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Correct. I wanted to say "pass an integer over HTTP (SOAP, for example)". An XML to pass some value, all over HTTP, ~20 years ago.
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here is the greatest thing i learned about css just last week:

.container {
display: flex;
align-items: flex-start;
}

OMG!!! where have you been my whole life you little flex darling :)

you have no idea how much trouble and pain it is to align elements that are table cells.

https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/a/align-items/
I looked at the one with glass and lemon and I want to cry. It's just crazy how much some people push things. I wonder how long it took though..
Did you see the parts of the article where they say that the most severe, “consequential damage” is predominantly found in the elderly and most severely ill? You’re implying that people who have mild cases (>99% of all cases; remember: over 40% cases are so mild that they’re considered “asymptomatic”, and for every one case we detect, 10-20 others never even bother to be tested!) have some kind of neurological damage. That isn’t what this article says.

Aside from a very tiny group who had strokes (again, mostly elderly), this research shows predominantly mild symptoms that (e.g. headache, insomnia), which would not be expected to persist.

If you read past the headline, you will see that even this article makes it clear that the vast majority of patients have minimal symptoms:

” Another large-scale study, this one with 909 coronavirus patients in Madrid, showed that 90% of cases simultaneously experienced changes to, or the loss of, the sense of smell and taste. In most of these cases, these changes were the only clinical expression of coronavirus or were accompanied by other minor symptoms.”
You are making 3 arguments, all not proven:

1. People cannot live without smartphones. I wonder how the past 10,000 were: how people made phone calls 100 years without smartphones, how they paid with card or cash, how to live without Facebook or WhatsApp. It must be terrible to be so entitled.

2. When people need smartphones, they should afford iPhones. Why a $100 Huawei is not enough?

3. When people have needs, someone is obligated to satisfy it. Oh, that sex maniac across the street ...
>may be far worse than the consequences of reopening.

Let's be perfectly clear, this isn't something abstract. The consequences are dead kids and dead teachers. Get that through your head. You of course imagine it won't be your kids that die but there's absolutely no reason to think that.
I think the short gist of it is: naming things is a hard problem.

I think you both stumbled upon a fundamental part of the discussion: the tension between finding a way to identify resources (or concepts, or physical things) in a unique and unambiguous fashion, and affordances provided by natural language that allow human minds to easily associate concepts and labels with the things they refer to.

The merit of UUID's, hashes or any other random string of symbols which falls outside of the domain of existing natural languages, is that doesn't carry any prior meaning until an authority within a bounded context associates that string with a resource by way of accepted convention. In a way, you're constructing a new conceptual reference framework of (a part of) the world.

The downside is that random strings of symbols don't map with widely understood concepts in natural language, making URL's that rely on them utterly incomprehensible unless you dereference them and match your observation of the dereferenced resource with what you know about the world (e.g. "Oh! http://0x5235.org/5aH55d actually points to a review of "Citizen Kane")

By using natural language when you construct a URL, you're inevitably incorporating prior meaning and significance into the URI. The problem is that you then end up with the murkiness of linguistics and semantics, and ends with all kinds of weird word plays if you let your mind roam entirely free about the labels in the URI proper.

For instance, there's the famous painting by René Margritte "The treachery of images" which correctly points out that the image is, in fact, not a pipe: it's a representation of a pipe. [1] By the same token, an alternate URI to this one [2] might read http://collections.lacma.org/ceci-nest-past-une-pipe, which incidentally correct as well: it's not a pipe, it's a URI pointing to a painting that represents a physical object - a pipe - with the phrase "this is not a pipe."

Another example would be that a generic machine doesn't know if http://www.imdb.com/titanic references the movie Titanic or the actualy cruiseship, unless it dereferences the URI, whereas we humans understand that it's the movie because we have a shared understanding that IMDB is a database about movies, not historic cruiseships. Of course, when you build a client that dereferences URI's from IMDB, you basically base your implementation on that assumption: that you're working with information about movies.

Incidentally, if you work with hashes and random strings, such as http://0x5235.org/5aH55d, you're client still has to be founded on a fundamental assumption that you're dereferencing URI's minted by a movie review database. Without context, a generic machine would perceive it as random string of characters which happens to be formatted as a URI, and dereferencing it just gives a random stream of characters that can't possibly be understood.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
[2] https://collections.lacma.org/node/239578
Which is not relevant. This is not an issue regarding the health of the children as much as it is the health of the teachers.
I'm OK with giving teachers the choice not to return - but they should absolutely NOT be getting paid. And those who want to work can do so.
The 5100, 5110, and 5120 computers had a simple sans serif font, with a distinctive narrow zero. The 3270, 3150, and 5250 terminals also shared a very nice design (which was copied into x3270's), with distinctive 6's, 9's and the dotted rounded 0 (that made it easier to distinguish from the squarer O). The 3270 also had the peculiarity of having the digits being slighly taller than the letters.

