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Clarence Thomas believes these things should be prohibited. He has stated some of these things before, especially about gay marriage - he doesn't believe it should be permitted in the United States, regardless of how that permission is achieved. He doesn't necessarily believe that the Supreme Court should or can ban it, but he certainly believes it should be banned, in an ideal world.

He doesn't believe that the Supreme Court has power to prohibit them, so he's trying to do the next best thing: make sure that the Supreme Court doesn't prevent the federal or state governments from prohibiting them.

Also note that Roe v Wade has nothing whatsoever to do with the federal government. It has everything to do with individual rights, which don't come from the government, they are natural rights. The government can only recognize or fail to recognize them.

His predecessors recognized that these wildly popular natural rights exist and are compatible with the Constitution, so they made sure all states are compelled to recognize them.

The current highly partizan court has decided to ignore these natural rights in favor of their political agenda. That they couch this in the language of overreach is just an obvious rhetorical ploy.

If the federal government makes a law prohibiting abortion in any state, this same Supreme Court will argue that is obviously in the power of the federal government to regulate. If the federal government possess a law guaranteeing abortion, they will find that it is unconstitutional, tidying done other legal reasoning.

You may choose to fall for the rhetoric of demagogues like Thomas, but most people who think critically quickly see past it.
Where are our video phones?
Very rare to meet someone who has a realistic view on modern Japan and calls these people what they really are. Nice to meet you!

Have you by any chance ever heard of Ryōichi Sasakawa? The man who created the „Nippon Foundation“ which runs a lot of „cultural exchange“ Institutes like Language schools etc. in Europe and maybe elsewhere.

His Wikipedia says he was a self-declared fascist. Can’t make it up.
That's just for 2021 though.
Fluorescent lateral flow strip for easy quality control of edible oil (2019)
If you want to talk about premiums, the US housing market is out of control right now; just having a roof over your head in any metropolitan area means paying through the nose. It’s rough all over :(
No, there is not a precedent for that AFAIK. But the US does extradite, as we don't have "rights guaranteed to us in the United States that no other country has".
Yep, health care costs for a family can run $10k/year for Americans (out of pocket maximum) and so basically any kind of major illness or baby delivery will cost that much.
This really isn't how it works. You might pay a premium price for specialty goods and foods imported from the US, but, based on a quick Google search, there doesn't appear to be many consumer items - our top 5 exports are aircraft, machinery, pharma, mineral oils, and medical instruments.

In developed countries, the majority of the costs for goods and services (and taxes) come from labor, which means they're not affected by currency fluctuations too much.

Not a good time to vacation to the US, nor is it a good deal for Americans working in the EU and paid in Euros who need to pay past bills back in the US
> that a teacher is always teaching for the worst student in the class

It's been my experience in college that most teachers just let the bottom quartile of the class fail (and likely switch into another major).
It was "intended" when the price was originally set. The goal was that the European economy would keep its ratio to the US roughly the same.

Central banks do have some thumb on that scale, but as you say, it's entirely about keeping the economies healthy, not maintaining any specific ratio to other currencies. If it has fallen so far that the ratio is 1.0, that's not a problem for the currency itself, but it does happen because the economy is struggling more than the American economy is.
Meanwhile, Mark Rutte and other EU politicians are impacting livelihood of Dutch farmers to meet some Nitrogen emission targets by 2030.

There is a farmer's revolt in Netherlands that's not covered by American media for some reason, but dw and Politico is: https://www.politico.eu/article/police-fire-dutch-farmer-pro...

This is the exact wrong time to do these things. First, you need a strong economy and a backbone that can sustain sustainable practices. Otherwise, the cost of climate change is acceptable over literal starvation, insurrection (Sri Lanka) and other destructive effects in the society.

Has anyone done serious and with good faith, balance and ROI of some of these climate change policies? Note that I am not challenging the validity of CC science, just the economic policies. I hope that its open for debate.
Well, they literally thought about this! It's only required for critical packages, for whatever definition of critical they have.
Yes, because all of Germany's electricity is only around 21% of its energy needs. The heat sector is more than twice of that.
To be clear, while it's a concern some people on the internet have expressed, it's not an actual problem for landing the current work to get Rust in as a framework for writing drivers.
Yeah, the second sentence isn't a great argument because it's a voluntary relationship, you can quit at any time, and that doesn't mean you have to give back any benefits you received.

In particular, you can quit maintaining an open source package, or stop publishing it in an index and let someone fork it. (Maybe you feel a little guilty, but that seems like a feeling to get over if it's not working out for you.)

But it still works both ways. If you're not finding it fun anymore, that doesn't say anything in itself about who, if anyone, is to blame.
It is getting annoying, but nuclear does nothing against a gas shortage / higher gas prices. Electrical energy =|= thermal enegy...
I think 2020 was even more
That’s the game with discount airlines. Not only baggage, but $ to print your boarding slip, $ to pay luggage fees at airport, etc.

