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HN likes to downplay frameworks like React, Vue, etc., but people who work on modern web apps everyday

Whenever I read the word 'modern' in this context now, I know the writer means javascript, and in particular one of the 'modern' javascript frameworks. I'm not sure quite how or when it acquired that meaning, but it seems to be used that way on HN frequently. I wonder how this word came to mean built with Javascript to some people? Do you genuinely see modern as synonymous with built in React, Vue, etc. or would you allow other approaches into the modern canon?

The similarities with the burn the old world then rebuild it anew attitude of early 20c Modernism are striking, so I suppose it fits, but it should not be used in the place of built with javascript, as the implication is nothing else is truly Modern.

Also what does high fidelity mean in the context of websites? Is this like high fidelity vinyl records with a warm sound? Do your frameworks have gold cables?

I think you'll find people here casting doubt on the requirement for web frameworks because there are many other ways of building websites (server side for example, the way this website you're using right now is built), there is no one 'modern' way. People build contemporary websites with a variety of tools, Javascript is not objectively better than other solutions IMO (in many ways it is obviously worse), and client side is not obviously better than server side, it's a pattern which has seen its popularity wax and wane and will do so again.
That. I remember Borland C++ Builder. It was a pleasure to build compelling user interfaces with it, but it's best value was simplicity, the meticulously crafted library and great help system. That's how I got into programming. The big difference today are devices, especially screen sizes. We want to make apps now. Small, focused tools. Sadly often we have simple apps bloated beyond recognition for profit. That's partly why every gizmo in an app is not only pixels, no sir, it has to jump and blink and shout for attention. More layout engines won't make your app better. Keeping it simple and focused will.
limitations with the data
method was eventually... proved correct

Does sound like they're blaming the data; though his "method" could well refer to his general method, not to every exact detail.

Philip Roe is himself a famous pioneer in CFD, so I lean towards trusting his version more... he said the forecast was of extraordinary 100mph winds, pretty specific. The bad data would have to be wildly bad to yield that! OTOH it inevitably happens with instability.

However, I really don't know. Maybe it's become a folktale, to illustrate instability, since it's a big deal in CFD!
Of course. Edited.
I would also recommend having a look at Anveo. They have a visual call flow handler that is less flexible than Twilio, but generally easier to understand and faster to make changes in. https://www.anveo.com/consumer/features.asp?code=ivrcallflow
Maybe we should be infecting under 40s with a very low dose of the virus so they have an ever higher probability of getting just a little sick, and jump start the herd immunity process. It would be a form of vaccine-lite and allow a lot of people to get back to a normal life sooner rather than later.
I'm curious what will happen to restaurants. Will there be a permanent setback as people realize how to cook at home and how much money it saves? If so, that seems like a long-term win for physical and financial health. But in the medium term will hit people in the industry pretty hard.

I'm also curious how much it really helps health (and maybe even financial health) overall. Real home cooking is good compared to burgers and fries. But frozen pizzas are not great compared with some healthier restaurant options. And some restaurant food is pretty cheap and some packaged food surprisingly expensive.
And they're confident the gov't will provide that.
My A1000 took a minute or so to boot. It spent about 10 seconds with the Kickstart diskette, then swap to whatever program I was running for another ~50 seconds or so.

Until one day I read in a magazine how I could create a ramdisk ("RAM:") and use my startup-sequence file to load Workbench in there.

Then the warm reboots were instantaneous magic! (But a cold start took a bit longer as it had to copy the entire contents of the WB disk into memory. Worth it.)
I use it for UX wireframing, mind/node mapping, and visualizing processes and data flows. Personally, we’ve used it to figure out some household organization but it’s more of a professional tool.
I have audio devices which, when installed, will run flawlessly until power or hardware failure. The firmware isn't bug free, but the operation never encounters bugs.
“At worst, people die.”

