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Out of curiosity—do you live here?

America is beginning its decline, there's no question. I think you're worried about the wrong things, but that's simply a matter of opinion.

Thankfully, we're nowhere near the insanity of 40s-50s Soviet Russia. Here, we have a right to freedom of speech, and at least ostensibly a right to bear arms. Hopefully we can maintain those rights and avoid the hellish police state phase of the collapse.
I have heard that the reason to have the "airplane mode" rule on takeoff and landing is now mainly for passenger attention to safety instruction and situational awareness at the points of the flight most likely to have an emergency. Apocryphal or not??
AFAIK, Philip is not really retired. He does a lot of expert witness work these days https://philip.greenspun.com/software/expert-witness
Ask HN: Perspective Shifting and how to stop it?
This happens to me quite often, and it's always negative. Searching I've found bullshit books preaching self-improvement, etc.

What I've found personally is that when it happens I am completely lost. First time it happened as a child I woke up and felt like everything had shifted a few inches. This sounds small but it made everything look completely different - my room, parents. It drove me nuts.

Later when visiting my mother at her complex I was driven through a different entrance and was lost in a place I'd grown up in. I couldn't find friends' houses. I was called a liar and told I was being melodramatic when I asked for directions somewhere.

My parents added it to one more 'weird' thing I did (I have OCD which wasn't well-understood in the early 80s- I had to have things even/symmetrical, had to rub my hands together when excited, blink every time a light post passed my peripheral, then was forced to stop that but I still had to notice them and felt them passing, etc). When Poirot stepped in crap to have it on both shoes- I teared up at that, someone understood- not Poirot obviously, but Agatha Christie.

Anyways I've found that sometimes if I enter a familiar parking lot from a different direction I'm completely lost until I think about entering from a different direction again and aligning my perspective to that, if that makes sense. Suddenly I know where I am and how to get where I need to go, but this gets exhausting. Legit stores all around I've been to several times, yet I don't recognize them, it's just a starbucks, a Taco Bell.

It feels like it's happening more often so I'm wondering if any of y'all have experience with this, and if you found a way to stop it, or at least mitigate the effects?

I wonder if this is what happens when people get dementia and can't recognize anything. If someone who doesn't look like themselves to you insists they are who they are what do you do?
You're misrepresenting the offer. Quadpay is not "low-interest". It's ZERO interest. There's a huge difference between a loan with interest and a loan without interest. Zero interest loans are good for everyone unless they spend more than they can pay back within the timeframe. It's exactly the same as using a credit card and paying the balance on time.
Here is the quote from Alan Greenspan:

"Yes, there are options to combat that decline, but contrary to what many people believe, we do very poorly in opening up our borders to skilled immigrants. Our H1-B visa restrictions are a disgrace. Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow."

https://www.theglobalist.com/globalist-interview-with-alan-g...
I don't understand why discussions on remote work don't start and end with the evaluation of its effect on greenhouse gases emissions.

In 2021.

With 1.5°C expected increase of global temperature by 2030.
Show HN: New video commenting tool for direct social interaction
Hi HN! We are finally releasing our first version of Bubble, a social platform for video comments and reactions. People can add video comments on all kinds of content (photos, videos, social media etc.) and others can directly add their video replies.

We will kick this off with a bubble called 'Founders Talk' where people can exchange business ideas, get feedback, or comment on the latest startup news! Feel free to check it out!
Uber, Lyft Introduce Prop 22 Clone to Undermine Labor Law in Massachusetts
Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police
I am not interested in descending into an idealogical argument here, but most (serious) anti-capitalist criticisms will acknowledge that capitalism has brought the hitherto highest quality of life, just that it is self-constrained by the necessity to produce for profit.

Socialism is then understood as the overcoming of this constraint, but as always if you ask n socialists/communists you get m answers, where m > n.

It is messy and tiresome to discuss, especially when everyone insists that their personal understandings of what terms mean are the only real ones. More so when you've heard every position a dozen times already...
A CS degree was never intended to produce skilled coders. It's not a vocational training course.
This is an alpha site I've set up to see if people have an interest. The idea being that people should be able to find each other even if they are not on the same social network. Lots of details on what I am trying to do on the sites front page. I'd appreciate any constructive feedback!
Let me ask you, why aren't more workers "happy capitalists" and praise this way of living? Why aren't the warehouse workers more happy? Or the people soon displaced by computers and algorithms? Why aren't they look forward to a life of less chore and more free time?

Why do so many people protest against climate change? Why is it ok for corporations to externalize costs? Why is all the considered good?

I'm all for competition and fierce fights, but let just not forget that we live in a "society" and not in a box, everyone for themselves.
We should all just switch to something like https://delta.chat/en/ where the messaging protocol is implemented over plain old emails.

