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Not the first discussion of DVTs and C19, not just Germany.

Some rando redditor 'surgeon' (?) weeks ago talked about the virus irritating cells, to me suggesting some cells would succumb, burst and clot.
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Before Finland, there was Sweden. You’d think they should glean at us and reconsider...

Edit: I can fault Sweden for not reverting back to a traditional curriculum and back to a state controlled school.

But I can't really fault it that much for trying. Someone's gotta try new stuff! But Finland is probably the one country most similar to Sweden in the world, and so they should be able to draw take some valuable inputs from both our successes and failures. Our school experiment went pretty badly.
Sorry, but that's not true anymore. The spacemacs project has kind of gone off the rails and it doesn't seem like they have any idea about what they really want to do.

The next release has been coming for several years and it's not yet there. This means that you can either choose between the master branch and get hopelessly outdated stuff or the development branch which is so chaotic that you better be ready for things to break constantly.

I used spacemacs for years, then I tried doom emacs and it took me all of 15 seconds to realize that I should switch.
Is there a separation in Finland between public school (where those programs are applied) and private school (which do what they want)?

And if so, do the ministers and government officials who decided on that send their kids to public schools? (not implying any scheme, just curious if they eat their own dogfood)
I love deleting my accounts every year, It feels so liberating and cathartic to just click that button and have my information go to /dev/null.
It would be cool if there were some open format and standard URL structure (or a meta link) that points to it so that any online shop can publish a full table of what they have for sale, so aggregators can slurp up all of the data from all known webshops.
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Population-level herd immunity against Covid-19 will not be achieved in 2020
NSFW [Nudity]: /R/Worldpolitics
That report was from a Chinese hospital (then repeated millions of times by the media) - they were never confirmed with any sequencing, and the paper was never published due to lack of evidence.
I do sometimes go back and stare at this wonder I crafted once:

s=>s[0]+/.*( .|z)|...s.s?|T..|M[i-t]+|[AFINOUW][^o]v?|.*/.exec(s)[0].slice(-1).toUpperCase()

It does something pretty useful, that has surely been written many times over. But unlikely ever as succinctly as this. :)
You really shouldn't. You can get smaller file sizes with better quality using better formats, e.g. JPEG. (See my sibling comment.)
We really do not have any private schools in finland, almost everything is public.
Could you please give us more detail? Could you please point how what amount of money from the EU is spent well? Could you please detail for every bit of spending on how it was not wasted and prove what it accomplished?
And if not, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments?
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I had something like that in elementary school in Belgium and it was amazing. I have never been taught so well since then, except for 1 case in University!

Many topics are much easier to understand (and generalise from, and memorise!) if they are tackled from multiple angles, without regard for "subjects".
We would approach them with some math, some history, physics, biology, ecology - whatever helped.

And since everything was well organized, lessons built upon the previous ones and all prerequisites were introduced at the correct time.
This even had the advantage that we would remember more abstract math and formulae well, because we knew where we had used it to learn interesting things! :)

Of course, that probably took a lot of work and dedication (1 teacher did all of it for each school year), even more so for high school I suppose.
But it was worth it, and the lack of integration/connection is one of the biggest problems I see with the current school system in Germany/Austria.
There's also the opposite effect - that organisations pretending to be legitimate create "studies" to shift the Overton window a bit. In practice, most of these things go into the circular file anyway. If you go searching on pretty much any topic, there's pretty much all the possible opinions in the form of "studies" for the EC.
Most of the EU budget goes to big agrobusinesses. However, the proposed purpose is propping up the "small farmers". However, small farmers are the most disadvantaged by the EU subsidizing big ag. Also, external effects like empoverishing Africa's farmers by flooding the market with heavily subsidized EU produce.
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Hello.
Me and a friend have developed a website meant to facilitate volunteering during these times.
This is concerning COVID19 high risk and low risk individuals. Our match service offers an opportunity for low risk volunteers to help their neighbors who are at high risk (elderly and underlying medical conditions) with daily chores such as: picking up groceries, prescriptions or simply checking in every couple of days.
Bad things need to happen for people to realize they are being exploited day by day.
The "good" thing is they will forget about that when bad goes back to normal - yes normal not good.
Imagine he planned these layoffs a month after he started. Why would he keep paying these people 6 extra months until a pandemic offered a chance to lay them off under cover? Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to quietly let small groups of these people go every month if they were long-planned?

