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So would you say you're happy & satisfied to live in a society where people must work under threat of dying in the streets? Try to imagine a better world. People should work because they choose to, not at gunpoint.

I don't feel it's unfair that someone is given a house, even though I "worked for it" (among many other factors which culminated in my not being homeless). Would you mind unpacking why you feel that way?
Not all unicode characters are valid IDN labels. For example, emojis are not valid in IDN labels.
I read years ago that this is how Bill Gates takes notes, but I don't remember where I read it. It wasn't much more detailed than my comment here.
Maybe a homelessness vaccine?
"You keep "bigger countries off your ass" specifically by informing them you have nuclear warheads."

Not if you don't want tons of spies all up in your shit, you don't.

"And if Iran has secret nukes, how do you possibly explain Stuxnet?"

As if that stops them from secretly importing refined material.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll definitely check them out. Maybe it's my age, but a lot of what I have seen like Deathnote or even the GITS SAC didn't click with me. Cowboy Bebop was just fun, and I forgot I was watching an anime.

I think maybe it's the high-concept, almost frightening, aspects of GITS that resonated with me. But I understand why it's not popular with most people.
That's why I said misguided in parenthesis. I have no idea what criteria or scenarios it may have been for, but a commercial airliner could conceivably have an emergency almost anywhere and potentially be cleared to land at the forbidden locations.

Just speculation on my part but clearing all displays seems like deliberate behavior being incorrectly triggered.
I like to think about what a test of `Model.where(:x => "y").where(:y => "z").limit(3)` is supposed to be testing. If the test is that the correct query gets generated, then a simple check to ensure that the `where` calls have been made is fine. If the test is that the query returns the correct data, then either a real database or something lighter weight but which handles queries in the same way needs to be used, since it is really a test of how the query is interpreted rather than what the query is.
Your premise is incorrect: it originated in the US and is the single most effective, lowest cost method we have to address homelessness[1].

It is, in fact, cheaper than shelter [2].

"People not contributing to society"? Really? Perhaps if they had a home they could get a job? I invite you to go to an actual homeless shelter near you and talk to the people there. Ask them what it's like to try to find a job while living in a shelter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First#Evidence_and_out...
[2] https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/resources/lessons/...
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If there is a late change of plane (final hours before flight is pretty common) due to technical problems or whatever, then that info may be accessible but it’s not very useful.

It is useful for changing plans if the plane changes days or weeks before departure, but as you say it’s not ground for cancelling or changing your ticket, so buying new tickets every time one sees a 7M8 pop up is going to be really expensive with airlines that have many of them. I guess the better idea then is to avoid those airlines entirely, but that might not be possible at all destinations.
even if the state gave everyone a free home, a lot of people would still be homeless due to mental illness, not being used to managing "normal" life etc. etc.
So, my other listening equipment is a pait of senn HD280 that I have had since 2006.

They're kind of a Ship of Theseus, insofar as I have replaced every element but the drivers multiple times. I'm fairly handy with a soldering iron, and have been repairing them myself with parts for the manufacturer.

I think that this about the best case for repairs.

One replacement of the cord generates more plastic waste than the entirety of the airpods I use.

I've also been going through wired headphones at a rate of about 1 per year, as they are mechanically fragile. However, I don't think that this year I will be replacing the airpods I have been using for the last year... granted the battery will eventually fail. But to me, the lifetime on the airpods is so-far exceeding that of the wired earphones.

So am I wrong in thinking that between having replaceable components that are wasteful in themselves and the increased lifespan of the device, I'm just paying a rather large premium to -reduce- e-waste?
It makes sense to me. Once you have access to my email, you can just reset almost any password you want, so is the password actually more secure?

As a consumer, it means one less password to remember, and I don't have to worry about how securely they store them.
Me and my flatmates use SettleUp - https://settleup.io/

Best thing is is that is simple to use while providing a lot of functionality if you want to get into it. If you want to get rid of ads it has a subscription model which I dislike, but the free version is really awesome.
> The idea that some union rep can negotiate a better outcome for me than I can is, frankly, pretty laughable.

What is your employer match for your 401k?

What is your annual deductible for health insurance for yourself? For your partner? Kids?

How large is your pension fund? Terms?
Drug dealers never tell their clients how to wean off their vices. Is that a crime? :P
Reflections on my complicated relationship with money
The article just got absolutely destroyed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/neilcybart/status/1214867813464236032
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I'd be interested in having some stats about why people live outside alone. I think that there are some that have decided to quit normal life for emotional reasons and that they do not want shelter or a way back (probably after too many disappointments or traumas).

