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In such cases we sometimes post a comment explaining what the submitted title was and pointing out that some of the comments make more sense in the context of the earlier title. In this case, we don't need to do that because there's a top subthread complaining about the title change in the first place.
I'm Swedish but I live in Spain.

I feels like it's way too early to say which country did good here and which country did bad. In Spain we're mostly still in quarantine, and will continue to be. There are so many factors in this world events that it's hard to say who handled it best. Think it'll take years before we can come to any conclusions. On the surface, it seems Spain handled it much better than Sweden, as we used to have lots of cases, but now we have less. Sweden instead have remained with the same rate since end of March. So looks better, but all the falloff from this event has yet to been measured so again, too early to tell, at least for me.
More expressive type systems might make refactoring safer, but they don’t necessarily make it easier.

The former happens because it’s harder to change something encoded in the types accidentally.

For the latter, it should be easier to change something encoded in the types deliberately, but often the opposite is true.
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I am trying to do some apps which have complex geometries, but I find myself stupid whenever I glance over the tutorials which
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Just a heads-up: before you get angry

A man was murdered in broad daylight.
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This works: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/getting-started-with...

(And you don't need anything like as big an instance as a t3.large - a t3.small works fine for small workloads...)

Everything from the "Install and configure Jitsi" section works just fine on Digital Ocean (and Raspberry Pi) too, if you translate the AWS specific setup stuff in the previous parts to suit...
But the underlying point of the comment still stands. Just making account creation more costly doesn‘t stop spam... it just makes it more expensive. Same for all other legal activities which are then also more expensive. Thus, it‘s not a perfect solution (if at all).
Show HN: I built a tool to simply create shareable accounts cards
Because charging the individuals does not mean things will change. It won't mean they get a conviction, and it doesn't mean the police force will reorganize, demilitarize, retrain to use less force, or become not racist.

And the other side hasn't de-escalated either, with the president deploying the military. Earlier you could at least hold the police using excessive force accountable - assuming they didn't hide their badge number, which some did. Now, there's faceless, badgeless (not even an indication what branch of the military they're from) soldiers stepping in.

The protesters demand change, not a few individuals being held accountable. For every Floyd that died, there's hundreds if not thousands more of unjust incidents.
That's a really good one (I googled the answer), never would have expected it.
Hey everyone, Michael, the creator, here. I have a lot of accounts, Linkedin, Twitter, Github and so on. Companies ask for my Linkedin and Github. Friends ask for my Twitter and Instagram. When I want to share one of these accounts, I have to go to the specific site, find the URL and copy & paste it.

So I built an app to create shareable, digital accounts cards I can send to people. It has only links to accounts, no unnecessary information. And it is customizable to the recipient. No signup needed.

The app is built with React and Firebase in one week. I build my stuff in public, you can read how I created it here: https://twitter.com/miku86com/status/1265190217872551942

Let me know if you have any questions and I would love to get your honest, helpful, HN-like feedback.
Fair point about Germany, but locking down like the rest of Europe is not a question of gloves or medical equipment. There must have been different reasons for that decision.
Looking back on this comment now I realize it can be construed as condoning Zoom’s decision here. I was not intending to pass judgement with that comment, but perhaps I should:

I think Zoom is wrong.

End-to-end encryption should be available to everybody no matter who they are. This means making it available to bad actors too. Expanding the scope of human communication should not be used to justify state surveillance. Privacy is a fundamental human right and one we should not be forced into giving up because it annoys the government.
It feels like if you’re using Reddit for politics and news you’re doing it wrong. It’s a dumpster fire in that respect.

I still find Reddit has some relevance for more “niche” interests. For instance bikewrench To help with anything bicycle maintenance related. Or woodworking where there are many knowledgeable and friendly users.

If you’re blocking ads and not playing the Reddit gold game, you’re not really giving Reddit any money. In an ideal world we’d get rid of Reddit altogether but that’s already a step.

Wait until they disable old.reddit.com and restrict the api to their official app only and they’ll lose all their users I reckon except the people arguing about politics.
That's a possibility. Are you rotating your squares in just the xy plane, or also along the "pitch"?

