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How many engineers in Europe live on small farms 20+ miles from their employer?

Look, engineers can get jobs in the United States without owning a car, too -- but they'd better live in an urban area with public transit, or work remotely (and live in an area where they can still get where they need by transit, bike, or walking). I suppose it's possible that engineers in the French or German equivalents of rural farm country do just peachy where they are, but I'm betting most of them are actually living in and around Paris, Berlin and Munich.
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> The idea that the banks didn't want to make those loans and only did it to meet regulatory standards is incompatible with the belief that the regulation was co-oped for the benefit of the banks.

Keep in mind that there is more than one lobby group. A big force behind "give more loans, everybody should own a home" is the National Association of Realtors.

So the banks don't want to give the loans (because they know there will be defaults) but the Realtors want them to; the "compromise" is to move the risk away from the banks.

The law was a moral hazard -- move the risk from doing something stupid risky onto somebody else and of course the banks are going to do it then. It was what we "wanted" them to do, which is apparently why the people enacting it didn't think too hard about why they didn't want to do it on their own.
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> You should be just as sick that these companies are pulling

One can be sick of people turning the office into a political battle-field and simultaneously have no problems with outward corporate lobbying. These are different problems.
Robinhood is an app that lets you trade, it's all real trading on the same market as everyone else, it's just an app allowing you access.
WallStreetBets is just a community of "investors" who trade on real markets, but with Robinhood having such a low barrier to entry they often trade using it. (Screenshots of Robinhood trades going really well or really badly are a staple of WallStreetBets humour).
Worry about naming your company/product due to trademarks, worry about selling your product due to patents.

Makes me think twice and I haven't even got an idea yet!
You must live in a huge bubble if you really don't know anyone without a car who has kids. The majority of the parents that live near me don't own cars.

You know that you can take strollers on buses and trains, right?
It is true but one does not need a special chair as much as learning how to sit on any chair. If the chair is really comfortable it invites the sitter in really bad unnatural positions and in no time that creates a bad habit. During my 20s, when I basically entered the workforce, I started having serious issues with sitting. I tried a lot of different chairs and while they ameliorated the pain and numbness something was still wrong. Now, almost at twice that age I have very few chair/back related problems. When something hurts I closely pay attention to how I sit. Of course, exercising with proper posture has helped me overcome some of my issues as well. While most chairs are really bad for most of us, I think chasing a perfect chair is not the solution but learning how to sit and have a proper posture is the essential part.
You're asking why technologists prefer to comment on technology, rather than environmental science.

Look at posts on Tesla, nuclear energy, battery prices, nuclear fusion, all of these fancy subjects: they're much more interesting to HN.

And, of course, I wager most HN commenters would agree there is a crisis -- do they need further evidence of that fact? They want to focus on the solutions, not the latest statistics of how bad the issue is.
In case you want to know more about the constraints, the search term is Lagrange multiplier.

Names shouldn't be omitted because they are essential to searching for details. A name might make sense once you know it but you can not really derive it. If you do not know it, you are lost.

Nice article by the way!
Genuine question: how do I share code with other parties in the industry?

Suppose that I'm working in the insurance industry and I want my company A to share the ownership of some code (and its execution) with company B. It's a redundant piece of code that would otherwise be implemented in both companies internally.

We may share a repository. That's simple and clear. But who is going to run this code? How do I know that the code running is the one shown in the shared repository?

When I see things like Hyperledger Fabric, I see a possible solution to this problem (although I don't know about the downsides of Fabric). I can ensure that, given the same inputs, all parties will produce the same outputs. This seems like a fair use for a permissioned blockchain and smart contracts.

But what else is out there? How would you approach this problem?
I've been on T-Mobile for 15 years and have had great service the whole time. There have been a few unexpected perks along the way as well that have helped me out, such as free wifi on flights and free international calls. Just thought I'd voice an opinion of someone who is satisfied with T-Mobile
Did you just interpret "I had to drive for an hour each way to buy clothes or decent vegetables" as "I demand ready access to every product and experience there is" and then call the commenter a socialist?
Ant Study Deepens Concern About Plastic Additives
100%. They're an excellent example of how impactful attention to detail and simplicity can be.

Thinking back to implementing Stripe for the first time, I remember being surprised by how painless it was. Prior to that integrating payments was something that filled me with the same kind of dread I get from dealing with legal paperwork.

