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> We need to have zoning laws.

Zoning laws, especially ones as expansive as what the US has, have only existed as they are for about 60 years. My still living grandmother can recollect how the process to buy and build her house was straightforward - you buy the lot from the private owner, you draft up your own design, you buy materials and you build your house. No county zoning code, no state inspector.

This is in suburban PA, where pretty much 50-70% of standing homes were built pre-zoning and there is no new home owner being "exploited" here - you simply get 2 inspectors to look over the house for code violations, deduct the cost of getting the house to code compliance from the sale price, and make that your offer.

> Once a city has been structured

There are cities around the world that have existed in some form for thousands of years. They constantly evolve and change, and to think we are at some point in progress that it won't happen anymore seems like undue hubris. Cities will absolutely continue to change, the only difference being if cities want to use the law to prevent organic change and growth, it will simply go elsewhere and the city will wither and die.

The reason NA doesn't get public transit is a vicious cycle, with historical motivations:

* Awful zoning and building code means new construction cannot happen, leading to city rot.

* City rot drives money away, and leaves the husk to the poor.

* The poor have no collective will or enough economic impact to justify investment, so the cities they reside in never see infrastructure development that would drive economic growth.

* The fleeing rich seek extraordinary zoning blockades to keep the poor (ie, minorities) out, but by taking the money with them they take the growth opportunities that attract anyone less than lavish.

* The rich become extraordinarily NIMBY to defend against undesirables moving near their neighborhoods. Additionally, they use their influence in zoning and NIMBY policy to zone / structure where they live in unsustainable and culturally hostile ways to project their desired vision for where they live.

* The economic stagnation the extreme amount of overregulation causes pushes you back to eventual rot, and you restart the cycle.
His point remains valid whether you like his life choices or not:

Fame, wealth, and power are only loosely correlated with happiness. They are neither adequate, nor necessary.
This scene from Renegade recreating an ayahuasca trip is amazing:

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The most popular CMS, WordPress, is experimenting with this now:

- https://make.wordpress.org/design/2017/02/09/initial-gutenbe...

- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg

- Demo: https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/
Here is the animation engine used in the videos (written in Python):

Manim: animation engine for explanatory math videos https://github.com/3b1b/manim
We know the greenhouse effect is real (just walk into a greenhouse and you'll know), so the only remaining question is whether CO2 causes a greenhouse effect in the earth's atmosphere. That should be reasonably easy to prove right? Sounds like basic chemistry (which I never did).
Technological changes caught WW2? A manic dictator, German resentment over Treaty of Versailles had nothing to do with it?
Do you mean

> Avoiding ioutil.ReadAll

AND

> checking body length

or do you mean,

> Avoid ioutil.ReadAll()

> and [instead you should be] checking the body length

?

Do you have an example of that, or an example of LimitReader?
They don't use git or any other distributed version control system, so there is no incentive to keep it small. And anything outside the source control system isn't accessible to all the tools that use it, so it would introduce complexity.
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It seems like they should otherwise it would seriously hurt their search quality (unless they did something like personalized search ranking for users who they could determine were signed into those particular walled off sites).
The driver's GPS made driving more accessible. But the passenger's GPS was even more important, because tourists finally know when they're being ripped off.
This is exactly how I want to support journalism & consume news. I don't want to commit to a single source of news, but I'm happy to pay per use.
Google should absolutely not index, at least not under the current organic and news search. Why should they send traffic to articles that people can't freely view?

I would support some kind of premium news offering from Google where they do index these and you are allowed access through a revenue share subscription made via Google.
> Like for some reason AI won't reduce construction costs to near 0.

Ok and how will you pay the guy who owns the lumber if you have nothing he wants? And the guy who owns the construction bots? And the owner of the land?
Based on this article, the curse of "smart" people appears to be lack of self-awareness.
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This is exactly the question I don't see answered. How will you handle increased prices? Unless instead of $1000/pm, you give an equivalent purchasing power/quota based on normal/average/reasonable per-capita consumption. Like a token that allows you to buy a certain amount of food/clothes/medicines etc. So what happens if I don't need to buy anymore clothes today but need more medicines but another guy is in a reverse situation? How about we translate this purchasing quota into points and have an exchange for people to trade them? Did we re-invent barter system/money in another form?
I was under the impression that the subscription fee for newspapers was to cover printing and delivery. And that the ads were how the publishers got paid.
A welder's job doesn't require too much physical labor and a lot of skill but it would still be classified as blue collar.
If anyone's looking for another workaround, the article actually hints at the solution: Facebook's l.php redirect that it uses when you click on a link shared through the platform. It functions similarly to the Google redirect, and you don't even need a Facebook account for it to work.

