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Exposure therapy over years. I don’t think I’m done, so I’d say I’m still at it. But not how you think.

I was fortunate to have a major career change thrust upon me.. it was too good of an opportunity to pass up, so I took it. It required me to go from a passive customer-facing role to an active customer-facing role.

It was difficult, and I struggled early on, but I feel like I’m the type of person who can rise to a challenge. Usually that’s a technical challenge or something less personal, but I just kept tell myself that I was the type of person who can rise to any challenge and kept going.

When this career change presented itself, I had just had my first child, and I wanted to be better for him. I wanted to be a good role model.
The old version yes - but it has gotten worse and worse over the years unfortunately.
Perhaps the people that should be at the absolute top of our list to contact are the ones that have bothered contacting us over the years?

Other than that I don’t have much to add — I’m absolutely terrible at this and my life suffers as a result. If probably enjoy building a tool like this but the problem is I don’t enjoy reaching out to people. Although I would enjoy the consequences of having reached out.
This guy is facing vehicular homicide charges because he was driving an unregistered not street legal ATV and fled the scene. Probably also because he has a history of motor vehicle infractions too.

If he were driving a legal registered pickup truck, and didn't flee (and wasn't impaired at the time) it would probably be a moving violation.

It also seems to me really rare that a hit-and-run driver is ever caught. It pains me to say it but it almost seems rational to flee the scene if you were drunk.
Imagine no way of verifying that this ATM actually doesn't send your words to the owner and transfers BTC out of your wallet.
"there's more than one way to do it" is more about allowing a more comfortable style for some tasks, or express some concepts in a better way.

So for instance, Perl has a completely ordinary if statement:

if ($foo) {
say "Foo is enabled";
}

However, it also allows doing this:

say "Processing file $filename" if ($debug);

Used judiciously, this can make code better because you avoid breaking up the flow with a bunch of braces. It's also easy to tack on to the end of an existing statement.

The downside of course is the lack of predictability, such features can make code more confusing to read rather than clearer if abused. This kind of thing is just syntactic sugar and not inherently a bad thing. The issues that come up are mostly a result of some people trying to be too clever.
Pretty impressive to have foreseen, as a college freshman in 2006, the proliferation of broadband mobile internet and the development of mobile devices capable of taking high quality photos and video, mapping services, video calls, health tracking, and other functions that would obviate and consolidate multiple industries.
I think there's a huge difference between creating an AI that generates copypastas and creating a general AI that can learn the concept of copypasta without being taught directly by a human.
Don't expect this to change. Most companies realize they can't provide any value for enterprises in that price tier, so they lock SSO behind the most expensive tier. Drives me mad but that's the industry.
Pretty sure that doesn't hold up against actual primate studies
> An engineer could not have willed a system of k-segments into existence and imposed it on users.

They did reduce something that existed to a lower resolution so that it fits into k-segments: how do make o (lower case o), O (upper case o), 0 (zero), D (upper case d), Q (upper case q) coexist on a 7-segment display without ambiguity? You start by deciding that lower/upper case it not important and that only one case for each letter will subsist. That's reduction.

> The 7 segments had to be the subconsciously recognized abstract form of letters this entire time.

There are other languages of which the scripts do not fit in this view. English Roman-derivative alphabet is not "better" because it compresses itself more into a specific-imposed compression format.

https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330144 is a perfect illustration.
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English speakers. (If you think about it, we are writing in English here)
>> Vehicles sold now are too fast for their intended purpose. You can buy a Toyota Camry with 300 HP and a 0-60 time of 5.1 seconds.

Good acceleration makes driving safer, because taking over other cars takes less time (although 40-60 acceleration time matters more here).

Also, "sports" cars, designed for high speeds usually have better suspension, braking, tires, all of which make them safer again.

Cars are just tools, you cannot blame them for recklessness of some drivers.
It is an RFC, and these tend to be about network protocols…

HTML <= 4 used to follow this principle, and turned out to be a non-interoperable mess. It needed an intervention in the form of HTML5. Although it may seem that HTML5 embraces the robustness principle, it's more of a workaround for it: it exactly defines how to handle any input, even "garbage" one, leaving implementers no room for flexibility, so there are no undefined inputs left to be liberal about (XHTML is also defined for all possible inputs with no ambiguity, they only differ in what they prescribe for handling of the "bad" ones).

Non-network things decay too. For example, there's no useful spec for GIF. Real-world files depend on specific bugs, like misinterpretation of frame rate or spec-incorrect handling of backgrounds.
Do you have evidence of this? If I'm reading the comments right, the person you're responding to called out rural areas. I believe many rural areas around the world do not have sidewalks (assuming you mean the paved kind) where there are miles between houses.
Well that correlation can work in the other direction too.