If you read the costs closely and can avoid them, they work great. I flew from SFO to Stockholm with Norwegian Airlines for $400 return on a 787. About the same as SFO to JFK.

But it was no frills. No even free water served (you could ask for it) or any meals. If you prepare it’s great. If you don’t it’s pricey.
Goodhardt’s law in action.
It’s way more than “a bit less”. As someone that has had global teams in multiple countries, the country in Europe that approaches USA salaries is Switzerland. The rest in my experience are paid significantly less that their counterparts in the USA. Especially their counterparts in high cost of living areas.

For example, people I was paying $190k in the USA were making around $110 in Europe and this was well before parity - $1.25 per euro, etc.

It’s probably around 50% of an Americans salary today or there about.
While you wish to make it sound "not so bad" the fact is that you do pay more in taxes, and drastically much less money then for USA. 7 weeks of Vacation sounds nice, but depending on your org/work in USA, it can rival that, most FAANG, tech companies and such offer minimum 4 weeks of vacation, 20 days, which is 28 days including weekends "total."

Then many states do not have income taxes, Washington, Nevada, Florida and Texas for example.

Sales tax is also not that high, topping around 10% for the most expensive of cities, but as low as 5%.

Then on income tax, we have very favorable tax brackets that allow us to reduce our tax liabilities. Someone making 250K w/ an LLC can easily drop their bracket to as low as 13%.

As an American, we have pros. You being an European, you have pros - but if you're experienced in the game and have time - there is a reason why USA can have very favorable tax, income

Now if you talk about your public transit, rails and trains - yes I'll concede and say that is much much ahead of USA. :)
A lot of adults watch them with their children, I don't see anything wrong with that.

I am confused why this is on HN though. Pretty sure it doesn't meet the 'What to Submit' guidelines.
Yeah, I only pay 500€ mandatory health insurance per month out of 40000€ per year gross salary. I'd rather earn $100000 and pay $1000 per month.
Having high ranking is like the entire job of administrators. Especially at Ivys they’re selling prestige, being highly ranked gives you prestige.
If you're already running postgres, why would you set up mongo for search instead of elastic, etc?
Climate change is not just about Carbon Dioxide
What time will it start?
Until recently. it's been over ¥130 for a while now; at least some of my digial purchases are denominated in yen, so I've noticed the dollar strengthening.
Honestly, it really is true that upper middle class and wealthy Americans pay less tax than their European counterparts.

VAT is broadly much higher than sales tax, property taxes are not exactly unknown in Europe, and if you are an employed professional, your health insurance burden is typically pretty close to zero.

If you live in a no-income-tax state like Washington or Texas, and you are single making $200,000 a year, your effective (not marginal) tax rate, including FICA, is around 26%. I doubt that anywhere in Europe comes close.

The flip side is that poor people in America absolutely get shafted.
Any specific reason for this?
Also worth reading this issue: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/issues/617

I think it's a fascinating discussion. There's been some disquiet at this design choice amongst a minority for a while from what I can tell. Who will be proven right? Perhaps this will be one of the warts of RISC-V we're looking back at 10 years from now wishing it had been dealt with better. Perhaps instead it'll prove to be a sound design decision.

All the established ISAs have various warts that make hardware implementation a pain or compiler writing harder than it should be. The decision making for those and their genesis has all been behind closed doors. Are we seeing a similar misstep now happen in the open?
LeetCode is joining the curriculum platforms by selling courses for a fixed fee
Weak but not that weak as it’s roughly tracking the US dollar at 0.78 +/-. Benefits of its raw material/petrodollar nature. And others have pointed out a more aggressive move against inflation than say europe.
It was supposed to start at 5:30 ET.
The entirety of the last decade in open source software development can be summarized as this: it is morally reprehensible for your project to not support the causes du jour.

You must adopt a COC. You must rename your branch from "master" to "main". You must use "inclusive" language in your documentation.

Why? Because you must assume the responsibility for everything your project touches. A bad person uses your leftpad.js to perpetuate badness. You must stop them. Someone might get their feelings hurt. You must preemptively protect them.

This is an impossible task. 2FA is fine, sure. I use it myself, and advocate for others to do so as well.

But I'm sick and tired of the "harm reduction" mantra that means I have to entirely rewrite my documentation every 6 months.
The price isn't what you think it means.

I say this only because I have a sizable amount of rubles from an earlier trade, and *I have no way to exchange them for USD despite the exchange rate.*

The price you see is a reflection of the price accepted by those able and willing to trade rubles which is currently *a limited subset of the world*. Sure, they have a massive trade surplus due to the commodity shortage, but a lot of the move is engineered through capital controls.

