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Who ever identifies themselves as the bad guys? Even an aggressor has an excuse for why he believes he's morally right. The US invading Afghanistan for instance was obviously the aggressor but blamed the victim for deserving it. The Nazis blamed their victims too and their victims did do things to deserve it, in some sense. Your simple goodies vs baddies view is wrong.

I agree with your point about blaming voters though. In a democracy, politicians are only a reflection of what voters demand. They don't have much independent power themselves. Even in a non-democratic country, the populace is tacitly supporting their leaders and placing their immediate personal safety ahead of the enemies of their leaders.
Speaking of which, before the revolution in which Soviets came to power, we had serfdom in russia - basically our version of a feudal system
> ,New York and Washington are not struggling

Completely different worlds. New York is in some serious trouble. No one is going to even remember Washington has an outbreak in a week's time - it's probably already past peak new cases.
>But once you know most of these things, you can get a lot farther than you could on some 1990s small business network. You can shove stuff in the cloud for scaling or resilience, you can keep dependencies clean with various container-type stuff, you can put media on CDN, and so on.

If those advantages are not important to you, you still have to pay the cost in learning all that complexity. Partly its the complexity, and partly its the rate of change. Nothing you write stays working on the web for long. You have to constantly keep jumping through the hoops in this crazy web-circus. Its "standards based" (i.e. controlled by Google in some way or other), but backwards compatibility and keeping things working is way more important to me personally.
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Yeah... I think that just reinforces the hero image in a perverse way. When I was in high school, Hemingway was just another boring Americana fiction writer that you had to slog through along with Steinbeck, Irving, and Faulkner. I didn't know he was in Paris during the counteroffensive and the fall of the Military Administration, that's awesome!
> Is it really desirable to permanently reduce life expectancy by keeping it around forever?

That ship has long since sailed.
Here's a story where it was put in use immediately and saved the guys life. "Coronavirus Victim, 52, Said Good-Bye To Family, Prepared to Die; Says Hydroxychloroquine Saved His Life" https://www.dailywire.com/news/coronavirus-victim-52-said-go...

It can be a mistake to avoid helpful medication because one idiot kills himself with fish tank cleaner.

It can actually be used immediately at a doctors discretion - it's just not officially recommended yet in the US.
I suspect they're SpaceX built.

He did say that's what SpaceX did, and Tesla didn't have any specialty in that space...

oh... TFA specifically says he sourced them from China last week.
The secure attention key is long gone and didn't work anyways.
It goes deeper than that. Insurance is the last in a long list of issues we must address first.

Rather than repeat things here, please read the comment I just posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22671872
He says it should be put in use immediately. Are we reading the same material? How do you come to the conclusion that this is reasonable?

Sometimes, "reasonable" is a word that people use to verbally dance their way out of indefensible positions. Don't do that.
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Maybe we can just lock things down when we sport extremely dangerous new viruses. It doesn’t seem that tricky to me. I was following this from late December, and it was clear it was a potentially huge risk.
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If you use `env` instead, it'll pick up more recent versions of bash available on the path, such as the one installed by homebrew

#!/usr/bin/env bash
> ... when the general population realizes they aren't at any significant personal risk

With 15-20% of confirmed cases needing intensive care and symptoms developing at roughly the same rate, it becomes a perfect storm. So deaths may begin with only the elderly or immune compromised, it likely won't stop there as the younger folks need care they can't get. Perhaps they survive anyway, but an unknown number with permanent lung damage and lower quality of life.

General population may come to any number of realizations. The underlying reality may never become entirely clear to any of us. Y2K probably could have been much worse. Yet the media coverage around the aftermath gave the impression it was no big thing.
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Videos are anecdotes not statistics. I'll wait for the papers.
Washington state doesn't have a statewide lockdown, I don't know if even Seattle has a lockdown. California is doing the best but there are still crowds defying the lockdown at beaches and parks. Just as much, grocery stores are open as usual and even with most people trying to do social distancing, I'm doubtful you're clamping that hard on the infection, unfortunately.

I think the best is that when fatalities spike here in California, we're in better shape to intensify the lockdown.
Deaths lag measures by more than that. We might see Washington’s measures kicking in strong by then but NY will probably be some time.
The alternative is letting 7% of the population die, like Italy's peak.

