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Why are we upvoting this? This is not a noteworthy news. HN’s top page spot for something else that’s insightful is taken up by memes of recursion and entertainment.

Along the same lines - Bloomberg has destroyed its credibility as a source, instead it’s looking for clicks. Ever since the motherboard chip hack article, I stopped trusting them.
It's a good site, thanks.

I posted here precisely because I wanted /your/ recommedations. There are some super smart people around here, and HN is my main source of thought-provoking articles.

I mostly use a website with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item-item_collaborative_filter...
Reddit is a proper noun and should be capitalized.

> The good/fun/interesting things are gone, only stale propaganda and silly nonsense is left.

Did you mean, “are left”?
Last week on XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/2275/
It isn't really additive though, since those that die from the virus are generally more likely to die of the flu and many other age-related diseases.
Interesting MS<>Google partnership on the design front. Wish they had redesigned `<select multiple>` though. That's one component that really feels stuck a million years in the past
I honestly can't tell if you're joking or just not very familiar with what's happening here. What companies? There are only two major ISPs here, one of which is considered a "natural monopoly" and operates almost all networking equipment which connects us to the outside world. Other ISPs route most or all of their traffic through the major one. Needless to say, they maintain a very close connection to law enforcement agencies and to the royal family itself.
Lower House committee passes bill on coronavirus (JAPAN)
I dimly remember that it's up to each individual airport.
CDC is keeping the numbers down, as requested.
It can take up to 2 weeks for people to start showing symptoms. Also it can affect different people in very different ways.
Sure. As you guys seem to plan to do, I also started with some Matlab based work from my PhD years and felt that would be the quickest and easiest way forward. I also made the bet that the Octave app GUI functionality (uixx functions) would become good enough to use for commercial apps, which as great as base Octave is, it in my opinion hasn't. So as I make a fully client side app I am now dependent on users also purchasing or already having Matlab too.

As for Python, it is also a bet and compromise with the following specific criteria:

- Fast and easy to develop in (as I as a bootstrapped solo-dev have to do everything by myself)

- Reasonably simple to translate to from Matlab code

- Good and easy to use client side GUI functionality

- Easy for other users to use (as I want as many users a possible to use the functionality and potentially be able to write extensions themselves)

- 3D Visualization libraries (VTK, ParaView)

with this in mind my choices were:

1) Python

2) Julia

3) (Object) Pascal

4) Web stack (Javascript + webassembly)

I almost initially chose (Lazarus free) Pascal due to its IDE, fast compilation, and easy deployment but eventually I found the fixed pixel based GUI placement not ideal (although there are probably workarounds for that). Although using a web stack would be ideal from a user and sales perspective (with no installation), my impression of web programming is "messy" and I'm afraid that for CAE simulation apps this approach would freeze the computers completely (Electron!). Although I initially thought Julia would be ideal as the syntax was very close to Matlab, it seems to become more and more complex as it matures and my impression is that there still isn't a good way to deliver (pre-)compiled client side apps which is my requirement. So all in all I felt that Python probably the best compromise. It is still a bet, but with the "Matlab engine" you can call Matlab in the background so port bit by bit. In your case though with a (web) server-client app you might fare better with Matlab/Octave.

Tech-stack aside, I've found the hardest part is the non-techy bits, especially sales, marketing etc. which I still haven't figured out.

Best of luck!
> Children aren’t at risk here, reason why still unknown.

Isn't this the underlying plot of Maze Runner, and a bunch of other books/movies?

A decade of young adult fiction dystopian worlds of only young adults, followed by an actual decade of dystopian world of only young adults.
I went through quite some trouble to get a react-table v6 based datagrid updated to v7.

I found that the examples showed individual features well, but when you combine features you are on your own. The "Kitchen Sink" example is far from having all features enabled at once.

The reason why I couldn't stay with v6 was that the virtualization examples used a deprecated API from an old minor version. I would have had to support a solution on a non-supported version (v6 has been pretty much abandoned).

So, I had to get these features to coexist peacefully:

- expanded rows

- virtualization

- sorting

- custom cell rendering

- click actions inside the cells (open a dialog, add the row entity to comparison)

Mirroring the GP, I had to use react-window and deal with the complexity from the library. I think that virtualization should be a first-class citizen inside react-table, like sorting.

