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In the US, violence has fallen since the 90s for sure. I've heard of other reasons too. Less lead paint leading to development disorders, more economic prosperity, and more access to food.

I think the number one way to reduce violence is economic prosperity. It wont cure it, but it goes a long way.
Next step is to gauge the amount of blood underneath the fingernail to tell the amount of pressure being applied.
> std::thread is a thread handle, not the thread itself

While technically true, semantically there's not much of a difference. Yes, you can copy around a handle, but then you have the burden of tracking all of these copies, so that you don't end up with a dangling handle to a thread long dead… or even worse, a reused handle for an entirely new thread that happens to have gotten the same handle value.

This is why you should not think of std::thread being a handle, but the actual thread. Yes, from a system level point of view there's the handle, and all the associated jazz that comes with threads (their dedicated stacks, maybe TLS, affinity masks, etc.), all of which are non-portable and hence not exposed by std::thread, because essentially you're not supposed to see all of that stuff.

> C++ especially is an old language and most code was written before C++11 started to be adopted.

That is true. Heck, I've still got some C++ code around which I wrote almost 25 years ago. But if you use a feature that was introduced only later, then you should use it within the constraints supported by the language version that introduced it and not shoehorn workarounds "just to make it work".
Grubhub is taking the commission from the restaurant in this case.
Learned this term just now on a different HN thread related to a Finnair flight [0]. I found it really interesting.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20622248
There is nothing wrong with touch screens when they are horizontal like a tablet. Vertical touch screens like on laptops or desktops are not ergonomic, and especially so for the elderly.
I think that's just a question of how "cloud" is defined.

Certainly a server in a datacenter can be as isolated as a server in the basement. And unless your threat model involves governments, a reputable hosting company having physical access to the box shouldn't be much scarier than having it in your office.

But lots of people (including those cloud-hyping articles I linked) claim that dedicated servers, even with virtualization, are just "remote hosting". Their standard for 'cloud' is basically "computing as a utility", with on-demand provisioning and pooled resources. I know some huge companies have attempted "private clouds" that provision on-demand from within a dedicated hardware pool, but I think most smaller projects have to choose between on-demand and dedicated.
Do they have consumer app versions?
TIL: Apollo astronauts left behind their own microbes in the 96 bags of human waste
As if all the cars won't be self-driving in a few decades...
>I always wonder how many mis-configured PCs exist in the world with little problems like this quietly slowing down some user who never figures it out.

All of them.
13" or smaller laptops don't really have room for a discrete GPU (I supposed they could fit one by shrinking the battery, but why would you do that) and IGPs are generally "free" compared to ~$50 for a cheap discrete GPU. Logically the GPU is a separate unit whether it's on the same chip as the CPU or a separate chip.
Insurance companies actively work to not-deliver the thing they are paid to deliver.
You left out the rest of the sentence:

> "....and the more money flows to their bottom lines."

The reason is because their profits come as a percentage of what is paid, through the enforced Medical Loss Ratio[1]. There is a clear way to increase profits...

[1]: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/medical-loss-ratio-mlr/
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> people who are older than officially recorded

This is a persistent story in professional football (soccer). Clubs have taken to measuring wrist bones and other techniques to avoid buying players who are older than they say. A problem for people from countries where the official documentation process is somehow lacking.
I'm curious - if I get a number from bandwidth, is it an actual mobile number that can receive SMS from shortcodes ?

That is one downside of twilio - they cannot provide a true mobile number and so therefore you cannot get 2FA and other texts that come from shortcode numbers ...
Bear in mind the specific case being discussed is for B2 buckets, not Backblaze personal backup. Anyone using the B2 interface directly I would hope could be viewed as technically competent. If they can distinguish between the two on their end, it would make sense to provide it as an option for B2 at least.

The best way to deal with 'are you really really sure' is something like send an email with a link you have to visit as confirmation as that breaks you mentally out of the 'keep confirming without thinking' cycle which we are all at least slightly prone to given the number of confirmation dialogues we all see these days.
Whatever they want to do. There is zero penalty or downside for them to falsely imprison someone for months or years.
It's also a poor understanding of the unhealthy, co-dependent, and borderline malicious relationship between hospitals and insurance companies (there are no fair players).

Hospitals will attempt to charge an exorbitant fee for any service (usually 3x or more of what they agree with an insurance company to charge). They do this in an attempt to sucker the uninsured out of money.

Then, for us lucky enough to have insurance, the insurance company will reject the charge, saying, "nope, we agreed this would cost $x". The hospital always lowers to the agreed price. You can see all this on your EoB - a hospital once tried to charge me $4500 for a test and the EoB showed the insurance company knocking it down to the agreed $800.

