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There is no excuse for this behavior from politicians and the public at large. This is selfish ignorance of the utmost degree.

It is, at face value, ridiculous to even think of re-opening schools. The real story is the total and complete abdication of their duties by elected politicians. Faced with a tough choice, they'd rather let people die and systems collapse then take responsibility. Despite watching this unfold in the news and social media for months, these people chose to ignore it and shrug or, as we've seen with kemp, purposefully stop other governments from enacting policies, and now thousands will die.

Why these politicians haven't been dragged out into the street is beyond me. We are going to soar clean over 200,000 people dead in no time-- many of which were preventable.

Just imagine-- if a contractor's shoddy work resulted in 3 people being killed, they'd be hauled into court on gross negligence charges. Yet...politicians are being given a pass. That's not ok.
>> Schools across Europe have opened

That's not wrong. At least in France and Germany schools reopened 2 weeks before summer break with near full attendance.
Maybe letting them know instead of sharing a link and cause everyone to click and possibly violate some laws (since you're seeing API keys etc) would be a good idea?
Different political leader - we don't know. A different political leader who was not divisive and dismissive of science - yes, it would have been better.
As an American, I'm absolutely OK with each state's governors making safety determination for their own state.

The current death rate in each state can very easily be explained by actions the governors in those states took. They'll answer to their voters, and we'll see if their PR campaign blitz is enough to save them.
I don't disagree with that. It's just that it still leaves many people, hundreds of thousands if not millions, who fall outside the description you're making, and thousands of them post comments here. There's simply a lot more variance in the community than it feels like there is. That mistake has a dramatic effect on discussion.

Edit: I was replying to the first version of your comment. I do disagree with the part you added later about upvotes. I think it is overinterpretation of the sort that feels-like-it-must-be-true, or feels-like-it's-probably-true. If there's one thing I've learned from moderating HN it's that those perceptions are extremely in the eye of the beholder and need to be bracketed if one wants to assess anything objectively.

p.s. Just to avoid misunderstanding, your account is still banned because you've continued to break HN's rules since we originally banned you. I restored your comments in this thread in order to reply to them. Users can also do that by vouching for good posts which shouldn't be [dead] (this is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch).
It is (mostly) not true of the House.

Yes, some states have House seats that represent somewhat fewer people than some other states. I suppose, technically, that means the votes in that state are "more valuable". It's far different from the Senate, though.
On the state level, no sane governor would sue mayors for requiring face masks.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/16/georgia-mayors-bria...

On the federal level, no sane President would go out of his way to force states to give the CDC less information.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-cdc-cor...
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As far as I know, it wasn't very big outside Europe until last decade.
You don't have any information. Give me a break.

There is overwhelming evidence implicating the suspect but because of your personal dislike or jealousy of Fahim or a ridiculous desire for attention, you're willing to push nonsense anonymously on the internet.
And it can also get around the age block without logging in...
From the article:

Also if I had encrypted all my computers in 2014 when I was raided by the police because they followed a wrong lead, I would have gotten my computers much sooner than the 1 year it took them to look through all my files of all my harddrives.

I have a hard time imagining this being the way it would work in the US.
> This is what the 5G network promises to escalate.

I thought that this was hyperbole, but a little research has changed my mind:

"4G can support about 4,000 devices per square kilometre, whereas 5G will support around one million." [0]

To give a sense of scale, the most densely populated municipality in the US has a population density of about 20,000 people per square kilometre.

[0] https://www.raconteur.net/technology/4g-vs-5g-mobile-technol...
There's some conflicting results here. There's a study showing it generally doesn't transmit among children: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-commentary-pediatrics...

The study acknowledges children having been infected, but that they generally aren't a major vector for transmission. In particular, the study concludes that rise in cases among the young seem to occur from adults infecting the children.
It's not doing what not2b wants.

It's working as designed, but that seems to be irrelevant to not2b.
>The federal government has no jurisdiction over education.

It's possible that GP was referring to the current federal government in general re: Covid-19, not specifically their jurisdiction over education. And in that sense they're correct: the current leadership in the US is a disaster and "worse than useless".
I am French and we will say that the meal was good even if it was not ("thanks, it was excellent" )
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There is no reason to have a happy workforce when an unhappy workforce will do.

It's hard work keeping people engaged, everyone wants a different carrot. Everyone understands and fears the stick and it's easy to hire for - can you threaten people with a stick? Yes? Hired :)

We live in a wage slavery society with fewer jobs than there are people, on purpose.

