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> I live in California and I can tell you that people are already extremely over this shit. Go out and about and hardly anyone is wearing masks, hardly anyone is social distancing.

It's a big state. Compliance varies a lot by area, and by local culture. Just because there are some people who don't take social distancing precautions doesn't mean that those who have the civic sense to take those precautions should abandon their efforts.
>its on the governments to provide the safety net until we have everything under control.

Let's be clear-- there is no true safety net for middle-income professionals. We can draw down savings and cross our fingers that this resume gap doesn't kill a professional career. And that's just the financial and career consequences. There definitely are other consequences of unemployment too.

I feel fortunate not to live in L.A. county but the public health response my state is not a lot less draconian. I just am astounded. I would love to wrap everyone and everything in bubble wrap as much as the next person to protect everyone from a very dangerous world but this is too much.
Actually how are the county level officials got into office? City and state officials are elected. What's the process to install a county officials in CA?
Call it a war of independence, if you prefer.

I think the important part is that the overthrown regime was based outside the (new) country, and was no longer a factor in the internal politics.
Portland sees the same cost of living trends as the Bay Area, so enjoy the arbitrage while it lasts I suppose. (For what it’s worth, so does every similarly desirable metro area in the USA outside of Houston.)
A useful overview of the subject which amde much more sense to me: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/fEX7G2N7CtmZQ3eB5/simulac...
I've done too much engineering on large-scale projects with cross-office stakeholders for that leap to require any faith; it aligns with my own experience. ;) It doesn't take more than a handful of misconfigured flags to find out you've been accidentally logging every packet going through your router. The backstop against that is usually I'd run out of storage space, and Google certainly doesn't.

The product counsel oversight failure was a major error in this project. It's the specific step that's supposed to help Google avoid $25k fines, and I don't doubt someone internally got their head thunked over that.
Most of the beaches in LA are open. The beaches that are closed are closed because social distancing is impractical
Well, if you think about it, the Windows registry already is a hierarchical database – just a quite limited one. You could have a hierarchical database with richer features (LDAP is a good example of that, although in some ways LDAP is rather clunky).

If by database you mean "relational database" – I'm not sure the relational model is the best fit for a config store. I think a more hierarchical database model is more natural for that purpose. (Of course, you could use a relational database as an underlying implementation detail – LDAP is fundamentally a hierarchical database, but there exist LDAP servers which store the data in an RDBMS, for example Oracle Internet Directory.)
This is true now but it wasn't when I started doing dot net development ~10 years ago. If it wasn't for my employer covering the costs I wouldn't have been able to do it.

There were free editions but they were crippled versions of the paid ones with no extensions, etc. The free versions were generally unloved and had annoying quirks.

At the time you needed to add a Resharper license in there too to be decently productive which was yet another overhead.
I think just as there are good salespeople and bad salespeople, we've got to do our part as job seekers to sniff the bad ones out. Some of those folks, rare albeit, genuinely mean to help. For me, a focus on company culture is super important but that comes with understanding that it's a business. And sometimes there will be tough business decisions that need to be made. I'd much rather work for a company who at least tries to foster good culture rather than one that completely ignores it.
There is no lack of CO2 for plants. Deserts have very different reasons for existing (and usually growing).
I am also talking about my common sense. The fact that we should expect something to happen is orthogonal to whether the one who made it happen was justified.

In my common sense there are many factors in this story that play against Google: 1) the said army of drones 2) it is unreasonable for users to force exclusively encrypted communication 3) they clearly operated in a "let's collect as much as possible" rather than having a clear objective like for the SSID 4.1) they have collected potentially sensitive data from businesses connections not intended for the public space 4.2) they have collected private data from personal connection not intended for the public space.

Overall what I see is that wifi is not as secure as I expected and Google (lawfully) exploited said lack of security with complete disregard to other's privacy.

Many other points of view might be possible, but I believe this is a reasonable/valid way to interpret what happened.
>people will rebel, and the infection rate will spike yet again

that is unknown. If anything, the flu experience shows that the hot dry air minimizes transmission by minimizing the lifetime of the exhaled aerosol mini droplets which carry the virus.

The rate will most probably spike again in the Fall, lockdown or no lockdown, because of the colder moist air then, and I think it is very misleading to promise people the lockdown avoidance later in exchange for a larger lockdown now.