But for the rest it's good that a country is doing a large effort. Most of them need a few to get back on their feet: shelter, hygiene and safety.
Why is this relevant if it's from DEC 2018?
I worked at a place that hired librarians to manage the data in the database and keep it clean. It was pretty wild, and when I've suggested this at other places I got blank stares.
As in TVs panel refresh rate?
I wonder if USB4 Devices will be actually really compatible with current Thunderbolt 3 Devices, or if it's a "technically yes but not really" situation.
...and Iran is withholding the flight recorders, which, coupled with the location and timing are a might suspicious...
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Why are scientists painting stripes on cows?
The article mentions that 1900 people still live on the streets and 1 in 5 homeless people will not be able to keep their Housing First flat. It would appear that Housing First has not been able to solve their problem.
First idea I opened actually got implemented: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/anti_20enron_20policy#108023...
Have you looked at Hy?

https://github.com/hylang/hy
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Granted is was for a toy language, not Pascal, but I had to write a complete compiler for my CS undergrad ~3 years ago.
I think your point about "listener fatigue" is important, because that's a big part of this. It's not just about the way a squashed track won't sound as good or as interesting (though it won't, of course).

And yeah, that's a famously "loud" genre. What drives me insane is going to, say, a mostly acoustic live show and having the person behind the desk mix it as if it's Drum & Bass. I never ever go to a show without earplugs, because you just never know.
Consider doing your own review first. Then do a review based on what you consider as your manager's point of view. If you can get some other opinions about how you seem at various points of time, eg your partner's perspective, this might be useful as well. Your general vibe of not being grouchy after various events throughout should be applicable. Feed this all into your own review of yourself. Was the year doing this work actually successful and good for you? Were you a good fit? What worked? What didn't?

Two perspectives:-

One of my early reviews: Complete and utter waste of time. Nothing said by the manager was useful for the future. No actionable items. Useless evaluation criteria and meaningless bland comments. I read the notes afterwards three times and got advice from others to verify. Their advice: get out fast.

My review at my next job was great and set the stage for much better results. I actually saw the gaps I needed to fill and multiple possibilities for improvement and alternative pathways to access them. Helped with a training plan and what I needed to cover as a educational framework for the next 10 years.

The difference was night and day. If the review is merely a checklist item then its unlikely to be useful.
Sure, I will get more done in five than four days. I also get more done in six or seven days per week over five, but with diminishing returns and more and more impact on my non-work life.

As a programmer I have the luxury of willingly taking a pay cut to have an additional day off per week if I want to and usually in a position to negotiate for it.

I don't know the Finnish economical situation well enough of how feasible a four day week would be short term. But I don't see much difference to reductions of work hours/days in the past.
But isn't the US hegemony all about dictating global markets, ect. ? So whilst the US might be ensuring other nation's security, it is also ensuring that the markets are in its desired condition. This modus operandi, I suppose, means that the US homeless will suffer more, as those desired conditions are desired by the people who are able to control the military decisions, and not the homeless, who would most likely want cheaper health care & housing.
People also don’t need automatic transmissions, or heated car seats, or rib eye steaks, or remodeled kitchens. But most people happily spend extra money for nice things and experiences. The world will make a lot more sense once you internalize this.
Ask HN: How do I find my ideal role?
I've been working professionally for over 11 years with a varied career. I’ve been in capital market (investment advisory/corporate finance), fp&a (manufacturing), product owner (media), strategy (transport) and finance partnering (payments).

I’ve never really been able to find a role/company which has been my ideal fit. I want to be somewhere where people want to push the envelope and try new things. Typically I find most places are only interested in doing the 9-5.

What I really love doing is commercialising ideas (concept, to strategy, development and execution). But I haven’t found a company who’s interested in wanting cross-functional people or a recruiter who understands what I’m after.

If I could do anything, I would be running my own start up (which I’m working on, on the side). But unfortunately I’m lacking the funds so I still need an income till I can properly develop it and I’m also hoping my next role can help me establish some networks.
For some more perspective...

Finland's military GDP spending is around 4%, very close to America's military GDP spending, but the two countries have largely different GDPs of course. That's the fair way to compare things though.

Also a very large portion of the military budget goes to the salary's of our military employees as well as R&D. We wouldn't have the internet if it wasn't for ARPA.

And finally, Finland isn't a superpower.
wake up, grab some comfy clothes, go outside into the cold and smoke a roll up, get back in and make a coffee, get into bed and check notifications and read stuff on my phone for an hour then go to work
Sounds a lot like the Bullet Journal method (which I use daily)
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SQL is a living, breathing technical debt.

So what I'm envisioning in your environment is that you've just shifted your problems from a functional OO language to... SQL, which is neither.