I'm not sure which was the first machine that had the distinctive MDA look that flowed into CGA, EGA, and VGA. Could be something created for the PC.

If all else failed, it'd be nicer if they just did like Commodore and copied the Atari 8-bit one with wide stems. The NTSC output for the CGA board more or less mandated the wide stems to prevent color artifacts.
The mortality rate in children would leave us with something like 10k dead kids country-wide if the virus is permitted to spread to everyone.

Mortality isn't the only issue, either. We're seeing plenty of signs some folks survive, but with long-term health impacts.

(An overwhelmed medical system will kill vulnerable kids in non-COVID ways, too. Mortality of things like car accidents and asthma attacks and suicide go up if the ICUs are full.)
Confirming your interpretation of my original comment.
In Denmark we have switched largely to solar and wind with backup provided by burning of biomass (largely imported wood pellets from Canada and the USA, but also domestic bio-trash which is sorted separately in many homes).

But even without that, nuclear, wind and solar combined with lots of batteries (stationary and in all the cars) seems like a totally achievable solution. Especially in Europe and America where you have lots of varied geography and can get hydro, solar, thermal and wind to supplement each other, see example the plans for Denmark (wind), Norway (hydro), UK (nuclear).
I'm trying to go more into investing in green energy/renewable/alternative of some sort. If the world is going to end in 50 years due to fossil fuels then might as well put my money in the alternatives.

I have some things in mind but maybe HN readers can give me a few suggestions on what to read/look.
I've been fascinated by this argument for a few years. An "ask a historian" thread on Reddit asked an important question: "Would a kingdom, that chased slaves out of Egypt, only to be met with massive defeat, record that history?". I know nothing about Egyptology, so I'd ask, "did Egyptians, as a general rule, record any of their defeats?" From my limited Google searches, they did not. So the question becomes, is there any evidence of semitic people living in Egypt. That seems to be argued a bit more.
How does delaying your school career 1 semester cause death?

What debt? School debt? Are you talking about college? If you aren't attending school at all then you aren't adding to the debt (in most cases with Federal loans). If its online then you are still on track so I don't see your point.
We have some fairly big developments in my mostly suburban area that take years to build out. The building sites are already prepped and permitted, so they can increase the build rate somewhat dynamically. Since it looks like we are only talking about 10000 extra starts in a month I find it believable there is enough supply to react to an increase in demand for home building.
I got banned cause they didn't agree with what I wanted to go and I couldn't email/message/discuss with anyone why my use was not approved and allowed. I couldn't resubmit with changes to the plan and I had a proper business plan and it all went in the bin as I couldn't get API access. Shouldn't of created it all on my personal account I guess but it was an important lesson on not relying on external services
That acronym is gatekeeping, my friend.
I'm also against schools reopening in the fall (though I haven't done much research and don't hold this opinion strongly).

But it seems like holding people back semesters eventually adds up to something that's as bad as a death. These kids are never going to get that semester back. And if you think they enjoy the at home alternatives half as much, or learn half as much or value that time in their lives half as much it seems like on some level the equivalent of 1000s of person lifetimes of value have been lost. I wouldn't hold back everyone one semester in high school in exchange for even on the order of 100s of deaths.
But this is nothing new. Better public schools, lower crime, lower taxes (or at least better perceived value), an improved quality of life for a particular lifestyle have always been motivators. It’s harder to establish a career in the suburbs, but relatively easier to maintain one.

COVID has probably made a measurable impact, but it’s very easy to measure small effects too. Whether much has changed long term, I am doubtful.
or just (right click / long press) the back button.
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Are you stupid? The danger is overblown. I'm not saying covid-19 is a joke, but the media has everyone terrified and even if you want to do something, the Government has literally shut everything down.
Yeah that’s a good example of extrajudicial punishment. Well, a terrible example, but “terrible” in the sense of its abuse.

I wonder how 72 hours can be constitutional when arraignment is typically supposed to be 24. Perhaps it’s like fingerprints, where assumptions rather than science dominate.