It's not that CEOs are failing software engineers, it's that the current system of beliefs humans hold in sum, seems to be failing humanity as a whole (but then again, if we think this way, has it ever not failed humanity?). Consider children digging through trash for food while billionaires fine dine discussing AI and space travel. I don't know what them rich folks believe, but it's inconsiderate of most of humanity's pain it seems.
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A bit off-topic, but this has puzzled me for awhile: there are times when at night I will suddenly feel like my heart is beating ridiculously quickly and loudly. It subsides with deep slow breaths. The strange thing is that I've tried putting my hand over my heart during these episodes and physically it does not feel that my heart is beating abnormally. Any ideas what's happening?
If you as a parent are grappling with the idea of homeschooling, know that you don’t have to do it the way those parents did. What you saw is not an indictment of homeschooling, but of those parents that decided to do it that way.
If everything is perfectly modular, sure, focus on your specialty and outsource everything else.

But if that's not the case ? What if understanding everything opens better possibilities ?
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Your /links/agreement url is just redirecting to /communities

Is there something we're supposed to be seeing?
Big-endian Support for AMD64 - the explanation from the person in the crowd is something of a horror story that I think a lot of have witnessed in various forms.

https://youtu.be/GnBbhXBDmwU?t=2330
I know Bill Gates had his "think week", where he would block off an entire week every year to just read books and think.

Maybe you could do something similar? I'm sure you are very busy, but so was he.
I think there would probably still be systemic problems, but I don't see how anyone could think that it wouldn't be better under another leader. Trump is overtly incompetent.
> a reliable way to sync files that doesn't leave them readable to Apple or another party

It's worth noting that nothing in iOS or iCloud prevents apps from encrypting data using a separate user key and then storing in iCloud. (Essentially, using iCloud only as a reliable substrate for syncing files it cannot read.)

That popular apps do not do this is likely due to lack of demand as much as anything. I am sure there are some content creation apps that do provide this functionality, if one is willing to search hard enough.
My second software job was strange. I was interviewing for the niche position of "troubleshooter" in 2001 @ bizrate (an e-commerce rating company). During the interview I was asked a number of classic MSFT/Google style brain teasers, including "list a number of ways to move a mountain" and "how does the Nintendo duck hunt gun work" (which I guessed at, correctly over 30 seconds on how I would make such a game). When I was a kid playing with it, it never entered my mind to think about the functionality.
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While I support the sentiment, you know that's not how all advertising works? CPM ads mean the publisher makes money because you saw the ad, regardless of whether you clicked on it (CPC).

Even if you never click an ad or buy anything from an ad, you are still helping the publisher make money.
I think Matt Stoller makes some good points on this sort of topic.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-cant-america-handle-t...

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-new-york-city-is-on-t...
If that's true, why does it not also apply to the weighting of the Presidency between those two poles?

What they were describing applies to every federally elected position, in different amounts. Whether it's a bug or a feature (as a whole or for each position) is very much up for discussion, but it's orthogonal.
One of the inspirations for my "crosstalk" Smalltalk system was Lukas Hartmann's Lisp-based "Interim OS" bare-metal system for the Raspberry (http://interim-os.com/), so you might want to give this a try.

I think Interim only runs on the Raspberry Pi 2 at the moment; porting Interim OS to use the circle library (which I use for crosstalk) should also be feasible and would help to support other Raspberry versions.

Lukas is also the creator of the MNT Reform open source notebook (using a Freescale i.MX8 quadcore ARM Cortex-A53) - see https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform for the currently running crowdfunding campaign.

Modern web browsing is, of course, more complex than the whole rest of the Smalltalk system...
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Honestly, outside of teacher unions who is in favor of the public school status quo right now?

Public school performance is pretty universally reviled. By all object measurements it's been failing for a long time.

Let's tear public education down and rebuild it. We seem to be doing that with police forces so why not rethink education also?
Thanks for the correction, alas the edit period has closed for that comment.

(I used the number from this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#Fossi... )
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>According to the article by Spiegel, the psychiatrist concluded that the condition is chronic and consolidated, therefore, no second opinion is required.

Yikes, the fact that such a life-changing diagnosis is not subject to a second set of eyes is disturbing.

(The later news is reassuring though.)
Thanks for clarifying! That's a fair point about web components having the capacity to be statically rendered and re-hydrated.
You can't honestly be saying that we're overreacting to COVID?

