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Ask HN: Why is CA not closing it’s borders?
Federal govt is too busy trying to get re-elected. Their answer to everything is money and “economic stimulus”. States like NY are still debating if a shelter in place is worth it. Meanwhile Ststes like CA that are ahead of the curve (shoutout to Gov Newsom for his leadership and decisive action) will be impacted due to incompetence of leaders in other states.

Italy has shown what happens when you act even a little late. US are currently number 5 or so on countries with most infection. The rate at which we are going as a nation we will pass Italy in number of infections in the next few days.

Does CA have the right to close it’s borders or is that a federal govt decision that cannot be made by a state?
I was in Japan recently and was hoping to find something Shibori to bring home as a souvenir/gift, but had a pretty difficult time coming across anything. I wondered if this was just because I am gaijin, or if it has become less commonplace in general (or both)?
"If I had to take a rough guess at the number, I’d say there’s at least a billion rumble-enabled devices in circulation worldwide that specifically use that dual motor system found in the Sony and Xbox controller."
Does that mean I can solve a system of equations in vector form, e.g. solve this for X:

A·X=d1

B·X=d2

(A⨯B)·X=(A⨯B)·C
This will be entertaining due to the well known driver names BUT not high level by any means:

"Due to the wide variety of gaming skill levels amongst the drivers, game settings will be configured in such a way to encourage competitive and entertaining racing. This includes running equal car performance with fixed setups, reduced vehicle damage, and optional anti-lock brakes and traction control for those less familiar with the game."

More like a "So You Think You Can Dance" celebrity edition than anything else.

A much higher level event which also includes some IRL drivers from multiple series is: The Race All-Star Esports Battle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_RV5UY8mk)
Higher level mostly because they race in rFactor2 which is a better simulator than F1 2019 and there are no driver aids. Also because everyone on the grid are long-ish time sim racers, even if some of them also happen to be IRL drivers (Max Verstappen, Felix Rosenqvist, Antonio Felix da Costa, a few others)

Here's a good list of motorsports eSports events for the next few days: https://the-race.com/esports/the-complete-motorsport-esports...
Having made this, a word of warning... it's a lot of work. It's been a number of years ago now, but I recall it being hours of constant stiring under low heat so that the cheese doesn't scorch but you reach the expected consistency.
True but it’s at least an order of magnitude less money to do the e-sport than the real one
Nascar is doing something similar. https://www.enascar.com/news-media/2020/03/19/fox-sports-to-...
Two priors ("original" not really being the right word), each already not compatible with the other.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/ifconfig.xml#...
It is a co-failing of education and employers. Employers should be hiring Software developers\engineers instead of computer scientists. Educational institutions should have more\stronger Software Engineering programs, and software developer job training programs.

Instead we get the odd equivalent of companies hiring math and physics majors and being suprised they aren't electrical engineers.
- Invite team members to show off their house/workplace or pets

- Order coffee/breakfast/donuts for each other, or have a secret-santa-like event

- Try taking coffee/lunch breaks together. It will help the team to vent and keep in rhythm. Banning all COVID-related topics is recommended!

- Try playing a game! There's a lot of options for playing board games and card games remotely; I recommend something like drawsaurus [1] it's a lot of fun.

Finally, have some empathy and patience with each other. For many people it's not just WFH, but a hard situation, having to worry about elderly relatives, take care of small children, and deal with stressing news all around them; let's foster a relaxed environment of positivity where everyone can perform their best [2]

[1] https://www.drawasaurus.org/
[2] https://twitter.com/chrisalbon/status/1239927980450697218/ph...
If you have time you should check this one out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistulae_Morales_ad_Lucilium
Counterpoints:

- Before the Internet was handed to the masses in the mid 90's, there was still a lot of creativity. In the past 50 years we have numerous new styles/genres of music, art, movies and other types of entertainment.

- Technically oriented, educated people that tend to be outside of popular social spheres were the ones that tended to understand the Internet the best, use it, communicate with others of a like mind, and were there in the initial rush in the 90's. I'll call these "Internet people". This is not most people. The same people that can't tell the difference between Facebook and the Internet still won't without zero ratings.

- Small websites were always hard to discover unless they happened to be in the right place at the right time or you were an Internet person and spent a lot of time exploring and looking. Google helped small websites for a while, but is now tuned to the normal user, not Internet people.

- Mass manipulation of society through Internet services doesn't need zero rating, it needs a self-feeding network effect and a site accessible enough to non-Internet people. Facebook has achieved this and didn't need zero rating to do it.

