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To me, it would be disappointing if they broke up the firm to the point where R&D has to survive w/o subsidies. US science research funding has not kept up. I'm glad the likes of Google have kept pace with corporate R&D.

Consider for a moment where self-driving-car technology would be w/o Google subsidizing it. Or mapping technology. Or like a dozen other technologies. Were these supposed to pop up w/ VC struggling from round to round? Many of the VC backed companies themselves have a put option of being acquired by Google/FAANG -- so if that exit is gone, it would be even worse.
Yes definitely this kind of service can be helpful if you don't know what you want to listen to and/or don't know where/how to find new music.
>It was also the time when software just worked.

HAHAHAHAHA NO.
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Search is the monopoly, breaking up is the remedy?
"Multimedia" doesn't really exist anymore in the polished way it used to. If you want to learn about, say, Lewis and Clark, you could look it up on Wikipedia where you can find some pictures and a few source links where you can track down more info. Or you could watch a video about it on YouTube. Twenty years ago you could buy a single CD that would interweave video, audio, text, pictures, and interactive elements into a cohesive whole that felt much more alive. Is today's free information better than yesterday's expensive information? Probably, but I'd still point to Microsoft Dinosaurs if I wanted to light a fire in the heart of a child.
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Can we kill automated phone answering systems too? They’re always a waste of time. I used to work as a customer service rep once, and apparently we had some kind of voice menu that people had to go through to get to us, but either they didn’t implement the connection to the humans or it broke at some point because we had no access to whatever they told it by the time they got to a human. They all had to give it their account numbers and whether they were placing an order, calling about a past order, etc, but all that info was just discarded before we picked up the phone. Because it’s just as fast for me to just say, “how can I help you” and listen to the answer as it would be to try to have the computer relay that to me secondhand from what the menu system picked up. It just wasted a few minutes of their time before it tossed them all to us anyway. I assume every customer service voice menu is the same. Maybe the management felt that the customers time is worthless since they don’t have to pay for it.
> Doing this well is not easy

Does this also apply to the in-language build system? Given both Rust and Zig's ergonomics, it just seems so brilliantly simple (at least in hindsight) to let the build system be a library. Is it just coincidence that I've only heard of this approach for zig and Jonathan Blow's language, or is there a technical reason this is more difficult than it seems?
Thanks for posting. Yours is the first comment that doesn't futz with the definition of a term and instead considers the effect of unemployment on actual people.

Imagine being a daddy or a mommy with no way to earn enough this month to bring up your kids halfway to what you were taught is decent.
Definitely will not miss pasting screenshots into jira all the time.
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I think a lot of contention in the comments would have gone away if, instead of calling it "True Unemployment Rate", Axios had chosen a different term.

"Dependent Rate" may have been a good alternative?
> For all practical purposes, all university students should always show up as "unemployed" in any statistics, because they are

That’s funny because I worked the entirety of my time as an undergrad, as did many of my peers.
Anything that reduces my interactions with Jira deserves a shot
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> If Safari had changed the spec that comment would probably have begun with "It's a shame they had to change the spec..."

I don't follow. They are breaking the spec anyways. A simple timeout would be equally spec-breaking and a lot easier to understand and use.

The weird async-callback-chaining doesn't actually limit any nefarious behaviour. It just requires the code author to carefully stay inside their arbitrary happy-path. A simple timeout after a user gesture is just simpler. Furthermore this is something that you can't test without buying a thousand dollar device.
> The letter was sent automatically
(...)
> that were identified by external legal advisers

It's not even the typical "it was automatic" excuse... the only automation here seems to be just a target list, they just used the word "automatic" to leverage their PR.
Because (per the creator) a more stable release will follow.

If people are interested (the people who are upvoting), they can provide suggestions/feedback and possibly get involved with the project in some capacity.

Im candidly wondering how hard it is to understand this foreign concept.
Additional commentary and background can be found in Science;

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/could-certain-covid-...

The concerns raised in this article do not speak to the efficacy of candidate vaccines using Ad5 vectors. Rather, they discuss the potential impact Antibody-dependent enhancement might have on at risk groups, and, as a consequence, for the design of clinical trials using those vectors.
Have been loving Jam and getting rid of the screenshot to google docs QA workflow that haunts me still to this day.
They do have

> You cannot use Debian trademarks in a company or organization name or as the name of a product or service.