I have hard time reading beyond this shit.
I hadn't heard of this, thank you
Yes for sure all from AeroPress. So many knobs to turn. Aside from the obvious variables like quality and quantity of beans and water, the following have HUGE effects:

- coarseness of the grind

- water temp

- bloom time

- steep time

- length and pressure of the extraction(the ‘press’)

Checkout some award-winning recipes to get a feel for all the different techniques.
Kubernetes Custom Resource Metrics
Commercial airliners, as I'm sure you are aware, are not garage doors.
I never claimed there wasn't any whatsoever, but that's very far from the huge list of 200 killed products on sites like Killed By Google that people wave around. Also, comparing Google Search Appliance to Fi or Stadia still sounds just as silly and unfitting.
If you think the ideas he is presenting in this book are mistaken, then you should present some specific arguments.
While all of that is true, it can be very painful for most people. These types of events almost invariably lead to social unrest which compounds the problem. Ambitious and unscrupulous leaders in government and businesses will use this to undermine many of the norms we take for granted.

What is clear is that people are underestimating this crisis, no one wants to think we are in a WWII level moment, and so we don’t activate the appropriate level of response. But it is and will be a world altering period.

Once consistent pattern is that countries seem to feel like you do, it’s just a flu, then doctors see patients gasping for breath and literally drowning as their lungs fill up with fluid, and the true dread sets in. My friend is a doctor in NYC. She said this feels like war, and the nature of death experienced by people is horrific. If people were bleeding from their eyeballs like a movie maybe that would capture people’s attention but on the front lines people are terrified because this is an awful awful way to die.
I had this "caps lock is escape when pressed alone, ctrl when pressed with another key" for quite a while, but now I've changed it.

Now I have "caps lock is escape when pressed alone, and a special modifier when pressed with another key". So Caps+H is the same as cursor left, Caps+J is the same as cursor down, and so on (vi bindings). I also have this for F/B/N/P (emacs bindings). And Caps+A/Caps+E are the same as cmd-Left/cmd-Right.

Because quite a few applications don't support the Emacs bindings Ctrl-b/f/n/p everywhere. Now I can press the same keys but get real cursor keys, so that it works everywhere.

Karabiner Elements also allows you to create prefix keys. So I do Caps+C followed by another key = ctrl + that key. E.g. Caps+C, then X, is the same as Ctrl-x.

And because I hate the Mac touch stripe (forgot what it is called), I do Caps+X then 1/2/3/... for function keys F1/F2/F3/... It's pretty cool because it passes on modifiers, so I can do Caps+X followed by cmd-1 and that's the same as cmd-F1.

It's just a thought, in case people might like to try.
But with engineering we almost always have safety factors. I'd say it's probably a 64-bit int, but that would be way too much of a safety factor.
Oh the number of times I've been on 20+ people Zoom meetings which were interrupted after a minute by someone asking "Hold on folks, who is the phone-user who just dialed in?" Or whenever someone connected who had the wrong nick set (happened on Linux) and hadn't turned the video on yet, which basically meant the conversation stopped until the new arrival had identified himself.
1) There is no American tyranny against Americans- that's hyperbole you shouldn't indulge yourself in.

2) The fact that Afghanis had AK47s and RPGs just everywhere in Afghanistan before America invaded in 2002 and without a 2nd Amendment is not evidence that Americans don't need a 2nd Amendment. It's evidence that America armed the Afghanis in the 80s when they were fighting the Soviets with RPGs and AKs.

3) The point of the 2nd Amendment is to legally preserve an armed population. Afghanistan proves that an armed population can resist an invading government. Americans are not interested in rolling the dice with their Liberty at stake on some future, hypothetical blackmarket. Thanks.

4) Anyone reading this exchange who was undecided can come to the clear conclusion that you yourself admitted only an armed populace can resist tyranny.

