skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sanergy has something along those lines http://www.sanergy.com/

However, I don't think that model fits the American mentality well. One more likely scenario would be the electric or gas powered combustion toilets:
https://shop.ecojohn.com/products/tinyjohn-waterless-inciner...
https://incinolet.com/

You see these in places where fresh water may be scarce or sewage treatment limited, e.g. a small live-aboard boat.

But it's really a question of what you want to optimize for.

As others have said though, a great easy addition to the current American toilet is adding a bidet.
You make a valid point.

At the same time, economic problems affect everyone while it seems that covid-19 harm scales with age.

No easy solutions to be sure, but I have hope more data becomes available soon so we can implement more nuanced policies to achieve similar containment while preventing massive unemployment. Testing random samples of the general population would be a good first step.
From the report:

“SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess...”

Presence of RNA does not necessarily mean it’s a viable virus.
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Trillions will die.

You can only extrapolate so far.
Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e3.htm?s_cid=mm...

SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces ...

I guess we don't know from this data whether these are fragments or are intact and communicable?
Wait. I thought that hydroxychloroquine was hypothesized to protect against wet lung, as an anti-inflammatory, and not as an antiviral.

Did I just make that up?
No need to read Chinese, the abstract is on page 2. Conclusion: at current trial size no better than placebo. More study is needed to tease out an effect, if there is any.
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Whatever the advantages of GCP, they don't amount to "technical superiority" imo.

The fact that Oracle's main relational database offerings are still the most technologically sophisticated does not mean that Oracle Cloud is technologically superior to AWS (or GCP for that matter). It just means that they beat the other cloud providers at one thing.
Taiwan is trying really hard to attract foreign talents to boost their economy. If you're interested, check their Golden Card Permit. It's a visa+redisent card allowing you to stay and work for anyone there up to 3years. The only requirement is to justify of a an average salary of 160k NTD/month(~USD 5210/month), anywhere in the world. If you don't earn that, try the skills application[1].
I'll not talk about all the positive things about Taiwan, just read the other comments.

[1] https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=128B875DE9C...
An economy is not something that one should have to shovels lives into to keep going. And in any case, if we sacrifice all the lives this virus could take to the economy, it won't help the economy at all - the massive dislocation involved in the deaths will certainly be far worse than the shutdown, if you really want to think that way.

All that said, part of the collapse of things like the stock market comes through the financial system having been built up into finely tuned but extremely fragile edifice - end QE created an environment of limitless leverage and short-term thinking. This environment created the situation of not having future resources, of jury rigging everything to work in a super-efficient but fragile fashion (the 737Max being a perfect product of this paradigm).

Covid shock is logical result - in another, a more far seeing society might have made preparations beforehand, had an epidemic team in place, etc.

So a lot of things are collapsing because they weren't built to last to begin with, not because of the virus.
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I see that in your last comment regarding hiring you mentioned an ACM Fellow (Ras) who was working with you guys, but there is no mention of him now. I am curious to know if he's still working with your company; if so I would be extremely interested because I think working with him would be an invaluable experience.
Slight correction: FSMs are not turing-complete.
They may not hold though, which is not the same thing.
At least America is winning the going-down-the-toilet race.
I'd argue those who give up the safety of others, to purchase a little temporary liberty for themselves, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Sure but it's rare to successfully transition. The ad market is very political and depends on connections, not product. Google salespeople are also known as "order takers" since they don't really need to sell, companies always buy them by default.

It's the opposite in enterprise tech where Google is the underdog and needs to do quite a bit of selling, and base it on the strength of the product and functionality. GCP is hiring strongly for enterprise/software sales experience but struggling with the leadership to use them effectively.

There's plenty of margins in cloud though. AWS has proven it and GCP has the potential to be bigger than their ads business, but I agree that it's not currently as lucrative today.
I think a big obstacle to adoption here is that most US bathrooms don't have an electric outlet in the right place for a Washlet. Now the already expensive toilet needs electrical work too, which may not even be possible if you're a renter.

If I ever own a place I'm definitely getting one though.
This has been posted several times.

$17,300 toilets are great, much better than $80 toilets.

