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> There are low, published co-pays, similar to Italy.

You don't need to qualify, you just need to go tot the hospital.

> Ialy does not have universal long-term care for the elderly

That's not the exact picture though.

If you read the document you posted, it clearly says that

"Only 35% of the residential care beds available are public, whereas 43% belong to private not-for-profit institutions and 22% to private for-profit ones (Table 7). The number of elderly persons in institutional care is still relatively low by international standards, being 19.8 per 1,000 inhabitants aged 65 or older."

The key points are

- elderly care in Italy has always been in the hands of religious intitutions, that's what the 43% of private non profit institutions are. (and that is honestly an entirely different can of worms, but a can of worms nonetheless. I could talk about what opus dei does here it for hours ...)

- Italy is an old country, 25% of the population is >=65, most of them are in relatively good health conditions, as the study confirms.

- only 22% of the long term beds for elderly are private for profit, usually they are for richer people, who want to separate themselves from the rest of us.

- in total, on 15 million elderly, only less then 300k are hospitalized and only 60k of them are paying.

- the vast majority of the elders are taken care of at home, if they are not self sufficient, the State gives the family an allowance to take care of them.

- the problem here is the opposite: many try to trick the State into thinking they need monetary help faking disabilities they don have.

Not counting that elders in Italy have pensions, all of them, regardless of the amount of retirement savings (savings here are mandatory, a minimum of 23% of the salary, of course more savings mean higher pensions, but with zero savings people still get a - fairly low - pension) , payed directly by the State, adjusted for inflation, and that we spend around 15% of our GDP in pensions.
Sure, but that's a performance vs ease of use decision.

Often you don't need to care about the extra allocations and can just deserialize to owned types.

The code for owned deserialization certainly ends up looking more elegant.
You don't seem to get it. This isn't an end user device. This is for developers, i.e. hackers and makers.

It doesn't work by installing "apps", but rather, the whole system image is built from _your_ code. Which makes sense on a device that has 64KB RAM.

Any code samples they provide are just that: Samples.

If what you're looking for is a general public oriented device, this is not it. There's plenty in the market to pick from.
Depends on how the chef runs the place. Indian food is difficult if one sticks to western notions of "made to order", each meal being started only after ordering. But a curry house will prep things like the curry base before opening, doing maybe 75% of the work before the first orders arrive. Then it goes quickly. In western cooking the skill is in the actual cooking, with indian food the skill comes in the non-cooking prep work.
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Maybe. Maybe not.

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/372
This.

I mean, I floss at least twice or more a day. Like I don't understand how someone could be more than a day without flossing and not feel something is not right in their mouth.
I upvoted this because, y'know, you're right.

I take a different conclusion from the facts you present, but I know better than to get into it in HN, other than maybe to say: wow, lots of the primary discoverers of scientific principles, and inventors of basic technology, had this shamanic side, maybe there's something to that.

You're probably getting dinged for describing Shockley as "basically a Nazi". I mean, I hope it's not for describing Henry Ford that way, since yeah, that's accurate. Shockley sued someone for that characterization and won. I'd hazard that characterizing him as a racist, and proponent of eugenics, would be less controversial; I'm not at all interested in litigating William Shockley's reputation.

Worth point out, though, that both Ford and Shockley were pretty boring "normies" whose opinions were widely held by others. So your point would have been better made by dropping the first sentence, or even burying it a bit further down.
Thanks, I always have a hard time finding it. Ah- it's only a letter, not a full publication. To be honest I can't really tell if it's clever or stating the obvious (I'm a biologist/computer scientist).
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Note parent post says if it were under a different leader for that.
Pro tip: if you are unemployed, a 40-hour course will get you the minimum necessary ISSM credential for government cyber. You can have a PhD in physics with ten years of network experience and they give zero shits. All the government wants is that ISSM cert. It’s harder to get a commercial driver’s license.
Syndicated (no paywall) at:

https://thefinanceinfo.com/2021/01/02/the-mafia-turns-social...
I have at times had really large problems with focus, have implemented something very similar (markdown based "todournal". See https://rillabs.com/posts/todournal and https://github.com/samuell/mdnote), as well as removed practically all notifications from my phone, and it has worked wonders consistently over the last couple of years.
I bet John Brown was called “one hell of an optimist” when calling for the abolition of slavery in the 1850s.
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How can one create a climate where they're on the same side?

And no one is afraid of "losing" and worried about problems that might cause? (Eg getting fired, even if managers say won't happen)
you probably worked in a lab during the period where scientists, annoyed that PCR machines required purchase of licensed Taq, simply cloned and expressed their own and used it instead.
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The money sent to households was largely used to prop up rents mortgages or food/transportation/insurance and other consumer goods.

