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That hatred wasn't meaningfully due to Jewish political power. Banking was almost literally the only field where Christian law in the Middle Ages - in this case prohibitions against usury - discriminated against Christians in favor of Jews.

The section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury#Judaism gives more context:

> As the Jews were ostracized from most professions by local rulers during the Middle Ages, the Western churches and the guilds,[30] they were pushed into marginal occupations considered socially inferior, such as tax and rent collecting and moneylending. Natural tensions between creditors and debtors were added to social, political, religious, and economic strains.[31]

> ...financial oppression of Jews tended to occur in areas where they were most disliked, and if Jews reacted by concentrating on moneylending to non-Jews, the unpopularity—and so, of course, the pressure—would increase. Thus the Jews became an element in a vicious circle. The Christians, on the basis of the Biblical rulings, condemned interest-taking absolutely, and from 1179 those who practiced it were excommunicated. Catholic autocrats frequently imposed the harshest financial burdens on the Jews. The Jews reacted by engaging in the one business where Christian laws actually discriminated in their favor, and became identified with the hated trade of moneylending.

I surely agree with the other statements you made. (As another example, apartheid South Africa's and the unrecognised state of Rhodesia's minority white population were far from loved by the rest of the population.) I don't, however, understand the relevance.
I once read a quote that was something like "You are only an expert in a given technology when you know when not to use it". Unfortunately I forgot the exact quote and the author. (If anyone knows please let me know).

This is such a nice quote that speaks a lot about what it means to be an experienced (senior) software engineer. Our field is such a dynamic one! New tools and techniques appear all the time.

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that newer tools are better. I think this is because in some areas of tech this is almost always true (e.g. hardware). But in software, new tools are techniques are rarely fully better, instead they just provide a different set of trade offs. Progress doesn't follow a linear pattern, it's more like a jagged line slowly trending upwards.

We think we are experienced because we know how to use new tools, but in reality we are only more experienced when we understand the trade offs and learn when the tools are really useful and when they are not.

A senior engineer knows when not to use micro services, when not to use SQL, when not to use static typing, when not to use React, when not to use Kubernetes, etc.

Junior engineers don't know these trade offs, they end up using sophisticated hammers for their screws. It doesn't mean that those hammers are bad or useless, they were just misused.
Red Cross is worldwide and have lots of different volunteering activities. Also, most cities in the world have centras with volunteers doing different things. You need to find local engagement, and getting to know people, your network start to expand in that area. You can start by calling these and ask how to proceed, what would be suitable, or even just try out a course or something.

This is something that may enrich your life, but I wouldn't rely solely on volunteering and charity. They should be part of life, but your yearning is more personal than that.
I love this project. Thank you for posting it. The idea of a post collapse operating system reminds me of slackware/subgenius’s old slogan: “...the world ends tomorrow and you may die!”

I’ll be trying to compile collapseos, write forth and load slackware on floppys in a few years then. (Will systemd survive civilisation’s collapse, especially when it caused it, that is the question....)
What’s often overlooked about Zipline is that they started as Romotive, a company that made iPhone—powered robots for kids.

Through the sheer force of willpower by the CEO (Keller) they found a new path and have become what they are. It’s a great startup story of how to persevere.

Disclosure: My firm was one of their first investors.
I haven't been able to access archive.is and archive.md in Firefox because of a Cloudflare error, "Please enable cookies.". It works on Chrome however.
Headlines like this are probably the worst possible way to do reporting. It tells you what it wants you to think right up front. There is no room for critical thought or debate. There is no possibility for them to be wrong. It implies the full authority of the entire scientific community and if you disagree in the slightest you are a heretic.

This is why I like hackernews. There is much less of this crap (though obviously as we can see in this case it still happens).
Suppose you are a goldsmith and someone makes a deposit with you of two bars of gold, for which you give them two certificates. Now the regulator demands you keep 50% of your assets in gold. According to your way of thinking there is just one way to proceed: lend out one gold bar and stick the resulting IOU in its place on the asset side of your balance sheet. But suppose your would-be-debtor really wanted a larger amount, and in addition thinks she can pay her suppliers in your certificates as easily as in gold. Then you might hang on to the gold, write out two certificates for her and put the resulting IOU against them on the asset side of your balance sheet. Either way the regulator's demands have been met and you remain fully legal and solvent.
Plenty of corporate types target Chrome because of its market share (for the same reason, iOS apps are out for years before Android ones are)

One specific circumstance which impacts me is the Capital One virtual credit card extension (https://www.capitalone.com/applications/eno/virtualnumbers ) which if one clicks on "Get It Now", from a copy of Firefox, one ends up on the webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eno%C2%AE-from-cap...