And when those queries evolve into the unmanageable beasts that they almost always do, what then? At least with languages that have sensible means for code organization you can break them out into things like TFA is discussing.

SQL -- the language -- is shit, and this is the emperor-wears-no-clothes of our industry. The belief that extensive use of SQL in application code is something all wizards should aspire for is just completely nonsensical.
How about Akira or Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Not surprised at all they chose this hardware.

ThinkPad X230 (in my limited and skewed opinion) is still the second best laptop ever made (for purposes like mine), behind only its predecessor, the X220 which has (what I and many others consider) the best laptop keyboard ever made.

It’s easy to find one with an i5 that’s perfectly adequate for most ordinary business tasks. Pretty good screen, ports, battery life. Upgradable, sturdy, repairable. Highly unlikely to be stolen. $150 in like new condition.

I’ve bought them for all my non-tech friends and family who I support, all are happy. Please buy these and keep the market for parts alive.
Very much depends on what browser/platform you're on. Many different emoji implementations out there.
Let's not forget when Sonos made us create a user account. A lot of us never wanted any Sonos user account, ever, and we were held hostage. We should have been offered a full refund if we did not want the account.
Ask HN: No-Code (Or Low-Code) Email App Templates?
Hi,

I've noticed the significant growth in no-code or low-code platforms lately (AirTable, Bubble.io) that can act as stand-alone applications or as a way to get to MVP quickly.

I specifically had an email app idea, but have had a tough time finding templates that could fit the "no-code / low-code" paradigm to test out my idea.

I'm reluctant to do more serious development too early, as I've seen that email apps can be hairy very quickly.

Any thoughts / guidance?
There was an issue with the C# tooling about 3 years ago that led to this, but it was fixed in the subsequent VS update.
This bit is wrong: "The fuel for this method, which is usually a mix of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, is easier to obtain than uranium"

Uranium is relatively common and widely distributed, compared to oil.

It is possible to build a reactor that uses natural uranium

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

however the common LWR reactor uses mildly enriched uranium.

1 in about 6420 hydrogen atoms on Earth are deuterium, compare that to about 1 in 140 U atoms being the U235 which is used by current fission reactors.

So producing D requires isotope enrichment of an isotope which is much more rare than U235, however, the enrichment is relatively easy to do because of the huge mass difference between protium and deuterium.

Tritium has a half-life of 12 years, so like Plutonium 239 (half life 24,000 years) it doesn't exist in commercial quality in nature.

Like a fast breeder fuel cycle where neutrons are used to make Pu239 from U238, a D-T fission reactor would need to breed T from lithium 6, then fabricate it into targets with D.

Tritium is highly radioactive (short half life) and is hard to handle (it is an isotope of hydrogen, hydrogen likes to go in between the atoms of metals, and once tritium gets oxidized into water, you are not going to separate it, the way you can remove many isotopes from Fukushima waste water.)

So it is not so clear that fussion is an environmental or safety win over fission, particularly a fission fuel cycle that breeds Pu from U or U233 from Th.
If you're not involved in adversarial contract authoring, I don't get the appeal of the "what about this edge case" game.

> Would the definition be based on possessing or owning?

Given that nobody calls people renting apartments homeless, I think this self-answers.

In any case, voluntarily being temporarily in a situation wherein one does not own property in not commonly confused with living on the street for reasons I believe to be fairly obvious. It has to do with that word "voluntarily".
It is an unfounded conspiracy theory that has nothing really to do with this topic. It also shows a great deal of ignorance around how HIV invades the body (and why it is so difficult to completely eradicate e.g. [0]).

I didn't downvote it, but it isn't exactly hard to see why some might. It is less that HN is "ridiculously polarized" and more that the signal:noise on that specific comment is exceptionally low.

[0] https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/lab-report/cells-stand-way-of...
Wow, this is really cool! I love the 3D transforms, and it's crazy that you're animating elements based on audio.

Actually, all of those demos are just fun and interesting!

Planning on more docs (did I miss a GitHub link or something)?
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That, and also the fact that services like Spotify/Netflix/Amazon/etc. allow you to access everything for a flat monthly fee.

Back in the day you had to buy each album individually for $10-$15 (or more) each, same with movies. Nowadays I can go on Netflix and watch what would've been hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of DVDs for 13 bucks a month.
Valid or not several emoji domains have existed since 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain
But next year even new/better CPUs and GPUs will appear, right? Why not wait until next year?
Love the concept. If the author is hanging around, are you working on this full time, or is this a side project?
Freaking hell, "Sorry, you'll have to sleep outside, I can't let you sleep in this warm house and bed, because it wouldn't be fair to others.".