> You cannot use Debian trademarks in a domain name, with or without commercial intent.
> old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good

Sure, for an idea to become suddenly very good you either have to rely on technology advancements / innovation, as in the case for cannons that before Napoleon were unreliable and dangerous, or you have to make a controlled bet to test your hypothesis, as in the case of Venture Capital that invests in hundreds of startups (selected according to their investment model) estimating that a small percentage of them will turn out successful.

So my key point is, if an idea becomes very good (i.e. through innovation) it'll be harder to invalidate it, and if you invest in an idea that you aren't comfortable with yet (i.e. venture capital) there'll be a higher risk attached to it.
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Ha!! That's exactly how Irtefa and I felt and why Jira was the first integration we built for Jam!
I agree this is a weird way to measure it but I think we don't measure it correctly. We don't measure underemployment, meaning people who used to work full time but have stopped even looking for work (*and are not retired). I'd like to see unemployment measured more like total population minus those employed.
“Unemployed: People who are involuntarily out of work considered as a group.”

I think it’s misleading to classify these people as unemployed, since many of them choose to not work. If they wouldn’t have had a job anyways, it skews the statistic.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/unemployed
excited to see this launch I was one of the first people to see a demo ever back in may!
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>There's nothing capitalistic here

Really? The process of using capital to erode regulatory inhibitions and thus facilitate the accumulation of even more capital and so on in a feedback loop seems to me to be exhibiting the very essence of capitalism.

Albeit not in a good way.
Because who is looking at their touch bar constantly just in case a site is trying to login? It seems to me that every time it is active a dialog pops up.

Especially when I am using an external monitor there is no way I would notice just that.
This landing page is something else. Wow!
Many full time students are employed throughout college. As someone who attended the state colleges my family could afford, most students had part time employment and many were working full time.
To be counted as unemployed, you must be engaging in job search.

In all other cases, the individual must have been engaged in at least one active job search activity in the 4 weeks preceding the interview and be available for work (except for temporary illness) in order to be counted as unemployed.

Otherwise, you’re just idle.

That’s why we have various unemployment indexes such as U1, U3, U5 and U6.

Me think the author of article is conflating various terms.

https://www.thoughtco.com/statistical-measures-of-unemployme...
> I personally know a significant number (at least 10-15) that exclusively live from government handouts (this is beyond simple social security). They have little incentive to try and find a job, frankly and many actively live with food stamps, housing subsidies, free healthcare, and just kinda bum around.

I will be very honest: this is a very unsubstantiated claim, even if you know personally 10-15 people who are just bumming around and living on benefits that is a very small portion of benefits claim in society and this kind of behaviour will always exist. Benefits fraud is a thing, the good that benefits and welfare does to a society are much larger than the impact of fraud.

Do you really believe that someone who lives with handouts from the government have very little incentive to get better? Do you believe that this almost less-than-baseline level of living is enough to make a significant portion of the populace unwilling to work? To the level where participation rate would become unfair? Have you ever lived on that lifestyle to check your assumption that they have "very little incentive to try and find a job"?
In the words of Verity Stob, in her takeoff of The Imitation Game, "What about the curious incident of Tommy's reputation in peace-time?" (https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/26/verity_stob_turing_mo...)
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I've always assumed that the real "end" of the covid era would come from testing, not from a vaccine. As testing gets faster, cheaper and more prevalent I would expect large gatherings to eventually become safe again.

The real dream would be a covid 19 breathalyzer test that you can make somebody blow on the way into an event or party, guaranteeing that everybody on the plane would be disease free
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Obligatory Ira Glass quote:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
The book "Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis" by Nicholas Eberstadt also points to this too. Even though it's four years old, it uses BLS data to show the labor force participation rate and how it has been gradually declining for decades. There also isn't a clear solution since there are so many different causes that contribute to the high number.