It makes the most sense, even without Facebook being bad and all.
Looks like V author/community is on the track to rewrite the world. Expect operating system stuff next? I'm shocked by how quickly it goes along, though. Gitly is quite usable already, and I appreciate the swiftness.
I'd think that Rust community is rewriting the world, but it's happening at much slower pace. Is V's basis strong enough to do this? Seeing the issues like [1] (about the basic memory management stuff) open makes me suspicious.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/6456
While I have not made SV salaries, I’ve done ok. Overall, the total-deduction I see in Ontario is comparable to the US. Higher, I imagine, than Texas but lower than California - us social security is way more costly than Canadian cpp (yielding more benefits too). And I moved here over 10 years ago and thus have paid my taxes…. It’s permitted us retiring before hitting Medicare age.
I should mention that I started regular automated index fund investing in the mid 1990s. I have been through two _big_ market corrections: 2001 and 2008-9. Despite being nervous, I never once stopped my automatic investments.
A very small portion of people in the US benefit from the mortgage interest tax deduction ever since the standard deduction was greatly increased. You have to itemize (forego the standard deduction) in order to take advantage, and only 13% of tax filers itemize on their taxes in the US.
Martha Wells' Murderbot series is a fun holiday read. It's about an autonomous humanoid bot that does security work for expeditions on distant worlds in a corporate-dystopian future and is going through an adolescent emotional crisis
A country severely affected by covid like Brazil has seen its population decline for the first time ever since the Portuguese set foot. People were asphyxiating to death in Manaus because hospitals couldn't meet the oxygen tanks' demand with patients coming in hordes. It’s that bad.

The amount of people that committed suicide due to depression induced by isolation is several orders of magnitude less.

It’s sad and scary that we still have to have this conversations in well educated forums like HN one and a half years in this pandemic.
The author seems to think students go to a school, get a degree that says "Bachelor of STEM", "Masters of STEM", or "Ph.D in STEM", then carry on to apply to job postings that say "STEM degree required".

This is so very obviously not the case I have to wonder what the author's motives for not diving even the slightest bit deeper are (for instance, splitting S/T/E/M and showing stats for each).
Do not mistake the sentiment here for Apple boot licking. It is possible to be both critical of Apple's policies while also recognizing the value they provide to users.

What exactly is "the good fight" here, and how is forcing this fight onto an app's user base something that should be applauded?

I'm no Apple fanboy, but I do think they've managed to implement features that are genuinely helpful to users. Whether that's benevolent or self-serving is not necessarily as relevant as the net benefit to end-users.

Personally, I find it refreshing when a policy like this actually results in better privacy for the user and not worse. If the developer truly has such philosophical issues with Apple, they should remove all social login options as the transgressions of the other two are arguably and demonstrably worse for users than Apple Sign In.
1. It was started back in the days of the PS2, I believe.

2. https://eastl.docsforge.com/master/faq/
I don't deny covid at all. I am vaccinated, and was first in line .

What I am not is a fear mongerer. The data show that if you're young and without preexisting conditions your chances of survival without hospitalization are excellent.

I'm sorry you've lost friends, but just because I've also lost friends to mild diseases, like the common cold or common bacteria, doesn't mean I need to tell people who don't think a cold is a big deal that they're a cold denier.

That's anti science nonsense
From the (admittedly small) pool of folks i've talked to. It seems like you leetcode until your eyes bleed and hope you nail the interview.
Is that not the same with if Google block my account? I won't be even able to login to my email for simple password reset or to verify I'm the actual owner of the email.

This is the problem with one click account vs email entering. It is a risk users should be made aware of but it is still their choice. And for some critical services I'll use my email, for other like the app in question, or most apps on the App Store I'll use one-click install, also most of the time there is no need for me to have an account. Most data can be stored on device without the need for user authentication.
> is a bizarre situation

I agree that this outcome should cause people to stop and think about whether justice is really being done here, but the other side of the argument is that it's actually digital technology which is making our intuitions fail, and the justice system is just trying to catch up with that.

If someone from country A travels to country B and uses a computer to gain access to information in country C without permission, and then distributes that information from a computer in country D to people in country E, then I think just about any legal outcome is bizarre to some extent, including acquittal.
Hope none of those journalists had family photos or other memories in their now-banned personal Facebook accounts. And if they had an Oculus, that's basically useless now as well.
This is correct yeah
But it is the point. QUIC allows to transfer streams of ordered data, not packets. Pure packets won't flow faster for UDP, TCP, QUIC, etc, therefore things like UDP-based video-streaming won't get any less latency if you migrate them from CUSTOM_PROTOCOL_OVER_UDP to CUSTOM_PROTOCOL_OVER_QUIC_OVER_UDP. And doing that would be generally just be doable using QUIC datagram extension - which is less in the scope of the project than ordered streams.

