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In NZ you sign up with an ISP, but your local connection is usually handled by the same physical equipment (DSLAM for ADSL, etc) which is owned by a single network provider.

I’m not sure what the incentives are for an ISP to try to get the provider to fix issues, or even if they would e.g. https://company.chorus.co.nz/what-we-do is notoriously bad for service and the copper network is being deprecated. Locally https://www.enable.net.nz/about-enable/ are doing a good job of service, because they are well subsidised by the government and seem to be effectively operated.
There has to be an endgame to these measures that's not 'wait for a vaccine'. A few weeks is tolerable[0], but what happens when early April comes around and new cases are still popping up? The provisions will have to start unwinding or this could go from an economic hiccup to an economic catastrophe.

[0] less so for some.
Answering these from easiest to hardest:

3) Sure! It isn't too hard to figure out how to email me, so send me a note or DM on twitter or LinkedIn or whatever.

2) AV has been a great testcase for federalism, and I think we've seen different regimes work differently. For the stage that industry is at, I think that insurance requirements is sufficient (insurance carriers have the sophistication to figure out if you're being unsafe). California's regime is overly-prescriptive in such a way that it confuses things more than it improves safety.

To be clear - if we were closer to deployment I'd advocate for a way tighter regulatory regime.

1) We figured out a programmatic way to measure ODD. Trying to specify all versions of ODD is a fools errand, and you're right that it would change a lot by how good you stack is.

ODD = Operational Design Domain. The conditions your system can drive safely in - rain, snow, sunshine, glare, high traffic, no traffic, pedestrians, etc ad infinitum
I'm not sure that everyone staying at home for "several months" is sustainable.

Actually, I'm sure it is not.
Well. How is common flu any different? Most people don't get tested and they just recover, if any, a lot more don't. So seeing those two numbers on the same page should mean something, even if you doubt the accuracy based on the assumption a large quantity of people aren't tested.
They are assuming suppression measures are only in place for five months and then letup at once uniformly. I don't see a justification for that assumption. I doubt it will play out that way. I would would expect to see people fatigue on the distancing, governments to relax orders as the case numbers drop low, and then they'll be rushed into place again when the numbers start climbing again. We shall all become very bored of hearing about the disease cycle because it will be going on for the next 12 months or more.
1% mortality: 255000 deaths
Reasoning about epidemics with Python simulations
Rendezvous (1976)
Would that mean Green tea could help? since Green tea is high in flavinoids like Quercetin.
For any engineers reading this who want to solve the computer vision/machine learning problems explained in the blog post - reach out at info@nuronlabs.com.
So, you're fine with it to be off by default?
This thing started with 1 case.

Why do people think that waiting 2 weeks or 2 months will solve it? Only way that works is if enough people have it and now have immunity, which helps prevent spread when quarantine is over.

We are going to have a worse economic impact from mass quarantine than the 200 thousand people (mostly over 60) that would have died.
The US neither (1) didn't take it seriously enough, and (2) CDC's initial test kits didn't work properly.

Korea and other nations in the area took it seriously due to their proximity to China and previous recent experience with infectious disease: HK experienced SARS, Korea experienced MERS.
Difference between surgical and N95 mask characteristics straight from CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/UnderstandDifferenceInf...
People look at the thousands of deaths in China and Italy and may think this is an overreaction.

What they don't realize is that those figures are the result of tough lockdowns, without which, the death toll would've been easier an order of magnitude greater.

California has shown true leadership in this crisis. I hope New York and Washington will soon follow.
We don't need to take UK's number. There are whole pack of other countries using much more active methods to combat this virus.
TBH - In the early days the "cool AV people" seemed to act as if teleop was an admission of bad engineering (your team isn't good enough to perfect L5). If everyone else is right on the cusp, and you're not trying, you must be some sort of loser.

There are still a number of folks who think that teleop can never be safe - surprisingly sophisticated people hold onto that dogma. We wrote a whitepaper about it for investors, and I'll share that at some point as I open up more and more of the Starsky vault.
Not really that embarrassing considering how big the US is, it's about as embarrassing as when European countries brag about their choice metrics.
That's downright frightening to imagine - much more even than the infection itself. For all of the zombie apocalypse movies, books & video games we have seen - our world & economy is just not prepared to operate like this..
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What's the alternative? Let 10M people die to get back 15% of world GDP? (Both reasonable guesses at pessimal death counts and recessions, IMHO).

The hope is that it will work everywhere like it seems to have in Hubei and Korea -- near-zero new case counts and a regime of continued care, a few extra regulations, and pervasive testing. And it might work. But if it doesn't, yeah: we should turtle, accept the economic catastrophe, and wait for a vaccine. Would anyone sane argue otherwise?
Since most tech workers can work remote, people like DHH, and the Base Camp boys [0] spew their ignorance about other industries and encourage a 'shut down' since it won't affect their business, or their day-to-day work.

