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I agree with you... last week.

I mean, sure, we should lock down now, but my feeling is that it's mostly too late for the urban areas.

The rural areas might have a chance... they need to lock down hard right now. But... from talking to rural family... I'm not sure that's culturally possible.
Sad news. Apart from improving upon ML, can more sensors and physical modeling get us past the AV plateau?

An example of an additional sensor would be an infared camera. I don't know how well infared cameras work during the day or when they are occluded, but they seem like they can provide an additional datapoint to classify an object as "person" for example. That way, it doesn't matter if they're wearing a paper bag Halloween costume, the car still knows what's underneath.

Physical modeling seems like it would help with prediction. If a deer is idle on the side of road ahead, a car with a physical "deer" model would account for the probability that the deer will suddenly dart across the road and the speed at which it can possibly do so. It will slow down and watch for certain behaviors, such as the deer standing up from a prone position, and modify its probabilities accordingly. That is, after all, what we humans do. The ML wouldn't need to perfectly model all animals. Some animals would be put into a "mammal" class or more vague "animal" class, paying special attention to size and stature.

Additionally, depending on how long it might take to develop truly autonomous self-driving cars, we might want to develop self-driving car friendly infrastructure. I'm talking about AV-only lanes with safeguards in place to minimize variability, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, infrastructure-to-vehicle communication, and better than average maintenance. It seems like it might be worth it, given the gains to be had.

Here's an underappreciated angle to the AV-friendly infrastructure: it's a hedge against incorrect predictions. What if truly autonomous vehicles are actually 15 years away? In that case, if an "AV heaven" is developed in a corridor somewhere in Los Angeles 5 years from now, that'll be the only place where the AV dream is realized for the ensuing 10 years. The profit from "AV heaven" can be reinvested into AV development. It can also be used to expand into other areas. Moreover, AV heaven might galvanize the government, public, academia, and investors to eliminate any bottlenecks in AV development. There's no immutable stone tablet, only viewable by God, that says "AV development must take X years." We can modify the timeline to some extent. Lastly, AV heaven would allow us to observe the true value of self driving cars. What if they're better than we ever imagined? What if they radically change human behavior? What if they increase development in surrounding areas by a lot? What if they change the nature of work and where people live by more than we even expected? What if self-driving trucks + last mile bot delivery radically push down prices on everything and enable previously impractical business models or behavior? We actually know many of the changes that AVs will bring, but, critically, we don't know the magnitude of those changes.
seems to me like there's some concern over the latest edition of popcorntime in its subreddit, so I'd be wary of it for now.
So it's not a hoax.
Why? Hardware holds up well, and web browsing isn't that resource intensive; why should a perfectly good machine just stop working?
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I’m all for people staying in the workforce as long as they want, but public office, especially the presidency or the senate, feels different. I can’t think of any major downsides. What am I missing?
> Delivery or pick up is probably the least risky option for eating.

No, cooking it yourself is.
it seems that popcorn time 4.0 is something to be wary of for now, at least that is the impression I got from the subreddit.
Not following export laws is criminal.
Vast majority of people weren't at risk from this disease until we collapsed the economy, sooo...
Why is it when I reduce the infectious period, the steepness of the infection curve increases? That seems wrong.
The Mask of Zorro (and Why It's Great)
I think he will need to try extra hard after this to prove his honesty. But black black ball him entirely? I would still give him a chance. Just my opinion.
Wait until the last 2 seconds.
Italians Found Way to 3D Print Key Ventilator Piece for $1 to Help Battle Corona
Now I'm waiting for the same thing from the US president and leaders of other "laggard" countries.
Maybe being in the system with a higher speed tier gets you higher priority?
I disagree, each company has a different take on a similar set of hardware, but the results are quite divergent. In particular Sony is pursuing some interesting, unique angles such as the new 3D Audio stuff, and the high performance SSD.

I found this comparison quite interesting, it goes into more detail about each platforms differences:
https://kotaku.com/playstation-5-versus-xbox-series-x-the-te...
One week longer from what I hear, April 14th/until further notice
It seems to be that a single intern whose only job was to search for prohibited items and unlist them could do better

Really, just use Mechanical Turk. Their inability to handle this is obviously showing they intend to not fix it
On mid-career and the scope of work
My favourite is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Dukal-900610-Reflections-Earloop-Plea...

