skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QMK is an amazing project. I'm using it for three keyboards so far.

That said, tweaking the behavior of tap/hold dual function keys is voodoo. There are a few flags one can set, or one can replace the keystroke inner loop, which I'm about to do. 18 of my 30 core alpha keys are dual function, either modifiers or access to other layers. I have many shortcuts that involve one finger from each hand in sequence, easy chording. However, change keyboards and I trip over myself on fast ordinary typing, accidentally triggering sequences that rearrange the orbits of the planets. (I used to use Emacs, so I'm used to this.)

Everyone types differently, so "this works for me" rarely helps. Every mechanical switch activates differently, so one can adapt to one keyboard and be back at ground zero on another keyboard.

Scheme would be great for creating a DSL implementing arbitrary flow charts for the state transitions as keypresses register down or up, and timers fire. Writing this in C is tedious. And if chording ever "just worked" many more people would adopt it.
~0.3 and ~0.9% are also not optimistic guesses but the current numbers for Germany and SK.

Fine numbers in the presence of a health system that is not overloaded, or a country that has managed to make effective changes to prevent transmission (how did they do that without science huh?)

By John’s numbers (0.3% die and 1% of population) Italy should get a total of 1800 deaths. Yet Italy is at 6000 and rapidly rising - using real numbers his assumptions are already wrong for a first world country that is a few weeks ahead of the rest of the world.

And why the fuck does he assume 1%? Because some actions have been taken? What actions can be taken since by his own words we lack evidence to make decisions...

Edit: by my calculations the US has 800000 cases at the moment (compared to ~40000 tested positive). 500 deaths with a 0.5% death rate, so three weeks ago there were 100000 cases, but it will have doubled 4 times in 21 days so there is now 800000 cases (already 0.2% of population). Three more doublings (easily realistic) beats John’s 1% within weeks. Ironically, going with his low mortality rate (0.025%) would mean US has 2% infected already...
I am speculating, but it might be because Italy tested some (many) people after they died. That would skew the fatality statistics.
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Well deaths in the US only for flu were 50,000 last year. Still 5x less.
Just got one. As someone who possesses body hair, yeah, TP consumption is way down.
This is turning out to be an excellent test of people’s ability to reason, to separate what they would like to be true from what is.

Judging by the balance of comments, and the comment I’m replying to approaching #DDD, people are having a surprisingly hard time with it.
Stress testing the system. Imagine if this viral of a disease had a 25% mortality rate on all age brackets. It would be pandemonium.

Businesses get more robust, start having a larger margin of safety. It reminds me of how banks got deleveraged after 2008 because Dodd Frank forced them to keep more cash on hand.

People eat all those random items in their pantry that would sit there uneaten for 10 years without a virus.

People realize that it’s possible to survive and thrive under the constraints of not going out much at all.

Parents are forced to cope and learn how to parent their kids instead of putting responsibility on teachers and schools.

Online education because more normal.

Work from home will be desirable if people successfully adjust.
The points outlined above could be easily fulfilled if Costco had online shopping, don’t you think?
> Instead, the entire economy has been shut down, and the solution?

The hospitals are being overrun.

Your whole comments just reads like you're upset that you can't go out with your friends anymore. "Why should I have to stay at home, its the old people that are in danger, they should have to stay home."

The hospitals are being overrun. That means that if left unchecked the virus overwhelms healthcare. Just yesterday we've hospitalized people in their 30s and 40s here. It's not just the old people who need intensive care. It seems to be its the old people who die even with intensive care.
Neither are available on common small embedded systems that rely 90% on busybox.
I wish Costco would do two things

1) Limit the number of people in the store. Do better crowd control. The over packed stores makes me hate visiting Costco.

2) Make the shopping carts smaller. To allow for easier navigation.
It may be that they just presented an abstract and the manuscript has not yet been submitted for publication or peer reviewed
Now it's lost all meaning. :(

Why not say "ancestor of [most] animals" or similar?
But talk about lack of data. This is looking at the spread of a different virus - a virus that certainly does not have the infectiousness of the Covid virus. So the this pure speculation.
Have you tried reporting these issues?
Popular toilet paper and coronavirus warehouse video making the rounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA4KS546rZo
They don't break them out publicly but they appear in private analyst reports, which are generally very well researched and pretty accurate.
Why do you feel that?
God I don't have kids yet but it gives me huge amount of anxiety for just reading this thread. The Typewriter scene in Shining keeps popping up in my head...

