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My hometown aspires to 15-minute-cityhood.

We've started; we've introduced a Zero-emission zone, and a number of low-traffic neighbourhoods. This is a town of 140,000 permanent residents, about 4 miles across.

At the moment it's going quite badly. Most side-streets are now closed to through traffic, so all the traffic is now forced onto main roads. But even those are one lane each way; road-widening is impossible here, because it's an old city with historic buildings.

As a consequence, bus rides are slow, and taxis take ages. I don't use a car. There are three major hospitals here, and I have to allow 45 minutes for a journey of 1.5 miles (I have to attend hospital quite often, and I can't cycle, because of sedatives and so on).

So far the local politicians haven't squared up to this. It could be a 15-minute city, I guess; but most of the congestion is caused by out-of-towners, who come to shop or work. The ZEZ and the LTNs don't seem to have caused them to stay at home, and my guess is that businesses will lobby hard against tightening up on out-of-town motorists.

I can walk most places I need to in 15 minutes (I live in the centre of town). But if I can't walk or cycle, then I've definitely got problems. Basically, they haven't thought it through. I'm sure the planners put it through their models; I suspect that politicians have overridden the planners' advice.
You can't join the military as a non-immigrant alien except for very narrow circumstances [1] for people who have had valid visa status for two years and have specific language skills [2] or medical qualifications. Requires 4 years of active duty for language candidates.

edit: Actually it looks like this program was suspended years ago and hasn't resumed.

[1] https://www.stilt.com/blog/2021/06/mavni-program/#Who_Is_Eli...
[2] https://dod.defense.gov/news/mavni-fact-sheet.pdf

Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian-Khmer, Cebuano, Chinese, Czech, Dhivehi (language of Maldives), French (limited to individuals possessing citizenship from an African country), Georgian, Haitian-Creole, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Kashmiri, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Malay, Malayalam, Moro, Nepalese, Pahari, Persian [Dari & Farsi], Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushtu (aka Pashto), Russian, Serbo, Croatian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek ,Yoruba
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Others have commented on Jewish ethnicity vs religion, but I would also like to add that this article is about events in the 1930s. Shortly after, the Holocaust[1], an event in history particularly known for the death of millions of Jewish people, took place in the 1940s. Adolf Hitler was appointed in 1933 and there was a buildup to the Holocaust and World War 2, so the context that they were Jewish in the 1930s is pretty significant.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
Is it time to replace TCP in data centers?
Wow, I have worked for this boss for sure:

> In the 1980's, the members of the Berlin Symphony told joke about their notoriously imperious conductor, Herbert Von Karajan. It went like this: The maestro gets into a taxi. The driver asks "Where to?" "It doesn't matter," Von Karajan declaims, "I'm needed EVERYWHERE!"
>It's a little convoluted but they basically operate mainly on proof of work.

It's mainly leveraging cartel power rather than proof of work. Even if you have a lot of experience acting in non-union productions, you're still ineligible from joining SAG. To be clear, I don't think this is a bad thing for SAG because the number of aspiring actors far exceeds demand, so SAG increase wages without causing the most of negative effects with cartels, but I don't think this is the same for tech.
You forgot the weekly posts about which brand of toilet bowl cleaner has the most prestige.
The issue is that you need to build more than 23 times as many hospitals - if you only build 23x the hospitals in a country that's over 200x larger in terms of geographic size, that means a huge number of people will be hours away from the closest hospital. The majority of those people will be in very rural areas, who are already generally underserved by social and other government services and who are often quite poor.
> I've never heard a PM say they learned something surprising and are reconsidering their initial idea.

You have never worked with a good PM then. I hear unexpected things from customers pretty much every single time I talk to one.
I gave it a whirl some time ago. The answer is: extremely well. Blog post incoming
Do you have any examples of where labour organisation has led to lower pay?
This makes sense thanks!
Less is more: How I overbuilt my first startup, failed, and the lessons learned
Hugo via npm?
Yes, it's the norm. Typically they'll call a mandatory all-hands meeting (or a mandatory meeting with the laid off people with HR or something), and then when that meeting begins they deactivate those people's access to everything. They announce the layoffs and hand out final paychecks, and have security guards escort people out of the building.

For people working from home, depends on the company - most will send a message to the laid off person's personal email and immediately lock the person out. If they don't have a personal email on record they'll just lock them out and send a letter in the mail or something.

Yep, pretty shitty behavior. They do it to keep people from retaliating or organizing a protest or starting drama or whatever.

To me the really weird thing is the way people talk so positively about getting fired on linkedin.
Hmm, I didn't feel like they were insulting the H1Bs themselves, just insulting the fact that Microsoft hires a ridiculous amount of them so they can treat the workers like crap and force them to do unpleasant grunt work like this
SCRAM seems incredibly insecure. Does anyone have information on how many servers support SCRAM?
Squire 2.0: Fastmail releases next gen of open-source richtext editor
aye, is also what I do - tunnel to VPS. then I hit the VPS from wherever, which is nice if I get sent out of state for work (and sometimes out of country).
Very true and good point— and there’s also nothing at all wrong with that!!
That's a misleading headline if I've ever seen one.