Even consulting the page source (view-source:https://www.capitalone.com/applications/eno/virtualnumbers/) shows some mentions of Firefox but certainly no mozilla.org URL or .xpi that would imply they're serious about that claim.
And they often assume the reader is a complete novice, which means a lot of pages are wasted on obvious yada yada and then there's less space for genuinely interesting deep stuff that you'd only learn from an expert (or through a lot of practice and trial & error).
Part 1 was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308054
> but landing it by catching it using a small hook at the tail of the plane isn't that common I presume.

Been used by the Navy since 1911.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arresting_gear
Is it an involuntary illustration of the "jumping to conclusions" fallacy?
Many of us were told growing up that we were a special snowflake. Not sure there's correlation (not sure how you'd prove it), but I have my suspicions. IMO we're in the age of individualism. Hopefully it's just a cycle.

The real kicker is it seems to be self-fulfilling. If experts are no longer trusted or respected, the market / margin for expertise shrinks. You get lots of self-proclaimed experts to fill in the gaps with less investment (lower margin == lower investment, clickbait), and then the individual is justified in thinking most expertise is crap... because it is now crap (advertiser supported business model).

Maybe we wake up some day and say "Holy shit, it's all just bullshit!" and then expertise can again attract an audience that's willing to pay for it.
What city do you live in?

In San Francisco or Seattle, Google "soup kitchen volunteer {city}".

Low commitment, no special skills required. Go try it. Talk to the other people there. Ask where else they volunteer. You can literally google this today and help this week.

Are you following Black Lives Matter? Get involved at the local level. Research your police department and social services funding for your city. Really dig into the details. Find organizing groups there that are working to enact real change through fiscal policies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436526
To support format string vulnerabilities! /s
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Apparently both rubber bullets and pepper spray can be lethal/cause serious harm. Are there any safer methods for the police to use? I am not arguing if or when police should be able to use such methods, but having safer methods seems like something that would benefit both police and protesters.

The only thing that looks promising from the list on wikipedia seems to be scent based weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lethal_weapon#Scent-based_.... Some sort of sleeping gas would work too, but there doesn't seem to be any safe and effective version.
I believe it is only time until you start discussing standards with Rust.

If Rust wants to be taken seriously in many domains where C, C++, Ada and Java are used nowadays, it needs to eventually get a standard specification and multiple implementations.
These days it feels like the whole world is broken and people break it even more by catching the falling knife.
Now I feel like there's a good automated "Inspirational Advice Blog Generator" to be made, a la http://hkessner.com/wats1020-dom-basics/
Highlights all hyperslinks on a page in yellow

javascript:(function(){for(i=0;i<document.links.length;i++)document.links[i].style.backgroundColor='#ffff00';})();
"Don't consume. Create."

vs

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
I strongly agree. Whether you think China is butterflies and kittens (I do not) or unspeakably evil (I also do not) it seems like a so-called “war footing” is going to distort priorities and thus be less likely to achieve its goals than simply pushing back wherever the national interest (whatever that might be) Might require it.

Even with its current turmoil, the US is a far more resilient society and is more likely to prosper (and that is what prevailing or “victory” should mean) than China in its current configuration.
Does this sell for $495 or $4.95?
Nah man, the cops don’t have it in them to actually destroy the country. Those extremists will quit long before then.
Url changed from https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/researchers-find-3000-year..., which points to this, which doesn't have an autoplaying video.
Is this because there is no effective way to do "remote learning" or just because of poor execution?
That’s what they’ve moved on from - intentionally malicious code to just bad code. Such progress! Much wow!
Author here. Normally I try to avoid discussing the content on HN (I have weird beliefs about author engagement), but I wanted to share my thoughts on this.

I mostly agree with you about the manual labor thing. Outside of tech I'm a really avid cook and chocolatier. There's something special about holding a cherry cordial in your hand and thinking "I made this" that I've never gotten with programming. Cooking is one of the very few things I know that can help me cope with depression. Not stop it, nothing can stop it, but at least make it feel little bit less awful in the moment.

(This can lead to some funny situations where I'm hungry and want to cook but have zero appetite, so I make a dish, put in the freezer, and stay hungry.)

But tech helps in other ways. When I'm sane, tech is something that I look forward to, that keeps me mentally engaged, that gives me new puzzles every day. I'm proud of some of the things I've done, maybe not to the same degree that I'm proud of the chocolate I make, but still proud in its own way.

