 masks or high speed rail.
Cloth masks may be counter productive

https://dx.doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmjopen-2014-006577
> the equipment involved in recording to it was so expensive it was hard to get the labels on-board.

Source or speculation?

If b, then, to add:

I don't think for a major (or even medium/minor) label this was the issue - at the time the labels had a real concern about mass high quality digital copying by consumers destroying their business
I doubt this will ever compete with power generation from incineration. Most plastics are recycled into power and smoke.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/shoul...
Being able to send money to a friend in the US from Greece has value to me. Currently, I can't do this without a lot of hassle, since there's no overlap between what banking methods we use in Greece and what they use in the US.

The problem is that ~0 stores accept cryptocurrencies, so my friend can't do anything with it.
> but if you give up your principals when something is difficult, why have them at all?

Your answer sort of reads as if the choice of technology is the only friction people are currently dealing with. The situation isn't easy, even using some easy to use technology like zoom. Adding friction will only make things harder for people doing their best in already hard circumstances. It may well exceed their mental budget for friction.

I wish widely deployed privacy-respecting solutions were already deployed at scale, people trained in their use and a suitable curriculum available. But that's not where we are and putting more load on already well loaded people will not improve the situation.
How does it compare to Hyper? Windows Terminal?
So Zoom works better for large "meetings" that are more or less propaganda events to cater to the ego of the corporate nomenklatura.
"a game class object" is 99.95% likely to contain the whole game. Doesn't matter that it's labeled private, it's basically global to all the code of the ... game.
They let a 17 year old die because they didn't have enough money?

In many other countries this would be criminally culpable but in the US they aren't even going to release the name of the "urgent care" clinic. Immoral.

And don't even come to me with "well its complicated." No it isn't at all complicated. The kid didn't have money so they turned him out on the street, without even a safety evaluation, and he died before he could get care elsewhere.

There's nothing complicated about that, you're pretending it is complicated to avoid the moral and ethical implications of what actually happened.

People pretending like no medical triage, because he lacked means, is perfectly fine and that it was actually the [medically unqualified] victim's fault for not self-diagnosing well enough to go to the correct facility are apologists of the worst kind. It defies both common sense and basic decency.
> If there aren't enough masks for health care workers, doctors and nurses will stop coming to work people won't be able to get medical attention the death rate will sky rocket because of lack of simple medical procedures, there will be panic in the streets, etc.

No, for the most part they won't stop coming to work, for better or worse. My wife is an RN in charge of a critical unit caring for confirmed covid-19 patients. They were asked to reuse masks and gowns a week ago due to lack of supply. As far as I know none of them has refused to go to work, and she in particular will be on 4 12-hour shifts this week.
I know it's not possible to enforce it. It's a sentiment.
It used to be the same for USA and Europe, but one day George W. Bush decided to move US's changeover dates a month earlier in Spring, and a month later in the Fall, messing a lot of things up. Thanks, Dubya!

And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST. What the hell boneheaded move is that?! Why even have a vote, it seems like they thought that would gain them popularity with the public.
Your comment reads like satire. I see no rebuttal of the points made.

Maybe a better thesis would be that cryptocurrencies provide a net-negative value to society.
I've never managed to reach Stage 3. Nobody has ever shown any interest in contributing to my GitHub project.

Still undecided whether this is a Bad Thing or a Good Thing.

- Bad Thing: either the code base is too messy, or too complex, or too niche, or too pointless, or I am a terrible communicator/promoter of my project.

- Good Thing: I can do whatever I like with my project, and nobody is around to argue with me about it!
? I'm literally on a zoom conference in firefox with audio right now.
I get that privacy is important but this company has become a household name over night. My mom literally just installed Zoom because her friends were talking about it (eyeroll). The company has obviously helped the global economy work remotely and keep productivity moving over the past few months. First, thank you to Zoom for making a great product and continue to work under ridiculous load. Secondly, I agree that privacy is an issue but can we tone it down a bit considering the global situation at stake.

What am I missing? I'm asking humbly. Because it seems like we are complaining about the food at a homeless shelter?
It would be like saying you can't have high level languages because assembly have only a few limited combinations of registers. You can always abstract things away.

In fact, you are making the assumption that there is no more generalist logical concepts we can discover that can abstract or merge what now appears to be conflicting paradigms.

I imagine people said that to Argand. Nah, you can't do that sqrt(-1) thing, you'll run into contradictions.

Given that we have been at the task for less than a century, which is like 1 minute of human history, I'm not inclined to such categorical rejection of the possibility.
What is the 'actual value' of performing an ecommerce transaction with an asia-based merchant w/ crypto:

near-zero fee & instant receipt (+ seconds for 'confirmation')

vs.

foreign exchange + payment processor fee - which can come to >5%, yes 5% + multi-day bank deposit wait time?
This looks like a lovely way to replace a pomodoro timer and similar.