I would hope someone in full PPE everyday has a much lower rate of COVID deaths.

The US alone has more than 25% of global cases - comparing Europe to the US doesn't really make sense. They largely beat covid, the US obviously hasn't (see 70k new cases yesterday)

More people die in car crashes than the flu - doesn't mean we don't spend trillions on road safety, seat belts, etc.

Death rates are surging in proportion to cases, with the expected 2 week delay from infection to death. Yesterday Florida had 116 deaths.

CFR isn't the metric that informs policy... its deaths and potential deaths? IE 141,000 Americans dying this year, which were largely avoidable.
I responded to a similar point by not2b downthread. The following are some additional points I didn't make there.

To some extent the inequity you describe can be corrected by forcing particular methods for apportionment that can better prevent gerrymandering, and by increasing the size of the House to reduce the difference between the populations of the least and most populous districts. A certain amount of inequity of this type is, however, unavoidable in any representative democracy.

Also, this particular inequity is important to people only to the extent that what the Federal government does directly affects their lives. So an obvious way to reduce the impact of this inequity is to reduce the ways in which the Federal government can affect individual people's lives. The idea that Federal laws and regulations should be able to micromanage so many aspects of everyone's lives would have been horrifying to any of the Founders. Not only that, but it also disempowers people by making them much less aware of everyone's ability to find local solutions to local problems.

Another point to make is that the main problem with the Senate and the House has nothing to do with the inequity you describe: it is the simple fact that Congress has very low approval ratings but very high incumbent reelection rates. That means members of Congress are effectively never held accountable for bad policy decisions; they can continue to make them with impunity since they know they are not risking reelection by doing so. (For example, in all the furor over the CDC and FDA bungling COVID-19 testing, nobody to my knowledge has observed that the only reason the FDA had the power to prohibit State and local health authorities from developing their own tests is that Congress gave it that power, and legislation to rethink bad policy decisions like that is not even on the table.) That is not something that can be fixed by adopting a different system for apportionments.
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As an aside, I read your book some time back and found it compelling.
Oh, fond memories from 1995 or so.. This game was very different from LucasArts quests, and was very tough to beat, especially in an age without walkthroughs available online. It took me and my friends roughly three weeks to solve all puzzles.

The only other game that was as tough to beat was the great BloodNet.
These "it's a hoax until it happens to me" stories are super common in the US.

>Former game show host Chuck Woolery announced Wednesday his son has tested positive for COVID-19, just days after Woolery accused medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort to hurt the economy and President Trump's reelection chances.

>Woolery, who hosted several popular game shows including "Love Connection" and "Wheel of Fortune" and who is a staunch supporter of the president's, has since deleted his Twitter account following the announcement about his son.

>"To further clarify and add perspective, Covid-19 is real and it is here. My son tested positive for the virus, and I feel for of those suffering and especially for those who have lost loved ones," Woolery tweeted before his account disappeared.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/507663-chuck-woolery-dele...

Another one from today:

>An Ohio man who died due to complications from COVID-19 has drawn criticism for his staunch refusal to wear a mask earlier in the pandemic.

>Richard Rose III, an Army veteran who spent nine years in the United States Army according to his obituary, died on July 4. He was 37.

>Rose’s death gained notoriety on social media after expressing that he was “not buying a (expletive) mask” less than three months before his death.

>“I’ve made it this far by not buying into that damn hype,” he said in a post published April 28.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/17/covid-...
Relevant: FART for fantastic photos. Feel, ask, refine, take. I always remembered this simple advice after the first time I read it. https://kenrockwell.com/tech/fart.htm

Also, I wonder how much of professional amazing looking photos are edited (e.g., brightness, contrasts, levels, saturation, etc.)
I think you misinterpreted what he was suggesting - it is meaningless to say that Hillary won the popular vote because neither party were trying to win the popular vote - you win the presidency by winning the electoral college.

If instead the president was chosen by popular vote, both parties likely would have campaigned differently.
That was a poor choice of words; I amended my comment.
What kind of stuff do you use it for? I watched the intro video and I get it would be useful for "monitoring" Twitter and stuff like that, but are there more practical day-to-day uses for it?
My experience is the opposite: in one of my previous jobs, due to some circumstances that I will skip here, I became not only grumpy but outright rude. I would literaly insult people, calling them stupid during daily Scrum meetings, never did anyone any favor before loudly complaining "can't you just do that yourself?" first, and so on, and so on.