I can’t imagine why a CEO would plan layoffs for a time in the distant future rather than executing them as shortly after the decision as possible.
I should probably start doing this for the (very) few times over the years I've regretted deleting something.
I can get this feeling with non-novel code when I slot something into a larger framework (following the paradigm). I find that easier to walk away from than writing novel code, as it takes longer to feel satisfied with the latter.
You seem to misunderstand something. Debt collectors aren't winning cases of illegitimate debt. They are winning legitimate court cases that the defendant simply ignored. Even if you bring a lawyer to court that doesn't mean that you won't have to pay the debt. That $5000 debt was probably bought for less than $500 by the debt collector and the debt collector is willing to settle for something like $1000 which is still significantly less than the original debt.
Oh, that's great (for equity between citizen, that is). Somehow, you guys always rock :)
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I actually think the current system works well. The only people having a bad time are people who borrow AND don't repay AND refuse to work with their lender AND refuse to come to court.

And remember, there is no free lunch here. Making life easier for borrowers who can pay but won't just means the rest of us have to pay more for out legitimate borrowing.
I do hope you stopped doing this. Parked domains have frustrated me so often!
Support costs has no relation to number of users. It's constant time O(10) in engineering speech.

It doesn't increase going from 100 to 500 to 2000 users, because none of these users can raise support requests to the vendor. It's only the person (or micro team) who did the product evaluation and drafted the contract who has contact to the vendor support and sales team.
It's a cloud and an internet? Uh, I think a better title for this should be "European Parliament fleeced by 'innovation agency'" or "European Parliament wastes money on private consultants" (depending on your basic stance on government)

I think the guys and gals at FUTURE CANDY, the agency that made the study, should be really proud of the combination "standards of the EU – such as democratic values, data protection, data accessibility, transparency and user friendliness" and "Like the Chinese firewall, this European internet would block off services". Hard to see that as anything but just outright trolling.
Why do some things get "invented" and others being simply developed ? Roombe is based on other ideas and concpets.

Even according to the timeline in the article itself the Swedish Electrolux Trilobite [1] was already press released when iRobot had their first proof of concept.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux_Trilobite
I was thinking it worked in MS DOS after some point, but I was remembering more like Windows 95 era. I don't think it worked in MS DOS 6.x, because IIRC that's when I was using 4DOS. However, it doesn't work in Windows 10 CMD.EXE.
Considering we're now in a global pandemic with trade breaking apart I'm actually rather glad that there's subsidized local agriculture to keep Europe from running out of food.
For reference Austrias Red Cross App is here: https://github.com/austrianredcross
Microsoft Offers $100k Bounty to Hack Its Azure Sphere Linux IoT OS
That looks really nice. It is 118KB uncompressed though, that is a lot of code. What is in it besides storing preferences and conditionally executing the scripts?
Creating a new file also replaces all file metadata (creation time, permissions, ACLs, links, ...) while O_TRUNC only erases the contents.
If people don't know about the debt and it goes to court and a default judgment is issued, well, we don't know if the original debt is real or not because it didn't get tested in the court.
Darwin award in education area?
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If Zoom had a division that went around doing Zoom room installs in offices, I can easily imagine them having cuts or furloughs in that group.
Maybe British soldiers being upset was only half of the situation: Maybe American soldiers in turn felt better to have such a benefit over British soldiers?
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It allows optimizing many things such as the UX, the speed and size of your product, and your own time.

Examples:

* If you see that a button is used 10x than an other button, you can re-order buttons.

* You can remove buttons that are never used (=faster load times, less bytes)

* You can drop features that are never used, focus on features that are often used, saving your own time.

The other approach is "I already know what is best, I don't care about how other thinks". This is also useful because it can allow you to break out of local optimum.
Mmm gotcha, I'll have to run some tests. I've never considered using dithering before, but the minimalist asthetic looks kinda cool. But you're right that it wouldn't make much sense if JPG is better though..
Keep in mind this study was commissioned by a work group of the European Parliament, not the EC.
Is this your own personal opinion, or a fact?
Are there sources to back that claim?
As a layperson, the question that springs to my mind is:

If there's only one 'strain' then that means one 'vaccine' will work on all patients, correct?

So it's unlike the Flu where the vaccine only works half the time and they keep having to update it ?
Drag-n-drop AI platform to create and operate ML for $50 per month. Really?
Drag-n-drop AI platform called Datrics that helps to create, operate ML solutions and automates MLOps for professionals within an enterprise, has released the free BETA with the special offer for the BETA testers.
Endangers internet connection?

The guy has less than 1Mbps upload bandwidth.
This is awesome, I'm working on an personal, self hosted, IoT System from scratch where I have several fetch agents in huggin to get data and store it in "The Archive" (DataStorage Server)

Than I have different API's to that my IoT devices call to fetch the data from The Archive to trigger events and generate dashboards.

