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The way to avoid that is to stop building sprawl, and stack homes on top of each other.

Which, is the only way to add homes in the economically productive centers where housing prices are going through the roof.

I mentioned in my comment that we should ban sprawl, and I mean it. We instead ban multifamily buildings nearly everywhere, or use code to legislate them out of being feasible. This is what must change.

Instead, it's really easy to pave over farmland in the middle of nowhere, forcing people to hop on to freeway and drive for hours to get to jobs, because it's the only thing that's legal to build. Which is happening just outside the Bay Area, for Bat Area workers: large single family development far away from where the purchasers will work.
I don't think Apps are successful because the UX of Teams keeps me stuck in IMs.

I rarely if ever look at a Teams channel. I've only written maybe ~5 messages in a teams channel before.

Everything I've ever done has been in an IM/group chat.
Hey, that's "Magic Keyboard" to you.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2021 Edition
The productivity of minimum wage labor did not increase by that amount. It's largely unchanged. Computers did not do much to revolutionize productivity on your average minimum wage job.

This is a major reason why wage growth is unequal across job types.
I have a 14gb VM, Sublime Text, VS Code Pycharm, and Hexchat all at open the same time.

The memory usage isn't amazing but it's not terrible. If I go to about:memory and do a report, it seems that nearly all of it is going to Google websites despite being the vast minority of my open tabs. Gmail, Gchat, and Youtube.

So I'm not going to sit here and blame Mozilla because Google websites in particular are hogging a lot of memory.
Interesting. It's ok. It seems like they're adding this syntax just to avoid extra copies eg, `p with {x = 3, y = 4}` instead of `p.withX(3).withY(4)`. I really don't mind the later.

My gut feel is that records break encapsulation and will make refactoring slightly more difficult than the equivalent lombok value class. But if this gets more people making objects immutable, I'm all for it.
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Absolutely not the case. Children should be vaccinated. The Israeli study was useful in establishing that infection results in immunity. That’s it. It does not establish that infection is lower risk than vaccination.

Children are at low risk from COVIS
Same study came to the result that getting a shot after surviving an infection (unvaccinated) gives even better protection. The real interesting comparison would be immunity after getting a breakthrough infection compared to other kinds of acquired immunity. I'm sure we'll get that study eventually.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Thanks for this write up. I actually haven't heard of Chris Morris and Frankie Boyle yet. I'll have to check them out.
I am sincerely jealous of your tolerance skills.

I'd love to have the tolerance to jump to a de-Googled Android phone and bypass FAANG's walled garden. I've tried many times.
> involuntary manslaughtering them

Oh please. The hyperbole is getting real old.
Milley, what credibility does this guy have ? this is the same guy responsible for the Afghanistan debacle . . .
Dot operators vs plain functions are just two different ways to call a function, binding the lexical context `this` to a different value, possibly `undefined` in a strict context (which is default in es6 modules). The two are not uncompatible and libraries like jQuery make a wonderful use of the first version (dot call). The fact is that everything is mutable in JavaScript and one of its main API (the DOM) is actually built around this concept.

I really fail to see how those kind of changes bring anything of value to the language, apart from creating complexity where there is much already: some codebases will try and use this before it's ironed out with different / changing / competing transpiler implementation while it is only stage 2. What happened with decorators (see babel-legacy-decorators) should be a warning against enthusiasm for these kind of things and remind me of the pitfalls of macros in the Lisp world...

I am not saying that you should stick with an idiom till the end of time but changes should try and lower that complexity while (in the case of EcmaScript) being backward compatible so as to not break existing stuff.

Btw I love RxJS and its variants, Ben Lesh's talks (as well as those by Matthew Podwysocki, Andre Staltz etc...) from around 2015 and then on were one of the reasons I got into JS as a professional.
Except that antibodies don’t tell the whole story. They may wane after a while, but the immune system is primed to fight off the virus at the next infection thanks to memory B cells and T cells.

Unfortunately, T-cell tests are not available in Europe, and apparently not reliable in the US. Which confirms the original point: there seems to be little interest in detecting previous infections.
Slight correction: vaccines are still not available to children under 12.
Maybe you should question that conclusion when as you said people you respect are questioning what’s going on? I don’t know how to better put it but if the science requires unquestioning obedience to an already decided conclusion then maybe it isn’t science. I’m European and I’m outside that republican thing for the record, just in case that matters to you.
>"I can't afford the house I want

Americans especially have a very skewed expectation when it comes to housing. Many people here are like "I have an upper middle class professional income, my family should have no problem affording a 3-4 bedroom single family house on a quarter acre lot with a big backyard for our dogs to run around in right in the middle of one of the most desirable metropolitan areas on the planet! Oh btw the free public schools should be excellent too!".