If all we did was follow emotional, binary reasoning and rid ourselves of the insurance companies, providers would just rip us all off. You have to fix the whole rotten ecosystem.
He's free to find the Google Campus on Google Maps and leave it a 1-star review.
There's been recent controversy in Europe over refugees from Syria etc because they can't prove their age, and under-18s get better treatment for the obvious reason, so then governments want to use questionably-accurate methods like examining teeth…
Tokyo did an amazing job at making it's city pedestrian friendly. Wish more big cities would follow its lead.
It just seems like an inherently slow process. I remember at the time there was a python script someone wrote, which used the API to delete them in 1000 object chunks, and even running that with 10 threads the delete was going to take days and days.
Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?
I think the Ottoman empire was already failing at the time of WW1. Perhaps choosing the winning side would have allowed them to survive a little longer, but I think the empire was doomed at the time.
> I see there's a large group of people who do not believe government can or should do this work and will work very actively to make it happen

do you have any numbers to back that up? There's a very 'vocal' minority holding that opinion but don't assume that group is large enough to matter when it comes to voting for/against it.
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You are aware this currently already happens with Medicare and Medicaid correct?
3dSenVR (previously known as 3DNES VR) has been released on Steam
I don't know if this is just me, but I swear in the nearly 10 years I have used google voice the voicemail transcription has gotten steadily worse. I remember when I joined I was blown away by how good it was and now I don't even bother reading them anymore. They're worse than useless.

Or maybe all of my acquaintances have started mumbling more.
i only play minetest so i can't compare. for complex items you have to craft the ingredients first, so it can end up in a chain from raw materials until you got your actual item done. it can be a bit tedious, but on the other hand if you need an item many times, bulk crafting works well, it is just as easy to create a single item as it is to create hundreds of them.
I am reminded of https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-ag... which lays out the case that the oldest woman on record, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne who substituted herself for her mother in 1934 to avoid inheritance taxes.
Medicare is strongly supported by the seniors who receive it - surviving against decades of attempted rollbacks. I don’t know how one ends up thinking people are unhappy with government administered billing and payments in healthcare.
I wonder if John von Neumann would have had some toddler friends of similar level of genius, would they have invented a twin speak for a "new level" of humanity.
A summary of my earlier response is that 8chan is mostly hated or unknown, they are more anarchic than authoritarian, and Silicon Valley is largely left wing. I don't see how any of that could be fairly perceived as 8chan apologetics unless you had a favorable of anarchism (which I do not).

Calling 8chan authoritarian, when they have little to no authority and little to no rules feels like a bad judgment. Surely Nazis and authoritarians abound there, but they aren't organized in any way, they don't control the site, they are just there posting their positions because anyone can go there and post whatever they like.

You suggest that patriarchal tropes are used to keep users in line. I'd like to know more about that. To my knowledge, the users of 8chan are not kept in line - that's kind of the problem. Moderators there delete illegal content as they become aware of it, but beyond that don't do much - per my understanding.

Regarding your point about politics - it seems facile. In the US, which is where Silicon Valley is located, "The Left" refers to a superset which includes the Democrat party. Silicon Valley is overwhelmingly Left in this sense. While it is true you could use a different definition of "Left", doing so only confuses the issue and for little purpose. The people of 8chan who accuse Silicon Valley of being Left leaning are not making the accusation in the cosmopolitan sense which you are apparently interpreting it.
GrubHub is not involved at all - the equivalent of shaking down people in line. They didn't market anything. They didn't take the order. They just shoved in line and insisted people pay them for … nothing. I can easily see this being a class-action lawsuit.
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Well I beg to differ, using a unlimited swap file can quickly reach hard issues after 64gb of swap use.
At that point mallocs in the windows ui fail (timouts or something?), that apparently are not meant to, eg fonts from shutdown menu missing, the system being unable to shutdown ect.
WTF?! There’s literally no entity I want less involved in healthcare decisions than the private insurance industry. The conflict of interest is shocking... how we arrived at this place is bewildering.
I don't think that's the gist of what was being said, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone quote themselves so tawdrily before today.
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Whether or not people want the government to do it implies nothing about whether the government would be good at doing it. And neither of those things imply anything about whether private insurers are good at checking doctor's orders.

I would say that for any reasonable definition of "good", whether in skill or virtue, private insurers have shown they are definitely not good actors in our health system. Our health system might just be better off without them.

As for your question, I for one would like _doctors_ to double-check doctors' orders. Not an actuary.
yup, i'll stick with minetest
Have you seen photos from these countries? Everything is destroyed in some cities and they have lost everything they had Including family members.