I find your project fascinating, thank you for sharing it!
Why do you ask, and what is your end game?
Interesting. I am curious to see how well it works. The UK (which is developing two apps in parallel, one based on the Google/Apple API and one based on a proprietary protocol similar to PEPP-PT) has found in a large scale trial that though the technology worked relatively well, people did not respond well to being told to isolate by an app.

It would be ironic if after weeks of passionate arguments on HN and other places about the technology and about finding the right balance between efficacy and privacy, the whole thing fails because people don't like the principle.
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AFAIK they didn't have very different resources from Norway, but Norway decided to be much more careful and lockdown more and earlier.

Norway: 237 deaths

Sweden: 4468 deaths

(Yes there are more people in Sweden than Norway, but not that much more).

My (personal, subjective, I'm not a doctor, etc…) impression is that Sweden authorities where afraid of overreacting and the economic fallout of that. The Norwegian government (despite currently being right-wing) still decided to be careful and eat the economic cost.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Norway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
No, they have gerrymandering too. But more proportional, yes.
Oh, absolutely, but there are different levels of damage.

Germany has an issue with criminal clans from the Middle East, our law enforcement system isn't equipped to deal with them and our laws in general aren't either. The approach is pretty much "try not to engage", because while it's damaging to have "extended families" with hundreds of members where basically everyone of them has a criminal record, the other option is either locking up everybody (terrible idea in Germany) or trying to reason with them and failing (showing the state tried to handle it but failed). Not engaging is just the cheapest option and does the least amount of damage (I'm not suggesting that's necessarily true for the situation in the US, I don't know it well enough).

If the Leviathan shows its teeth and the problem doesn't go away, it has to bite. If it doesn't, everybody will see that the teeth aren't that sharp any more, and that will encourage more challengers.

> The state's power is not just fear alone, it's legitimacy.

For the people that don't require laws and punishment to behave morally, yes. For those that do, they obviously don't care about legitimacy or that looting (or any crime) is wrong, otherwise they wouldn't commit it. It's only those people that any society needs to worry about, and it's only those people that the state needs to convince that it is stronger than them.
Well that would be a turn up for the books because one of the often mentioned bad consequences of global warming is a loss of the North Atlantic Drift (gulf stream) from Europe and us ending up with a climate similar to what the same latitude of Canada has.
Ok, that's a good analogy too (packets being a thing).
No it is not. The police are there to uphold the law, not dictate what people do.

If someone's protesting they are exercising their rights and the police has no right to intervene. If someone is looting however, sure, then they can step in - with appropriate force, which in most cases does not involve shooting them in the face.
That's not what I was talking about?
So by your logic then, WhatsApp provides privacy?

What about the troves of metadata they collect and make available to law enforcement? Plus the fact you have to register with a phone number which can tie the metadata to a specific individual.

Doesn't sound very private to me.

Privacy is full of tradeoffs. Security isnt. My messages on WhatsApp are safe from anyone I don't trust that doesn't have 10 super computers and a lot of patience.

But that doesn't mean everything I do on there isn't tracked to kingdom come. It doesn't mean the fact I sent a message to Alice is private.
> ...offer a terrible experience. Most still do not have an independent online ordering function. They want me to call.

Curious reversion to what I want for everything. I don't want to do it online, I want to call for anything. Less online presence = good, in my books. Less to build profiles with.

(posted in public on HN by accident of course)
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Everyone in the Army wears that uniform every single day, even to work in an office. That is what he wears to work daily.

Also as the chief of staff he is actually in command of the entire Army.

It's kind of stupid, until you consider that the alternative is wearing a much more annoying dress uniform.

100% he was tricked into it, there's enough out there in the news to figure it out.

The deputy sec def just resigned because Mark Esper wouldn't push back. BTW remember what happened to the last Sec Def, Mattis? Resigned because Trump wouldn't listen to him.

If you haven't noticed yet, Trump surrounds himself with yes men. If they don't go along with it, they are fired.
Most people just look at it and see word salad. He is in fact stating, correctly if not clearly for a general audience, a fundamental lesson of project planning. But the whole "known-unknown / unknown-unknown" thing is way above most people's heads.
You know, it's been a while since I've seen a captive portal in the wild, aside from airports and municipal wifi. Which pleases me, since, like other users here, I find them fairly annoying.
Have you heard of our lord and savior, Domain Driven Design?

