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For some reason, we humans don't apply system design to all the systems we build. If we were designing a system from scratch, no one would choose only two primary modes of transportation, cars and planes, and then tack on the rest. Instead, we'd choose a variety of modular, de-coupled ways with flexible interfaces to get around: walking, biking, scooters/motorcycles, cars, buses, subways, trains, and planes. Yes, we have all these today, but they are not used. Cars and planes do everything from long distance to short distance trips. Bicyclists, motorcyclists, scooters, and pedestrians are, often literally, sidelined and treated as annoyances. Instead, we should be using the best tools for the job and designing cities to support these variety of ways.

In the U.S., we've given corporations such massive power and leverage that it breaks the system design process. Corporations aren't interested in building holistic systems. They want to build funnel systems that funnel people into their products, just as the car companies did back in the mid-twentieth century to kill off mass transportation methods to instead sell individuals and families the car.

The U.S. could choose to be a world leader in this if it wanted, but it doesn't want to.
> They do that to animals for the same reason and with the same effect. There's precedent.

Nice connection.
Meh. It's a real thing.

A small but not trivial portion of the public immediately lapses into a near-rage at anything that appears to be an authority figure. People seem to grow out of it.

Maybe it's PTSD from poor interactions with past authorities, maybe it's some kind of pack hierarchy hold over, who knows-- but it appears to be a pretty widespread phenomena.

It doesn't stop being real just because the description could also be abused to dismiss someone who has a legitimate complaint about a particular authority.
I agree in general that prescription antidepressants are over-prescribed. Unfortunately there are few medications that can ameliorate shit life syndrome.

That said, some people do have genuine chemical imbalances. I've had bipolar disorder all my life. My cocktail of medications has allowed the last 11 years of my life to be the most productive, stable and happiest. There are of course side effects - and I can understand why some people find them intolerable. I have tremendous difficulty ejaculating, for example. But on balance it's worth it as a) I'm alive and b) my quality of life has improved.

Likewise for my grandmother, my mother, my aunt and my cousin. Bipolar disorder ravaged our families at various points and medication has improved our lives immeasurably in various ways. I just feel for earlier generations that didn't have an explanation (let alone cure) for their woes.
> Start with the assumption that people need to be able to afford a place to live, and that a full time job should be able to achieve that. Do you agree?

For me, it’s the definition of a minimum place to live. When I was young, I had roommates. I don’t think every working person should be able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment.

There are multi family dwellings, studios, boarding rooms, etc. If I’m by myself and making minimum wage then I think it’s ok to not be able to get my own one to two bedroom in the city of my choosing. I’m ok with having to live in the burbs and train or drive in. It sucks, but there’s no reason why minimum wage is a permanent condition.
That might be true for you, but that clearly isn't true for everyone. I know people in HK (mostly elderly) who are fine with China coming and taking over. They see security and wealth.
Appears to be pills, not injection. So far they aren't reporting infertility, only gynecomastia. It's certainly possible to have the latter without the former.
You get better results if you redefine "unaffordable". Also, the report did specify that 1BRs were also not affordable in 95% of counties going this metric. That's not to say some metrics aren't representative, rent in rural areas and cities in the same states may vary widely. They have it down by county in this report.

"Out of Reach is consistent with federal housing policy in the assumption that no more than 30% of a household’s gross income should be consumed by gross housing costs. Spending more than 30% of income on housing is considered “unaffordable."[1]

[1] https://reports.nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR_BOOK_2...
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They are both independent non-profits which rely on a mix of private and public funds.

Not sure through what mechanism you think they are directly controlled.
I would assume they are referring to most of the current suggestions for universal healthcare in the US, which follow a centralised model where a central body could collectively negotiate for drug prices (as the NHS does here in the UK, very effectively).
Doesn’t it make sense to set the floors based on the typical person, and accommodate other people in personalized ways? For example, the vast majority of low wage workers are not parents. If we want to set a floor for parents, we can have housing subsidies for families with children. Isn’t that better and more efficient?
I believe you, and I didn't mean for my parenthetical question to minimize the suffering of those who do experience it. It seems like it's more prevalent in some circles than others, but I could be wrong. Either way, I don't want anyone lose their job when it isn't warranted.
> They aren't unforgiving, because if you need performance you can use another function that does not do the check

Rust tries hard not to cause regressions in users without good cause, which includes avoiding runtime performance regressions. One of the reasons that this fix took so long was that benchmarking prospective solutions revealed unacceptable performance regressions in users, even those who were already "doing the right thing" by manually upholding the proper invariants (no NaN, and value within range). The tension is that something still needed to be done, because at the end of the day the Rust creed is still "no undefined behavior without `unsafe`".

