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Flagged. YouTube "to test out removing" dislikes. I thought HN had a tighter catch on titles like these...
I still remember when you could rate videos on a scale of 1-5 (or was it 0-5?), and it showed the average rating from everyone who did. Then they made it a binary like/dislike, and now the trend continues to making it unary...

IMHO the "like/dislike" mentality is partly responsible for the divisive hostility of culture today. You either like something or not, you're with us or against us, there's no middle ground.
It's a one-time fee. Personally, I still felt it was worth it.
Regrettably, the joke doesn't work since ammunition is kept in magazines or belts, not clips.

(Is there even a firearm commonly used by a modern military today that still uses clips?)
When the carbon tax* was introduced in Australia our tax free threshold was increased from $6k to $18k which more than covered the increase in costs caused by the tax.

*This has since been repealed, a decision I strongly disagree with.
Maybe a YouTube content creator can chime in. I haven't seen any on this thread. ...
Hi, we're the social engineers, we tell you what to do, what to think, what to believe, and we'll be disgustingly overpaid and totally smug about it.
Similar experience over here. (G)ARCH models are severely underserved in Python, and I could not be bothered to learn a Probabilistic programming abstraction like Pyro or Stan just to build a quick prototype myself.

Chose Julia instead. Took 4 hours to get everything sorted out (including getting IT to allow Julias package manager to actually download stuff) and have the first model running just putting a paper into code. Since code is just writing the math, this is a vast communication improvement.

After fiddling around withit at home for a week, this was the first professional experience and I'm blown away.
To literally answer your rhetorical question: dark patterns. Not that I think the behavior is wrong - choosing the more energy efficent of two comparable manuevers just makes sense in general. But "Changes to default behavior to change consumer outcomes." are literally dark patterns and rhetorically likened to mind control whenever they want to cast a company or industry as a villain.
I'm reasonably familiar with D3 as a frontend engineer who has used it for standard use cases at my current company. My question is why don't we use something like PixiJS instead, given that its API is much simpler / more straightforward / less idiosyncratic

I don't see that it matters that it's not marketed as a dataviz library the way D3 is, given that it can clearly do everything D3 can (I guess aside from manipulating the DOM but why would that be necessary when every relevant browser supports canvas WebGL at this point?). So what is the issue? -... Accessibility, maybe? Seems pretty surmountable to me at first glance, if that's what it is. Or is there a performance gap? I guess that could be the case, although it would be kinda weird given that PixiJS is fast enough to handle 30+ FPS of richly graphical interaction
>Disclaimer: Googler
>... Designing over VC is very difficult, especially for something entirely new. 3~4 people working on a single whiteboard is far more efficient.

That’s a heck of a sales pitch for Jamboard.
What are your specific concerns with 2 parts per million of benzene?

Did you know roasted coffee beans contain similar carcinogenic compounds at similar levels (0.5 to 1ppm)?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4933506/
Wasn't intended to be angry. It's more frustration that I used to love Google Maps, but over the years it just gets less and less useful. I can't see street names like I used to, for instance. Now I have to have the overhead of choosing a route, when I used to know that the default is the fastest. Sure, I can turn it off in settings. But at what point does this get to be Windows Explorer, where the first thing I do on a new Windows install is invert pretty much all the settings?

I guess maybe I'd like a little bit of say in how the software I use gets updated. I don't know how that would be implemented, but this got me thinking that maybe there is a way that this software thing could be move a little closer towards a partnership than the autocratic "hey we're going to arbitrarily change this piece of software you use frequently". (You can see similar thoughts with people complaining how Big Sur uses more space, or the complaints when GMail changed things to be less dense.)
7. I'm a private medical insurance company. See #4

8. I'm a privately owned hospital. See #4

Overheads in the US are pretty ridiculous, and lobbying gets 5 through 8 incredible ROI.

In addition to all of these reasons, we have tribal affiliation. Health care for all has been spun as socialism for so long that real progress here seems utterly intractable. Even if you could convince politicians that your list of reasons don't add up, they'd still look you dead in the eye and tell you that it won't happen because their constituents would come for their heads.
The reason for the enactment of the nationwide 55mph speed limit in 1974 wasn't safety, it was oil prices.
I always assumed I was training it to show me things that I do like.
It largely depends on the definition of "class" you're using. You'll raise some eyebrows calling structs that can't support implementation inheritance "classes".

You can also have implement different associated functions based on properties of generic arguments, which is quite different in design from just attaching methods to a struct.
I would guess that minting a site as a NFT on OpenSea takes a whole lot less time than making that change. As for if it's more fun - that's debatable...
California taxes worldwide income, and you are still considered a CA resident if you were living there before you left the country.
Does anybody actually like the “antique” style interior? More than a modern renovation? I just moved out of a classic, unmolested Victorian house in SF and let me tell you, I don’t miss it one bit.