But, hey, more dollars, right?
The question is, were you the one cleaning up the metaphorical asbestos or creating it? :)

There's plenty of money to be made in both.
2 years is not that much. I'd say do it. I don't have a degree and it never bothered me in any way until I wanted to have a (self-sponsored) working visa in another country. Lack of degree meant I'd have to pay roughly 10x the taxes to qualify.
Right. But I don’t want to have to tell a client to download an app. I’d rather they just go to a url like they do on an iPad. Not sure what the difference in browsers is between them, but I can’t imagine it’s much.
> Furthermore, death isn't the only negative outcome - what do we know about permanent organ damage (lungs, heart, liver, kidneys) in survivors?

Exactly: why all this focus on deaths, when sickness rates are massive and are sure to have horrific long terms outcomes for more people than those that die. Intensive care strongly implies bad things are happening.

John Ioannidis has been a fabulous force for good fighting scientific fraud and misinformation. But clearly he doesn’t know what effective decision making looks like. It usually doesn’t look very academic in my experience! edit: I mean decision making in an emergency (we did have two months to be proactive, but now we have a reactive emergency).
As a toilet paper user I've never experienced any problems that I can trace back to having a dirty butt. I don't think my wiping technique is anything special. Are you saying when you use toilet paper you're unable to clean yourself well enough that it becomes an issue for you? What exactly is the issue? What about your world changed other than the lack of toilet paper?
Apparently, either people here do not use Vue or have not read the docs.

__Vue actually allows you to split the sections into seperate files if you require it.__

Source: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html#What-...
Amazon teams up with Bill Gates-backed group to deliver coronavirus test kits
Anyone seen the movie Snowpiercer?
You could use a portable bidet or a peri bottle. I'm very sure you could DIY a peri bottle out of some household items, to be honest, and it shouldn't be hard or expensive.
Is there a search and destroy program that can 100 percent remove anything with even a hint of adobe code? Windows should banish adobe PDF from being utilized in the is and actively treat it as a virus.

If it's zero day on Windows it is pretty much a guarantee that adobe or Oracle was involved
Flooding the market also messes up the profiteers, who are now trying to return TP that they can’t sell for $10 a roll.
This was an issue - SES email deliverability out of Amazon was poor for a while before they got their head straight around supporting spammers. Haven't kept up, but it may still be lower than folks paying more attention despite amazon's size and skill.
I've seen similar language, but I don't think they can change the terms with no notice. I think it's usually little to no advance notice, but they still need to provide notice when they change the terms. Providing notice seems to be something fundamental in our legal system.
Hotpot looks pretty cool! I'll definitely try it out when I need to create Appstore graphics for my next iOS app.
Good grief. Using expensively treated water to flush waste away is crude Victorian technology as it is - adding fusspot electronic detailing hardly improves it.

Composting toilets at urban scale - now that would be tech worthy of the 21st century.
Doesn’t matter, it’s the relationships that count. People from Microsoft eat filet mignons with the top 50 IT execs at every major company. That’s why any turd of an MS product can immediately get tens of millions of paying users.
I just happened to watch a YouTube video on this topic and can’t wish more if I understood it back in 2000s, or even five years ago.
Not GP, but GCP's GUI is incredibly confusing and difficult to use. It is clearly a variety of products (poorly) stitched together. That has nothing to do with Compute Engine, and AWS is just as bad (if not worse).

My new projects will all be on Azure because Microsoft has pivoted to a company with reliable investment in UI, developer-friendliness, and long-term support. Serving businesses has also been a core of their company from the beginning, whereas Google seems unwilling to provide the human support required and AWS is clearly at odds with Amazon's primary culture.

It does seem like the underlying products in GCP are very good, but they mostly seem to replicate other offerings from Azure and AWS.
Taking advantage of an opportunity to pay your workers 50% less if your company is doing fine feels kinda greasy.
If you don't already know about it, you might be interested in "From Dits to Bits", the autobiography of Herman Lukoff, an engineer who worked with Eckert and Mauchly.

It's hard to find these days, but a competent university library may have a copy (where I read it). This ref may be helpful: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/539966

A quick link to his papers: https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upt50l694
I don't remember where I heard this but: digitization is the art of deciding what to forget
I fear we will be well past 10,000 deaths in the US in 2 weeks.
The Daily Wire is Ben Shapiro's right-wing fake news infotainment website. It's overtly political and puts opinion above fact.

The man in the story says he was also given benadryl and a drug he didn't recognize. So please don't pretend that one drug saved the man's life. For all we know, he was going to recover anyway, or one of the other drugs (which he doesn't even know what they are) helped him.
My brother has one of these in his new condo. let's just say this toilet paper binge that we're on in the US isn't really impacting his life at all right now.
> What do you need a randomized double blind study for? You're not sure the people on the ship died of COVID?