I love that they've been so successful.
This is just the risk people have to take with devices containing lithium ion batteries. I've had two phones swell to the degree that case pops apart. One time was when the phone was in my shirt pocket where I could feel it heating up. Both phones were Google nexus brand units and not low end throwaways.
Wow. Thanks for sharing Doxin. The 'Shane Koyczan' video is beautiful. I honestly feel that reaching out to someone being bullied is the most selfless act a person can do. I hope that everyone reading this can remember that and one day, when the need arises, can step forward and just be there for another person who needs someone.
Not to mention the fact it's literally linked in the comment they're replying to.
What you've described is a very quick way to lose your broker dealers license, and get in massive shit from multiple federal agencies, not a safe way to get rich.

> CLEARLY, Robinhood knows about the infinite leverage bug

This is the same company that offered FDIC insured savings and checking accounts, while not actually being covered by FDIC. They have always taken a move fast a break things approach, and then had to cover their asses when regulators step in.
The UK will no longer be a European Union country but it will definitely keep being European. And I guess Ireland has a "centre" too.
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I wouldn't have even warned them - I'm sure the small city's worth of lawyers they have on payroll know more than we think that the CEO could be liable - they just know all the loopholes and have all the cash to defend their choice.
I too salute our stripe overlords. The payments api is so easy to use - I was done in a few hours, literally... in php (boo). :-)
But there are also the situations where some concave skulled moron manages to be so stupid, it actually costs a company like Robinhood and WSB comes out on top (see - 1R0NYMAN)
I'd expect the gamblers will simply be bailed out. That is the precedent from 2008, is it not?
...Most of them aren't even measuring the same variable. What were you hoping to correlate? For the handful of pairs that are apples to apples, couldn't you just imagine one being situated above the other?
True, and that's my default approach. But what about building a ML dataset and model?

Also, aren't we supposed to gather consent for every use, separately? And not prevent users from using the service should they refuse to share their data?

Or am I just confused, and should just spend more time looking into it, or pay some (supposedly expert) (expensive) lawyer ?
It may have some cronyism to it, but so does the way China massively subsidizes its green tech. In the end, we want to support EVs and get the transition going as fast as we can, and this policy will help somewhat.
Isn't this essentially how the entire world economy works? This is exactly what it means when you saw headlines like "$60 trillion of derivatives are poised to come crashing down" around the time of the 2008 financial crisis. It's futures on leverage on futures on leverage, with all different kinds of counterparties sucked into the tangle.
There's also the "never written about because every one knew" common knowledge problem. It was a boring thing everyone knew, so why would they write about it?
Huh, he updated that to the full model quickly.
Could any physicist speculate on the viability of using the Wigner energy for energy storage.

Questions are, energy density, ease of 'injecting' the energy, how controlled can the release be, anything else.
Rising sea levels are unambiguously bad for the millions of people who live by the coast.
Not according to Musk and his tweets. The Dutch/French/German border area is what he stated the likely candidate. Plus Tesla Grohman and Tesla EU HQ are nearby.
> Taxation is also theft.

Aw you’re one of those! It’s all starting to make sense. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...

I sure hope you don’t need the army, police, schools, fire, water, roads, air and so on. Most adults came to realize at some point that some things need to be provided as a group, and they’re not free. For those everyone has to pony up.

If you don’t want to pay taxes there’s a few countries you can do that in but in most paying taxes is social contact: it’s a take all the benefits and pay taxes, or leave to a society with a contact you view more amiable.

> unit of exchange should remain relatively constant.

Well if I have 100 people and my economy had $100, and Steve has $20 of them, then Steve invented the steam train and 100,000,000 more people show up then the value of my dollar has gone up millions of times over and Steve is now the single wealthiest human on earth even though he’s only got $20. To keep it stable I’d make more dollars. If you see how this works on the macro timescale you must see how it translates to the micro.

> to the profit of the large banks

We’re paying them to provide liquidity to the economy via lending and again they only make 1% on assets on deposit. It’s not the system you seem to think it is.

> avoidable...

