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1 - It makes money.

2 - The team is in place, and they are good at it.

3 - They bring internal feedback about latency, driver reliability etc, that makes the platform an excellent one for artists

4 - It is exclusive - so why get Windows when you can get more options on Mac?
Admittedly, I had skimmed parts of the article, though it seems like you didn't read my message either. I mentioned in my original message that the beaches were being reopened soon... so unsure why you're drawing attention to it again.

I had missed that they are planning to reopen some businesses:
> Under the plan, some in-restaurant dining, car washes and shopping malls could also be allowed to reopen in coming weeks if public health officials in a county are able to demonstrate that the spread of the virus has stabilized and that they have adequate testing and hospital capacity.

Specifically: "dining, car washes and shopping malls could"

These are _not_ the type of businesses I was referring to. I meant more along the lines of factories, and other "not quite essential, but maybe essential" such as dental offices.
I guess I will be the "Did you read the article?" guy because most of the people in the comments here are really overreacting to what was said in the article. This isn't a plan to maintain a full lockdown for the next 3 months. It was simply a comment that the stay-at-home orders are unlikely to be completely gone in three months. It is talking about the return to semi-normal life. It isn't saying all non-essential businesses need to be closed for the next 3 months. LA County has already moved to start opening up and this article says they will continue on that path.
> That's only 8 days. This thing lags by two weeks.

Two weeks is the period within > 99% cases exhibit symptoms. The median incubation is between 4 and 6 days.
This is the best response. We know the answer to #1 from the feds earlier on, but we need to make sure states and cities are on the same page.

There is no way to prevent all death. We won't and can't get to zero deaths in the short term - testing, tracing and vaccines are all far out from useful yet.

Given that we don't have a government like Denmark, that can support all workers staying at home with job security, we have the tough choice of "rot at home and lose our jobs and businesses" or "take some risk, try to be smart, and keep hospitals from getting slammed".

Protect the old and the immuno-compromised, and give them the support they need. Mandate mask use in crowded areas until we hit certain non-pandemic levels of new infection. Continue heightened production of PPE, sanitizer, etc. and work to allow small-medium in-person gatherings to be feasible again.

If we do have large events, or open nightclubs, I could see requiring contact tracing apps. Like, give us your name/number so if you get infected, we know about it and can track it; if we(the club) cause an outbreak, we can notify people.

But we can't sit at home much longer, financially or psychologically.
Well... "team" isn't even an analogy. It literally means a group working together. Sports teams are an instance.

OTOH... our gut-definition of teams is a pretty tight group working very cooperatively. It definitely doesn't feel right to describe Microsoft as a "team," family or whatever.

Anyway, I disagree... kinda. I agree that "We are a family" is bullshit, but I don't think "detached and non-emotional" is a viable strategy. We humans can't be detached and unemotional about such a major thing in our life. That road leads to misery.... which is where a lot of us are in our work lives.
They might disable supercharging for crashed vehicles but the software itself was never deactivated for anyone.
I've never heard of "models of market fairness", it sounds silly. I called the extreme where fairness was irrelevant an ideal. I take it you agree with that point. Though I don't see that much of what you are saying is particularly crushing to the ideal. In "the real world" one also doesn't need to switch jobs every day like a day trader changing stocks.

I also take it you concede that pursuing fairness leads to reduced efficiency? You can't very well serve two optimals.
Curious, do you have meaningful hobbies and activities outside of work? I often find that people who are so keen on social interaction at work don't have other things they are passionate about.

I am not saying I hate social interaction. If I had to chose between being locked in my basement and not seeing anyone and going to the office, I would chose the office. However, if the choice is between more time and freedom outside of work vs more in office interactions, then I chose the former.

Again though, if you are the type of person that highly values that in-office camaraderie, you are free to join a coworking space and get that. You can still commute and ask your deskmate how your day went.

Im not like that though - I like to wake up early, get my work done, and spend my afternoons rock climbing with a different group of people who are my close friends. The value I get out of this is way higher than building (often) superficial relationships with my coworkers.

Thats the nice thing about working remotley - you can pick what you do with your time. Forcing everyone to indulge in office socialization just because some people enjoy it is a disservice to those who don't.
With the sky-high valuation we see in Tesla, the market already seems to be pricing in something along these lines. Unless you mean that Tesla, even at the current level, is still under-priced.
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There hasn't been a "previous downturn" with this concentrated (size × time) an unemployment spike. It's weird to claim we know now how employers will react to it yet when they see "unemployed, May 2020" on a resume.
Well, that was especially true for Minix 1 and 2. Minix 3 is purportedly a production operating system, and ships in every Intel CPU for the last decade or so, right? So while admittedly it may not have significant filesystem needs, it is not purely a teaching operating system anymore.