The idea of a brief psych hold is reasonable on some platonic level (I’ve had friends have psychotic breaks who were far better off not being in a conventional prison) but the reality, and the opportunity for abuse are far from that ideal.
Put yourself before your job. That doesn't mean to not do your job, it means set up a daily routine where your own self care and interests get top billing, while leaving enough space to do your job. So if doing a side project is your most important personal goal right now, set aside daily time, earlier in the day, to work on it.
This is another example of how modern economies are driven by individual choices about participation--in this case teachers refusing to provide service because they don't feel safe. The same choices are devastating a wide range of industries like aviation, hospitality, tourism, etc.

It's a little mindboggling that so many political leaders do not understand this basic concept. Economics is far from perfect but the effect of the pandemic on economic behavior was about as close to a slam dunk prediction as you can get.
Are you willing to die for the economy? Ask your kids, are they OK with you dying so that money can be made, maybe collect on some life insurance money? Are you OK with your kids potentially dying (rare but not zero) just to keep them busy during the day? I bet not.
Many or most of whom are social distancing or at home rather then in a room full of kids from different households. Plus very disproportionate effect on older people, a group that includes many teachers. Plus the extended effects in some cases even if you survive. Then consider how little they get paid and that there’s potentially alternatives (delay or virtual)
>Altogether, for me personally, the trade-offs are worth it.

Really, because all the things you listed seem negative. What are the positives?
In Seattle it is really difficult to find decent houses to buy right now, buyers are panicking and prices have increased significantly in the last couple of months.

My guess is that hot areas are getting hotter and colder areas are getting colder, but COVID hasn’t changed that trend yet.
I'm not saying they can't do many things to improve (similar to many countries). All I was doing was answering a question to confirm that transmission lines are very expensive. They could use that cheap energy for certain kinds of manufacturing I suppose.
I've never died of cancer, therefore it doesn't exist.
I partly believe this is because thus far kids have been mostly shielded - in my experience anyway. Schools and businesses (daycare, etc) closed as the virus gained traction. Now we are opening back up and throwing the kids headfirst into an uncertain future. It is worrisome to say the least.
One should note that the safety risks are not one sided, as the American Academy of Pediatrics has pointed out in strongly urging planning centered around means to reopen in-person schooling, there are risks to health and lives at issue with not returning to school:

> the AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school. [...] Lengthy time away from school and associated interruption of supportive services often results in social isolation, making it difficult for schools to identify and address important learning deficits as well as child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation. This, in turn, places children and adolescents at considerable risk of morbidity and, in some cases, mortality

https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-cov...
It’s a children’s story and I think most kids are used to seemingly pointless tasks
>Nobody is entitled to their property remaining a certain value.

That is not necessarily true. Sure if property values go down as a natural result of supply/demand there is no remedy at law for that, but people are legally entitled to "quiet enjoyment" of their property, which would include enforcement of laws prohibiting short term vacation rentals interfering with your rights and resulting in damages (loss of property value). And under the law violating one's quiet enjoyment to their property results in compensatory damages.
I believe the old FDR phrase, "There's nothing to fear but fear itself," is becoming more and more accurate with our situation.

The risk from this virus goes down dramatically the younger you are. Kids are young. That's obvious. Their parents also tend to be young, at least young enough to not be in the high risk groups.

These groups are also accustomed to being sick or dealing with sick people.

If there were no vaccine in the pipeline, our only option would be herd immunity. If we were shooting for herd immunity, the groups exposed by going back to school would be exactly who we'd want to put at risk from a statistical standpoint.

So it's really a question of do we want to continue hiding out in hopes that they truly are able to fast track a vaccine, or do we want to just deal with a couple hard months and get our lives back?

Most of the alarmism at the beginning of all this was centered around it being a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic. It's not.
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Nicely done tool/site. Is there a play button to make the turtle start at the beginning and follow the path? Or pause and speed commands? I'm expecting that watching a turtle move is going to be key to getting my son into this.
My wife has worked in rural TN and NC and my mom was a speech language pathologist for 30+ years in KY.