What if poor US urban planning has led to sedentary lives where walking to places like grocery stores, parks, or transit is unpleasant, inconvenient, or impossible.

So we sit on our butts and drive our cars everywhere, which means more lanes and more parking lots which in return keeps things farther apart and less walkable.

People who are never pedestrians perhaps have reduced empathy for being one, and being in a big metal car vs passing in-person on the street leads to less personable reactions (ie road rage). And car-focused infrastructure decisions lead to more dangerous interactions between fast traffic, pedestrians, and cyclists.

The tiny bit of time I have spent in some dense european-style walkable neighborhoods left me feeling much more a part of the neighborhood and like I would be a much healthier person in general living in such a place long term.
Facebook's 2.9 billion monthly actives aren't the 1% in any meaningful definition of the numbers.
>In most places in America walking is not a practical mode of transportation because of distance

Let's change this to a proactive mode.

How far is too far to walk or cycle?

What would it take for you to increase that distance?
I really think this is because of the way companies act and not the fault of any technology. We work in a field where companies really believe they should try for the cheapest labor possible without thinking about the consequences. When written with thought programs with .NET or any other platform work well. When you start replacing the person who had real knowledge and experience with the recent boot camp grad, "because that was the more affordable option" that's when problems start to arise.
You can filter by domain, for example

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bbc.co.uk

but each TLD/subdomain have a different level of granularity.

It would be nice that if

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=co.uk

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=uk

also work and include all the subdomains.

Try sending a feature request to the mods hn@ycombinator.com . (They usually reply very soon, but new features may take more time to be implemented, assuming they like them.)
100% agree. As a cyclist, I try to stay up on local road design, planning, etc. We design our roads for maximum throughput of cars, without much consideration of other road users. 25mph roads are usually wide enough to safely travel 50mph or more. Trees are removed, which reduces the driver's sense of speed. Crosswalks are an afterthought and signaled crosswalks are a rarity outside urban cores. Bike lanes get introduced alongside 50+mph traffic with no separation.

It's amazing we don't have more deaths. And disgusting we don't do better at designing safe roadway for all people.
I and colleagues used to have to cross a moderately busy street in Orange County, CA. A marked crossing section a block from the train station. I was routinely honked at and vehicles would swerve around. I started carrying a strobe flashlight and would glance it towards fast moving cars. This usually slowed them down but pissed them off more. Not blinding them mind you, just a flash. Sooooo put out that they will have to slow for up to 20 seconds.
Almost none of this is true.
Did he lose because of the added weight destroying the performance? ;)
For that problem it could work, but it would never work for the problem that exchanges face where people get their credit cards stolen, or a government seizes some user's BTC, etc.. and the exchange gets hit with big chargebacks and other fees.
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>>The high rate of pedestrian deaths is a result of policy regarding road design, pedestrian infrastructure and lenient criminal charges. The driving culture is also to blame. Driving is a god given right. Cars equal freedom, and the bigger the better. Pedestrians are a nuisance and cyclists are the enemy.

Yea, but almost none of those things have changed in the last two year - so does nothing to explain the spike in the last two years.

What has changed in the last two years? Police being told not to police, not to pull people over for minor infractions, police departments being defunded or having their budget's cut - or being threatened with being defunded or having their budgets cut. Can't have to both way folks - like it not, the threat of being ticketed, towed or arrested has an effect on many peoples driving habits.
Exactly, survivorship bias.
I find C# to be a beautiful and elegant language. And if you wanna see what .net is capable of, you have to look at core projects, asp.net, entity framework, ml.net, ...
Not what random businesses and their poor specs built in a haste project look like.
Gambling isn't even always stupid. There are professional gamblers who have made more money than I will ever make, and maybe more than you will, too.
I've often thought a blend of Huxley and Bradbury is where we're at now, at least in the West.

People just want to live, with as little worry about their basic needs as possible. They don't much care how they get it, either. And that's why the ideas in all these three books are so easily carried out in reality.
And what makes you think the story with Discord is going to be any different?
And that still doesn't seem to stop reckless driving from killing pedestrians.

The only thing that will slow drivers down is when they feel unsafe themselves, or have a risk to their vehicle.

Adding signs or automatic fines doesn't do anything. You need narrower streets utilizing actual traffic calling techniques. It's such a sad sight to see signs with a "traffic calming zone" sign, but absolutely zero traffic calming done. It'll be a wide open street, we'll paved, no trees right against the road or bollards in the middle or speed bumps.

Watching this video feels like an alternative reality that never happened and it seems great.

https://youtu.be/bAxRYrpbnuA
I have a few points to make here:

World War II did have gas. Japan used chemical weapons in China.