The Axios article is highlighting the problem, but is going about it in the wrong way by conflating terms and not offering any further insight into the issue. If they mentioned the participation rate or the types of measurement that you noted, it would be a much stronger piece. But I want to underline your point that the data is available and anyone curious should look at it to see the trends for themselves.
Must be amongst the largest public facing products that's all clojure/script..?
Hi. Thank you for posting. Dayum.

re Insomnia & anxiety: Have you ruled out nerve related causes? Maybe injury or impingement?

I ask because my insomnia and anxiety was largely resolved after spinal surgery. A lumbar fusion eliminated maybe 80% of symptoms. Removing cervical (upper spine) bone spurs another 10%.

Prior to that, my doctors had me try all sorts of pharmacological and cognitive treatments. As my symptoms got progressively worse. No one considered a physical cause. That my surgeries helped, necessary for other problems, was just a lucky side effect.

None of my reading about anxiety even hints that feeled emotion can have a physical cause, that the physical sensations of anxiety can induce emotional anxiety. Both a mind blow and facepalm obvious at the same time.

I'm now using gabapentin to manage remaining nerve pain symptoms. (Don't know if I'm up for another surgery.) Works pretty good, but robs me of my "executive function", so caveat emptor.

Good luck. I hope you find some relief.
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This is so silly. In the book, spice was a metaphor for oil. Herbert said so himself. Dune was set in the far future, but it was very much about the (1960s) present too. The Middle Eastern themes were there for a reason.

Just wait until they read the passage in Dune Messiah where Paul compares himself to Hitler and Genghis Khan, while Stilgar and Korba refuse to believe it.
This whole conversation is about living in a western democracy. However, in various third world countries some alternatives to central ally-applied education are practiced, especially where geography makes it difficult and where it is politically acceptable. This is changing in some interesting ways, positively and negatively, as cellular connections proliferate.

Also, the idea of telling someone to homeschool, in a conversation about liberal arts and attitudes that’s mostly questions so far, is a good reminder that a coercive mindset isn’t easily set aside. Would ask you to consider how your education laid the ground for that.
When you have a system in which customers don't actually pay for the products and services they use, it is unsurprising that quality goes downhill.
> I think most countries will stop demanding taxes from you if you legitimately move to another country

Most is an understatement. Last I checked, it was all countries, except the US and the two bastions of freedom that are Eritrea and the Soviet Union (when it existed).

> The US doesn’t have such a system, but the way it works most expats won’t end up paying any taxes if they leave the states. Though they’ll still need to file a return.

Won't end up paying any taxes on earned income you mean. For any other income, it's a damn nightmare.
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For some value of "no one".

On the other hand, one could argue that 50% of starting WW II was Russia.
It's weird because out of all the languages I have made a special environment for, Zig is the only one I couldn't figure out how to. For example, how to write global asm? How to call the Zig main function? I guess I need a trampoline? I have an emulated env with no filesystems and such things, where you just communicate using system calls - so nothing special, however since you can't just use the standard libraries I have to set the environment up myself. That is fine. It's also cross-compiled.

For rust I had to add some custom linker flags, use global_asm for the startup code, and then with no_std I could just call my own main function. The only really annoying part of the whole thing is that there is no feature in Rust to force a function to not be removed. I could override the global allocator to make allocations very fast.

For C/C++, it's the same as in Rust, except you can use __attribute__((used)) to make a function not get removed. It's also easy to override memory- and string-functions if you have system calls that do these things faster. Overall the C/C++ environment was the fastest.

For Nim, I only had to use C++ as a backend, and then call NimMain(), add a few extra flags, and it would just work. I only wish that Nim was more popular.
This is still centralized. You have 1 place that stores the trust ratings. The fact that it crowd sources the ratings doesn't change that it's centralized.

It also doesn't really work. You have to choose between not gettimg messages from those outside your circle of trust or getting spammed.
I might be wrong, but is there real evidence that HTTP/2 "solves" the HTTP head of line blocking issue, in a disease was worse than the cure sort of way? Of course the reason people try to multiplex higher level protocol streams over TCP is some butt-hurt over cost/availability of multiple TCP connections and a desire to make the higher level protocol appear to have more "parallelism" than is really there. In the case of HTTP so that e.g. you are not forced to use sprite-sheets, data-urls, or just less bloat in order to minimize load latency.

