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I know GSuite is on a whole tier lower standard of support, but man do we have horror stories there. Here's a fun one:

One of our engineers needed to send out a couple hundred individual emails to other people inside our company. So, being an engineer he automated it, wrote a little script to send the emails via SMTP. I guess some system within Gmail flagged it as suspicious behavior and froze our account. Oh hey, now no one in the company can send or receive email. Great. IT tries to contact support. They told him to send an email from our account to open a ticket. We can't send emails. Took several hours of phone tag to eventually reach a human who wasn't on a helpdesk flow chart. His response? Google can't/won't do anything just wait for the automated systems to eventually release the freeze in the next few days.

So yeah, no company emails for the next day or so. Google thought that was a perfectly OK way to run an enterprise software service.
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I definitely agree with you, but I want to see more data. Without broad testing it’s difficult to ascertain the true death rate of the virus (many infected are asymptomatic).

But my hope is we can come up with similarly effective measures (e.g. require n95 masks in public, keeping the elderly at home, offer voluntary isolated infection to low-risk individuals to increase herd immunity, etc) that can achieve both.
What adjective would you use to describe a rise in the unemployment rate from around 5% to above 11% in three months?

I understand and agree with the idea that emotionally laden words don’t always add much to the story, but in this case I think ‘soar’ is probably close to the mark. Australia’s unemployment rate peaked at 11.2% in 1992, and has only gone above 7% for a couple of months in the last 20 years.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/australia/unemployment...
This amount is only sufficient for a week or two for their employees.
Is this in reference to my comment? If so, I'm not seeing what you're getting at...
Quote: "“They were engaged. They were happy to see each other,” she said, and some students expressed a feeling they never thought they’d have: “They miss being in school.”"

Well, my kids are on the opposite spectrum of this feeling. For them, going to school is a drag. Perhaps I made too good of an environment at home, maybe I should be more drastic, maybe.....nah, just kidding, I love giving them a real home, not just a roof against rain.
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Learning vim at the level of vimtutor is helpful not only because it's a nearly ubiquitous editor with powerful capabilities, but also because the basic navigation is used as the default navigation method in a lot of unix command line utilities like 'less', 'diff', and the man pages.

(Oddly enough, the default navigation used for the info pages is that of emacs.)

Someone's reading this itching to type that you can simply switch the default navigation for those yourself, which is true, but it's still helpful to know these if you have to hop on someone else's machine or ssh into a remote server.

Try one of these editors for at least a month after doing the basic built-in tutorial (e.g., vimtutor) and go through the tutorial every Sunday or so as needed to refresh your memory.

Or you could also use Anki to remember the shortcuts as you learn about them and use them.
For the first-grader (and some toddlers), you could try kids audio books. Most kids love them and it can keep them entertained for a long time and more mentally engaged than TV. Sometimes my kids just sit and listen, and other times they do other activities while they listen. Even if they get bored of the audio book, I've noticed they are much more likely to stay focused for long periods doing other activities like drawing or playing with toys if there's an audio book in the background. You can find all the children's classics in audio books. If you have an audible subscription, you can sometimes find whole children's book series for a single credit (like 19 hours of the Ramona Quimby collection). You can also check them out of many municipal libraries online. Children's podcasts are also good, and there are educational options there too.

You could also give them some screen time, but try to keep it more engaging. For instance, video calls with their friends(clearly won't work long with the toddler though) or physical activities led by an instructor on the screen like kids yoga (Cosmic Kids Yoga is good) or dance.

Also, anyone who's used to teaching dance, martial arts, physical training, music, foreign language tutoring, etc is really struggling now with the quarantines. Many of them are trying to continue classes and one-on-one instruction over video (or would be willing to), and they could definitely use the extra money right now if your kids have been doing one of those activities or have something they're interested in and willing to follow on the screen.