This might be a great way to optimize it and save my some development time for things that I don't have yet implemented. (Twitter archive, messages, etc)

Some examples of things already implemented:

- Raspberry Pi Touchscreen on my desk with dashboards

-> Calendar

-> Financial Dashboard (Net Worth, Stocks, Expenses)

-> Reminders (ongoing to do list, train delays etc)

-> Dashboard with my indoor air quality/temp and plant
sensor

- Self made night light + alarm clock

-> Calculates time I need to go to bed to get 8 hours of sleep and indicates it with a red light.

-> In the morning triggers alarm and reads highlight, light shows weather forecast
Democracy and rule of law usually start to have an advantage over authoritarianism when you surpass an annual GDP per capita of about 5000 USD.

So, on the long term, I am optimistic that India will catch up. Especially now that the USA is moving away from China as "work bench".

I hope we here in Europe will follow that policy, too. It just makes much more sense to support an emerging democracy than to support a facist regime.
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Claiming a rouge employee entered agreement/sale/purchase/contract and therefore said agreement is invalid, probably only works in some cases.

I'm no lawyer, but I would guess that if senior management of a subdivision is doing something it's hard to claim "rouge employee" :)

Otherwise, corporations would break all sorts of contracts claiming they were never valid in the first place.
I'm curious, what do you think that makes Amazon discoverability stand out, to the point that you consider it a benefit?
Can you setup a local server in a DMZ?
what's the privacy policy? Storing vulnerable people's personal information might have some issues in EU countries.
Yeah, that'd be great but according to [1] they have chosen to not release the cloud code for security reasons. It does appear that they are just uploading encounter data to s3, so I suspect it's not necessarily a complicated system.

[1] https://www.dta.gov.au/news/dta-publicly-releases-covidsafe-...
I thought Finland already had the best schools in the world? Had they not heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”?

This sounds terrible. Not everything in life can be achieved purely by intrinsic motivation. Human beings are a social species. We motivate each other through laws, social norms, and economic incentives. Children, who don’t know about any of those things, need direction lest they be caught totally unprepared.
Yes, An disease related enduring disability would be grounds to keep that person out of the services, one legged, deaf, etc., SARS-2 or otherwise.
People are far to focused on cookies! Any number of tricks can be used to track sessions and to track users across sites. If cookies were outlawed, trackers would just shift to browser fingerprinting.

GDPR is about what you are actually allowed to do with the obtained information.
Ask HN: Consciousness is _ and AI is _? and which one makes you happy?
hi everybody. I want to know your view about consciousness. so which answer do you think is most likely to be true and which one makes you happy. you can give your answer as a 1 to 10 digit number.

I think 0123456789 is true and 9876543210 makes me happy.

0. I don't know

1. doesn't exist, not possible

2. doesn't exist, possible

3. non-physical , not conscious

4. physical , not conscious

5. non-physical , conscious

6. physical , conscious

7. non-physical , not possible

8. physical , not possible

9. I don't care
Interesting. But we need more deep dives like this. The sample size here is too small.
I hope property rights are accepted as basic human right. No law or contract should deprive a person rights to posess,use, modify and share something they own. If a person comes into lawful posession of any item, unless a lease or rental agreement is in place, that item is fully theirs forever. When someone gives you something and tells you what you can or cannot do with it,they are treating you bound as their sibject,inflicting their will over you. This isn't equal treatment under the law. If you own something, the item no longer bears any relation to the seller, the seller has no authority by whih they can claim rights to that item. The whole point of ownership is that it is full,final and permanent.

This is a main reason why I refuse to use apple products. If I pay $700 for a device without agreeing before hand the terms of posession is confined to renting or lessing a device, if I have a lawful exchange where ownership of the device is transfered to me, then how dare they even think to tell me what to do with it? Regardless of quality,how dare they consider their customers as lesser subjects who pay to be told what do and not do? My breaking point was when the legally restricted what programming language can be used to write code code for the device.

Imagine a cookware company making it illegal to cook a certain food on their line of pans. No amount legal polishing will make this right.
Your comment doesn't make sense. What are you trying to say?
The reliance on JavaScript, which a reasonable minority disable, is a valid rebuttal.

Your reply that cookies can also be disabled fails to address this as client side JavaScript and cookies provide overlapping, not equivalent, capabilities.
That's only for products addressed to traders, a very limited audience. For example the bloomberg terminal that sits on their desk.

That pricing model is not applied to most information, like pricing data and any sort of API, because these are not about physical users. (They do charge a ton but not per user).
I always try to work with people smarter than me, more ethical than me, and more productive. When we associate with people we want to fit in with, we adapt to be more like them. We can adapt in bad ways, but we can also adapt in good ways.