Saying something like that would make you sound insane in pretty much all developed countries. U.S. is a big exception due to historical reasons, but people really need to adjust their expectations going forward.
The UK vaccine advisory board is not recommending vaccinating teens 12-15, on account that they dont benefit much
Every time unions come up on hacker news, I feel I step into a surreal dystopia. I live in a country where almost everyone is part of some union. It's not "if", it's mostly "which".

I was once part of an oncall rotation at work. We got 100% overtime, and a minimum of 2 hours regardless of how time consuming the actual issue was. Answer an email? Two hours overtime pay.

The idea that an individual stands a chance against a company, and that unions somehow don't change this dynamic for the better of the workers is so detached from reality, that I'm almost impressed at how effective propaganda campaigns must have been in the US.

The last epoch US workers had decent working conditions was in a time when unions were a lot more common. People fought and died for this. They didn't piss off and go golfing for a day.

This is also just.. History. It shouldn't be hard to look this up,so here is one of the first websearches that seemed to cover the trends: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/union-membership-mi...
Open soure alone is not enough. Look at Chromium, controlled by a single company on what is decided
Pushed reply too soon. Children are at low risk, but not no risk. To the extent that kids are running around with infections, they’re transmitting virus to others and providing a reservoir for mutation. That is not productive.

Let’s get the kids vaccinated. It’s the cheapest way out of this thing.
Do you mean their plans for IPO?
iPhone 13 is now triple SIM, you get two eSIM and 1 physical
I was referring to societal problems, not the individuals problems. Voting should be easy and accessible and not something you have to take the day off or several hours out of your day to get done. I literally spent 3 minutes voting this year on my way out of the vaccination center.
There was a conversation about their 2020 financial report a couple months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872949

From the source article:

> Canonical Holdings Limited saw revenue grow from $119M in 2019 to $138M in 2020. While Canonical Holdings was at an operating loss of $2M in 2019, during 2020 that turned around and they ended with an operating profit of $20M. The average employee headcount also rose from 473 in 2019 to 505 in 2020. Granted, that's still down from their 700+ employees years ago when pursuing Ubuntu Touch and their other ambitions before laying off staff and focusing more on the enterprise, IoT, and cloud commercial operations.
Is this really true? Blockbuster games back in the day were universally made by tiny teams.
> running entire population through antibody test just to find

A red herring if I have ever seen one. Assuming for a moment the premise that one must be forced to establish their immunity to a particular disease before being allowed to leave their homes, all that would be required would be to allow individuals who believe they've had COVID-19 and do not wish to get the vaccine to be able use their test results as proof instead of having to show a vaccine card.

Note, this does NOT require some authority forcing the entire population take specific tests.

But, the point of these vax passes is for all the authoritarian OCD afflicted Munchausen-by-proxy patients to demonstrate that they can force their preferences on everyone else just like it was the case with masks, distancing, no school, lockdown, etc.
> one can easily imagine being slightly hungrier but much happier if you practise a certain attitude.

One can easily imagine a world with slavery where one is much happier. Because it's always someone else who's the slave.

But when we leave the world of imagination, people are happier now.

Without the guarantee you are not the slave you don't want to go to that world. And generally even if you're the one with the slaves the backwards processes to get there also make you worse off. You probably wouldn't want to be overtly gay in a slave society.

This is the entire point of the headline, imagination is not reality.

People are not hungry and mentally better off.

Pinker is 100% talking mentally, it's hard to understand what else he could be talking about?
Follow the money. That's why.
> Why? Probably because everyone and their uncle self-diagnosed a bad cold as COVID-19 and plenty more would lie about having natural immunity.

Serology is a thing, as are records of positive test results. Also, in many cases, "proof of vaccination" includes a cell phone photo of the piece of paper they handed out when you got a vaccine, so as it stands, lying is pretty easy.

> Vaccines are safe and available yet we only just approved the use in children under 12.

We don't know they are safe for children under 12. Pediatrics is a profession precisely because "children are not just small adults". Something that is safe for adults isn't automatically safe for children.
The silver lining of the covid pandemic is that kids have at a minuscule risk of covid complications. Smaller than flu, both hospitalizations and fatalities.
cons miss the most important downside of F# proposal which is the runtime optimization aspect of requiring extra lambda functions.

I went through the github issue the other day, syntax aside, the two proposal boil down to functions vs expressions (no extra functions)
Prior discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516095
Open Source NFT Exchange with Force Buy Functionality
I agree that these discussions aren't very productive, but I take a different approach: let people decide for themselves.
>Took a serology test and found out that I had not had it.