Type 1 without extra qualifiers refers to diabetes.
Cool to see this new garbage collection work from OOPSLA 2023 coming up in blog posts! The blog post doesn't mention that this new algorithm looks like it's going to become the default in Firefox, and is being implemented in Chrome [1]. Also, the paper is open access so click the links if you want more details, it won't be paywalled like some other papers.

[1] https://marisa.moe/balancer.html
Even the most naive don’t believe that a perfect capitalist market exists today, so that’s irrelevant. He isn’t arguing that “in a perfect system this would be true”, he is arguing that in this system, it is true.
Too risky at this point; I could end up with a site whose cert fails to renew. From my point of view, Snap to Python is like frying pan out of the fire. Better the devil that currently works.
Well I do wonder about the exec compensation at insurance companies though. 5% profit but mega million compensation packages…
That and the way our income taxes work are two of the most annoying things that the anti-tax right have "won" in the US. Everyone's life is made a little worse all the time, in the name of some I-suspect-imaginary "awareness campaign" to increase resistance to taxes. In fact I doubt there'd be any less awareness if they'd just mandate that tax be itemized and given sufficient weight on receipts, and that the IRS mail out some tax-burden statement for the ~90% of people who shouldn't, in a well-functioning system, need to manually fill out and file anything.
Russophobia is a fatal mental disease!
Hmm, well we used to have swap partitions equal in size to our memory… you’ll have 4GiB left over!
Edge is shipped with Server 2022, assuming because Windows Admin Centre doesn’t support the only browser that 2019 came with out of the box
Not for musicians in rock bands.

Quite the opposite.....
I don’t use it but I always am interested to read about it because people used to say that the V in Vlang was for Vaporware, but I want to see them keep working on their language and succeeding in making the language they want.
Probably one where there isn't an intrinsic conflict of interest with AI risk. Or from a more traditional angle, one where the author's vanity isn't required to be appeased in order for users/customers to be happy. I'm of the opinion that you should do something with game-changing technology because the world needs it, not because you need an ego boost. All technology brings side effects, and there is no greater example of that than "democratized" AI...
> all of that inside single go file?

no, did you even visit the link?
Catan or DND has a similar competitive yet low stakes vibe.

Here’s my secret: I host a night about once every two months and I bake soft pretzel bites with varying dipping sauces. People know I’m going to bake pretzels and this familiarity is comforting, but they also come to see what sauces I’m gonna have. I try to make them exotic at times
IE mode has been around for ages, either push it through MDM or GPO.
Ah what a fun issue to figure out and resolve 10 minutes before endofday,especially if you are the one handling docker and some dude in another country is handling the vpn that wants access to said docker.
>But, as someone who is privy to a ton of A/B testing in this area, the opposite nearly always results in higher conversion, where there is a lower up-front price and fees are only tacked on during checkout.

That is evidence that bait and switch works, not that people want it.
I haven't looked in a while, the consensus seemed to be it was either a scam or at least a lot of over promise las time I looked. Which was disappointing because I really liked the description!

Edit: Took another look and I like it. Trying to decide if I want to mess with vlang or austral next.
Oh no, some billionaires will need smaller yachts.
It's TCP vs. RPC All over Again
My methodology, such as it is, goes like:

1) Receive information.

2) Assume that I am being lied to, manipulated, shaded, data elided, whatever, sometimes by accident, sometimes by intent, but at least several levels removed from whomever delivers the information.

3) Seek out information that says the exact opposite.

4) Repeat Step 2.

5) Start looking for little tricks: what has been left out? If we are judging person X for act Y, are we not judging other parties for Y? Is the timing convenient for a distraction?

6) Resign myself to a state of uncertainty in a world of lies.
Starlink’s “Global Roaming” promises worldwide access for $200 a month
1. I have a problem with "their country". What makes this any country any more "their" than anybody else's?

2. Does their past and often even current behavior towards other immigrants deserve any gratitude?
I started a Discord if y'all wanna join: https://discord.gg/5k2HDF7J
Interestingly, the Nordic countries (often used as examples of ideal socialism), have a high percentage of private roads.
Might actually work better than the national infrastructure approach: https://devoelmoorecenter.com/2018/02/28/why-the-u-s-should-...

Also, nationalizing passenger rail travel in the US (Amtrak) seems to have led to one of the worst passenger rail services in the world.
> Ontology was central to past physical theories like of Newton or Aristotle though

Yes, physics has origins in philosophy. Philosophical notions that could be formulated mathematically and tested experimentally became physics, and the rest became metaphysics. And, in the 21st century, metaphysics is of zero importance to working physicists. Only a few physicists would even be able to accurately describe what "ontology" is.

