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There is this thing called money, that iff you're able to save it, can enable one to do many things - take leave for a newborn, work less longer term to spend consistent time with a growing child, bootstrap a business, explore a completely different field, and many other innumerable things that can matter to a person but don't necessarily fit into top-down policy.

So the real question is why are people unable to just rely on saved wealth to take whatever leave they would like? And the answer is that the financialization of everything has left most everyone essentially living paycheck to paycheck - even the upper middle class! Yet we continue to be distracted by feel good narratives proposing to throw a bone to one popular group or another, rather than pushing to directly reform the economy away from being a treadmill for "full time" work.

It's not a foregone conclusion that things have to be this way. The present conditions are explicit government policy - any time anything would give individuals more economic power (eg technology, productivity increases, women entering the workforce, offshoring, etc), prices are deliberately increased by printing enough new money to erode any gains! It's no secret why "the rent is too damn high", it's just politically inconvenient to bring it up.
Or the right to free speech is pretty reasonable with older technology (printing presses), but perhaps worth reconsidering with broadcast stations (much less the Internet!)

Yeah, no. Shall Not Be Infringed. You don't get your cake, and to eat it too.

Facebook needs to get itself in order. In fact, the tech community as a whole needs to realize that just because they can tap into some data source, doesn't mean they should.
Maybe I missed it in the article. What percentage of homeless in these cities are or were recent drug users?
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Since Miranda rights are part of a Federal, constitutional right to not require self-incrimination, I was curious about what you mean, and found this: https://harronlaw.com/blog/miranda-rights-texas/

"No discussion of Texas Miranda laws is complete without mentioning the 2013 case Salinas v. Texas. In this case, the Supreme Court said that you must affirmatively invoke your right to remain silent, or it doesn’t count. It’s not enough just to shuffle your feet and look away."

Edit: reading a bit more about it, I don't think this specific case amounts to a law against being silent or one that is specific to Texas. This was a Supreme Court case, and the issue is the defendant wasn't under arrest and wasn't Mirandized and was already talking to police when he went "silent".

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2012/12-246

"Question: Does the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's refusal to answer questions asked by law enforcement before he has been arrested or read his Miranda rights?"

Conclusion: No, by 5-4 decision.

What this means is, if you haven't been arrested, then you do have to say out loud something like "I'm exercising my right to remain silent." As far as I can tell this is true in all US states. Once arrested you still presumably have the right to literally remain silent, even in Texas, under the Fifth Amendment.

Is this the one you were thinking of, or is there some other law or case you're thinking of?
A couple thousand years is a blink of an eye for a species.
This is the sort of thing predicted by Hans Hermann Hoppe's "Democracy: The God that Failed", the basic premise of which is that short term leaders as found in democracies will try to get as much as they can in the short time they have, whereas lifetime leaders as in monarchies will treat the country more like a property owner would his own property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed
We, people from Hong Kong, appreciate your view a lot.

Your view is particularly relevant to the current protest on anti-extraditions law: the focus is on what if more people will be transferred to China when CCP does not like what you have done outside of China.

Without the extraditions law, CCP has to go into great length to abduct others into China--for the case of the five missing book publishers (including a Swedish national) [1] who did not violate any law in Hong Kong or elsewhere (ignoring some made-up non-sense of drink-drive accidents), likely CCP used secret agents reaching as far as Thailand, because there were no travel documents necessary to have the five people crossing the border through legal channels.

But once the extraditions law is passed, China can use Hong Kong to bring people into China, regardless of their nationality, and foreigners merely transiting in Hong Kong could be arrested and then extradited into China.

The results weren't pretty. The Swedish national, Gui Minhai, in this case were forced to made a "confession" on CCTV for his "crime", in addition to losing his freedom [1].

China has shown repeatedly that they could retaliate by charging foreigners. What follows the Huawei incident is a recent example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
There's been a stronger identity as being a Hong Konger recently, but my family has always identified as being from Hong Kong. Looks like young people have dramatically shifted in their views. Found this saying the same: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/06/21/hku-poll-3-1-young-hon...
And anybody who is not a masochist and cares about compatibility across all those platforms will use Unity or Unreal or one of the lesser-known others.

DirectX 12 is the easiest of these APIs to use, and it's not exactly fun.
I'm not a history expert at all but I think this is a massive over simplification, that ignore context of the time. My understanding is that the US was woefully unprepared (particularly the Army) for WW2 due to its non interventionist stance in the years prior, and had to be reconstituted first. Moreover the U-boats were sinking large numbers of ships in the Atlantic that had to be dealt with.
It's not that simple. It depends crucially on real rates.

