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Capitalism distills incentives. It’s hard to think of a poorer incentive structure than that between prisons and prisoners. For healthcare, there is a mix of incentives, some of which incentivize improved quality and quantity of care. For prisons, I can’t think of a single incentive around capital which could lead to better outcomes for prison life compared to a public structure.
I haven't read the book, but the idea of "love languages" seems plausible to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Love_Languages

It sounds like maybe your love languages are acts of service and nonjudgmental listening, and your partner's are...something else. I guess a mutually acceptable compromise might involve your partner trying to be more understanding about how you express love, and you trying to put more energy into the expressions that your partner wants. I don't know exactly how you'd get there, but the book might have something constructive to say, and couples therapy is often a good idea.
If they want to reduce over tourism in Norway, they could publish a list of "secret gems" in Finland. Sort of how Japanese banks would park money in competing banks because it cost money to hold it.
It is useful to have a way to represent structural and semantic information in email text (paragraphs, headings, quotes etc.), but not custom layouts and styling — that should remain under full control of the reader.
Electric bikes are a hundred years old.

(oil powered bikes are also that old)

These have not taken off.

On a bike a battery/motor weights doesn't really matter and costs are low.

Explain why scooters will work when bikes don't?

Even in many developing countries motorcycles won. You don't see any bikes of either sort in a place were practicality win.

Scooters are a fad. When the fad wears off they are not sustainable.
These games shouldnt either with parental/family friendly controls. Would that make it good enough? Because I'm pretty sure at least on consoles you need to go through the platform to use saved credit data, and consoles offer parental controls.
> Where do you put the bicycle when you get where you need to go?

Aren't there any light posts close to where you need to go? Not even talking about dedicated bike spots or racks – which may be available on your location. If you are not a bicyclist, you may not have noticed them even if they are present.

If you are commuting, surely there is some place at your place employment where you can leave it?

More worrying is multi-mode transportation. If you location's public transport doesn't provide space for bikes, then it is a big problem.
Here's the latest: "... while rent control prevents displacement of incumbent renters in the short run, the lost rental housing supply likely drove up market rents in the long run, ultimately undermining the goals of the law." https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/DMQ.pdf

Previously: "Rent control policies generally lead to higher rents in the uncontrolled market, with rents some-times substantially higher than would be expected without rent control (i.e., between 10 to 25 percent higher). Over time, if rent control does not apply to new construction, there is some evidence that the impact on uncontrolled rents diminishes." https://www.nmhc.org/globalassets/knowledge-library/rent-con...

It also follows from supply and demand. Owners are more likely to sell rather than rent out their places, and tenants are more likely to stay in their below-market rent units, both of which reduces supply for new (i.e. market-rate) tenants.
That is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put. From the definition of big-oh, the choice of the number one is completely arbitrary.
Native Floridian here as well. Same, but I would never swim down into a submerged car to investigate it. They're usually far too disgusting and too deep down. There was a submerged car in a canal where I grew up, I used to use it as a landmark for fishing all the time. It's probably still there, who knows, there could be a body.
I don't think Google would even attempt to do this, at least not in a high profile public fashion.

Google is watching your backyard from above seems like a PR disaster to its already troubled image.
It's still a compromise when you're depending on people to create user-generated content for you.

One could argue this article is a net-gain for the community as a whole, even if he is ultimately hawking buzzwords and his consultancy. We're still getting this long-form exposition with a bit of research into Apple patents and other direct sourcing from both Apple and others collected in one place for free.

Content marketing can provide a lot more value to the world than most forms of marketing.

Additionally, 99% of people are only going to read the first half where he explains it's an ultra-wideband chip with a few examples then move on. They aren't going to dig into his futuristic predictions and other consultancy nonsense, or even look at his name.

Although having to skim through crap like this in order to get to the meat is a bit annoying:

> Many folks in the payment industry including disruptive startups thought me insane and went about becoming redundant when Apple Pay was released. Of course I had far more basis than a single Phil image. History is about to repeat itself.

This is bad enough to make it almost unworthy of HN. But otherwise it did the job of answering the question well enough.
> bones will last virtually forever

Ironically, like plastic. :)
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I didn't mean that becoming selfless should make you more dedicated to your job. It might do that, depending on your job. But the main thing is that you can start to enjoy everything more, particularly whatever it is you really should be doing.

