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[..]Exercism is an online, open-source, free coding platform that offers code practice and mentorship[3] on 50 different programming languages.[..]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercism

Kinda annoying if sites have this non-informative character and don't even explain at all what they try to sell. I hope this is just temporay because of their upcoming launch.
Some methods don't work inside the EU. The only way to bypass this is to proxy to a country outside EMEA (like Canada) and use the methods listed there.
That subset of British people similarly have a bizarre position IMO. Entitlement to live in a foreign country is misplaced regardless of your country of origin. The ability to live in another country has always been at the sole discretion of that country’s government.
They don’t have your location. That is passed in an encrypted form from device to apps like Find My Phone. Apple’s servers don’t store it, nor have access.
purchased!, although cant seem to see how Barbarian Days is related (it's about surfing, no?)
You mean every time a video is started as well as after every ad, right?
I know they're not, that's why I'm objecting to them in principle (even though I use them and they're quite handy). JavaScript already has a solution - just put the private fields in the parent closure where they can't be accessed externally. In my example above, x is a private field, and the constructor function Foo can be asynchronous. The new semantics is a kludge around the supposedly "optional" class syntax sugar.

Remember, once upon a time JS was supposed to be Scheme...
Different countries are at different stages of transposing this directive into national legislation [0], so if you're in an EU country and haven't come across this yet, you will probably encounter this in due course.

Note that the directive also applies to the UK, where it has already been transposed into legislation.

[0] https://www.obs.coe.int/en/web/observatoire/avmsd-tracking
"Negative interest rate" is such an Orwellian term. Let's just call it what it is, the government penalizing you for not spending your own money as fast as they think you ought to.
Pretty soon you won't be able to do anything online without providing identifying information strongly tied to government ID.

No anonymity will be permitted by big tech, because having everything linked forever to your history allows for more revenue from advertisers.

Big tech becomes default choices for businesses and society, so no anonymity will be permitted in society.
As someone coming from a broken family, let me tell you that if your dad found a second mum and those three live together peacefully it‘s a good result and just none of your business. Your parents so not exist to fulfill your expectations, you are a 30 year old person, not a child.
By the way, using your wife as an excuse for your moral expectations is childish.
“feel free to downvote into forever“ is super whiney and passive aggressive.

You are young, and - to me - you seem to be very self focussed. I think you should consider yourself lucky to have a job and a partner. Consider changing jobs if something more fulfilling is within reach that will not burn you out.

And see a therapist to help you sort yourself out. It really helps to understand oneself better.
Yup, had this little gem appear for me on a very random video. So much so that I had to suspect that it was more of a requirement so that your credit card is locked and loaded for spending.
> I miss 16:10 for coding use, but that ship has long since sailed.

Macbook Air and Macbook Pro have 16:10 resolution.
Well, https://slc.is/ for instance, doesn't actually work. If I go there, and then click the back button, I get Error Page Not Found. An Error Page Not Found which isn't even a 404, because that would obviously have been to conformant.

This took me around 20 seconds to find, but I think I'll stop there :)
Yeah at $75,000 your effective tax rate is around 17% in most states with state income tax and probably around 15% in states that do not.

Of course this doesn't cover property tax, sales tax, etc.

This is a handy calculator to calculate effective tax rates:

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
Side project idea: for "art", build a bot targeting specific Twitter accounts, auto-generating deepfake videos of the tweet author reading the text of their tweet, and sending it as a reply to the original tweet.

Why? No real reason, I just think it would be cool.
As mentioned in my previous comment, a lawyer told me you can't arbitrarily withdraw your consent in that way you are describing.

The police officer may also have taken your phone back to their car to use the ID details to write up the ticket so you can't easily ask form the phone back at that point.
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> You don't need to unlock your phone to show this ID though...

That is precisely the problem. Now you will be identified without your consent, and perhaps even without your knowledge. Tomorrow you will be tattooed so it's even easier. Watch Idiocracy if you don't believe me.
Yes, but where's the real, proper evidence that shows that watching age restricted youtube videos is detrimental to children? I think unsupervised access to age restricted parts of youtube may well be detrimental too.

I feel like most of these changes are there only because troubled parents feel like they're powerless to control their children.
This is similar to the static vs dynamic linking debate. It’s easiest to deploy things if they are all self contained, but Linux distros have a strong tradition of dynamic linking and really don’t want to have (say) two separate paycopg2 installations if they can be shared. And once there’s a place to share stuff, users are going to inject new stuffs into it and give the package manager all sorts of trouble.
Doesn’t take a clairvoyant to realize that given our current political trajectory, the 2030s are gonna be wild. The right has been armed for years and the left just bought millions of guns over the last year.
I haven't found any of these stories. Care to share a news article?
Never understood the voter id controversy. Even India which has a lot of poor people mandates voter IDs and it's easy to get one. And there are 800 million voter IDs in India.
If India can do it then why can't USA?
Yup, same. I tried talking to them, but even broaching the subject got them defensive, spewing absurd generalities and platitudes at me, generally being childish, and saying things that were patently untrue. Now I'm not talking to them and thinking about my life without them in it. They're a danger to themselves and others.