Governments at all levels seem to be doing only lockdown, which basically means doing nothing by the governments themselves and just putting the burden squarely on the people shoulders and waiting hoping that the issue resolves on its own. Where are the true government actions to fight pandemic - i mean at least bare minimum - masks, testing, contact tracing? Why Whole Foods, not the government, should give away free masks? I guess, no money for masks in the $6T dollars that have just been printed and have propelled the stock market back into the bubble.
It's not necessarily the same thing as proving things about consciousness. The two could be orthogonal.

If qualia arise only in particular configurations of physical substrate, then it might be possible for flatworms to have qualia but not search engines. This doesn't mean the flatworm has a concept of self, a concept of time, or even low-level cognition. "Nobody home", so to speak. But the basic qualia of light/dark/hot/cold might still be present.
I care. Not a ton, but I do care.
> Why do everyone have to try to create another blockchain?

Because people will give you a billion dollars for it.
Slightly related: add artificial coffee stains to LaTeX documents: http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349
> What makes you say it "would've been relatively easy" given contact tracing is not widespread in the US

Plane tickets were bought, credit card spending took place, cell phone towers were pinged, hotel reservations had names linked to them, relatives, friends or colleagues aware of the whereabouts and can be interviewed post-mortem?

For what it's worth, they're able to pinpoint specific parties or night club performances https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2020/05/09/pasadena-identif... https://ktla.com/news/local-news/former-rancho-palos-verdes-...
> For much of its existence, the painting was coated with a dark varnish, which gave the incorrect impression that it depicted a night scene, leading to the name by which it is now commonly known.[7]... The varnish was removed only in the 1940s.
hihi, good points!

organice has you covered on shortcuts, though. Quite a few users don't use it primarily as a mobile app, but in a desktop browser. You can even customize them. This is the settings screen for shortcuts: http://screenshots.200ok.ch/screenshot_2020_05_12-c9c7a531.p...

Of course, the shortcuts are not as mighty as in Emacs or VIM, but the usecase is a different one (away from your main computer or sharing files with people not that much into text editors).

In any case, thank you for taking the time to check it out. If it helps you just a couple of times while on the go to add something to the shopping list or remember when you're in the store, I'm happy^^
GA "opened up" salons on 4/24 and restaurants on 4/27. I say that with quotes since many places remain closed for dine-in service. Nonetheless, it's been 2 weeks and we've only seen a slight decrease in case rates: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/georgia-coronavi...

Meanwhile, our testing rates have shot up to the ~7500/day range and our positive test rate has gone from ~25% down to 13.2% today: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wrGsD3T_JIvKwsudQwVH...
I firmly believe it's coming.. There's no way people are going to keep going along with it into summer, especially if the number of cases isn't growing or feels distant.
I have no idea what it is, but it seems like a conspiracy channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmoTebYF90w
Are you seriously suggesting either of these are appropriately dependable options for running a production database? Let alone supported options!?
Oh god, I remember EMC made us use this to manage their god-awful support system.

One of the worst experiences of my life in IT. Not the fault of AutoHotKey but they used it to paper over the cracks in their massively flawed and sucky support system. The only thing I’ve used that is worse than the SAP GUI.
thank you for posting this! in a mere 5 minutes of use you have earned a thousand thank-yous.

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This is absolutely insane, if LA wants to see a return to the bad old days(think Rodney King/Watts riots/extreme levels of crime) keep up this nonsense. This will absolutely destroy the middle/lower class along with a huge chunk of the economy. This was not put up for a vote, and is being forced down people's throats. There is no timeline for large scale antibody testing, live testing is completely broken, expect to see a huge migration out of California.
> Consciousness is not about computation;

Isn't there a lot of evidence to the contrary? We have general maps of our body parts in specific brain areas, we know if those areas get damaged it compromises specific functions like language, hearing etc. Then we have things like short term memory, long term memory, image processing (subconsciously) that can be hacked with visual illusions, and many more observations that clearly point to the brain undergoing information processing as described by information theory.
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I'm just painting a picture of the vibe I am experiencing as a native Californian who has been out a lot in LA and OC. I still wear a mask when I am out and do my best to abide by social distancing rules. We have lots of hand sanitizer in our vehicles, about a hundred medical-grade masks, and a lot of bandanas and other stuff in case we need it.
For now...
Didn't Yahoo say this as well like 8 years ago?
>> 1. To flatten the infection curve, in order to keep healthcare systems from becoming overwhelmed like those in northern Italy.