E.g. https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...
Yes, that's "cloaking".
I think the best solution to traffic is remote working!
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KQ6 wasn't only available on Mac - but I have such fond memories of this game!
Although the author is a professional nuclear engineer, I do agree with you on the quality of the writing.
Just a fair warning, I've never once seen a depiction of the effects of any kind of psychedelic drug that matched the effects I've personally experienced. And I've tried quite a few of them.

A lot of the experience is the head space and body load, which you're just never going to get from way over the top visual approximations. If you haven't experienced those, you aren't going to be able to imagine them very accurately.

The actual hallucinations are often much more subtle, but it's the headspace that makes them seem more significant. For instance, the most psilocybin does (for me) is cause text on a screen to wiggle around by a few pixels, and things to kind of zoom in and out by maybe 1% of their actual size, and colors on pictures to kind of bleed around by a few pixels if you stare at it long enough.

Now granted, I have not tried dimethyltryptamine. I don't have the courage for that one yet :P
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If the events in the dossier turns out to be true, will the intelligence agencies protect their president or do they protect the country. Will they go public? What is their duty at that point? How much influence does an external country exert over your presidency? That will be an interesting call.
There are other possible annotations in the build file.

You can get an idea of what it looks like by reading the Bazel docs: https://bazel.build/versions/master/docs/be/overview.html

Storing a few text files at Google doesn't cost millions of dollars, BTW.
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I am sure all the details will eventually trickle out...
Gee Wiz, what a mess :)
A long time ago I had an experience not with datura, but a close relative - benedryl (both are dissociatives).

Came home after rolling on ecstasy all night and wanted to go to bed. It's not that easy though after taking a bunch of stimulants. So I took a little bit of a lot of benedryl (iirc ~200mg or 8 pills). Ripped my bong for a bit and felt nice and chilled out. About 30 minutes later though, things started to get weird. Was taking a piss and all these really vivid tears started appearing, like someone ripping the movie screen of my vision with intense psychedelic swirls and stuff behind it. These weren't like lsd or mushroom hallucinations, they were far more real and vivid. It wasn't anything overwhelming though, just small little pockets here and there.

I went back to my room, and holy shit, there were thousands of flies pouring out of my blinds. Like this amorphous mass of flies dripping from between the slats. All the other hallucinations were gone. It was just the flies, and I cannot stress enough how real it was. I went up to it and could get in real close and see all their little wings and glittery eyes. I got in bed and now there were hundreds of spiders crawling on my computer chair. I just laid in bed watching in awe of how real it looked. Then huge spiders started crawling on my ceiling, like the ones from jumanji. It was unsettling, but I was oddly sober (mentally) and knew how common reports of insects and dissociatives were. Except for the psychedelic rips, there were no other hallucinations besides the bugs. I don't even have a fear of spiders or bugs, and always assumed that was the underlying cause.
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I would give you HN gold if it existed (now we just need a bookmarklet/extension to automate this).

Do we know that this will still work on Monday? Maybe this will also be closed and you'll need a special link?
I don't think his point is that global warming study is not science, rather that no science is presented in the article (or the part he quoted, anyway).

An outlying temperature is just one data point, and on its own it doesn't really open the door to reliably talk about global warming.
Really need to talk about why people choose to live where they do, and usually the answer is school districts. It's difficult to say exactly what kind of living environment families in the USA would choose if public schools in urban areas were better choices compared to suburban schools.
It's a heluva lot easier to lose a million than to make a million.
I don't see how they don't address the point being brought up. They explicitly point out past scenarios where these sort of predictions were wrong. I think the peddlers of these predictions are disingenuous and intellectually lazy. If they want others to take them seriously they need to explain why their predictions don't fall under the same criticisms.
Is it not possible to learn this lesson with a parent, sibling, or some other loved in intensive care?
I understand it is just an example but Buffer actually does have emails similar to this already. I got an email last week that said "We wanted to take a minute to celebrate you because, check it out, your tweet is doing amazingly!" and then it tells you the potential audience of the tweet and has a little animated gif with a Buffer employee giving you a high five. Not sure what the limit is to get this kind of email and I don't think it is configurable. My most recent one was a potential audience of "165,962 happy Twitter users, courtesy of 2 retweets".
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I wonder if they ever tried mounting one of those on top of CPU.
> Why should they send traffic to articles that people can't freely view?