Some countries in the Middle East are already hosting as much as total EU is hosting and even more.

They just don’t complain as much as some of our politicians do to get voted.
They can raise premiums without paying more to hospitals.

No, they can't. Insurance companies are required to payout >80% of premiums on health care costs.[1]

1 - https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
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It's not Yelp directly, it's their outside sales contractors. Anyone who manages the online presence of a small business can contribute corroboratory anecdotes, including me. Yelp encourages this behavior from their contractors.

I'm sorry that no one has formally studied Yelp's shady business practices, because that leaves us without data you find worthy of consumption. Maybe an enterprising law firm will change that once they smell enough blood in the water.

Until then, consider that swaying someone's opinion on Yelp using their own PR resources is a complete waste of everyone's time.
Nevermind ..
I... can't confirm this at all. Opened maps, clicked on a restaurant, selected "call", and brought up the phone app. The only way I can get to a delivery provider is to click a button marked "Delivery". And even there it seems to be suggesting DoorDash to me, even for restaurants that I can find listed on GrubHub's site.
This... this sounds like a torture device.
Remember, your capacity for innovation can be optimized, but will always be finite. Apply your capacity to where the cost/benefit is optimized.
> who needs who

We need them. That's why we pay them.

> everybody wakes up in the morning and thinks enough is enough.

And then? Do they tear down the machines and all the "spooks" are tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail? How do the farm animals know the pigs are not becoming humans? ("Animal Farm" reference, in case it's not clear.) How do you know bad guys aren't building and using spook-tech?

For example, do the drug cartels voluntarily give up their gear in this scenario?
It's depressingly funny how carefully some of those banners are worded.

"Cookies are necessary to make this site work. Click here to enable cookies!" Fine, but those aren't the same cookies, and mysteriously the website works just fine for me even if I kill the third-party cookies.
This mischaracterization of the battery issue is nonsense. Phones finally got fast enough that people were using them until the batteries could no longer hold any meaningful charge, causing the OS to throttle the CPU so that users got more than 5 minutes of battery life.

Anyone who brought their phone in to an Apple store was told all they needed was a new battery.

That isn't "planned obsolescence". If you want real planned obsolescence, look at just about every Android phone that stops getting firmware updates after 18 months.
I'm confused - yeasts are not bacteria?
> Along these lines, Kenneth Pollack concludes his exhaustive study of Arab military effectiveness by noting that "certain patterns of behavior fostered by the dominant Arab culture were the most important factors contributing to the limited military effectiveness of Arab armies and air forces from 1945 to 1991."16 These attributes included over-centralization, discouraging initiative, lack of flexibility, manipulation of information, and the discouragement of leadership at the junior officer level.

> The barrage of criticism leveled at Samuel Huntington's notion of a "clash of civilizations"17 in no way lessens the vital point he made—that however much the grouping of peoples by religion and culture rather than political or economic divisions offends academics who propound a world defined by class, race, and gender, it is a reality, one not diminished by modern communications.

> But how does one integrate the study of culture into military training? At present, it has hardly any role. Paul M. Belbutowski, a scholar and former member of the U.S. Delta Force, succinctly stated a deficiency in our own military education system: "Culture, comprised of all that is vague and intangible, is not generally integrated into strategic planning except at the most superficial level."

You don't. You change the culture by socially engineering it. That's how the West has always done things. But we must understand the savage and his culture... and understand his brute nature so that we may deal with him.
I support all the other suggestions so far. I would also suggest considering something outside your skill set. I have a buddy who does lawn care on the side as a weekend gig. Maybe other things considered more blue collar. My cousin is a pool boy in SoCal. He was making over $100k a year before he backed off due to health reasons.
Oof, HN does not like jokes.
Being able to conceptualize does not depend on language, many of us don't think in language at all.
Google also sells your direct links to "Buy Tickets" and your phone number to 3rd party affiliates that will take a cut without your permission.

I've been fighting for almost a year to get links in our profile pointed back to our website for a website with more than 1 Million hits a year and a 30k Google Ad spend.
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With all due respect, if we were to plot age vs computer literacy, there would be a very high negative correlation.
A set of research papers across a wide range of topics (AI, ML, DS and IR)
Hearsay would be if someone else said a Google engineer told them that Google was biased. If a firsthand accusation from an engineer is hearsay then whistle-blowing of any type wouldn't be a thing.
"through any third party"

I would argue that using a third party that specialises in security is better than remaking the wheel yourself.

Cloudflare invest a significant amount in the security of their platform and have a lot of talented engineers that focus solely on that. They have a lot more data to play around with and I would expect they can do a better job at security than Monzo alone, with their own infrastructure, with their own engineers. Note that Cloudflare is PCI compliant (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202249734-C...)