Setting that aside for a moment, the various theaters of war did not all immediately escalate to total war all at once. Rules of war were initially followed but selectively abandoned over time when one side or the other also abandoned either the same rule or a complementary rule. For example, consider treatment of POW’s. There are complementary international laws at work here: it’s a war crime to kill a surrendering enemy rather than take them prisoner, but it’s also a war crime (perfidy) to falsely surrender only as a ruse to kill your would-be captors. After running into enough Japanese perfidy (and very little genuine Japanese surrender), American troops in the Pacific stopped bothering with taking prisoners. This was dramatically different from what would happen in theatres such as North Africa.

You also mention strategic bombing, but that was also a story of tit-for-tat escalation, aided along by genuine targeting mishaps. The Germans notably refrained from civilian targets during the early Battle of Britain, only to embrace terror bombing during the Blitz. This escalation was supposedly a response to some British bombing raids that, supposedly by accident, hit civilian targets in Germany.

When it comes to gas, the reason it wasn’t used outside of China was because no one had an incentive to escalate to that particular measure. Germany didn’t use gas because if they did, the retaliation would have devastated them—German logistics were overwhelmingly horse-centric and Germany did not have anywhere near enough gas masks for their horses. The Soviets didn’t use gas because Germany had a well known advantage in chemical warfare and they didn’t want to invite Germany to retaliate with gas. The western Allies didn’t use gas because they, unlike the Axis and Soviets, did not generally violate the laws of war unless the enemy violated them first.

As another general point, many of the war crimes committed in World War II were purely evil to the point of counterproductivity. For instance, mistreating and murdering prisoners of war eliminates any incentive for the enemy to surrender, while terror bombing usually makes enemy populations more rather than less motivated to continue supporting the war effort.
I wonder why people who tell me this do not have a driver, private jet, and a chef, even after telling it to me for over a decade. In the biggest bull market in history.

In fact, they all still go to work for someone else.
Well, this thing has been in development since 1998![0]

Furthermore, SEGA has historically been very lenient with the Sonic community, where you can see prototypes of the games out in the wild being discussed [1], a yearly fangaming/ROM hacking contest [2][3] and a lot more. And of course you have 16-bit remakes and Sonic Mania, where former modders ended up being scouted by SEGA to work on official games. While SEGA could change their instance some day, I believe the current situation is beneficial to them, as even their marketing team (i.e the official Sonic twitter) is made up of former fandom members.

[0] https://wiki.srb2.org/wiki/Versions

[1] https://hiddenpalace.org/News/Dreams_Come_True:_Sonic_1_(MD)...

[2] https://sonicretro.org/2021/10/18/shc-2021-the-results-are-i...

[3] https://sagexpo.org/
I work in HFT. We do not front run orders. We make money by finding correlated assets that when traded together, will create profits more often than not. Usually there is a mathematical relationship between the two (this is what the Black-Scholes model proved and won Nobel prize).

The reason that this trading style is called "High Frequency" is that everyone knows these relationships and therefore it's a race to get there first. Much like the scene from "Glengary Glen Ross", the first person who gets there gets a lot, the second person gets a nibble and the third person gets nothing.

The whole value of this is profits for the firm and high liquidity for everyone else. Not saying it's a noble pursuit, but we follow all the SEC, FINRA and other market regs (most importantly NBBO).
I don’t understand why everyone is so hung up over IRC. It’s the very definition of a centralized platform. For a long time basically anything of relevance happened on freenode.
Is the best alternative Dave Ramsey everydollar?
What do you mean consumes?

By your definition it seems literally everything is a "waste of resources"
Does dystopian literature comment on the probability of articles about censorship being themselves censored?
Thanks for this.

I started to write too long comment about how I feel scheduling my life would not work for me, but that doesn't add anything to the discussion.

I've just texted an old friend.

And I think I'll set up some yearly reminder to reach my few friends that don't respond anymore, but that I care about anyway.
One thing I have noticed is that a lot of those speaking out against censorship themselves have no problem censoring polite comments in their own comment sections.

Wonder why that is?
$350k per mile length of a 6 foot wide sidewalk. That's what people don't want to spend money on.
Haha yes. I have only played the lottery, maybe, 10 times in my life. But it is fun sometimes, and in my state the money goes mostly to good causes anyway.
I wish instead of emojis they just included a “sixel” strip codepage with one character for every combination of 1x6 pixel strip (this only needs 64 code points.) You could draw your emojis and the editor would then compose these strips to send them. People do it with Braille now but this would make the images much smaller and get rid of the space between the pixels.
That’s too bad. I wish you better luck.

I’ve hired lots of people through Upwork. Most of them have been with me for years and I’d say all have made $5-25k with me annually depending on need.

The trick is to generate leads and have multiple sources for lead generation.
> Their investment in Tesla alone would be more than enough evidence, if they got in near their IPO.

