skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best I can find of the SB827 opponents is statements like this: http://www.dsa-la.org/statement_in_opposition_to_sb_827

The anti-development left is, for a variety of reasons, not terribly visible. Poor people of color lack visibility in the first place, and so do the more extreme leftists. So you multiply those together, and you're not going to get a movement that commands a lot of attention.

The other issue with finding unified op-eds against YIMBYs is that these battles are literally fought building by building. If you really want a detailed look at the debates that showcases both sides, you'll have to start reading more local news. NIMBYs are generally quite happy to acknowledge that there's a statewide housing crisis, but they'll refuse to build anything in their own neighborhoods. NIMBYs don't need to be a unified force to get their way. Whereas, YIMBYs seeking to enact statewide change via bills like SB827 do.
IMO,

When you account for political clout, the wealthy residents of Marin and Santa Monica have much more influence in the process than the tenants in Boyle Heights or East Oakland. The former uses the rhetoric and coopts the message of the latter to further their exclusive tendencies. When you look at the cross tab data, poorer people in California are much more likely to support more home building, and the people who skew "anti-building" are usually white home owners over 60 years old.

The big issue that we seem to have in SF is that the neighborhoods that historically the poorest and most neglected (the mission and soma) are basically the only neighborhoods that are zoned for a reasonable density of new construction, while the wealthiest neighborhoods (pac heights, west portal) have been able to get ahead of the planning process and ensure that they will be able to remain low density. We should be building new housing in wealthy exclusionary neighborhoods like the west side of LA, and much of SF instead of allowing it in a few formerly industrial areas.
Elon Musk cares what Wall St thinks when they supply the billion-per-quarter Tesla burns through. He just doesn't want to answer the questions that come with the money.

Tesla may survive, as there seems to be no end of people bad at math, but a company doesn't burn through a billion per quarter for too long before "fine" is no longer the correct word.
Indeed.

It is obvious to anybody looking at the balance sheets of the company that TSLA will need to raise capital soon. Either late 2018 or maybe early 2019. A company with $3 Billion cash that's losing $1-billion per quarter will need more money. That's just the facts.

Musk is going to be either relying upon institutional investors / the stock market in general for another round of equity offerings, or relying upon banks for a loan. In either case, it seems like Musk just bit the hand that feeds his company money.

Another 300,000 reservations at $1000 per is probably not going to happen. There are fewer and fewer ways for TSLA to raise tons of money.
It's because people don't know themselves. They are busy emulating all the of the ideas and imagery floating all around them without ever bothering to listen to who they truly are inside.

Some people are leaders. They push up against the halls of power, and if others hold them back, they will find a way to break free. These are the people who proclaim they will never work for someone else.

Some people are care takers. Some people are healers. Some people are followers. They just want to be told what to do. There's nothing wrong with that!

Society at large is always telling everyone to be a leader, and I think that's the main issue. Few are cut out to be leaders, and it's not always all it's cracked up to be.
> The world is full of hidden complexity, so be prepared for an education at any moment, I'd say.

Wonderful words! Added to my quotes list :)
Ha. Pretty weak attach. The dude literally sleeps at work at times, and his companies have produced things that have never been done before. Stuff that you can't really do as a weekend warrior, like rockets and the fastest/longest range EVs that people wait in line to buy
What is the difference between a flamethrower and a propane torch? I find myself inexplicably delighted at the prospect of understanding this distinction.
Oh yeah, and this applies to personal factors as well. Agree with you though. I have moved jobs and I have found that there's tradeoffs. You may get more pay, better tech stack, etc, but might have to live further from family & friends.
Right now the industries are begging for programmers.

Companies from the US literally hire me to work remotely from my bedroom in France because they can't find somebody with the skill they need at the price they can pay. All of them are either taken or too expensive.

The situation is unlikely to change: the need for software is constantly increasing, but the rate we produce new developers and the quality of them is not following as quickly.

So get audacious. You are on the best side of the fence right now.
It's a filibuster.
I don't think it's relevant to compare popcorn to positional goods like housing.
> Not only the population of UK has increased in this time, it has also gotten older on average.

Every study that measures disease or death rates takes this into account. They use standard populations (standard millions) to create age-adjusted statistics. In this case it was European Standard Population (ESP–2013) they used.