While engaging screen time is not as good for them as real interaction, it seems that it is much better for them than just staring at the screen.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160715115023.h...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/desc.12430
https://thriving.childrenshospital.org/video-chat-babies-gra...
more than 1000 -- they are multi-use machines. Once one patient gets off - another one can use it.
> together with tracing

This is key — these countries were able to avoid lockdown by testing and tracing early, before the case load became unmanageable. In the US, we’ve missed that opportunity
on the bright side, forced fasting has the effect of rationing your bowel movements, so win-win :)
The economy is someways equivalent to poverty which is highly correlated with mortality rates. Some caution with your reasoning should be warranted.
I can see that, but I also can see that this could give us insight into the virus as it spreads throughout the population. Like, what if it is mutating, becoming weaker/stronger, hospitalization rates would give us insight into that.
also...In many ways I'm way more worried about the fallout from the US economy, their whole leadership seems a mess with great political divides, lots of mixed messages, and a large growth in cases.
Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
You should check out Harvard's CS50x on edx.

It's probably the best introduction to CS and programming online and teaches you the basics of the command line and C along the way.

Depending on the CS program, it's roughly equivalent of the first 1-3 semesters at a more average university, but the quality of the pedagogy is so high that it's very doable for anyone willing to put in the work.
Focus seems to be in waste removal instead of data collection.

Would large scale stool analysis benefits outweigh the costs of its implementation?

Maybe there can be another 'Ignaz
Semmelweis' before another 'Broad Street cholera outbreak' type event.
Do those toilets come with an UPS in case there is a power loss?

Also since they might have a microcontroller or CPU running some software, I hope they aren't connected to the Internet since that might expose the user to DOS attacks.
Under capitalism, if you go broke, you're broke. Boeing is broke, because the executives took all the cash for themselves via buybacks.

If the taxpayers are getting their wallet out, it should be to purchase something. So, they will be purchasing equity in the bankrupt company.

If Boeing doesn't like it, they can go pound sand, or maybe the executives could use the money (that formerly belonged to the shareholders) to purchase the shares themselves. Of course they don't want that, they want to have their cake and eat it too, again.
https://doineedtoiletpaper.com/
Coronavirus: South Korea Flattened the Curve
China's Hubei province to remove travel bans starting March 25
I ordered and installed one of these Totos last year myself (US). Love it.
That's an "if" though.
"Australia unemployment may rise to 11.1% by June" would be a reasonable headline for this specific article.
They bought surplus from China and had them shipped over.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1242279396226011137?s=21
I think many US policy makers do not trust foreign technology. Would you imagine Mr Trump using a Huawei made toilet?
Are there positions for software engineer interns? I have been looking all the time and I keep missing the recruitment window.

My academic life would be so painful without khanacademy and it'd be great to contribute to this.
I am actually looking if this is cultural or technical because it's not clear. If I'm trolling, this has got to be the most pathetic case of it on the internet. I mean this alone would be interpreted as a joke in other contexts:

> Under Windows 10 the name is ATMLIB.DLL. ATMFD.DLL is the name for older version of Windows

..without even touching the rest of it.
Didn't Tivo initially remove commercials...after lawsuits put them back in but he fast forward button helps you speed through them. Even if you're changing the channel, you'll have to budget in some cash for legal fees...and if you lose, does your business model survive? That would scare me away from your plans if I were in your shoes.
> Also the whole language suffers from being a weird mix of C-like statement syntax and FP-like expression syntax

I quite like this though. All other expression based languages like MLs and Haskell use indentation, making it very hard to parse. To me, Rust's syntax allows very granular control. I wish more things in the language can become expressions, like the let expression, for/while loop.
That could work if everyone reduced fibre intake ;)

(I completely see the steampunkish appeal btw)
They bought them from China[1]. It is not made by Tesla.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/californi...
It's the hinting that's normally referred to here as Turing complete, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language
Schools Will Reopen in Japan in April
Additionally, intermediate cartridges allow more rapid followup shots compared to full power rifle cartridges. An M4 fires lightly enough that soldiers can "miss their way to a hit" - as in fire, fire, fire, oh I'm aiming too low, fire, fire, fire oh i'm a little left fire, fire, fire bullseye. Trying that with an M14, which has much stronger recoil, would just result in your shots going increasingly wild.
I really hope we allow these companies to fail. Let it happen. A safety net should only protect people who can’t help themselves.

I’d hold a little celebration of life party if I heard American was done and dead and over as an airline.
They have 100% parity with "conventional" US toilets in a power outage. As long as there's still water pressure, they can flush.
"Doubles".
It depends who has the most power and BATNA. The sports network or the bar owner?