If you are in a place where you decide you should really be working, then you can work and not feel miserable about it. If you are in a place where you can live a fuller life without working a regular job, then you should do that instead. There's nothing wrong with helping people out at work, while getting money so that you can help yourself and your loved ones out at home. And you can enjoy both parts. As long as you aren't doing something you'd consider evil at your job. Then the same selflessness might help you to either quit or make change inside the company, without having so much fear about what will happen to you.

If you are so miserable while doing any kind of thing in a set way over any length of time, then you may find a soul-crushing moment where you have achieved permanent financial independence, are living your dream, and find this feeling overtaking you again. But this time there is no hope of an eventual way out.
And as might be expected on a forum full of intelligent nitpickers, people can parse and dissect the structure of this sentence to fit any narrative they'd like.

For example, it says it's solving issues attributed to production of livestock...it doesn't outright claim the "meat" itself is healthier for you in terms of nutritional content.

Drive by any factory farm that stretches for hundreds of acres and the stench alone would convince you that reducing things like that would have a positive impact on human health, both directly and indirectly [runoff of feces and chemicals into the environment, use of antibiotics and hormones, climate change, etc]
I was thinking that this would only be good for light duty as at least some of the teeth would be along the grain and liable to break off. Then I went to the homepage and, indeed, there are pictures of gears with the teeth glued in so that they have a different grain from the underlying gear.
Ah ah, no need to go to the extra length of sharing your Wi-Fi for that, your friends' phones already know where they are by scanning nearby WiFi access points, cellular towers and using GPS.
FTA: "Patch even covered three months of an owner’s mortgage during a liquidity crunch for his small business"

That doesn't sound paid-off to me.
The bit at the end of the article links to a post by the UK's cyber security center exhorting library developers to consider that they are holding back clients of their library by not providing a Python 3 compatible version.

I find that amusing. I would argue much more of the responsibility here lies with consumers of libraries written by someone else to understand what that means. Partly it means the library author might stop supporting it or might not provide upgrades. Plan accordingly.
On the subreddit now as I type this. Man you have hit the nail on the head though with the one line. I feel so guilty when I disagree and she doesn't see my point. Its like I want her to say okay I see your point but we never seem to get there unless it is her point of view. I want to stand up for what I believe in (for the record it is things like how to save money, stuff I can pull numbers for). I come from a family where we plan things long term. So we would sit and talk about a kitchen renovation for a year or two while we saved money and weighed different options before doing. Even then we would do as much as we could ourselves. She comes from a family where you just call up a designer and contractor and hand over the house. Trouble is we don't have the money to hire designer and contractor and we don't agree on how to save money so it comes across as if I am stingy person denying her, her dream kitchen. She isn't a horrible person I promise but we just cannot do things together and I don't know what to do.
As someone working on the problem of "how do we have a hugely popular free product that doesn't make money off user data or selling information to advertisers" - the reason why there used to be a bunch of free email programs and most people now use Google is that it's incredibly hard to scale free technology without doing it in a way that isn't creepy (or being acquired by a company that will eventually insist on creepiness). Hopefully not an impossible problem.
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> Being late isn't a power move, it's just makes you look disorganized and disrespectful.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no
How is the prison guard union and a lobby group specifically a problem of the public sector?

For all of its faults, I can't agree with you that the public sector is just as bad as the private sector.
I'm sorry but really? How many locations in this planet have -30 celcius winters? Just because it may not work for you doesn't mean it can't work for others. Plus, you are not in a permafrost area, are you?

> Large vehicles and smaller forms of transportation should in no way "share the roadway". It's complete madness and dangerous.

Nah. It's only dangerous if traffic laws are not respected nor enforced.
Well I'm screwed then :)
Yes, but the worldwide beef demand keeps growing, and places like Britain and Ireland are likely tapped out, so now operations are expanding elsewhere.

