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History echoes and echoes and echoes. Redlining is still huge in its effects on generational wealth: housing is the single largest mechanism for wealth transfer in American families, and systematically and intentionally excluding black Americans has resulted in billions in dollars of vanished wealth. Go back in history and look at the Freedman's Bank: established during Reconstruction for freed slaves, it was placed under different oversight than other banks of the time and was used by Henry Cooke (a white guy) to give unsecured loans to his other foolish investments. He wiped out the bank, losing $57 million dollars (mildly inflation adjusted) of black American's money in 1874. Imagine if black families from 1874 had retained their $57 million dollars and been able to invest -- the capital they'd have today would be dramatically different. Then look again at today: in Detroit, families are still losing their homes because of confusing tax rules. Many families were exempted from property tax, but didn't get the paperwork properly completed and renewed every year, so they didn't pay property tax as they thought they had the exemption, but now the city is foreclosing on them due to back taxes even though they're now exempt and -- AND -- the city owes them a refund for overstating the same taxes when these families did pay!

It's amazing when you stack up the numbers from redlining, the Freedman's bank failure, these tax shenanigans, and the impact of differential sentencing for minor drug offenses propagating through to inability to access student loans and housing assistance.... (remember, if you rape someone, you can get government student loans, but if you had a baggie of marijuana, you cannot). So much money. And immigrant families, because they're coming here now, have not faced the same systematic impacts.
One time we gave feedback on request and the candidate contested the feedback, then went out on a social media rampage. So yeah, we stopped after that. It only takes one bad candidate to make it not worth the effort.
got a lot of interest, so thank you and I will be in touch with you all, but won't be seeking any further offers, thanks
Tires are more important for snow than 4-wheel-drive.
Mate, nothing against you but this question comes over and over, times and times again. I won't even bother searching for the links to post here because if you didn't do it, why should I?

Specially from a post coming from an apparent throwaway account that does nothing more that ask questions. Sorry but this one was for you.
Of course they don’t give you a cost. You are essentially signing a blank check. The hospital can charge whatever they feel like and the insurance can pay whatever share they feel like and you are in the middle trying to figure it out.
Not if you have varicose veins.
I wish that voice was an option on echo.
I really wonder about these large engineering corporations, Toyota seems to have similar problems with software.

Part of me feels like many of these companies don’t keep code secret to protect IP, instead they do it because they know it’s a burning train wreck and don’t want people to find out.
thermald is good for ordinary users I guess.

I hate those things though. I disabled all of those thermal and laptop mode management daemons on my Fedora laptop. I ran a CPU stress while manually tweaking the Intel RAPL settings until I found the 80C limit and just set that on boot. I also wrote into the boot scripts the powertop settings that I liked.

Even without RAPL settings the laptop won't fry itself. You can see the machine check events in dmesg as the CPU hits 90-95C and throttles.
I got verbal feedback exactly one time (at Microsoft) during my attempt to land a post-1-year of university internship. I had solved the algorithm in a few minutes, but when trying to code it up, I struggled a fair amount before figuring it out. The feedback I got was "You seem like a smart person, who hasn't done very much coding. That makes you a bad risk. Go practice programming and come back next year". It was incredibly valuable advice that I got no where else, and it resulted in me coming back to MS a couple of years later once I graduated (I'm not there anymore).

I wish more people would give real, actionable feedback on interviews.
> The Scala team at Lightbend is working on keeping improving Scala 2 and making sure tooling is still as good as it gets for when Scala 3 is finally released.

This is not true at all, Scala 2 is officially abandoned with the entire team now focused on Dotty [1]:

> we have decided that, rather than developing Scala 2.14, our efforts should go to Scala 3 instead.

[1] https://www.scala-lang.org/2019/12/18/road-to-scala-3.html
has to be with children law or similar, irrespective of you being his/her dad?
Your modern crossover is the Corolla Wagon of 2020. In fact it probably has less interior space than a Corlla wagon of 1990. Something like a Ford Explorer is nothing like the Ford Explorer of 1990. If you look at who buys them and how they use them you'll probably find a lot in common with the Ford County Squire and Buick Roadmaster (the big wagons of their day).