My problem isn't so much that software causes problems as much as that software could do so much more to help. Software augments our brains in a lot of different ways, making it easier for us to remember things, organize information, and communicate. It feels like there must be _some_ way to turn all that computing power into something it helps with mental illness, too. But any such thing would probably have to be very personalized to the person using it, which is something we can't really do that well right now.
Books if you need to learn a topic.

Papers if you need to keep up with a topic.

I used to follow statsblogs, but that's dead now (the collection, most of the blogs still exist).

Anything that isn't covered in these forums probably isn't important enough to worry about.
This may sound like a flippant comment, but perhaps you're ready to start exploring the great unknown: yourself.

"Know thyself" is one of the tenants of old, and people naturally think they know themselves well. (I used to think the same way too... but it's actually an illusion - a self deceit that we have all built in.)

Start by digging into your own uneasiness. Where does it come from? What triggers it? You'll find some personal thing, most likely from childhood, tucked away in the recesses of your psyche that drives you. Meditation and self honesty are key here.

You can also start by looking at other things, like anger & see how something like a small irritation early in the day can lead to more irritation later on, which can lead to a blow up.

As you dig into your own psyche, you'll hopefully uncover how to love your wife, kids and place in life even more. It will then allow you to dig into yourself more, with increasing levels of gratitude, compassion and love as a result. It's pretty cool.

Pay attention to your nightly dreams also, as they often reflect your day time psyche and can also influence how your upcoming day will be.

Maybe this is what you're looking for?
> Sounds like you had a checklist/recipe for life and you went with it.

Yep, tried to follow a mix of passion and checklists.

> Do whatever.

love this. This is also the problem itself. I can do anything. But what will I miss out if I do x instead of y?

> Learn an instrument, buy a motorcycle, make a painting, become a scuba instructor, run a marathon, try drugs, move to another country, sit at a park/cafe and talk with people - you get the picture.

The instrument sounds good. I. did run a marathon, bought a motorcycle (and a sailboat), I can't paint, lived in 6 countries, drugs scary the shit out of me after teenage THC-related panic attacks.

Give me more.

> You'll find something that clicks, just get out of your checklist view of life.

Hahaha, some friend call me the "list man"... they also made a drawing of me holding a checklist at my wedding :
Ask HN: Leave small company where I’m a key person
I am CTO of a small consulting firm. I’ve been instrumental the last 7-8 years in growing our profile and business. I was directly responsible for winning 50% of revenue last several years, and had influence on much of the remaining 50%. I manage our largest clients and most significant open source projects (which we derive a lot of business)

Lately I feel very stuck. I am tired of consulting. Because of Covid I haven’t had to travel. I have small kids and no longer want to travel excessively. I’ve also had every experience I can have at my job. I feel stagnant. I’m also tired of the same problems over and over and over at this company. As I told a friend everything has become far too “lovable”

I have put out feelers for new jobs, and seem to have a lot of positive prospects. I’m very excited about the opportunities.

The guilt though of wanting to leave is overwhelming. I worry I’ll damage relationships and there will be a lot of hurt feelings. At the same time, the company has had a lot of time to grow/hire more people that could take on my level of work

How do I leave, preserve relationships, and minimize damage to the company? Any pointers appreciated.
> This is why I like hackernews.

HN guidelines mandate "the worst possible way to do reporting" by not allowing submitters to alter headlines that are obviously bad.

Most HN readers wouldn't even click on the article, or even click on the comments page. But they see the headline.
I can speak to this a little bit. I am in the process of finishing a post-bacc with the goal of applying to medical schools next year after having switched from a career in tech.

My biggest piece of advice would be to not let go of your career too soon. It's tough taking classes and working a full time job simultaneously but I think it's really important to make sure that you can handle that kind of work load and that this is a change you really want to make before giving up your livelihood. It might take you an extra year in your post-bacc but IMO the extra year of financial security and time to figure out the correct path is just worth it... I think what's tough about the PA route is that many programs require applicants to already have thousands of hours of patient contact before applying. This likely means that you will have to find some kind of job in health care prior to applying for a PA program... If I were you, before I set my heart on a PA program I would take a good hard look at nursing programs, NP programs, and MD/DO programs because you can get accepted into those types of schools without having the same kind of professional background a PA school require of you. With that said, if my heart was still set on PA, I would probably try to go for some kind of certificate or associates program first in something like respiratory therapy, pathology/radiology/laboratory tech, or EMT/paramedicine in order to move into the healthcare space with some kind of skill/career prospects before quitting my tech job. Then you can get the hours you need and take any classes the programs your interested in require of you while also confirming that you do indeed want to be a PA. That whole process, from making a plan to finishing your PA program could probably be done in 5 years which, when you consider how long medical school is, doesn't seem too bad. Especially, if you are able to stay in a lucrative profession before beginning PA school.

