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Many veteran cyclists I know treat red lights as stop signs. It can be safer and better for the flow of traffic to get a head start on the cars stopped at the red light rather than jockeying with them for road space out of the gate when the light turns green.
It's many things.

People raised in the Great Depression went on to win a huge war and build a very comfortable life. By modern standards, they weren't complainers. The enemy was brutally killed without holding back and without caring about diverse values or culture. Men went off to near-certain death, often volunteering to do so.

Later, the weak men couldn't properly finish a war. Vietnam was winnable, but that didn't happen by choice. The weak men were unwilling to sacrifice even mere comfort for their own nation, so they did things like outsourcing to cut costs. The weak men couldn't say "NO" to the lazy who wanted help, so the culture of hard work was lost. Everybody got coddled. Accommodations turned high school graduation into a participation trophy at best. Standards eroded.
Fair point. That hasn't been my experience in pedestrian-heavy areas, though I figure this varies from location to location.
20 mph sounds way over the top for average city cycling. Anecdotally most people running stoplights seem to not exceed 12 mph, as I frequently overtake them shortly after getting my green light.
Ack! Over resource limit and invalid SSL :(

This is a fantastic blog, and I'd be happy to sponsor/fix its hosting (I run a web-hosting company) - if the writers behind this site read this, feel free to reach out!
In all my years browsing HN I don't remember reading anything racist, overt or implied. If your first paragraph is true, I think it would have more to do with the media's portrayal of people of African American and Hispanic descent.
Plus you can work from home: https://livestream.com/accounts/4931571/events/5369913
I recently received treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma and have been trudging through bills for the past 3 years. I've found that most if not all of my medical bills contained errors, which had I not looked into, would've cost me in excess of $10k+. The most common error was the billing department submitting a bill to my insurance company months after the date I received the services. I wrote a post explaining how I used python OCR to look for these discrepancies.

My father is also a pharmacist (and now owns a pharmacy) and he constantly tells me horror stories about the cat and mouse game that insurers play with patients, where they have doctors prescribe and offer discounts on specific drugs, depending on what is most profitable. He pointed to an interesting bit of software [1] that uses machine learning to find the best margins.

I could seriously go on and on about all the insanity that is our healthcare system. These problems runs deep, from top to bottom.

[1] - https://amplicare.com/
Of course they're not, and anyone concern-trolling about e-scooters while accepting cars as a normal and irreplaceable part of our streetscapes isn't really concerned about safety.
I often tell people to watch out for selection bias. Immigrants are a distinctly unique people. They're not just members of their foreign racial/national group, they're members of their foreign racial/national group with the ambitions/motivations to leave.

To make the abstract concrete. Canadians living in the US are often thought to be "just like" Canadians living in Canada. But they're often not. Often they're the Canadians that sufficiently didnt fit into Canadian culture, or found something immanently attractive about US life (at least the perception of US life)...

So this study is kind of saying "The children of ambitious and effortful parents have higher rates of upward mobility than the general populace of US people"
I am in no way advocating for open offices in any circumstance, but one common complaint I've heard from open-office dwellers is how they sit right next to the sales team who are always on their phones.
I wonder how long is it gonna be until Kotlin will have the same fate as Groovy and Scala.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate both Groovy, Scala as well as Kotlin. History has shown that Java has always managed to move forward and superseed the former.
The point is that we should align incentives to priorities that generate positive outcomes.
Almost no product that you use is subject to abusive state monopolies, which is why almost every product you use is competitively priced. So no, free market capitalism is not indistinguishable from crony capitalism.

As far as definitions go, my definition of "socialism" is actual socialism, not social democracy. This quote is overused at this point, but Danish PM Rasmussen explicitly clarifies "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy." Adding central planning to ameliorate some of the rough edges of market economies does not create a socialist state.
What about team based offices? Where a team of ~4 or ~5 people share an office?
It was advocated, it was not meant to be advocated, but it was.

And Agile has it's fault and it has become filled with consultants, buzzwords and all kinds of things but early days when I built an internal system used in factories for a large company. The old ways of building and documenting software there was pretty much waterfall and there was a lot of middle-management, reporting, architects, documenting etc.

I was a part of a pretty young team + one offshore team in India (that was not great but not bad either) and we had a great boss who fought for us when we wanted to develop using pretty standard Scrum instead and we had a great product owner who immediately got what we were after and had great domain knowledge.

That project went sooo much better than previous ones and even if there were a lot of fighting and escalations in the beginning the whole concept of "Just call into our demo's we have every three weeks and see what we are developing and then give feedback" was like a revelation for some would be users of the system or owners of processes we implemented.
> Following the guidance in the article, despite its best efforts, will lead to lots of code.