5) Americans don't think Men gave us our Rights- including our Right to resist tyranny; we think those Rights come from our Creator and men have nothing to say about them and men who think they do are tyrants who need resisting. The 2nd Amendment is an expression of that fact- a discovery about reality, not an free invention of men's minds.
"Zoom has never built a mechanism to decrypt live meetings for lawful intercept purposes"

Is this a lie or have they not heard of CALEA?
Please don't think of this in entropy terms alone. There is a massive usability difference between the two.
> People in tech being laid off

This does seem to be accelerating, although recall that this year opened with a fair few headline-grabbing mass layoffs. It's hard to say that more weren't already coming, with the timetable just moved up.
Ask HN: Is GCP offering discounts now(COVID19 crisis) owing to demand for cloud?
Few people from VC backed firms seem to be mentioning that GCP is offering great discounts during this crisis owing to increased demand for cloud IaaS. The aid is to get better sales done for GCP, and prepare for their 2023 timeline.

Want to get to know if this is real or otherwise. Any pointers will help.
Most places are seeing increasing rates of infection, even in spite of extreme measures. I'm not suggesting it's magic, just that it's more infectious than a common cold, which is pretty hard to avoid in winter where I live at least.

I agree that could be worded better (I'll leave it up since you've replied), but I meant it's hard to avoid if you're going shopping every few days - people are not good at infection control and many are pretty much asymptomatic for a long period. Lockdowns are controlling the rate of spread, not stopping it, despite best efforts, and will I suspect be released after a few months for that reason - because it has infected > 50% anyway and those people are allowed out after testing.
Do you happen to have a source for the cause of the backlog? Not doubting you, just curious to read more information.
I agree. To be honest - How long can we go on consuming for before we start to run out of food and other basic nessecities? What happens when food shortages start? 5 missed meals from a revolution, and that revolution will kill more people than the CoronaVirus ever would.
I agree with you, but I think that was MagnumOpus's point of bringing up patients per million.

A country of 1,000 people and a 10% infection rate has more patients that need masks, but it could be argued that a country of 5 people and a 100% infection rate needs the masks more, lest their entire country suddenly collapse and cease to exist.

Seems like arguing that France has more patients per million implies they have a bigger threat to the country itself (traditions, systems, jobs, etc) or that the spread is less contained (and therefore more in need of PPE), compared to another country with a lower patients-per-million that is theoretically not hit "as hard", but still may have more individual patients at risk.
And while it was a large product in terms of user base, it still was a free product. The paid G-Suite version on the other hand still exists and runs just fine, although rebranded to Currents.
Good old GetTickCount() bug.
Have you heard the anecdote about buffer overflows in missiles? The short story is: they don't matter if they happen after you know the missile has exploded. It doesn't by definition make it an "underlying bad dev process".
Is there any data on these numbers broken down by industry and profession?
One thing Im curious about is what is classified as a "reboot" of the plane? It it is parked over night are all the systems shut down and restarted the next day it is put back in service? Does it sit "running" in some sleep mode? Last time I checked a plane cannot(practically) stay airborne for 51 days. Is the reboot a pain in the ass 5 day procedure? there are too many unknowns to sound alarm bells.
here you go: https://covidtracking.com/data/state/california
What sites in particular were blocked?
There's no templates in React...
Nobody has any idea what is actually happening in China, and most of the numbers are more propagandistic than informative, so we should probably just stop speculating entirely.

The best numbers I've seen for projecting US cases and deaths honestly seem to be pretty good:

https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

This projects less than 100k deaths in the US this year. Compare that to heart disease (largely preventable) at 650k a year. That'd also make it only about 5 times worse than a bad flu year. (Edit: thanks for the correction below; if correct, this would be only about 2 times worse than a bad flu year.)
The Wikipedia for Vine makes it look like they wrote Vine in the summer and then sold it for $30 million in the fall.
My place of work didn't have a soft-phone connection to our computers until this COVID-19 mess started. I imagine we weren't alone.
> Germany @ 3%

Did you cherry-pick that one? Spain @ 14.2%, Italy @9.7%, France @8.5%. Spain was actually at 26.2% back in March 2013.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_...
I've often wondered how people came to the conclusion that "Windows is unstable, you can't leave it on for more than a couple months!" due to this.

