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>> Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don't want to publish articles that will rock the boat

Here's how Frederik deBoer puts it (https://fredrikdeboer.com/2020/10/30/only-the-club-remains/):

"The social capture of media plays a huge role in how media operates, dictating what gets reported and which voices are heard. To some degree this is overt – if you you have drinks with the right people in media, that improves your ability to get published. That’s a fact; just a fact, a plain fact. And if you retweet the right people’s tweets that helps too. But there’s a deeper and subtler element to this. What you must show is not that you are talented, or that you’re principled, or that you’re hard working, or even that your arguments are correct. You have to show that you are one of them. You have to have the right social and cultural signifiers. They are innumerable and stretch from performing the right woke posturing and commenting on the correct TV shows to (especially, especially) telling the same kind of shitty, inside-dealing jokes, the kind that say to everyone “I am a member of a club, and it is very important.” Professional, political, and moral considerations have been consumed. There is only idenitification with the group, now. The sole criterion for having a successful career in media today is the degree to which you can signal to the crowd that you are one of them, that you share their values and petty obsessions."
> I made the right move based on what I knew at the time.

its such a hard thing to really obsorb, but in business and life, we can make "the right decision" and still fail... its tough...
Go underground. Become Morlocks.
I have also had trouble with lots of inconsistent information from doctors. In my case urologists. Interstitial Cystitis / Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome. Some doctors say it's an allergy thing. Others tell you to do pelvic floor PT. Some tell you its an anxiety thing. Every doctor takes a different tack.

People wonder why folks question doctors, it's because for many issues, we often are forced to substitute our own judgment of what works from trying a menu of inconsistent medical opinions.
Based on what? What evidence is there that FP actually has any effect on a project?
Haven’t read the book, but what procedure is she talking about? I thought the standard procedure was puberty blockers until people were old enough to make decisions.

Allowing children to present as whatever gender they wish seems pretty low risk unless we are talking about surgical interventions.
Outer Wilds does some amazing stuff. Utterly brilliant in how it constrains your path through it’s small, polished world, and makes it feel incredibly dense.

Hades is also utterly amazing, with similar attention to repeated play.
Ah, people are just trying to relate and help. I get that it's frustrating, though.
I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the text because it looks like it is perfect for making them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
> Only technocrats and elites want more nuclear energy.

Only technocrats know how to build an operate an electricity grid, it isn't commonly held knowledge.

The voting public are not equipped to vote on how to create a reliable, performant and affordable energy grid. It isn't an issue that should be decided by the public's will.

The public can overrule anyone on anything, but on technical issues it is usually wiser to defer to the technocrats.
I had no idea that wasn’t considered normal! I sometimes even wait a second if I see someone on the opposite side of the intersection with a left turn signal on for just this reason
Could you give an example (in pseudocode perhaps) of what you mean? I've been trying to parse your last sentence and not succeeding. OOP is not the only way to manage trees, in some languages (like Lisps) trees are a fundamental data structure and a lot of code is written just based on basic patterns for navigating them with nothing resembling OOP needed.
> Linus Thorvalds

The Norse God spirit of Linus Torvalds.
Because everybody else's does.

If ownership transfer didn't reset the rates, it would be a slightly different story.

Edit: In that, it'd still be something that makes an economist cringe, and it'd still be "unfair" but in fewer ways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18673076

From a comment about two years ago:

“I'm not a lawyer or an expert, but looking at the Wikipedia page for the DMCA [0] there appears to be protection for retro games:

An exemption was made for 'Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.'

EDIT: Actually archive.org posted an article about exactly this [1]”

See the link for citations. My understanding is that there are a combination of factors that coincide to provide a safe harbor for the Internet Archive to serve this content.
Sizewell C will be a "carbon copy" of Hinkley Point C, with construction equipment and personnel moving over to Sizewell as Hinkley is finished.

This should significantly reduce construction risk, as you have an experienced team who already understand how to build the thing.
They're good in residential areas with smaller streets - one lane in each direction, and cars on the sides of the road.

With a 4-way stop sign everything works well, and traffic stays slow since you're not going more than one block without stopping: no room to accelerate to fast speeds. Roundabouts take a lot of space. 2-way stops are dangerous because traffic can be going a bit fast for the small roads, and visibility is low. There's a two way stop near my house and it's always hard to see if another car is coming, until they're almost inside the intersection. Most of the intersections in the area are 4-way and they just work.
At this point probably only the Chinese, Korean and Russian that can build Nuclear Power Plant properly.
I've started implementing some of this at my job. We have an internal proto that describes the config of a gRPC service. We then have a library for all of our languages that turns that proto into a Channel that's instrumented with everything from middlewares to low level socket settings (keep alive, idle timeouts, retries, hedging, etc). Makes our deployments super easy as well since every service is configured to talk to every other service in almost a 100% identical way.
Exercise can help fix excessive body fat, which contributed to my apnea.