Very few regions have had anything close to overwhelmed hospitals. More regions have had to lay off hospital staff than have been overwhelmed. Some like UW medicine now face a $500 million budget shortfall due to the ban on elective procedures.

Social distancing measures may have an effect on r_t as low as 0.1 per analysis by Nate Silver. Others show a negative or no correlation between government lockdowns and reduction of r_t.

It is fair to question if these lockdowns - as instituted - have done anything.
The SEC is wrong and so is the notion of an accredited investor - The founding fathers would have been appalled at these ideas; they're twisted beyond what they could possibly have imagined at the time.

These laws sound totally anti-constitutional. Doesn't resonate at all with the "Land of the free" idea.

People are not free to start certain enterprises. They are not free to invest in certain enterprises. The only thing they are free to do is accept the fiat money which was printed out of thin air by their corporate masters.

If you live in the US and you're not an accredited investor, I would recommend that you leave the country ASAP before the government puts chains on you.
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It is terrifying to see the voracity with which these bureaucrats eat up and wield more and more power.
Oh, yeah - the way he phrased it, I assumed she was a classmate, not the one teaching the class.
I think GUI tools come a cropped when they try to do too much, but can work very well in limited domains.

We have recently released a GUI tool to do data transformation/ETL ( https://www.easydatatransform.com ). It is aimed more at power Excel users, than programmers or data scientists. We have tried to overcome some of the issues mentioned here:

* It is only intended for the limited domain of data transformation, which limits the complexity.

* No need to remember any syntax/commands for the vast majority of use cases.

* The transformation template is stored in a single XML file, so it can be versioned.

* You can use regexp, Javascript and command line arguments to get extra power if you need it.

* It is written in C++ and is fast.

Obviously it can't do everything you can do with a general purpose programming language, but it hopefully do enough for many use cases and is much easier to learn.
Expect riots
Working from home has many advantages, but to paint this as an advantage is a disservice.

First, that's a nice way to respect your coworkers that they are a random set of people who work with you because of their Leetcode skills.

Having work relationships is much more than get a PR reviewed, or asking for feedback on documents. Working together, involves interactions that humanizes your fellow co-workers. Since, I've worked with people before, now that we have to remote collaborate I understand the social cues, people can come stand-offish or rude, in remote meetings, because video and voice calls can rarely bring out emotions.

We went from cracking a jokes at the beginning of a meeting and chit-chat while walking to meeting and walking back from meeting rooms to more formal remote meetings, since people are concerned that they won't be interpreted correctly over a call (the fear is rightly so given video calls are inherently bad at this)

There's no reason to detest your colleagues, they're people with priorities and one of them is work. There's going to be weeks where you'll be spending way longer than 8 hrs a day together and nights where you will need to call them in the because of an ongoing issue in production. To dehumanize these relationships would be a great loss.

If you want to build long lasting friendships, you can definitely do that at work. I know people who have made friends on same and different teams, through work related happy hours and hangout casually now (meeting people outside your team is severely crippled with the current remote work culture), heck people get married to people they meet at work.
I agree, but I don't think that any of the "end zoning" people mean to end industrial/residential zoning; at least I've never seen that aspect of it criticized. But it's also such a tiny proportion of zoning, that if it were kept and the rest of the bad zoning policies were removed, that "end zoning" would probably be a good way to describe that result.
That doesn't make sense though, 'the market' isn't wherever they decide to move to, it's 'remote'. And yes, that will be less than SF rates, but it may well be more than non-remote rates wherever the employee happens to live.

It's not paying less that's silly, it's paying an artificial amount less. The only way in which location should come into it is restricting candidates to those located in (or willing to work to) a particular time zone(s).
> the problem here is the culture around prestige and money

Everywhere in the world people flock to careers with prestige and money. Chasing cash in a developing country makes even more sense because being poor there sucks even worse than being poor in a developed country.
Magenta Studio

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio
Nobody mentioned the problem of Indian "high context society". Individual developers may be very productive when employed by western companies but from my anecdotal experience Indian teams in India have very low real productivity due to the "cultural specifics", aka rigid hierarchy and people dynamics.
Where is the government going to get this money? Most social programs are funded by income taxes, if no one is working there are no income taxes to take from people to pay the people not working