Hope you guys all good.
Yes. We have active needs in RedHat Canada (and Red Hat US) for OpenShift, Kubernetes, Infra, SRE, SDE, Architects, DevOps, AppDev (Java, Python, Spring Boot, JBoss, node.js, others). We're _ALWAYS_ hiring. Certain software developer teams are also based in Montreal and Toronto. Those roles are fewer than Consultants like myself. Though I'm US-based and a Senior Architect in our Container Practice (OpenShift specialists), I go to Canada often to support our customers up there and I do love when I get there.
Also direct link to more info about the underlying protocol "BlueTrace" they are working on finalizing before open-sourcing this app for use in other countries:

https://tracetogether.zendesk.com/hc/en-sg/articles/36004488...
I've spent significant time in Japan and everytime I return back to US, I never go "Gee...I wish we had one of them Japanese toilets". It's fine. Not great, but it does the job. Although I think bidets are great, we should get that going in the USA.
> I don't believe it's legal for a company to change their contract...

IANAL, but that's breach of contract. To amend the contract, both parties have to assent. That's why you get those "terms of service" updates that always mention, "and if you don't like the new terms, here's how to delete your account," since your usage of the service constitutes assent to the terms.

Purchasing a good is different, it's more bilateral because both parties are still responsible after the initial exchange for delivering on their promises. So if your check bounces, you still owe them, and if the goods are junk, they still owe you.

The tricky part here is figuring out what the contract is. When you purchase goods in the US, the framework of the contract you're engaging in is laid out by the Uniform Commercial Code, if you want to look that up.

Costco has a satisfaction guarantee[1] and they will refund your money but there's an asterisk: "*Limitations apply. See the membership counter or Costco.com for details."

I couldn't find anything more on their site.

A "guarantee" has a legal meaning[2]:

> 4) a promise to make a product good if it has some defect.

So I think it means a customer would be required to explain why he's unsatisfied with the goods, in what way they're deficient.

That someone bought too much TP doesn't make it deficient.

[1]: https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1...

[2]: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/guarantee
If you then centralize the composters, for efficiency, the you really have something.
Regarding the privacy aspect: I think it's a valid concern but this seems like the right pragmatic approach for this situation. I would be more comfortable if they made us use a tracking app on my phone instead, since the app has an express purpose and I can remove it afterwards. But the phone tracking method they are using instead is more robust and tried and true, so it makes since to use that.

I guess the issue is not how they do it but if they should do it at all. I think freedom is a balance of what we want and what society needs. If we're living in a society, there's a degree of sacrifice in our personal freedom we must make sometimes. Things like vaccines, limits to speech, and taxes are examples of things that we agree are necessary to run a society that's better for everyone, at a personal cost to our own freedoms or resources. Finding that balance is tricky but I don't think that "maximize personal freedom always" is an approach that always leaves you better off.

The other thing is how much trust you put in your society and the government. Taiwan's government had a rocky past, but it's on a good trajectory of strong personal freedom and democracy now. I can forgive them for using this power in this extreme circumstance, but after all this is done, I'd like to see them review this process and ensure there are the right safeguards and oversights in place.
You can also ration your intake of food when it starts to become more scarce. People do this every day due to income constraints during non-Coronavirus times.

It's a little harder to ration your bowel movements. It can be done, but it's a lot less beneficial than forced fasting.
That's a false dichotomy. The situation could also be that access to treatment is a huge factor in mortality, and that Italy and Wuhan faced a large enough caseload that people were unable to get healthcare, which drove up mortality significantly.

This is a much more likely factor than the idea that Germany and South Korea are somehow 10x-30x more effective in testing their population than Italy.
That's a good point, but it ignores two other notable descendants: Orestes (who is legendary for establishing the precursor to the modern judicial system and who I named my firmware written in Forth after http://github.com/technomancy/orestes) and Paul Atreides, who as you may know was Muad'Dib and was capable of seeing the flow of cause and effect unfold across spacetime.
Can you point to evidence that in vitro efficacy rarely translates to in vivo?

I've seen the one situation of chloroquine showing promise in vitro against SARS CoV but no others. Is there literature on others?
Where did I say it did? Can you state what data Zoom would be able to sell? to whom? and for how much?

I have 12 years of experience in adtech. I know the major data markets (ads, credit bureaus, banking, retail). People vastly overestimate the quality, usefulness, and price for "data", and don't understand any of the regulations around it.

It's only worth what you can legally do with it. That's why most companies don't sell it. They don't have anything special and it can't really be used anyway. Zoom doesn't have anything worth buying.
Bidets use less water than it takes to make the toilet paper Americans use to excess.
There's a likelihood of interaction in this case as they both have side effects on the heart. It should probably be monitored carefully in hospital this case.
Let's not be naive here, the worst possible consequence of overreaction is a war.
The Math of Social Distancing
I think the main point was missed in the article. Chemical weapons cause more suffering and less death and cause multi generation effects, while other weapons are primarily hit/miss but geared towards death.