This is just my two cents. I am by no means an expert but I am at the end of my third and final year of post-bacc classes and I have spent a lot of time thinking about which path out of a tech and into healthcare makes the most sense.
Hey I know you mentioned it here and it is shown on the getting started tutorial, but may be useful to mention it on the front page too: the engine is built upon Love 2D.
Thank you for this thoughtful reply. I agree with you. I would also point out the history of depressions being a catalyst for tyranny, especially under right leaning fascist leaders, because the population is scared and hurting and look for stability through my a powerful controlling leader and are further persuaded by visions of a return to the good times before the depression and a future of a “restored” stronger country. We saw that in parts of the world after 2008 and this climate will likely strengthen the trend.
In case you haven't seen, this is probably the reason for the error: You're using 1.1.1.1 for DNS which is not supported by archive currently. https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
Pretty sure OP was calling the people peacefully protesting police brutality as “the extremists”.
Yes, if my math is correct the number of whites victimized by blacks should be ~10 per 10 million if crime was affected by percentage of the population alone since whites are 70 percent of the pop. and blacks 12. Of course pure statistics should not be the only way of looking at the world.
Talk about it with your wife.
What role did you join for?
Minneapolis mayor booed by protesters after refusing to defund abolish polce
Except that mites are imperceptible to eat, and very difficult to see.
Consult your experiences and channel your internal value systems into altruistic endeavors that could help others. Communication comes into play here more than ever. If you think you have something good for the world, you need to somehow deliver that message.
I see the Arts as a great medium especially for this type of communication. A combination of science and creativity seems to be able to pierce through the noise around us and deliver the signal (message) in a gentle way.

EDIT:
A playful example: https://artful.design/

Hope you will find your way :)
Unfortunately the evidence from degree-level education has, for a long time, been that distance learning is an order of magnitude worse than attending classes with a teacher.

For children the difference is likely to be even more stark.

Luckily there is lots of research on this matter to inform our decisions about what is appropriate for educating people.
I also saw this on your repo [1], I was wondering if you are planning to move from Love to it, or what is it about? (just curious :-)

1: https://github.com/Planimeter/lgf
Just like to add "Life is NOT a Journey", by Alan Watts, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpaUICxEhk

Life is not a journey helps put things in perspective.
Baby steps?

Paint smiley faces or flowers on small stones and randomly leave them on sidewalks around your town. No more than one every few blocks. Never check on them again.

Study karma.

Learn how to adjust your presence to uplift the people you pass by. Positive comments, compliments, and even learning how to hope for someone’s recovery when they insult you.

Call a local publicly funded organization and ask if they have volunteer opportunities.
So... the author works as a developer since 2017.

The reality is most tech content is written by people with relatively little experience. People with lots of experience tend to have way more on their plates to bother writing blog posts or (tech) books.

Also the market is stacked against content for advanced users. Whether you are for ad impressions, visitors, likes, subscribes, book sales, you want to produce content that sells to masses of people and making it advanced is definitely going to cut your readership.

There is still a lot of value browsing through it. The reason is that since finding good information is difficult, the nuggets of wisdom make up for the lost time reading cruft.
Out of the list you provided we have the following deaths:

1. 3 Shop owner killed alleged looter / passerby

2. 4 Killed by police

3. 8 Killed by protesters/rioters/looters

4. 5 Other deaths

And that is assuming all of the looters are part of the protests, when in fact at least 2-3 of the deaths in category 3 could also be black protesters targeted by radicals, or simply robberies happening around the actual protests.

In the meantime, there are 25 separate police violence incidents on the same wiki page, with another 50 against journalists collected by a journalist. The same page reports 7 incidents of violence against the police and 4 against non-police.

So I believe my point stands. Not to mention that the police should always be held at a higher standard of conduct and respect for the law than random people.
My two cents many people can't think individually any more. Tech has become complex some people can only justify a decision based on what other people did. Honestly the solution is a combination of the scientific method, hacker mindset and being prepared to RTFM. No tech content is worth its character count it is just one persons perspective, their biases and mistakes. However reading code is another story, that tells a story I don't think you need to write content if you code. A project on GitHub is worth more than 1000 words.
“The media” isn’t causing dudes in aloha shirts to go to protests with a bunch of guns.
Yeah, that why it was considered acceptable for big iron/servers of the time.

There not a huge amount of context switching (basically few processes relative to the number of cpus in the system), and known types of programs.

They knew in general most code they ran would not blow the stack. The cost of course if you ran atypical (for their designed purpose) your perf would be clobbered.