The author is attacking a straw-man. The SUV craze seems to have mostly run its course. The boring practical cars that normal people buy in huge numbers seem to have morphed into SUV dimensions but I think that's a result of modern safety requiring you to get a much bigger vehicle in order to have a similar seating position in the vehicle as cars of old, not some selfish desire to drive a land yacht.
This is long overdue. It was kinda crazy how you couldn't even visit a plain HTML page over plain HTTP without Chrome showing a "Not Secure" badge in the URL bar, yet downloading an executable file over an insecure connection produced absolutely no warning at all. You couldn't even manually check whether the file was downloaded over a secure connection without explicitly going to the downloads page. (I think Firefox is even worse in this respect right now, in that the only way to check where a file was downloaded from is to open the downloads library, right click an item, click "Copy Download Link", then paste it into a place where you can read the text.)

One thing I do find particularly interesting about this post though is the part where they imply they might start blocking all insecure file downloads at some unspecified point in the future. That would be a pretty major move.
I do neither. I ship my luggage ahead of time to my destination via a parcel service.
This is, frankly, ridiculously dismissive, and you violated both guidelines.

If you've never heard of Bitpay, I'd suggest looking it up.

I can purchase software on Microsoft's store, hardware on Newegg, a phone line from AT&T, whatever from Overstock, I can travel via Expedia among other travel brokers, I mean seriously...

"You can't buy stuff with it" has no obvious interpretation. Did you mean specifically in some part of the world? Specifically from Amazon or Target?
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I did not want to claim this.

But there are times where you can be sure that the nullable object is not null.
You got the double-exclamation-point (!!) for this. But some calls to Android-facilities doesnt accept this, so the IDE notifies you about an var, which could have changed at this point in time.
Resulting in multiple !! in the same scope of function.
>In the West, it's likely not going to be tracked by governments
And what exactly makes you think that?

You think EU institutions don't track people just because we have certain values?

You're very naive, arguably western societies track as much as possible without clogging themselves up from the bureaucracy of centralization(this is what leads to communism's inefficiency).This happens right now with the EU, and is why US is doing so well, because they've found the right balance: minimizing(or at least trying,while being held accountable by the population) the government's interference in people's lives while still providing the most basic utilities: borders, security, opportunities for business,etc.

It's good to acknowledge that companies do this today and are growing very fast in power, but many times those companies just "beta-test" things that will eventually get implemented to a nation-wide scale.(This is particularly true with Google and the chinese government)
Admittedly I didn't read the whitepaper, but the CVEs that were mentioned on the page summary sounded like your run-of-the-mill stack overflow or string vulnerabilities. So yes, the end result might be the same (i.e. remote takeover), but I would hesitate to call them backdoors unless it was demonstrated that this vulnerability was intentionally known or left unfixed for the purposes of being abused by parties in the know.
Half joking answer: because no engineer has ever received interviewing feedback
I think you should start donating some amount to helping others. Maybe that might help combine with what others have said here, regarding seeing a therapist, picking up a book. Try doing community service or volunteer work.
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Even worse, they take advantage of the benefits and skip most of the drawbacks. For example, vehicles over 6000 pounds are prohibited on California streets. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/08/california-s-sec...
The Enterprise MediaWiki Conferences are a great way to learn best practices about Knowledge Management within organizations. If you have a wiki within your company/organization or think you should, you'll meet a lot of passionate developers, administrators, and users. This one has the added bonus of getting a tour of NASA as well.
Yes, there are a lots of ways to solve this problem. A lot of the complaining and hand wringing around this feels kind of like "oh man, finally my niche hobby can get a bite of the outrage economy!".
Vegas is getting an Atari hotel as well.
What's the difference between a callable object and a closure? I don't see why a language needs both.
Another company promising to revolutionize and fix email...yawn. Wake me when an actually useful product is launched.
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Insufficient parking makes me feel like it's a scam done knowingly. If there's not enough stalls in the lot, it encourages you to go earlier so you'll find a stall available, which leads to a feedback loop of the entire workforce needing to show up earlier and earlier (and of course, with the expectation that they'll work when they get to their desk, and still stay til 5).
There's nothing in the company's interest to give feedback. It takes working time to compile this feedback and give it to the candidate. The candidate isn't going to interview at the company again until probably a year or more - if ever. And the company has a reputation risk if the candidate decides to revel this feedback and allege bias or ineffective interviewing.
Do you think there's any overlapping benefit from increasing your hobby complexity to the same level as your work complexity?

I wonder if high performance individuals commit to a lifestyle that has high performance across the board and reap a certain kind of structure or skills increase from doing so.
Well, for one, it's [current year], and ethical standards within the CIA seem to have shifted a little. But also, I do actually think operating a child sex trafficking ring would probably be a lot more objectionable for most intelligence handlers than toppling governments.