How soon after you were ill? Aren't the antibodies nigh undetectable XX weeks after you recover?
Using the object(/class) as you say is the probably "the Java way" to do this, given their historical "everything is an object" stance (which has been eroded a bit, though, with some of the functional support). But it sure is nice to do a multi-returns, here and there, without having to create another class. A class which required you to write boilerplate (getters/setters). Maybe records are some sort of compromise. Probably a non-compromise for people who like the multi-returns.
Yep, their OVERALL productivity, as part of the system, has dropped by 25%. Isn't that obvious? They are not spherical workers in vacuum, they are part of economic system. If you open a store in the middle of a desert, your overall productivity will be zero, regardless of your productivity in the store, because no buyers, no roads, no police, no electricity, no water, etc.
Yes! I’m beyond thrilled to see someone mention Patrice here. He is, by far, the most cerebral comedians of all time.
I was thinking exactly this. They get all kinds of perks at McKinsey, I just get dumped on by everyone. We don’t get retirement benefits, travel expenses, anything that is standard in corporate America and we have essentially no freedom to switch teams or move between specialties etc. like they do in the corporate world. Not to mention their salaries go up dramatically in 1-2 years of training. They would easily be making 5x what we make in a few years.

Not that they have it great, but I just have difficulty feeling too much empathy.

Ok, I’m going to go back to trying not to kill anyone today.
Casual users and students will go with the base model 10-inch iPad that's about $200 less.

Ever since the Mini 4, Apple's set premium pricing on the Mini. This is the most expensive one yet.
> but they can be in only one cluster

I don't think this is true, logically or socially. We have dense clusters that are slowly merging as the world enjoys this extremely new concept of travel and intermingling world populations. I've seen many people describe themselves as "mixed race", directly or indirectly by describing their ancestry. Of course, the number of basis vectors required to accurately describe a person is increasing with time, but it seems that medical science has chosen to ignore this "easy" way to describe and treat people for some reason. But, is it all that surprising, considering not even women were represented fairly in medical trials, even 15 years ago?
That would shrink vaccine market in US by at least 70-80M. No sane politician would do that. Like with private prisons they got to provide the promised body count no matter what.
Where’s the data on pediatric coronavirus vaccines?
The UK public health officials have been doing random population sampling with antibody tests throughout the pandemic.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Unfortunately that never really happened in the US. There were a few small seroprevalence studies in limited areas at specific times but nothing consistent on a nationwide basis.

Also note that there is more to immunity than antibodies, so assaying antibody levels alone will underestimate the level of immunity in the population. We should also be testing memory cell activity now that a test is approved.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
OP also keeps posting articles pushing the idea that hydrogen and oxygen alone are sufficient to create water.
That Linsdey Lohan can't swim a lick, but she sure knows every dive in town!
That's exactly the one! The last graph ("Inflation-Adjusted Monthly Mortgage Payment") is the key takeaway.
I did skip that one, as the topic was engines (gas fueled or electric), not overall efficiency. But since you mentioned this, here's yet another big one (known by very few people): just go faster. Much faster. The lift-to-drag ratio goes down, but the time spent in the air goes down more, so you might end up burning less fuel overall. In cruise mode, a Concorde quite efficient, but it was horrible at takeoff and climbing; because you need fuel to carry fuel, the problem was compounding and overall Concorde was not economical. If someone can solve the takeoff problem (e.g. by using catapults) and climbing (maybe using detachable and reusable boosters?) then a Mach 5 jet could be very competitive. I think this is what the Boom guys had in mind when they say they aim to get to where anyone can travel to any destination on Earth in 4 hours for only $100 [1].

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/boom-supersonic-four-h...
Its actually called Planetes, which means "wanderers", and was the term the ancient Greeks used for the "wandering stars", i.e. other planets. I cannot recommend it highly enough! It starts out pretty slapstick, but if you're looking for something more thoughtful, just stick it out until after the ninja episode. I promise it's worth it.
To the extent that that's true, it's in large part because their income is now absorbed by land rents, which were much lower in the 30s. There's an obvious contradiction in the american dream: home ownership is the goal, so homes should be a good investment. If homes are a good investment, that means the price of homes goes up. If the price of homes goes up, they get less affordable for everyone who doesn't already have one. Look at what happens when you don't institute regulation designed to guarantee that homes continue to be a depreciating asset: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9V_0VBWEAE1ixe?format=jpg&name=...
Is the article essentially arguing that work should be made easier for knowledge workers — so they aren't as stressed out? I assume it'd fall on these knowledge workers to build the better systems that would simplify their day-to-day work.
We’ve also completely failed to provide adequate opportunities for these workers to gain the skills and education to be able to do something more valuable with their time. That’s a problem the minimum wage can’t solve. There’s a threshold where people will just become unemployable under that model without more investment in them.
That would increase the price [and weight] of the aluminum models, which makes it harder to sell because aluminum is not a premium material that can command a higher price.
Incorrect.