what if WSJ paid google to index, but not give out for free? Or, rather, partnered with google so that you can pay for WSJ (or individual articles) via google's payment infrastructure?
They got jobs in the glue factory. ;)
They claim to corroborate some aspects. Too bad it's nothing related to the salacious bits about Trump or anything that can be easily independently verified by anyone in the U.S.
Perhaps when things are very simple, but we can end up with thousands of objects each with dozens of optional properties. With the fields declared as arrays only each array needs a GVN.
Finance people do.
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I read that "The Machine Elves" are more associated with LSD than DMT. Perhaps they activate different parts of the brain associated with object recognition - LSD for humans and faces, and DMT for insects/reptiles as other comments have speculated - it makes me wonder what myriad other substances out there that we haven't discovered yet and what otherworldly effects they could have.
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This will reduce air pollution;
Yes, he's one of our smartest people.
Somewhere I saw a 68k emulator that ran MacOS in the browser. It would be super cool if these guys linked that into their site so that every piece of software was running within the browser... :D

Edit: Not the one I remember, but: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/
Absolutely. A lot of these people don't seem to see the world beyond US. If x job losses in the US is compensated by 2x-3x job gains in India/China, why is that a bad thing? Are Westerns somehow more worthy than people from third world countries?
For the past couple of years my stack has been Rails & jQuery.

I'm on the cusp of starting a new project and some configuration problems have left me looking elsewhere. I used to work with Django a lot, and I may go that route, but I also think a full-javascript stack could be good for me professionally.

Alternatively, I'd love to try a clojure backend but frankly I'm a bit afraid of it--I tried maybe 18 months ago and I had a bad go of things. I've read lately that some of the problems I had have been remedied (most importantly better stack traces) and so I might just give that a go.

No matter what backend I choose, I'm going to build out a React/Redux front-end. I'm working with that on the job and I could use a little more time with it to become more comfortable. Also, I really think it's a good paradigm and that it's going to stick.

Anyway, lots of fun choices out there. If your efficiency isn't a top priority, I'd urge you to pick a language that looks fun. For me, Clojure is that option.
What were you trying to do? What's the outbox argument for?
Another thing to note is that Indian schools have quotas for majors, so what major you end up in depends on how well you test. You end up picking the hardest major to get into that you qualified for, which happens to be computer science.

I see tons of recent computer science grads who want to do "anything that doesn't have to do with computers."
> This makes sense, as humans have co-evolved along venomous snakes for presumably a very long time.

I always find appeals to evolution for phenomena like this a bit weak. In the Darwinian sense, this response would have to be a random mutation that is environmentally selected for. Not a biologist, but that seems a very high-order function to be subject to random mutations.
TIL that building cities is cheaper than building roads!
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Sure but this is a motto on the coat of arms. Fond as he was of the arms, making too much of the motto seems like wishful over-interpretation, to me.

'Washington, realpolitik-y pragmatist' is a perfectly sensible argument to make, I just don't think some verbiage on his carriage had much to do with it, one way or the other.
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"Low cost" means building entire cities from scratch. hmmmm.
It sounds like, if building a remote team from scratch, it would be good to try to create isolated clusters of decision-making power on a shared schedule per cluster.
The amount you want to pay for news is not anywhere close to the value it is providing you or that they make from ad revenue.
> other skills often seen as the antithesis of being smart

Pray tell, what, specifically, are these skills?
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Ya, screw all those people that drive multiple cars at the same time /s
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That's true. But it was a bundle that couldn't be separated at the end of the day. So given print ad dollars to digital dimes the subscription fee needs to cover web readership as well.
"Excel and computer skills" isn't CS - it's "ICT" which does not pretend to be computer science. When ICT as part of the curriculum in the early 1990s I think the country was doing the right thing - computer skills beyond using Facebook are essential and too many people still don't understand how spreadsheets work.

In the UK you can do proper Computer Science in high-school at A-Level (ages 16-18), I did it myself - I'd describe it as a somewhat cut-down version of my undergraduate computer-science degree: we did briefly cover the basics of fundamental computer architecture, formal logic and logic-gates, database theory, and software development - the problem is that very few schools actually offer the subject (like 90% of schools offer ICT at A-Level, but I reckon less than 50% offer Computer Science) - and that's due to the staffing: if you can teach Computer Science for A-Level then you're going to be qualified to work as a software developer for a multiple of a typical teacher's salary. My only real criticism of A-Level Computer Science (at least when I did it) was that schools could choose between Pascal/Delphi, VB6, and Java - my school chose VB6 - possibly the worst possible choice considering both how antiquated it was (this was in the mid-2000s so VB.NET/C# were already well-established) but also, more importantly, how it's a poor tool for computer science because VB6 lacks class inheritance and instills bad habits (e.g. SQL concatenation).