I don't think that's necessary the case. My goal in being productive is to produce the biggest wins in the least amount of time possible. In many cases you do that by coming up with a better design and writing less code to begin with.

In fact, I wrote another post[0] on how I approach becoming a better programmer. The two key principles I use are learning how to solve existing problems faster and learning to solve new problems.

[0] https://malisper.me/my-approach-to-getting-dramatically-bett...
There are a good amount of job boards which allow you to search for or only show remote jobs, I think a job board which allows filtering open-plan offices would be super useful.
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I waited 8 months to see a Neurologist in Toronto for a slipped disk in my neck (he was in disbelief and shocked). By the time he saw me, it had healed on it's own.

There are plenty of multi-month waitlists in the US for common medical procedure. My wife sees a sleep doctor. Our insurance is fantastic. He has a nice, expensive office in an upscale regional medical center. I don't know which car in the parking lot is his, but there's a lot of nice cars in that parking lot.

It is a ----ing nightmare. Multi-month waiting lists to first see him. Month-long waits for scheduling anything. Three-month wait to schedule a minor surgery. [1] He screws up her prescription changes, the pharmacy won't dispense because he didn't tick some box on a form, and he goes on holiday for a few weeks. His on-calls aren't able to fix the problem, because, well, they aren't on-call for his sleep practice. Guess who can't get her prescription?

And for this privilege, we and my employer pay ~$20,000/year. I suppose we could fire his ass, and switch doctors, with no guarantee that the next one won't be any worse. [3]

[1] Cherry on top - despite being fully covered for the procedure, and paying what they asked for at the time of the operation, the surgery center started calling us, demanding money. Guess who gets to untangle billing? [2] We do. Guess who, once the dust settled, turned out to have overcharged us, and eventually cut us a cheque? The surgery center.

[2] Double-whammy - my wife dropped her old insurance two years ago, to switch to mine. Guess who started sending us bills last month? Her primary care provider, because at some point his office realized that she is no longer on her old insurance. Somehow, it's taken them two years to realize this. I'm assuming that the new provider has been paying them all this time, but who even knows at this point?

[3] I must say, my best interaction with the US healthcare system so far has been at a walk-in clinic located in a crummy office with peeling wallpaper, patient examination rooms that doubled as storerooms, a broken water cooler, and a bathroom with a door that mostly closed, located above a laundromat in an, ah, common part of town. The staff consisted of the doctor, who was cycling through patients, and his assistant, who was translating to and from Spanish, juggling papers and photocopies, and doing vaccinations and blood draws. I was in, I had what I needed done, and I was out, with zero billing bullshit. I didn't see any Teslas in the parking lot, though.
10c 32-bit microcontroller from Intel/AMD? Have I been buying the wrong chips? Care to share some links?

EDIT: commenter above edited their post, mentioned $.10 MCUs from Intel/AMD
I agree with you in principle, but in this case, Valve hurt themselves by not releasing more games. If they released more sequels to Portal and Half Life, would Epic have released a Steam competitor? Right now, Steam has dwindled to a craigslist-like marketplace of garbage. So just like Nintendo has to release AAA games to keep the Nintendo Switch alive, Valve also has to release AAA games to keep Steam alive.
Drop it and it will open in free-fall given enough time for the mechanism to react.
i've missed it the last time and it's very relevant for my near-future situation.
I never understand this line of reasoning. I have my own office. It's right next to most of my team's offices. My door is open 90% of the time. If someone wants to chat spontaneously, I don't think walking 15 feet is going to stop them.
Seems like an oversight that can be easily fixed.
OpenWrt is also free. Both as free software, and free of cost. When you're paying a manufacturer for a product, surely it's not too much to expect them to ship with functional software that also happens to be up-to-date and secure?
"Off topic, but would you be willing to expand on your Linux experiences with this?"

I'm using a Wacom Intuos pen & touch M graphics tablet, connected to a Thinkpad 430. Over the years I was using Debian Stable, MINT, and finally Ubuntu.

The experience is great. Like I mentioned, much better than windows. I only just started to use Krita (I prefer MyPaint, however I feel I should branch out). The work I do isn't special, just stupid doodles and cartoon type of stuff. The wacom I'm using is older, I think I bought it 5 years ago or so.

I don't really have much to add besides that. I remember WAYYY back in the day having to compile the driver myself for an older wacom (Ubuntu 6 or 7 era). It's practically plug and play now, however, I think there is some other apt-get stuff that I did once for some reason that I forget (eraser wasn't working?). If you are having issues maybe try another tablet. I think the one I have can be bought for $50 on ebay. Maybe try a 30 day return place like best buy and sorry to say try the latest ubuntu or mint for compatibility (have a dedicated art machine?)
Typically the attorney fee assignment clauses go both ways, and the prevailing party has their fees paid. In some jurisdictions one sided clauses can be thrown out
I can imagine (badly-drafted) agreements where things are specified by page number or level-of-indentedness, like "Until the major conditions listed below are met, the government will supply the items listed on Page Y." If those references were inserted manually, any formatting changes could have unintended consequences. If they're done automatically (with SmartText), they might break in other software.