It might seem weird, but death is considered better than suffering by lots of people. I give an example. In the series Chernobyl - soldiers are employed to kill dogs because they might spread radiation. The senior soldier instructs that when you see a dog - keep shooting, till it dies.

In old times, slow killing was considered to be much worse as compared to sudden death. So maybe this is why we don't use chemical weapons.
Thanks; the title is fine. The current link is probably a better starting point; I've added links to the most recent revision so folks can see the final product if they want.
How well do these electric Japanese toilets work when there is no electric power? As in a hurricane or earthquake?
It’s much easier to quantify the harms of allowing business as usual and letting the infection spread (namely # of deaths) than it is quantifying the cascading repercussions of a massive global economic meltdown.

Accordingly, world leaders are being judged based on their ability to contain the spread rather than prevent economic devastation.

As a society we are faced with navigating the delicate balance between how many lives we put to risk vs how much economic turmoil we can tolerate.

With so little data on the latter (economic crashes absolutely can lead to deaths as well), it feels like we aren’t equipped to make educated policy decisions on how far we should go to limit the spread.

I hope after all this we can create a more cohesive playbook for navigating these tradeoffs in the future. Many of these public health orders feel like knee jerk reactions lacking evidence.

Better to err on the side of caution I suppose.
What are you trying to say? If the rest of the world would develop hard immunity, they would have no need to quarantine you.
You focused on the wrong end of my comment. I was defending the choices of the hospitals and not criticizing the choices of Facebook.
The products that Google does offer are technically superior to their equivalent products at AWS.

AWS has a much bigger breadth of offerings, and I 100% agree with you that it would be malpractice to recommend GCP over AWS, for myriad reasons.

But by mentioning Lambda layers, for example, you're not making an oranges to oranges comparison.

For the actual functions offering, for example, the Google one is cheaper, has more consistent network access to the data stores, and starts up faster. Technically superior in every way.

But I would never use GCP's serverless offering unless I had to.
It seems to work in Firefox despite the browser warning.

What do you use for authentication? Do you have an existing ldap server? I spooled up a server for neighbors and family to use on my personal vps and the user account management promises to be problematic using the internal auth mechanism.
His own numbers predict fewer deaths in Italy than it's already reported.

The lockdown in Italy has, thankfully, seemed to limit the virus to sublinear growth, using the very small sample of the past three days.
Maybe something like Google Cardboard
Someone on the Twitter thread linked to this, which seems to be not exactly the same document but contains very similar text in the abstract:

http://subject.med.wanfangdata.com.cn/UpLoad/Files/202003/43...

I think it helps if you can read Chinese, though Google Translate seems to do a pretty ok job on it.
Interesting - I grew up in Terre Haute. I think you're talking about the old VX bunker up in Newport, maybe?
Well let's peer review this wikipedia-style. Not sure why academia is stuck in last century.
Man, this really is a case of no good deed goes unpunished, isn't it. That the response to a donation of their emergency reserves comes with "clearly they were up to no good" isn't exactly encouraging further cooperation.
They do, but delivery is priced-in, and it becomes a time versus money trade off.
I am in the middle of a passion project for this exactly! Online time capsules.

It’s in beta, but you can feel free to message me! j3elam@gmail.com

I’m really curious to hear from people like you, since its pretty hard to find customers looking for this service.
If 10% of the population needs ICU and dies because they cant get it, then there is no business as usual.
It's a meta-study looking at over 67 papers that address the question of the spread of respiratory viruses. Obviously, every virus is a new virus, that is always a problem.

The question remains however why we ought to treat concerns about data about the virus different than concerns about data about the response to the virus. Why do we treat the virus like a black swan event, but not the unprecedented response of shutting economic and civil liberty down to a degree maybe not seen in 100 years?

It seems ironic that people critize Ioannidis for a sort of first-order error in thinking by not considering uncertainty. Yet causing damage and applying first-order thinking to disruption of global supply chains that likely will drive entire nations into deep recession and instability is apparently adequate.
That might be the case in the US but I'm sure it's not in the EU. As a matter of fact I think most European countries (except Germany) also forbid packets that don't have 20 cigarettes.
Trump’s trade war also shot America in the foot.

It made it harder for hospitals to buy the N95 masks and other equipment from China.

So to the Americans that voted in Trump to wage his disastrous trade war against China, then this is partially your fault too.
There are non-electric bidets.
>Weapons make everyone civilized

Or at least more civilized than they would otherwise be. They make the US more civilized as well.