Guess what? it actually made my life easier, took some workload off me and earned me some respect (or maybe just fear, but who cares?) among my coworkers. I think it also was a factor for me getting a significant salary raise :)
> A lot of that uglyness seems to come from the fact that OpenSSL wants to support all environments (even DOS).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember either BoringSSL or LibreSSL (or both?) saying that their fork removed support for DOS because not only did almost nobody use it, but it didn't even work anyways.
Also the Supreme Court just said that states that give money to secular schools must also give money to religious schools.

And religious schools can discriminate in a separate decision.
This time, I agree - this is very abstract, and reading the summary, intro and some details, I don't know what concrete problem is being solved.
Podcasts should be the gold standard for online advertising. They're perfect for everyone involved: there's no creepy tracking involved, and the ads are appealing because podcast producers tend to know and respect their audience. I never skip podcast ads because they're often entertaining in and of themselves (e.g., Reply All).

I like this sort of "personalization" podcasts do in their ads: with human judgment where the content creators exercise editorial control, not some black box chum box any rando can dump ads into.
nah man, i've tried Nim. it's meh.
Autofocus doesn't work in web components
It might be related to: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ripe-opposes-chinas-internet-p...
> the result is that all the "cheap" i.e. wealthy students (books and technology readily available at home, familial support for their studies, financially able to engage in more expensive educational opportunities outside the classroom) end up in one school while those without these privileges, or with disabilities, end up in the other

I don't understand - are charter schools allowed to refuse to admit disabled students?
...in addition to YouTube ad monetization. You know how important YouTube ads and prime are because of how much those same creators scream when they get demonitized.
I can only speak to engineering, but in my experience it isn't that simple.

An example: SpaceX vs Blue Origin.

SpaceX was actually founded 2 years after Blue Origin, but it has a significant technology and business lead. Elon Musk set ambitious deadlines and micromanaged some of the technology goals from the start, requiring deliverable products to be able to stay in business. Whereas Bezos still just infuses up to a billion dollars of his own money a year, and as a result has a more relaxed atmosphere and slower progress. The result is that everyone knows what SpaceX is doing, but only people on HN have heard of Blue Origin.

Caveats: Elon Musk's far more active leadership may have also played a role, while Bezos left leadership to people who probably did not fully match Musk's creativity and drive.
Vega is great, but I wouldn't think of it as an exploratory tool.
If thats the scenario you think search is most applicable for, you are going to be sorely disappointed. Firstly you have to remember what it is you are looking for. Even if you do, the information is hidden in so many channels that you are unlikely to find what you are looking for without some effort. I think the best search is no search at all. Searching makes sennse for VERY large universe of data, as in WWW. The sheer volume makes creation of optimized search engine a profitable one. But a small universe search engine is inherently sub-optiomal, & is going to make the user sift through the "results" to find what they are looking for.
I agree that lack of business domain knowledge becomes a limiting factor in career growth for IT people at a certain point in non-software companies.

But I think that is an argument for working for a software company as the optimal career path for a software engineer (or founding one). It will help you to know more about finance as an IT guy working at a finance firm, but you will probably never be as valued as the traders.
I like Ahrefs for things like this:

https://youtu.be/C5ddo63kHHI
Well, that’s true, except that it’s not easy. Easy to talk about, sure, but not easy to implement without backlash from the moneyed interests that exist.
It looks like most of the leaks described in the second article are related to the gas utilities rather than gas used to generate electricity. I'd like to imagine that it's a lot cost effective and easier to make sure a big pipe that goes to a power plant is not leaking rather than a thousand small pipes that go to homes. It's an eye opening finding either way though.
I had my yoga teacher ex design a simple routine for me that addressed my specific biomech issues (cycling and sitting). I videoed her walking me through it and watched it enough times to get it down.

I highly recommend getting a tailored routine. The sheer numbers of people with yoga teaching credentials make it pretty easy to find one.

My question is: Where is an AR app for yoga/PT/TaiChi/etc?
I thought it would come with the Kinect, but that died on the vine. Now that Apple is all about AR and health, it should be in the pipeline - right?
Coursea is bullshit.
> If that's true, why does it not also apply to the weighting of the Presidency between those two poles?

It does. I didn't mean to imply that what I said didn't also apply to the Electoral College. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
It is a joke about the tendency of archaeologists to classify everything they find as being either part of a garbage dump (aka a midden[0]) or as some variety of religious artifact [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden

[1] See discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_religion_and_ri...