Here are the blue and red books.
Thanks! The case is American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Goodfriend: https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.nysd.520217

Also at EFF: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-joins-locast-defense-...
It's always the same argument: "if you don't use Reddit the way .00001% of their users do, you're using it wrong". Yeah, no.
GNU Parallel + AWK = even less code to write.
And this:

> Example 36: One program deserves a special award for the code that gets executed when you save a large scenario. It frees a data page, then allocates and frees bunches of more memory, and then a while later, goes back and touches the data page that it freed a long time ago.

> (Ironically, after writing this program, the author came to work for Microsoft on the Windows 95 team! When he learned that the application compatibility team had discovered and worked around his bug, he apologized to me in person.)
Yeah, I just uploaded a PDF paper and did quite a lot of careful "typesetting" of the layout, font sizes and so on. I deliberately left the font as Times New Roman because I honestly think it's very readable, especially in print format.

"It connotes apathy" is a bit like accusing someone who eats enough vegetables of being "apathetic".
Apparently Sweden had a few large nursing homes, whereas Denmark had lots of smaller nursing homes, so it was easier to manage the spread.
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Conversely, a good refactoring process eventually results in a complete effective rewrite.
He made it absurdly slow, with a terrible redesign and forced all mobile users to download the app. What else do you want?!
After all that I was expecting a description of carvings depicting a figure with demonic wings and tentacles or snakes on its face. I was a little disappointed.
I think the problem is less with the statement itself, and more to do with him using it to help justify the Iraq war, where some of the "known knowns" and "unknown unknowns" were actually speculation, exaggerated, or even made up completely.
Do you have your passwords in plain text in your home folder? It seems like Pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/) would solve this problem in a more secure fashion.
You know a 77 year old retired cop was killed in St. Louis last night, holding his cell phone to call police about looters. You gonna protest his death too? Or do you just want an endless vicious cycle of blood feuds for the next 3000 years?
Can this virus even be controlled? Or rather, beyond a point, does it even make sense to try - without dismantling our current economic structures completely?

As soon as you open international borders and ease lockdowns, regions and countries with few cases will see cases rise. We got to our current situation with just a handful of imported cases. Now that there are millions of carriers, you can't possibly hope to contain it with people traveling everywhere for work and leisure. Quarantining incoming travelers isn't feasible, at least not without sacrificing international business and leisure travel completely (a huge chunk of the GDP).

This is a siege where the castle only has food for two months. Unless you expect reinforcements (i.e. a vaccine or cure), extending the siege mostly means starving to death.
I worked for 3 years using VisualAge and GemStone/S.

As Allen says in the article, Squeak was a special case: based on Smalltalk-80 is oriented to have an environment to support the experimentation with e-toys (a platform for learning).

Other Smalltalks were different. VisualAge supports native UIs, and you have tools to produce the final product. The usual process is to create a reduced image based on modules that you load from the version control system (Envy in the case of VisualAge). Then you package an EXE that uses your image.
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>On the other, I wonder how one can sleep at night with the knowledge one was directly responsible for thousands of deaths.

He's not directly responsible for thousands of deaths. Not doing something that could have saved lives is different from actively doing something to hurt people. Otherwise we'd all be responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths because we didn't spend a bit of money to donate more mosquito nets to Africa, where a huge number of people die every year from preventable malaria.
There's a reason we fight hard for our crown corperations out here in Saskatchewan, if this was left to the market we would be screwed. The farther away from populated centers you get, the harder it is to get decent service however. I grew up out in Melville, SK where the fastest connections at the time were 15mbps DSL connections (this was around the time that Google Fiber was starting to roll out elsewhere). Once you get farther out, copper isn't even an option so cellular and satellite links are needed. The only nice thing about fiber is digging up ditches is relatively cheap

Some of us are excited to see how systems such as StarLink develop, maybe bringing decent rural access to the network is in the cards.

Next time you make a page that requires 10Mb of assets before loading, please remember there are people dealing with terrible connections. I know my first 100mbps connection was a godsend.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393914, which is still on the front page.
I test drove Jitsi with a few different groups (including a not particularly technical frined group) with no more instruction than "Here's a link to a video meeting. If you're on mobile it'll prompt you to download the app. The password is 'foobah'", and it "just works" too.

> Enterprise orgs don't care about cost.