You probably have a meritocratic view of the world (as many Americans do), that hard work will lead to success. If you believe that, you logically would have to believe the opposite: the people failing failed because they are lazy. But you are discounting luck or upbringing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTDGdKaMDhQ . Imagine someone becoming homeless after being dumped by their partner. Or not being able to afford doctor's bills and also losing their job after taking too many sick days (this is not relevant to Finland, since that doesn't happen there, but it is in the US).

And from the article, doesn't sound like the Finns will just let someone stay in such an apartment and be jobless and bum around:

> The result is impressive: 4 out of 5 homeless people will be able to keep their flat for a long time with “Housing First” and lead a more stable life.

So that means 1 in 5 fail to reach that stable life and lose their flat again. As the article also says, their policy is actually cheaper compared to what you think is "fair", they let the homeless have somewhere to sleep, so they can start worrying about the next thing in their lives, which is probably getting a job. Imagine how shitty it is trying to find a job if you're mostly worried about where to sleep, shower, or shit, daily.
Nothing patronising about it. I find it interesting, and educative.
How are you providing for the defense of Finland? Maybe you're a conscript in the Finnish armed forces?
> Logically, your argument is baffling on its face: homelessness is literally the condition of not having a home. Giving someone a home literally solves the problem.

That's over-simplistic reasoning. Yes, we have a word called "homeless" that we use to refer to people living on the streets. That does not imply giving them a home solves the problem, or that the lack of such offers is what keeps them in that condition. If the simple reasoning was correct, why couldn't Finland solve the problem by offering free housing with no strings attached?

That's not to say that such policies aren't helpful to those who really just lack access to housing. It doesn't end there though, that's my point.
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Homed by a process that the United States also doesn't have and would need. It would be dishonest to compare the rates without including the cases that Finland has already solved through a similar (but not as far reaching) program.
They've been homed, but subsidies for the housing of previously homeless people are typically aggregated under homeless spending. (The US has a lot of programs like that as well.)
But... What about legit unicode domains? I own a couple that I use for personal projects or file sharing.
Limiting dns names to 26 latin characters and the 10 arabic digits is the joke. From the top of my head I can't come up with a single language other than English that doesn't use additional letters (or at least additional modifiers on some letters). Punycode is the most sane solution to an insane situation.
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A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15400037

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235817

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3190380
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Happy for you.

How often do hospital employees suffer these kind of accidents ?
No, it's just that the difficulties surrounding the development of an HIV vaccine are well established. Unwarranted suggestions of a global conspiracy suppressing The Truth tend to get downvoted as daft.

"Could it be because charging people $1000++ a month for drugs, for the rest of their life, is a better business model?" Or could it be that the poster hadn't bothered to look at the reasons.

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/developme...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572109/
The best ones are the ones only locals know about for the most part, and don't want tourists to ruin.
I tried to tackle this problem, or atleast the problem of helping people find ideas. I built http://oppsdaily.com and http://oppslist.com. They're both now sunset and I'm no longer sending emails out or updating the platform.

I will say that ideas are generally far less valuable than a first customer. My readers told me time and time again that they wanted to be connected to someone who would pay for the idea. That is the real challenge, and if you can figure that out, you're going to have a booming business. And I think there is opportunity in the space somewhere between e-lance and just "ideas". Some kind of platform that matches a developer and an initial customer in a way that rewards both. Finding these people is a challenge, but I think it's possible, and the person who figures out how to do it is going to have a MASSIVE business on their hands. I could go on about this a lot further, but I wholly recommend exploring it.

I'm onto my next project now, which interestingly is helping people find investing ideas. We launched yesterday so we'll see how it goes. If you want to chat about the idea space - cory @t topstonks.com or check out the the new project its at http://topstonks.com. Good luck!
It is still not a good thing but is it possible or likely that many you witness are "capsule hoteling"? As in they have an actual home but are too smashed to make it home/others would be more pissed at them arriving drunk than the next day dissheveled and hung-over.

And yeah the only 100% end to homelessness in a society is involuntary institutionalization. Some people may decide they want to be homeless or can't organize themselves sufficiently to wind up at their home or even a hotel if money was no object. The latter is more justifiable but it is dicey for society to set thresholds. Out of sight out of mind is ripe for abuse even without bad intentions. Just bad assumptions and bureaucratic snafus can do plenty of harm.
A great deal of spending in the US suffers the problem of direct versus some form of market disintermediation. So, instead of just building houses for people, we funnel it through myriad private or semi-private bureaucracies and suffer their corruption and graft.
Yeah, but only because we needed the oil. But now that we're a net exporter, no need to be abroad