Nowadays I might point at MIT's xv6, which implements a very similar simple unix filesystem: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/master/fs.c
1. Masks may be the wrong fight, since there's no evidence public usage offers protection. It might, but maybe the wrong fight?

2. Find the right solution!
I'd hardly call any of them sane. There used to be debates about checking compilers into the VCS and now no one bats an eye when the entire build system is constantly churning underneath you. Today you have GitLab Runner 12.x. Next month it'll be 13.x. I imagine most other CI systems are similar, the hosted variants being especially bad because you can't even decide when to update.

Modern CI feels like a shell script using a bunch of external APIs got tossed into a blender and poured into a YAML config. Then everyone claims builds are repeatable because they run in a container, but ignore the fact that if your Dockerfile has a single command that isn't working with exact versions for resources (apt-get anyone?) you can't rely on the build being repeatable between jobs in the same pipeline.

A big problem I think we'll face in the future is there's no value in giving developers a product they can control. GitLab CI will evolve so you need a top tier plan to do anything interesting and they'll eventually own your build environment. GitHub will push things like Codespaces and they'll own your development environment. The idea that anyone would even touch GitHub Actions blows my mind.

What happened to the developers that want to control their environments? Do you actually own your codebase if it's useless without a bunch of paid subscriptions you're using as part of your development workflow? What happens when your CI provider triples the price or shuts down entirely?
i don't think morality is really useful here: right or wrong, it doesn't matter. labor is labor; that software engineers are a talented, "woke" (or at least perceived as such) group of labor doesn't change anything. you trade your time for money, which you use to buy stuff and then continue to trade your time for money. that's the game.

software engineers have it pretty good, anyway. this manager's example is perfect: sure, people grumble, but they typically eventually accept a reduced salary. why is that? even at a reduced salary, most laborers will be OK with a non-physically-straining, intellectually decent job that lets them live where they want to live and largely earn enough to not worry too much.
I think that is intentionally being manipulated. They are pushing for asymptomatic people to be tested in droves. The % is accurate but the biases in sampling don't make it an apples-to-apples comparison anymore.
What is wrong about the video? It's just criticizing Bill Gates paternalistic and misguided command of public health from the Gates Foundation.

Edit: I am not endorsing the channel, but this video seemed reasonable and didn't describe any conspiracy that wasn't well known (Microsoft anti trust).
> No, we're not a family. My family would let me sleep on their couch if I got fired or lost my home.

Research in industrial psychology consistently demonstrates that managers are extremely hesitant to fire workers, particularly when the human welfare costs are high.[1] They'll consistently keep workers employed well past the point where it's economically justified.

So, I'd say for most people co-workers are not "family". But it's certainly a closer human social bond than an arms length economic transaction in most circumstances.

[1]https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/06/firing_aversion_2.h...
woops! i surely did, thanks! edited.
Well some people are in the useful business and some people are in the useless business but neither have a higher claim to significance in the cosmos.

Ultimately the set of questions remaining when all the usefulness is complete will be the ones that take millennia to fail to resolve.

So I think both sets of questions are worth continued attention.
They would make great warehouses
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You can follow the thread on the NANOG list:

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-May/107720.ht...
I once ran into this at work. Some (fairly old) android versions send two requests under certain circumstances. Someone else might elaborate this maybe.
Yeah that’s a good point, it would be super useful to have that ‘weighted density’ available.
IHME’s projections have been extremely inaccurate so you can’t take that one and throw it out
This graph shows that things will be slow even when 'reopened' due to human behavior, which means you may not see Covid spikes for a while yet.

https://compote.slate.com/images/6e5b79c5-c6db-47ab-95cd-7c9...
> Some people want to argue the next thing "those are mostly old people or sick people", so too bad for them?

The argument re: old/sick people is a combination of "these people have fewer years left to live anyways, making deaths less impactful" and "this is a smaller subset of the population that can be isolated while the rest are set free".
I really appreciate it. Thanks, Andy!
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Is this distinction necessary or strictly proven? They seem pretty linked in my personal experience. (All the times I'm not conscious, like when I'm sleeping, I'm not self-aware, and vice-versa. Intuitively it seems like anything that might put me into a semi-conscious state would be considered as also putting me into a semi-self-aware state and vice-versa.) The page lists several disorders related to self-awareness, but I don't think any of them represent anything like "0% self-awareness yet 100% consciousness" which would have more strongly implied that they may be different things.