Essentially, on some level we never stop the role-model based adaptation we did as children, when we modeled our behavior on what our parent(s) did.
CodeStories is a site to help life scientists learn to program by giving them problems, then letting them submit scripts and then auto-graded their scripts for correctness.

Because it’s a pretty generic e-commerce application that could have been built on the web 25 years ago. It should not have been complicated to do.
My thoughts too. “What could possibly go wrong?”
The article mentions BigCommerce and WooCommerce as alternatives to Shopify.
I was always wondering what the selling point of this alternatives are - isn't this a winner takes all market? Shopify has the biggest app-store and its most convient to work with since most information is available to people getting startedn - or do I miss something?
> I rarely use fullscreen mode.

Dude, you're missing out. I love using a four-finger swipe on the magic trackpad to quickly jump my side monitor between various spaces: my full screen code editor, a space with two web browser windows (typically showing monitoring tools), and a black screen.

> even at 1440p, the code window gets crowded

I loathe customisation, preferring everything to be as generic and standard as possible, but one thing I have done for my own sanity is assign F16–F19 to hiding and showing sidebars in all the various apps which have them. Typically F16 for left bars, F18 for bottom bars, F19 for right bars.
The Chinese constitution actually guarantees freedom of speech, but the Chinese government (meaning party) does not adhere to constitution legal supremacy so it isn’t very meaningful.
What's Intel SGX Good For?
This is only tangentially related, but what performance do you experience with NoSQL in production with little writes, many (variously sorted and filtered) queries?

I am thinking of fiddling with e-commerce and want to have many different categories each having multiple attributes of different types (not just varchars but also ints and doubles I could sort by)
I have a similar performing DSL connection, and just pay Linode $6/mo to host a site with a ‘real’ connection.
If those projects are worth investing in, why weren't they invested in before COVID?

It's not that the engineers have nothing to do - it's that there is little revenue, and no amount of features they ship is going to change that.
I think I'm with the sibling commentators: deleting something when I could keep it feels like an obliteration, a destruction, a waste; on the other hand, realistically I don't need it and am almost certainly never going to look at it again. Almost. But if I did and wanted to and couldn't, I'd probably feel loss.

So I chuck it in an archive. Gradually expanding storage at low prices means never having to think about deletion.

I don't use any of the systems for sharing tabs or history across browsers, because each has a different set of almost abandoned tabs. Sometimes "tab bankruptcy" is forced on me by software failure, and it's frustrating.
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Why haven't all the control flow integrity based exploit mitigation solutions not gained wider adoption? They would prevent exploitation of RCE like this right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow_integrity
My terminal, git and diff tools are all floating windows on my main horizontal monitor, occupying whatever size is suitable for that app.
In addition with other comments, you Can look at what are your contributions and code changes. All the parts that are completely reworked by you could be considered as yours.
And you can also ask them to ensure that they don't use your own code/modification as a retaliation of the code not being open source.
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Flutter only just did that the other day and it's because iOS is a huge part of their pitch as a cross platform framework.
If that happened I think you might be right.

But it sounds like they are claiming that that happened a year ago... and they just noticed now? I think they would have a difficult time convincing a court that that is actually what happened.

Of course this is only relevant if you're willing to go to court over this, which is probably only the case if (at a minimum) you have a fairly substantial financial investment riding on this - or you have "fuck you money". And if you are willing to go to court over this go find a real lawyer instead of listening to HN.
From the article linked:

"[...] phenomenon-based learning requires students have strong self-discipline and initiative. They also require students to be independent, focused and flexible."

I'm not a teacher nor do I have children, so I'm mostly ignorant about this topic. But reading this made me think, if we shouldn't but maybe much more focus on qualities like being independent, focused and flexible early on instead of strictly following subjects as measured by Pisa tests? Given just how hard it is to focus and not procrastinate in today digital world, even for adults.

I'm not sold on pure Phenomenal Education as I understand it. But my hunch is, that a mix could work quite well. Spent part of the time on focused bottom up learning on a single topic, and another in a more exploratory top down way.
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I use an IDE for java development because the refactoring is just too useful. But Emacs macros are very useful and I haven’t found something like this in my IDE.

I wonder whether it’s possible to set up lsp-mode for my Java project.
> since there are many different data sources and ways of representing them

I've been working on something quite similar for a while (in Rust).

I decided to normalize data to schema.org types where available and store JSON-LD documents in a key/value store. While the schema.org types are far from perfect, it at least morphs data into a standardized format.
Some high schools in the Stockholm area, where I live, are having somewhat similar approach, although there are still official subject based exams done by the ministry of education.

My feeling is that this can work great for great and curious students, and not so much otherwise.