No it wouldn't. Sample size of one is not proof of consistently beating anything. If I showed you a winning lottery ticket, would you consider that as "more than enough evidence" of me consistently beating the lottery?
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For what it's worth, drivers in Miami seem even more aggressive and reckless than in Boston.
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> In its report, the committee said: “If motoring taxation is linked to road usage, the committee has not seen a viable alternative to a road pricing system based on telematics.”

Considering you have to take your car for MOT every year it seems like an easy solution would be to require milage to be reported at your MOT to verify how much road tax you need to pay
The spanish shut down in mid day due to heat, and stay up late to take advantage of cooler nights. We can't expect every society to just emulate the spanish (who, probably unrelated to their mid day shut down, are not in an excellent financial position now.)
Love Keycloak. Love Quarkus. This is great news!
I did not speak about productivity or typing speed. Readability and reading speed is a factor affected by lines of code.

Switching between files when every class is in its own file and you need to touch half a dozen classes for each API endpoint, is more of a factor...
I thought we'd all agreed by now that the robustness principle is actually a terrible idea, and that you should be strict in what you emit and what you accept, and that any flexibility should be explicitly specified by the spec?
I don't think Google is doing this to give you more privacy. They have every incentive to do the exact opposite.

Ps Firefox containers are great indeed and I use them for the same reasons. But I doubt this is the intended usecase for this. I don't see Google investing a ton of money to build something that will hurt their bottom line.
I started my career as a .NET dev, and until recently was the stack I've worked the longest with. I have fond memories of working with C#.

However I am no longer interested in any job that uses .NET and have removed all mention of C# and .NET on my LinkedIn and resume. This is because even despite great recent advances, .NET still seems to be almost exclusively used by tech-as-a-cost-center enterprise companies that I have no interest in working for anymore.

I'm sure there are some great companies in some corners of the world working with C# and .NET, but as far as I can tell, they are still by far, the exception, not the rule.
This post has to be one of the most archetypal one on HN. Rationalizing human interactions with friends through the use of planification tools.
I suspect the number of miles walked has fallen quite a lot in the last 50 years. Like talking about how so few children are killed cycling to school without noting that close to no children cycle to school, compared to decades past.
Now you're trying to define the society based on the result you want. The fact that you have to put up so many roadblocks to get the result you're looking for should tell you that synchronized time is inevitable.

Because now you have to have an archipelago of independent cities that don't even want to talk to other cities or expand or anything.
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This is also happening in the Netherlands.

Not a fan personally...

Gasoline cars already pay tax per mile, as gas is very heavily taxed. Electric cars do too, as electricity is also taxed pretty heavily. (Notice a trend yet?)

The only advantage is that there can be a more fine grained taxation of cars, based on time and location. But I don't trust my government with that kind of data.
Everyone here needs to watch the AMC series "Halt and Catch Fire". Find it somewhere streaming. You'll be surprised and how similar things remain across technological epics.
Drivers are the leading cause of dead kids. But for some reason we completely ignore it, while focusing on gun violence (which is also bad, to be clear).

I really don't know a solution aside from moving to a country that's better designed. The US seems too far gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98
I don't hate Microsoft. You just need to be clear that if you build something with the .NET ecosystem, you are fully dependent on that company, even if some people want to suggest otherwise. And this seems to bite people occasionally.
I somewhat hesitate to anecdata this in the same general area. But...

For a time, I might have been inclined to put it down to people just weren't driving and had "forgotten" how. But I think that's hard to argue for at this point. I've nearly got run off the road on a merge or had a horn blown at me followed by a pass on the shoulder because I was apparently only going at the speed limit multiple times in just the past month or two.

Boston area driving has been quite aggressive forever. But I don't think I've seen it this actively bad/dangerous as it has been the past year or two. (And a number of people I know have said likewise.)
> every year

New cars don't have to be taken for MOT for several years. After buying a car you don't need to even take it to a mechanic for the first two or so.
I don't do treadmill, but I used to run in the street and have since stopped. I mostly row now. My reasonings for treadmill vs running in the stret

- Safer than running on the street (crappy streets, ignorant drivers, etc.)

- I can concentrate on running, not on staying away from getting creamed by cars.

- They've got TV, I could get my garbage news fix (I don't read/watch news regularly)

- They've got bathrooms, running makes me shit sometimes, if I go out in the morning.

Of course, I stopped going to a gym because I do have an erg at home, and I don't really want to go to a large indoor location where people are huffing and puffing right now.
So “let’s make walking even more inconvenient but find ways to moan about how much they cost to boot”.

Sinking roads and giving all surface level to pedestrians would be an active improvement, though obviously not a cheap one. The great bit is when you remove the cars you can backfill the dig and forget about it entirely.