The article reports increase in all age groups. The article is not making any link between brain cancer and mobile phones. There is just little speculation to crate headlines.
These are interesting questions, but for the most part, don't require concrete answers in the same way that "Do you have enough money?" do. Musk has plenty of places to talk about his bold ambitions and predictions. But the earnings call is one of the few regularly scheduled occasions when he and other executives can be demanded answers about current realities.
That assumption may hold for the average worker, but not necessarily for the group that is complaining.
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> This interaction and updating phase is often asynchronous by nature, as the app waits for a response from the backend whether to update the data or not. The update is usually based on the success of the action triggered by the user.

> An Optimistic User Interface is when a user triggers an action and the UI updates immediately, even though there may be a request pending.

This is also called "lying to your users"
The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
It seems like "multiverse" is used to describe a half-dozen mostly unrelated things or more (just based on the contents of this thread) including among them many-worlds. But, for example, eternal inflation has nothing directly to do with relative-state formulation, nor mathematical universe, nor the "multiverse" where you consider that portion of the universe outside our cosmological horizon to be a separate universe (I wouldn't agree that it is, but apparently that's a thing).
California is already is the state with the largest population by a long way. Sure you could squeeze a few more million into the bay area but SF has geographic restrictions, esp with water. Surely it would be smarter to encourage more tech firms to move to places where there is more space, like Denver, Chicago, Austin. Basically anywhere off the coasts. Just give on on SF already.
GitHub provides an RSS feed for all user-facing changes made on the platform
As I pointed out in a sibling comment, this is also stated in the Wikipedia article.
Yes gold mining causes environmental damage. That's one of many reasons why it's a good thing we moved away from the gold standard to fiat currencies. Neither Bitcoin or precious metals are a sound basis for a complex international financial system.
> A few years earlier, the doctors had implanted electrodes in a central part of his reward system—namely, the nucleus accumbens. The stimulation had worked rather well on his symptoms, but now it was time to change the stimulator battery.

Wait a minute. It seems rather strange that upregulation of dopamine would be defined as happiness. I think of happiness as cross-activation between your endocannabinoid system and endogenous opioid system.
Have the anti-rental things Tahoe done anything to curtail the local movement or is that not in your neighborhood?

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Study-Tahoe-s-Airbnb-l...
I don't know if it's a matter of the protagonist looking cool. When Breaking Bad was on the air, I had a surprising number of friends who identified with Walter White. He did not look cool, he did not act cool, and the writers of the show did everything in their power to communicate "This man is a moral monster and a horror of a human being." Yet some people that I otherwise respected still identified with him. They would get angry at Skyler White for leaving her husband, as if the mother of a new baby should stay loyal to a drug dealing serial killer.
It is the most popular Retail investor stock, so it's not just tech folks.
Yeah I agree with you nodesocket. Musk comes off as focusing on the right things, not getting bogged down by a x% difference on capital outlay here or there.
I've heard this put as "don't hate the player, hate the game".

I find that unambitious, if the 'game' allows you to do scuzzy things and you choose to do them then you are scuzzy.

Amazon by it's sheer size like other large corporations gets away with (figurative in amazon's case at least) murder.

Disclaimer: I'm not anti-capitalist, I'm anti-this-type-of-capitalism.
Let's make the game harder by not letting the prisoners see what's inside the opened drawers.

Is it hopeless now?
That's right, they patched CVE-2017-17969, which affected ZIP decompression. Interestingly, I believe they didn't patch CVE-2018-5996 (affecting RAR), which I published [0] on January 23 together with CVE-2017-17969.

[0]: https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions...
In the long-term.

"Fuck off, I know what I'm doing, and I'm not chasing short-term single quarter results" can easily be fulfilling that duty.
Moby Dick is considered the great American novel. As someone who is not well read on American culture, could anyone help me with the surrounding context -- what made it the great American novel. I know I am asking for a lot here.

