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Food banks and shelters might be in good shape wherever it is that you live, but in many parts of the country they’re stretched to and beyond their capacities. Food banks are simply not a scalable solution to poverty. No form of charity is. Government aid programs are a proven solution to getting resources (like food) into the hands of folks in need.

As to your argument that poor people are morally corrupt, it’s laughable, below contempt, and not worth responding to. Someone is morally bankrupt, but it ain’t the poor.
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In the Bay Area there has been a big uptick in thefts and break-ins. My sources are local people and first-hand knowledge (such as seeing broken glass everywhere on the street). I'm in the Oakland area, but friends in other places have experienced and witnessed some crazy things this year.

It just blows me away that (part of) Congress has stonewalled any attempts to get people money, given the lockdowns. Reportedly there are millions of people going on public assistance soon. This could get really, really ugly after that.
And Microsoft has 100% of the market on the Xbox Store? And Sony has 100% of the market on the PS Store? I’m not following... If you define the “market” so precisely, anyone can have a monopoly on something.
If you like small assets and a strongly typed language you may like working with Elm [1]

[1] https://elm-lang.org/
It is unlikely you will find apples to apples comparison.

What if Clojure projects are more risky by selection bias?
You have a good point. I'd say educating women (and people in general) is a good idea generally speaking, and so could potentially help in this regard if what I said is wrong, so it doesn't hurt. But I do believe that people who have resources to support 3 people don't deliberately have 10 kids, that's the economic pressure that I'm relying on, I'd say accidental births would be more of a factor here than inertia due to cultural norm. Contraceptive technology IMO is more important.
Doesn't LIDAR solve these technical problems?
More and more cities and even states are adopting laws that essentially decriminalize shoplifting below $500 or $1000 worth of merchandise. Open air shoplifted-products markets now exist in major American cities. This is purely a political decision, not some pressing economic need. This is the result of the agenda of these DAs elected on aggressively progressive platforms.
This is half true. When I was an employee I viewed the chain of command as existing for my benefit, not my manager's. If some random bigwig wanted me to do something for them I would direct them to my manager. It wasn't my job to arbitrate between differing management demands on my time.
Everything is a function, functions are first class.

REPL based development gives you instant feedback. lets you write a function in your editor and then run it, change it, run it again. If your idea of REPL is python or ruby, then you are not getting the entire picture. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5671214/is-lisp-the-only...

Immutable by default. This helps with debugging and solves thread safety. Feel free to pass around references without worry.

Java interop - you can use all the jars

"isomorphic" - write clojurescript for the browser, Clojure for the server
If it's not officially supported, it probably means it's just one or two people that open sourced it, and it would fall on them to keep it in sync with any internal work.

Officially supported means it's actually owned by some team. They'll dedicate resources to it, meaning it will be accounted for on any project planning or resource management the management needs to do.

Officially supported things tend to be bigger.
Starving to death on the street might be extreme, but, being exploited, being raped, being used a slave, I've been there, and it's real and I assume it hasn't gotten any better.
This is exactly what worries me. Unrest is used to energize their base and do crazier and crazier things.
> No real classics in the last 40 years

What's your definition of a classic? 40 years is a bit soon to tell if something is a classic, in my view. You need it to stand the test of multiple generations.

> students aren't majoring in HASS at all anymore.

Some are. Some aren't. In the past, some were, and some weren't. So... not much change.

> At a high level HASS is more non-penetrable than any hard science where you can plug numbers in and test whether or not the equations they give you actually work.

Yeah, that's because HASS isn't hard science, so it doesn't work like hard science. If you expect it to, that's your fault, not HASS's.

> Universities are now job training institutions where people go for credentials and get out, nothing more.

Some do. Some don't. Perhaps more do than used to.

> The students there don't join any of the extracurriculars or sports teams, they just get their STEM degrees and get out.

Some do. Some don't. Same as before.

> So HN, have the humanities and university system failed society?

You really sound like you came here with your own view (and an axe to grind), and you want HN to endorse it.

The humanities have in fact failed society, but not at all in the way you describe. People not going to extracurriculars has nothing to do with whether the humanities have failed society. (Extracurriculars aren't the humanities, and college students aren't society.)

First, the humanities have failed society by being hijacked. All the various flavors of Critical Theory have hijacked the humanities. They largely aren't the humanities any more; they're cheerleaders (and indoctrinators) for a particular narrow subset of views. They should be thinking and teaching much more broadly than that.

