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There aren't any EU level bans - I don't think the EU government has authority for that.

What currently exist is a lot of controversy around using Huawei in Europe:

* Huawei products banned from being used by all of Spain's Department of Defense projects and personnel:
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/e4ntuk/huawei_smartp...

* Angela Merkel Faces Part revolt over allowing Huawei to build 5G: https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-faces-party-revolt-over-...

* Germany Intelligence Services argues that Huawei cannot be trusted: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/german-sp...

and many more. This is enough to nudge public opinion in one particular direction (Huawei == evil), and politicians sometimes do what voters want over here.

This is obviously a quite brittle status quo, and one or two impactful articles here and there about how the US / NSA "collect data" on EU citizens might be enough to turn the wind the other way.

The real news behind all of these articles is that China is now perfectly able to compete with the US technology companies at this particular level. That's interesting because for many countries, depending on the US for most of their electronics is a big risk worth minimizing, so I expect a shift from a US dominated industry to a balance between US and Chinese technologies being integrated in these countries. Nobody wants to exclusively depend on China either.
It seems that naturally with technological progress and population increase, we are doomed to always zero out our gains in the minute with losses in the aggregate. How is it that science and technology move forward but crop yields remain constant? Cowen mentions that it seems to be a "last mile problem" for delivering scientific research benefits to all. Collison has a cool list of "Fast" completed projects on his site of big tasks in human history on the order of hundreds of days. Zuckerberg's main focus is to invest in medicine research because he believes the long term eventuality of such investment is a definite decrease in healthcare. Overall, it seems that the questions focus on the global population in aggregate or nations as wholes, and on long-term or permanent solutions to emergent issues. I disagree that Zuckerberg's major impact will be on medicine, human opinion is much more influential than hard science in the shimmering parallax of annals of dimly lit human history backwards into the ages.
I'm glad they are talking about such matters: the intellectual hubs of Vienna and Silicon Valley, the research (or lack of research) in coming to understand Human Progress.
One thing that seems to be ignored the whole time is the progress of the individual, the progress of the family, and the progress of the tribe. We can measure in aggregate all day, but the only true test of progress is if our newer generations of humans shine brighter and are more illuminated than we are.
Is “middle-class homeless[ness]” a significant/common occurrence, absent mental illness or drug addiction as complicating factors (excluding those as changing housing supply/demand point is likely not the solution there)? That would indeed be depressing but also fairly surprising to me.

What would “middle class” mean if it didn’t include secure housing as a significant part of the definition?
Cf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror).

A fictional dramatisation of a post-apocalyptic World in which robot dogs hunt humans (IIRC).
The entire world is going to look back with a 20/20 hindsight - why did the we allow funding and funneling billions of dollars into China's economy to allow it rise up as a terrifying dystopian regime. Companies like Cisco made billions by selling surveillance equipment to China's Xianjin concentration camps.

These are the things you could do:

- Fearlessly criticize the CCP, share your thoughts freely, openly and without fear on social media. Let me give an example - I posted on IG about supporting HK and I got 10% of likes as my other posts. Not 10% less, 1/10th as many likes. I am consipiring that has to do with people in the west are afraid to speak up? Not sure.

- Support HK protests, donate to Hong Kong Free Press and other newspapers

- Boycott Made in China goods as much as possible (I understand it is difficult)

- Create awareness of CCP's ambitious goals to supress freedom around the world

- Call your representatives

- Do not be afraid to offend pro-CCP Chinese immigrants in your country. It is a one-sided game - political correctness is a western concept

- If you're working in a Tech firm, promote high strength encryption methods, security practices, and surveillance awareness within your company

- Shut down whataboutism, usually about US. This is unfortunately rampant on HN, despite of one of the most intellectual communities online. Americans already criticize their government - just go to NYTimes, LATimes, WashingtonPost, etc. American spirit is in the ability to express freely, free press, fair justice, look back and talk about atrocities committed by US govt., expose American war crimes and many more. There is already a very active debate. We don't need distraction when talking about CCP which is entirely on a different scale - 2 million people in detention camps, Uigher wives forced to sleep with Chinese citizens (state sponsored rape on a mass scale), etc. Please, I plead you

- Vote politicians that are against Chinese influence

- Expose Chinese "investments" in your company to gain power

Now is the time to wake up, and act.
It isn't just tax base. If you have a lot of people taking transit you can recover the costs of the system just from riders paying their fare, and the riders are saving money over the cost for insuring a car for a year. Less dense areas cannot do this, both because people need to go farther (less dense means you have to go farther to get there), and because there are less riders.