All that money ended up in business coffers.
Yes, especially amongst the earliest folks, there was a lot of OCaml, and the original compiler was, yes.
Sometimes the risk of losing everything you’ve worked for to end up right back where you care from is worse than just having stayed where you were.

A twist on the Shakespeare quote: It’s not always better to have loved and lost, sometimes people would rather never have loved at all.
No, I haven't. Thanks for clarifying, that does make it sound like much less of a problem. Though it might still catch out some people, e.g. on a corporate machine where you're permitted to run WSL but not Postgres.
Unfortunately, people will remain more interested in a bigger paycheck than personal integrity.
That says that, based on one incident, it was required that they open the door. They were already required to stop. If you have one precipitating incident for them being required to stop, let's hear it. (Though, probably, there was one incident that was the last straw, with several more before it.)

But I was also wrong. I was recalling accidents in the 1960s, and assuming that those were the basis for the law. But if the law was already there in 1938, clearly those (multiple) accidents were not the reason for the law. Those accidents happened in spite of the law (though perhaps reinforcing the reason for the law to be there).
If you're struggling to pay for basic necessities, then you need to examine your spending habits and cut out unnecessary things in order to increase your savings rate.

After a base-level is established, you can have more "freedom" to either spend it on luxuries, or invest.

I personally am able to save/invest about 60-70% of my income/month, and I have about a 10% buffer each month available for "extras/fun/emergencies". If I have an expensive month (for example, December, which included a lot of travel and gift buying), then I just temper January's spending so that I can save more that month.
OMG I used this in the early 80s - first time I’ve seen it mentioned in 30 years!
I didn’t do so good here. 4 out of 10.

Schools really should be given a makeover. They do look too much like prison. But what, round corners? I dunno. I guess they’d look too much like giant iPhones.

Unrelated but in case the simulation changes theme to “post-apocalypse”, what’s better to use as HQ: the school or the prison?
Very interesting article. Personal anecdote, but I made a gain of 1,100% on investments in 2020. I've positioned for 2021 in leisure, heavily in casinos and sports betting. If savings unwind a bit/spending picks up this year as the article mentions at the end, that should be one of the sectors money flows into.
"Advertising integrity chief" sounds like something straight out of Orwell.
If you're just getting into programming any of the languages you mentioned can be used to start, but I definitely recommend checking out CS50 and that in large part is based on Python. Python is a good way to learn the basics of programming, including basic data structures and algorithms. The key is to just start small. Don't jump into leetcode or whatever before you're comfortable with what a function is for, as an example. Just take small steps and build small programs. I also highly recommend finding someone in your life that already knows how to program and can answer your questions. Good luck!
Sad...I wonder why, I hope she gets the courage to speak up long term
As much as it’s important to remember the plight of the Uyghurs especially in formulating a broad strategy towards China, it seems odd to extend this to ‘nobody may discuss any aspect of China without mentioning the camps’. Would you do this to, e.g., some intellectually interesting but (at the moment) otherwise entirely useless pure maths paper posted on HN written by a Chinese researcher?

Of course, the level at which it’s appropriate to omit to mention an ongoing atrocity is difficult to determine. Clearly it’s somewhere above a sentence, and clearly it’s beneath the question of broad strategy. But I would suggest that understanding China’s broad strategy for poverty alleviation (in the Han heartland) is a discrete topic that can quite reasonably be discussed without inviting this sort of response. In fact, if you don’t understand topics like this, it’s likely that your response to China is going to be handicapped.
It’s all about time to interactive.

For a big complex app (eg, https://www.notion.so which I work on), a significant fraction of JS code size is spent describing styles. There can also be JS cycles spent doing color math like lighten, darken, hue shifting on base colors, etc. With runtime CSS-in-JS, all of that style JS code must be parsed and executed by the JS runtime on every page load by every user. That’s a lot of CPU time and user wait time multiplied out.

Zero-runtime improves page load performance by moving this extra code from the JS vm to static CSS files. The majority of style computation happens at build time. The CSS can then be downloaded and parsed in parallel with the JS (woo threads?). The separation may improve caching compared to all-JS solution as well, depending on how granular the CSS and JS output files are.
"Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues" - Their ToS may prohibit it, but that is in no way going to stop me from doing it - I don't give a shit about some document they write. Atlassian products suck hard and their performance characteristics are horrible. I hate being forced to use their crap at work.
> Mind that I come from a Ubuntu distro, Windows is the most energy efficient solution at the moment and allows me to run my Dev tools and work on battery for 4 hours straight. Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro) destroy my battery in 40 minutes and there's no solution or optimization for that.