It’s actually pretty fascinating how many common and sometimes serious medical problems are known to be fixable with “woo-woo” advice like “don’t eat like shit” (advice that 95% of people don’t follow). E.g. type 2 diabetes and refractory epilepsy now have purely dietary interventions as front-line treatments. We have weak evidence that this will probably work for many other common diseases. But just 10 years ago you would probably have been accused of “woo-woo” for making this claim about epilepsy or diabetes.
I don't really know what the best forums are for finding other hits in other genres.

Find a reviewer who loves some of the same games you love, see what else they like. Personally I like Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
I don’t know, the “can turn left on green but oh make sure you yield to full speed cars coming right at you first” is pretty bad US driving UI too
The US Election 2020
Meaning using on board Ethernet will not increase or decrease the bandwidth?
Autolayout vs CSS is just a trade off on what layout algo you want. Haversine layout systems tend to be more computationally inefficient than flexbox actually, but more powerful. Yes the original programming API was horrible, but that was a quirk about how apple does API review, and they were mostly expecting you to use IB to do your autolayouts, and stuff like SnapKit put a sane API on top of it soon after.

TBH Obj-C once you looked past it's ugly syntax is a better developer experience than swift today if your making large-ish apps. Today the debugger is still buggy, build times are still way slower and swift code bases create stutters in unresponsiveness inside Xcode to this day. And it was way worse back in the swift v1-3 days.

TBH I think swift could solve a lot of their build speed issues if they removed type inference beyond a very basic set and brought back fine file grained importing like you have with C and Java. You still get %95 the benefits with a couple of features that most IDEs like IntelliJ with java are shown to be NBD.

Stuff like Flutter & Kotlin Multiplatform might make a lot of this stuff moot although, and swift will be regulated as an iOS compatibility layer and a nicer looking C++
Maybe the solution is to stop making property tax the main way that cities are funded.

Among other things, this method of taxation tightly couples school funding to local home values. Areas with expensive homes have the best schools. (And areas with cheap homes have bad schools, which is not really what you want if you are trying to do something about inter-generational poverty.) This is self-reinforcing because now parents compete with each other to buy homes that are located in the best school districts, which drives up prices even more.

When home values drop, such as they did in 2008, property tax revenue drops too (Prop 13 is not a one-way ratchet, you can get re-appraised and lower your taxes, and 2008-2009 was a pretty convenient time to do that).

It doesn't seem like a good idea to base city revenue on something that is so undependable, especially something that is so often treated as a speculative investment.

What I would rather do is come up with a system where a simple tax is paid per parcel, perhaps a flat tax or one based on the size of the parcel, and which is not based on the market value of the parcel.

The rest of city funding can be covered by income tax -- unlike the current system, at least that has a chance of being progressive. No old people will be priced out of their homes by tax increases, and school funding would be distributed somewhat more evenly because not all high earners live in the most expensive areas. And if you are worried about an influx of high earners flooding into your area and driving up the prices, a local income tax would certainly discourage them.
> Do quotas actually help minorities?

It's disappointing to see this kind of comment in 2020.

If this was a meritocracy, you would expect a proportionate number of every ethnicity and religion represented in the workforce of large corporations. But we don't see that, because the network is old, and it is extremely white. Pile that on top of glaring inequalities across the board, and here we are.

In my experience as a subcontractor for few extremely large corporations (including one of the "A"s), the largest roadblock was usually an incompetent VP. How'd they get there? Well, they had connections, friends or family or both. In SMB world, it's even more obvious. I've seen millions of dollars wasted on projects and POCs that existed only because one of these folks didn't "believe" the research and the vendor specs. And I've seen a room full of VPs all afraid to tell the boss that the product demo isn't going well because the product -- the very idea of it -- was garbage.

So, worst case scenario, there are a few more incompetent people in corporations already brimming with bad hires and waste, and they come from different backgrounds. What's the problem?
Property taxes going up would be a negative feedback on property values. Perhaps part of why property values are so absurdly high is because there is little incentive to sell, which would add more supply to the market
Too often a "Do not enter" sign is in an awkward place where there are two different roadways side by side, and at a glance it's not obvious which one is verboten. Frustrating UI.
This is a great article, except for the parts where it intimates that Sierra games were good. While their games _were_ beautiful technological marvels, the design of most of the games (especially Roberta's) was just so incredibly bad. The games are some of the worst I've ever played in terms of actual gameplay.

