skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to an online check, not target or Walmart, but they just might not be listed in their online inventory.
If you have the raw data you can easily estimate CFR even though the number of infected are increasing by doing a culminate graph over "death share vs time since symptom onset or diagnosis" for the cases.
That's what they've done in Bavaria. They apparently missed some shelves at the discounter I was at yesterday, and the cashier reluctantly told me that he couldn't sell me that pack of contact lenses I'd picked up in the health and beauty aisle (contact lenses are usually available on the shelf in Germany). He thought I might be able to get them at a pharmacist.
Two words: Pinebook Pro.
That something like this would happen was clear for at least the last ten years. It was only not clear when it would happen.
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Uh, so, my thought behind that comment was that writing in bash has an advantage over Python, as no extra runtime environment is required in case of bash... sorry for not being clear enough in the comment, I now see I wrote it too vaguely...
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Generally it's pretty inelastic. However, as some have pointed out, you can be more judicious with its use, and I think what we're going to see in the coming months is that bidets will have shifted from under a 1% market share in the US to closer to 5%.

I don't think it makes sense for toilet paper manufacturers to ramp up production -- sales now mostly just cannibalize your future sales -- but bidet manufacturers should ramp up in order to take advantage of the situation, and maybe tp makers should ramp up just to avoid that that.

Right now, bidets are expensive / out-of-stock on Amazon. If you can make enough to keep them available and the price low, it could finally get a serious foothold in the US, rather than being some extremely niche product. A culture shift in bidet acceptance could finally open up the US market.
For Tv's the colour is caused because the colour signal is hidden as a high frequecy component that older B&W Tv's would ignore. Conversely, a high frequency signal caused by closely spaced light and dark patterns fools colour TV's into thinking there's a colour signal present (as the filters in TV's improved the magnitude of the effect reduced, but it's there to this day in analogue TV).

What you're seeing is probably Fechner Color [0]. I've seen the effect myself, as I recall there was a bit of a craze for demoing it some years back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fechner_color
Good point.

The TARP bailout in 2008 involved buying a ton of stock from troubled companies, but it was sold back to them as soon as they could buy the money back. And this will be the second bailout for a bunch of airlines.

So one of the most interesting ideas I've heard is that we shouldn't nationalize things by fiat, but when TARP-style bailouts happen, the government should just keep the stock, at least for a while. If it really was a one-off crisis, the shares are a good investment. But if it's a failing business, or one paying dividends and then looking for handouts, it's not just a money sink.
I don’t think you have a toddler, right? They don’t know it’s the apocalypse.
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I don't see the argument here. It is too disjoint.
Someone ought to research out the number of cell phone accounts that have been terminated in China in the last three months. I saw a video last night claiming it was on the order of 2.1 million.

If you didn't know, the Chinese government tracks their citizens movement, social activities and pretty much everything through their phones. If you don't have a phone in China, you are a non-person, or perhaps you've died.
Awesome work!

I can't wait to test this on my non-programmer friends who want to learn how to code.
This seems to have a somewhat different approach to the usual Python tutorial, it might do the trick!

Thanks
[no time for video, so if these are answered let me know...]

Two things I never got about the iPod:

Why not add a second headphone jack so two people could listen and share the experience?

Why didn't Apple preload some music (maybe classical stuff in the public domain, performed by affordable Eastern European orchestras) for a better out of the box experience? Think about kids getting an iPod at Christmas; until it was sync'd to a computer, there wasn't much to do with it.
This was actually one thing that drew me into React from the beginning, the api was so small and it was very easy to understand. I could start and be up and running very quickly and also learn most of the api fast. Some solutions are very easy to start with but then you have to learn more and more and it takes a lot of time.

