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Close but not quite.

Hottest tip: seek advice from the people who landed a job.

Specifically? How they landed in their current role. As in anything, understanding what successful people do leads to... success.

Unfortunately, the labs reside in China. Even if we had hard scientific proof (and consensus, despite many in the scientific community deriving funding from CCP backed sources), it wouldn’t be enough.

China would either:

1. Refuse outright and militarily prevent anyone seizing the land

2. As a UN Security Council and WHO member, promise to conduct their own investigations with some oversight from the WHO - and subsequently release the wonderful findings freeing CCP from accusations and claims.

So unfortunately, nothing can be done.

Interesting. But also to GP’s point, I never thought of that perspective.

It is quite unsettling to realise the strangeness of odds that it occurred right next to the Wuhan lab...

Most of HN is not qualified either to judge the quality of AI, ML, opsec, renewables or any of a whole host of topics that are actually deeply complex.

But that does not mean it does not classify as potentially substantial news, that at least should be visible.

Nobody is arguing that it shouldn’t be more properly vetted when published via normal scientific channels, as these things usually are.

Actually, quite a number of places around the world still engage in healthier politics than America. Want to know why America suffers so much from such partisanship and extreme ideologies?

It’s your non-mandatory voting.

Don’t blame the internet, which serves other countries well. Blame your special political system for incentivising the rise of extremes over the rise of politicians who “have” to care about the majority.

Ironically, having used both, Pulumi’s APIs are much cleaner/simpler than AWS CDK’s.

I feel CDK was overengineered when I last used it. Pulumi has been a breath of fresh air.

They really didn’t implement a China travel ban? I find that hard to believe

Consider this:

To date, have you observed any other countries and governments undertesting? And if so, was it for reasons other than the Olympics?

That gives you a baseline of disincentives to report.

Now extend: - what would the cost (financial, reputational, etc) be to Japan the government if the Olympics do not go ahead? - might there be other disincentives for Japan to undertest relative to its neighbours?

Also recall, in some cases a little bit of disincentive mixed with poor planning/incompetence leads to a lot of unplanned underreporting :)

The trick in all cases is to look for a metric that governments have not thought to obscure/or cannot control that strongly signal the thing you’re trying to verify.

Be rational and consider all options:

1. The data is accurate and captures all coronavirus cases.

2. The data is not accurate and does not capture all coronavirus cases.

I read the entirety of this thread as though HN assumes only 1 is possible. If 1 is correct, then HN’s inferences sound reasonable (habitual mask use, practiced social distancing).

But what if 2 is correct? Is there any disincentive for governments to accurately test and capture all cases? Is there any particularly outsized disincentive for Japan to do so?

I leave the above questions as an exercise for the reader.

Almost. Correction: Bitcoin is a speculative bet that “others in the future will purchase more Bitcoin”.

:)

Facebook offers an opinionated, production ready, battle tested framework for bootstrapping a modern React application with tooling/batteries included (with dependencies automatically maintained if you need to version bump to latest via react-scripts as a magical dependency).

Unless you’re doing something so completely customised (and even then, ejecting from CRA is a blessed path), why WOULND’T you use CRA?

Because it makes for a great strawman. “Look, JS tooling is so bloated, just to emit a Hello world!”

I‘ve since stopped expecting any level of reason when it comes to HN bashing of modern JS/React/frontend.

Nobody in the world is arguing against the fact that CRA is overkill for a Hello World application.

Luckily, that’s not it’s target space.

If you engineer frontend applications of even moderate complexity, you will eventually start to pull in tooling + dependencies + configuration to handle real world use cases. Eventually? You end up with a once-off, home-grown variant of... what CRA emits anyway.

If you can manage to remain inside the Expo dev-loop, that personally is my preference for ease and first in class DX.

I’ll definitely continue to observe Flutter/Dart, but the investment/payoff doesn’t appear large enough yet for our use cases.

You talk as though react-native developers don’t have access to an incremental, statically typed JS language that already has huge adoption...

JSX is a DSL with the ability to opt out into native JavaScript. So most complex JSX is a composition of JSX with JS driving the logical parts. Does Vue’s templating solution offer the same? (Genuine question, haven’t worked with Vue)