Jimmy Maher at The Digital Antiquarian (https://www.filfre.net/) has written a fair bit about their games and the design issues with them, as well as their place in gaming history.
Pretty much. If you want to talk to me about what my symptoms are, and what I do to treat it, fine, I'm happy to discuss things most of the time, with the understanding that it's me telling you about my life experience, nothing more.

I know I'm coming off rude here, but the truth is, I don't want your advice on how to fix things, or worse, your advice that it's not as bad as I think it is, and that I can do whatever activity that I know will cause me problems tomorrow.
Third world nation seems quite exaggerated to me.
Wow you’re so smart man. Congratulations.
That sounds horrific. Did you ever find out what the cause was?
> There is no evidence nuclear waste can be disposed of safely in the medium or long term.

There's no evidence that it can't be. And given that it's pretty safe, pretty stable, and there's not much of it, the burden of proof is VERY much on the small minority of fear mongers to explain something so obviously easy is, in fact, impossible.
Care by simply expressing someone wasn’t in pain is enough. No need to try to be the fixer.
Real question: Does anybody else extremely hate prettified CSS? It gets on my nerves for some reason and makes me hate seeing it.
I've had unexplained knee pain for almost a decade. I've done everything people recommend, stretches, PT, rolfing (which is great to be honest) etc. I was and am currently in great shape and stretch for 30-60 minutes a day. The only thing I've ever found to work for bad days is over the counter 8mg Codeine tablets you can get in Canada. I can't get them in the US or even for a doctor to consider it, they're terrified of prescribing pain medicine. Because of Covid I haven't been able to go to Canada for a while and I'm worried what will happen in the next few months. The over reaction to opioid abuse and other people abusing the system has really punished people with chronic pain. I have friends who have been on opioids of pain management, veterans, getting cut off cold turkey by their physicians.
I recommend a famous book about creating companies and running / growing successful
businesses called "The Hard Thing About Hard Things". The gist of it is, there is no recipe for success, no roadmap or checklist to follow. Due diligence and research / prep are one thing, but anyone requiring a "color by numbers" or "connect the dots" guide is, by definition, ill-suited for entrepreneurship.
The Science Of Nerdiness
I think I've seen this map before (it isn't loading as I write this). However, what I'd love to see is: What the property taxes are and what they would be if the property was purchased today. I'm not sure if an absolute amount or a percentage would be more impactful when comparing the two. I'm sure it hits hard to see your neighbors paying 10% of what you pay - but probably just as much seeing $2,000 vs $20,000 in assortments.
What I've seen here is that traffic will sometimes back up into the roundabout from a blockage down the road, and then things grind to a complete halt, which a 4-way stop should never suffer from.
becoming more like the person you want to be.
Nope, being wrong is not being a jerk, this used to be common sense and is what we need to go back to. Feel free to change the wording on the proposed CoC from don't be a jerk to don't be an asshole or something similar, the end result should still be the same: most people will understand what is meant. Some people won't but that can not be helped. The more elaborate the code, the more it will be used for other purposes, Fewer words is also possible but even in the total absence of a code of conduct most communities - 4chan et al excluded - will still have the unspoken assumption to not be a jerk. Having this encoded in a code of conduct at least makes sure those other, politically motivated 'codes' do not get a foothold.
Construction projects are inherently unpredictable, because it's building something large, bespoke, and in constantly varying conditions. Nuclear plants are very complex, so that obviously raises the level of unpredictability.

Every manufactured object has an insanely long and convoluted dependency chain, where each link is subject to disappearance due to factors completely out of your control. Especially objects that require special or unusual parts.

Then there's actually building the thing, which can go wrong for a million reasons before you've even reached the grand and rolling lands of human error.
A copyright-respecting fork of youtube-dl
> With Swift and SwiftUI we seem to be heading towards a different future, and I’m yet to be convinced that it’s the right one.

i have some feelings myself, but they are badly formulated so i wont say them here...

but im curious, specificaly why do you feel this way?
Because the money is being used to pay for local services that "you" are enjoying.

Someone has to pay the taxes. It is difficult to see a good argument that having been a landholder for a long time gives some sort of moral right to be supported by others.
We don't need anywhere near global consensus, a small group of nations can start. The idea is called a "climate club", and it won William Nordhaus a Nobel Prize.

https://issues.org/climate-clubs-to-overcome-free-riding/
Ok a lot of education needed that go off topic :)

We say deaf & hard-of-hearing please, not hearing-impaired.

Lip reading is hard, period. Over video makes it harder when network connection isn’t great, and more people speak, so mostly difficult yeah.

Flashes / vibration are common alerts yes. I prefer flash since you might not touch the surface that vibrates.

And yes one-handed sign over video is very frequent but maybe best for 1-1 or familiar groups because indeed you can lose a bit in precision/fluidity. If you want to be accessible over video, find a stable place and sign with dark colored shirt so contrast is better ;)
> Striving to find original media rather than using scene rips.