$46 for 100 and the "newer" version is $170 for 50. If you look at the reason for this massive price jump:

"high price caused by 1) price spike of non-woven fabrics, 20K up to 200K/ton, due to capacity issue caused by coronavirus. 2) till now, US custom will block or expropriate large quantity of mask, so we have to ship this product through small airmail package, which 5 time cost of logistic fee vs shipment in container"
i think rpc solutions should be able to gain in performance by having host byte order/little endian as the wire format. I mean spending all those cycles on bit swapping is pointless if both endpoints are in host byte order.
Really MIT? This is news? You and other top business schools taught throngs of MBA students to outsource and manage costs to increase shareholder value. You and your peers taught many a business leader to indirectly leverage a pool of slave labor provided by a dictatorship to make cheaper and cheaper components. Ever thought how they could be so cheap? It’s called lax environmental regulations and not valuing life; suicide nets at Foxconn ring a bell? I don’t wish ill will towards anyone, and it sucks so many people are losing their jobs right now, but based on the “preservation of money” principle (think thermodynamics for money) it’s time large business leaders reap what they’ve sowed; the collapse of the business on their watch. Sucks, but, it’s a reality and something had to give.
The idea of many small claims "waking up" a company is nice in theory, but not reality. In reality, the entity being sued asks the courts to consolidate them into a class action, that's part of why class actions exist, because it makes very little sense to have to play out the same legal case a dozen or a hundred etc. times around the country.

I'm sure a law firm somewhere is already looking to form that "class" and rake in their % of a settlement, and I'm sure Netflix understands that and has factored it into their plans, so it's all a moot point except that at some point in the next 3-7 years you'll get a $5 service credit. Maybe.

Also, most contracts have a "force majeur" clause that would cover this sort of thing. And even if it didn't, if enough businesses start having to modify or breach service agreements in these ways through a world-wide crisis then governments will step in and legislate them out of liability. There won't be too much sympathy for the "victims" of Netflix either. Not from the public at large, especially those who lose friends or family to the pandemic, over someone's pixelated experience of End Game or The Office. I know people who are sick, one closely, and I don't know if they're going to survive. Suffering through SD quality (or worse!) isn't what I concern myself with at the moment.
This pandemic shows true nature of so many things.

I especially like how it shown that main purpose of schools is not the education but preventing kids from being a burden for their parents.
They have raised the rates 4 times in their history, from $8 up to $13... although you can still get basic for $9

Doesn’t seem that often or that excessive.
I think he means in terms of defining and controlling orthodoxy.
It's more of a request for individuals, with the order being directed at businesses. There isn't any hard enforcement (at least none stated), and people can still go outside.

I think the LA times article is better: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-19/gavin-ne...

> The state projects that 25.5 million people in California will be infected with the coronavirus over an eight-week period, Newsom said in a letter sent to President Trump on Wednesday requesting the deployment of the U.S. Navy’s Mercy hospital ship to the Port of Los Angeles through Sept. 1.
To be fair, this would be a great fidget toy while out in public.
State of California 'stay-at-home' order issued amid coronavirus crisis
As exactly happened with Y2K
I suspect this experience is pretty common. It so perfectly matches one of my experiences, I'm curious if it's the same company.
A bit late, but still so far best move of any US State. Originated myself in Central Europe and every day counts when I see the development in my home country and its neighbors!
I would actually buy a product version of this. I use a Remarkable E-Ink tablet and its pretty incredible. This would be quite nice, so only the notifications i really care about ( where i need to be ) show up without sounds and colors and all the distractions would be amazing
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I have an Amazon Echo Show 5 on my desk that's connected to my calendar. I've updated the homescreen settings such that it only alternates between the current time and the calendar display, which displays the next upcoming event. (It also displays the date and current weather conditions.) Having used the Echo Show, I definitely see the appeal in a device like UpNext, and I wish there was a decent hack-able small display that people could use to build these types of devices. In the past I've paired a Raspberry Pi and a touchscreen display, but that's clunky and doesn't look all that great. A while back, I really wanted a Chumby[1], and I wish something like that still existed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby
I am glad you can detect sarcasm.

From Trento with love!
This is fine for people like me that can work from home, no problem. But most of my neighbors are freaking out because they are not getting paid and have no way to pay bills, rent, etc. I can't see how this will not end up as the most major worldwide depression ever.
My statement had nothing to do with the cliche. Why would you apply money to the top of the organizational structure and hope it makes its way down to the employees when you could just pay the employees directly and remove all doubt?

To guarantee it made its way down you'd have to mandate the employer pass it down to the employee using some defined and agreed upon formula, that you'd then have to monitor compliance of and enforce. Or you could mail a check from the IRS which has all the addresses and bank account details. Seems like much less work and much less guess/hope.
That projection was absent any mitigation though.
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Do you (or SFGate) have a reference for that?

I read what I thought was the most official version of the California order [1], and it's frustratingly short. After reading it, I can't tell whether I can go for a bike ride. Even the fact that I can go to a grocery store isn't stated explicitly. Is there a clearer, more detailed version?