In my experience,thay also don't care too much about ease-of-use either. Purchasing deparments and managers are looking to someone who'll convince them that they won't personally take the blame when something goes wrong, which is why expensive proprietary services win over open source so often... "Sure everything's gone TITSUP[1], but it's Microsoft/SalesForce/Zoom fault. I've logged a ticket." is a magical career and face saving phrase...

1 "Total Inability To Supply Useful Product" - hat tip to El Reg...
Yes. Upholding the law necessarily involves telling people what to do. They cannot arbitrarily tell people what to do, but that’s not what I was arguing.
Just claim they are all agent provocateurs, or Black Russians??

It is absolutely incredible to see CNN right now, they make Fox seem like a news source. It is getting to to the Pravda level at this point.
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I love the sense of humor found in the comments of this thread.
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Yeah, but as Dennis Ritchie has proven, having the source package isn't enough if one isn't a security expert anyway.

I doubt that every Debian package has such level of security review.
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Someone at some point has to take responsibility. That should be the head of the organisation or whoever is tasked with making the decisions. Whether it's a CEO, President, Prime Minister or the head of a public health authority.
Well then I don’t know what to tell you. Enjoy your dumpster fire? Parent'spoint was that Reddit is unusable. I’m bringing a counterpoint that it’s ok if you stick to niche/specific subs and avoid the default subreddits and politics/news. It’s my opinion. You may not agree with it.
While I don't have the exact quote, it's something more along the lines of "my actions caused the creation of the Internet" or "the Internet wouldn't be here if it weren't for me." There's actually not one quote since it was multiple instances that he took credit for the Internet (as we know it today). And not wrongly, really: he sponsored bills which provided federal funding for the Internet backbone system and the broadband consumer transport networks that define the Internet we use today.

But of course it was all too easy for some people to claim that he was taking credit for TCP/IP and HTTP.
Perhaps. I suppose that comes down to matter of taste. But either way, I certainly don't think his formulation sinks to level of mockably bad. Especially since it was spoken off the cuff in response to a question from the press.
Sweden's GDP grew by 0.1% in Q1 2020 (0.4% annualized). Germany's GDP fell. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/coronavirus-swedens-gdp-actu.... The UK's GDP fell as well. Sweden's economy has not actually contracted by 7%. That is merely a forecast for 2020 and GDP forecasts are not particularly reliable.

They probably will be down for the year, but right now there really isn't any evidence their economy has suffered the same fate as the rest of Europe.
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> "The simplest complete model of an organism is the organism itself."

But that is trivially true about everything, including golf balls. The interesting question isn't if the model is complete, but if it is sufficient (or complete enough) to make predictions.

And in the case of golf balls we can make quite good predictions with a very simple model, mostly because we are only interested in if it ends up in the hole or not. But a complete model of a golf ball would need to include the exact dynamics of the different layers and the turbulence around it, which we just can't do. Luckily, we don't need to.

So what is a sufficient model of a living organism? That of course also depends on what we want to know. I am quite certain that modern egg farmers have, for their purposes, quite sufficient models of hens. They know how fast the hens grow, the effects of different amounts and types of food, how much heat they produce, and of course how many and how big eggs they lay, etc..

And it is of course possible that we need to know the exact wave function for the complete system that is the cell to model it sufficiently enough to, say, synthesise new drugs. But I don't think so.
Unacceptable.
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Well, this is at least pretty clear evidence that he didn't inhale.

And besides, it also suggests why any interested readers in the past 2400 years would have been disappointed by the technique and not passed on the know how.
You're right that it may arouse less anger if you don't reply, but I don't know that it works reliably. I've seen plenty of top-level comments flagged as well. So much so that I've switched off show-dead because it annoyed me so much to see the harmlessness of comments that were flagged down. Better to ignore it instead of getting angry.

And it feels like a workaround instead of a fix. Like a jolt of pain every time you put weight on your left leg and deciding to just not put weight on it. It does mitigate the symptom, but it doesn't solve the problem.
Submitting follow-ups is not a good HN practice. It's better to link to the new article from the original thread (in this case, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23395689). See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for past explanations.

In addition, though, this article is a straight-ahead dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21312966 from 8 months ago. That's something you could have found by using HN Search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... (This is how I found it.)
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Violent oppression can only come from governments, who hold the "right" to use violence against its own population. In America, this violence is mainly directed to just one group, that decided to hise up, again.