At one company I worked for, all of our National Instruments test equipment would start to fail with communication problems after about two months on our Windows XP computers. Being familiar with GetTickCount, I rebooted the computers, recorded the date, verified the next failure was 49 days later, then emailed National Instruments with a link to the GetTickCount documentation. They pushed out an update with a fix 3 days later. Oops.
How to use Spring Boot Cacheable on self-invocation
When I see someone earnestly citing the WHO to make a point I'm usually a bit nonplussed. This site has a culture of expectation that we make substantial responses, but how you respond substantially to irrelevancies like this? The best response is "So?" I understand that the WHO does a decent job of regurgitating data or facts derived from elsewhere, but otherwise they are not an authority worthy of respect.
Awesome idea! Is there much overlap in the area where a professor has a wacom and also has a student that knows linux?
Yea, you can:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/208219346-Skype-fo...

but I would just use the browser experience there.

Laptop to laptop calls are silly to do cross-platform as almost all can be done in a browser. The big thing with interoperability is when you've got a whole room full of people, microphones and multiple displays to make everything looks and sound good on both sides and then you can't call the other party for whatever reason.

H.323 is the baseline for almost all video calls. Almost anything can use it. It relies on SIP for call handling, so it's a pretty old-school but reliable thing. Lots of new cool things don't think about interoperability but in order to scale up it does matter.

Hangouts' video compression leaves a lot to be desired. If you do a side-by-side comparison of how it handles packet loss or latency next to Zoom, Zoom just looks better and keeps up better.

It is one of those little things that will add up when you're banging you head trying to understand what someone is saying or pointing at or sharing to you on call after call.
I used to swear by my French Press. Some two years ago I casually said to my sibling that I wanted to try AeroPress to see what the fuss is all about. One day it showed up as a present in my mailbox.

I opened it, ridiculing it, thinking I'll give it a single try, toss it in the closet and get back to my French Press.

Fast forward two years: Almost every weekday morning I start with a full AeroPress. And each morning I used to shake my head with the same surprise as I ground the beans[+]: "I still can't believe this plastic thing can produce such good coffee." It's the French Press now that's gathering dust in the closet.

To my brain, AeroPress == French Press minus the "fine sludge".

[+] FWIW, I use "Mano Mano" by the Belgian coffee roaster, Café Liégeois (not associated with them, just a happy user)—https://cafe-liegeois.com/en/cafes/mano-mano-puissant
I'm in the same boat and I roll with a Chemex at home.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/selfish

"Concerned chiefly or excessively with oneself, and having little regard for others"

(the second part being an important piece of the definition you have forgotten)
It's 10x the code now. 10x = 10x more space for bugs and bad design.

Use to be I might setup a handler on an input element to update a value. Now I have to write an action factory to generate an action to get reduced into a function that updates the value. From simple data.prop = elem.value to 4+ functions and a bunch deep deep overhead.

Now I'm not saying all that structure doesn't have benefits but it's also a large amount of rope in which to hang yourself.
Do you think the virus means companies are not worth owning anymore?
why are we installing facebook apps on the desktop now? What is the need for this other than maybe something about bigger 'full screen'.....the rest is exact same experience as the website (messenger.com) ......
Google Cloud launches a managed Memcached service
IMO we shouldn't allow inventions such as AeroPress to have exclusive rights to produce it by enforcing Patent laws. The idea of Patents was to encourage entrepreneurs to invent, but the consumers get shafted by increased price and no competition. AeroPress is an extremely simple invention, patented to the brim and they spend a ton of money defending their patents. This expenditure gets passed to the consumer with a $40 price tag for something that costs $2 to make.

