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Everytime I read something like this I am greatful I live in the UK. In trouble as the NHS is due to Tory mismanagement (the cynical would say purposefully), it is better in everyway than the US health care model.
>“Othering” has moved from race to political viewpoint

No it hasn't. People have been othered for either reason for millennia, and continue to be so. This is probably one of the safest eras for having an unpopular political view in the US. For example, try being accused of holding communist views during most of the 20th century.
I would have benefitted greatly from taking the author's principles to heart when my career began 30+ years ago. I tend to be destructively critical. It has not served me well.

The article makes a couple excellent points: 1) assure the listener that you both seek the same goal, 2) provide a solution, not just more problems.

Negativity alone is poison. If you don't have better ideas to replace the ones you shoot down, say nothing. Nobody likes troublemakers.

It also took me much too long to realize that most people enjoy debate far less than I do, especially those who need to act ASAP, like bosses.
Yeah, or the fact that hard hats are required, people are required to be paid more than 50 cents an hour, you can’t force 1 employee to work 80 hours a week continuously, etc. All of that adds to costs. For good reason, don’t get me wrong, but the cost of labor in the western world has exploded over the last 100 years.
> The real answer is for government to make employer sponsored health insurance "optional."

The real answer is not to acknowledge employer sponsored health insurance at all, and to treat it (tax it) just like every other form of compensation. Its current treatment is a nearly 100 year old remnant of attacks against unions. If you stop the giveaway to employers, employee-provided health insurance would evaporate, and the government would be forced to take rational action on healthcare provision and costs.

Health insurance is as much of a scam as casino gambling, and should be regulated out of existence.
The code is kinda creepy. I inspected it with devtools and it was sending enormous amounts of data to Google. They look at everything. Screen resolution, time taken to complete the captcha, and various other browser fingerprints, so that next time they know it's 'you' and the CAPTCHAS aren't as hard, or they simply let you in without having to complete another CAPTCHA because they've successfully fingerprinted your browser.
> A worker is worth what a business can pay for the value they bring.

I think this is a good point of view, but, it's important to remember that what the business can pay differs from what it's willing to pay and that larger employers are more able to drive rates lower. Not all businesses are equal and we should favor the ones which bring the most benefit to the most people.

> Arguably a low paid apprenticeship is more beneficial than mounds of college debt.

100%. Remove "arguably" from your comment. Factor in the value of starting earlier and negative value of the debt you accumulate and very few professions truly benefit from a college education and most of the remaining ones only do so due to regulatory capture effects of requiring them and we would do well with reducing those in favor of far more trade-focused education (tl;dr more trade schools, less liberal arts colleges).
I hope the internet returns to this model for like a dozen reasons. Insofar as we can be sure this kind of regulation gets there it should be celebrated imo.
I helped to create one of the first low latency convolution reverb plugins and the most fun part of it was the cool performance spaces, nuclear cooling towers and massive underground storage tanks we visited to record different impulse responses.
About the same here: RAII > smart pointers > constexpr > templates > coro in that order.
Ah good old `GR`... `PLOT`. When I found about `HGR`, `HCOLOR` and `HPLOT`, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. And having that tiny little built in speaker made everything I did with PEEK and POKE sound so terrible. But, it kept me trying new things over and over again.
> uninsured people still get care anyway (showing up at the ER)

This is somewhat of a myth; at least it is nuanced. The care in the ER is to stabilize the patient, not fix them. They provide acute care only.

Even acute care can be quite limited. People are triaged based on how acute their case is. Many languish in an uncomfortable waiting room for hours till they crash or leave.

This rationing is done by limiting the beds so that the ER is almost always over capacity. This is by design. Since ER are cost centers, when a hospital asks for a building permit from the municipality, the number of emergency room beds open to the public is the primary negotiation. It's the bottleneck that limits costs.

Emergency beds equipped to handle trauma, e.g, gunshot wounds or car accidents, is even more limited. To avoid costs, many hospitals simply do not have a trauma center, unless the municipality agrees to have significant subsidy. People die in ambulances while they search for a hospital with an open trauma bed.

This is a complex and heartbreaking topic.
I'm not a lawyer but I don't think this would apply to bots.

The Texas law text[1] says it only protects 'users' which are defined as people. And even then the law only prohibits censorship for specific reasons.

It doesn't say companies can't ban users for running bots.
Even if the messages the bot is posting are protected the fact of running the bot itself should still be a bannable offense if it's not allowed in the TOS.

[1] https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/billtext/html/HB00020F...
You could give that argument for pretty much any labour dispute. If those workers don’t want to spend 70 hours a week in the factory, why don’t they find another job instead? If the miners are not happy about the safety measures, why don’t they go to another mine that’s safer?