Unless you just want infinite money printing. The Federal Unemployment increase ends in July, and it highly unlikely this will be extended, so the county of LA has no ability to print more money, or really extend their debt

LA and CA has a real chance of going bankrupt,
Only semi-related, but I thought their was an open source PDF-flowing tool featured on hacker news a while back (that turned PDF into responsive HTML). Anyone know of something like that?
The fact you have to ask this question is the answer, of course the OP did not read the article.
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One of the harshest lessons I, as an introvert, have learned over the course of my career is the necessity of going in and putting up the appearance of being jovial at team and corporate social events, no matter uncomfortable and draining I find it. To do otherwise is to risk my bonuses and my employment.
> I don't think AI will ever become conscious in the same way that humans are, rather, it'll be conscious on its own terms.

I think that people who are attempting to simulate a human brain using an utterly biomimetic design stand a good chance of artificially creating something that is conscious in the same way that humans are. I also think it's possible they may be able to achieve this before they full understand how the human brain works. i.e. if you copy the design accurately enough, the machine may work even if you don't know how.

The resulting consciousness could theoretically be totally self-aware, but no more capable than we ourselves of modifying its own programming with intentionality and purpose. i.e. not the singularity.

I think there should be two different concepts of AI- "a consciousness using the same processes and design as our own", and "an essentially alien consciousness that fully understands itself". And I suspect that even if some engineering genie gave us the first kind of AI, we'd be no closer to developing the second kind.
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Great description. Made me think of the other thread I was reading on corporate bonds vs. corporate bond ETFs.
The landscape in mapping the human brain has changed as far as the scale of data is concerned. Now that generation of data is easy, there is huge demand of solutions for (1) handling Petabyte scale image data (i.e. compression, untarring with bots from large-scale servers), (2) its 3D semantic segmentation with deep learning (i.e. automated approaches for volumetric reconstruction as manual approaches like crowdsourcing just don't work; Google is curently a big player in this working with IARPA and other labs across the globe) (3) development of visualization and analysis tools that allow web-based rendering of this PB-scale raw and segmentation data efficiently for neuroscientists/users (for example with React, js, etc. Many software companies have come up with solutions specific to users and their data formats).

As far as hardware developement goes, it is only specifically that would enhance these above software solutions. So really depends on which part of the pipeline interests you most in the above three (this is just a rough divison though).
You need to be a pretty egregious repeat offender to be ostracized from a real family

Or have a shitty family. A lot of “black sheep” out there are actually the relatively normal ones.
Isn't this similar to phpmyadmin with a much polished interface? what am I missing?
I think this only works for secret keys that have a certain pattern like AWS keys.
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Off topic, but in my mind the answer to "free will" is obviously, boringly no.
If we are, as you've put it, a finite state machine, the fact that random inputs are possible doesn't make the machine any less deterministic.

Come to think of it, this is not off topic at all. It follows that if AI can become conscious, it means that consciousness does not contain (or at least require) free will. That's if we agree that a computer running code has no "free will" no matter how complex the code is.
If I were one of those new investors, I'd ask the same question. Alphabet has been involved in Waymo for 12 years. Why does Alphabet feel that more cash is a better investment than more shares in Waymo? What does Alphabet know that I don't?
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> How long ago did Florida open everything back up? If I remember correctly it was just May 4th?

Parent is referring to weeks and weeks of predictions that Florida would be utterly decimated because of large Spring Break parties, taking a long time to shut down in the first place, beaches not closing down for a long time, etc.

Florida, like apparently everywhere else in the US, has been perpetually “two weeks away” for the past six weeks from becoming New York City.
Thank you for checking out organice. Indeed, it is a fork of org-web and has since added quite a few fixes and new features.

The search capabilities in organice are quite sophisticated for example. I've written a small blog post to compare it to Org mode in Emacs: https://200ok.ch/posts/2020-02-09_creating_org_mode_sparse_t...

All the best and enjoy using organice!
My instinct tells me we are headed towards massive inflation, and if your investments aren't parked in the right place (or if you don't really have investments), you're in for a rude awakening. I don't see how it's in anyone's best interest (besides the bankers collecting fees) for the Federal Reserve to get in bed with ETF management companies.
8 days?

Hello from Peru! Where I have been in lockdown for 58 days straight and counting...