I think Vue was like this in the beginning. You could just start with simple data binding but for a real application you should switch to VueEx and you could start with without a compile/transpile step but if you had a serious application you probably needed that anyway.
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I conjecture that since there is a cultural norm of wearing masks when sick, everyone had masks at home. Because of this, they put the masks on when apparently-healthy to avoid getting sick. Because of this, the asymptomatic people didn't spread the virus nearly as much.
At best, 'so far'

I don't use it, so can't comment on whether it's even the best at the moment, let alone 'all time'.
bezels? it's not just aesthetics; thin bezels is a pretty important feature on an ultraportable imo, maximizes screen real estate for the space it takes up in your bag.
You can run Emacs on virtually any laptop.
The key idea is that there are functional data structures that only require you to copy a small part and reuse a lot of the old. For example, if you have a binary tree and you want to swap out the root value, you create a new root node that simply uses the existing children.

>So, deep down in the guts of the language's libraries there must be mutable operations. Which kind of defeats the whole point.

Why does it defeat the point? If you can guarantee that the mutability doesn't leak (there are ways to do this), it behaves just like a pure implementation.
"Marvell is going for the single monolithic chip design rather than breaking it up into chiplets" Wouldn't this be a nightmare from a yield perspective? There's a reason why AMD/Intel use chiplets...
From https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/waters_146...

> The term "digital dollar wallet" shall mean a digital wallet or account, maintained by a Federal reserve bank on behalf of any person, that represents holdings in an electronic device or service that is used to store digital dollars that may be tied to a digital or physical identity.

> Not later than January 1, 2021, all Federal reserve banks shall make digital dollar wallets available to all citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States and business entities for which the principal place of business is located in the United States.
Thanks for the link. Always been curious to try one of these devices, I can actually afford to now.
Man in China Tests Positive for HantaVirus After Dying From Infection
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Even better, I have a very carefully curated list: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1239639611694911489

Every single person on this list is brilliant at what they do and a good communicator, with excellent s/n in their tweets. I've also removed people (like Jeremy Konyndyk, who otherwise I would recommend highly) who have a lot of insight but also a high emotional tone or a tendency to lean into politics. I've also tried to represent a wide range of expertise, from immunology to sequencing-based virology to public health specialists to frontline ER doctors.

So it's as close to a golden source of information as I could make it. I hope it's useful to some people, though I know the reach of it is a tiny fraction as if I made some dumb clickbait that happened to go viral.
This is one of the things I've always wanted to try. Even if it is hockey pseudoscience as long as it's not actively dangerous it could be interesting.

Alas this and the overview effect are two things I'll probably never experience.
I tried to put in everything I myself would have wanted to know when starting in 2014.

That is why I spend so much time on the memory diagrams in the videos in particular. It literally took me years to figure that out. I have watched a lot of online lectures (e.g., from OCW), but only rarely do instructors talk about that. Maybe formally studying CS would have done the trick for me as well :)
I wouldn't go to such a precise number, but you are right that the majority do not end up testing positive. The test quantities are limited, so they try to select candidates that are likely to have it. Even among these, the rate of positive tests seems to have ranged from ~5% up to ~20%.
For what it's worth, South Korea has 9k confirmed cases after performing 349k tests.
They shouldn't be able to buy those shares back.
> True, but that program ends up executing on a machine. You normally want that program to execute as efficiently as possible. 'Efficiency' can be measured several ways... time to complete, resources required, financial cost.

No, you normally want that program to execute efficiently enough to do its required job. Abstractions are often necessarily costly, but that's ok because their value is greater than their cost. Otherwise, you'd just throw all the abstractions away and use assembler.

> Query latencies were the same if not faster, and we needed fewer nodes to handle the same load. All because the language used has some mechanical sympathy for the CPU it's going to run on.

It seems like there's a whole load of reasons why it might have been more efficient on ScyllaDB that are unrelated to what language it was written in. Maybe the software design fit your requirements better? Maybe it was just better implemented? Maybe it was easier to configure for your load? Etc. etc. Programs aren't magically "more efficient" because they're written in C.
300 tests per million people is much, much better than we were a week before that.. But South Korea is at 6,000.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid19-tests-per-million...
Looks so nice. Too bad their Debian repo https://typora.io/linux/ has gone away. Are the sources published somewhere? Seems like Github only has the website and some themes.
German here. Could you elaborate how we lost control last week? At least in Bavaria everything seems to be ok - considering the circumstances...
Great for waking up your parents, too!
I simple example of this is chicken pox (Varicella Zoster).