The fireplace was not functional (I presume there’s some law that actually forbids burning wood or something), smelled bad, and looked just like the picture in the article. I’ll take a modern gas fireplace I can actually use that doesn’t make the air smell like wildfire season, thanks. The “original” windows also didn’t close properly, wobbled all the time and made noise.

That being said, I absolutely adore the outside of Victorian homes in SF. They have all the charm and beauty with none of the downsides.
Surprised nobody has mentioned trackpads yet.

I had wrist pain earlier in my career (pre-trackpad) that I fixed by switching to Dvorak and using a left-handed mouse or trackball.

But that pain comes back within ~10 minutes of using a trackpad. Those things should be banned, IMO.
These are perfect places to do heavy industry, and in fact that's what happens now https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/american-comp...

Hydrogen production is another possible use in addition to aluminum.

Renewable energy like that provided by Iceland is a relatively rare and precious resource
Likely daily and monthly fees such that monthly is encouraged. The wording is definitely awkward though.
Lichess is a good example - their "subscription" gives a cool Patron icon wherever your user name is listed (usually the icon is just a circle that's filled if you're online), and that's it.
Right, society does restrict my freedom. It doesn't seem particularly outlandish that I already chafe at the fetters and object to any further expansion of that control.

Essentially, you seem to be arguing that since society already controls me it should have further power to control me. Well, I think the control it already exercises on me is too much, and I desire a reduction in said control, or at worst a stalling at where it stands right now.

There's nothing strange about this disagreement. It's fairly garden variety, except for the argument in favour of the slippery slope, which I must confess to never having heard before.

EDIT: I cannot reply to you, jay_kyburz, but I am content to retain the status quo, which would seem acceptable to both so we have no quarrel.
Not sure if anyone noticed, but Valisure is the same pharmacy that caught the carcinogen in stomach acid drugs last year.

Their business model is to do their own analysis of drugs at their pharmacy.
Do people actually venture into the youtube comment section for useful comments?

On occasion if the video is small enough of niche enough the comment section will have some useful content, but the vast majority of comments under any video seem to be just weird vitriol that is only ever tangentially related to the video.
I can build libc all by myself from source
Correct!

Only those who can actually see the post can make comments. Later on, I might add some way for the originally author to 'moderate' their comments through a non-tracking cookie. However, many users probably have some cookie-deletion extensions installed (I know I do) that might make this difficult if they close the page. Still trying to think of a better solution.
Ad agencies have neither the stomach nor the business model to support hiring devs at market rate.
People with good salaries and benefits will presumably see their taxes increase by a couple orders of magnitude more than the peanuts we are currently paying for care. Our employers will save, but not necessarily share that with us. I still think it’s the right thing to do, but it’s obviously going to wreck me personally given my SWE salary.
Remember that McDonalds ice cream machine status site[1]? The guy has a buy me a coffee link right up top. I think he gets a solid stream of donations. I remember dozens per day a couple months ago.

[1]https://mcbroken.com
Thank you — I've never been able to find any actual references to the page, and have found a lot of other people who found the book Sokal and Bricmont cited without being able to turn up the actual quote. I'm not sure your hostility is called for.

At any rate, that quote seems to be something of a weak-man argument that doesn't give us much insight into the question you meant to be addressing. You don't find insight in an odd passage by one particular author in an obscure French publication from 1987 that seems to have mainly been cited by way of disagreement, therefore an entire field of modern scholarship is useless?
Got any citations/benchmarks for what is slower about Linux today?

I'm guessing the kernel itself isn't taking more than 30mb of RAM these days.

What's next? udev/systemd?

X11 server / Wayland + display manager?
The biggest objection that I have with federal programs as a whole is that they cannot be undone if they’re bad. We’re all stuck with them.

On the flip side I fully support state level programs because it allows for more direct refinement by the representatives and voters closest to it.

If a federal program is implemented and everybody in Wyoming hates it, they have no real voice to change it.
This is where payment plans come in. Instead of lump sum taxed as such. Have a portion per year taxed at the lower threshold.

But how you arrange doing that within your business framework is hard.

I agree that tax system should take individual person constancy of income into account.
Well, my insurance for a family of four cost slightly more than 10,000 last year (both employer and employee sides). You could triple the amount I paid into Medicare in exchange for Medicare covering everyone and I and my company would come out ahead. There has never been a year where I have been paying for insurance that it has not grown faster than inflation.
Well, if you are not from around here :-), the calculus is simple. The healthcare "industry" manages to levy anywhere from 4 to 6% tax on the GDP of the wealthiest nation on Earth, and instead of giving that tax to the Government it goes to a handful of individual corporations.