Second, the humanities seemingly forgot how to speak to the broader society, or else forgot the value of doing so. They speak (so far as I have seen) to each other, and to humanities students, but they speak little to the broader society. (Though it could be that, when they do so, I don't recognize it as "humanities", which would mean that they are in fact doing it well rather than badly...)
yeah but the stock market is doing great and isn't that really what matters?
This section seems to be against repackaging websites, not web apps. People ship Cordova apps all the time.
Can the mods change the title to be a more accurate

Fauci says herd immunity possible by fall, ‘normality’ by end of 2021

And are HN readers are ok with this? Almost 2 years of restrictions. What are your thoughts?
> That's just mincing words.

It isn't. A journalist is choosing what they themselves say out of their own mouths. Anybody attributing everything that third party speakers say via Facebook as the official position of Facebook is false.
Mortgages, rent and utilities are all suspended almost everywhere

No, they are not. Not even close to almost everywhere.

Evictions are theoretically suspended in many places, but rent is definitely not and many suspect land / property owners are evicting people despite moratoriums on them due to local governments that are severely underfunded, understaffed, and/or overwhelmed that are not enforcing the moratoriums.

Ultimately, this situation can almost entirely be laid at the feet of the anemic and mismanaged response by the federal government. Most of this could likely have been prevented if stricter measures had been taken immediately. And even if they hadn't, most people could be far better off if it wasn't for the extreme levels of obstructionism and denial being exhibited by parts of their federal government.

Financial assistance should have been sent directly to individuals across the country instead of being absorbed by corporations that just wanted free money.
It's not looking for a way to tear them down, it's having a critical eye. For example, read this paragraph:

> they said the biggest surprise was how many of the hosts were in the same position they’d been in: they needed this money to pay their rent.

Twelve years later, Airbnb has been a very relevant factor in the increase of prices of rentals in a lot of major cities. People still can't pay their rent, although this time Airbnb is not precisely helping. You can also take a look at this other paragraph:

> But something surprising happened: they enjoyed having those first three guests staying with them. And the guests enjoyed it too. Both they and the guests had done it because they were in a sense forced to, and yet they’d all had a great experience.

Most listings you find now on Airbnb are full rentals, no sharing experience at all. Basically a page for booking hotels and apartments, only they don't care if you're doing it illegally.

So no, for a lot of people they are not an inspiration. In fact, for me, it is the perfect representation of what is wrong with the current tech world: capable people with good ideas and good intentions (let's assume) who just abandon those ideas and intentions in the road to making absurd amounts of money, and who will take advantage of morally grey (and even morally wrong) areas with no regard for real world consequences.
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It will once it rolls out onto more phones. Right now it is only available on iPhone 12 Pro models
Or just ask for a default when opening a new account ;=)
Why can't the other three copy Robinhood's UI?
> In your example: Volkswagen imposes quality controls on those parts, making sure they're not going to blow up or subvert the car.

So, like almost everything you buy? This is why branding and reputation are important. You can be cheap, but you get what you pay for.
They still make exciting technology. Google's search is still far better than the competition. The Pixel computational photography app is cutting edge. Their translation and speech synthesis are great. They are still good at "organizing the world's information".

They fail when they try to mimic their competitors. Their cloud services trail Amazon. Their hardware trails Apple. Their social media trails... everybody.

You can see it in their intranets. Google uses personal web pages, forums, and search. It is similar to the internet in 2004. Facebook uses a miniature copy of Facebook.
There's something uncanny about understanding the situation enough to turn on the budget alerts, while at the same time not realizing it's not going to help in time if your system runs amok.
To spell it out for those in the back: reducing tax rates reduces the government's ability to fund public projects. i.e. roads, schools, and safety nets like food banks.

Also, the responsibility of feeding children has fallen upon schools in some areas. When SF closed schools in March 2020, one of the issues they had to address was "how do we feed the kids?"

https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-provide-...
No one has addressed slg's point [1]. It's the reason I didn't found AirBnB or Uber. They were choosing to break laws right and left. Maybe the laws shouldn't have been made, though if you run your own motel or have a tax medallion you might wish these firms played by the rules.