My experience so far is that in practice this rarely works out, you end up with nastier TCP level issues instead and I get the impression that this has been the actual experience with HTTP/2 as well.

In that case the stupid part would be assuming that multiplexing over TCP is a good idea, despite various cautionary tales to the contrary.

As I said, I haven't looked into this carefully so my superficial impressions might well be wrong, which is why I'd appreciate input from someone who has properly looked into it.
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> Just please do not make the mistake of believing that it is unique to Zig. Factor brings the best of Forth and Lisp together...

What is unique to Zig is that it has these features without bringing together "the best of Forth and Lisp". Sometimes, just being pedestrian is a virtue.
Abstractly, sure, there's a possible limit. And concretely, sure, there are other effects. I want to be able to jump on the train to visit friends, but don't because it's not necessary travel.

But as is very well known - it's the topic of this HN posting! - we here in Sweden aren't locked into our homes, even with these new recommendations in place.

So since this posting and conversation is about Sweden, I don't really see what you're getting at. Are you expressing frustrations you have with the restrictions where you live?

I don't think it's impossible to keep the Swedish economy going, with enough food and health care, while also keeping the infection rate low by being a bit more mindful of what we do when there are local outbreaks.

And I think the 4x rate since 1 September is enough cause to be more mindful. Otherwise, it'll be 10x in a month, and more after that.
What's your point?

Outside of a very small number of major metro areas, cities in America are not livable without a car.

And I say that as someone who really, really despises how required car ownership is, and who has spent a lot of time trying to find alternatives.

Even in reasonably large metro areas where there is a decent bus system, and a passable metro (Atlanta, in this case) a nice E-bike is still nowhere near enough to replace my car.

I've managed to replace the car for my daily commute with a ~40 minute Marta ride, and an additional 20 minutes on the bike (Would be an additional 40+ if I used the buses), but the metro doesn't come within 20 miles of either of my parents houses, nor does it get me to my brother who lives in Athens, GA. Nor does it get me anywhere close to my grandparents. I wouldn't have been able to visit my now wife while dating without a car.

I'm assuming you're not American, but if you haven't visited for a while, I suspect you're just wrong about any sense of scale you might have. Atlanta alone has a metro area of 8400 square miles. Houston is 10,000 square miles.

My wife's family has this problem. They're from Taiwan. When I first visited they warned me about a long car ride to see some family in the country. Long meant 40 minutes.

40 minutes barely gets you across Atlanta. 2 hours gets you to Athens if traffic is decent. 2 hours 30 minutes the a different direction will get you to my family in north GA (and Atlanta is already well in the north half of GA). I can drive south at 80 mph for 4 freaking hours and still be in GA.
The only reason the right wing is pro-mask in Sweden is because it lets them be contrarian to the left-wing government. If the government had been requiring masks, the right-wing in Sweden would be against it.
> Prominently allowing search engine choice

That's already happening in Europe:

https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/updat...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/google-to-let-eu-users-choos...
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I think it pretty much doesn't matter what he says or does - people will believe the angle they believe and that's presumably what the people behind this are hoping will carry for three weeks until election night.
More comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836520
Woops my bad, I'll fix that in a bit. Been curating articles for a while, but still figuring out all the bells and whistles for Mailchimp.
A clinic that only makes 150-250 in revenue doesn't sound particularly good. After insurance, rent, and other expense, the total profit sounds pretty paltry and close to 60k.

Or are you talking about 150-250k in profit?
It's certainly not a necessity in NYC though, which was the example given. In most big cities in the US you're better off not having a car if you're poor, since cars are a big ongoing expense. Hell, I'm very far from poor and I'm best off not having a car in NYC.
Well it's still trivial to join[0] to all servers from one of those accounts and delete[1] the other two AFAIK.

[0]I acknowledge that if you're in some private servers where inviting is disabled you might need mods to create an invite for your primary account

[1]I haven't tried to delete my discord account recently
Yup, the occasional hedonistic adjustments and product substitutions that they do for CPI is already prime fodder for perpetual inflation conspiracy stories. It will be a disaster when they do even more subjective "degrees-of-unemployment weights".
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