Home viewers are a different thing.
The acid test for this article will take place towards the end of this week and into next according to the Surgeon General.

Honestly, we're all holding our collective breath and waiting to see whether or not the U.S. begins to approach the same values associated with the Diamond Princess.

So far, the mortality rate of those testing positive, asymptomatic and symtomatic, published by the CDC today, is 0.0119 compared to the DP's 0.013.

The mortality rate as a percentage of all passengers and crew aboard the DP is 0.002 (9/3711).

The infection rate as a percentage of all passengers and crew aboard the DP is 0.192 (712/3711).

Dr. Deborah Brix indicated during today's WH presser that it's possible 70% of the U.S. population will be "exposed" to the virus by the end of 2021.

(327,000,000 * 0.70) * 0.19 = 43,491,000 potential positives if the DP number is used.

To date in the U.S., the reported percentage testing positive of the total number tested is 0.115. I'm not sure where this number keeps coming from.

At the moment, the Diamond Princess represents the best set of data for comparison.
I paid about $4,000 for a fully integrated model using money I earned myself. It's great.
Have you seen https://www.jinteki.net/

I play with my dad at least once a week!
I don't believe it being bizarre, nor it being weighing. There's reasonable evidence that there isn't good evidence, with the exception of the cost of being cautious, which has its own life and mortality cost. And if science can't provide good guidance...
“Novel antiviral properties of azithromycin in airway epithelial cells” (2015) [pdf]
In India, we'd use a water jug and do a "manual bidet" - you can even have warm water - just fill up in the sink before sitting down. You do have to use your hands but they're gonna get washed anyway.
Gamestop must be furious... must spend millions to add machines to each store!
True, everything is an improvement on the current English-derived norm. Grey water systems would help, but are expensive, particularly to retrofit.
That'll literally disable half the fonts on the system, in UIs.
I installed jitsi yesterday, it now has a „blur background“ option that is in beta and works okayish.
As a side project, I was exploring the possibility of Ad-blocker for televisions and it lead to a system like yours on paper. I assume your box can easily repurposed as an Ad blocker if needed?(I would love to hear about the compute power required).

But I wonder how the Television industry would approach such Ad-blocker if it gets widely used as in say like a browser extension. I presume they will force the government to ban such a device, then wouldn't it be biased against Internet Ad agencies/Publishers?
Poorer by what metric? I wouldn't agree that life in Japan vs USA is so dissimilar that you can definitively say Japanese people/shop owners are poorer. For example, both countries rank highly on the Human Development Index [1]. In fact, Japan is #3 by inequality-adjusted HDI, whereas USA is #28.

(agree that the user you're responding to is being disingenuous about the price of Japanese toilets btw. The other differences is that public restrooms in Japan are often shared among several nearby shops--like at a train station--meaning a Toto is always within reach even if there's not one in every shop.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequalit...
Yeah, I'm in the same position.
Yeah, sleep time is key for getting things done with kids and toddlers. If your toddler isn't napping much or your kids are staying up late, a sleep consultant can help you reset their schedules (most will handle all the advising over the phone). This is one of those things that most parents think is a joke, or that their kids just won't go on a schedule, or that they can figure it out themselves until they actually deal with a professional. It makes a huge difference. If your kids sleeping on a schedule is the difference between being effective at your job or not, it's definitely worth trying.
> Adafruit is a 100% woman-owned, loan-free, VC-free, profitable, USA Manufacturing company.

Cool
Because a huge portion of the world already spends all day on facebook, instagram and whatsapp. All they have to do is integrate web search into their apps.

I'm sure they already have most of the web indexed and search history would give them amazing information about their users.
It's one of the more interesting if unsexy engineering problems I guess. You mention small boats - composting toilets are making inroads there too.

I happen to live in the bush with a composter. As I'm also on rainwater, which was damn scarce earlier this summer, flushing toilets make me cringe.
Many cases in SK and Germany have not resolved yet. I don’t think you can use those numbers so definitively.
John's analysis is cherry picking in many ways. Death rate in Diamond Princess is 1.1% today and 2% is listed as severe. Assuming 50% of severe make it, final fatality rate for the ship may end up closer to 2%. John then adds a 50% discount factor but it is not clear how he picked that number. Also, the 1% of population infected seems to be another number pulled out of a hat. If we are basing our figures based only on the ship with no other assumptions, we have to go with 20% infection rate. Thus, one reasonable estimate of risk from the ship data is 20%x2%x330M = 1.3M deaths if we wait for "evidence" and did nothing. Clearly, this argues for doing something!