By comparison, the SF order [2] impressed me by how clear it is. For instance, it clearly allows recreation with sensible caveats.

UPDATE: The video announcement [3] implies that the intent of the CA order is, indeed, to allow all the things the SF order allows. Not sure whether that has legal force, but good enough for me.

[1]: https://covid19.ca.gov/img/N-33-20.pdf

[2]: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/HealthOrderC19-07-%20...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsVZ3EZEl60&t=28s
I think that age and general health, especially mental acuity, should be considered when voting, but I don't feel like it would be wise to try and set an age limit. There are many old people who despite their frail state would be great presidents and I would gladly vote for them as long as their VP was in good health and younger.
This works for a while, but we can't realistically expect to just shut the country down for the next year or so. Surely there is some kind of plan to try to actively suppress the virus rather than just reduce the R0 slightly? While Congress throws around a trillion here, trillion there, why not make testing every last American (multiple times, as necessary) priority #1? Then we can get people back to work much sooner, and let the economy start to recover.
You're grossly oversimplifying the complexity involved with "streaming" a video. Specifically in the context of a service like Disney+ or Netflix. Additionally how do you "find" that content near you? How do you ensure it is available? How do you ensure it is correct? Who owns it? How do you ensure copyright/drm/licenses are respected? What do you do when it disappears? The gains are incredibly slim, if at all, for the engineering challenges it introduces.

You also confuse "CDN somewhere" with OpenConnect box literally inside your ISP's DC. It is probably faster to get it this way than it would be to P2P it from your neighbor since, at the end of the day, that P2P traffic _must_ go through your ISP and their ISP. It will not, by definition, peer at the local hub. You are _NOT_ on a local network with your building/neighbors/etc. Your communication routes to your ISP and then out to anywhere else, even if that somewhere else is on the other side of your wall.

Even if it was possible. Even if it was slightly faster. Do you really think studio execs are going to be okay with customers hosting/serving their content off their machines? Even _IF_ this was "technically" a good idea, this is a non-starter from the business standpoint.
I am confused. Here in the midwest all the states that I know of have cancelled school, shut down bars, and made restaurants convert to delivery, curb side pickup, or drive through.

Further, we are supposed to avoid groups of more than ten people.

Is that not the case on the coasts?
An Italian Hospital Ran Out of Respirator Part, a 3D Printing Company Stepped In
It's likely more people will die from economic hardship than the virus
Thank you... People need to know this part. It's an exemption in our county order here too.

I've been walking and hiking every day since reading that. Some funny stuff...

- I always wear a floppy sun hat. Been there, had the dermatologist appointment. I can tell people think I'm a weird prepper. But I'm just going hiking, and need good sun coverage...

- Sitting on a bench in the city park, holding a tiny shortwave radio, with antenna clipped on... I've been doing this for years now, but these days people slow down their cars and stare...

- Having some family fun with our GMRS license, as we do about 1-2x weekly, anyway my son had a walkie talkie in his hand when we visited a nearby store and the cashier said we gave him a "zombie apocalypse vibe" (then handed me a card and asked me to email him about getting a license)

- Walking near seniors and the elderly...SO sad. They look terrified and take ~20 foot detours. (Not terrified at me, just in general...I hope)

- Seeing groups, like families talking in the street... They're out just enjoying a bit of sun, laughing, but then they completely disperse or go inside when someone walks down the street toward them.

- People seem to be putting on a weird act if they see that you are looking at them, like, "see, this is how I get out of my car during a pandemic." lol.

- If you go around a corner and run into somebody... Even if no physical contact... Awkward. Lmao

- So quiet. It's like most of our city already died off. But there's only one case reported in our county, far to the south

It's weird. When I take a ham radio out hiking, I take one with a blue case, so people don't get the wrong idea...
I’m more and more worried this is an overreaction, even ignoring the economic impact. Look at the projections on page 19:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

They seem to have picked the green line and not the orange line. Hopefully they’re planning for intermittent social distancing, or have some other medium term plan.
No. Candidate ages aren't secret and the voters have their chance to have their say when they vote. Age limits on lifetime appointments however would be a good idea as medical science keeps people living longer and often beyond the time of peak mental reasoning.
The difference is you are merely supposed to do it. Here you can be arrested for not doing it. This is a good move. A lot of people are not taking it as seriously as they should
throw in org-roam and you've got a real solid zettelkasten

https://github.com/jethrokuan/org-roam
You are safe. Your family and friends are safe. Just save money in case of anything, but statistically speaking YOU will be fine.
Social Rationing to Suppress the Coronavirus
There is no reason we can't ensure they have food and a house for the duration.
Yes. I don't think most people understand or respect the danger. When 10M-100M of people's lives are at risk, economic considerations must take a back seat to taking extreme/difficult measures that may seem like too much. It's better to overdo it and look overreacting than fail to take actions that could've saved many people's lives.
We did a similar analysis in the early days at Elementary after rolling something custom based on ZMQ. We would up creating Atom: https://github.com/elementary-robotics/atom

Atom is an easy, Redis Streams-based RPC that also emphasizes docker containerization of microservices. We support plug-ang-play serialization with msgpack and Apache Arrow currently supported and more on the roadmap. You can also send raw binary if you please.