Dense areas need less taxes in general: the cost difference of a big pipe vs a small one isn't nearly as much as the amount the big pipe can carry. However this is more than made up by the fact that the more people to spread it out with means many services that were not affordable are now cheap and those cheap things add up (you don't need a library, and at farm density you can't afford one - but at city density it is cheap per person so you pay a little more), you need to ask if those extras you can have are worth it.
Right now all three accounts of this are adjacent news items on HN. Heh.
I wrote a package that allows use of type annotations for validation/serialization in Django Rest Framework: https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-typed-views

(Partly inspired by FastAPI)
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> Isn't that the law in most (all?) states now in USA, that you need a license to possess a gun legally (ie need to be an authorised person)?

Not really. Only a few states have FOID or FID license requirements:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_...

You might be thinking of license to _carry_ which every state has, though some of have been making progress in removing that requirement as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry
I'm not sure it's politics as much as a deeper underlying cause. A lot of today's salaries are just not sustainable to live and retire off of anymore. You read stories about how several decades ago, a man working at a gas station was able to afford a house, car, and support his wife and children. Today, you have people in their 30s who are still in debt, and whose salaries are barely able to sustain them. They end up having to work 2 or even 3 jobs if they have a family to support.

Combine this with a consumer heavy society, where people seem unable to control their impulses, and this is not a good result.
And we (SK) have massive high-quality Uranium deposits up north. I haven't gone too deep into the full plans here for these SMRs, but I have high hopes that other parts of the value chain will pop up here. We have a terrible habit in this province of growing/mining/drilling/whatever natural resources and then shipping them away unprocessed. Maybe we'll actually have a reason to start processing the Uranium here beyond just cleaning it up and getting it ready for export.
It's half the cost per mile to operate an EV in the US versus an internal combustion engine. With UK/EU petrol prices, I imagine the math is even more favorable towards EVs.

The battery pack is easily dropped in a Tesla, but you should expect it to last the life of the vehicle (at least 500k miles, almost 25 years at 20k miles/year of driving).
Paul, you're only 41. I'm a lot older than you. I've spent 40 years trying to fix this broken down rotted house and things have only gotten worse in that time period no matter how much effort is put into it. It's a delusion to think this can be fixed using the method of repairs because the repair method has been the way it has been done for a century now and things continue to fall apart and many repairs lead to worsening the fundamental underlying problems, or not addressing them. The house needs to be rebuilt from scratch. It won't be though.

For the young, I recommend resettlement in a more sane region.

For the old, hope that collapse doesn't happen and wipe out savings and impoverishment.

For those in between, nothing really. They are stuck with their car and unable to move to a new one so they hold on to the hope that the next car repair is somehow going to be the last one and the car will at last work as if new and functional.

When a wiser older person cautions a younger one, offering life or career perspective, they always respond by contemptuously telling that wiser older person they are a moron and should piss off because "adults are working here". It's how things are and how they have been. Everyone has to learn their lessons on their own, and in the end recognize their personal failures only when it is far too late, and at that point they try to warn the next generations, and are called old fools. The cycle of life, which is based on delusions and cult adherance.
School shootings are unacceptably frequent in the US, regardless of how infrequent they are in an absolute sense. Many countries go decades without a single school shooting.
Jessie's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682405

Brian's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682358
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Spoiled brat living under Uncle Sam's protection feels entitled to give advice to non-effete countries whose armies have actually seen combat since the 1940s.
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Yes, that is in fact exactly what the original article is arguing - that the stability of the Western Australian grid requires a switch to "smart" solar which the grid operator can remotely curtail the output of on demand. Hence all the rhetoric about how excess power "spilled uncontrolled" onto the grid which the previous comment complained about.

This is also not, in fact, a good situation to be in. The stability of the power grid depends on balancing supply with demand in real time, and if that can't be done then the whole thing fails. Not only that, the old-fashioned gas and steam power plants have inertia that helps stabilize the grid and as that decreases overall stability margins fall. I think wind farms can emulate this inertia to a certain extent, but that doesn't always seem to work so well...
One of my Chinese friends during my days at the university spoke a lot about cultural revolution and how things were much better now. I asked him about single party and consolidation of power. He argued about the limits on presidents reign being 10 years, if anyone wanted to change that to permanent , then it would be cultural revolution again. I did not see a new revolution when it happened.
"So the solution the article suggesting is to "Use a big buffer (and later slice it for each client(????)) instead of create buffer for each client"?"

No, it's actually just "create a big buffer and don't drop the reference". It's never used for anything except changing some numbers the GC uses to do its logic. Since it doesn't actually end up in physical RAM, it's doesn't consume significant resources either. It's just a funny-looking way at the Go-languange-level to twiddle some numbers to make the GC act differently.