Er, you're not trying to figure out how the ship victims already died, you're trying to predict how many other people might die of the same cause. To do that kind of thing well, you need a hypothesis, and then you need to test it properly.

> As for adjustment factors, if you just adjusted for age, you'd get about 50% less mortality if the ship had the same age distribution as the country.

You can't "just adjust for age" or "just adjust for" anything, you're going to miss something! That's why people do clinical trials.

> I also don't see what the problem with a linear extrapolation is.

Basically, an epidemic is not a linear system, so you can't model it with linear functions. Look into the "SIR model" for a standard way to do that kind of thing. I'm not trained in this field so I'd look for a medical/science forum if you have questions.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SIRModel.html
To give you the depth of my misgiving here, I just can't see them sticking it out as the third place provider. Maybe they won't kill GCP, but I could easily see them gradually lowering their focus until I would regret having built anything on it.

It's easy to talk about Google apps that have been killed. But there's an entirely different category which just got abandoned or lost their ambition.

So given that, I can take in and acknowledge what you're saying about GCP having good or even great support. I just don't have any faith that it will last.

I saw their Android support through the lens of comparing them to Apple. I pay a small amount to Apple and have no problem getting my support rep on the phone and all support experiences I've had there have been amazing. So why doesn't the Android experience compare? I just don't see it in Google's DNA to fight to win. Android has given up and is trying to be the lowest quality second place they can be. And that's exactly what I expect to happen from GCP. Maybe GCP will fight hard at the beginning to establish itself, but after that, I expect them to do the minimal amount to maintain third place.
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They work on a compatibility layer for Windows applications on Linux. While "clean room" implementations are fine, it legally gets a bit dicey if you have someone who has reverse engineered Windows or seen their source code working on the project.
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Why not look at in-band/SCTE markers to see when the ads start/end instead of going thru the whole ML/CV thing?
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Washington does as of 5:00 pm PDT today.
They're currently owned by a VoIP provider that I would guess uses some of the Jitsi tech in-house. They've been through a few acquisitions at this point and continue to maintain their free software, so I'm optimistic they'll continue to do so.
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Oh my god, I miss HEB (moved away from Texas in 2015).
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28532190/why-does-window...
The measures that have in place in both states have drastically clamped down on infection rates - the growth in WA is barely above linear at this point (and remember you are always looking 10 days backward). CA is also sub-exponential. Look at the data (in the presence of high testing):

https://covid-19.direct/state/WA

If you look at thermometer data (less accurate, but a good predictor), there's little problem going forward in either state. (but serious problems in the NY metro area):

https://healthweather.us/
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You do realise that, given no countermeasures, there will be deaths of millions of people, plus half the country I'll. It will collapse the economy.

Tou cant save money by ignoring the disease.
>The unanswered question of the GP is why you'd expect only 1% of the US population to be infect?

Ioannidis addresses this in the article. Extensive community spread is actually unlikely to be the case for this virus, epidemic development is hard to discern from simply increasing rates in testing and sensitive populations seeking testing, and maybe most importantly there is little evidence that lockdowns and other extreme measures have significant impact on reducing this sort of respiratory infection, he cites this paper. [1]

" The highest quality cluster-RCTs suggest respiratory virus spread can be prevented by hygienic measures, such as handwashing, especially around younger children.[...]Global measures, such as screening at entry ports, led to a non-significant marginal delay in spread. There was limited evidence that social distancing was effective, especially if related to the risk of exposure."

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21735402
Geez, I feel like by the time you're releasing utilities named "Menelaus" for your product named "Atreus", you kind of need to address the question "why is your product named after a guy whose only notable feature was that all of his descendants experienced ruin and death?"
Interesting breakdown of the legal complexities involved. Thanks.

The corner-case devil got the better of me:

Wonder how the lawyers (and the law) would treat it if they (Taiv) position custom content as channel and then just switch channels at opportune times?
I wonder. Willing to admit incorrect if parent prediction proves true? Or pivot if not to a new supposition and declare victory? (I'd say 3.5 weeks myself.)
The reported dosage is less than half what the Chinese Government recommends (500mg x 2 (BID)). So it's possible that they didn't hit the effective dose. https://medium.com/@balajis/the-official-chinese-government-...
What predictions does it make at all, testable or not? I was not able to glean any useful information from the Wiki article, and I am not otherwise familiar enough with the work to know.
First thing I'm getting when I can afford to replace a toilet.
I don't understand the price complains, yes Toto might be a bit expensive but there are countless of Chinese brands selling such sits for $300 with most common features. My only problem is that I don't have electricity in my toilet, otherwise I would have bought one long time ago.
Thank you, I appreciate the note. It's based on 12 years and 4 adtech companies worth of experience in the industry, and now trying to change it from the inside.
If I were the panicky type, I'd prioritize input before 'output', it seems more limited and difficult to remedy by comparison. edit: besides, if I've done the former properly, the latter takes care of itself.
Yep - AWS even goes out of scope on support requests for smaller folks (they really shouldn't).