You just have to factor that in to the investment minimum yield. This isn’t rocket science. You are not guaranteed a risk-free return on capital. To ease this Trump is considering indexing capital gains against inflation, another approach (which I wholeheartedly disagree with).
We will most certainly still be a European nation. Just not a member of the European Union. We are still located on the European continent. Its spelled centre.
> I know basically nothing about finance.

Neither does anyone on r/wsb, which is why it is entertaining.
I am not trying to put down the necessity of saving the planet.

I am saying a bunch of protesters at Google won't ever make them change about big oil and that they should focus on some achievable goals
>How many engineers in Europe live on small farms 20+ miles from their employer?

Not many, because their urban planning is better.

Bottom line, car culture is not some fundamental invariant of reality for getting a job, as the original comment was suggesting.
Well that would just be another one of the real-life consequences, good or bad, for either party involved.
> Trademarks aren't examined for validity prior to registration, as patents are.

Well, it sounds like that's the problem right there. It seems like it would be a lot more efficient to hire a few people at the USPTO to review applications instead of spending millions of dollars in lawsuits.
First time equity holder. I like where I work and what I do, but the equity just gives me FOMO when I think about moving on in the future
Anyone living actually out in the country has already been driving 30-60min each way a couple times a month for "major shopping" including groceries, and maybe gardening or raising some livestock to supplement that if they're so inclined. The folks in these marginal towns are just getting introduced to that way of life, I guess, and that's the story here? If they don't like it... well, sorry, but it costs a lot more to get groceries at small volumes out to little, remote towns, so unless your town grows a bunch (unlikely) people are gonna keep driving farther away for better prices, killing new stores that try to start up, just as TFA describes. Start living like a real Country Person or move to where the grocery stores (that everyone actually wants to shop at, apparently) are.
Outcome 3 is that the SEC revokes your broker-dealer license for violation of Regulation T and your entire company disappears into a puff of smoke. You become one more company “disappeared” by the law, like Accenture or Aereo.
Oh yeah that would be great if we could have afforded it. Not everyone lived in a world where they could "get out and enjoy ethnic food" and some having it local and have the ability to make it yourself was the only option.

Your comment comes off very condescending.
Someone else already did. You can find it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
Anyone who invests in a stock is taking a significant risk of losing 100% of their investment, a risk on the order of 5% per year. Anyone who invests in gold is used to seeing it fluctuate by a factor of 2 or 3 most years. Yet not only are these popular investments — they're better investments than dollars are over all but the shortest time periods. Anyone who invested a large amount of money in stocks or gold in 1973 would be rich today, unless they were very unlucky at picking stocks. Anyone who invested a large amount of money in a bag of dollar bills in 1973 would be poor today.

In short, if any soul you could imagine had won the lottery in 1973, they'd be poor again by now because of not knowing how to manage their money, incorrectly believing that a currency is not a kind of investment.
I wish I could say the same for iWork. I can’t believe Apple is so naive in not supporting old document formats. Such a clear use case it’s ridiculous.
If you're designing a new computer platform, do you care about power (i.e. does it need to run on batteries)? If so you probably want a RISC architecture rather than CISC (although the Intel Atom tries hard to be a low-power CISC machine). That leaves you with two choices: Arm (used in all smartphones, some Chromebooks, and Raspberry Pi) or RISC-V. Arm is more mature and there's a lot more software available, but it's not an open source architecture.
Been away from C++ a long time. If picking it up again, is it better to just start with C++17 or 20 or stick to C++11 which seems to be the defacto production version?
The Robinhood CEO Baiju Bhatt actually is stupid. Just a complete idiot who somehow managed to trick naive investors into giving him money. For proof see how badly he bungled the introduction of checking / savings accounts and lied to customers.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/12/14/robinhood-ch...
Show HN: YouTube Dynamic Playlists
Side project of mine to be able to put together dynamic YouTube playlists in no-time.

I couldn't find a good solution out there, so to scratch my own itch, I created this.

Simply drag and drop a youtube URL onto the page and/or focus onto the page with a youtube URL in your clipboard. You can drag and drop the videos in the playlist area to reorder and best of all - it stays in full screen mode between videos (a feature I couldn't find in any of the existing solutions out there ;) )

Let me know what you guys think!

Btw, the repo is available here: https://github.com/ndom91/youtube-playlists
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=republican+politicians+dismantling+soc...