I know this is not a solution, but the Librem laptops from Purism hold up for hours straight. I also used to run Windows on laptops for the same reason, but the obvious solution to this is to buy a laptop built with Linux in mind from the ground up, and now we have options available.
Could you expand on this by filing a bug report[0]? In particular, noting exactly the location VLC is opening (via Ctrl+I).

[0]: https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kiofuse&component...
"Just got off a call with @Apple. Appeal accepted and Amphetamine will remain on the @AppStore."

https://twitter.com/x74353/status/1345421211677949957
Also, I think WSL2 is currently only way to access GPU through Cuda API from the guest linux.
Nice juice you are going to do with all those cherries you picked.

> We tend to forget that for many in China, and in their lived experience of the past four decades, each day was better than the next,” Saich added. “Our surveys show that many in China therefore seem to be much more satisfied with government performance over time, despite rising inequality, corruption, and a range of other pressures that are the result of the reform era.”
> If done properly

Any guidelines? What to think about
This is precisely why I started https://keepachangelog.com/ many years ago. Release convenience shouldn't come at the cost of properly communicating about notable changes for software users (whether developers themselves, or software consumers).

Instinctively, developers reach for automation to solve this problem but this is an editorial problem for most software. Code changes very rarely map to notable changes for your intended audience. Even with rigid system like conventional commits, you can't entirely automate proper human-focused changelogs and release notes.

You're going to have to clean things up and editorialize if you really care for your software users to understand what notable changes are included in a given version release.

If you can't think of any, maybe you're releasing too often. If it's impossible to tell things apart because there are so many changes as another commenter pointed out, I think you have a way bigger problem.
Another funny interaction I found with WSL2 and Windows is file case sensitivity leading to all sorts of weird error messages

I wish I can use a real Linux installation but their display drivers don't work well with my multiple displays with different resolutions
Well, "advertising" and "integrity" don't belong together anyway. Advertising is an inherently dishonest industry.
There are some devices (e.g. Mi A1) where the link to the "easy" iFixit guide 404s. Not sure whether that's an issue with the iFixit API or the way you're using it.

It would be nice to be able to link to specific queries and individual results.
My point is that Facebook can improve its behavior only by putting its business at risk.

If Zuckerberg, Sandberg, et al could improve Facebook's behavior without putting the business at risk, they would do it in a heartbeat. But it appears they can't.

Their efforts are thus sincere but highly constrained: They will never voluntarily do anything that would put the business -- their life's work -- at risk.

If I may use an imperfect analogy: Facebook is a "polluter of society" that can't afford to stop polluting until all its competitors are forced to stop polluting society too.
> Atlassian has this language in its terms to protect users from flawed reviews and benchmarks.

The solution to lies is not to censor, but transparency.

Atlassian has all the resources in the world to answer any external benchmarks done by third party.

If you can hire an army of lawyers, surely its possible to have a full-time engineer running benchmarks.
> there was plenty of evidence in the early 90s that HIV caused AIDS. It was conclusive.

That is far from clear, at least to me. The main thing that bothered me at the time, and which I've never seen satisfactorily explained, is that 1) AIDS was widely believed to be 100% fatal, 2) believed to be caused by HIV, but 3) the HIV virus had incubation periods of [EDIT: up to] ten years or more. I don't see any way to validly conclude that HIV causes AIDS at a time when the virus had only been known for ten years or so. One could advance this as a plausible hypothesis (one which ultimately proved to be correct), but in the mid-90s I think there was still room for valid doubt.

But I'm very open to being convinced that I was wrong about this (not that it matters much at this point, but it is of historical interest to me).
Virtualization-based security -- a lighter mode of Hyper-V sans real VMs -- is enabled by default on new installs on recent-enough hardware:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/virtualization/virtua...
If you already know C++, https://overexact.com/rust-for-professionals/ might be for you (disclaimer: I wrote this)
So it will fine an electric car that parks in the bay if it isn't charging? These are not really parking spots anymore. They are "charging bays". That's cool. Just remember not to park your electric car there with a full battery. I guess if your battery is full, by the time you drive around a while looking for another spot it will be low enough that you will be allowed to use the bay.

The few times I've tried to charge an EV at a public non-tesla charging point, it has been a real hassle. The multitude of protocols mean that sometimes it just doesn't work. I'd be very not happy if that meant I would then have to find another spot.

Perhaps there is a market for a defeat device, a plug that simulates an electric car, like those HDMI/VGA simulators used to trick motherboards into thinking they are attached to a screen. It probably wouldn't need much of a resistor to simulate minimal charging rates.
After working on a 27" 5K monitor (first the Dell, now the LG UltraFine), I don't think I can ever go back to non-HiDPI for my desktop, so 1440p is just a non-starter for me.

The only monitor out there that would be an "upgrade" for me currently is the Apple 6K, which is far far into absurd-level purchase category.