Your comments is like saying "we don't have to do fracking!", when the answer is, yes, you do, to satisfy the ever-growing demand for oil.
Yes, the kernel will map virtual to physical however it sees fit, no guarantees there (at least not in user-space via glibc). Realloc will always return a virtually contiguous slice or NULL if it can’t. And you’re right, obviously all those potential subordinate mallocs would be inefficient. :) In this contrived FizzBuzz example case, you could pretty easily do the math and just malloc it all in one go at the start of the function. Fizz and Buzz are the same size, you would just need to add up the iota lengths and the trailing \0. If you take an arg for N (1..N) then stack allocations are not going to work. You need to statically declare their size.
What Midwest are you talking about? It's the opposite - there are tons of jobs and not enough talented people to fill them.
This same story has happened before, in Michigan, when a worker putting christmas lights on a nearby tree noticed a car in a pond from their raised vantage point.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/car-with-body-of-man-missing-...
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It makes sense in business, but not for institutions like healthcare or prisons
Or a Bike Friday Pakit https://www.bikefriday.com/folding-bikes/product/bike-friday...
Probably total coincidence. But happens when I was a kid I 'knew' thermometers contained mercury, and it was clearly red. You only had to look.
On the second point, I think folks are rightly dubious about the effectiveness of incentives broadly[1]. There's also some hilarious historical examples of incentives backfiring or having unwanted side-effects (like the Cobra Effect [2].)

More broadly, I don't think it's that easy to think that private prisons can even work well as a solution, regardless of whether they should be allowed to exist as a matter of public policy and ethics. Consider one summative look at this issue provided in this evaluation[3] -- it's dubious whether they're even cost effective, one of the strongest pro-private-prison arguments there has been in public debate, and how there's much better alternatives than the kind of perverse incentives bundled with private prisons, like re-evaluating whether parolees should be allowed in public housing, and providing more transition housing so when sentences are complete, inmates aren't forced to spend even more time in prison because they don't have an address to go to.

[1] https://hbr.org/2009/03/when-economic-incentives-backfire
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
[3] https://publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu/live/news/2304-privat...
Capitalism is great for some things, and awful for others. Capitalism works best when there's no power differential between customers and service providers because the goal is to maximize profit. If my choice is to pay for cancer treatment or die, you can (and do) charge me literally whatever you want in a capitalist system. If I get no choice in which prison I go to, well, I get bilked.

Basically anywhere you have no choice should be socialized or two-tier: Medicine, Prison, Army, Education.

On the other hand, nobody's forcing me to buy phones.
I don't get your argument at all. Taste is hard to change, it's very much hard-coded to our brain. Artificial meat makes it easier to do the right thing, so it seems to me like a very much unambivalently good thing.
A great day for California.
I know what YAML is, but what do you mean by YAML engineering? Fields of engineering with a focus on creating/editing YAML config files?
serious question: why doesn't C improve much?

I understand there are benefits to small or no changes whatsoever.

I also understand there are a number of standards (1990, 95, 2011...)

Is it that all the people who would be interested in improving C just naturally migrate to C++ which is getting improvements?

Your example of better strings is good, but why not lists and hashes as language elements?

If not in the language directly, then ok in the library. But speaking of the library, why limit to just a few things, why not batteries fully included. shoot for knuth in the standard library!
This is not that different from the United States. We do not have good state solutions for mental illness. There have a been a lot of good things shown to work in smaller communities and with family support, but unfortunately many people in this category have neither type of support system.
If you're too impatient to wait for first-class optional chaining in TS, there's a nice open-source library for it that's been around for a little while:

Repo: https://github.com/rimeto/ts-optchain

Blog post with some details: https://medium.com/inside-rimeto/optional-chaining-in-typesc...

(I don't work for Rimeto, but a close friend did, which is how I stumbled on that blog post.)
I have no idea what you are trying to say.

But I will say this: stop blaming women for your shortcomings.
I don't think this is true. I've forwarded lots and lots of emails, and I've never even come close to getting charged.

Is this true, or is Jerry Falwell Jr just doing some 3rd grade playground style bluffing?
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I am beginning to think so. I spent 3 weeks away and to be honest whilst I missed her I also felt a sense of peace. I guess 5 years is a long time and we have some good memories... Thanks to OP I needed to write out my feelings.
That's a useful data point. It's hard to get a sense of these things when nobody ever wants to talk about them.
Gotta be something to that, end of legislative session maybe?
If the speed is the same, and the places traveled are the same, and the likelihood of an accident is the same...

Can you imagine going to a car dealership, and coming across a car with 10x the stopping distance and a center of mass twice as high as a Civic and the salesman telling you "it's just as safe so long as you're traveling the same speed and same places"? Would you buy that claim for a second?

I've avoided numerous accidents by being able to stop quickly on my bike, or by making a sharp turn. This varies greatly just between different bicycles -- a mountain bike has much better stopping distance than a road bike. There's obviously also a big difference between a skateboard and a bicycle.