Pretty much everywhere rural starts under $40k (or under $30k in some cases) and stays under $40k for 5-10 years of experience.
I have a friend who got hired for his first teaching job this summer. It's all he's wanted to do and he's incredibly passionate. He's afraid that if he backs out now the school board won't hire him back after this is all over.
I'd say that's a false dichotomy. Lots of kids won't have access to a safe environment during the day without school. There will be no visibility for those suffering abuse. Physical abuse will be worse with a kid at home with an abusive parent all day, under stress. There will be less access to food for many children. The virus holds the potential of devastating effects on school children and their families if kids go back. We don't have any good way of quantifying the trade-offs. With everything else, we've been running large-scale social experiments to see what works to keep rates at a level the hospitals can manage. I don't see why we shouldn't do the same with schools: let them re-open on a restricted basis, attempt to cater to those most in need, and see what happens.
It's not 0 and putting every kid in the country into a worst case scenario location for spread of the disease you are running an evil experiment.
The Arab world failed to use the opportunity. They could have invested more in education and built in home research labs, etc. Instead they used the money to build more taller buildings and imported the tech while the culture never changed.
I rarely use the search, but when I do I've never noticed it to not find what I know is there. Perhaps it is crap and there are many other hits its not returning for my searches - can you give an example of a bad search result you got?
You are technically not wrong. I mean Hans-Georg Maassen, head of BfV (spy agency), did lose his job. Not after sharing secret information with neo nazis, that wasnt enough. He doubled down by calling fake news at a video showing neo nazis chasing/beating immigrants. Had to leave his BfV presidency ... for a higher paying position at the interior ministry ;-) aka promotion.
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I wouldn't be surprised if you get an API that'd be better for third-party clients at the same time as all requests for API access for third-party clients are denied.
HN silences people like you.

Be careful.
I had the same perspective on these frontend technologies as a backend/ops guy, and it all finally clicked when it came to me that I just couldn't find a justification for why CSS was the way it was.

This was solved trivially by just reading the history of CSS. It was shocking to finally have made clear all of the quirks and weird aspects of CSS that always made it difficult for me to connect the dots and feel myself lost in a messy tangled up language.

By far the best source I went through was found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22215931 - it's a long read, but extremely enlightening!

https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS20/history.html was also useful.
Me? No, I didn't write them. The topic matter has no connection with me.

I just posted because I thought others might find it interesting.
YES! I don't want my wife sacrificed by an asymptomatic kid carrying it to class
That gets you only a small handful of reuses; it renders the mask safe pathogen-wise, but it doesn't clean the accumulated gunk out. A juicy sneeze will still render the mask useless.
Does your statement change if I personally know several people who are ill and a few who have died? I have first hand experience. Do you? Yes, I am afraid, but that fear is backed by empirical evidence and my study of the science of this disease, not the media. You should be afraid as well.
Did anyone look at the prices?? Holy shit. Are they selling gold? Those prices are ridiculous.
It's far more profitable to mine the spice on Arrakis then to use solar energy.
Learning by course is generally good (rust book!), but "overlearning" certainly exists in all technologies. I've been hanging out in freenode's ##learnpython for years helping noobs, and I can't count how many times I've met the scenario of a new programmer working their way methodically and studiously through a 2k page book, stuck on page 1643, because they haven't actually grasped concepts from page 20. They'll be all kinds of worried about how to correctly use slots and metaclasses, when they can't write even basic functions.

CSS suffers massively from this info overload.

What I tell every new programmer who will listen, is that they should first grasp the absolute basic building blocks, and then learn to read the docs. That's really all you need. Unless the particular language or technology their are using sucks, you can essentially compose anything from the basics. Once you've done that, the sortcuts and sugar you learn naturally actually make sense, rather than appear before you as spooky magic boxes and incantations.

My ideal CSS course would just be the absolute basics of syntax and concepts, a primer on understanding and incorporating information from the docs, and then an index of well organised resources, such as the OP's.

This way, it's impossible to overload, and I'm left in a state where I can expand at my own personal rate. Anything that tries to set the pace for you is going to be suboptimal for 99% of readers.

Furthermore, anything that flows easily and without extremely explicit DO NOT PASS GO UNTIL YOU ARE EXCELLENT AT THE LAST CHAPTER, will lead to overload. You can't overload if you don't provide the information one can overload with. Simply ending your course after the basics and docs, absolutely guarantees against this problem. "Leave the learner in a known good state", would be my rule of thumb.
We are talking about large number of people. On average this would take away half a year of their productive life.

Nowadays, many people have a plan which is mostly: finish school, get a job based on the education.

It is not difficult to see that if you set back financially large number of people, suddenly, this might increase suicide rate, for example. Or may make them worse off in many different ways causing some to tip into loosing life.

These are not easy decisions, and saying "I would prefer people to pause their lives for 6 months than loose one life" is a completely braindead, extremist way of looking at things.

To show how stupid this is, you can use just a portion of your home budget to save a life. Today. There are many people that don't need much in the way of help. You are free to find one and help him/her, without involving large percentage of population that doesn't want to get involved in it.

I guess it is easier to go about and proclaim extremist slogans.
I don’t see how you could call this corruption, he didn’t benefit from someone else getting rich. Unless there is any evidence that he sold his shares at an inflated price with the understanding that he would pay back the favour while in office or something like that, which I don’t think there is.
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