Dell has an 8K out there (UP3218K) which, at a scant $4000, looks to only slightly less crazy than the Apple 6K @ $5000 (plus stand!).

It's a bit sad there are so few choices for us HiDPI addicts. Anything else out there I'm missing?
You mean python (3) core-devs?

Who knows, same with the GIL, they want to wait for a community solution I guess.
Sorry to hear it's been a frustrating experience. I'm a PM for Confluence Cloud and we're always trying to make it better. Would you be willing to share more specifics, such as: - Pages with content X are the slowest - Trying to do A/B/C is annoyingly slow - etc ?

(edit: looks like HN is severely limiting my reply rate so apologies for delays)

We're trying to focus on frustrating pages/experiences rather than number of network calls and such, because while the latter is correlated, the former (frustrating slow experiences) is really the bar and the higher priority.

In terms of the ToS I'm not from legal so can't say (still looking into it), but have definitely had conversations with users on public forums about performance issues, and afaik no one has been accused of violating their ToS.

(edit: since I can't reply due to HN limits I'll try to add some stuff in this edit)

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"target things that are easier to fix than those with highest impact" -> this is a good point and something we're trying to do. Engineers know the former (easier to fix) pretty readily, but identifying "highest impact" requires some work, so I'm (as a PM) always trying to find out. It's of course some combination of these two (low hanging fruit, high impact items) that forms the priority list.

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"perf to take over company for 6mo-1yr" I'm not in the position to make that level of decisions, but can certainly pass the feedback up the chain. The perf team is trying their best though, so any info anyone can provide us can help us apply our resources in the right place
> Instead, what we need is Democracy 2.0, where the people vote on individual packages, not parties. Switzerland may be the only country where that works out quite well.

This is hard and inefficient in a large country with an underlying population that lacks critical thinking.

We could instead use a multi-party system where multiple voices are raised in the house and senate votes.
This is the dumbest tweet I have seen this year, it's only Jan 2nd but Erica is setting the bar pretty high from the outset.
The thing is 99% of what I get elsewhere does actually work properly. Microsoft are just excessively bad at this.
> government legitimacy here is I assure you based on how much Gulf states pay for arms

The BBC isn't making any judgement here on who is right and who is wrong, and I think it's unfair to paint people like Lyse Doucet, Darren Conway, Marie Colvin, and other journalists who put their lives on the line to perform journalism in warzones, out as tools of the arms trade because they aren't biased in a way you want.

The entire complaint seems to stem from the BBC using internationally recognised terms to describe the beligerants that the UN uses, and saying this is bias.

If you have a complaint about the UN recognising Yemen as a single country represented by, take it up with your country's ambassador. If you don't think the UN is a legitimate organisation that's fine too, but don't pretend others are biased because they don't agree.
> But for an individual, i think the bigger challenge is motivation, discipline, dedication, commitment.

I definitely agree with the above.

I found my way around this by doing weekly check-ins where I report on progress and accordingly formulate strategies for achieving said goals.
Those reports are meant for no one but me, but they allow me to:

a) Measure my progress

b) See what's working and what's not

c) Most importantly, hold myself accountable

Such reports are a version of looking myself in the mirror and talking about the week that was, my habits, and the progress (or lack thereof) I made.
Furthermore, at least for me, the mere act of writing allows me to crystallize my thoughts on a topic, lends clarity and ultimately provides an infusion of motivation to keep working toward my goals.

Of course, what works for me might not work for someone else, and we all need a different framework based on our individuality, but I hope I was able to add to your point surrounding accountability.

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Not GP but I also have the same feeling across Atlassian products:

it is more like a general feeling all the time for many of us.

I'm using the latest Firefox on Windows, a developer laptop with 32GB memory that was brand new this spring as well as 500/500 fiber.
Just think, if he didn't buy that pizza. It might not have acheived it's current price.

If no one bought any physical goods back then, then it may not have caught peoples attention, and may not have taken off.
I worked with a Chinese lady whose parents were extremely poor, but who herself had been well educated and was successful in a professional job in Western Europe. I asked her, "are you happy with the CCP government?"

She said that people in China simply do not think of it in those terms. Being "happy with the government" struck her as a particularly Western way of framing the question. I pressed her further and asked if she thought that they governed in a way that improved people's lives or made them worse. She said that she thought they improved people's lives, and that a country like China needs a strong government to hold it together, and that the CCP is succeeding in that respect.

I don't know if this is a representative view, but take it for what it is: an account of what a single Chinese lady told a random person on HN.
Your point seems valid, but the mom statement is unnecessary as I and many others did want to finish the wall of text about how she was mistreated
They're not parking spots.

Don't park next to a gas pump if you're not putting gas in the car, even if it has an internal combustion engine.