That wealth sucking monster has its tendrils deep into every PAC and politician it can find. And like a giant organism that wants to survive. It employs hundreds of thousands of people who insure that the status quo, remains.

Even people who aren't employed by the beast but are wealthy hold large quantities of "stocks" in the beast so that they, like small trigger fish on a shark, might benefit the wealth that spills over as the beast munches at the trough of human despair and disease.

Yeah, it's a bit cynical, but I swear every bit of it is true.
Anecdotally, this comment annoyed me so much that I decided to reboot my machine (that I typed this comment on) and see what the memory situation looked like. As I correctly remembered, it still starts up in under three seconds & using under 40MB, after init launches my web server, networking & other various tools for convenience.
Not OP, but it seems to be a well-researched topic ("Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration" - https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/pdfs/GratitudePDFs/2Wood-Gr... ) from 1930's onward!

Social scientists have focused on gratitude since the 1930s (Baumgarten-Tramer, 1938; Bergler, 1945, 1950; Gouldner, 1960; Heider, 1958; Schwartz, 1967; Simmel, 1950). Though it has been considered fundamental to the maintenance of reciprocity obligations between people (Gouldner, 1960; Simmel, 1950) and evolutionarily adaptive for its promotion of altruistic behavior (Trivers, 1971), the bulk of empirical research occurred over the past dozen years because psychological research was long dominated by a focus on pathology rather than flourishing (Seligman & Csik- szentmihalyi, 2000). Two classic studies—showing that expressing and experiencing gratitude bring peace of mind, satisfying personal relationships, and well-being (Emmons & McCullough, 2003; McCullough et al., 2002)—catalyzed the field, and since then a girth of research on gratitude and its applications have emerged.

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279403394_Gratitude...
I'm always surprised that projects like this continue to pop up, without any clear differentiator from the existing players.

Why do we need another config management tool when there are so many well established tools out there?
It's built into vscode...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/settings-sync
If everybody in Canada has realistic access to essential healthcare (including dental and vision), you’re already doing better than we are in America. A lot of your complaints apply to our system, too—in the sense that I’ve experienced them firsthand—but I honestly consider myself lucky just in that I can afford care (cushy tech job) and I’ve never caught a hospital bill large enough to clean me out (at least, not since I was a kid without a lot of money).

Seriously. There are people in America who literally have to choose between fixing the constant pain of mouths full of rotten teeth and caring for their children. It’s not like there are no bright spots, but our outcomes are some of the worst (if not the worst) out of (ostensibly) first-world countries by most (if not all) attempts at objective measurement I’ve seen, and that’s generally not even including non-health outcomes like medical bankruptcy.

I wouldn’t say extant socialized systems couldn’t be improved upon, but I tend to think people complaining about those systems are either a) in a position where they could afford care in America, which absolutely isn’t everyone, or b) just don’t know how good they have it.
> People who can get free care may neglect their health because they figure "it's free."

Surely more people neglect their health (as in, they may worry about it, but they don't do anything) because it costs money they don't have to go see a doctor?
Not to get in the way of the fun, but my point at the start was less about the semantics of an Optional type in particular, but more about how in the absence of an Optional (or I suppose a nil value) people abuse nil pointers as a stand-in, and that's been a source of lots of bugs I've seen.

The language was designed without a nil value opting instead for an empty value. It turns out that in lots of real-world applications some kind of affordance for "this doesn't exist" is so common that even standard libraries use nil pointers to model that. That leads to bugs because now lots of things are pointers that don't actually need to be passed by reference and the language's affordance for _everything_ being able to be passed by value is being circumvented. An optional type (even without any full blown support for sum types in the language) would have solved this problem neatly.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, because you are obviously right — just like the audience will go where the content is, the content creators will go where they can get an audience.
For long distance driving speed is key. Highways can be faster even when they are indirect. This is what the OSMAnd "Fuel Efficient Way" routing is based on. It biases towards the shortest routes that may have lower speed limits. This is nice for road trips and bicycling, but can be quirky with city driving.
Android vs. iOS: The Vastly Different Approaches of the Mobile Operating Systems
It ignores so many factors that the result doesn't matter in any way other than to create a clickbait article.
What level of quantitative evidence would you like to see?

Would you prefer if replaced "no longer useful" with "has diminished significance such that it is ultimately vestigial"?

In my world it is plainly obvious that music discovery occurs from algorithmic introductions, which are counted, and the song being played which is also captured by audio listening apps which is also counted.

In the past, cover art would have been an advertisement for an album that contained songs which weren't out yet, and also useful when browsing physical albums in a store. Both of which is pretty much not happening at all, I mean feel free to correct me if your world still has that. I remember people used to complain about all the other songs on albums not being as interesting as the one song they wanted, the people are the market and the market chose something else which evolved to a completely different form of music discovery.