But I think my point stands - given that there are several countries that could destroy multiple US cities within minutes, the US does not have "a near-immunity to blowback, and a near-zero concern for consequences".
It's not just about GCP and cancelations. By now I associate Google with high maintenance, constant and unnecessary change (great for Google, but nothing in it for me), no maintenance and bugfixes, and neverending re-writes.

I feel exploited. I feel like I am the product. This might work when providing a free service to the public but we, developers, are not the general public.

As condescending and cliche as it may sound, we don't like our time wasted. Google's free services should be a magnet to entice, a funnel to capture and channel our hearts and minds, not the developer repellant they have become.

The fact that someone has to spell this is out is a testament to how out of touch Google has become with its traditional base - developers.
Android has this problem as well which I've always found odd. Connecting t0 802.1x networks in Windows is very straightforward, but for Android I've had to publish a guide with screenshots for people to follow.
Insane. We have some of the best tap water in the world on the Peninsula. WTF.
They have a manual flush too.
Well, the latter is unavoidable, though with harsh hygiene measures one person would reduce risk. Somewhat.
You can get a bidet.
I would suggest, in such a scenario where electric power is absent, that the toilet seat would work much like a non-electric toilet seat.
List of the greatest anti-theft apps for Android in 2020?
To my eyes, California just looks slower exponential and Washington is ambiguous. A few days of non-growth can be randomness or reporting problems.

But I hope you're right! We all need to do our parts.

I'd also note that things are getting "hot" in other states and each has it's problems.
Corvid 19 deaths are doubling every 3 days in US and a few other countries. Do the extrapolation.
It was talked about a fair bit before Trump got on to it. You may have noticed there is a pandemic going on many deaths so it's natural to be interested in remedies.

The data - 100% of the azithromycin + hydroxychloroquine group better after 6 days is promising even if it's a small sample.
> Wouldn't that most likely mean giving up on eradicating Covid-19 completely? Is it really desirable to permanently reduce life expectancy by keeping it around forever?

If herd immunity would have worked, then a vaccine will work. That might be 2022, but it's definitely not forever.
For my parents maintaining an Apple account is a bridge too far. Not even with their IOS devices. They use Duo a lot though.
And then you get to be the guy in the headlines suing costco to take back all the excess you purchased. That'll be popular for sure.
Yes, death lags and testing is inaccurate. We're flying blind.
There are very simple attachments on Amazon for less than $40 (maybe not currently, but mine was very cheap)
Costco literally is designed as a small business supply warehouse. There are some Costco they cater exclusively to this. Now not trying to price gouge in a pandemic is another thing.
If you definitely had it (i.e., you actually tested positive as opposed to inferring that you had it from your symptoms), and are definitely over it and past the point that you can infect others--maybe get a temporary/part time job as a delivery driver for take out food or groceries?
> Maybe at that level there's a secret site that straight up says product X has limitations Y and Z

I promise you that there is not. :)

Usually it went the other way. We (Netflix) would say "hey we think we found a limit in product X" and they would come back later and say, "huh you're right no one has ever seen that before". Then we'd get on the phone with the engineer who wrote it and we'd work through the bug together.

So in a sense, yes, we had amazing support, but only because we were their beta testers. It was a good relationship though, because it meant when we had problems we got a lot of help.

They were always willing to put the resources in to make sure we were insanely happy.

But talking to other customers, that part of the equation seems to be there no matter who you are.
What DM do you use? I have endless problems with scaling in both Gnome 3 and Cinnamon, compared to Windows where I've really never had a problem except with some very legacy software. The underlying problem is that the scaling setting in the WM tends to only be observed by software built with the same toolkit, so you have to set scaling up in a different way for each GUI toolkit and there's a decent list of them in common use on Linux.
Beyond a certain scale there's also Big Blue Button, though it was very lecture focused last I tried it
One of the outdoor retailers (REI?) had to give up their "No Questions Asked" return policy because of idiots doing things like buying a tent, using it for a trip, and then returning it.
The house stimulus bill has money for funding broadband for this reason (and remote work though if can't afford internet probably can't work remote...).

The Republicans are attacking it as 'Obamaphone 2.0'...

Which actually sounds like a much quicker way to get internet to more kids in cities.

We've already spent how much money failing on rural broadband - but I think the same issues with rural cell service.
Yes, the famous we-can-change-the-contract-if-enough-people-don’t-like-you provision.

Does it only apply to return policy? Or could CostCo also, say, change the price retroactively?

Does it work the other way around? Say I order from Amazon. Then, I notice many people don’t like them. Labor safety, no paid sick leave, etc. Can I refuse to pay? I’ll tell them why and they can better themselves.
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Remember Amazon A9? Started in 2003. Now the domain just points to The Amazon home page.
Unfortunately, that qoute was taken out of context: https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said