> Even GR has light cones and events as real physical objects of the theory.

Events and light cones are just convenient words/phrases for mathematical definitions, e.g., an event being the 4-vector (t, x, y, z). They don't have any further philosophical significance.
I think an artist making a derived work from their own work is totally different than a company changing an artists’ work to purely make more money.

Also, there are multiple versions of American Gods in print and readers can choose which one to read. They are clearly marked. In this case the publisher is changing the only versions in print and no longer making the original versions.

I think that people changing artists work is usually wrong. If a mural artist changes their mural, that’s very different from McDonalds deciding to add in milkshakes. That doesn’t mean that changing art is categorically wrong. It just means that the latter case is wrong.
Not only that, but now everyone wants tips for things which never expected it before. Food cart? Tip. Fast food drive-thru? Tip.

Heck, my barber now charges $25 for a haircut (which takes all of 15 minutes) and we're expected to tip for that too.

Then there are tips that I apparently don't really know about but if I don't, I'm the jerk. I never knew I was supposed to tip the natural gas guy when he comes by to do some service (which is 'free', this is service from the actual gas company on the meter). My neighbor tips the garbage truck driver.

If someone put an initiative on the ballot that explicitly banned tipping, I'd vote for it.
>we could start the world's largest software co-op

How would non-compete, confidentially clause contracts when when you work for yourself? Would the judiciary in that part of the world uphold them or strike them out like the judiciary of other parts of the world have done.

Tip, if you are female and married a rich bloke, move to the UK, prove your British citizenship and then get divorced in UK law courts!

Amber Heard knew the British law courts are biased against men!
According to the report, the FBI is being sued over concealing a gold cache and covering it up. Very strange indeed.
Well, of course bait-and-switch is going to result in a higher conversion rate than showing the price up front.

I'd like to not be swindled, but if the marketplace is half-swindlers and half-honest people, it's highly likely I'll be taken in by the former. What the kind of heuristic am I expected to use to avoid getting swindled?
how long is "way too long"? URLs (including query parameters) can be up to 4k. Does it have to be JSON? Can you use a binary format like protobuf, BSON, etc.? you're likely to get much better compression.
I think it's too late and too little.

There are some maths olympiad medalists who have become great mathematicians though, so it's probably good.
Lots of negative comments so far, but this is much preferable to having every brand trend towards plain san-serif wordmarks[0] that will be easier to use. Much closer to something like the evolution the Coke brand[1], which occasionally refreshes and modernizes, but retains the same character it had 100+ years ago.

[0]: https://velvetshark.com/articles/why-do-brands-change-their-...
[1]: https://dwglogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/coca-cola_log...
Compare the improvements in tanks and planes from WWI to WW2, a period of 25 years. The same thing is about to happen with robotic tanks, jets, drones, etc.
Not to knock your system since it sounds like it works great, but why not use a static site generator?

That seems like it'd do the same thing and just take out some of the drudgery.
> We all know what products companies/individuals would pay for, because we used to build/buy them.

I disagree. Knowing what to build is the hardest part of the tech industry. It's why the industry funds a constant stream of failing startups: it's the trial and error process of finding out what the world actually needs built.

Worker coops will work great for the successful products, but most are failures. Who pays for those?
>The more you contribute, the more you sacrifice by joining a coop. The less you contribute, the more you gain.

How do you think co-ops work? Are you imagining a flat organizational structure like Valve Software? An open source project plus invoices? Those are all interesting ideas, but co-ops presently work like employee-owned business and usually have managers and compensation structures that fit the obvious way those things work. HN's tendency to GPT whenever exposed to something it doesn't know about is driving me nuts today. :-)
Right this moment an engineer at Google is writing a personal OKR to block this and declare $$$ savings in order to get promoted next year.
Lightyear restart aims to bring cheaper Lightyear 2 to market
That wouldn't happen under community leadership ala Linux.

Linux pretty much never breaks userspace.

Instead what you are seeing is the exact problem of overriding commercial interests and no restraint on individual parties because they all have their own little fiefdom to rule over.

A single browser engine wouldn't be the problem, it would be a great boon in many ways. The problem has been and remains that there is too much commercial bullshit getting pushed down into the browser engine rather than being matters of porcelain exactly because there is so much resistance to a fully FLOSS core.

Apple and Google are both to blame here for different reasons. Apple wants browser engines to mostly suck, especially on iOS. Google wants browser engines to be good but not be capable of restricting telemetry or blocking adverts.

However neither of those concerns require having their own engine, proof being that they were both able to share Webkit for a period of time.