When I worked at Microsoft in the US, they took part in a programme called "TEALS" where professional software engineers employed by MS and other companies (Amazon, Facebook, Google all have Seattle offices) are invited to teach high-school AP class computer science classes part time, and I understand it's proving to be quite successful. I think this system should be expanded to allow other industries to take part - I'd sure love to have given chemical engineering or architecture a try in high-school - and kids often need decent exposure to industry if they've yet to decide what they'll do at university and beyond.
I don't think you understand evolution. Evolution is not just random mutations.
That was a true statement in maybe 2005?
http://www.pangeasoft.net/nano/

Nanosaur is still available for purchase, for anyone who has an OS 9 machine floating around.
Well it does work well, I am idling around 150MB, as opposed to 900MB+, but it does suck with i3 when you resume, the wifi is off, screen dim isn't right, mouse pad isn't on (can't turn back on yet from what I've tried) I did modify /etc/rc.local ... other files regarding startup... I was able to set background with feh, but on restart this is also lost.... ahh well.

Battery consumption is good though, hard to believe this thing pulls around 3-4 watts and it has a ~5500WH battery but I think my battery only charges to ~5200WH
Still a great site. A few months back I downloaded some handy utilities from it while down the nostalgia rabbit hole. [1]

After setting up Sheep Shaver (seems to be the best ppc emulator capable of running MacOS 9), I dusted off my old copies of Marathon 2 and Myth. It was rather enjoyable, running all that stuff on my 2012 MacBook Pro.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476605
The _real_ problem is psychological - "managers" feel the need to control "workers" by physical monitoring.

I suspect 80% of all office work could be done remotely.

We need a cute psychological trick like "daylight saving time", to give people permission to break convention and do things like work remotely and work in offset shifts [ so as to spread out rush hour peaks ].
> Assuming the noise or smell was somehow contained, what's wrong with living next to a concert venue or sriracha factory?

Assuming you never had to walk or feed it and it never misbehaved, what's so hard about having a dog for a pet?
Since I'm currently moving from small city to big city, could you list some of the tradeoffs as you see them, and how best to address them?
Yup - though all the class literature was careful to use generic names like "spreadsheet software package" instead of naming Excel. We did get some exposure to other platforms though - we were taught about the existence of Netscape Navigator in 2001 - but naturally school computer policy meant we couldn't actually install it to use it.

The worst part about my school's IT classes was how we were supposed to officially document our progress by taking a screenshot of the work we did, printing it out, cutting it out with scissors and sticking it into our classbooks with PVA glue - like right out of primary school. The fact we were doing this right into Yr.10 just felt insulting - and surely a better demonstration of IT proficiency would be to maintain our work-logs in a purely electronic format? Isn't using a backwards format like (literally) pasted-in screenshots the antithesis of information technology?
The thing about hallucinogens is that they really change how you think. The visual changes are such a small part of the experience, compared with the complete transformation of your consciousness. DMT itself is particularly potent in this regard, it basically completely strips away your sense of self.

I highly recommend a heavy dose of ayahuasca at least once in your life. It is pretty much guaranteed to radically change your perspective on a lot of things.
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Thanks for the calm and reasoned response. I don't have a dog in this fight but it's nice to see this instead of reactive combativeness.
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As a user, I loved the GitLab UI and features. I've now partnered with them and offer training on GitLab CI (and on Git), and resell GitLab Enterprise. GitLab's been great to work with as an organization, they are fast, work hard, and get things done.
Having more programming languages for embedded platforms is always great. If all you know is Rust or Python or JS, etc. it is great to have it as an option. But I have to wonder if the specific claim of type safety really translates here. In my (albeit limited) experience, certain classes of errors just don't occur on embedded systems because there is not enough room for them. For example, there is no double free() because heap memory is not a thing. I suppose you can still have off by one errors, and problems with referencing/dereferencing, but once again in my experience you usually find this stuff pretty fast because your code just won't run. Am I wrong here?
Then you have to run a tool that processes .go source files in order to perform dependency analysis. Consistency is a virtue.
There are weird undocumented self-writes to config space on both major vendors GPU products, I wonder if those have been thoroughly tested.
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> would/should

There are billions of dollars of difference between "would" and "should"

Who is "they" who act like it's super-awesome?