Google "support" is horrendous. You cannot PAY to get them to help you. We were on google apps (a long time ago now) and there was some state issue with admin transitions - so you'd get stuck. 100's of begging comments from plenty of PAYING users about the issue on their forums. Calls got you zilch. Crickets. Finally 2 years later - oh, we noticed blah blah and this might work now.

I would never trust anything critical to google. They literally will NOT take your money to help you - we'd have paid $10K to have someone press whatever damn button needed pressing.
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Did they say they wouldn't? If grannies getting groceries was the only blocker, I'd deliver them myself.
I might be interested if you are hiring remote senior engineers?
I was at that Costco earlier this week. They were cleaning carts and had a line along the carts to throttle entry. I was there pretty early though, so it was not very busy.
And a runaway global pandemic will kill more people than Mao, Hitler and Stalin combined. Pick your poison.
It does seem that shipping by air is more time and labor efficient than shipping by boat, rail, or truck.

Maybe the next step is to turn the jumbo jets into flying drones. And improve on the fuel efficiency, and maybe switch to fuel cells powered by hydrogen or liquid ammonia instead.
Yes, and not just the dismissive tone. Even worse is the fact that the "we need more data" crowd mistakes Absence of Evidence for Evidence of Absence - as in "I will only wear the seat-belt after I witness a car-crash in front of me".
Kind of crazy these are not in the open. Especially when we are used to work in software.
I think the key problem here is where and how do we establish a root of trust for Web applications.

Currently we have some form of root of trust for HTTPS/TLS, code signing, trusted execution, that the OS or browser or chipsets distribute a set of "trusted" root certificates. For the consumers, they are implicitly backed by the big companies that manage the screening, auditing, and distribution of these certificates. But of course, these certificates have limited use cases that not yet covering the end-to-end encryption application for Web.

One way or another, we have to start our root of trust at some layer, either it's hardware, OS, drivers, or applications. But in general, the lower the layer gets, the lower the risk would be. Because it's easier for an evil actor to target specific user in higher layers.

There are more to be solved than just the root of trust for E2E on Web. For example, even if we can use trusted execution environment on a Web application to ensure secure key generation and key escore, we still have to face the problem of how to input or present the cleartext data with the user. If we still let the JS code to handle the cleartext in any way, there could still be a chance that the distributor of the JS code might steal them.

With that said, not only should we have a root of trust, but we also have to trust the UI provider that operates on the sensitive data for user input or display. The lowest UI layer is usually the OS, so even we have hardware root of trust, but if the trusted UI is in the OS layer, we would still be throttled at the level of trust on the OS layer.
Zoom went up 22% today. Wow!

I think the idea is that if 20% of users convert to paid users, it’s fine to be a loss leader right now.

But daaaamn. I missed out on this. Was so gonna put on Netflix and Zoom but I guess I wasn’t fast enough. That P/E ratio of 1700+ really scares me though. Seems heavily overpriced.
Sounds like that was written as a single Ansible play and not using the more standard role-based structure. That's the equivalent of writing an entire program in a single main() with no other functions.
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It started long before then, I'm sure.

Statewide Shelter In Place was, what, Thursday AM the.. 19th? Bay area was Monday the 16th? I've been working from home since the 6th. At least a week before the 6th, my wife made a Costco run to make sure we were topped up on non-perishable stuff, and bought another "case" of TP even though we had almost an entire full one on hand. (usually we buy it once we get below 50, because we don't go to Costco very often). That was the extent of our "stocking up", but I think it happened in late Feb, and we were almost immediately hearing of others doing the same in the region.

Costco lines have been a thing for weeks. Which I didn't get; I popped into my local grocery store a few times (granted, in the morning) the week of the 9th, and it was always quite well-stocked, even as I was hearing of lines and chaos at Costco.

Granted, I went back on the afternoon of the 14th or 15th and it looked like it had been ransacked :) but until then, I thought the strategy was JUST DON'T GO TO COSTCO.
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