A large proportion of adults have had it as kids. The immune system fights it off but virus particles can still 'hide' from it and lay dormant inside pheripheral nerve tissue.

A proof of this is 'shingles' in adults. i.e. a virus which probably infected the host +50 years ago and went dormant in their nerves finds the host immune system weak enough to come out again and start replicating.
An overall high level of urban hygiene and general cleanliness, some social distancing already being the norm (generally not touching each other, though there are severe exceptions like the overcrowded trains at rush hour) and a respect for public order.
We fight this type of use by blocking them.
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I worked all summer building websites to buy the first gen Rio PMP300.

Everything about it sucked ass, including transferring songs over serial.
I wonder what the current toilet paper manufacturers are going through right now? I'm an industrial engineer, so production issues and supply/demand issues are always of interest to me. A few possibilities:

* Adding shifts at overtime pay to meet demand (lower profit/unit, but more equipment utilization and total profit)

* Potentially higher freight charges (entirely unsure how freight rates are going these days compared to normal)

* Calloffs from employees from illness, exposure, or fear

* Lacking supply if they're working on a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) system - where the supplier owns inventory until pulled by a customer, at which time the supplier gets paid. These agreements often have parameters about stocking and forecast levels, which are typically fine, but then Sales talks about the "customer relationship" and wants to make drastic changes to how the factory runs (sub-optimizing production) to keep $bigCustomer happy.

Per the manager, the grocery store near me averages 10 units/day of toilet paper sold (good size town in the Midwest, with many grocery stores). One day about 2 weeks ago they sold 3,000 units. They have ~75 feet of shelf space (4 shelves high) dedicated to toilet paper. Literal semi's full of toilet paper flying off the shelves. They now have a limit if 1 unit per trip.

I've been to the store twice since then and always check the toilet paper aisle as a gauge of how they're doing. Still completely empty when I visit after work.

COVID-19 doesn't show GI issues as a symptom. Consumption isn't going up notably, but demand has been bonkers. Everybody will have months of toilet paper in their inventory at home, causing demand in the coming months to drop significantly. They may need to reduce the number of shifts or eliminate overtime at the factories.

Shelf space at grocery stores is expensive. If the toilet paper companies pay for less shelf space, they may not get it back. Grocery stores won't be excited to use that much space for a product that's moving at <50% of previous volumes.

It really is a weird issue and I don't envy the people figuring out how to deal with it.
> Across the United States, 38 percent of those hospitalized were between the ages of 20 and 54.

> Nationally, 12 percent of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44.

Versus 26 percent of the ICU patients being aged 45 to 54, and 62 percent of the ICU patients being 55 or older.
That chart is fascinating - especially the extent of which some countries apparently have virus strains from every branch, while others have 1 or 2 distinct lineages (Washington State being the biggest one).

That does imply that the UK and Netherlands have seen the virus introduced from many sources, which suggests much more widespread transmission than eg New Zealand, which appears to have one lineage.

However, there's probably a huge sampling bias present. Hopefully we can keep doing this sort of genetic lineage testing at greater rates - it's incredibly informative on how it spreads.
Linux HNers, is there any video-conferencing software that is hardware-accelerated for us Linux users?

Everything I tried (Jitsi on Firefox or Chrome, Skype, Hangouts/Meet, Zoom, Slack) consumes a full CPU all of the time (a.k.a. all no hardware acceleration), making fans spin and slowing down other work.

Advice? I'm using Arch Linux & Xorg on a recent Thinkpad with Intel CPU & GPU, and the packages mentioned by the Intel section of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_accelera... (intel-media-driver, libva-intel-driver, linux-firmware) are installed.
Amazon's internal TP sales growth dashboard tipped them off
I don't think you're getting downvoted due a lack of sources.

Markdown has clearly been extended beyond its original intention, so the criticism on its inadequacy for tables is justified in that it is the de facto standard across platforms and folks are struggling with it.