I'm far too disagreeable to perform the empathy dance and they're too old and stubborn and functionally illiterate to boot to listen or understand that they've swallowed propaganda.
This is false. The device transmits all visible Wi-Fi access points and their signal strengths (which is analogous to your location) to Apple at all times. The API returns location data to the handset.

There is no way to verify that Apple's servers don't store this information.

They absolutely have access to it, as they provide the location information to the phone based on the Wi-Fi data.
Most allotments are way smaller than this!
Which is why I used the word

> probably

Most people follow the typical steps to set up their phone
or just minify + cat
>Like, salaries do not seem to have similarly risen, so who the hell is buying these houses?

People and institutions looking for a way to 'park' their funds in a safe investment.
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The problem is miscategorization. A lot of videos I like (and swear are not pornographic or whatever) are now inaccessible.
I knew I saw this on HN a couple days ago. I figure that's what "inspired" this article, though it doesn't really have any more detail than the tweet thread...
After WWII the top tax rates were almost 3x higher, reaching above 90%. That'll help level your wealth distribution for you.
>So if someone steals your phone they can access your id? Or use it?

same way someone steals your wallet they can access your id or "use it".
What a baffling shallow dismissal. The research might be bunk, but basing your critique of it on popular coverage by non-researchers, is not cynical at all. Its make-believe.
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Most people don't find arguing from formulas intuitive unless the formulas themselves are intuitive. If you truly believe they are, I'd be curious to know why.
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People complain about this editor shit because it's the first thing they hit when trying out CL. As if multiple symbol namespaces, macros, CLOS and all the other things are going to somehow be easier to grasp and use effectively. If you bounce off of that, then you don't want it, go away.

Yah, nobody in the community wants to waste their time appealing to whiners, building "modern IDEs" when half the shit in your modern IDE we had for decades and it works just fine over a terminal. Shut up, and get real work done in the problem domain, not tool wanking.

Meanwhile I'll be using a real interactive debugger over ssh to live debug in production, loading patches with no restart, and writing DSLs for my domain experts.

Saying this as someone who has built product and teams in Scheme, Common Lisp (WebCheckout) and Clojure (ThreatGRID/Cisco) and will do it again, and love it.
Also what makes a video marked as adult content is becoming absurd. Last month, a french youtuber was required to put pixels on a doom 1 screenshot. Pixels on pixels.

Even more absurd when the ads are not censored the same way, and hence can be way more adult oriented than the video.

I never though I would see the day where internet services would do something worse than TV.

But as a lot of youtubers reported, there is not much alternative since youtube:

• is the only place where you'll get such a big audience, and with powerful discovery mechanisms in place to make people discover your content

• is one of the few players actually giving you money for your content

• can handle millions of viewers in the first 5 minutes a popular video is released

• has a very low barrier of entry for consumers
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> The Fed doesn't set interest rates, the market does.

The Fed sets interest rate targets, and the intervenes, maasively if necessary, in the market to acheive them.

> If the Fed raised rates 500bps tomorrow, over time, interest rates would still settle back at 0%

The only reason rates are near zero is that the Fed has set its rate target near zero and intervened massively in the market to attain that target. If the Fed raised its rate target and kept it higher, rates would rise and stay higher. When the Fed target, was higher (most of the Fed’s history), interest rates remained higher.

The Fed doesn't set its targets based on what it thinks the market would do without intervention, but based on what it thinks needs to happen to achieve its balance of employment and price stability objectives.

> Central banks are reactive.

You bracket your post, beginning and end with it, but you don't seem to understand that all it means is that Central Bank action goals respond to observed conditions. You act as if it means the Central Bank is impotent to affect conditions, and in particular interest rates, which is clearly false.
Also, FDIC was designed for everyday folks, not wealthy families or large investors. Exceedingly few people have that much cash on hand.