Author should install a $17,300 toilet in his home using money he actually earned himself and THEN write about how he feels that was the right decision.
> What would be the randomized double blind trial that you would run, and what information would it give us?

I have absolutely no idea how to design or run a clinical study.

> 60% of people will get the virus.

All at the same time?? Your extrapolation comparing total critical cases with the number of ICU beds seemed to assume that. Try this interactive model, which plots infections over time and takes into account how long each patient will occupy a bed: https://neherlab.org/covid19/
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What is herd immunity and can it stop the coronavirus?
Fauci has been through the AIDS epidemic. He's been through the fire and stood up to competent, knowledgeable critics. Trump doesn't have anything to counter Fauci.
Can we just stop asking these questions? What are they truly trying to accomplish? Everyone's advice is to deflect. Why not ask questions that actually matter?
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Yeah, I'm following a bunch of scientists on Twitter and have been watching from the sidelines with awe and admiration. The contrast to the seeming hordes of dumbfucks could hardly be more remarkable; sometimes it's hard to keep in mind the same platform is host to both sets of people.
Hearthstone battlegrounds is truly free (well still beta) and quite fun. No prizes other than ranking and gold to feed back into HS normal play.
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More explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22667632.
the 1000 people who get ventilators will probably say thank you if nobody here will.
Sure, but this was only in context for Zoom, not all software.

And Zoom does have a Linux version in case you're not aware: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installi...
They have PPE, if anything more PPE than hospitals in the US, and carriers should have surgical masks on.
Doesn’t influenzas cause a pandemic every year?

I’ve read from various sources influenza cause multiple hundred-thousand deaths every year.
Packaged fruits and vegetables are usually cheaper than pick-from-pile. Because it somewhat limits your choice.

Peppers are a good example: nobody buys green peppers if they can avoid it. That’s why they sell sets with red/yellow/green.

(I hope “peppers” is the right word here. I have been somewhat confused by America’s use of pepper/pepperoni/paprika)
Fonts do have other features that were not much used in the programming/tehc world.

but one example there would be support for ligatures, which could be a lot more complex depending of the language you want to support.

And depending on the rendering speed you want, you might want to perform some JIT compilation, which unfortunately might not cover all edge cases.
Peppers looks like the right word. Pepperoni is a type of sausage typically used as a pizza topping. Paprika is usually sold in the US as a spice, not as the fruit/vegetable.
Even the most long-lasting ones will still evaporate in a few weeks. (Of course, if it's inside a bottle it will not evaporate, and if it's inside a city you probably want to decontaminate it rather than wait).
Seems like an underestimate.
Comparing the innovations of the toilet to the rise of the iPhone.

Well perhaps if the innovative electronic toilet was so good it would have, as the author says "diffused" into other countries.
Y'all just have bias against the string system.

Writing decent code in bash is just as possible as any other language.

I stick to POSIX sh but same difference.
I wonder how it's neighbour New Zealand would fair given that they are on a full lockdown with compulsary self-isolation for all citizens?[0]

The article mentions that a "turnaround will come in the final three months of 2020", but surely Australia is going to be impacted just has badly as other states and this isn't even the beginning?

[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/12046807...
Cleaning after defecation really requires the skillful application of wet paper towel, then dry paper towel, followed by a shower with a removable shower head set to the laser setting, with soap and disposable rag.

Having spent time in Japan, I found that a Toto washlet is inferior to the shower method. However, washlets are clearly better than only dry paper towel.

My process for American public restrooms involves wetting paper towels, preferably after defecating to maintain absorption of water in the clumped paper towels. It’s odd to me that bathroom stalls don’t offer the facility to wet paper towels. It must be obvious to all that dry paper towel (without soap nor water) cannot possibly clean fecal matter sufficiently, yet this seems to be the cultural norm.