On top of all of this the TypeScript support/typings are tricky to work with (IIRC you have to maintain a .d.ts file in your codebase and remember to update it when you update react-table). I literally had a headache for hours on while going through the refactoring.

In the end I managed to get everything to work without any bugs or weird behavior. I really was enthusiastic about v7, but was left with a bad feel of it.

I'm sure that things will get better, and luckily most folks don't beed all of these features. It's really the virtualization that makes things complicated. The thing is, pagination is not always a viable solution.

To save other people trouble, I should update the Codesandbox that I originally built (https://codesandbox.io/s/react-table-virtualized-subcomponen...).
This paper tries to compare the number of ICU beds by country. Unfortunately there is wide variation in the definition of ICU beds from country to country. But what you realize is there are barely any ICU beds per capita to go around during something like a coronavirus outbreak where respiratory assistance is needed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551445/
I’d argue that the greatest weakness in the US is the lack of ability of its political/administrative system.

When either the authoritarian leader of China, or the elected government of Italy decide that the country needs to quarantine, they do it. Meanwhile nobody even believes it’s possible in the US because the system is set up not to allow any even mildly controversial law to pass without months of bickering (see Obamacare which would have been considered a relatively moderate reform in any European parliamentary system)
Is that a real difference or a hypothetical one? Private healthcare providers can lend each other staff and equipment if one is overwhelmed and another is idle.

What you'd want from a government is to have a surplus of portable infrastructure able to be deployed in an emergency, but that's the CDC and FEMA.
> yesterday

I hate the "it's a dynamic situation" wording but yes, days matter here. Also yesterday, NRW, one of the most affected states put out the official recommendation to cancel major events with more than 1000 persons. Austria closed some universities at this point but many are scheduled to close next Monday.
literally the exact same bullshit happened in japan. LITERALLY the exact same.
> free childcare for quarantine

?? Who is going to be doing the childcare?

This sort of doomsday nonsense is ridiculous. We went through the exact same “panic” every election year for the past 15 years. H1N1, SARS, MERS, Ebola. If you are old or immunocompromised, take precautions, but this thread is starting to sound like some prepper hysteria.
What it does: Makes my life harder. This is a second order effect.
Yeah, it's disingenuous the way the media saying handwashing is the only important thing. Studies have shown surgical masks are actually pretty much just as good at mitigating virus spread (reduced virus exposure helps, even if you don't avoid it 100%) - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/18481...
Great read, I like to record meetings on my phone(with permission) which allows me to listen and take in as much as possible before going back and reviewing what I missed on my phone.
I think a big part of Tesla is plain old dishonesty, or American bragging, if you want to call it that way.

Consumers want autonomous self-driving cars. So Tesla creates marketing videos and then calls their glorified lane assistance and distance keeping assistant an "autopilot".

And now, Tesla buyers are frustrated that the software isn't ready yet, or dying due to bugs in said software.

But Tesla gets to dodge legal responsibility by writing into the fine print of their EULA that the so-called "autopilot" isn't actually meant to be used like what autopilot means to most people.

If anything, Tesla has amazing marketing.
Whatsapp is also completely unusable in Jordan because of this throttling. But I don't believe it's a political decision, it's the cell phone companies way of dealing with the competition.
Yea, the idea that Google simply hadn't thought of allowing WFH is idiotic. IME, they're well-aware of the advantages, but also well-aware of the disadvantages, and their current condonement but not overencouragement of WFH reflects this balance. In every job I've had (including Google), I work from home when I need to get well-defined, focused,independent work done on a fairly rigid timeline, and try and work from the office fairly often to take advantage of 1) easier conversations when complicated coordination is required, 2) maintaining social relationships with coworkers during downtime, and 3) the creative sparks that occasionally fly from casual conversation or even overhearing a conversation.

I was a wfh maximalist like many on this thread at the very beginning of my career, but AFAICT it just comes from some combination of a) being a junior engineer that works on isolated bits of work and didn't need to communicate cross-team much or b) having work that doesn't require much creative collaboration. As I got more senior and moved towards different types of problems, my appreciation for the value of (though I still do enjoy and make time for WFH).