There's also, I think, a steeper learning curve between skateboard and bike, though that may be because learning to bike as a child is more common. There's at least a difference in skill levels. I mostly know the limits of my bike. (e.g., how hard can I turn without skidding out?) and while a skilled skateboarder may be on par with me on that, I'm not. I can bike tens of thousands of miles without falling. I'm nowhere near the skill level of being able to do that on a skateboard.

Being able to eject yourself is also valuable. I suspect a skateboarder would have better "eject and run" options than a cyclist, so that's a point in their favor. (I've had my back tire run over twice, and both times I was able to simply run forward over the handlebars, and my hands (and head) didn't touch the grounds, but it's not always going to be that easy.)
"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."

"For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."

"Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious. A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular queries [Marchiori 97]."

"This type of bias is much more insidious than advertising, because it is not clear who "deserves" to be there, and who is willing to pay money to be listed."

Where do [Ads by Google] appear? It might be easier now to tell the ads from the results, but the ads are still at the top. The easiest click/tap a user can make. Who "deserves" to advertise there at the top? The highest bidder, in a non-transparent auction.

"For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant effect on the market. Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results."

Today, we see all manner of compliance with whatever Google asks of websites. Websites that do "X" will be favoured in search results, and websites that do not do X will be non-transparently penalised behind the scenes. For example, X could be use of a protocol or participation in a program controlled by and designed to benefit Google's business. Over the years, there have been so many instances of X, I can no longer keep track. HN readers can easily list multiple examples of X.

"In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines. However, there will always be money from advertisers who want a customer to switch products, or have something that is genuinely new. But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm."

Google and others have met the world's needs for a commercially-focused, advertising-funded search engine.

However we still need that "transparent" search engine "in the academic realm" referred to in this paper. As it happened, Google is not it.
My plan is to not have any family because of this employment problem. It'd be neat to have kids I guess, but however good it is cannot possibly be worth an extra 20 years of employment.
I used to have trouble sleeping as the problem of the day was constantly in my head. My minimal solution is to go home at a milestone point where you've solved the problem to a point requiring further debug/writing of code. I try to apply this always now, especially for weekends and vacations.
I don’t see emoji covered yet, but I have had real issues with gmail not recognizing some Apple-okay emoji or displaying them with extraneous symbols.
$2500 of stock over three years? Seems like why even bother for that small amount, the overhead of the book-keeping (on both your and their side) would be a pain at that point.
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This position is laughable to pretty much anyone with common sense, and yet there are a good number of large companies that would support his position in court, if only because they'd really like that "If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately, and delete the message and any attachments." tagline in emails to be proven legally-binding in court.
This is the best news I've seen all month. Maybe all year. Props to California.
History suggests that, for a good approximation of the truth, the resources put into a language implementation (and, in particular, into JIT compiling VMs) strongly correlate with its performance. So V8 and HotSpot, for example, both have great performance -- and both have had large teams working on them for many years.

Interestingly, PyPy has pretty decent performance despite having had a much smaller team working on it, mostly part-time. An interesting thought experiment is whether similar resources put into PyPy -- or a PyPy-like system -- would achieve similar results. My best guess is "yes".
I rather care about middleware that takes advantage of best hardware integration in each platform, instead of bare bones APIs full of endless extensions, which are only portable in theory, with "portable code" full of OEM specific code paths.
I'm not sure I'm in favour of rent control in the first place, but as a Vancouver renter I have seen vacancy tax really help with both house prices and rental availability. It also seems to be a fair tax, you are being taxed on a luxury that affects other people negatively.
And people called me paranoid when I called Google out for replacing fingerprint authentication with face recognition in the upcoming Pixel 4.

It's clear as day they intend to use that data for purposes other than the immediate unlocking of the device, even if they won't do that at launch, because too many people pay attention then.
> If my choice is to pay for cancer treatment or die, you can (and do) charge me literally whatever you want in a capitalist system.

Erm, no. Because if people can't pay for it, then your drug get no sales, and you lose your investment. The problem right now is that there are several payers involved and nobody sees the real cost of things. Were you to pay directly for drugs from your own pocket without intermediaries I'd wage all drugs would be way cheaper.
V8 needs to produce relatively fast code early during page loading
So for e.g backend js programs is it possible to ask v8 to take more time to optimize?