> This means I will avoid casts altogether in my code

Indeed, this is hardly discouraged wherever possible. For converting, say, a u64 to a u8, use `foo.try_into()` in order to get a conversion that follows the usual Rust conventions around Result-based error-handling (which didn't exist back when `as` was first conceived, or when this bug was originally filed). Casting floating point types to integers is already a rather rare use case in the first place.
> The boy’s father said the hormone therapy has had a long-term effect on his son, who now scares easily and has become antisocial. “He’s like a different person. He just wants to be in his room, and he don’t come out for nothing, all day in his room,” the father said. “He was never like that.”

How could one possibly discern this from the effects of going through juvie in general. I'd certainly feel betrayed by society, regardless of what meds I was given.
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More men generally die annually from breast cancer[1] than testicular cancer[2]. The reason men's rights movements are mocked is because of comments like this that equate any possible problem men have as been on equal footing with all the problems that women have.

[1] - https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/breast-cancer/statistics

[2] - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
While it may sound ridiculous that anyone would be fooled into sending bitcoin in response to these tweets, an analysis of the BTC wallet promoted by many of the hacked Twitter profiles shows that on July 15 the account processed 383 transactions and received almost 13 bitcoin on July 15 — or approximately USD $117,000.

This could be mostly the attackers’ own money. It’s impossible to tell, but I haven’t seen anyone explicitly mention this.
You might already be aware, but it is possible to reclaim most of what was lost via the principle of tissue expansion. It’s called foreskin restoration and allows you to regrow basically everything except the frenulum/ridged band.

It’s time-consuming and takes awhile to learn how to tug properly, and in a certain sense can be psychologically painful to go through, but the results I’ve personally seen so far have been very encouraging.

Sorry again to hear what happened to you.
Careful with your wishes. The school doesn't like strange students. Depends in what country you live, but in the country I live it's solved with money, send the kid to a private school and the school will swallow everything as long as you pay.
Good point, I'll look into that. Usually it's a mixture of things like numpy arrays and meta-data. I find it's easy to save a lot of stuff along with the data, that I might regret not having later on.
Bronze was revolutionary in other ways. Sure, copper occurs in native metallic form, but even once you find out that mixing it with certain minerals yields a much better metal, you have other problems. Namely that the mineral that gives the best alloy, cassiterite, or SiO2, only occurs in large quantities thousands of kilometers away from your copper deposits. Trade between regions that had hitherto had little contact became a thing.

Iron, as known to the ancients, was in many ways inferior to bronze. Iron with low carbon content is malleable but soft, whereas iron with too much carbon is hard but brittle. It took a long time for people to painstakingly learn to make iron that was consistently as good as bronze, and even longer to learn how to further refine iron into consistent-quality steel, a process that also required huge amounts of energy compared to bronzemaking.
Yes, videotaped killings are the most visceral, so they are most likely to catalyze protests, but the 1000 killings a year don't sufficiently explain why so many people are protesting. There's more video of the less-than-lethal police actions that are more likely to explain the crowds that are far larger than in 2015 after Ferguson.
Yes, seems like a Toronto issue. Where can I contact CF?
Agreed. It's a subconscious bias I've noticed creep in over the years.
It might be better to assume that it's entirely the attacker's money until at least one actual victim steps forward.
If a coach was doping teen athletes with test without their knowledge or coercing them in to it, hell even misleading them to do it, I'm pretty sure I would expect jail time, assault charges etc. And you would probably be in favour as well. But because attacking this feels like an attack on your political narrative you feel the need to spin it inside of it and downplay this.

And don't even try the "this is a medical professional" - the kid got gyno and this is not an approved procedure - it's exactly the same as the coach doping kids.
Countries and places with the most extensive housing regulation have some of the most unaffordable housing. Stockholm’s housing market, for example, is a basket case.
> When I was young, I had roommates. I don’t think every working person should be able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment.

Not everyone working minimum wage is doing it "when they were young." Do you really think it's a good objective for a 55 year old cook for a non-profit organization to be living with room mates? Would you want that?

The solution is there if you are willing to reduce the wealth generated by investment properties for an already much wealthier investment class. How do you justify your priorities ethically?
Yes. The hacked accounts include the likes of Trump, Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates. Bet they will push to track down who did it.
> no, that's what they usually call young 'psychopaths' that act out, aka 'sociopaths'...