They recommend it, they don’t mandate it.
Administrative overhead.
> Dot-operators encourage you to think about repeatedly asking some smart blob of state to mutate itself.

Smart Blobs don't have to mutate themselves anymore than procedures have to have side effects.
Also, forcing on person A something person B makes which is paid by entity C with absolutely no liability on B & C and the authority does make for good lead into a post public "service" career.

Then, you submit to constant tracking. All of a sudden things one could never have imagined just a couple of years ago become subject to whether a some unaccountable authority gives you permission.
> reading about Tim Hecker using it

hey could you please share the link where you've read that. Thanks!
I don't see how any of this is more readable than:

let v = first();
v = second(v, 10);
v = third(x, y, v);
return v;

Why do we need a new operator for this?
I think this is fine if you don't show an '80%' there. If you show it, it skews the player's perception of what 80% means. 80% is a 1-in-5 chance of failure. 80% chance of success should mean "I should have a solid backup plan here."
>Pretty sure you numbers are not factoring in children under the age they legally allowed to get the vaccine, because those numbers are way high if you exclude the ineligible

A fair point. There were approximately 45,000,000 children under the age of 12 in the US in 2019[0].

I'd guess that's probably still relatively accurate.

Removing those children from my calculation, there are still almost twice as many people unvaccinated as are estimated to have contracted the virus.

>We actually do not, given that the effects of the vaccine seems to diminish with time, we currently have no idea how much or for how long. We do not have long term data. This is why there is sooooo much confusion on if you need a booster and when, because the efficacy at 6mo, 1 year, 18mo etc is a big unknown right now

Another good point. I'd point out that while ongoing immunity is a big (and unanswered) question, bringing R0[1] down in high infection areas right now can significantly reduce the impact on our health care systems and economy.

What the situation will look like in 12-18 months is important, but given the high transmissibility and case rates in some areas of the US, increasing the ability of folks to avoid serious health consequences right now is, arguably, even more so.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/457786/number-of-childre...

[1] https://www.mastersindatascience.org/resources/r0-infectious...
You're right. Thinking is too hard and scary, let's go shopping!

Maybe if diseases are distributed differently across different races, it can make testing and treating them more cost effective, leading to an overall improvement in health outcomes. I'm not going to waste my sickle cell anemia test kits on testing Icelandic people.

Do you apply this same logic to people who study esoteric branches of mathematics with no real possibility of improving life in any significant way?

This all goes to my point that you don't want race to be real, so you argue that race is not real. Maybe it is convincing for you, but it is absolutely meaningless to me. It would be great if the universe worked that way though, all we would need to do is close our eyes and pretend cancer doesn't exist, and it would just go away!
I honestly think a minimum wage is one of the worst way's to guarantee a minimum quality of life. It keeps all the downside of an employer focused system and keeps adding more and more of the governments job onto corporations. Huge parts of this mess are from government intervention in the employee/employer relationship (healthcare being taken care of by your employer was to circumvent wage freezes by Congress during WW2).

We are already seeing good results from the expanded child tax credit distributed over time instead of lump summed. I'd like to see that expanded as a negative income tax credit over the full 12 months of the year. It doesn't have to be a ton of money either if the guaranteed floor is half of what's need to live it would force a lot of employers to clean up their act.

One other idea I'd like to pitch is a say every 5 year moving tax credit. Something like if you move >100 miles you can claim a $5k tax credit. The main goal would be to get people out of the rut where they are too poor to move but the area they live in is too expensive to stay.
I could see that there are some users who would want an ongoing subscription, such as a security office who looked through security videos on a regular basis to investigate thefts. But I have to think that in a lot of cases there will be people who just want to search through a video or two on a one-time basis - why not a per-video, non-subscription pricing option?
>Sure there is a small population that would get vaccinated but genuinely can not due to a medical issue but that scenario is no different than the seasonal flu and other viruses.

There is a difference. Covid is 10 times more lethal than the average flu. It's not always that they can't either, it's also that their body won't develop enough antibodies.

Main reason for lockdown is so that your hospitals can keep functioning, or in the case of New Zealand, so that you can go back to complete normal life except for travel outside the country.
Fire Emblem feels "less random" because it is.

Most FE games roll two dice and average them together. Ex: its not a single-dice roll of 0 to 100%. So when it says 60% chance to hit in FE, they roll two dice and average it.

A 60% chance to hit (displayed) is instead 68% true-hit.

A 80% chance to hit (displayed) is instead 92% true-hit.
... or mental waste, in the case of Microsoft
To be fair, that model wouldn't be as ideal with the greater proportion of the US population unwilling to get vaccinated, as well as the higher vaccine availability in the US. It seems like Canada would make a better case given the lower vaccine skepticism and vaccine supply.
Not needed and needed more somewhere else are different.