Edit: Also, Germany does not test dead folks for coronavirus while Italy does. Further, SK death rate has gone up to 1.3% (0.9% is an old number) and many more are in severe category. Thus, the sub 1% numbers seem more like the outliers than the above 1% numbers.
Presumably they'd be using aircraft with unit load devices rather than something like the 737 where the luggage compartment is arranged by hand.
Funny thing is my grocery store doesn't even stock green bell peppers anymore, probably for that reason. Makes the value even more biased towards the grocery store since it's cheaper per pepper and you don't get stuck with the undesirable green ones.
I also think there are now a couple of new factors affecting it.
With people staying at home, the demand of toilet paper has shifted to the home more.
People might be limiting their trips to the shop and are bulk buying more.
But I agree the hoarding is still creating a shortage of toilet paper (and pasta, meat etc).
It will be good when people have enough and we see things stocked on the shelves like normal. Although with potential businesses closing or enforced self isolation, I can't see the shelves looking normal for a while.
Been a run on bottle shops, Bunnings etc as well.

It's been interesting to see what gets sold out, there is still plenty of canned tuna etc, but no lemon juice (but there is lime juice). Didn't realise people used lemon juice so much.
Why do we expect to get better mortality data in the US than other countries?
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People on HN might not, uneducated people easily could. Why do you think pharmaceutical commercials include so many warnings?
Considering the graphs, "skyrocket" doesn't seem inappropriate...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2020/mar/24...
Just spent a month there. Sanitizer everywhere, masks everywhere; this was already in the culture.
Why do people want a bunch of plastic bottles?
Most people don't want to shower every time they poop. That would require rebuilding most office buildings with several times the bathroom space.
“Pathological Clues to How the SARS Virus Kills” (2006)
I think most readers wouldn't know how to interpret 11.1% unemployment. Is that good or bad? How good or bad?

It's like telling the average person that your geiger counter reads 3.6 roentgens. That doesn't mean anything to them.
I don’t think airlines deserve to be punished though. It’s a tough industry with not a lot of profit. They didn’t cause the pandemic. Companies are also punished by shareholders for sitting on too much cash.
But US still needs to develop that capacity as quickly as it can, because once quarantine brings the virus under approximate control, testing and contact-tracing are what can eliminate it.
A Dave Barry column from 22 years ago[1], describing how 3.5-gallon-per-flush toilets were banned in the US, makes me wonder if some kind of import restriction or regulation about what can be installed in certain places applies. Though there are people in this thread saying they've got one in the US, so that's a point against that theory.

[1] https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-11-01-19983051...
Just as interesting, in hindsight, is the sidebar link: "Why The World Cares More About The New Coronavirus Than The Flu" -- February 3, 2020:

> By contrast [with the flu], this new coronavirus has only just started circulating in humans. "We basically have the opportunity to prevent spread of a new respiratory disease in the first place," says Althaus.
The alternative is a mandatory quarantine. No leaving your house, the national guard will drop off government meal packs and government toilet paper, and we'll figure out the economy later.

A society that has the willingness to abide by voluntary distancing measures wouldn't need it, but the US may not be such a society.
3d printing janky masks.. is that really essential?
That's an interesting hypothesis. Why would a person want 50+ 20oz bottles?
CNN engagement will plunge with these kind of neutral titles
The reason I understand why there hasn't been a 'Universal vaccine' for common cold is because there are more than 200 strains of Rhinovirus causing it.

My worry is, COVID-19 causing SARS-CoV2 shouldn't become another Rhinovirus due to mutations from the large spread. There was a paper form China telling there has already been at-least one mutation in Wuhan; but the accuracy of that research is disputed due to small sample size.

Edit: Mixed Flu with common cold, corrected.
Are the unfortunate consequences worse than the alternative? Depends on what is being rationed and your view on equality measures and economic inequality generally. For example healthcare services are partly rationed in places with public healthcare.