That would be "conduct disorder" actually, something rather more severe than just ODD. If a kid shows a pattern of behaving in blatantly antisocial ways that demonstrate a severe lack of empathy for others, that's pretty much it. Setting stuff on fire is actually a tell-tale sign, as is willful animal cruelty.
Pay cash, ‘season’ the property for 6-12 months with renters and THEN finance.

It is typically easier to get financing on property you already own vs. new purchase.
Great article.

A long time ago I started collecting exemplars of edged weapons (swords, knives, axes) for no reason other than I found the aesthetic interesting. But in collecting these things you may find, as I did, that just looking at them gets to be boring so you start reading about them. When was this kind of sword invented? Who used it? For what? What replaced it? What came before it? Etc.

Before too long you may find that you are looking at two parallel universes that are interlocked by expressions of intent. In one universe are people figuring out what makes metal have the properties it does and how can I change them? And the other universe is people looking at what metal can do "now" and applying it to their creative process in weaponry.

It is an amazing tapestry of complexity behind the simple appreciation of "that's a cool sword/knife"
Perhaps it would be better to replace "metal" with "manganese" in the title. Also, bacteria that use iron are well known.

Time to update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotroph#Iron-_and_manganese...

> Manganese-oxidizing bacteria also make use of igneous lava rocks in much the same way; by oxidizing manganous manganese (Mn2+) into manganic (Mn4+) manganese.

> Much still remains unknown about manganese-oxidizing bacteria because they have not been cultured and documented to any great extent.
It's worth pointing out that there's a distinction to be made between having modern military kit and being able to effectively use it. This is a problem that most notably plagues the Arab militaries, in that they have the funds to buy the good stuff, but they are unwilling to invest in the training (or the operational independence) to effectively use it [1].

I'm not sure how modern Russia and China fare in this regard, compared to each other or to Western powers. Both countries have definitely showed signs in the past decade or so of trying to push through military reforms and adding more junior officers compared to senior officers.

[1] Classic case study: first Gulf War, where the casualty ratio was a lopsided 100:1, despite the Iraqi military having rough numerical parity and access to modern kit.
Yes, and no. Directly yes. But no, because the numbers are so insanely over I question whether they can afford 30th or 20th percentile too.

It smells like the 40th-%tile is the number that the data exists for. I would welcome graphs showing this data at other %-tiles, and whether that changes the outlook significantly.

But the report puts ~50% of the workforce below the national housing wage for a 1-bed. 50% of the workforce cannot all obtain better than 40th %-tile rents.
Thanks for all the detail, agreed on all your points.
We have the opposite here (Otago, Aotearoa).

I friend and neighbour of mine, on completing their nurses training, went to work at the local prison.

The medical care they dispensed there was far above what the prisoners received out side. And we have a good general medical system.

The guards may well have been sadistic when away from medical personnel, I cannot say.

There are all sorts of problems of all sorts of different sorts - and if it bleeds it leads - but given that I despair at the reports I keep getting from the USA. ARe things realy getting that bad?
Metabase is great.
I have a cheap one so I am not sure if the absolute values are correct. But they change very reliably and consistently. With breathing exercises I can take the value from the usual 95-97 to 99. When I hold my breath long enough I can take the value down to 75 or less.

There is a delay of 20-30 seconds between changing my breathing to the oximeter changing its value. I suppose this is how long it takes for the blood to get around in the body.
True, but like a communicable disease, spreading is not a binary number, but a function of the amount of contact.
I think this is why trains and airplanes tend to be delayed so much. It is much better to be late than to leave early. A train that's late will usually still eventually arrive.
In this case, it's annoying because you'll have missed a semi-rapid and the next comparable train to Tsukuba will leave 9 minutes later and arrive 17 minutes later.

It's not a 40 minute thing, this isn't Caltrain, but it's still annoying.
It's not a hack when an employee holds the door open and gives use of an admin management tool to a third party.

Likewise, it's not a bitcoin scam when bitcoin is the method of transfer, just like it's not a US-dollar scam every other time dollars are used in theft.
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How can that be, exactly? If it's "extensively regulated", then why is it so expensive? Can you point to a relationship between capping the price and inflating it? They seem to be inversely related.
Not sure how you would quantify this, but enough? Inventing detonators that worked fast enough (i.e. small enough error in firing time) was one of the challenges. They did a lot of tests of those explosive lenses. (32, not 9, of course.)

The electronics to fire them would have comparatively easy to test well, and I'm sure they over-designed it all. I doubt that duplicating it would have made anything better.
Indeed, currently it's curated manually! Would love to get suggestions for more libraries we can add to that category!