[0] https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1240818423795515393
40,000 die on our streets every year. Our pants are quite dry.
I think about 70% of economy just serves the boredom of people with disposable income. We have plenty of capacity to provide essentials for everybody.
$1000 for a month isn't quite enough to keep the lights on for middle class families living paycheck to paycheck.
even just vaccinating the people in the high risk groups would be a huge win. and those people are much more likely to get in line.
> why not make testing every last American (multiple times, as necessary) priority #1

These discussions are so far divorced from the reality of the interventions available to policymakers.
i wonder how constructive it would be to require a physical/psych exam, just like any other job that has the potential to do grevious harm, such as driving a big rig, or air traffic control etc.
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Young people are still going outside in Milan today, it's a big problem, you need to take these measures
Electron is essentially just a version of chrome. If electron can do it, chrome can do it, and there is no way to say that chrome is not a browser.
Seems to be the case across much of the US. Certainly, in Oregon, it is the case. We still have not issued a shelter-in-place order, but it is getting discussed every day.
Everyone covers mouths to catch asymptomatic spread, cheap testing indicates those who should self-isolate, enforce against scofflaws, econ reopens.
Why wouldn’t it be sustainable? As long as the supply chains hold I don’t see why it isn’t doable. There will be a severe economic impact but the alternative is worse.
Exactly. Programmers and other tech people can work remote all day. But what about truck drivers, service industry workers, hair dressers, and more? People like this Twitter [0] use seem to suggest a shut down wouldn't have any negative effects because they can work from home.

[0] https://twitter.com/kvlly/status/1240819015095930880
Human life is more valuable than the economy. Governments can print arbitrary amounts of money and use monetary policy to soften the blow on people. We can sort the economy out later, right now we should focus on minimizing loss of life.
arrested or fined. I imagine the fines would be more prudent than violating social distancing by tossing people in jail together.
The remedy for this is ranked-choice voting, not legislating against the types of candidates you dislike.
Failure is a result that can be displayed, number of candidate treatments isn't a real metric for making predictions.
I'm sure people have many good ideas. Two things that come to mind are: extend the Berry Amendment to the entire US Federal Government and designate certain products such as medicine as critical and require that they be manufactured in the US in order to be sold here.
I was pleasantly surprised by this game. I got it on a Steam sale for a great price and thought, why not? One of the best games I've played all decade.

In fact I bought the next one in the series, I think "Before the Storm" hoping it would continue the magic but ugh, nope. I stopped playing after the first few iterations it was just so off-key. Appears that another studio took over for that one and boy can you tell.
I haven't heard that thought before, but it's an interesting one.

Probably won't help with any of those folks opposed to UBI because "people get meaning from work." Proponents of that view must know a hidden trove of self-actualized retail workers.
The whole security angle is an after-the-fact rationalization and the vast majority of users (not developers, users) never cared much about it - as anyone in the IT department of pretty much every company can tell you (again, users, not developers, not sysops, not admins, but regular end users).

The real reason we see so many web apps is that the decision on what technology to use for an application is largely something developers decide (with "developers" i do not only mean individuals but also companies and organizations that develop applications) and the web gives developers pretty much complete control over what is going on in their application, what the users can do and how, allows them to force everyone use the same version, allows realtime monitoring of how the users use their applications and provides the vendor locking tightest than the most obfuscated native application could have (since all the data is stored in the servers).

Security is just a very convenient excuse since a lot of people shut down their critical thinking whenever it comes up (my guess for why that happens is that since a lot of people have been shamed by supposedly security experts and even more people have mimicked that shaming, we ended up with everyone just shutting up whenever security is brought up to avoid looking like That Clueless One that would be shamed next - but that is just a guess).

But the real reason is the heavy control that web apps give to the developers and the vast majority of users do not really understand how biased against them that setup is.
I'm just a mere software engineer, so I have no idea about this stuff. But, I feel like this sentiment "has to be an endgame to these measures" feels like wishful thinking.

Why is it impossible that we're headed for an economic catastrophe until a vaccine is out? I can totally see it happening - something where we will have to ration out our basic supplies even. <-- already happening wrt some stuff.

That would just be the cost of saving a few million lives.
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FWIW, many of those countries that have been touted as testing+tracing success cases are now reporting patterns consistent with uncontrolled exponential growth of the virus in the past few days (although not in SK yet)

[1]: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1240740763752902670
Not sure how anyone can look at hundreds of additional daily deaths and think it's fine and business as usual.
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There is a reason vaccines take a long time to approve - if you are getting the general population vaccinated, you want to make sure the side effects a year down the road don't negate the benefit (if any, vaccines are not 100% effective)
How to Train your Chicken [video]
The US could have used the WHO test in the meantime.
Or even better, you don't deal with any hardware at all and buy into the Cloud gaming future :)

It's really sad that Stadia has flopped so far and that xCloud isn't any closer to being a thing. Nvidia's solution looks better, though still requires a Windows/Mac computer.