(1) Western Ruble electronic trading is dead. It's near impossible to move rubles with any size. [https://www.risk.net/our-take/7946561/russian-ruble-trading-...]

(2) Moscow is forcing companies to buy rubles.

(3) Moscow limited the amount of dollars that Russians could withdraw from foreign-currency bank accounts and barred banks from selling foreign currencies to customers. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-economy-is-tankingbut-t...]

(4) Moscow has fixed the price of gold. [https://www.kitco.com/news/2022-03-28/Russia-sets-fixed-gold...]

So really, the "appreciation" you see is compensating you for the headache you'll have to go through to do anything meaningful with rubles.

Meanwhile, Russian inflation is at 15% and GDP is collapsing. Russian imports have collapsed because *no one really wants rubles*.
Applications are also a revenue source.
I'm proud of my alma mater, Reed College, for refusing to participate in the US News rankings since 1995.
There's a very simple way to make that opinion count, you can hire the maintainer.

Open source has been built on an endless stream of people making personal sacrifices and often burning out. Seeing friends slowly getting devoured by anxiety crisis or burying themselves to support commercially used software, barely being thanked for what they give to the community, has been one of the most depressing parts of this industry.

If you don't support that particular piece of infrastructure, your opinions on it are worth zero. Even if you're a well-known open source maintainer, and some times even more so. It is understandable that people getting a comfortable job thanks to their contribution on a high-profile project have a different view from people that don't, but that doesn't make it a better view.

In retrospective, open source was bound to have these dynamics, with some people benefiting from their open-source work not seeing why people not paid to participate don't enjoy being told what to do. I wonder whether we'll see a friendlier environment in the future, or whether open-source will end up being a cooperative of companies sharing code among themselves.
Sterling is really not doing much better than the Euro against the dollar, and you will feel the effects of inflation just as much as city boys… It’s wishful thinking to believe that the UK will stop being affected by what happens in Europe by throwing a tantrum and going sulking to its metaphorical bedroom.
You got that backwards. You're getting more euros for your dollar now.
Russia invaded Ukraine.

Before that, there was no war.

This is an exceedingly simple concept, and a fact.

Russia instigated the war.
News to me, I spent less than 50% of my income last year on everything. Not just taxes, everything. And I'm in roughly the highest tax bracket in the US and have roughly the highest state and local taxes.

I would guess my effective tax rate including sales and local and healthcare and everything else is ~40%
Out of curiosity, when you’re spending time “alone” are you day dreaming, actively thinking, or actively day dreaming, or something else entirely?
You don't seeem to uave an idea how domestic heating works in most oarts of Europe, do you? And that simple plug in heater will consume so much electricity that your gas heating would still be cheaper. Also, that wall heater doesn't heat your water supply...

Edit: Assuming a plug in wall-heater does all of that, just how many of them would you need by November this year to change something?
Anecdotal evidence is that you can hack the hedonic treadmill by having interests outside of work. If nothing in your life is more challenging than work, then all of your yardsticks will be based upon it.

If however you're comparing the relative pain of writing documentation to lifting a 40lbs bag of building materials, holding a position in yoga/martial arts class, running a half marathon, riding a century, hiking for six hours in a cold rain, then documentation really isn't so bad.
No, just for fun, likely open source. Tabletop simulator looks great, but I want to create a custom 2d interface, so I don’t think this is an option.
> #1 leading cause of bankruptcies in the US

This isn't true. A certain well-known politician made this claim, but it turns out she counted everyone who had medical debt when they declared personal bankruptcy as a "bankruptcy caused by medical debt." If someone gambled away their home and incidentally had an unpaid doctor's bill, it's a stretch to call that a medical bankruptcy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/06/why-eli...
There's obviously quite a bit of complexity here. Huge difference between being terminally ill and getting used to some bad conditions for a finite period.
In case that wasn’t rhetorical, AFAIK smoking is known to dull one’s sense of taste. I would imagine smokers to be less picky eaters and drinkers for this reason as well.
You might want to look at a unique partial index: "CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo
ON pages(name, parent_id) WHERE parent_id IS NOT NULL"
I just checked a few mainstream European news sites and none of them are talking about it. (might be cause it's midnight?)
I remember some Reddit post asking about CNY and the replies were all “Wait, all the rich Chinese are desperate to get their money out and you want to bring your money in?”
Mine neither. Maybe it’s because they’re the prep school set, but what turned out to be the tie breaker for my multi-Ivy admit friends was the campus visit. I remember one who was adamant about getting in shape in college and chose the one where the freshman dorms were closest to the campus recreation building.

If you’re of a certain background, it’s really your mom or dad’s alma mater, and then one of a few “perfectly acceptable, fine schools.”