For those who say that Slack or email or VC are perfect substitutes: there's no substitute for the high-bandwidth, low-latency medium of personal communication. Get good enough at running meetijgs of more than two people and you realize how much of the task of efficiently running a meeting involves reading micro-expressions and pauses to pick up on cues that help you direct the conversation (not to mention having n points of failure in a VC being accessed by n network connections). My team has been remote for a week and I've already noticed good meeting runners have worse meetings and bad meetings runners have even worse meetings.
This is false you should stop repeating it. The public shouldn't horde masks but that doesn't make it ok to go around saying they don't work.

If you have to put yourself in a high risk situation like flying on a plane where you are going to be in a crowd where someone is potentially sick I would absolutely wear one. CDC's own guidance for preventing infections on commercial aircraft says as much.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/air/managing-sick-travelers/c...
So Ubuntu is open-source, but if I fork it, it comes with « Ubuntu » in package names, therefore I’m infringing on their trademark?
Nothing is special about Italy; they were just unlucky enough that the spread started there earlier than elsewhere.

According to current trends, France and Spain will be where Italy is now in about week.
You see a lot of individual states acting - Washington State has banned gatherings of more than 250 people, NY has placed a town under lockdown and the National Guard is distributing food, California has given up on quarantine and headed to mitigation... As you can see, without direction it's a bit of a mess.
Temperature sensors are theater. You can be asymptomatic and still spread it. You can have a fever and not have the disease.
Also, cooking for yourself forces you to learn about the cost of food and how to budget. Sooner or later, you're forced to cook something from scratch because because it's cheaper than takeaway or pre-made alternatives (and generally tastes better).

The flip side is that there's no shortage of UK students who have no clue how to budget, spend all their money on booze and then have £3 to last them two months until the next student load comes in. Perhaps raising the minimum age to purchase alcohol to 21 isn't such a bad idea ...
> Run Matlab Production Server on AWS as a microservice. But the licensing cost of Matlab Production Server is "contact us". Scary.

Starting a business is scary. Contact them, figure out the cost, and figure out if it's worth it to rewrite it in a freely licensed language.
While Redwood is currently optimized for deployment on Netlify, it is by no means restricted to that environment. Our intention is for Redwood apps to be deployable to a variety of JAMstack providers in addition to traditional serverful setups. My main interest is in providing an integrated, joy-inducing experience for app developers that want to leverage the full awesomeness of modern JavaScript and friends. It's true that if Netlify wins, I win too, but I'd rather DEVELOPERS win, and that's what keeps me motivated.
> The main reason people don't use credit cards to buy houses now is due to the credit limit.

No, that is definitely not why.

> Some people might think it's nice to meet the buyer/seller, but the only reason you really get together in the same room is to sign a bunch of paperwork at the same time.

I’ve never heard of this. I’ve never even heard of anyone meeting the buyer/seller for any length of time in a real estate transaction.
Ebola would be easier to manage. Yes it’s much more deadly if you get it but it’s also a hell of a lot harder to get.
Maybe Costco is an authoritarian regime!
You have to look at ICU beds per capita and that is a lot less. This gives some estimates: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551445/
Allocation classes are available in FreeBSD CURRENT snapshots.
Pretty sure productivity will go down. When I WFH I just slack off.
And before that the Spanish flu, the flu of 1918, the bubonic plague, smallpox, measels...
I'm sorry but I think they should do something about that spider first.
Would love to see the spreadsheet/notes that you have been taking. Email is in profile. Thanks!
I assume you haven’t had that much exposure to other countries? The US is no more prone to panic than any other country I’ve lived in.
I think that's been the case for a long while. It's super contagious and produces no to mild symptoms in up to 80% of the most active age-segment of the population? You are contagious even when you don't have symptoms, even if you are going to eventually get them? One day the west coast epicenter is a nursing home in Seattle but the next day the head of the NY and NJ port authority tests positive?

Reported case =/= actual cases and pretty much everything I've read/heard from doctors and virologists says the numbers of reported cases attributed to the actual CFR has been bunk the whole time.

I would not be surprised if hundreds of thousands of people in the US have it right now.
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It's discouraged but people do it anyway. It's in YC's interest to help all the startups in the batch; presumably they decided this was the best way.

(I have no inside info; in fact I just found out about this from the HN submission.)
Good advice. I also recommend to make sure the toolchain is usable and documentation is readily available.

I worked on a project that had an Silicon Labs EFR32, and while the hardware may have been great, their proprietary, closed-source "Radio Abstraction Interface Layer" was hard to use and badly documented.