Allocating a big slice and handing out chunks of it does have its uses, basically, arena allocation flavored by being used in a GC'd language. But that's not what this is.
> And worse, gun restrictions only benefit criminals. There's plenty of people who legally own firearms and protect their homes and their property legally.

The real question is why are the US ranking so high in violent crime and murder rates compared to other developed countries. You shouldn't feel the need to "protect" your home in the #1 power in the world.
> It's usually when non-functional requirements are limiting factors; minimizing memory, CPU time, network round trips, etc.

Unless you’re working on something trivially easy, isn’t this almost always the case? The puzzle does not actually show up as “high cpu utilization”, but seeing process stalling, string handling edge cases, weird packaging based problems or that one issue for that one customer happen on a weekly basis for my teams over the past decade of me programming professionally.

Also, the best puzzle solvers or hackers almost always come up with the simplest solutions that solves problem and are literally the only people I’ve seen being able to take on the toughest bugs.
Yes! I said a few years ago that we will need decentralization in power grids and mesh networks around the world, not just in software. It will also help prevent a Carrington event and survive an EMP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMm7-j7yIY
As a general rule Doctors trust the documentation given to them by the pharmaceutical companies, which in turn is approved after several rounds with the FDA, so one would think that the documentation would be pretty reliable.

The source of the issue really is just how hard Purdue was fudging their data. And I mean, you can say that a drug company shouldn't be the sole tester of it's own drugs and I'd agree with you, but good luck getting average people to want to pay for it by funding the FDA.
Turncoat perhaps, but traitor?
The man over others is the responsible person. If you don't have this, you have no reasonable reason to be incorporated.
Have they considered home schooling?

Often modern home schooling looks more like private school (because almost no one actually does it home, they send their kids to parent run “co-ops”) and you won’t have to deal with most of this stupidity.

The Co-op my sister went to banned smartphones inside the building. IMO that was a little extreme and made logistics more difficult than they needed to be but it meant they just focused on school work.
> Monitoring internet access on school devices? That's been standard in every single school and workplace for decades.

What country are you talking about? Honest question, just curious. I am in the US, but even today many small and medium sized companies do not monitor internet (block parts, sure, but not monitor) and 10 years ago even large companies did not do it.
I saw this tweet recently, by patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1199366332468224000

"Tokyo has positive population growth of about 100,000 people a year, and rents and home prices are roughly stable for last decade.

How? Outconstructing NYC. And LA. And SF. And Boston. And Houston.

Combined.

Every year."
> Do we want a culture where the poor are living in barely livable wage slave pods while the rich are living in abundant villas?

The poor can always move away if space becomes a real problem. Plenty of "SF-poor" people outside CA who are actually living in "abundant villas" in their preferred locations.
They discuss healthcare & higher education in parallel, and I do think the cost explosion in both is worth noting... But the differences are as important as the similarities.

Some big healthcare cost increases come from increased consumption. It's not just incentives, bureaucracies and inefficiencies that caused cost increases.

Once upon a time we had less medical care to consume, fewer procedures, cancer treatments and other such costly stuff. Medical care costs were mostly clinical, doctors salaries and such. Prenatal care once meant occasional visits to a doctor or nurse. These days, it also means ultrasounds, genetic testing, more blood tests & such. That costs more.

There are just more available treatments to treat patients, especially the already high-cost stuff like cancer treatment, surgery.... These are new things that the medical industry are doing, and cost money. It's at least partly a "we buy more" situation, not just price inflation.

A sociology degree, OTOH, is not different in a than it was in the 1950s. There are nearly no non-efficiency related cost increases in higher-ed. No new, expensive stuff is being used to teach these students. Prices just increased, and most of that got observed into administration.

In terms of ROI at a societal level... Idk if it's usefully measurable, for medicine at least.

There definitely aren't massive, healthcare-related increases I gross life expectancy and such. Does that mean bad ROI? This gets philosophical.
Wikipedia suffers very much from recency bias in reporting.

Keep in mind that the site was founded in 2001, was growing rapidly through the 2000s, and (along with much the rest of the Internet) saw a huge boost in use and access with the spread of mobile devices.

Inconsistency in reporting is a general problem with crime (and other human activities), with reporting rates rising and falling for numerous reasons. But a standardised crime reporting database would be preferable.
Are these people of note? The title could be a lot more contextually relevant
Tweeter is obviously not an engineer. In engineer land (licensed, that is), entrusting the design of components with life-and-death consequences to a single person--without review--is malpractice.