If someone asked you right now "you have two options: topple a government and replace them with a puppet, or run a child sex trafficking ring", and you had to pick one, which would you choose? If I had to choose, I'd definitely choose the former.
>If someone settled out of court that is not easy to find (as the article points out)

Even if it was settled, surely the initial complaint would be public?
Medical debt is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US.

Being forced to ruin your credit because you got sick or had an accident is sociopathic.
Despite the goofy name of the site, I found this article to be really eye-opening and helpful for me a few years ago when I had a similar realization: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-art-of-conversat...

It has tips for changing conversation patterns to avoid conversational narcissism.
But what if you want to do something apart from rolling with a die?
Tell that to Tom Perez https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1225472426894647296
>...Because offices with doors are extremely expensive compared to wide-open spaces.

No not really. In the bay area (and likely lots of other places), the costs of employee salary, benefits, etc are a lot more than the costs for rent.
There's a lot of algebraic geometry literature that's in French, so many algebraic geometers just learn to read math in French (it's considerably easier than reading French literature).
I think you’re making my case for me. So, I’ll need a separate function for Ints, Strings, Floats... What if I have an Array of my custom Person objects?

[1,2,3].take(2)
[“a”,”b”,”c”].take(2)
[p1,p2,p3].take(2)

How much logic are we going to need to repeat for all the types for all the functions?
The hiring process is a black box for a reason. The HR department's role is to protect the company first, not the employees, and certainly not prospective employees. If feedback can be interpreted as being discriminatory, or reflective of bad company culture in general, well, word gets around.

For much of the time, the reason people don't get the job is that there was someone marginally more qualified/attractive/likeable, or some combination of the three; the classic "there were many qualified candidates and we could only choose one" line in the rejection email.

That doesn't help the interviewee beyond telling them that it's a numbers game, but that's the truth.
Got it, you're admitting you were wrong through your actions. Thank you for that, it's refreshing to see people that are willing to accept a different viewpoint and adjust their own beliefs when new information is provided.
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1. The friction force that you need is also proportional to mass so mass does nothing in that regard. Usually the increase in friction force is sublinear wrt downforce so mass is actually bad.

2. I'll give you that height helps in high snow but how often is that important? People were driving in snow all the time before SUVs.
There's a fourth one but its undefined.
> This is basically saying personal efforts matter. I believe this is not most upward mobility advocators want to hear.

Surely you're not implying that 'upward mobility advocates' mean that people will magically become richer while doing nothing?
If they can get it to listen, they can theoretically have it dial a number
They acknowledge this in the document:

"If it seems like we are over-eager to defend ourselves because we know that we are somehow in the wrong, it is because we are, at least partially. Working on this translation has meant going against Grothendieck’s explicit requests, and for that we are sorry. We only hope that the freedom of knowledge is an excusable defense."
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>Does the fear of getting sued even make sense?

No. most job offers are liberally padded to seek a massively overqualified candidate in the unrealistic hope of attaining one that hasnt gone to work for a much nicer competitor, or in order to give the interviewer and HR ample reasons to reject an applicant that arent pertanent to their manner or person (which would get them sued.) the latter is also effective in ensuring jobs that require an outside posting will always favor an inside candidate, or a nepotist's ringer.
Glassdoor is absolutely filled to the brim with reviews clearly written by HR, marketing firms or by current employees who were told to write reviews.

If a review's only advice to management are: "Continue doing what you're doing!", "keep up the good work!" or "make sure our awesome culture isn't diluted as we grow!", then they're fake.

If a review's only cons are reframing the cons left my legitimate reviewers as sour grapes by someone who can't handle fast-paced environments, startups, or responsibilities that aren't clearly defined, they're fake.

But the biggest red flag is positive reviews left in succession over the period of a few days to a month.

Much like Amazon reviews, it seems that the only reviews you can glean worthwhile information from are the bad reviews.
The idea if the same bug was in a Chinese product the title would have been "backdoor injected" ... see yesterday and recent articles on HN.
Not the real definition, but the definition in most americans' heads. Many probably also conflate those with communism.
I dunno, the libertarians at places like reason.com seem to be pretty opposed to any government at all. There is no major libertarian party or even representative at the national level, so it's hard to say what they are in favor of.
> There has to be a better way to aggregate than having this same article (effectively) pop up every other week.