I think the difference between say #4 and #12 in a given year exists in the minds of middle class strivers. I went to a public university and a private one for undergraduate and graduate school, and at the top levels it really comes down to the professors on an individual level and perhaps the department, more than the institution itself.

And in any case, if you pay attention to the finer movements in the rankings, schools rarely keep the same position between publications. It’s just the same ones playing musical chairs with each other year after year.
1. It's not as common as everyone claims.
2. Big money comes with US companies, and then you can be at whim of US timezone, or worse, a big company that is not remote-first or asynchronous.
Depends. Some websites insists on implementing 2FA in a poor way (e.g. installing dodgy custom apps on users' phones), so for accounts that users really care about, it might be the case that they would avoid these poor implementations to reduce attack surface.

(I am sure it doesn't apply to PyPI, but I am just saying both site operators and users need to adopt best practices in terms of 2FA)
The linked page has one. It is beautiful. What else do you want?
Realistically, are they going to complain? I don’t ever remember a mass revolt over US websites blocking EU users because of GDPR.
Apart from the nutritional concerns, two other huge problems with the potato diet are:

1 - If you want your meal to be healthy you'll have to avoid many (most?) tasty toppings.

2 - The diet is incredibly monotonous and boring.

Hats off to people who can stomach it for an extended period of time, but I would be willing to wager that the vast majority of people who try it won't be able to stick with it for long.
To celebrate the decade long delay of Webb itself, the start time has been indefinitely delayed from 5:00 pm.
Step 1: Practice gratitude.

Step 2: Consider taking the science of well-being course. https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being

Step 3: Find (or geek out in) a hobby that you can obsess about and that your friends and family can accept.

Step 4: If you can't find out a path toward self-actualization, ask your employer or boss about ways that you can improve the business mission goals. In that path, you should find a path toward self-actualization and go for it.

Step 5: Accept the excellent result you get because outcomes are very dependent on luck.
Sanctions would be stop selling gas. Just saying look we have this contract, we want to continue with it, but we change the terms without asking sounds something else.

To make priorities clear: Attack war is a crime and Putin, his government, and army leaders belong to Den Haag and then into prison.

But every westerner continuing to drive their car, fly to holidays and other wasteful lifestyle activites makes energy prizes go up and pays for Russia's war. Europeans a bit more directly than Americans, but in the end we have a global market so nobody goes free of reponsibility. Nothing they will end up in court for (would be a miracle if even Putin did, Bush and Blair didn't for doing not too differently), but certainly morally wrong.

Haven't checked recently but a month ago or so it was said Russia earns more money for oil and gas than in February, despite the volume having decreased quite a bit.
Eraserhead wasn’t exactly a dud for me but it was deeply discomfiting and disturbing (clearly as intended.) Glad I’ve seen it, but very little interest in seeing it again.
It was changed to 5:30 ET and is now running late it seems...
They'd rent video game consoles too.

Speaking of which, I miss video game rentals. I spent so much time as akid at Blockbuster looking for games to rent. Even now, I'd like to be able to play with a game for a few days before committing to paying for the whole game.

(and of course, I say this with a hundred unplayed games in my Steam library...)
The article touches on an important point: the set of open-source developers includes PyPI maintainers. A related distinction is that yes development effort required matters, but so does operational effort required. By enforcing 2FA, PyPI reduces their support burden a bit by not having to deal with account takeovers, worrying about account takeovers, and responding to account takeovers. Yes, by mandating 2FA that increases the developer's effort, but by refusing to use 2FA that increases the operational effort of PyPI. There's probably a discussion to be had about how much can PyPI lower its level of effort by large amounts by imposing small increases in effort on developers, and whether those effort values are large or small or whatever, but in this particular case I'm inclined to support the small amount of developer effort required to massively reduce the operational effort of both PyPI and everyone responsible for vetting packages for use
It occurs to me, that the one place you might see parity with the Midwest and the coasts in terms of a loss of diversity was in the composition of the graduating classes for compsci in 1989. I remember peeking in on one class in the Bay Area and there wasn’t a woman in sight. The majority of women I knew who were involved in programming at the time came from a background in business administration. I think it’s true that the workplaces on the coasts were decades ahead of the rest of the country (women, minorities, LGBT), but academia was still far behind in terms of inclusion like the rest of the country.
Show HN: Run transformers model inference in C/C++ and even assembly
How often do you expect most families encounter major illnesses and/or babies?

I’ve literally never used my health insurance. I expect the vast majority of people are in the same boat.
That varies widely by your insurance. And given that tech companies use insurance as a way to attract more employees, software employees often pay way less than that. I'm about to have a child and I will pay $0 for it. My wife's company pays everything. Even if we were using my companies insurance instead of hers, we wouldn't pay anywhere near $10k.