Thanks folks all those who responded. Now I am better armed. I did have a go at it about an year back. Read around 4~5 chapters and then realized I need more context to fully appreciate what makes it special. I sensed there's a lot of symbolism being used, but couldn't quite put a finger to what exactly. Was quite surprised by the homo-eroticism in some of the chapters, did not expect that. I assumed literature from such times would reflect more 'victorian' values. I presume that might have created a stir then, or may be not, I am not that well versed in American culture, especially from that era.
It seems you are allowed to respond, just in a civil way that follows the established guidelines
A big part of this to me, is the idea of yourself as an archetypal character. People are different each day, some days you are having conversations with strangers at coffee shops and patting yourself on the back for being so socially adept, other days you just don't want to talk to a soul. Some days you love your career path, other days you wish you had chosen something else. The idea of some reliability in your mood, desires and personality is attractive: "I am the computer guy, everyday, all day, 100%".

The idea of these characters who are so certain of who and what they are, and are driven by some greater purpose is very alluring, even if the personality is toxic and the purpose immoral.
lol I mean I think the point is compensate those people better but this person acts like Matlab/LabVIEW/R/etc don't exist
The book has a hyphen but the white whale himself doesn't, for historical reasons.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/moby-dick-has-myst...
The concept of "Stack Overflow for Teens" seems like a parody goldmine.
This is not what people traditionally think of as "rent-seeking." Rent-seeking behavior is doing something to get more money without providing any corresponding value. AirBnb hosts do provide value -- just not to the people who live in the neighborhood. But it is fine to argue that, based on their willingness to pay more, out of town visitors provide better utilization of the housing resource.

TL;DR: Extracting rents from things you own by providing economic value to a customer is not "rent-seeking."
Can you recommend a GDPR expert?

yes

Can I have their email address?

no

:-)
I don't know if this is good or bad news, because I really like Pocket Casts...
Why is reading part of being a model citizen, but not watching movies? I'd give Paths of Glory for someone to watch over 99.9% of books out there.
I'm fairly certain well-being comes from needs being met. Life has no need for profit or money. Those are constructs that require believing what you said in order to be true.
Yes, the 0.7% of "rent controlled" units of NYC's available inventory that's shrinking by 2.5%/yr is totally stifling new supply.

Feel free to tell us about how the rent stabilized units, which do compromise 1/3 of the inventory but in 3/4 of cases are within spitting distance (10%, and see 4% rent increases every 2 years) of market rate are keeping down supply though. Tell us about about how luxury condos in places like East New York, Edenwald, Brownsville, Morrisania & Crotona, and Hunts Point are going to increase affordable housing in NYC. I am very interested in learning about this.
I wish more companies were doing this.
What could be the factor that would prevent all companies to do the same, apart from laziness?
Am I the only one interested by the changes that are made on the tools that I like? I'm the kind of guy who reads all release notes.
> now I rely on the types to do that for me and check in an embarrassingly high number of errors whenever I try to work in Python

But you can write type hints in Python and get your tooling to tell you when something is wrong.

Personally I got mypy as a pre-commit hook, and vscode run it on each save, making my code lighting up like a xmas tree if I mess up.
You've been downvoted but I don't know why. It's clearly true. He wants the power that comes with CEO, but not the levelheadedness to run what is now a large company making large promises.

What he's done is remarkable. But he should step down, assign himself a founder/chief scientist title, and move forward with "fixing" his company. No fear of ejection; I suspect he's a major shareholder.
I wonder, can you make a stirling with plutonium pentafluoride working fluid? Eg, cold chamber with neutron poison, hot chamber out of a neutron moderator material?
I used to live in Dublin, CA outside of SF, and there was a big housing boom there. I said that SF could turn off Dublin's housing boom with one vote. The entire Western US is in the same position with CA - every good place to live west of the Rockies is inundated with people leaving CA, many carrying CA housing wealth with them.
The link refers to the Q3 2017 conference call.
Buffett's field of study is the finance and economic system.

It should be easy to see that one of the things that separates Warren Buffett from the rest of us is that he has a unique perspective of the financial world – he sees all of the dynamics and intricacies of the financial world in a way that few others do.

It took years for him to build the mental framework that led to his deep understanding and unique view of the world. And as a result of his devotion to this pursuit and his willingness to immerse himself in it, he developed the structural underpinning for the mental vista that yields the rare and valuable perspective that enables him to see the financial world with the clarity of a composer likely unattained by anyone in history.