You're right about the selecting categories from the sidebar not updating the URL, we haven't implemented the routing yet, that is something that we'll implement soon.
Sorry, "perform" would be the legal term.

Basically if the contract says "Alice will pay Bob $10 to kill Charlie", then obviously that would be illegal so the contract is void.
Made some small contributions to Zulip and I can confirm that their team (and leader) is super friendly, and it's actually relatively easy to self-host these days.

My personal favorite thing about Zulip is the keyboard navigation and how much muscle memory you can build moving around threads/conversations. Of course there's also the actual markdown (not some weird variant).
What an entertaining idea!
I was thinking more about hiring talent or using gov resources, he has the money and the position for either one.
AFAIK the biggest cost is approval/clinical trials, which aren't typically taxpayer funded. The initial research is in part taxpayer funded, though.
Mine doesn’t drop much during exercise.
Right, purchase something like 200-300k worth of OTM options with low enough IV, tank the stock, cash out for 2-3mil. A 10x increase isn't all that crazy and and this trade is indistinguishable from someone that just likes to gamble on short-term options. Pay your taxes and brag to your friends about how you should start a hedge fund.
The Twitter Mob aren't customers or fans. They are a vocal minority of perpetually outraged busybodies that just want to control everything.
1. Opinion piece

2. Lots of “allegedly”

3. Trump favors Russia in G7, apparently that means our leadership is under Russian influence

4. Trumps denial of influence

Not too convincing so far.
what is it the police say, "dont let a few rotten apples spoil the bunch"?
This is the real issue. Imo: there's not enough upwards mobility in jobs because people are retiring later in life. We need to make it cheaper to retire and for workforces to move up the ladder. I know this sounds elitist, but when I worked in a shop, I didn't expect to be able to afford a house.
You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to "un-wash" your own bitcoins this way.
I’ve got a better idea than worrying about the minimum wage. At least for people who are working - get rid of food stamps, get rid of housing subsidies and don’t raise the minimum wage to make it a “Livable wage”. What a livable wage is to my teenage son staying at home is not a livable wage for a single mother of two.

It’s no more should be the private sectors responsible to provide a wage that is far beyond market value than it should be the private sector’s responsibility to provide health insurance.

Just like we should have universal healthcare to take that responsibility out of the hands of private industry, we should also expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to provide a “livable wage” because it already makes a distinction between my son staying at home and the single mother of two. If we just gave people cash through the EITC and expanded it to encompass food stamps and housing subsidies, it would both ease the administrative burdens on the government and get rid of the nanny state that tells recipients who can live with them and what type of food they should buy.

Of course business taxes would have to be raised to support it - maybe. It might be the case where demand side economics would make the entire pie bigger.
It is, and it's trivial for you to just run your own instance if you're worried about that.
Between the 2 attorneys and the judge, one of them might have been disbarred if I was allowed on a jury. I was in the jury box as a potential juror for a few days, but was challenged out.
Is bribery not considered a viable form of social engineering?
Personal attacks aren't allowed and will get you banned here, so please don't.

Also, while I have you: could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Congrats on the launch! Have you thought about exposing the API instead of tightly coupling to Shopify? Similar to Split.io but for product pricing?
It is since a decent chunk'o people be on that convenient Coinbase Wallet-aaS and if CB be like "hold up this a scam hunny" all that sweet koin finna stop rollin' in
One observation: Pricing at $199, $499, $899 per month for a single feature seems interesting considering Shopify itself charges $29 $79, $299 per month.
I'm for regulation of the housing industry, but he's not wrong that public housing policy is a shit show. What he is wrong about is that landlords actually prefer it this way, because they prefer subsidies to pricing regulation.
I think you mean "Y'all".
Some people downvote because a silent downvote is risk-free, a response isn't. Especially on a controversial topic, why respond and run the risk of being downvoted by those who disagree with you when you can just downvote and move on?
Slight tweak - rather than X,000 followers, kick the top x-percentile. Allows people to come back on, and enhances that delicious "cancel them at the risk of making them more listened to" game theory that you have identified.
Yep, that's the first thing that came to mind. Seems like a great bootstrap / indie venture but they raised VC money, I don't know why.

The founder does say that they want to change all of pricing. Even then I'd argue that launching making recurring revenue would have got them more favourable terms with a VC in the future.
This is a very weird law. In NM, basic EMTs can use a pulse/ox, insert blind airways, inject narcan and epinephrine, administer nitroglycerine, attach an ECG monitor, and do half a dozen other things more invasive than a pulse/ox.
Minimum wage is not designed to provide enough income to support a family. It it intended to prevent labor abuse.