TCP-like workloads (e.g. HTTP requests) will have lower latency and higher performance due to 1 less round-trip during connection establishment, and more data being being available to congestion control and retransmit logic. The latter allows to be more efficient in the case of loss.
Well, no, because JSX is meant to be parsed by a JS parser and not a HTML parser.
There's large swaths of Republicans that think public teachers are overpaid...it's mind-boggling.
The owner of a satellite under threat from some specific debris would have a strong incentive to pay. I'm surprised if the data is good enough to detect this, but otherwise its hard to imagine the business model. Love to hear more from the founders

https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
Are you really going to label Head Coaches of major sports programs as PE teachers?

The reason they are paid highly is because they carry the majority of responsibility in the success of sports teams, which generate revenue (in the hundreds of millions in the case of Football and Basketball) for the athletic departments of these universities. That revenue is used to fund literally every other collegiate sport, and provide scholarships to tens of thousands of students nationally. These positions are unique because they are simultaneously extremely competitive (most coaches are fired within 5 years) and tied (loosely) to a public entity.

To call them PE teachers is a ridiculous presumption, no matter how overpaid you believe they are (and rightly so).
I haven't, thanks for the pointer! However, the main reason I chose Elixir/Phoenix for this project was not for the language itself, but for the runtime/VM (BEAM), which is battle-tested for such use cases.
Funny how they never talk about doing this with medical doctors, or expanding the number of medical schools. I guess their wages aren't considered too high, despite the insane costs of medical treatment in the US. Engineers need a stronger lobby, see the AMA for an example apparently.
In north american, hand-laid bricks are just to expensive. It is far cheaper to build wooden forms and fill them with concrete. Bricks are then stacked as non-structural decoration on the outside of the concrete or wood walls.
In my personal opinion these rules would contribute to a very dystopian society. Will Europeans permit these rules to be enacted or are they powerless to stop them? Am I the only one that perceives a major control risk forcing non cash purchases? I am not really able to wrap my head around people letting this happen. If anything, I have been moving further away from banks and debit cards. Amazon was my most recent bad experience and I have been finding it more difficult to reach a real non scripted human. In a completely digital world a person could be financially destroyed nearly instantaneously with no recourse or fall-back plan.
Already beat you to it https://github.com/vlang/vinix
I wonder how this differs based on how teams form.

Some teams are two people who have known each other for a long time and they have a pre-existing closeness.

Other teams are one guy and another guy he found to do a startup with. There is no real pre-existing relationship.

I saw both at an accelerator I was part of in university. Many of the teams formed for the purpose of doing startups fractured pretty easily as soon as they had diverging visions.
No, because the answer is actually "no". Half of the article is dedicated to zero-interest loans which are no different than using a credit card and paying the balance each month.
reeeeeeeeeeeeeetards
I posted something similar to you. I think the jump is not doable because it requires massive investment in a lottery ticket. Not only are FANG interviews leetcode level hard, I have heard friends at such orgs talk about the anti-loop. Even if you got to the point of solving most leetcode problems, the anti-loop can reject you. I know plenty of brilliant engineers not getting paid the value they create, because they have kids or work a tough job or volunteer or whatever, that makes it so they will never get a FANG offer.
> "Make a synchronous RPC call between components" is still the "easy" and "obvious" way to get things done.

It all depends on relative friction. Systems designed from the ground up to "think service-oriented" will use languages/runtimes/frameworks that make low-coupling options easier and more idiomatic than synchronous RPC calls.

For example, if your SOA is built on CQRS/ES, then adding an Event to the event store, for another Command to react to, should be easier than making an RPC call.
Not the OP but I agree with their comment. I think the distinction is mostly around experience. Specifically, experience designing large systems (understanding tradeoffs, resource requirements, etc.) based on product/business requirements. If I can come to you and say "I need a system to manage documents" and you can take it from their (eliciting more details from non/semi-technical collaborators along the way) then you are probably a high-end SWE.
The biggest problem I see with space debris removal is with the business model. Who will pay for the removal of it?
How to Add a YouTube Like Progress Bar in Next.js Application
Yes. you don't have to accept anything that is unfair. You can just refuse to develop for the platform.
Sorry, affordable healthcare. Sure, public plans exist, but most state exchanges are 2k a month. It's not the same, because the insurance pools are different. Check the coverage plans: https://www.wahbexchange.org/new-customers/coverage-basics/p...