Perhaps someone will invent a kind of washlet that works better than the current offering. I personally don’t need heating and gizmos, just a high quality and reliable cleaning on par with the shower method.
To counter your anecdote with my own, Japan is a common holiday destination for my circle of friends, and every single time anyone comes back, they either: go "Gee...I wish we had one of them Japanese toilet seats", or actually buy one, or they already have one and say nothing.
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Hold on a second. This is only for one particular model. The article says that high-tech toilets are present in hotels, restaurants, bus stations, rest stops and around 80% of homes in Japan. Japan is a poorer country than the United States. If Japan can afford this technology, there is no reason the US can't, from a strict affordability standpoint.
This technique should be more widely shared. I stumbled across it years ago in Python, but it can be expressed in nearly any language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substructural_type_system
I seem to recall having a discussion with you a while back where Windows would just leave kernel pointers out in userspace, which seemed to do with GDI as well.
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You're also forgetting things like ligatures. And, how would you even render your proposed fonts in embedded devices? The solution is not "huge bitmaps".
The social environment of any school, public or private, is a function of the prevailing norms and behaviors of the community it serves. Bullying and violence are nothing specific to public schools. Many private schools have similar issues, and many public schools have few of those issues. It isn't as simple as you would like to portray it.
> Facetime has the best audio/video quality of any conferencing software I've used by a mile.

Out of curiosity: can you compare it to Google Duo? Because it has the best quality and stability of any 1:1 product I've ever tried (never tried Facetime)
Ohh, hello there troll. Couldn't see you under that bridge
I wish my household had normal TP usage. My fiancée and I both have Crohn’s disease, we probably average a bit more than a roll per day for just the two of us. On top of this we both take immunosuppressants, so we are at very high risk right now. We bought an industrial size pack from Sams Club when things started to get bad, but now we are on “don’t think about leaving the house any more than taking the dog out” levels on advice from our doctors, and that pack is depleting more quickly than I see this dissipating. We have a friend that works at Walmart back home and he is going to see if he can purchase some for us then ship ~1000mi as no one else obviously has any for shipping
My district had already given all high school students Chromebooks; when they announced the closures they provided all students (K-12) with the same. For families without internet access, hotspots were acquired and distributed. It was great! Having done all this, though, they forbade the instruction of any new content and closed the grading system.

Teachers still do videoconferences via Google Meet and/or Zoom, but it's mostly for social interaction rather than teaching.
It's very much a "this is productive for me and fits how I think, maybe to the exclusion of making sense to other people" project.

It's closest to J or Dyalog APL but with a much different syntax that aims to make it more natural to write entirely pointfree code. (Personally, I feel like long trains can become kind of hard to read and refactor in J. The fork and hook syntax is really nice for short trains but IMO does not scale up very well.) I've been fiddling with the syntax on and off for about 5 years and use it as a sort of general notation for algorithms.

There's actually a fair bit of Erlang in there as well which is honestly kind of an odd combination but actors+arrays hits a sort of local optima for me. It might be the first APLlike with really good I/O.
Here's some info about N95 specific materials.

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

N95 is a high standard. N99 higher still. (Why not adopt that then?) There are also other mitigation efforts available not as good as N95 that are massively better than nothing and which are also attainable.

Insinuating as you have that only N95 is acceptable and nothing else whatsoever is acceptable means that millions will die in your universe since N95 is in the actual universe we live in unavailable at present. The perfect is the enemy of the good. But hey let's hold out for that perfection and then watch as the world incinerates.
Killing of Parse definitely showed that Facebook didn't want to be in PaaS/IaaS. Now, there's going to be severe trust issues with any PaaS/IaaS with a Facebook branding.

Parse was ahead of its time, good Engineering, nice documentations and possible the first platform to make building backend/database system for an app seamless. Even when Facebook killed it, they did a great job at open-sourcing the platform.[1]

I had migrated my existing services to open-source Parse and even built a stateless application with >250,000 users with it few years back. But if I had to build the same backend now, I'll probably do it with Go/pgSQL instead of NodeJS/MongoDB as in Parse.

[1]https://parseplatform.org/
Makes sense at this point in time.
Locals do go there but usually well after midnight
Bidets are nowhere near that expensive. Really nice, automated, integrated Totos are <$2,000. Replacement toilet seats to retrofit bidet and heating functionality are normally $200-300 (outside of pandemic times).
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English site with English news and English speaking commenters. Well, tell you what, when Alpha Centauri dudes will comment here to localize for them, that's when I'll do it.
That's not a cost imposed on you - you're free to buy the generic off-brand.
Facebook did a huge company-wide refocus on mobile at a time when it was not at all clear smartphones were going to become the dominant platform. I really do give zuck et.al. a lot of credit for seeing that coming [source: I was an employee at the time]
Tired of all these headlines with the use of emotionally laden words like "soar", "crash", "plummet", "skyrocket", "plunge", "collapse", etc. Especially the last few weeks journalists are in overdrive with their thesaurus usage.