Not sure I understand the hype of remaking the wheel, when specialist services exist that probably do the work better, more safely and cheaper.
"PFS" sounds a lot like the MERGE operation of minimalist (natural language) syntax, which Chomsky has similarly linked to behavioural modernity.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/06/20/noam-chomsky-the-sc... (not too much info here, but the best I can find at the moment)
>“I definitely implore people to forgo the three seconds of convenience to help neighborhood businesses,” he said.

Interesting way to end the article. I think we have all seen lines around the block for the new hotness in local resturants. If the owner is trying to get people in the door like this, then it is likely that these apps are not the culprit in the issues that the owner is facing.

In the article, grubhub points out a business that they helped out by pointing the business to switch to poke' bowls. There are some interesting points about that:

1) Per my reading, they only can point out one example. I did not see any stats or talk about a population, just an anecdote. I may have missed something though, or the writer decided to not use that sound bite.

2) That is consulting. They are mixing referral fees and trying to point out that they are sucessful un-solicited consultants too. This is not initially murky stuff, but it can get mixed up really fast. The incentives are not well aligned.
Not so, since the ACA requires health insurers in the individual and small group market to spending 80 percent of their premiums on medical costs. This creates a perverse incentive wherein the only way to increase profits is to also increase spending.
The problem is the duration and durability of the exercise when you have millions of objects in the bucket. It could easily take days.
> have convinced me that simple file sync, which is all I ever wanted from them, is not enough to sustain a company.

Is the problem that it's not enough to sustain a company, or that it's not enough to sustain investors who unreasonable expect constant growth?

I'd posit that Dropbox has a sustainable business, and that their changes will likely hurt the long-term viability of that business.
I live in Europe, I dealt with the health care system. Governments here do not manage health care, they have organizations doing that. In my country (Romania), it is called National Health Insurer. Public institution, but it is an insurer - this is what I said. We also have private ones. Yes, Romania is part of the European Union and it has a system that exists in other countries in EU.
If only it wasn't a likely human carcinogen (https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-gly...)
Looks like I've made similar points at least a couple of times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dredmorbius%20laissez%20faire%...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11677735#11681574

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261411#8278705

What I'd just (re?) realised is that the term laissez faire itself originated with Quesnay, though arguably in a different context -- he was arguing against merchantilist tarrifs and protectionist practices.

I've been pursuing the old question of cui bono in looking at the situation of market and financialised commerce, as opposed to other systems (communal, tribal, feudal, socialist). No firm conclusions though it's an interesting inquiry.
Crystal? Hasn't reached 1.0 though.
So what happens to our economy when 100s of thousands to people are out of a work because the government shit down the insurance company they worked for?
I not saying things can't be better but a instant (or even a short roll out time) would kill our economy. Why doesn't anyone mention that.
Other bacteria join the party, not just yeast.

[EDIT] which are fungi anyway, incidentally
Surely the scientists have something better[0] to do than spend a few man0-decades chasing a null result. Research resources, like anything, are limited. From a Bayes' POV, the prior of finding glycophosphate in soil after 5-10 years is now much lower after the initial results.

[0] Like research the effects of a pesticide that they haven't just found to 'effectively degrade in soil'
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I don't use Yelp so my opinions are both irrelevant and formed entirely by what I've heard from others. I'm not sure I believe Yelp hides/shows reviews based on whether businesses are willing to pay but I'm not sure I put too much weight in the above posted link either.

If Yelp's review algorithm has nothing to do with advertising spend then it should be fairly easy to have someone from PwC/Deloitte/E&Y look at the algorithm and issue a letter saying advertising spend isn't a factor. I'd give a lot more weight to a third-party review than I do the Buzzfeed article (not Buzzfeed News) and academic study on the ethics and incentives behind review fraud that Yelp has cited.
Where I come from, the voting machines create a paper with the votes, which the voter gets to review. That seems to have all the advantages of the paper ballots, with the electronic advantage of rapid totals.

I would like to see spot checks - pick a few precincts at random, and compare the electronic totals to the paper.
Europe is hardly homogenous, their are insurers in Netherlands and Switzerland...but other countries have more public based systems, or are at least mixed (Germany?). So...saying European model isn’t very clear to me.
Assuming this worked, it seems a bit extreme.

You want to validate the age of a person, so you remove one of their teeth or take a tissue sample from their eye?
Teeth mostly consist of hydroxyapatite, which doesn't contain any carbon.

Not 100% sure, but for someone that just died, you might be able to do it with their brain, as brain cells are hardly ever renewed. For a living human I don't think there is any way that's non-invasive.
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