Except for a few situations, it's mostly bottom tier insurance pools.

Meanwhile, my insurance PPO ranged from $0.0 month (high deductible) to max ~$50.
HN limits post titles to 80 characters and your proposed title is 44 characters too long, so it's reasonable to abbreviate "often dubbed the hardest Turing-complete programming language" to something like "'impossible' language".
Digital VU Meter with Analog Physics
Of what you listed, only the telephone network is one where I don't recall experiencing downtime; probably because it degrades gracefully to reduced functionality if something fails. Can't say much about air traffic control, but I imagine they have failures too and just have backup protocols in place when primary systems fail. A payment system is probably the closest to a computer system where you really don't want to drop any incoming requests, though after the initial payment event has been recorded, the behind-the-scenes processing can tolerate quite a lot of delay in the worst case.

Networks certainly fail all the time, and power delivery issues aren't uncommon either; the downtime just tends to be localized and if you depend on your internet connection or power, you have backup links and UPS systems that reduce or avoid the impact of downtime.

I never said you shouldn't strive for high availability, especially if you're moving vast amounts of customer traffic, I specifically made the argument against "no downtime", because people often seem to think that if your system doesn't have five nines of uptime it's unsuitable for handling "real" traffic, and that to achieve enough high availability you somehow need a highly complex system.
> The problem is that performance and normalization do not (always) go well together.

Absolutely agree. That is why we use in-memory SQLite projections of business state that are scoped per-user-session so that row counts never exceed double digits in any given table.

For us, adding indexes to these special database instances would actually make things go slower.
Cellular connectivity isn’t even necessary these days with Wi-Fi calling. Planes are already equipped with access points. The only improvement I can think of is to have some means to tell the phone “you’re on a plane” so it doesn’t keep trying to find a base station to roam to. Since there’s only so many gateways for aircraft traffic, it’s possible the core could recognize it and inform the phone accordingly.
Running quantum software on a classical computer
Household debt jumps by the most in 14 years to nearly $15T
Good point. It's a lot like international waters at this point but there is a very interesting aspect regarding this. Currently the FCC is the primary governing body in the space realm and requires all international satellites to abide by their rules in order to access the US telecommunications market. This translated to ~90% of all satellites following their rules due to monetary incentives.
It is very bad. I spent the last year or so rebuilding a system with a fundamental architecture error that it would likely be fighting against for decades. My reward? The refactor was so difficult to do that I ended up getting dinged on timeline. And promotions got delayed
The incentive structures at big companies are out of whack. Instead of the original developer, who was promoted to staff engineer, gettting dinged for making the mistake, I got dinged for not fixing it fast enough, and my career slowed down as a result.

The refactor was incredibly difficult and launched without issue and I am probably back on track for a promotion, but I have started to make noise about the incentives being askew
When did the lack of technical knowledge ever stopped managers from oversighting the work? I for some reason don't think that "the mob" has any more lenience than the military, for example — and its pretty much the universal rule that the military believes in "tenacity prevails over everything, it prevails even over the reason" like no one else.
This. The fact that there's no UI affordance for "hey, there's more down there!" is the real problem here.
> I’m with the other posters too about the article content, if you haven’t coded in a language like OCaml, Haskell, ML etc. you really don’t know enough about what strong static types offer to discount them.

And if you have, you probably know that its awesome but for most purposes doesn’t compensate for the weak ecosystems of the languages that have it, compared either to poorer (higher cost to satisfy for lower benefits) statically typed languages or dynamically typed languages with or without available optional static type checking.
Durable Objects: Easy, Fast, Correct – Choose Three
Insulator-Conductor Transition Points Toward Ultra-Efficient Computing
I'm not very well versed in encryption but I know many here are and wanted to see if how I imagined this has any merit -

is this something where WhatsApp could encrypt messages word by word instead of by message, and keep a list of the hashes of top sent words and their counts somewhere, then facebook would send some ads directory to WhatsApp clients, where they'd encrypt each keyword in the dictionary, and then compare the dictionary hashes to the top send word hashes, and try to make a match on the client side for specific ads to show?

Or is this more that full encrypted messages would be scanned for some type of needle in the haystack that could infer some value about what's being sent?
A Visual Guide to Refactoring Callback Functions to Promises and Async/Await
"Maverick's re-engaging, sir!"
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

― Mark Twain
Yes, that's fine - I'm doing that.

My goal is simple: try not to make things worse.
There’s coordination costs that scale super-linearly with people and many of the FAANGs have such high leverage from a slightly higher output of a software engineer that the costs aren’t a barrier for them.

In other words, if they don’t have to lower their standards for financial reasons, they just don’t.