I assume there are no plans for an Android version?
A society is saved by people, not technology.
The question seems pretty basic, but it's a good one. I realized I'm not 100% confident in the answer I was about to give. Hopefully we'll get an answer from an actual expert.
This post presents a very low effort argument. It's basically taking the argument "the only reason anyone would want privacy is if they have something to hide" and applying it to money "the only reason anyone would want financial privacy is because they are buying drugs".
Would you minding pointing to what the fiasco was about. I read the book based on all round positive reviews and recommendations.
I went to one of those urgent care places once. I had food poisoning, but I'd never had it before and thought I was dying.

Here's what happened:

- I had to sit and fill out paperwork for 20 minutes before being admitted

- They put an IV in me and gave me something "for nausea"

- The nausea medication had an extreme anxiety-inducing effect (and I was of course already anxious), which they didn't explain until it was happening. I physically couldn't relax my muscles because of the meds. It was nightmarish. And only after I mentioned this did they add some Benadryl in there to offset it.

- The doctor had no idea what could be wrong (again, I realized later it was food poisoning; they couldn't figure this out) but offered me an MRI (??). Luckily, even in my extremely anxious state (which had been increased since I arrived), I knew that was a ridiculous course of action.

- They sent me home. I received a bill in the mail for $3,500, of which my insurance paid about half.

I will never, ever go to one of those again. You shouldn't either unless you're bleeding out on the floor.
So, you think it'll turn into a generalized software consulting company??
>With the bailout were basically saying its OK to not pay taxes but expect a bailout

suppose this were true and this legislation set that precedent?
let me ask you: how often do we have a need for a "bailout"? do a really quick cost/benefit analysis and you'll see that you're implying we should let these people struggle today to save some money in ~10 years. does that make sense to you?
I don't know, how much energy is spent producing reality TV shows? To me, those have less value than instant, trustless payments.

That's not to say that I don't hope non-PoW cryptocurrencies become more popular, we should conserve energy when we can. I haven't looked very much into it, but Stellar seems interesting, and it's not PoW.
That's not a problem exclusive to conventional currency. Consider the ETH rollback. That people mostly prefer Ethereum to Ethereum Classic also shows that they don't find this need for trust to be a problem.
Why doesn't it scale? Because for n participants, each would need n-1 connections?
You mean the fee you pay when you covert cryptocurrency to something real and back?
I personally used Edukado[1] for teaching resources for my course. They have a ton of lesson plans from beginner all the way up to advanced all supplied for free by the community. This is by far the most popular resource for instructors, however it may not be as suitable for a beginner as most of the resources are written in Esperanto. Maybe still worth checking out though

[1] https://edukado.net/
Because the prevailing narrative is that this disease is mainly dangerous to the elderly.
It's telling that the theoretical justifications the crypto folks use is mostly warmed over goldbuggery, and therefore concerns about the effects on society at large are discounted. The appeal is to people who have no fucks to give about society at large.
Stopped reading after first two sentences.

Bitcoin works because it provides a transaction platform that’s virtually impossible to censor or control and a monetary system that is virtually impossible to debase.

Bitcoin provides those things through law of the universe - you can’t make energy out of nothing.

If you figure out a different way to provide those things, feel free to make your alternative to Bitcoin, but don’t make these dumb comparisons and arguments that just demonstrate your complete lack of understanding how and why something works.
You might like https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
Yes, but not enough to make a business of it.
I've tried it yesterday with some friends and in my opinion it's not ready for any serious use. The chat feature looks clunky and sometimes messages don't send on first try, especially the drawing board. Sometimes emojis you send in chat get plastered in the top right corner in about 10 times the size and stay there. I've also had the video feed and all controls disappear in the middle of a live session and the only fix was to close the app and sign-in via invite link. Still happy that something like this exists. Just needs a little bit of polish.
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I know we can't. But the people involved should stop and do something 'less detrimental' with their lives.
In the end, its cost vs benefit. Does the benefit overweight the cost ? For most people, including me the answer is Yes.
But they did, for business. There are also millions of Taiwanese that either live or work in the PRC. Taiwan was one of the major international destinations for flights from Hubei and not coincidentally one of the first countries with cases outside China.
This paper is being misinterpreted everywhere in this very misleading fashion. See this blog post Raina MacIntyre (the first author) wrote to clarify this:
https://iser.med.unsw.edu.au/blog/impact-ppe-shortages-healt...

People misrepresenting this study are doing tremendous harm, it has to stop.
"Urgent Care" facilities are not emergency rooms or hospitals, they do not have the equipment necessary, few have very little medical tech in them at all with the most advanced things being contactless thermometers and maybe an x-ray. They are little more than offices with private examination rooms.