I disagree. I think this is actually the best way HN can bring about change, even though the arguments haven't changed in years.

IMO the reason these posts get upvoted is out of protest and to raise awareness. HN is probably the most influential source in tech. If every time you look at HN there's threads complaining about something, it must be pretty important.

After watching memes travel around the internet and cross over into mainstream thinking, I put a lot of weight on how much HN's front page matters. Slashdot used to have a similar effect, then Digg, then Reddit, now HN.
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> Government-run health care systems tend to lead to higher healthcare costs

I know this feels true because laissez-faire and commie-bashing rhetoric is still common in the Western world, but there have been numerous studies recently showing that the US is the most costly per capita. The next 3 countries (by 2016 numbers) are all places where most things are more expensive because the country and its citizens are relatively rich: Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Norway.

There's even a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

Of particular interest is this graph, which breaks it down by public vs private spending: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
> so the benefits of having a city is rapidly diminishing.

To be 100% clear, I still love living in the dense city where I do and I have no plans on moving away from it. But I don't think employers have yet figured out that taking away the quiet(er?) spots at work does a lot of harm because it means loss of hours of quiet.

I also readily admit that a good chunk of this is on me. I am increasingly a curmudgeon, probably because of changes at work, and so I take it out on the other parts of my environment by quietly being frustrated.

I've lived in the middle of nowhere before and hated it. I've lived in the "quiet" suburbs and hated it. At least living in the city, with the attendant noise, I get more out of it than I lose; I'm just still frustrated at my employer (and my industry) for taking away my office door.
I think you could tell them a little something about why you decided not to make an offer. But this is riddled with problems, sadly. For example, candidates often take it as an invitation to a debate. You can agree with the feedback or not, but you're not going to talk your way into an offer.

In sum, it's all downside with little upside. The lawsuit thing is a red herring, imo.
People regularly throw sandbags in their trunks to help with traction in snow. The mass helps. And when you're stuck, you can pour the sand out for grit.
There are people thinking all need to be done is just "fix the system" and then people who were making efforts will be selected.
It is wasteful from the perspective of the taxpayers that funded that highly-specialized, highly-sought after education only to see it move away

(BTW the argument is the same even if that education was not strictly paid off by public money. The way societies and nations organize themselves, you're taking up a valuable resource just by occupying the "slot", even if you are paying for it the people around you are incurring in all sorts od externalities to support your existence and studies)

I'm honestly surprised that the position that Brain Drain is not a problem exists and would be curious to see your reasoning

Also - Brain Drain also negatively affects the destination country in the sense that it "eases" the societal pressure on providing top notch/decent education to the general population. Why bother with educating your people when you can let the best people from elsewhere immigrate? Revert that and see how fast FAANG backed education reforms hit

Note -I'm not all in for either side, and believe as in most things there's an ideal middle ground. Let some come. Send some away, too! There's a lot of value in the exchange.

But check the list od instructors in the post's page: a tremendously hot topic in one of the best educational institutions in the world - and how many instructors are stereotypically "immigrants"? I'm leaning towards 100%
I think that we are at the front end of some very dark and hard years. In 10 years time, I think we'll be reaching "peak dark" and the pendulum will start to swing back to better days.
Although Clear does it with prebuilt binary libraries. No need to compile your own.
Then you can create a struct Die and change die to return that. By implementing callAsFunction you keep the same interface as before so existing callers don't break.
I wonder if we should lay blame at the feet of triggerer or the triggered, though. People seem to get really uncomfortable when you get close to outing their selfishness. NIMBYism/gentrification is another popular one that does it, for example.
How odd, I was all prepared to come in and find other folks excited about callAsFunction. It seems rather straightforward, although I will admit Swift is my daily driver.

Think most agree expressive syntax while minimizing boilerplate is at times going to require sugar. It's interesting you bring cognitive load into the question – perhaps I come at it more from an architectural light than PL fans, but that load seems largely correlated with one's purposes and patterns in using the language.

On that front, Swift has lofty and broad goals (including DSLs), but that surface area doesn't make the language worse. To take your other example, KeyPath Functions don't change anything about KeyPaths; the concept is and remains no different than anywhere else it's implemented (whether in Swift or in another language). Beginners can still use the concept, skill comes with understanding how/why it works, and mastery comes with knowing when/how to use it simply.

If Swift achieves said goals, one needn't be able to understand the last mile of any specific domain where it's used as a language. But it'll be quicker and easier than coming from another language, and the sugar will still be as sweet.