To answer your question, yes it’s probably a bit of a and a lot of b, but what does that change?
I honestly doubt that 100% of Swiss pellets came from Swiss... It would be FAR more expensive and if in Swiss pellets are common like in France or Italy... Swiss pellets production will erase forests in a decade.

Beside that pellets in general is not sustainable due to the usage scale: wood is renewable BUT at a certain rate. If we all heat with pellets the usage rate is simply too high. Solar + heat pumps is nice IF you do not need much heat AND you have enough sunlight AND a veeery big hot water storage: I'm actually evaluating this for my home, witch is new "Minergie/A class" kind, with a small p.v. plant, with potentially enough room for insulated storage in sufficient quantity and well... I need at least 3000l of water, 10kWp solar to pass a single SUNNY winter day 100% on local energy for heating (witch means not counting water circulatory pumps etc). It's potentially feasible on scale, but IF and only IF we re-build all homes, annihilating condominiums, limiting the change to Europe south/center. Oh and heat pumps compressors does not last more than 10 years in general... It's not just a matter of costs, it's also a matter of scale.
As a society, we have to decide that certain kinds of voluntary agreements are too exploitative, have too big of a power differential, to be compatible with liberty and therefore are not permissible. Selling yourself into literal slavery comes to mind, but the bar can be a lot higher than that. Part of making sure that "better offers" exist is banning intolerable offers. If this damages or bankrupts your business, it means you weren't producing enough value for the resources, including humans' finite lifetimes, that you were consuming.

In this particular case, the important thing to me is the focus on honesty about the nature of the job. If they tell you, while you're voluntarily entering an agreement, that you'll have a certain degree of flexibility, and in practice they try not to let you have that, you've been lured into the deal on false premises. Usually we call that fraud, and in any case it should be uncontroversial that it's immoral.

After reading the comments here I was prepared to be disappointed by the policy direction, but instead I'm only disappointed I didn't see any specific enforcement teeth mentioned. Demanding transparency and that companies treat their contractors as contractors is IMO the correct direction; it's certainly better than retroactively classifying as employees people who never wanted to be such, as we sometimes see.
I've been using actix-web in Rust, works great for me. I would much rather have a few plug-ins (that are just as easy to configure as in Django) and work with a nice language than suffer through Python all day, Rust is just that much better in my view.
> academic consensus and empirical evidence

I reject the "academic consensus" of people who are not a part of the real world.
It isn't a question of backwards compatibility, it is just way easier to iterate / evolve in a crate than it is in stdlib.

For example, Tokio has the concept of "unstable" features, which have stronger stability guarantees than Rust nightly. First, you can use them with the stable rust compiler, second we guarantee that unstable features will not break across patch releases. This may seem small, but it lets us experiment with new functionality and get real world usage. Many of our users cannot use Rust nightly but can use Tokio unstable features.
I only left (err, closed my always-open browser tab) a few months ago, after reading through the discussion about the user survey. The number of comments saying, basically, “anyone who thinks the site changed for the worse is just a [insert right wing caricature here]” horrified me yet, by that point, was completely unsurprising. But after reading a few comments from people who had left the site, I finally realized that I could do the same, and I’d probably be happier for it.
Awesome. I find myself frequently trying to explain the fact that CDMX's sounds are so iconic. This site does a much better job than I ever could.

A glaring omission in my opinion is the camote (sweet potato) steam whistle, which has a PTSD-worthy volume even when heard from half a block away.
Same goes for France and Spain, as far as I can tell.
Lint was created for C in 1979… to this day most devs ignore static analysis tooling for C and C++.
The content I choose to allow on my platform is an inherent part of my free speech. The government forcing me to carry content I don't want to on my platform is a violation of my free speech. There is no getting around that.
I believe not even to the declared 10° (Celsius) that look overly optimistic, that thingy is very near the surface, and temperature will be more in the 12-18° in warmer months.

I think not so casually there is the option for an external cooling unit.

And of course the "basic" night ventilation (battery powered) seemingly doesn't count as electricity, the "No household electricity needed." seemingly means "You don't need to provide an electricity connection to mains, you will have the privilege of periodically disconnect the xx Kg battery, move it to your house, recharge it, then move it back and reconnect it, that is all good for your health, it is exercise".

And the list price is almost 16,000 Euro (to which you have to add the exacavation, refill and gardening/restoring surface, all in all likely more than 20,000 Euro final total cost to have a cellar that doesn't cool anything (at the most keeps contents "fresh"), that is scarcely accessible (think when it rains).

Let me also doubt seriously that in many countries a permit won't be required for placing this pre-fabricated cellar.

The installation manual:

https://www.groundfridge.com/upload_directory/files/GF%20Man...

is - as I see it - pure folly, among other oddities, they instruct to pour ten liters on water in the bottom, but they never say to (or how) to remove this water, at a minimum there should be a small bilge pump (that might be needed anyway in case some rain enters the cellar).
Have you read The Selfish Gene?
Critiqued at https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-9-16-cost-of-t... .