- Non-Internet people with their inability to see the Internet as anything other than television 2.0 + Facebook is causing ISPs to consider zero rating as something to capture customers with. Remember when various groups in the 50's and 60's said TV was evil? They were right.
Previously, I made something like TypeORM to re-use TypeScript types on a schema-less database. On my current project I'm using TypeORM itself.
Directly? No. There's no cure. If you're in the ER and dangerously short of breath, they're going to treat you as best they can. Since there isn't a cure or a proven treatment approved by the FDA for Covid-19, you'll be treated for viral pneumonia and hope that you get better. We don't have a cure, so the test really only says if you're highly infectious, so they know which corner of the hospital to put you in, and what level of precautions nurses and doctors should take around you.

Let's stop trying to rationalize the lack of testing though. It's embarrassing and shameful that we can't test people. Our infrastructure and our leadership weren't up to the task, even when other countries' was. That's a really difficult idea to confront. Saying "oh but we didn't really need that" won't change that.
>so anyone who benefits from this article should probably take a detour through a math book before continuing their Python ML, or else risk having beautiful code that implements nonsensical math.

That seems akin to suggesting someone should learn music theory before ever attempting to pluck a guitar string. I personally learn best by putting a subject to practice and figuring out the nuances by experimenting. No one expects beginners in any subject to be capable of producing quality work, whether programming or learning to cook.
Ask HN: Best books on practical cybersecurity practice for enterprises?
I guess what you need is to know in advance how much time, effort, and earnings will involve a gig. Not just from Fiverr, but for anything.

Maybe whay helps is to timebox the assignment: I will be available for fixes/etc for... a week, maybe two weeks ? Also, having a ticketing system might help you: it is very too easy to send an email from the phone to ask for new stuff and you need to track time anyway.
Millions die from obesity, car accidents, war, and the regular flu every year. Where's your outrage for that?

Does this comparison actually make sense in your mind? Considering the cadre of medical professionals point blank asking us (repeatedly) to stop comparing this to the flu?
I've recently been reading The Power Broker by Robert Caro, about Robert Moses, the Parks Commisioner who drove most of the building of the parks and roadway infrastructure of New York in the 20s-60s. It's a huge book, with a lot of asides into Alfred Smith, Tammany Hall, FDR, etc. (I'm only about halfway in, before Moses runs for Governor).

I can't help but notice parallels with Moses and Hoover, with the 'politicians' they decry, the ones they seem to celebrate, their sympathy for the masses crossed with personal antipathy toward individuals. I can't help but consider lessons this has for our current crisis, I can't help but think about how Truman relatively successfully navigated the assumption of the presidency from Roosevelt after being frozen out and manages to not totally bungle the end of WWII. I can't help but note how some people are who are completely effective in one time requiring action end up totally screwing up in others.

All that to say, I think we can learn lessons from Hoover, from the past, and apply them to our current situation and the future.

1) Sometimes, the egomaniacl jerk gets great things done. Later, they can use the power to screw up massively.
2) History lets us review responses to crisises and point out how they could have been done better, but we probably won't apply any of those lesssons to our own crisis.
3) Demonstrably compentent people can have demonstrably incompetent responses to crisises - demonstrably incompetent people rarely have compentent ones.
Or maybe he's just paraphrasing in simple terms things his lawyers explained to him because he doesn't want to go write 20 pages of specifics?
Epidemiological estimates and projections seem to be based on the 5 day estimate. See https://www.hpnonline.com/infection-prevention/screening-sur... for an example. I am honestly not sure of all the lines of evidence leading to that estimate, but I've seen it used a number of times.

Measuring what is going on by confirmed cases measures ramping out of testing more than the actual growth of the virus. Death figures are likely to be more accurate. But note that we expect it to take 3 weeks before quarantines show up in fatality figures. (A week for exposed to get sick, 2 more weeks before they die.) Therefore Italy shouldn't yet see the benefits of quarantines.
I was wondering how do you use semantic-release tooling in non-js. Do you use ".releaserc" file for config and then on CI execute with npx, to have pure repo with no JS thingy? Or are you just using package.json normally? maybe hidden in ".github" ?
That's a bit harsh on F1 drivers tbh. Sure, ultimately you need money, but Senna started early in Karting and was already showing great talent there allowing him to get financial backing and support that helped him further his career. He went through a lot of Karting and open wheel racing until finally reaching F1. You don't get there just by money, at least the top5 guys have mostly won everything there is to win before entering F1.
There's always Marbula 1: https://youtu.be/55iTYdRDG4s

I don't even watch F1 but this has me addicted.
> If your gym won't be able to re-open after this thing is over, it only shows the quality of management of the gym as well as of the government.

Yeah, right. So if I am to open a gym, or any other kind of business, I should have it in my business plan that I must have a big enough reserve to survive having my shop closed for months with only days notice. How many businesses do you think will pass that test? I think zero.