They are 100% for acute, non-life threatening illnesses and injury.

Whoever is claiming he was denied for insurance is likely confusing what was actually said. Even if they'd had a suitcase full of unmarked non-sequential 20$ bills they'd likely have been able to do anything for him besides refer them to an emergency room/call an ambulance.

This article is garbage, it is 100% trying to get clicks and isn't even remotely actual journalism.
In the early days of web-hosting providers, it was common to see a version of Linux and a version of Windows as options. Only the Linux servers came with an uptime guarantee.
Now you just need to trust the software developers not to increase mining rewards and the crypto exchanges not to scam you
I'm pro-crypto; but Proof-of-Work mining is an ecological atrocity. If it's infeasible to outright ban mining at scale, a sufficiently onerous carbon tax to disincentivize might be enough. In either case, miners would recoup their losses by selling ASICs, certainly to those in countries with no such restrictions, and the mining would continue. Maybe a government buyback program, similar to what countries have done with guns; but it seems difficult to summon that much political will.

We've created a monster.
I once read a sci-fi book that featured a metal eating organism that was released as a weapon.

Yeah, whenever humans engineer something to fix something else we've broken in the complex system that is earth, it seems like there's a high chance of it messing other stuff up and itself becoming a problem.
Is that still true when you adjust for the relative size of those groups? 20-40 is a larger group of people than 60-80.
That map looks good from a global level, but when you zoom in, it kind of falls down.

For example, two towns in my state have confirmed cases, are ported by the state health authorities and the local newspapers, but neither is on that map.
This blog post fails to mention anything about alternative consensus mechanisms to Proof of Work (PoW).

Proof of Work requires the energy expenditure of a small country.

Proof of Stake requires far far less power, negligible amounts of power.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/ethereum-plans-...
While I'm not a fan of reality TV, I know plenty of people who are, and whose lives are enriched because of reality television. There is no accounting for taste.

I don't know how much people's lives are enriched by cryptocurrency. Other than the people directly involved in mining and speculating on it.
Cool program. Thanks creating and open sourcing (MIT), @ilyayudanov!

Built with React Native. Source here: https://github.com/IamIntrovert/Introvert
While I agree with VSCode not being a IDE (But only an editor), one thing for sure is that if you Google for "VSCode is shit" on Google, you will get results and opinions/reactions from those who say it is 'shit', which is the OP's own confirmation bias and is what they only want you to see to 'prove their argument' which is really fallacious.

Come back and link a balanced discussion or article rather than results that are one sided with your own bias.
"it's hard to predict" and "if this then that" doesn't really help and just adds to peoples anxiety and paranoia.
That's fair, and it's listed in the article as a drawback, but in most situations this is a tradeoff that's worth making.
> Bitcoin works because it provides a transaction platform that’s virtually impossible to censor or control and a monetary system that is virtually impossible to debase.

Why is this good? What tangible problem are we solving here?
I don't think a public ledger of every transaction is a privacy preserving feature.
I mean you should have the context of your change right. If you're submitting a change to reduce the margins on everything, you should expect to need a new snapshot.

If you're are doing a pure refactor of your css, you shouldn't see a change. Unless your css rules are order dependent and now you caught that.
Yep. It just works. First time use is nearly instant.

WebEx always took a while to on-board.
Rich Hickey's talk "Maybe Not" has some interesting thoughts on this: https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug
Unlambda makes everything equally difficult!
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It's hard to say, because I don't have the time to do the math right now. But my state is generally considered to be retirement-friendly.
"Let's set the meeting at 16:00 [UTC is implied]."

"Sorry Bob, we in Sydney will be asleep at that time."
So some company I don't like will advertise at me. I don't like it, but I don't care that much.

I am prioritizing. During the present COVID-19 situation, my top two priorities are (1) maintain my health, including my mental health, and refrain from posing a health hazard to others, and (2) maintain my relationships with my students, colleagues, and collaborators.

As I see it, if I give some skeezy private company some personal information by accident, then I am making a personal sacrifice, and not all that big of one. I'm trying to worry about my duties to others first.
"near-free & instant to exchange, borderless, alternative to gov't, privacy-preserving"

Cryptocurrencies provide none of this in practice.
Some berries taste great but some berries poison you. Real puzzling isn't it.
Energy is nowhere near the limiting constraint for either of those things, this comparison doesn't make sense.
P2P video for large groups is dead over the public internet because you don't get the network's help in doing 1-many delivery.
It all depends on what kind of level of privacy you expect. Absolute privacy is an illusion people seem to chase. Why would you have any rights to that?
It is when the transactions are pseudonymous and you can create as many addresses as you want.
Resorting to a loaded label fallacy, nice.
Check out “Fire in the Valley.” It’s a classic!