Inventions are not special. Providing value to the user by out competing others either by price, quality, customer service, etc. is a win for the customer.

Products such as AeroPress, Frisbee, Rubik's cube, etc. leave a bad after taste as a consumer. AeroPress has no incentive to improve their product because of the lack of competition.

AeroPress should get a 2 year headstart. After the 2 years, their patent expires and they gotta actually compete with others. What if the Chinese start making these for $1.50? We should have a labor quotient - if country X imports from country Y, country X should charge import duty that is proportional to the labor quotient exactly to counter balance the higher labor cost in country X.

I am interested in counter arguments, what are the benefits to the society as a whole when we have exclusive production rights to inventions?
DOM diffing is great for most stuff. When you need anything other than "Replace this with that and don't defocus my input fields", DOM manipulations are great. Drag'n'drop is a great example of this.

There is a lot of potential for the imperative APIs for this though. I even made a proposal:

https://github.com/adrianhelvik/proposal-move-events
See your fair and balanced and raise with The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just’s umbrella
It does if your interviewer knows that popping from the head of a list is O(n) and they feel like being picky about it.
me too. it has some noise from variation in testing rate, but it's directionally accurate.

for example the bay area has recently been seeing some days with single digit growth rates. shelter in place IS WORKING, but it's going to take time / we may need some additional measures. I was just reading it may also be spread in the air from breathing.
If it's an indication of serious problems with engineering then Airbus aren't immune to them either:

https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_AD_2017_0129_R1.pdf/AD_2...
Cyber vs. Covid-19 what if it was a software bug?
Amazon Prime Video Presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection
I’m asking for a source on why the backlog happened. Unless I’m missing something, that just shows the number of pending cases.
No, I would say this submission clearly breaks the rules[1].

Still, looks like an interesting, well-designed product, so kudos to that. Just not a good Show HN.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Blocks of JSX are basically templates, even if they're not string-based like in frameworks.
Rapid Expert Consultation on the Possibility of Bioaerosol Spread of Covid-19
I thought the bill covered ALL Coronavirus expenses. I can't find a source, so I'm not sure if it does or not. Do you know?

I also know that people can use COBRA to keep their employer's insurance if they're laid off, but often this can be too expensive. But are they able to get a new insurance plan or do they just not have insurance if they don't keep their employer's insurance?

I get it that people will have other medical issues during this time. But whether it covers Coronavirus related-expenses makes a HUGE difference. Coronavirus is BY FAR the leading cause of hospitalization in the US right now. It's also the leading cause of death. For a month, it's likely to get exponentially worse. It's likely to remain this bad for 2-3 months minimum.

Meaning, the costs could be astronomical, and as you pointed out, would DESTROY people not covered by insurance. This could honestly be almost as bad as the Subprime housing crisis. Something like 800k people filed bankruptcy from Subprime. Conservatively, we're likely to see 500k semi-severe hospitalizations. If 30% of them are unemployed, I don't know how that doesn't lead to 150k bankruptcies.

YMMV, but I would say that's on the conservative side.
yes, but it lags 2-3 weeks behind confirmed cases
That's the biggest sticking point for me as well. I don't expect my mother to know what end-to-end means but I have a hard time believing that a technology company made this encryption claim in good faith.
The former President of the ACLU has decride the current positions taken by the ACLU. I believe she wrote a book on it.

I actually remember the Skokie march. We were kids. I loved the ACLU and so did everyone else I knew. They were like Free Speech super-heros. They were an institution, a force, feared and respected.

Now, yeah, well....
Do you think that those describing difficulties in firing people as well as negative second order effects are significantly overstating these issues? I haven't researched this much myself, but the potential downsides seem fairly plausible to me.

Thinking about it more, I suppose I've also had this implicit assumption that at-will employment has contributed to the disproportionate success of startups in America. It seems like it could be the case, but I don't have any hard evidence.