When rates are close to zero, as now, you'd basically have to save half of your after-tax income. And that won't allow you to cover big medical bills or health insurance. Some government help is required.

Financial education alone is not enough.
Just don't compile during development. Only compile for testing on and differential serving to legacy browsers.
Or don't let them out.

Indoor cats live longer and don't have problems with parasites, pregnancy, diseases, fights, poisons, predators, cars, stupid humans, or just getting lost.
>In Seattle, prosecutors and law enforcement recently estimated that the majority of the region’s homeless population is hooked on opioids, including heroin and fentanyl.... For the unsheltered population inhabiting tents, cars, and RVs, the opioid-addiction percentages are even higher—the City of Seattle’s homeless-outreach team estimates that 80 percent of the unsheltered population has a substance-abuse disorder. Officers must clean up used needles in almost all the homeless encampments.

No word on methodologies though.
Unclear to me if they're homeless because of addiction, or became addicted after becoming homeless. This distinction would seem crucial to me.
> The employers with the best conditions and pay in Europe are often US employers!

Could this be because theyre being subsidized by an exploited American workforce? They're certainly profiting off weaker data regulation in the USA.

Anyway, it seems trolly because it'd be like arguing "well the Egyptians have pyramids, and the non slave holding civilizations don't. Clearly they're doing SOMETHING right."

Lots of people are leaving America, as well. Most can't afford to. The ones that can afford international lifestyles aren't really burdened as much by the negative aspects of America - they can get good insurance through a company that can afford it, they can afford to Lyft everywhere to make up for the lack of public transit, they can flex during salary negotiations for longer PTO.

How many impoverished in Europe are "voting with their feet" to come to the first world country with the worst safety net out of all of them? Imagine the innovations that could come from America if it actually invested in its population.

The idea that Europe is not innovative is a bit of a myth anyway. This is a fun read: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/innovation/facts-figure...

Btw, Sweden is measured as the "most innovative" country in the EU. So in a system of first world countries with socialized education and healthcare, and despite detractors on this forum of their allegedly "high cost of living" they're still standing out amongst their peers.
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The article doesn't actually answer the question it poses. Yes, you can find angles to stars and horizons, but how does that help?

What it doesn't say is that measuring the angles between stars and horizons gives you a measure that doesn't depend on which way the spacecraft is pointing. Those angles change in predictable ways as the spacecraft moves. It also doesn't say that what matters is not what what the angles are, and where the spacecraft is, but how they change over the course of a series of readings, telling which direction the spacecraft is going, and how fast.

It really would not have taken more column inches to say what I said, especially if they struck reminding us over and over that the stars' apparent motion is negligible.
Slightly tangential, but I wish some Lisp would make a serious comeback and challenge mainstream languages. For this purpose, libraries are essential. So better tooling would help, and that's why Ultralisp and Quicklisp are interesting.

Clojure is very nice. I have used it for several projects. But sometimes I would prefer not to rely on Java libraries so much, and cleaner stack traces.

Racket may get some critical momentum now, with the whole merge with Chez.

I don't have high hopes for a Common Lisp implementation, as the ecosystem has become too fragmented and stagnant. But I wish I could be surprised here. Shen introduced some great ideas to make a powerful static typing an option in Lisp [1].

[1] http://www.shenlanguage.org/
You're right, I should have added: "after the 60s riots".

Thanks for the reminder.
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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Url changed from https://github.com/ultralisp/ultralisp to the project page.
>You're a very odd bird indeed if you think the vast majority of people want severely-biased search results, and for Google to unfairly leverage their search position to kill competition.

In the case of the embedded speed test that pops up on Google vs. Oookla, it's not as simple as it might seem.

Google owns the JS widget that performs the test, but the backend server is owned and maintained by M-Lab, a third-party consortium (of which Google is a member).

It's a pretty neat project. The code is all open-source and the raw data of the speed tests is all publicly available and licensed under Creative Commons No Rights Reserved Zero Waiver:

* https://www.measurementlab.net

* https://github.com/ndt-project/ndt

* https://viz.measurementlab.net/
S3 is defacto proprietary protocol subject to AWS whims, such as recent v4 update of signing algorithm.

Docker, while not proprietary, still subject to moving fast and breaking things, which was amply criticised here on HN.