The page lists several types of self-awareness, including "introspective self-awareness". Maybe what we call consciousness is just the internal experience of something with introspective self-awareness. This does raise the question of what "internal experience" is though. I think "internal experience" is what some people mean by "consciousness", especially when they say things like "maybe everything has consciousness including rocks or random grids of transistors". I think there exists some sense of "what it is like to be a rock", but it's an utterly empty experience without memory, perception, personality, emotions, or the feeling of weighing choices; something very close to the "null experience", that is an experience in the same sense that zero or a number utterly close to zero is still a number. The internal experience of a random grid of transistors only just barely starts to touch a sliver of what a human's internal experience consists of. The internal experience of a worm starts to have a few recognizable qualities (proprioception, the drive to maintain personal needs), but it still lacks many large aspects of a human's internal experience. (Maybe a thermostat with sufficiently rich inputs, output control, world model, and juggled priorities has an internal experience similar to a worm.) Large animals tend to have more elements of awareness (including memory, social awareness, and some introspective awareness) that bring their internal experience closer to having what feels like the necessary elements to human consciousness.
Which is exactly what I did coming out of undergrad University here in the US. I started work and then for fun I went and formally studied German at a local college, taught by a native speaker born in Köln. I was educated to use Sie out of respect and only use du with close friends, children, and only when instructed by co-workers and other associates. In my travels I have had many discussions in German and have not once been repremanded, only on occasion told I am fine to use the informal form.
An important caveat here is that Georgia has also seen only a slight increase in non-lockdown activity despite whatever Governor Kemp may say Georgians should be doing: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/05/number-of-peopl...

The lockdown and resulting economic damage is much less an effort of state enforcement than it is individuals being (correctly) terrified to engage in commerce unless absolutely necessary.
Fair point. I’ve been developing commercially with Visual Studio since 2000. I never had to try to learn it on my own.

It wasn’t until 2014 when MS started releasing the non crippled version.

But consider yourself lucky. Do you know how hard it was for middle schooler to get a good 65C02 assembler in the 80s like I had to?
Thanks for this clarification, I was completely unaware of the English part and curious about the Spanish part. <3
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This looks a lot more like a conspiracy blog than anything else.
It sure is quite slow at ~1 hour per uploaded portrait. That looks more like an exhaustive parameter search to me, than a trained encoder network.
I think you might underestimate how many Linux kernels+userlands show up embedded in non-"computer" devices!
this will backfire on politicians.

the "better safe than sorry" line of reasoning is deeply flawed thinking. it's a way to absolve politicians of the hard job of finding the best answer, the best tradeoff. cutting off the extrema works in the confines of mathematical optimization, but in real, human systems, hitting an extreme in one dimension is never the right answer. the system is infinitely faceted and exponentially interrelated.

for the general population, rather than lockdown, it would have been easy to start back in early march with two simple rules:

1) physically distance, _or_ wear a mask when inside public spaces (which implies no large gatherings), and

2) if you're sick or have co-morbidities, self-quarantine.

as time went on, you could then deal with the harder edge cases like schools (in socal, you could have "classrooms" out on playgrounds and fields under large tents if necessary).

instead politicians have painted themselves into a corner and can't find their way out.
It's probably not the best use of time to cite data referencing 300 million people spread across almost 4 million square miles. Each state, and really each county, is its own unique circumstance/set of data.
Or use secrets.token_urlsafe
https://docs.python.org/3/library/secrets.html#secrets.token...
I wrote the Elm counterpart of the same example...

https://dev.to/eberfreitas/comparing-elm-to-ember-octane-and...
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> What’s the goal?

A 14 day decline in new cases while maintaining a testing rate 200/100,000.
AHK solved a quirky issue my work had me develop.

We have an excel sheet that gets updated periodically throughout the day by various people. When the spreadsheet is saved it also publishes an MHT file to be displayed on a webbrowser that refreshes every 5 minutes. That browser runs on a little Intel stick plugged into a wall-mounted TV to show the spreadsheet to various parts of the office / production floor.

At night the screens get turned off and through something that happens the little computer thinks the resolution changed and takes the browser session out of its fullscreen view to a tiny square in the corner.

No matter how many setting changes I made it still did it. AHK to the rescue. On a periodic timer take ownership of the browser window and compare its resolution to the desktop resolution. If it has changed send F11, pause, F11 to refresh the fullscreen command and boom, fixed.

That's the first use I had for AHK, I've expanded a lot on that since.
It's more my concern for your state of mind.
Yes, if they used C/C++ from the beginning, they wouldn't have run into GC issues, but they would run into another whole set of issues exclusive to C/C++ (free-after-use, buffer overflows, annoying threading bugs, etc.)
Are we at “imagenet moment” for ASR?
Dude! This is sh*t crazy amazing!

Shared with friends and co-workers who works with numbers! Hope you thrive!