We get away with that kind of thing in software shops because a) we're relatively new, b) rarely deal with life-and-death designs, and c) haven't racked-up a large enough body count (empirically speaking, rather than morally) to warrant regulation.

Give Uber & Tesla a few more years of running people over, and engineer-style licensing for certain types of software development will probably be in the mail.
https://www.plugshare.com/.

Enter Berlin. Then, scroll to Italy. Superchargers aren't the only charging infrastructure in Europe.
Tends to go the other way. Fertility is strongly negatively correlated with development, of which housing is a component. America's birth rate is already well below replacement (1.8 births per woman), and relies heavily on immigration to maintain a steady population. There's a stark graph of page "4074" (page 4, figure 1-E in the PDF) of fertility rate vs HDI. [1] I bet if you build more housing you'd have fewer kids still. It's in a way counterintuitive, but very pronounced and well-studied.

[1] http://ijp.mums.ac.ir/article_7680_7828694c3909aa70d156fb9c8...
These guys also just came off a federal election in which the environment was a major issue, and their federal counterpart party was the only one without a solid environmental program in their policy. These conservatve premiers all campaigned against the federal environmental programs and launched civil court cases to defeat federal environmental policies after being elected, and then saw the federal government reelected based on those policies they oppose. They're not fools, they can see the writing on the walls.

The primary beneficiaries of these MRDs would be isolated northern communities (eg. Kashechewan) that currently use diesel generators. It's incredibly expensive to ship in diesel, it's widely acknowledged as polluting, and there are political problems associated with relegating indigenous communities to cast-offs from the south. Most of Canada is not on the grid and with the sun gone six months of the year, solar is a non-starter. Wind requires high maintenance and incredibly high construction costs so it's not really viable in remote communities.

MRDs look like a god-send for conservative premiers: be seen to be proactive for indigenous communities, be seen to be pro-active on the green front (but without carbon taxes or targeting the fossil fuel producers), pour money into tech research in Saskatoon and Toronto (two areas that don't traditionally vote Conservative), and one-up the federal government. What's for a conservative premier not to like?
This. Thank you. The goal of housing should be price stability at a point everyone can afford, not appreciation.
You don't need a license to posses a gun in many (most?) states. You do need a federal background check to purchase a gun from a vendor. And a license to carry a concealed gun. But as far as owning a gun, no license needed in any state I've lived in.
It looks pretty similar to flask as far as syntax goes.

Why do you think plain starlette is better? Are the type annotations annoying to debug?
But for how long? Won't the fish see through this ruse soon enough?
Wishing you all (Bryan, Jess, and Steve) much success with this endeavor!
Agreeing with you:

I have friends who work on housing (and related) policies. The stereotype of "Liberal Seattle" simply isn't true. One of our biggest intraparty food fights is the upzoners vs the nimbys. The tortured logic and hypocrisy of the nimbys is maddening. Yes, homelessness and affordability are acute problems, govt should do something, but increasing supply couldn't possibly work.

I can't prove it, but I know it's true: Ok Boomer. All the nimbys I know (active in policy, politics) are my age and older.
What kind of improvements?
I think if you don't take transit into account before hand (public and road infrastructure) you're likely to end up with more people, more traffic and more of what parts of California is already famous for... hours-long tailbacks!
> Given the research I've read it's highly unlikely.

Can you expand on this? I see a pretty direct line through an unpayable medical expense, inability to afford housing, and declining mental health from all of the associated stress. Add in the unpredictable nature of health scares and that seems like a terrible mixture for mental health.
Social trust has been falling for decades[1], and will continue to fall.

All of these epiphenomena will get worse until we take social trust seriously.

[1] - https://www.bi.team/blogs/social-trust-is-one-of-the-most-im...
How is it malpractice for a single programmer/software engineer when a critical part of the code should have code reviews, software design in advance of creation of code which is approved by management? Not to mention thousands of tests with radiation detectors. How can you possibly miss so many safety gates without management being in the wrong?
Does the band of cloth shoot back?
It's not stated as opinion, and has some ridiculous statements like this in it:

> The well being of the people is lost in the drive for infinite growth.

There is no drive for infinite growth, that I have found. People are just trying to have enough housing for everyone, yet this "infinite growth might happen therefore we are going to impose housing austerity" is the attitude that has been prevalent in older suburban homeowners, and that's exactly how we got into this mess of a housing crisis.

Categorically dismissing the large number of people that choose to live in cities because they prefer them is ridiculous. If it really were worse, prices would be lower in the cities than outside them. More people want what cities have to offer than are allowed to access them.
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