Why don't you just present the facts and let the reader decide what literary narrative to assign to the story?
This is, in fact, explicitly stated in TFA.

"This isn’t a value question, but a value-against-replacement question – why maintain, issue, store, and shoot expensive chemical munitions if cheap, easier to store, easier to manufacture high explosive munitions are both more obtainable and also better? When you add the geopolitical and morale impact on top of that – you sacrifice diplomatic capital using such weapons and potentially demoralize your own soldiers, who don’t want to see themselves as delivering inhumane weapons – it’s pretty clear why would wouldn’t bother."
Highly charged headlines drive clicks, thereby increasing ad revenue.
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Pass-by-global is awful. Make smaller functions that return (echo) a single string.

Your bash is untestable, but that's just because of your chosen abstractions.

Bash is just a proper script language with a weird string and implicit IO system.

Disclaimer: I stick to POSIX sh but same difference.
Makes me think of Dr. Weisleder who healed his patients with moonlight, and eventually drew massive crowds of people to be healed.
I'm in NZ.... hard to tell, we have some significant financial aid for businesses to finance and pay wages during the lockdown. Not sure how that's going to work out. It feels like we are possibly in a bit of a sweet spot where we are small enough but big enough to weather our way through this, but hard to know anything for sure. I think we will see the tourism industry savaged a fair bit.
I had the utter pleasure if contributing some code to a (now defunct) Khan Academy project. Some of the most amazing people I've encountered in OSS.

Truly a gem of the internet, in every way.
Their representatives in England were never negotiating with a serious intent of representation. It was pretty clear at the time that colonial representation wasn't workable.
This is, in fact, explicitly stated in the article. So, no, not "another" reason.
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Yeah, and it's not listed... in the actual FDA database.
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Lots of bash hate on HN today.

Shellcheck is the training wheels bash deserves, if you're learning it's indispensable just to harass you for quoting.

https://shellcheck.net/
This is, in fact, explicitly stated in the article.

"This isn’t a value question, but a value-against-replacement question – why maintain, issue, store, and shoot expensive chemical munitions if cheap, easier to store, easier to manufacture high explosive munitions are both more obtainable and also better? When you add the geopolitical and morale impact on top of that – you sacrifice diplomatic capital using such weapons and potentially demoralize your own soldiers, who don’t want to see themselves as delivering inhumane weapons – it’s pretty clear why would wouldn’t bother."
This shows how bad is Toto (and other companies in the market in Japan) at exporting their products even though they are remarkably better across the board. Even if they don't make it in every home overseas you could imagine they at least tap in a kind of premium market, but no, they are close to doing nothing and don't have partnerships in most countries. Truly incompetent.
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Thx! the name "dumber" was for the bundler which is one year older than this dumber-gist. I understand it's a debatable name but I think I will keep it :-)

The name was picked out of frustration on many JS tools who constantly remind me how stupid I am. I just want a JS bundler dumber than me, so that I can take control of it.

I am fine if my bundler didn't become popular. That is the most likely outcome anyway. I had lots of fun making my tools, that's rewarding enough. :-)
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There's also a streak of Yogi Bear libertarianism: "I'm smarter than the average bear!"
Derp, been too long since my theory class.

I am fairly confident AAT tables are FSMs, so I am curious where the turing completeness comes from. I am certainly not familiar with all truetype/opentype features.
Well if you just want static vector fonts alone you don’t need anything programmatic; vector images are not inherently code anymore than raster ones. For TrueType I’m pretty sure the VM is only for hinting. OpenType has more flexibility but I haven’t anecdotally seen many vulnerabilities around OpenType. I suspect Type 1 is subject of many vulnerabilities specifically because it’s old code that doesn’t get as much usage.
>> How about a little FUCKING unity?

> only dumb-fucks would vote for Biden

>> Relax a bit.

> HE GOT IT DONE

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