Mozilla isn't blameless in this. They push the whole standardisation angle in a desperate plea for relevance while wasting resources on non-browser projects. Their efforts to "protect standardisation" cost us things like WebSQL, created a massive rift during the HTML5 and XHTML years and resulted in relentless addition of complexity.

I'm not saying they haven't done good, if anything I think Mozilla generally speaking has done the most good but they too have contributed to the clusterfuck.

Ironically MS has done very little wrong since the IE10 days, they basically threw in the towel and just use Blink now which is good (minus Google doing shitty things with it).

If we could end up in a place where Blink is developed in a similar way to Linux that -would- be good. It's generally the most advanced engine would be easiest to adapt the Webkit improvements that Safari has made and is already used in many other browser porcelains.

I don't see a way there yet but my point isn't that a path exists but that an end point potentially exists.

Google Bad, etc is true but if that could be fixed a mono-engine situation would be drastically better overall. Waste less time, less incompatibility problems, better web for everyone. (which is why Apple would never be on board but whatever).
Dumb. The guy got an education for $5250 dollars and didn't make anything of his career.

Also, it's considered good form to make the minimum payment on student debt as most all other debt is more expensive. Hell, you can put money in the stock market to outperform a student loan rate.

And yet these new age people think having student loans is a bad thing.
I used to think this is how NES worked x)
Sounds a great way to filter out fake "experts in AI", since real "experts in AI" are not particularly comfortable with the "AI" term to start with !

https://acoup.blog/2023/02/17/collections-on-chatgpt/comment...
> After a few months it was obvious that she had to be in contact with other kids for much much longer and regularly than what she could have to the best of our abilities and location.

This is what it comes down to, unfortunately. Due to circumstances (which I'm sorry about) you couldn't provide what you felt was necessary for your daughter. This happens! But one can't make a general rule out of it. I would suggest looking into homeschooling societies, though. There are a lot of them. Homeschooling, at least in the US, doesn't necessarily mean the child is locked inside with their parent all day and isolated from their peers.
They will probably have to start to test for the specific required skills in-class. Nobody is trying to test your knowledge of the multiplication table, or the trigonometric relations by allowing you to take the assignment home (or use a calculator during the test).
Thanks, this is a good suggestion, and it sounds a lot more like what I'm looking for - "seeing Plan9 from its strengths" is exactly right.
>This is also a case where consumers say they want one thing, but their behavior is a different matter. For example, pretty much everyone says they prefer the full price to be shown up front in search result pages. But, as someone who is privy to a ton of A/B testing in this area, the opposite nearly always results in higher conversion, where there is a lower up-front price and fees are only tacked on during checkout.

This seems to be very misguided logic to me. I can also trick people with fraud but that doesn't mean the victims are indifferent to the fraud. It being effective doesn't mean people like it. Consumers can still hate this hidden fee approach even, and perhaps especially, because it is effective.
THAT is 1337!

A true hacker spirit worthy of Captain Crunch whistle and its application toward free payphone calls.
> other than taxes and fees imposed by a government.

Why that exclusion? Why not require the price on the label to be the price you pay?
It is factored in here in Europe. So the issue isn't the fee itself, but that in other jurisdictions it's hidden.
Why Does Creation Happen in Silence?
This is not necessarily a bad thing. This incentivizes states and districts to compete on taxation and would likely drive sales tax down nationally.
The practical speed limit for large hydrofoil ships is about 45 kts, so only about 3× the cruising speed of a conventional displacement hull ship at best. Customers don't care how fast the ship cruises, they only care about how fast their cargo arrives at the final destination. Once you factor in port time and intermodal transport, the hydrofoil advantage shrinks further. There could still be a market for hydrofoil cargo ships at the right price, but if so it's going to be really niche.

Hydrofoil ferries are still used in a few places but even those are falling out of favor. Low cost airlines killed a lot of the ferry market. And many of the remaining customers prefer larger, slower ferries which can also carry cars and trucks.

The US Navy abandoned hydrofoils because there's just no mission for them. They're only useful for coastal defense, and even for that mission aircraft are generally superior.
So if you're on an older Python, you can't backport the new syntax; you're forced to upgrade if you have some code which depends on it. In Lisp, if some code we would like to use depends on some newer macros offered by the Lisp dialect we are using, but we cannot move to a newer installation yet, we may be able to backport just the macros into our program.

You're stuck with the ill-designed crap that Python puts out. For instance, I don't agree with pattern matching that assigns to existing variables; from where I'm sitting, it looks like an incompetent clusterfuck. If someone did that in one Lisp program, the entire language would be blamed for allowing that sort of "curse".
What It Takes for an E-Bike Battery to Explode
>How would non-compete, confidentially clause contracts when when you work for yourself?

You sign them with the co-op as the other party, same as any other business.
It really didn’t make any ‘sense’ back then either - no-one ran read-only linux on their TV for actual work. It was always really just for fun and challenge of it.