Another nice thing about Redis is that if you're running microservices on the same instance you can connect to redis through a linux socket on tmpfs and bypass the TCP stack to get even better performance.
There's a huge international effort to develop a vaccine or a suppressant, etc.

The US doesn't have even close to the necessary number of testing kits or infrastructure to test 300 million people. They're working on ramping up production and availability of tests.
All people were at risk from this disease since it first popped up in bats.

Since then, for all humans, it was and it is just a question of when not if.

And few smart humans knew this even before this virus came into existence.

And economy is completely secondary.

Covid being leading cause of death in Italy now has nothing to do with any covid induced economy collapse.
California has the biggest agriculture, port and manufacturing base in the US basically. The county orders contradict the state.

OC is letting factories stay open with conditions and LA is saying the port stays open as well as the trains, airports (especially KSBD which is Amazon's home base). What a mess.
First you collect a $120M bonus with the stipulation that you not poach employees, then you poach the employees anyway and sell your new company for $680M. Then you're liable for $179M.
Layoffs and cuts for workers rocked by coronavirus
Why not just cancel and get a digital copy?
#stopchrisalbon
LA has also issued its own stay at home "order." During the initial part of the press conference, it was explicitly described as not a lockdown.

The statewide order is similar. Strongly recommended that people stay indoors, but outdoor activities are still allowed.

In both cases, the orders do not include any potential punishments (to individuals) for violating the order. (There are punishments outlined for businesses.)
I'm trying to be as vague as possible here so as not to identify myself, but I knew him fairly well. I can tell you it wasn't just a mistake. Anthony doesn't have the same... qualms as you and I.
> The extra work is 10 seconds of work. How childish and unprofessional.

While Oracle keeping the code under incompatible license for more than 10 years is totally OK.
> Update: The article has just been shortened, and the paragraphs on that issue have been removed...

I thought I was going crazy. I could swear it mentioned it but now it's gone.

> Update 2: they are back again, apparently slightly reworded, IIRC the original...

Not for me? It's gone still.
There is no reason we can't. But we won't. Rather, politicians will almost surely choose not to do anything until it is far too late.
With this line of reasoning, would you be in favor of getting rid of the minimum age for running for office?
Microsoft Teams passes 44M daily active users, thanks in part to Covid-19
There aren't enough tests, and we need time to scale out the testing. So a 3-4 week period to put a tight clamp on transmission is probably not a bad idea.

Frankly, I expect in 3 weeks people won't need the order because it will be like Italy and people will be terrified to go outside. But at that point, you STILL have 3-4 weeks before things turn around.
You can think of there being two populations of people with health issues who on their way out. And those who are not on their way out. The difference is the former are going to show up in the statics in weeks to months.

If an insult kills the former then they get clustered together in the death records. And after that the mortality rate should drop. Because they're dead already.

If you don't see that drop afterwards it means the insult killed a bunch of people with health issues who weren't going to die anytime soon.

An example I saw was of a WWI vet who had reduced lung capacity because he got gassed during the war. He died during the smog despite being 'okay' beforehand.
We need to stop glorifying this pathological altruism among our own.

Ethiopia has a birth rate of 4.2. That's more than any European people anywhere on Earth. She could have done so much more good for her own people at home rather than by assisting the fertility of strangers who are now flooding our homelands.

I'm not assigning malice, but it is yet another demonstration of how our best intentions come back to bite us (and our grandchildren exponentially moreso).
It's not just about America, I do mean the other countries too. For example, Brazil's president is still running rallies, he keeps downplaying the virus like Trump was doing a few weeks ago.

And in America I can imagine the situation varies from state to state, from county to county.
'The Sky is Falling': A New York doctor warns on coronavirus
Seeing women's naked ankles is also criminal.

[Under Saudi law.]
"Lateral thinking with withered technology", mate. It's a long-standing Nintendo philosophy.
Hence they're trying to hand out cash to people (means tested), reduce our delay taxes, etc. Other countries have enacted similar measures.
The witness is a very relaxing game
the 25 million just does not seem realistic.