Wealthy people opening multiple accounts to stay under the FDIC limit is just an example of folks finding a loophole to receive a government benefit that was never really intended for them in the first place.
What is this product? The website could use a more clear description.
There is a lot of overlap between positive traits and narcissistic or antisocial ones. Some people have trouble distinguishing between confidence and arrogance for example. How about basic extroversion vs self promotion? OTOH some of the tactics a narcissist uses when they're in trouble are common (good?) for a company to employ when faced with bad publicity. Self promotion is a form of marketing right? It's all superficial, so I think the best we can do is train more people to see through it. Hold people accountable, don't let them blame shift, don't promote them for others accomplishments, etc... Once you've got their number, there may still be good strategic uses for these people. Just don't let them get out of control and ruin the company?
That's fair point which I both missed and not personally familiar with as I'm an Android user (Android's equivalent of Apple Wallet does require you to unlock your phone).

I still worry about relying on my phone to hold my ID and then surrendering my phone when it's reasonable for the other party (presumably a government entity) to want to look at it in more detail or take the ID away for a period of time (eg during a traffic stop they will take your ID to run you through the computer and write your ticket up)

I also worry functionality like this leads to changes in general expectations which leads to more implementation that may not be as carefully executed
I'm not a digital nomad (anchored by wife and three kids) but I branched out from web development into tourism photography/videography in the last few years. The period since COVID hit has probably been my most successful because I've been confined more around home where I have most connections to sell my content, rather than going overseas where I don't.

Web development had increasingly felt like a treadmill, but with added bonuses of decreasing budgets and growing competition. I love travelling, and the photography aspect has been great complement to that. Good excuse to get away from a desk as well.

So far this year I've been paid well to go on two $15k pp cruises, and paid to go on Australia's most famous train trip. My wife is a photographer and has joined me on two of these. I had a job for all of last week filming whales with a drone. If I don't have work lined up, I usually plan a trip camping with my kids and then sell the content afterwards to the state tourism authority, regional tourism authorities, local operators (accommodation, tours, etc), etc. I can't recall a trip in the last couple of years that hasn't paid for itself.

It's funny, but I realised at some point that I was doing things in this enterprise which are always pushed in the startup community - do things that don't scale, talk to your customers, etc. I don't do those things with my other side hustles, but I have done them with this and they've worked. Must be that they come naturally when you have a strong interest/passion for something.
Self-compassion is key in combatting a lot of that negative self talk. Always ask yourself, “Would I talk this way to another person?”

If the answer is “no” then maybe it’s time you stop treating yourself this way and react with more internal kindness.
If you're burning fossil fuels for travel anyway, burning bunker fuel is actually pretty good from a global warming point of view. Because it contains so much sulphur, which has a cooling effect, it contributes a little less to warming that the CO2 tonnage suggests. Compare this with flying where the warming effect is magnified by a factor of two or three, because the emissions happen high up in the atmosphere.

Of course acid rain is a concern, so the picture is more complex than my two sentence comment makes it seem.
Perhaps we should get back to BitTorrent again…?
Okay, how about this. This requirement for age verification is because someone is asserting that profanity or whatever youtube decides is "adult only" is harmful to children.

Since you can't prove a negative, e.g. profanity isn't harmful to children, the question here is can you prove profanity harms children. Yes anecdotes aren't evidence, but what can be asserted without evidence (profanity is harmful) can be dismissed without evidence.
Blue collar worker in non-income tax state that doesn't own property and has 2-3 kids is probably going to be around 12-15% overall. That's a pretty small subset of the country, 2-3 states or so. If you use the same book of tricks (i.e. ignore a myriad of local taxes and taxes collected on goods sold) that people around here typically use when trying to make certain high tax states look not too out of line with the national average then huge swaths of the south and midwest would be included.
The main problem for me is the Widevine incompatibility. While many people see this as an advantage, I actually do enjoy the convenience of using Netflix/Spotify instead of Torrents/alternative clients.
I agree with the author in general. I think the web would benefit from a better distinction of documents and the web. However it is not that easy, because there are valid in-betweens, like Jupyter notebooks. Therefore I'd prefer a real progressive web over a document web and a app web. Do the fancy features, but also make sure your site works in a very simple environment.

A blog should be readable everywhere, even in lynx. Interactive, discoverable documents and multimedia content should include a text fallback if possible. And real apps like a photo editor -- well they need to be executed.
Yeah very good example -- a map is a program and is usefully embedded in documents.

Also this series of pages was extremely popular on HN, and can't be done without programs embedded in documents:

https://ciechanow.ski/gears/

In this case it's done quite "literally" !

https://ciechanow.ski/js/gears.js

Although on closer reading the OP does make a distinction between documents embedding programs, and programs that build up documents (like medium.com), which I agree is an anti-pattern.
Big business and government are virtually inseparable in modern US.
Really glad to see this write-up. I love my current PiHole setup, but replicating it for family/friends (especially with my blocking so many sites they might want) hasn't seemed doable. I would be having to help them constantly with blocked sites, etc.,.