I would guess it's mostly paranoia--you'd have a hard time convincing a judge that the one orphan item that spilled over onto page Y+1 wasn't meant to be included--but I can sorta see not wanting to risk it.
Treating red lights as stop signs is sensible and safe - I'm even fine with not stopping if you have clear line of sight at all angles. One thing car owners like to forget is that cars make you mostly blind to your surroundings. While it feels incredibly unsafe to blow a red in a car, it's not the same on a bike- you can see so much more.

Cyclists who speed towards or through an intersection when they can't see what might come into conflict with their path are as stupid as drivers who run reds.
No, I was just saying that the transpiling shows that it's a hard problem; not that Mint has none.
hard to take this seriously with all the spelling/grammar errors

also it's a blog post advising against reading blog posts
Haven't made a game changing device since Steve Jobs? The Apple Watch completely dominates that product category. There is no alternative that can even compare.
When you sign the LCD screen without the ability to see what exactly you are agreeing to, that gives you ammunition if needed later in court. When you sign on paper there is less wiggle room for you.
I'm not aware of any high resolution composite model for the the US as a whole, but there are variety of regional surveys to be found scattered around. This guy maintains a good list: https://arheologijaslovenija.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_81.htm...
This might sound stupid but does that also affect gaming performance, or simply Wine and/or Proton?
I hate the open office plans with no view blockers or ones that are too low that peoples eyes peek over. It's so distracting to see movement or peoples eyes that I now deliberately lower my chair as far as it goes so that the tiny short wall blocks everything.
I get it you dropped the ball. we all make mistakes. No problem will get someone in to fix it.

https://www.taskrabbit.com

Don't have a corp card yet. Should I sign us up for this?
https://www.expensepoint.com/

Now that the distractions are over, let's focus on what we're here to get done.
College prices are kind of like this, in that they follow the simple formula

tuition cost = how much you can borrow + how much you can pay

What is strange is why do we stand for huge price discrimination in college and medical care, but not for buying a candy bar?
Thinking like this loses you candidates who are applying to multiple places. It's so hubristic to think that your job couldn't possibly be equally desirable to others.
It's too bad TFA doesn't mention either way whether a credit freeze will prevent hospitals from obtaining information on you. A bing search reveals nothing.

OT: I left google and use bing now. Interesting, google's search results for my query were absolutely horrible. obvious spam and various detritus. and all the results had the little ad icon ^W^W favicon! I thought they backtracked from that? oh well.
It has all Intel specific hardware acceleration / performance settings on by default. So if you're on Intel it's perfect. Sort of wish AMD had their own Distro to see which one really is the best on their respective processor architectures.

Edit:

Look here:

https://clearlinux.org/

Under 'features' it says the following:

> Intel Optimized
> Highly tuned for Intel platforms where all optimization is turned on by default.
> Nowadays we have unprotected, standalone ERs, urgent care clinics, and specialist clinics.

In your example the tail wags the dog. Hospitals are mostly obsolete. You have outpatient surgery in strip malls because hospital beds are capped and reduced, and Medicare began refusing to pay for bad outcomes, which are more common in hospitals.

The government-allowed monopolies are the sprawling health networks the turn medicine into a sales funnel. They are labelled with hospital branding, but the monopolist actions are all about doctors. For example, in my region, 90% of renal doctors work for a single practice.

Urgent care is a whole other animal -- that's all about the reducing standards and addressing supply shortages of primary care doctors caused by restricted supply (there are caps) and higher salaries in specialities.
This article is not paying any attention to the main justification for open-plan offices, which is that they are cheaper. This is especially important in areas with expensive real estate, or where the total office space is limited.
The author of the article (and, presumably, most businesses) are living in the past.

I work in an open-plan office in a place that makes heavy use of the latest collaboration software, and it works great. There is virtually no use of email or IM internally. Just persistent chat and collaboration with Teams.
Just like the jellycat turbines ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB5nztzXo24
>For a "hey there" conversation, most teammates have to get up and walk over to someone else... tap them to shake them out of their focus and get them to take their headphones off.

I think it's pretty tough to read if it's okay to interrupt when your teammate is wearing headphones (especially if, as you said, everyone wears them most of the day). Sometimes I'm just wearing headphones to listen to some music while doing something easy and tedious, which would be okay to interrupt. But if I'm diving deep into some system to find a mystery bug, then I'd be annoyed if interrupted.