'[H]ere are what I believe to be the main problems with the work:

The principal driver of the whole thing is a forecast of rapid and continuous declines in the cost of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries. The assumption is that costs of these things will continue to decline exponentially without limit indefinitely into the future. From the “Results” section: “We know of no empirical evidence supporting floor costs and do not impose them . . . “ Of the three technologies at issue (wind, solar, and batteries), the one I know the most about is batteries. Here is the Way, et al., chart of price history of batteries and the projection they use for the future:

...

As to continuing rapid declines in the prices of wind turbines and solar panels, I’ll believe it when I see it. Yes there have been substantial declines to date. But at this point these strike me as mature technologies. The main issues in getting them built and operational are mining and processing huge quantities of metals and minerals, forming the metals and minerals into the devices, transporting the (very large and heavy) devices to their sites, and installing them. How are those things going to get cheaper by any substantial amount, let alone another order of magnitude?

The treatment of the energy storage problem in this paper is wholly inadequate, and bordering on the fantastical. The cost fantasies as to short-term storage are discussed above. As to longer term storage, from the Supplemental Information, pages 38-45, it appears that the proposed solution is almost entirely hydrogen, supposedly to be produced by electrolysis from water. (Here, they mostly.call the proposed storage medium “P2X fuels,” somehow implying that it might be something other than hydrogen, much like with New York and its “DEFR” fantasy.). There is currently essentially no existing prototype or demonstration project of this so-called “green hydrogen” anywhere in the world from which realistic cost projections can be derived. (From the 2022 JP Morgan Asset Management Annual Energy Paper, page 39: “Current green hydrogen production is negligible. . . .”). Way, et al., do cite some costs of existing electrolyzers, but I can find no discussion in the paper of the issue that producing hydrogen on a scale sufficient to back up the entire world electricity system is going to require electrolyzing the ocean. And the millions of tons of toxic chlorine gas thereby produced are going to go — where? The problems of dealing with enormous amounts of hydrogen — like explosiveness, embrittlement of pipelines, and the like — are dealt with with a wave of the hand. The creation of a massive green hydrogen infrastructure as the backup for wind and sun hasn’t even been begun by the most fanatical of the green energy crazies like Germany, California or New York. They take one look at the real costs and balk.'
Even worse, it normalizes being a vindictive egotist. People need to be grown up about feedback especially if they're in powerful positions. Not ok to be offended.
It'll be fine as long as they write and maintain perfectly secure software and infrastructure, and stay competitively up to date and performant.
And perhaps Compuserve for the UK and Europe. Ah, makes me feel nostalgic, I loved Compuserve!
Yeah, I quit the Apple dev ecosystem for entirely different reasons. The betas weren't hard to access.
> PDF and spreadsheet vulnerabilities are very common.

True. The issue is that they operate on complex input that can arrive from anywhere. So if you download a malicious PDF file it can exploit you.

But GP's other example is valid: A singleplayer game running locally will only run the game assets from the developer. The user input (in almost all games) is very limited. Exploits are not a major issue in such a program.

There is room for languages like Zig. There is also the potential for it to be used in improper places, but so far the majority of applications I've heard of seem reasonable to me.

> Then there’s the productivity gain you get by not having to spend hours debugging obscure memory and threading bugs.

Also true. But there are the other usual tradeoffs, such as that a language focused on simplicity and correctness, like Zig, might reduce other sources of bugs.

Some developers might be more productive with Rust, others with Go, others with Zig. I don't think there's a single answer here. As an example of another related tradeoff, fast compile times often help debugging, which is an advantage of Go and Zig.
No one is forcing you to learn anything even if Rust is successful in the future.
You see vocal 'fan-boys' OK. On the other hand it is really strange that under every 'Rust' post there are few very vocal comments hating on Rust. If you are not interested just ignore Rust posts. If you need to criticize, do it. But it would be more fruitful if it is something more than this vague formalism made by people bothered by title.
I grew up in an extremely religious environment - utterly toxic, in fact. I’m a better and healthier person for leaving it.

BUT: I still find myself missing it sometimes.

What it boils down to (for me) is community - I miss having easy, abundant community. Religion tends to be a communal thing, and it’s not surprising to me that community yields health benefits.

I don’t think America in particular has much in the way of non-religious community. I wish we did.
The Android Wechat app came bundled with a years-old fork of webview, coz the Android scene is a total mess, various vendors not only never update their system apps, but actually substitute it with their custom versions, this made it unusable and a “Chinese Webview” necessary, so wechat got one, all of Tencent's services use it plus plenty of third party apps, since almost every Android 5+ phone has the latest WeChat and their WebView fork.