I don't have a paper on that. Is it really moot if this is a shared experience? I think there are a lot of people that are just uncomfortable that the world changed and they never stopped to notice, and without a counterpoint thats how you sound to me. But if that's not the case, I'm totally open to a conversation as I don't have strong opinions on the matter and am also totally content with music discovery today, which doesn't emphasize cover art for easily understandable reasons, to me.
> For example, the US is burdened by a disproportionate amount of R&D which helps to lower costs in other countries.

This doesn't explain the disproportionate costs of decades-old medications and procedures still using decades-old methods.

You can maybe justify high drug costs based on that, but drug costs are a small fraction of overall medical costs.
A word about waiting for minor surgeries:

As another has said, these are minor. It's OK to wait.

It isn't like you are going to be out of a job or out of much money: A safety net helps with it. So you are sitting at home or at work on light duty while waiting, depending.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm?

I'm typing this on a Thinkpad x200 (Intel Core 2 Duo from 2008) running up to date Debian GNU/Linux with MATE, and it runs great!
A dual system where we chose to have our tax dollars go where we want... why stop at healthcare? If I don't want my tax dollars to go to... say the military? Can I defund the federal flood insurance because I feel we need to disincentivize living on the coast as sea levels raise (and personably live 900' above sea level)?

Having individual discretion over what tax dollars goes to leads to an unmanageable mess for those trying to actually create a budget. Additionally, sometimes a national priority and the hard choices that goes with that means having taxes spent on things that aren't necessarily popular with the entirety of the electorate.

The control over the budget comes (in theory) with voting on a house member who aligns with your goals for the budget. Yes - in theory.
Your advice is good.
Maybe we need an Open LCD panel controller board.

Install the firmware with specs as per TV panel. Swap out the control board altogether.
once again the market beat me
Unfortunately even then Google doesn't view you as the customer in any substantial way. Advertisers have been, and continue to be, who they want to keep happy. The reality is that, in aggregate, most users are willing to take a fair amount of abuse as long as it's free.
Ideally, this person should be on your team, or otherwise someone you work with regularly. But asking your mentor when you run into bugs is a good start! Pairing on those helps.

I guess in terms of concrete advice:

1. Put time on a calendar to work with this person; don't just slack back and forth about some specific issue for a bit.

2. If you're looking to become a better programmer, actually pair with them - take turns driving and writing code. If she's doing the driving, it would help to hear out her rationale for what she's doing - probably even before she starts writing. If you're driving, try to do the same.

3. Ask for code reviews on as many of your pull requests as she can provide; this is going to be pretty workplace specific, and is going to depend on how much code you end up putting up for review and how much time she has. It's a good way to get async feedback.

And yeah, it takes time and practice.
It's often an issue with how to and DIY videos. A big offender is Howcast. They have good search results because of their early presence on the platform but a lot of their videos are low quality by modern standards and not worth watching. Lots of high quality channels now producing dedicated content for whatever you were looking for but can be several videos down in lists.
Of course it makes the ICE car more expensive (when including fuel costs). That's the whole idea.

Consumers will see that EVs are cheaper (post-tax) and will switch to EVs as a consequence.

You can make the tax revenue neutral.
"I cannot comprehend why anyone would be against health care for all?"

I think it's because we imagine how it would pan out based on current costs. When I was running my own company, the premium for really good health insurance was $2400/month for one employee and their family.

So, if you assume everyone will be given good insurance and do the math, there are some REALLY BIG new taxes coming your way to do that.

Of course, it doesn't have to be that way, but we US citizens can't imagine the government doing it well without taxing us to death. At least some of that worry is well founded.
> Our wait times for elective surgeries are terrible. Our use of electronic health records is still patchy at best. Innovation is extremely difficult - health tech startups simply cannot sell into the giant health insurance bureaucracy without going under.

Americans who propose such systems have no awareness of this reality. While "healthcare for all" sounds great and makes for a good political campaign slogan and bumper-sticker, none of these people would tolerate living under that system for a microsecond.

Some of us have had the experience of living in countries where you have "healthcare for all". And, I have to tell, you, it isn't "healthcare" and it sure as hell isn't "for all". Wait times in the hours, days and months are not uncommon.

I have to believe entrepreneurs could do far better than government ever could. This has been the case for nearly every human pursuit in history. Not sure why we don't give it a shot. Setup a competition. Let the best system win. Let people choose.
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Well, that means that poor people will likely have a large incentive to buy in, while the upper 5-10% would opt for private insurance rather than paying additional income tax. Unfortunately, the poor and middle class probably will not be able to fund a well functioning level of health insurance by themselves.