I'm currently working on a project exploring physical interruptions and would appreciate hearing about your (and other HN users') experiences: https://forms.gle/syL1XrLAauxd57hr7
If workers rights or material concerns won’t inspire software engineers to consider organizing, perhaps day to day work “lifestyle” hassles like open offices will. It’s been often repeated that developers eschew organizing because one can always go and find a better paying job if they don’t like the work environment they’re in- but good luck trying to find a workplace that gives the average developer their own office instead of adhering to the industry standard.

Perhaps if engineers had some type of labor union, professional association, or guild, then they can collectively stand up to management and get rid of annoyances like open offices. Why not? If it’s something universally unpopular with hackers, yet embraced by management, doesn’t that provide a valid use case for organizing? Or are we just going to forever grouse about it until management loses interest on their own and embraces an even worse floor plan fad?

And consider the other nearly-ubiquitous or common annoyances in tech- unpaid overtime, lack of support for remote work, whiteboard interviews. Why don’t the workers in the industry rally to solve them, if those in charge are unwilling to? If we care so much about “disruption”, why are we so content with the status quo of work?

Upton Sinclair said of The Jungle that he was aiming for the public’s heart and hit it in the stomach. Perhaps software engineers will not be appealed to by arguments or neither the heart, nor the stomach- but of the flow.
That article describes why containers start up more quickly on Clear Linux.

I believe that the main reason applications run faster is that it determines which exact CPU you have and compiles everything with the flags that enable every optimization that your CPU can handle.
Anecdotal observation is that drivers might run the red light for the first few seconds. But cyclists will run the red the moment they arrive at he light, independent of when it turned red. These are two very distinct types of running a red light.
One thing that helped me get past this feeling was looking around at other desks and realizing that either a. no one cares what you are doing because they are too busy working on their own stuff or b. half the office is watching youtube anyway.
Amazing how millions of dollars just disappear and no one knows where it went.
A couple years ago at least one of the scooter rental companies had larger-wheel (12"?) scooters in San Diego, not sure if they still do. Didn't get to try one since they seemed to be concentrated around downtown (where I wasn't), but they I'd expect them to have a better ride and be safer.
Can you elaborate on this, or point to a good source of more info on the topic? As a longtime C++ programmer starting to look at Rust, I'm quite interested.
Signs of cancer appear every time you consume animal protein.
waterfall wasn't advocated because there hadn't been a movement for alternatives yet, it was just the default, like the iphone 2G, nobody called it iphone 2g when it came out, but in the context of newer models that's how we differentiate it
> All of my relatives in Canada come over to the US for any major surgery. The reason? The wait time is in years, instead of weeks and some can't get the surgery at all.

I'm in one the largest and wealthiest metro areas of the US, and there is a 6+ month waiting list to see mental health professionals.

> "So wealthy people get access to better care and everyone else has to take whatever is available" The alternative is that everyone gets access to sub-par care.

When I lived in Manhattan, despite living right down the street from some of the best paid surgeons in the country, my wealthy clients would fly overseas to France and Israel for their surgeries.

The fact is that countries with universal health care have better health outcomes, better quality of care, shorter wait times for care, pay half of what the US does and manage to cover all of their citizens. Each of those statements of fact can be cited here[1].

[1] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
We have sales people in a room, but there's support people next to the developers. And Bose sells another pair of QuietComforts.
Was he forced into the home?
Canadians are a special instance of people with RVs that want Texas/Arizona/Florida weather in the winter time, and some may have stayed.
This is about as comprehensive as you can get in terms of what really matters in a good tech lead broken down into a few paragraphs. Who needs a book?! :)
The high deductible plans were originally for healthy young individuals with an health savings account to pay for the occasional deductible. These plans could be used as tax free investments if you got lucky. These days families end up getting the high deductible plans because that is all they can afford. And they do it without savings to back it up.
That could possibly be used to explain the home repair licenses. But how does one explain needing a license to braid hair?

https://www.myfloridalicense.com/CheckListDetail.asp?SID=&xa...
I was thinking that too, but it turns out that the percentage increase in energy is independent of the speed in a fairly simple model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22257938
> puts on headphones

In addition to which, music in your ear can be just as distracting when actually trying to focus on learning something new as a co-worker blabbing on a conference call. The assumption behind open offices is that nobody will ever need to learn anything new: the exact opposite of what this new “knowledge economy” was supposed to be about.
I think one-offs like this are ok, and I'd like to think mine was a step above "low-effort" ;) Besides, check out the discussion it spawned!

It's those long chains that end up being an out-of-order recital of some famous TV/movie scene that really irk me, personally. Those and similar are cases where the value is only in recognizing the source and getting that dopamine hit, and not in any further contribution to the discussion.