The Eclipse based IDE that you HAD to use to configure the radio front-end (the EFR32 is a system-on-chip with an RF front-end and an ARM Cortex M4F core) is a GUI, and porting or comparing radio configs between different chip generations, and even different versions of the IDE, is a nightmare.

The Java IDE crashes regularly, debugging does not really work etc., so it really is worth taking some time to evaluate the whole package around an RF IC.
Well, if you invest 10-20x that much in your coffee machine, you get something that's much less of a maintenance hassle and makes significantly better coffee. Worth it if you drink coffee every day.
Yes, slowing the spread is the goal.

Slowing the spread gives vaccine and antiviral researchers a fighting chance to win the race, gets us to summer where if we’re lucky enough that this virus is seasonal it’ll go away, and, most importantly, “flattens the curve”, as your parent commentator already pointed out.
Manage your feelings on wanting to learn all the things, build all the projects
You’re getting downvoted, but none of your facts are inaccurate.
Your understanding is accurate. We do plan to support pre-rendering on a route-by-route basis, which will perhaps be more inline with what JAMstack tends to mean today. But Redwood is still all about JavaScript (client) and APIs (backend), with markup to follow, as I just mentioned. But more than that, it's about the development and deployment philosophy of JAMstack that we fully embrace.
Cars are one of those markets where emotional marketing is more important to some fraction of the customer base.

Some people just want a generic econobox that brings them from point A to B, and others are swayed by other things, such as leather seats, ads that show a single car driving by the ocean or in the mountains, fast acceleration, an appealing paint color, high tech looking HUDs, cup holders, moon roof, etc.
This article was about Tesla in the EU, and more specifically in Germany, where cheap SUVs start at €12,000. And where you can buy a family-friendly combi car for as low as €10k in new.

So Tesla is exclusively in the top 5% premium segment here. Most normal people won't even consider a car for half that price.
It's really ironic that you bring this up because Better Place burned through $850 million in capital building out the infrastructure and intellectual property for hot-swappable batteries before they gave up the ghost. Their model was based on car owners not owning the batteries, instead paying Better Place per distance driven, and in return getting free battery swaps at special stations that would swap out depleted batteries for fresh ones in two minutes, plus "free" charging at branded charging points that were built into parking spaces. Under such a model, Better Place was on the hook for battery health - not the car owner.

They failed because Renault didn't deliver in the quantities needed and they tried to make up the cash shortfall by over-pricing the distance fees (more expensive than gasoline costs unless you regularly drove huge distances). Too many ducks needed to line up and investors stopped ponying up. It's fair to say that they were before their time - they probably could have gotten SoftBank to throw them another ten figures, but the Vision Fund didn't exist back then.

Tesla looked at battery swapping after Better Place proved feasibility and passed, probably due to the cost of retrofitting to the existing design and various engineering compromises (specifically related to speed and acceleration, which Musk prizes) that would be needed.
By the looks of the empty premade food section at the Mountain View Trader Joe's earlier today, no.
How many spare ventilators do they have?
Other countries don't have the problem with widespread testing that the US has. That number comes from China, Italy, and South Korea. 15% of people who show symptoms need intensive medical care.
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The dealer network was the auto industries way of not having to incur the huge cost of carrying a large inventory. Tesla solves that problem a different way by mostly only building cars as they are ordered.
Harvard moves classes online, tells students not to return after spring break
As far as I understand it, KASLR is a general hardening technique to shuffle the kernel address space so that it's harder for attackers to use vulnerabilities successfully to attack the kernel. I don't think it's specifically for Meltdown.
You didn’t actually fly through San Jose, but are asking what your chances are?
Refactored extension (no google analytics)/add-on with lots of new sites, bug-fixes, add custom sites and update-notification.

https://github.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...
https://github.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Bicycles and buses from train stations near the destination also work, or renting a car for a day. But it rarely comes up.
This has already infected 10x more people than SARS and is spreading uncontrolled in many countries.
I've banned that account, but if you continue to post political and other flamebait to HN, we're going to end up banning your account as well, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That’s the advice I got from Stallman’s (or FSF) lawyer. The same guy who inspired Diaspora guys. Forgot his name.

In between ranting at me for about an hour he did give me that useful piece of info. The only thing I asked him.

Quite a character, that guy.