Common Lisp should stay a refuge from all the rug pulling around. While it's true that quicklisp is far from bedrock, adding volatile APIs into the mix won't help.
Do you genuinely believe that mitt Romney is at risk for wealth annihilation?
I don't understand. The old German version translated זכר (male) into young boy and then later in 1983 an American financed a German translation because there weren't enough Christians in Germany (!?). The new translation correctly translates it to male. So that proves that the Americans wanted to influence how Germans think about homosexuals.

If I understood this correctly then this is one of the worst research that I have read on hn.
Some thoughts after reading your various responses in this thread:

1. You seem to be looking for commodity pricing -- that is, you just want the product/service, and you do not want any others services related to it.

2. Most (all?) of the vendors are unwilling to provide open commodity-level pricing. This makes me think that one of two things (perhaps both) are in play. One is that the margin on commodity-level pricing just isn't worth the time. If that's the case, good luck finding a vendor -- maybe go straight to the manufacturer.

3. The other (more likely imho) is that the device requires something else to reach its full potential/value, and that something else is variably priced (e.g., set up, follow up, maintenance, etc.). If that's the case, make the call and either buy their expertise or demonstrate that you do not need their expertise. You can get to a near-commodity price fairly quickly if you actually know your stuff.

4. You seem to think that the "song and dance" is a waste of time. As a provider, I want satisfied customers. I want to add value to their experience purchasing through me. There exist cases where certain unsophisticated customers think that all they need is a product or service, and they do not realize that the real value add is in something else (e.g., the proficiency with which the product is used, onboarding, etc.). There are a lot of products and services for which this holds true. I have declined to do business with people because I knew they would use the product/service I was selling them in an inefficient manner and then blame me for it not working.

5. My general thought about customers like you who are not even willing to pick up the phone is that I do not want you as a customer. If you can qualify yourself as needing absolutely zero support, I am happy to sell you a product or service at a lean margin, and I have a sales process that accommodates that. If you do not trust me to qualify you as a customer, then feel free find someone else to do business with.

6. Beware of becoming a pathological customer. You may find that somehow your options are much narrower than others around you. Good business people engage in mutually beneficial relationships -- show that you can add value to the relationship (money is just one factor).
This is another instance of market failure with the mantra of 'freedom', self regulation and 'good intentions' spectacularly coming undone.

Boeing's CEO is incredibly still in office inspite of damning evidence of incompetence which is a straight indictment the whole concept of 'shareholder interest' and accountability.

Can anyone provide one instance where shareholder interest has ensured some kind of accountability of management? Why shouldn't Boeings top management be fired for seriously damaging the company and the brand?
> OpenJDK has no notion of LTS

But two of the main maintainers, Oracle and Red Hat, absolutely do.

> LTS is a service offered by companies to arbitrary JDK versions of their choice

And that arbitrary version is 11.

It's technically accurate but substantially disingenuous to suggest that 11 is not Java's current LTS.
For anyone interested in how drugs became such a crisis in America, I highly recommend History Channel's "America's War on Drugs" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7026882/) - it's free with a trial on Prime Video. It is a fascinating story involving the CIA, fear of communism and, of course, the bottomless guile of corporate greed.
To outperform 8% a year after a 90% drop, you would need to have made 35% for a decade. Are you actually earning that much?

Sp500 over the past decade has earned 14%. Would you stil be up? That means you earned 43% a year for a decade?
It would be unfair to leave it without the link to the HN discussion where he explains in detail his reasons for writing it that way and defends against a lot of criticism, and video stream walkthrough of the codebase as of a couple of years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638086
I find this view very unsettling. Everything I have and love, and everything almost everyone has, is thanks to society. I suppose that includes the bad as well as the good, but really society has brought so much joy that the only way I can imagine someone saying it can only bring hurt is if they don't see how society has helped them. I guess if you are a hermit society doesn't do much for you, and in that case good for you.

I have to assume that what you mean by society is no the same I mean by society. Society gives such basic things as language (not any particular language, but the existence of any language).

Most of us are in perpetual debt to society, deriving from it much more value than we can ever hope to give back.
Hope the surgeon has accident insurance!
It could be and that would be uninteresting. But it's not hard to come up with a (contrived, limit-casey) optimization approach that does actually make guesses about soundness.

Let's say you wanted to optimize a short instruction sequence with a small domain of inputs. You could try to generate all (or at least, zillions) of similarly-sized possible instruction sequences and check them for soundness and performance. Now you're really making soundness guesses. Do real JITs actually make that sort of soundness guess (not that kind of attempt at optimization, obviously)?
>How would the need of an army disappear for a country that would use bitcoin as its national currency?

Bitcoin is not a national currency. It is an international currency. It has not tied to any one country so your question doesn't have meaning.