C'mon, is "Republicans routinely run against entitlement programs" really some crazy controversial assertion you think isn't remotely backed up by reality?
Meanwhile my Trail Pros have been a delight, by far the best aluminium poles I've ever bought. So yeah, I don't see what your anecdote proves.
Name 1 thing people protest that is unanimously considered a bad thing.
last time I used C++ was in the mid-2000s. With all the new features since then, I assume the "proper" way/style to right C++ has changed since then?
Curation Should Be a Feature, Not a User Interface
If you can justify blatant theft like that, you can probably justify worse crimes too
> The right to refuse service to customers, and birth control to employees, on the basis of religious belief of business owners, has been confirmed by the US Supreme Court.

That is not the case at all.
Last time I checked it was closer to $250. Where are you seeing $100? I'm genuinely asking because I would definitely pay that.
Why? Imagine a vehicle that in practicality performs the exact same job as a helicopter, has the same or actually worse failure modes than helicopters(helicopters can at least autorotate, most proposed "flying cars" can neither glide nor autorotate) and now tell me why would such a vehicle have any lower maintenance requirements? Sure it might use an electric motor instead of an engine, but surely safety would require the exact same maintenance regimen as an actual helicopter. This is not going to be a car that you can bring for an inspection once per year, pay £30, change some oil, cabin air filter and be done. It's going to be as costly as any other air-worthy machine to own, in which case any kind of comparisons to a personal car are frankly out of the window, and anyone who thinks they could build a business around one could build a business right now using existing machines. That's not to say that innovation shouldn't happen, quite the contrary - but the whole talk of "flying cars" for your Joe Shmoe is just a pipe dream.
> If a population mired in pettiness becomes enamored with Nazism? Well, their punishment will be that they have to live under Nazism. Just wish them good luck with that.

The problem is that Nazism tends to hurt people beyond just those who chose to live with it.
I'm not motivated by equity at all (and particularly not if that equity is in the form of stock options). When I'm working for a company, I'm already completely on-board anyway. If I weren't, I wouldn't be working there.

That's not to say I'd turn it down, I'm only saying that it's gravy, not meat.
> What are the biggest risks with CRISPR?

So far, that using it causes cancer.
> the moral panic about JavaScript on the web is endless because some jerks are out there doing it wrong

To be fair, the language allows them to do it wrong by default with all that implicit type conversion and whatnot -- even in the original equality operator! You can write good JavaScript, but you have to purposefully avoid weird behavior that just isn't present in some other modern languages like Python and Ruby. JavaScript had a weird history, got expanded upon accidentally (i.e. through some browser vendor or another deciding to implement something) many times, and has always valued backwards compatability more than languages that feel comfortable expecting the user to install the relevant runtime.
There are many valid criticisms of Libra, even if we restrict our view to the code. This article contains none of them.

However, use of a BFT consensus algorithm, newish crypto libraries, and missing but promised features in an unlaunched product are not reasonable criticisms.

BFT algorithms that scale well (Libra's will, that's one thing Facebook is good at) are great for public financial networks. All large companies end up implementing their own crypto libraries and for some (Google, Facebook) this ends up a net positive for the open source community.

Consumer protection will be there, Facebook is not going to knowingly violate local regulations in such an obvious way.
"We" won't deserve it. There is a small minority of people who have worked for 30 years to suppress research about climate change. For example, Exxon has known about climate change for decades, but funded denialists [1]

Unfortunately, these people are unlikely to suffer very much from climate change, because they will be able to afford higher food prices, private security, etc.

So a more accurate statement would be "Then millions of undeserving people will die, and the people who deserve to won't."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...
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Missing out what?
All sorts of post 2000 cars from reliable brands. Cars last well into 200k miles these days. I drive a 2001 Outback with 198k miles on it. Purchased 5 years ago for ~$3700 and besides brake pads and oil haven't spent any money on it.

This is the biggest barrier to electric IMO. I'm planning on getting a Tesla but it makes absolutely no economic sense.
The thing that has really kept me from getting behind updates to the C++ universe is the lack of progress on improving the state of build tooling. It is miserably underengineered for modern, dependency-heavy environments. C++20 does introduce modules, which is a good push towards correcting the problem, but I'm still going to be "wait and see" on whether the actual implementation pans out.
People should be rewarded for saving value not cash. That’s the point. Invest the cash and problem solved.