Congrats!
In case anyone's interested, here's a Ruby version:

(1..10).select(&:odd?).map{|x| x*x }.select{|x| x < 50 }
> Expecting every radio receiver to know whether broadcast cleartext was "intended for the public space" is impractical, and both law and radio culture reflect that impracticality.

I agree, but I cannot agree that this can apply to google sniffing wifi packets. Google knew they were wifi packets, they knew those packets where intended for the "internet", they knew they were not addressed to them; it was not a generic radio transmission. It is a good argument for why it should be legal anyway.

>> it is unreasonable for users to force exclusively encrypted communication

>Hard disagree. That's like saying it's unreasonable to expect cable modem routers to come with firewalls or websites to default to HTTPS. I think it's rather unconscionable that the opposite is the case: we had too many years of wifi routers come to market that were unencrypted by default.

This is no justification for the methodical exploitation of this lack of security. This is only relevant to whether also OSs and ISPs/router manufacturers should have done better.
Since there are no wide scale antibody testing in most of the US due to lack of coordination/faulty health system perhaps we can look at closed systems to ascertain the true death rate. Looking at Lompac prison it appears that 70% of the inmates have tested positive for covid-19 [1]. If the remainder of the inmates are tested, a somewhat accurate death rate can be found. I feel like the only people that should quarantine should be pre-existing medical conditions and the very old, but want to see hard data to back this up, interesting info from the linked article, "The vast majority of positive individuals report minor or no symptoms" I don't know how soon from positive test to infection these cases are as well as the age distribution at the prison but this should be looked at regardless.

[1] https://beta.trimread.com/articles/14804
Concern trolling doesn’t suit you, particularly when you didn’t get the memo to avoid the word “concern” entirely when employing it. Try a different tack, please.
I was led to believe growing a bonsai tree involved a lot more trimming. Maybe I'm a natural.
Which is good overall because automation is making those manufacturing jobs worth less and less. Companies are starting to leave China for low wage countries already. Right now service jobs designing the automation is where the real money is and India is well positioned to take it.

Note there are no easy roads to success in general. Being born to the right family helps (a lot) , but you can sti mess up.
If anything, isn't the simulator more conscious? It's integrating all the information that the other one does. But it's also translating between its compute model and another compute model, which is additional integration of information. The simulator is "thinking about" whatever the simulated brain is thinking about and is also "thinking about" how it's doing the simulation.
Somebody else linked Goodhart's law in this thread, and I think that's pretty applicable. Using these measures as strict criteria rather than looking at the bigger picture that they paint seems like a huge mistake. All of LA can't open if just a single 95 year old person dies of COVID in the past two weeks?
> furloughing in areas like dermatology, plastic surgery, and the like

Stop. This is incredibly misleading.

Elective just means that you can choose the time to do the surgery. It doesn't mean they are optional for health.

Elective surgeries include inguinal hernia surgery, cataract surgery, mastectomy for breast cancer, kidney transplant, and hip surgery.

Most surgeries are elective.

Don't minimize this as a bunch of delayed facelifts.
I'd suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach . I was much younger when I first read it, but it blew my mind at the time.
> Examples are now downloadable. We’ve added a script to zip up and offer all our Examples as their own download from the docs.

Nice. This could become the primary documentation for a lot of folks.
> This was not put up for a vote

Very little is. That's why we elect executives at various levels of government. If you want direct democracy, you'll need somewhere like Switzerland, and even there, there's some concept of executive power in emergencies.
Yeah, that completely ignores how shitty all the UNIX userland was.

Some of the kernels were even good, but what gain does it bring if tar would always do the most insane action instead of backing-up your disk?
Acquiring all of your competitors is a good way to become a monopoly.
This is what I'm curious about as well. My poorly educated guess is that maybe these are just meant to process specific tasks sent to them from the host machine over SSH.

But then why have connectivity through both Ethernet and PCI-E?
Rome is coming [1]. I'm eager to get it in the hands of customers as soon as we can. :-)

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-new-amd-powere...
I think that twitter allows employees to work from home ia great for twitter and his employees. keep it up.But amazon did not do that. I hope you were all agree that amazon no work for his employees.
Bathrooms & restaurants. You can bring your own food or get takeout - but where are you going to relieve yourself?

How do you socially distance at a beach bathroom? Does everyone hit up the same fast-food bathrooms nearby - concentrating the risk?
https://podio.com/ seems to nail this. I used it around 6-7 years ago and it was awesome! Seems like they were bought by citrix :O
> My family would let me sleep on their couch

I can tell off-color jokes around my real family. I censor the ever-loving hell out of myself when I'm with my "work" family. I talk about work, and nothing else.