You may call them disruptive, but I regard these companies as something bordering on evil. The right thing for them to do would have been for them to convince local communities that this was worth changing the laws. Just remember that the next disruptive service could take away the business you or your loved ones worked a lifetime to create, and PG would be there in the background bragging about how awesome his team was.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25379326
Yes, they should be able to, of course. But it's enshrined in law, both EU and US, that other manufactuers can make compatible replacement parts for cars. A manufactuer doesn't get to say what parts you can put in your car after you bought it. You don't have to buy genuiene OEM volkswagen brake pads or clutches - you can buy and install 3rd party ones, and legally Volkswagen cannot forbid you from doing so, and neither can they forbid anyone from manufacturing those replacement parts.
This is false. The Senate introduced the similarly stupidly named HEALS act. It takes two to tango.

It was politically driven: Democrats were afraid of giving Trump a win. Perhaps it was good politics, since it seems to have worked.

From Newsweek: "Despite a refusal for roughly the past six months to advance a smaller aid package that she deemed 'half a loaf,' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now willing to support a bipartisan stimulus bill worth less than half her previous demand thanks to, in part, Joe Biden's victory.
Nah man that's just how I see it.

How do you see it? Do you think it's impossible to remove the restrictions now?

Let me hear your side.
The ends do not justify the means.

What I see is a bunch of bullies forcing their opinions on everyone else, spreading lies and propaganda on media, attacking and 'cancelling' anyone who stands in their way.

Whatever seed of 'social justice' motivation was there, the activist movement completely discredited themselves, and the ideas they so aggressively promote. And the more I interact with them the more it seems their primary motivation is promoting themselves.
We need a more authoritative police who are given authority to really police. This means use of force when needed without being thrown under the bus for doing so as a default response.

What we really need is Judge Dredds or Robocops that can re-establish that "do bad things and bad things happen to you" that is no longer present in todays world.
I was the person that actually managed the binary size task force and proved that it was a business problem in the first place. Not all management didn’t care about AMS :)

The Amsterdam team 100% played a critical role in solving the issue (at least until apple bumped the limit). No way we would have stayed under it without you all.
Hey those pelts were all the rage in the late 1700's!
Jacques Cartier was a fan, but he didn't really have the best eye for clothes.
Ad slots are often sold and resold through various exchanges, platforms and marketplaces. If each entity in this chain is liable if fingerprinting happens, then fingerprinting will quickly be just as toxic as other kinds of exploits and mostly disappear from the ecosystem.

For a site to be completely out of reach of the US/EU, all of the involved companies (site operator, fingerprinting provider, company paying for the advertising, ad network provider + the other middlemen involved in serving that ad) would have to have zero connection to the US/EU.
I do this strategy, and I recommend it.

I vote we call it Yak Farming as it's designed as a way to get around the problem of Yak Shaving.

You simply build a series of inter-related and mutually beneficial but somewhat loosely coupled projects under the umbrella of one over-arching project. Because each project makes the others more valuable, if you get stuck need to do some Yak Shaving on one particular project and it's burning out your enthusiasm, you can just switch to another of the projects and make progress there which increases the value of the previous project to a point where it's now worth it to go back and finish what you were doing.

Yak Farming.
“Unexpected error“ happening randomely when trying to do UrlFetch()
Porn isn’t business any processor wants to be publicly associated with.

If there’s evidence that the site isn’t policing itself, they are gone.
Is there a SaaS for SLA management like this?
Your comment being downvoted just proved that there are more Apple fanboys on Hacker news.

I thought people over here can comprehend properly, it is unlikely the case
Politicians magically decide to ignore the needs of their constituents whenever they think they can get away with it, unless they're saints - and not many saints are politicians.

The better question might be, why do they think they can get away with it? Why do they get away with it?

(By the way, note that this is not just a problem with one party...)
> In your example: Volkswagen imposes quality controls on those parts, making sure they're not going to blow up or subvert the car.

And they are free to do it. Have your own set of trusted dealers and vendors. Void warranty for off-branded parts. However, once I buy the car I am also free to go to any shitty unsafe vendor I want. VW can't tell me not to do that, because it's my car not theirs.

Do you think it would be okay if Volkswagen remotely shut down your car because they didn't like the brand of gas you put in it (for your own safety of course)?
Also disappointed Raptor 42 bit the dust yesterday
But we don't want to have to check brands and research - we want a trusted party ensuring quality because their reputation is on the line.
I think the pricing of DynamoDB is the killer for personal projects. I ran it as a bit of a persistent cache one night and ran up $60 in charges.
Wow, that sucks. Mine work fine with the app but are flaky without it.
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The Senate never brought the HEALS Act to a vote. Sending a bill to committee to die is not good enough in the middle of the worst public health crisis in a century.