Maybe society is more than just the economic transactions that take place and maybe that gym should be opened despite failing this new test, because it is important that we have gyms that keep people fit.
Peer to peer giving during the pandemic
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Fedora. Works out of the box, very (too "very" in some cases) up-to-date packages, and one of the two platforms supported by Steam / Valve -- been gaming on Linux w/ Proton for a few months now and it's grand.

I also do IT for a living at a shop that runs exclusively RHEL, so it's an easy choice.

I still have Mint on an old laptop I use as well, works fine, no reason to change it. Have used Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Debian, and Gentoo in the past. Considered Arch and Manjaro but there isn't enough pull to get me away from Fedora.

If I didn't plan on gaming or running it on a laptop I might consider the latest FreeBSD.
This global situation seems like the ultimate time to fire up every major esport tournament.
Strangely enough, I can't find much information on the subject, but you're right that saccharomyces don't ferment lactose.

Brettanomyces, or wild yeast, might be able to ferment it, but there are only a few species that do it(anomalus and claussemii, according to a table from Gilliland 1961). I'd either have to special order it or just make a wild yeast starter and just see what happens.

EDIT: Saccharomyces can ferment galactose, which I think means lactase can be used to convert the lactose in milk into something that conventional yeast can eat. :D
I think it is confusing not to address that math notation often (including the one used here) uses 1-based indexing, while Python uses 0-based indexing.
Italy did test a lot during the first days over 100 cases; after, since the number were so high, it limited testing to people with symptoms. I think most countries are straight out testing a small fraction of people with symptoms.
> Now at 35 nobody even asks about the degree anymore. So a degree is not worth that much in this industry compared to practical skills.

At 35, maybe.

Before that, a degree is worth a lot.
What?? Netflix isn't doing this for Netflix, they are doing it for their customers. They are helping to reduce the congestion for Internet users who are using far more bandwidth than they typically do. This is to everyone's benefit. Netflix traffic represents a hugely disproportionate amount of internet traffic, and they are being responsible by recognizing that and reducing their footprint.
As I understand, an illicit would mean the test materials and process are not approved or regulated by the CDC.

I'm not sure what laws could/would apply.
My much smaller version of this relates to the Italo-Disco classic 'Comanchero' by Moon Ray (Raggio di Luna in Italian). Here's the song, with its distinctive 1984 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pLleIU41A

And here is a painstaking shot-for-shot remake of the video (but the original audio - this is not a cover, just a fan video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89LuYwBckr4

Who made this? Why?
Let’s band together and buy it in liquidation :)
That may be true, but when Congress is willing to spend trillions of dollars on mitigating this pandemic, then it doesn't seem so far-fetched to me any more. How much would it cost to develop a test method that could be engineered to support testing the entire population of the United States? In normal times I'd say obviously this is a non-starter, but now I'm thinking we have a pretty big budget.
Sugar is glucose plus whatever and is safe in moderation.

Caffeine is a stimulant drug that you cannot give pregnant women more than a cup a day and it gives you physical withdrawals if you try to quit.

edit: edited due to nitpicking.
If you can help educate me on what I'm missing here, I would appreciate it - thanks!

Most coffee consumers are not relying on locally/home roasted beans. They buy instant, or pre-ground for use in a drip. Ethiopia is missing out on that part of the market.
I was so disappointed when Thinkgeek sold to GameStop. I really loved Thinkgeek and didn't think there was any way GameStop wouldn't ruin it.
Maths notation can be wonderfully concise and precise, so it worth thinking about following it closely when programming. One of my favorite examples of this is the numpy `einsum` call [1]. It implements Einstein summation convention [2] - thereby making working with the many dimensions of high-rank tensors feasible.

E.g. this (Latex):

$C_{ml} = A_{ijkl} B_{ijkm}$

becomes (in Python):

C = einsum('ijkl,ijkm->ml', A, B)

[1] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.e...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation
As an addition here, look at Ebola. It was perfectly feasible to create a vaccine, but no one bothered as long as it was confined to Africa. As soon as white people in western nations started getting it, then suddenly there was a huge effort to create a vaccine.
I am also an alum -- I started the FIRST robotics team at my high school back in the day. I was part of a community where being a doctor, a lawyer or an accountant (nothing bad with that) was the expected norm. Having exposure through FIRST to technology, engineering and the creative innovation process led me to pursue engineering. Very grateful for FIRST and the amazing people that make it happen. Woody Flowers, one of the icons of the program, and a professor of mine at MIT, recently passed [0].

[0] https://www.firstinspires.org/about/leadership/dr-woodie-flo...
Of course, but if we're seeking the truth, Donald Trump isn't a good place to start.

Dependence on <x> (where <x> could be China or many other things) has been an obvious risk across numerous dimensions for a very long time now. Many of these ideas have been discussed here, although not in a manner befitting for the gravity of the matter.