Whatever its original design goal was is sort of besides the point now. People dislike having to type complex tables manually and not using Markdown isn't a choice in a variety of situations. That frustration is justified.
That is giving too little credit to hardware engineering team. The latter iPod were the first to adopt NAND based storage, to the point where half of the world's NAND production were going to Apple.

Not to mention its design, they were possibly the only MP3 player that looks good.
Greatest? The most expensive, for sure.
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One of the things that I find most interesting is how fast Kubernetes has spread all over people's cloud infrastructure.
What is your source for this?
The Python community is basically one big OER course. Just look at all the recordings from the many PyCons.

I have a second half for the "book" planned but "unfortunately" also need to do some research for my PhD.

Maybe someone wants to provide some more advanced chapters via a pull request?
I don't really know what point you're trying to make here. Neither doctor would come anywhere near my list of experts. The real experts are highly critical of both those offering miracle cures and public health people who are slow to respond.

There are dumbfucks with MD after their name too, unfortunately.
Are they even still drug testing right now? If I’m an elite athlete, I’m hammering those PEDs every day in this quarantine.
That probably just means he or she thinks Org Mode looks ugly. People are shallow and way too into looks. At least that's what I tell myself when I fail to get people interested in Org mode. :)
A web article with an illustration. I can't find it. But from "Purkinje's Vision: Dawn of Neuroscience"

"The first phenomenon described by Purkinje was novel: He produced flicker, while
looking at the bright sky, by waving his fingers in front of one eye and reported seeing
checkerboards, zigzags, spirals, and ray patterns (see Fig. 3.2, Figs. 1–4). They were
called shadow figures by Helmholtz (1867, 2000b) and are now referred to as
stroboscopic patterns (Smythies, 1957), although they were described before the
stroboscope was invented."
That's what the kids want: classical stuff in the public domain.
AWS S3 is a testament to just how successful a service can be if it is SIMPLE and RELIABLE. I recall using it in its very first incarnation in the 00's. From an API surface perspective there was barely anything to it, but it nailed being easy to use, easy to pay for, and as reliable as the sun.
Related is this video from The Atlantic about the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX_FTiRB5QI

Johnny Carson jokes about it and then people rush out and buy toilet paper causing a shortage.
You just reminded me that I was actually gifted this game (with the additional Cthulhu piece!) and it's buried in this house somewhere. I have to go find it!
I don't buy that. Judging from the actions of governments around the world, many of which made drastic course corrections based on recent findings, the consensus is that the risk of millions of deaths due to underreaction is far greater than the risk of millions of deaths due to overreaction. Of course, it will be important to continuously reassess the situation and make course corrections in either direction based on new findings. In the meantime, governments should do everything they can to mitigate financial hardship and keep the economy alive. Unfortunately, there is no way out of this that won't cause significant pain.
I have used an iPad in a keyboard/case combo that was absolutely fantastic as a form factor, but I'm not sure that would meet your needs based on the application.

Maybe a different tablet device that can run Linux or an Android variant capable of providing the tools you require.

A nice thing about tablets is instantaneous sleep to on even vs. modern desktop OS.
Germany does not report resolved cases IIRC.
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> The reason is that raising equity dilutes all current shareholders.

But like venture funding, dilution is fine as long as it means that the company survives or grows. I'd rather own 1% of a billion dollar company than 10% of a dead one.

> It's a bigger "loss" to them than a termed interest loan which the tax payer gets minimal reward for taking on the risk.

Yes, I agree, but my key point is that buybacks are a natural part of equity markets and are not done solely to "manipulate the market" as commonly claimed.

> I say, that any bailout loans _should_ come with an equity dilution component. Tax payers should get compensated, or this moral hazard will just continue into the future.

Agreed, any exceptional bailouts through the government should come with an equity stake. I'm fine with lending to airlines at normal corporate lending rates without needing any additional compensation, though.
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Look up the history of Taiwan and China.
Save local restaurants and feed healthcare workers
So far. How many of those will need hospital care in the next few weeks?
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I think that more than masks, Japanese are more fastidious about handwashing. For example, Japanese restaurants routinely supply a wet Handi-Wipe with your meal -- even McDonald's.