> takes two to tango

Indeed, without any action from the Senate, the House is stuck. Again, we should all be hoping for good results in the GA runoffs, or Congress will remain unable to address any of our serious challenges ahead.

The 2 years from 2009–2010 were pretty much the only substantially functional Congress in a generation, and would have accomplished a great deal more if they hadn’t also had to deal with a worldwide economic crisis.
It's really hard to make it impossible for people to kill each other. That's why we put some protections in place where they make sense, but otherwise rely on making it illegal and punishing people who do it anyways.
> At the same time, personal savings rate is through the roof:

Yes, people that can afford to save are saving more. The people that can't afford to save are still not saving, but the people who had a surplus now have a bigger one.

> People have received thousands of dollars in stimulus checks.

No, people have (per person) received a maximum of either $500 (to their parent, for children under 17) or $1,200 (for adults) in stimulus checks.

> Thanks to extra $600/$300 that the feds have added to federal unemployment, those that lost their jobs received in many cases significantly more that they were originally making

Yes, when the $600 boost was active, that was true mostly for people making below the average state minimum wage because they live in low-CoL, low-minimum-wage states, because the additional amount was designed to move the average unemployment check nationally approximately up to full replacement. That’s true of even fewer people with the $300 boost which replaced it months ago.

> No, shoplifting is not increasing because people lack cash. Rather, people do it because they can, as the justice system declines to prosecute and punish people for it.

If people had equal or better ability to afford food but were just taking advantage of a law enforcement withdrawal to shoplift more food, you’d expect surveys of food insecurity, charity food lines, and other indicia of actual hunger to be unmoved and the food shoplifting to stand alone. And you would not have expected a spike when the $600 unemployment boost ended, since available money is not the issue. But those expectations would all be wrong, suggesting that money actually is the issue:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/25/long-food-lines-signal-need-...
So we should just double down and never try to make things better?
> HBC said it paid its Bay Centre rent under protest.

Is there more to this? Does HBC have some sort of argument why they shouldn't be paying rent? I remember reading somewhere that anchor stores usually have clauses in their lease agreement that they don't have to pay if the mall didn't meet minimum traffic levels. Is this what's happening here?

edit:

That seems to be the case.

> In arguments that echo a similar case against another Toronto-area mall, HBC claims Coquitlam Centre has failed to maintain a “first class” shopping centre as stated in the lease.

>That includes not upgrading the HVAC system to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, improving pedestrian control, upgrading washrooms and increasing the number of people responsible for health and safety at the mall, claims HBC.

>HBC added that the landlord did not to provide “an environment that attracts substantial numbers of customers and encourages them to stay at the centre for an extended period of time” nor had it taken steps “to adequately market the shopping centre to respond to COVID-19.”

https://www.tricitynews.com/local-news/hudsons-bay-coquitlam...
Sobering thought to be getting to the less employable age range! 40th birthday coming up! Appreciate the reply!
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> We've all had a program crash from a stack overflow.

Launching a cloud function that recursively triggers the same cloud function, that doesn't have a simple safeguard for it looping or blowing up, and where billing scales with the number of cloud functions ticks the "very high risk" and "very high impact" boxes for me. A program running on a single server isn't similar here (you could accidentally create a DoS attack though).

Typical cloud function use is some event gets triggered like a user sign up, the function executes, then it halts. The above isn't a standard use case and is so incredibly risky this approach shouldn't be attempted in my opinion.
They are broken, unreliable, hard to correctly setup guard rails.

I mean like the article mentioned they could have set the instances and concurrency settings to lower values. Which in this case would have worked.

But finding the right settings to balance intentional auto-scaling and limiting auto-scaling to limit of how fast unexpected cost might rise is hard and prone to get wrong.

Let's be honest it's in the end a very flawed workaround which maybe might help (if you know about it, and did it right).
I only had 2000 chars in the original post so I had to make cuts. I suspect I've cut some important context!
The most enjoyable stuff I've done in the past few years has been with Vue and React. I've done a little of both at work and on side projects, but these projects at work are really uncommon — like once in a year sort of things.

If I'm being honest, I'm not even begrudging these experiences — I have actually, legitimately enjoyed them.

My main motivation in getting away from frontend is really getting away from client-driven front-of-frontend stuff. Constant, pointless, niggly changes. That kind of stuff.

Working with an interactive component with Vue/React, and/or working with api data definitely has been actual fun.

Appreciate your reply!