But, lets humor it anyway. Bitcoin would continue to operate just fine if a country that was using it as their national currency (an absurd premise) was invaded. There are plenty of other countries. This would not be true of a fiat currency. The fiat currency would lose it's value and be controlled.
> short term leaders as found in democracies will try to get as much as they can in the short time they have, whereas lifetime leaders as in monarchies will treat the country more like a property owner would his own property

The evidence shows the opposite. Political leaders (in any system) want to act in the short term. Democracies simply constrain them.

No “lifetime leaders” are guaranteed a life term. They must continuously fight for political survival. (And with that, often, actual survival.) Dictatorships deploy, with limited constraint, their immortal nation’s power on mortal time scales.

(Democracies’ rotation of leaders also allows for fixing mistakes. Dictators are constrained in terms of backing away from bad decisions. They thus have a bad habit of doubling down on stupid decisions.)
Show HN: Recordings of phone screenings for employment
I have installed a program on my phone called ACR, which records all incoming and outgoing phone calls. I have recorded 26 phone screens from the past 3 or 4 months of trying to find a job as a full stack web developer. Some of the interviews are non-technical screens, some of them get technical.

I have not gone through and beeped out any names or personal details. I maybe should have, but it was bad enough I had to live through these moments once, I didn't want to have to relive them by listening through them again to add in the beeps. Some people may get mad at me for giving away their company's interview details, but it is what it is.

The main reason why I'm posting them is because there's this myth that is commonly spoken about on the internet that the unemployment rate is at an all time low, and that companies are dying to hire developers, and if you're a developer with basic skills and a few years of experience, they you'll be flooded with job offers. Hopefully these recordings will put an end to those myths. No one is throwing jobs at me, as these recordings make very clear. It is also very clear that the burden is on me to prove to the company that I'm the person they should hire, not on the company to convince me to work for their company.

By the way, not s single one of these phone screens have lead to a job offer. Most of these screens are with startup companies, but some of them are established companies as well.

About half way through these recordings, I began the habit of asking how many people the company has interviewed before me. In very few cases do they say that they've interviewed less than 10 people. If programming jobs are easy to get, then companies shouldn't get to interview 10 or 15 people before finding a person to hire.

Anyways, here's the link: https://soundcloud.com/freework/sets/phone-interviews
It's entirely possible that she believed it would be without consequence. It just doesn't speak highly of her thinking process. It takes an extreme kind of blindness to not think there would be any retaliation for picketing.
The last of my wife's family left HK in 1997. They've always strongly identified as being Hongkongers / Cantonese, rather than just Chinese, and will often correct people who don't understand the difference. My wife refers to our twins as half-Cantonese, so do I and the rest of our family. This whole situation is very unfortunate to me, but as my wife's mother said this morning, the writing was on the wall way back in 97.
That doesn't mean something similar couldn't exist without America's hyper-capitalist model.

IMO the most valuable websites on the internet could have been created without a profit motive, like Wikipedia. If an American hadn't invented it, someone else would have, and hackers would have indexed it for a searching one way or the other.

There's little evidence that the American work culture being lambasted by social progressives actually contributes any benefits to the world.
Matt Risinger (austin-based homebuilder) did a freeze comparison between copper, pex, and sharkbite fittings some time back. It was pretty interesting.

At this point, I'd probably go for PEX-A (compression band) over PEX-B (the crimp style) because of the risk of getting the crimp not completely correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOeBJ8mDr8Q
>Car sales in total have increased though.

_because_ of automation lowering car prices among other causes.
I appreciate the author identifying what is really going on with homeless on the West Coast. Any visit to Portland, Seattle, SF, LA corroborates this. We need to crack down on those that are perpetuating and benefiting from this crisis.. the dealers, cartels, and yes, the pharmaceutical companies.
Wired residential data tends to be unmetered in many countries in Europe.

Server/commercial data usage is often not metered; bandwidth is charged at a fixed price for the provided line, or e.g. a 95%ile (making off-peak data "free").

Water is not metered individually per household in some houses. There is one meter per house, and the cost is split (equally or according to some formula based on people living there or apartment size).
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Why does me wanting someone else to STOP doing something require me to do a thing or give money to someone? Just stop doing the thing!
I'm happy to hear there is some consideration. I'll be the first, as a user, to say YES to this implementation. That'll encourage me to use Observable more.
> or get themselves fired from a real world programming job. Think spaghetti code, lack of testing or continuous integration, non compliance with standards, etc.

Perhaps, but doing all those things would get them fired from the job they are currently in.