Wow, this is a weird point of pride. So, you’re making a new scene rip? Better to just give everyone an image of original media along with some patches if you want.
It won't happen this year I don't think, but I'm curious what would happened in an election as close as 2000 nowadays.
I'd agree to some extent if it only extended to your verifiable primary residence. Sadly, it pretty much pertains to every property... regardless of who owns it and how much they use it.
Given that 150USD was like 40 movie rentals that is kinda insane. Was cable packages some kind of fallus symbol maybe? Or was it some special sports channels?

Ye seems like people watch it longer than I guessed. Like old TV channels. It is funny becouse I get itches from watching rolling content nowadays and have totally forgot how watching TV after school was.
Section 230 needs to be amended to, at minimum, forbid editorializing. Mailchimp should not be allowed to forbid content they don’t like.

As soon as you editorialize you become a publisher. You’re now liable for what you’ve published.

If you disagree, then go stand with the bakers who refuse to bake cakes for gay couples.
Hmm, I almost want to say zzt but it is not procedurally generated or used sprites.

Nahklah was a favorite of mine, but it is not procedurally generated either.
It's kind of insane. But it's also kind of insane that when the housing prices double or triple, you can expect your property tax to go up quite a bit as well, which makes it hard to plan for the future.

I think if the value increase cap was raised (gradually) to something like 4-5% per year, you would still have assessed values trailing market values, but not by nearly as much. People could still make worst case projections of taxes to see if they could afford things.

Washington state has a different system, where the total property tax of each taxing jurisdiction can only increase by 1% each year (subject to exceptions and what not), and then that amount is apportioned to each property based on the assessed value. This provides a limit on government spending as CA prop 13 does, but it doesn't limit changes in tax on any individual homeowner; if your property becomes more relatively valuable than others in your taxing districts, your bill goes up and theirs goes down. Which I'm sure causes assessments to be a lot more contenious.
"brain zaps" are a very disturbing unpleasant withdrawal symptom, never want to experience that again in my life...
How productive it is to talk about how productive you have been on twitter?

Is there a standardized productivity test?
GitHub steals Organization from ceejbot with no contact
> It doesn't seem like a good idea to base city revenue on something that is so undependable, especially something that is so often treated as a speculative investment.

Isn't property tax a pretty reliable source of income?? I thought the income tax was an unreliable source of income because people can't always be relied on to generate income... but they do tend to pay their property tax.
For me it was a fall as I was trail biking. Not anything white-knuckle, just a fairly pedestrian trail. I fell off and folded my ankle 90 degrees inward. For the guy who broke his clavicle it was slippery pavement - some leaves - he fell sideways. Don't know about the gal.
With one stack per coroutine you do not have to move stack frames. It has different tradeoffs of course.
And perhaps this is a thing everyone deals with to some extent for one thing or another: I have a very strictly controlled diet. It's the result of a lot of testing, and discussions with my doctors.

Most people that are around me enough get a sense of this. Most don't know the depth of it.

What gets old is when I deviate from the diet, by say having a glass of beer at a social function, it's a big deal. Everyone's concerned about me, which I appreciate, but I have to justify the beer by pointing out how it fits into my diet, and how I've planned for this beer. I have had to pull up my diet plan on more than one occasion to make someone happy.

If I was known to have problems adhering to my diet, and asked for this sort of help, then fine. I don't have that, and I've tried to tell people that I know what my diet is. I try to be nice about it, and ask people to just let me be.

Instead I get to defend every beer I have. So, now I'm the teetotaler in the office. It's just easier than the alternative. But it's damned annoying.
There is actually a negative incentive to sell, because your property taxes will almost certainly go up if you buy another home.

It's gotten to the point that we have ballot amendments carving out exceptions for senior citizens, so they can take their old property tax rates with them when they buy new homes, but only if they move between certain counties that have a reciprocity agreement, blah blah blah. Clearly not the kind of policy a sane system would result in.

If you've owned a home in California for more than about 20 years, and you aren't in one of the senior citizen categories that is exempt from tax increases, it just doesn't make sense to sell your home unless you leave the state.
The home owner is benefiting from increased home value and is still enjoying the services offered by the city, so why wouldn't they pay more?
No, because that wasn't the point of my comment ;-)
You treat it like a coincidence that HN guidelines are called "guidelines" instead of "Code of Conduct". I don't think it's a coincidence. I think there's a certain kind of ethos behind behind any "Code of Conduct" process, and that ethos is not present on HN. And I'm really happy about that. I think HN moderation is amazing and it allows for conversations that you couldn't have anywhere else on the web.