Maybe the Stadia announcement next week will have some interesting stuff, I'm excited to not have to worry about devices anymore and simply buy games I like.
Historically, we've never seen the world's top researchers, governments, and pharmaceutical companies all racing to come up with a vaccine and treatment at once while sharing data at unprecedented scale.

I understand allowing reasonable time to complete trials, but let's not act like this is just a routine drug approval.
The endgame is to wait out the peak, which won't come until May. It's going to be an economic catastrophe.
The hospitals are gearing up for it. A friend is a cardiologist and he's going to be "on the Frontline" in the next week or two. Specialists are going outside their normal duties to deal with the influx. Their family is discussing living separately to avoid infecting inside the family.
Very kind of you! I'm happy to help you set one up if you're willing to buy the components. The wiring is very simple, and while the code is open source, I'd also be happy to send you the SD card image if you'd like.
The people spreading this mostly don't even know they have it.

The super-spreaders here are most likely people who are doing one or more of:

* are ignoring medical advice

* have contact with many people

* are asymptomatic or incubating

* don't follow best hygiene practices
Sure, but we have more than enough evidence to show that emergency room visits are increasing and emergency room deaths are mounting. Control then test.
We’re waiting for a lot of things- vaccines, respirators, treatments, the arrival of warmer weather, and social cooperation. We can’t plan for a month from now because we don’t know what tomorrow will bring. All we can do is try to buy time.
In the US it's not clear the federal government actually has the power to order a nationwide shelter in place; "police powers" are typically reserved for the states. The HHS/CDC can quarantine specific individuals or groups (with confirmation of infection) but I don't think can do this "in general".

I think this one is up to the state governors who typically do have the power to do this through state health laws -- as has now happened in CA and undoubtably will happen in many more states over the next 48 hours.
I played the first one and legit cried at the end it was so intense. Been meaning to play the rest of them.
I don't believe they will have 26M tests in 8 weeks.
Hey. 4.6m over the course of a year is not much compare to this. 50-150m lives could be lost in a matter of a few months if this virus get out of control.
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It's a maximum of $1,200 per individual plus an additional $500 per child. The amount is based on your 2018 AGI. The amount you receive begins to decrease at $75,000 and if you made more than $99,000 in 2018 you don't receive any money.

This is also not just the government cutting a check, it's a rebate from your 2018 taxes. You won't get back more than you paid in taxes, unless you're part of a carve out meant to protect low income seniors, which still requires a minimum income of $2,500 in 2018 (including social security).

So it's something of a mixed bag. It won't help the truly destitute, and it won't help people who had a good year in 2018 but recently lost their job due to the virus (though those should qualify for unemployment benefits). The means testing is also not normalized by any kind of cost of living metric, so people in low cost of living areas will probably qualify disproportionately, even though the areas worst affected by the virus directly are urban, high cost of living.
Politician math != math
I don't think the reaction to 9/11 is a good measuring stick
This is also compiled without optimizations which makes fastcall look less efficient. In practice fastcall is usually much leaner when you’re not having to store the arguments to the stack.
You're proud of that?

This is an exogenous event, which will kill a lot of people in short time, on top of the usual circumstances. A natural disaster. A war.

3000 Americans died, a Trillion USD was spent on two wars, civil liberties were irrevocably destroyed (DHS, etc).

The USA never suffered casualties of 1+mil ever. Ask the old Europeans how that feels.
Hopefully in addition to monetary grants there will also be suspension of rent, mortgage, utility, and student loan repayments while this is ongoing.
???

China is down to zero cases. South America except for the two black sheep (Mexico and Brazil) is shutting down (Peru had curfew-in-place since the weekend; anyone even driving their car outside is arrested). Europe is also going there, plus Israel, several Arab countries, etc.

Only big black sheeps right now are the US, parts of Europe, India, and Africa (which is only now getting their first wave).
California probably has a month tops, nobody is going to accept completely halting their lives for two months let alone anything longer.
> unable to socialize for months

This is so far from the truth, and it's surprising considering where you're posting. Discord, Skype, Facetime, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are all places where people can socialize during a quarantine. You're not analyzing the problem properly.
No more nannies required or available?
Bill Gates on the Imperial Study...