So this situation almost made their platform mentality an inevitabily, now they only need to define a set of principles for then to be a mobile OS.

I'd say their applet thing can do 99% of the things a standalone app could, but the development speed , reach and functionality you can get is unmatched, best of all, it's the one true unified cross platform OS: on Android, iOS and Windows, but Chinese market only.

So it's not a super app, it's a mobile OS.
Let each user block what they don’t want to see. With filters, ai, etc. Don’t have a centralized “overlord” decide what an individual is allowed to see. That should be obvious and not controversial.
The examples you give of “Can you chat at 1”, “can we chat after lunch” are entirely different from the “spooky” messages the post is about. It’s clear that we are coming from entirely different perspectives, not worth going any further.
Opening line:

The ostensible premise of The Godfather, the film version of which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is that American society is so prejudiced against Italians that extraordinary men such as Vito and Michael Corleone have no choice but to turn to crime.

What? No way, that's not even remotely true.
> It'd be nice if we even had viable candidates who were close to this line.

Ron DeSantis is 44 years old, quite close to that line. He is likely to be candidate for your presidency one of these years. You may not like him - or maybe you do - but he seems to be quite viable. If your former president does not get in the way he is likely to be the candidate for the Republican party and with that the next president of the USA given the dearth of viable candidates on "the other side".
Also much more consistent and predictable energy prices which will be huge.
The dollar is mighty. What could make it fall
> As it turns out, central planning fails in healthcare just like it fails everywhere else

Virtually every rich country except America manages to provide “free at point of use” healthcare because of government intervention. And of note, if you’re not happy with what the government provides in most of these countries, you can usually top up to gold-plated health care at a fraction of the cost in the US. Last I checked, the US also managed to do this just fine where it has to: the VHA spends about as much as the NHS does and also gets excellent outcomes.

Talking about “the Canadian experience” seems strange to me: don’t each of the provinces/territories do it differently? The Manitobans in my family seem very happy with the provision they get. Regardless, 75% of Canadians are “proud” of Canadian health provision[0].

Most rich countries (that aren’t America) also have essentially instant and free transfers between bank accounts … because either the government intervened or threatened to intervene.

0: https://biv.com/article/2020/08/covid-19-crisis-has-failed-e...
> Airbnb ratcheted up its cleaning protocols during Covid-19, with a 36-page handbook requiring that hosts wash all hard surfaces with soap and water, vacuum the floors and disinfect switches and electronics, among other things.

How often is Covid spreading through touching a random door handle or light switch?

Very clean areas are always appreciated, but this seems to be mandated cosmetic theater and wasteful from the perspective of cutting costs for everybody.
In Reamde, Neal Stephenson posits a future where we pay individuals/services to filter and prioritize the unordered deluge of data from the web.

It seems like this ruling pushes us along that path.
> We've already been improving C++'s safety and ergonomics with every ISO C++ release, but they have been "10%" improvements. We haven't been able to do a "10x" improvement primarily because we have to keep 100% syntax backward compatibility.

You really don't. The vast majority of projects will never change the language version they use. Simple projects are simple to fix. Remaining large projects have enough resources and expertise to do changes across their entire code base - Chromium has recently changed more than 15000 instances (in over 8000 files) of using raw pointers to using raw_ptr instead in a single pull request [0]. How? They wrote a Clang based tool which did it automatically [1].

[0] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/33...

[1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:too...
Only for solar/wind/pumped storage/biomass though.

Not for nuclear power:

>We constructed an additional scenario in which nuclear plays a dominant role in replacing fossil fuels, but this is much more expensive than the other scenarios. For example, using a 1.4% discount rate, the expected NPC is about $25 trillion more than for the No Transition scenario.
The ouroboros symbol has been around for thousands of years and it shows no sign of going out of style...
Hacker News is full of political discussions all the time. In fact politics usually gets some of the most comments.
I'd say my free speech was violated if I wasn't allowed to remove their graffiti from my house, which is what is being discussed here.
TIOBE's mechanism is counting search results of various highly ranked search engines.

These search engines confuse C, C++ and C# all the time. So I'm sure there's some level of mutual inflation of rankings going on there, even if you accepted search results as a meaningful metric.

Similarly, I'd be a little suspect of the SQL variants rankings
Your claim was CO2 neutral, it's what I originally replied to.

I'm sure the machines are more efficient compared to older machines and maybe your neighbour knows approximately how much fuel he has to put in to get a a certain number of cubic meters of wood. It would be sort of interesting to know, you can find some data online but it's very situation specific so it's probably not representative. What happens to all the waste? Does most just turn into mulch?

I don't think we'll see battery powered forestry machines any time soon, the batteries would have to be enormous but most importantly there would be no way to charge them.