That even on HN we are often unable to engage in unbiased, purely rational discussion has been another big systemic risk that I have been banging the drum about for months. It makes a person start to wonder: what will it take for people to wake up? Maybe it isn't even possible?
What I see with CS/Engineering grads is those who are clumsy with practical skills are just as bad with fundamentals.
> Magic is great until you run into an edge case, or try to do anything complicated

Yep totally agree.
While it's not complete yet, (see https://github.com/samdenty/gqless/blob/master/README.md#gql...)
I've designed with the sole focus for being used inside complex applications.

The "magic" part is only a small portion of gqless. For 1.0, there will be an option to "use plain queries".
I've tried re-inventing everything - but it's also innovating in the reactive, query-optimization, local state and cache areas.

It can do even more optimizations than Relay ;)
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Well you don't have to use that if you don't want to.

The "@attachment" (and "@note") thing is actually pretty useless today, but it will solve a real problem tomorrow, namely: how do you make links always work even if the resource they are pointing to gets renamed? Which is worth solving IMHO.
Send it through a filter. Thats what my Dorm did and it worked just fine.
He should keep these thoughts to himself for sure, but he’s not wrong. Hoarding toilet paper and food staples is dumb. Seasonal flu affects more kids and has worse symptoms than Coronavirus (as of now)
Mythbusters did 3 episodes on Vodka that were pretty interesting. One of them was a blind taste test and they were able to tell the difference between vodkas they had filtered at different rates. I think they concluded that's the big different, expensive vodkas are filtered more.
I recently got my first real tech job, and had sizable disposable income for the first time, and the first thing I thought of was ThinkGeek.
I used to eye the site all the time as a kid, but never had more than a hundred bucks to spend once or twice a year.
My dad got me the neat limited edition ASHPD replica they had for Christmas. I reserved a stand but never got to claim it. I think my ex may have taken the ASHPD when we split, I really hope not. I may have to go look now.
I was excited to get something else neat from ThinkGeek, and then I got redirected to gamestop.com and felt about ready to cry.
Is it just my nostalgia, or did they have much cooler stuff in like, 2006 than they did in 2018?
It seems like there is some low-hanging fruit that addresses one of the main complaints of the parent commenter (which I agree with). It would be nice if there was a list of all the methods with just a one line summary of each - like the sidebar but with fractionally more information.

I'm thinking in terms of Doxygen's brief comments vs detailed comments here. Pages typically go (1) class brief comment, (2) list of methods with their brief comments, (3) class detailed comments (including examples), (4) method signatures and detailed comments (linked to from above). Doxygen has many serious problems but I think it gets this bit right.

But a quick glance at the linked std::string::String page suggest that the first sentence of each method's docs already works as a brief summary of its function. I don't know if this is coincidence or deliberate, but if it is deliberate then the page could be reformatted just by changing the documentation system. I'm not saying that's easy, but it's less work than having to add something to every individual function.
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It is faulty to think of the math notation and code being equivalent. The math states something much more general, and often much deeper, than some mundane for-loop. I’d have titled this “Python Recipes to Calculate Values of Simple Vector Math Expressions”.

Often times the symbols may not even be concrete numbers. Often the “real” number may not even be representable on a computer. Often a symbol does represent a concrete number but indirectly defined by some set of rules (e.g., x is the smallest eigenvalue of M; or y is the greatest value less than the supremum of f) that may require a whole library of code to calculate.

The mathematical notation is “meant” to be flexible and manipulated, not to be interpreted (necessarily) as a rigid computational process. It should also be noted that while some notation comes from convention, a lot of it is improvised and contextual!
Limiting flights would be silly. That's an input, not an output. If we want to limit CO2 (and other greenhouse gasses) then we need a global emissions tax or cap and trade system.
I'd like a way to directly tip artists. Let me set a tip budget in my account and then give me a button push a few cents any time I listen to a song I really love.
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You're right - it applies fully to me, and I'm aware of how hard that rule can be to follow, so correction is welcome.

As I read the GP comment, it accuses the OP not just of a straw man, but implies being an asshole (i.e. thinking that others are peasants who shouldn't expect to be paid). That's clearly not a fair reading of bluedino's post. Each move in such a direction is a step towards degraded discussion; hence the moderation reply.

Obviously these are matters of interpretation, though. People often read the same things differently.
You are also not right just because you are thinking for yourself. Your tone makes it sound like you feel attacked -- but where's your evidence? Is this a position that you reasoned yourself into, or one that fit with your identity, then built logic around that? (That's how most of us come to our beliefs.)

Why are the statistics unconvincing? Where is your evidence?

A bad economy will hurt people. Millions dead will also hurt the economy, hurt people, and hurt our civilization for a long time.

Why do you think it's either the economy or a serious response to the virus? The economy is effed either way -- let's focus on preventing deaths now, then we can focus on money.

The actions not being taken now will have consequences which have only just begun.
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