"Fortunately it appears the parameters used in that model were too negative. The experience in China is the most critical data we have. They did their “shut down” and were able to reduce the number of cases. They are testing widely so they see rebounds immediately and so far there have not been a lot. They avoided widespread infection. The Imperial model does not match this experience. Models are only as good as the assumptions put into them. People are working on models that match what we are seeing more closely and they will become a key tool. A group called Institute for Disease Modeling that I fund is one of the groups working with others on this."
I did the same. I was hoping for an HTCPCP-like W3C specification that I had somehow missed.
As someone seriously looking into buying a Remarkable - worth it? Forget the price for a second and compare the Remarkable to an iPad Pro w/ Pencil. Would you still grab the Remarkable to jot down notes, or would you much prefer the iPad?
The difference between "in the sleeper cab" and "outside the truck" are huge. We first started doing in the sleeper cab in Jul'17, took us 2 years of dedication to get confidence to remove from vehicle.

To take the person out of the vehicle, the system itself needs to be able to self-monitor and pull itself over if it stops working. That's the big lift.
So, no country should do anything? Many Asia countries have shown they can contain the virus. Every country should at least try to do that.
This is Mao-esqe nonsense. You can't turn off the economy the imagine government is going to divvy up whatever stuff needs dispersing. The Soviet Union tried that.
Because if everyone isolated for a month it wouldn't spread and die-out. Having a deadly flu in the public causing mass deaths and difficult recovery for the young would bring the worst economic impact out of both scenerios.
Because he wanted you to believe they were going to fix the problem at a later date so he could go to the next job (paid by the gig) and get you to close the ticket (improve his metrics).
Imagine you wake up in the morning, first thing you do is take a swab test. Ten minutes later you have your result, and if it's positive, you self-isolate. If it's negative, you go about your day.

No at-home test exists yet, and we surely aren't producing 300 million tests daily yet, but this should be the target.
I agree. I like CSS, and I don't like anything the frameworks offer, they're just the worst of all possible worlds: a LOT of CSS (it's not just the "custom CSS" that counts, from the perspective of the browser even off-the-shelf Bootstrap is 100% custom), with no aesthetic pleasure to show for it.

But that's for my own projects I work on as a single dev, in a team I might not mind as much. For something corporate, unless it's a corporation I can really get behind, I will not care at all, because I know it'll be thrown away soon. Let's make it bland then, I don't mind. But for my own things, it's not even a consideration.. I don't even start with a reset stylesheet, I start with a blank file, and I enjoy thinking up the overall structure just as much as I enjoy tweaking values here and there, and I still like things I made over 10 years ago. Care for the little things always ends up showing, somehow.
Do you reject the SIR mathematical model for all infectious disease or the numbers chosen for the constants for covid-19 or some other reason?
So, I have pretty strong legs, good dexterity with my feet, and I usually wear shoes with good traction on the bottom. I have never once been able to use these damn things.

You might as well be standing on a piece of metal attached to the bottom of the door.

Oh, wait — that’s EXACTLY what you’re doing!
Sending SMS to Slack
If Wine got a tenth of the effort that goes toward Firefox, the whole Windows lock-in issue would have been solved ages ago.
They've done it successfully in several cities in Asia.
I suspect that the price of the components put this out of the range that most people would pay for it, but I appreciate the sentiment.

While most of the IP at this point is open-source, if someone is excited about figuring out how to turn this into a kickstarter/actual sellable hardware product, I'd be willing to collaborate.
The two I played were the first Leisure Suit Larry which was so funny, and the first Police Quest which I really loved but never finished. I ended up watching a playthrough of PQ on youtube. I think the designer was a former CA city cop and was very intent on the developers designing the following of police procedures to the tee e.g. if you forgot your gun somewhere the game ends/have to start back at last save point.
All these things are why I have a custom user.js. I know most people here are web devs that get a kick out of this stuff, but I personally don't want most of the things described here. Most of them just seem like anti-features and/or security holes.
Yea. And what was the process here? One guy told another he's afraid. That's not how we in EU are used to governing. This is not a dictatorship.

There is absolutely no legal reason to downgrade performance of service. It's a big WTF.

What's next. A guy telling other to sell lesser quality of what?
My grandfather and dad used to do that when we went mushroom-ing with the whole extended family in the woods.

Us kids looked at them in horror. However they already knew most of the poisonous species and never touched those. The “bite test” was to tell between just a few species. It was still scary to see.
> China is down to zero cases.

Zero own cases, they still have imported cases. And that only means no cases that are symptomatic.

And zero cases just means zero cases now not in the future.

This thing spreads like a common cold. More infectious than a flu. You can't suppress common cold.

Not forever.

Humanity never eradicated a disease without a vaccine.
Yes that sounds great. We do not have the capacity to make this happen before our hospitals overload and potentially 2.2 million die unless we take containment measures now.

Tests are good. We need containment now if we want them to be useful.