My setup could be even better if either Fios or Orbi provided a half-decent router, but just using PiHole as my DNS server has been awesome. When my Pi (SD card) crashed and I had to revert to my old router setup, it was shocking how slow everything was. I'd become so used to pages loading in a blink, waiting a second or two while ads loaded seemed to take forever.

If you have any unused SFF computer gathering dust, give PiHole a try (runs on any of the major linux distros). Initial setup takes under an hour. You can customize the backend out of it with blocksite lists; I'm blocking so much my wife and kids can't even install new iPhone apps. Amazon Devices, Rokus, Google, nothing gets to call home unless I allow it. I have it forcing all Google/Bing searches to use their clean filter; worrying my kids might google "porn" is a thing of the past. There are easy to find tutorials out there, just be sure to filter Google images, as well.
I agree with never signing an NDA because it leads to code which can not be reliably maintained as the only person who can maintain it is the person who signed the NDA. How do you perform code audits on those drivers?

I have to assume most Linux WiFi drivers are written by people working for companies who get to see documentation via NDA as part of a company project OR the driver was written by the manufacturer who already knows how to talk to the card.

So everyone else has to cargo cult those drivers by blindly copying the voodoo code and hope it initializes the card the same way it does in Linux. Someone suggested adding a driver compatibility layer to allow using FreeBSD drivers in 9front but the devs shot it down with "that layer would be bigger than the kernel itself" So now you're now responsible for maintaining that HUGE mess plus you're still dealing with black box drivers you hope someone else fixes when they don't work. No one wins.

Again, the damn hardware manufactures have to give us proper hardware documentation. Until then they can go suck an egg.
The wallet exists already as far as Apple is concerned.

I don't see a reason it can't be used with the government or that the government needs to make its own app.
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> Apple and not the government

I'm of the opinion that Apple is a defacto arm (back channel) of the government now based on recent developments.
Proper coffee grinder, good beans and an Aeropress.

Taking the dog for a walk late at night.
>> The victor only gets richer if they get to steal more wealth from the looser than the war cost them, which was not the case of WW2.

It isnt quite that simple. Sometimes it is "stealing" from the future and paying to people now. One example would be recent wars where we took from the future (national debt) and gave to people now (war expenditure.)

Another example is "stealing" from the country and re-distributing to select people in the country. An example, again, would be recent wars where we took from the country (national debt; opex) and re-distributed to select people in the country (defense industry; their payroll).

The above two, combined with war reparations (even if net-negative reparations) can equal an overall positive to some parties.

Finally, post-war, the regime for the opposing country can be such that they favor trade with the US (e.g., using Halliburton to build their new oil infra; using Bechtel to build their new civil infra) -- again, the money flows back to the US, albiet in an uneven and sectioned waterfall
Depression in Robert Sapolsky talk is defined as a sliding scale of the inability to recover from the feeling of loss. Some types of inability should be targeted with the intention to cure, while others is more about building defenses and addressing how people react to life events. Both talks seems to agree that a multidimensional viewpoint should be applied depending on the patient situation.

The goal should be to cure depression in cases where we can cure it, in the similar way that we should cure the inability to walk in individuals when we have the technology to do so. A big point brought up in the video is that the medical understanding of the ability to recover from loss is still very much in the infancy when it comes to depressions. Our understanding of a physical leg and what makes a person unable to walk is pretty decent in comparison, and so there isn't as large debate between when to use medicine and when to use exercise and life adjustments.
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I am curious why the government would need to punish people because they are living as they wish, in land they bought and own.

I mean, it is 100% fair to say a region will never get some types of utilities, or postal service, as it is part of city/environmental planing. They can also prohibit regions to have septic tanks, etc, for the same reasons. Thats fair, I guess?

But why would they go as far as punish people that are using compost toilets, being environmentally friendly and largely self sufficient in small lots?
It was an observation that Twitter most likely uses algorithms to curate each individual feed, so any given reader is likely to sense a different trend. Very much on point for HN.
I agree although having said I think there's one exception to this rule which is Kotlin, I use it a lot but I've never heard of a dedicated Kotlin hater or evangelist.
Median household income in the US is $80k/yr. If you live in say Houston or Orlando a married couple will pay $6,230 in federal income tax + $6,120 in FICA for a total of $12,350 in taxes or 15.4%. If they have children, they will pay less.

A lower middle-class couple with similar circumstances making $50k will pay 12.9% in taxes.
> ASCII has special delimiters 0x1E Record Separator and 0x1F Unit Separator

And since ASCII has them, Unicode has them too.