This is why Goldman Sachs calls him when they need help, like they did in the financial crisis.
The city of Tokyo added more housing than the entire state of California in 2014: https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...

Also, no, California really isn't that crowded. Italy has something like 30% more people on less land, and still manages to be a massive tourist destination because it is amazingly wonderful and beautiful, from the mountains to the cities to the seashores.
> make our UI update immediately in order to reflect user actions, instead of traditionally waiting for the backend's success response

So, a user on a slow network thinks that the request went through and closes the tab. Boom! You've got yourself the first version of MongoDB on the client side!
It shoudn't shock you. It should be expected based on the demographics of the people who read HN.
Doesn’t he have a duty to be honest to shareholders?
I for one completely defend him. It must be excruciating getting the self serving type of questions that all boil down to:

“how well can I infer you’re doing so I make sure I make more money or lose less money in the next 6 months?” Over and over and over...
I agree, as an Asian who is not Indian or Chinese, the scholarship could be made more inclusive. The invisibilty of minorty asian populations is a problem in America in general.
Further reading:

How Traffic Light Control Systems Work (https://www.autoevolution.com/news/how-do-traffic-light-cont...)

Traffic Signal Operations and Maintenance Staffing Guidelines (https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop09006/fhwahop09...)

TRAFFIC SIGNAL OPERATIONS HANDBOOK (https://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents...)

TRAFFIC SIGNAL DESIGN –
OPERATIONS AND COORDINATION (https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/documents/TDOT_Traffi...)

Design of an ITS-Level Advanced Traffic Management System: A Human Factors Perspective (1996) https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/95181/...
> How did you figure out that the reason the stock fell was this particular one?

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iYhgfoDa6lZ...

Correlation =/= causation. But... its reasonable to see the connection here.
That's just a game of chance. The point of a skill game, even one that involves randomness, is that information you get can influence your actions. If you cannot look inside the drawers, you do not gain any information about the particular setup and thus cannot execute anything that would resemble a strategy.
I'm not sure if it's worth it, but this struck a chord with me:

>No more digging through stale wikis
That's not entirely true. He has duties to run the company in with good faith and care, but not necessarily to maximize shareholder value.
Employers might care about the fact it's taking longer and longer to get employees to work, which is directly cutting into productive time and adding costs to their employee commute programs (extra shuttle miles, extra trips, etc). You know, on top of the terrible hit to quality of life and general morale that longer commutes generate.

High rent prices have priced out even relatively highly paid professionals in cities like Palo Alto and Mountain View where many of these companies are headquartered. That's a tremendous red flag about just how broken the state of housing is in the Bay Area - if the highly paid tech employees can't live there, neither can anyone earning less than them (read: pretty much everyone else). How is that building a sustainable local community and economy?
Hahaha, meetings on my team at Pinterest are a little more substantial than that, but maybe it varies team to team?
> While Tesla is still the "coolest" brand of car, there are better/cheaper electric cars from many non-Tesla companies already widely available today.

No, there are a very small handful of cheaper electric cars that may be subjectively better for some uses but worse for many others. Bolt, i3, Leaf - that's about it for mass-produced cars being bought in any volume, and the manufactureres are taking a bath on them.

GM is reportedly losing ~$7,500 for each Bolt they sell, how long do you think that would go on if Tesla were to disappear overnight?
I'm saying that's why many urban tech workers are angry about housing policy, as opposed to the parent comment that suggested they feel guilty about it.
...in keeping with the virtues of silence!
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I vaguely remember similar story for FreeBSD from Netflix or Limelight. And it was Mellanox as well.
I’m not sure why you are down voted... that is his legal obligation.
Whataboutery is probably not a great argument.
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It's not like being a leader is a cushy job or anything.

People like to think that not having a boss = "I don't answer to anyone".

If you are a leader, you answer to the people who follow you.

Some people choose not to be leaders, not because they are bad at it, but because they don't want that kind of responsibility.
If he actually answered it with any new information or to any real degree of satisfaction it wouldn't have been asked so often.
It's been around for at least 5 years with no real market traction. Processors in memory fix the Von Neuman bottleneck. Great for REGEX, none have floating point yet to make them useful for scientific code.
So I have never seen anyone address the flip side of why there is a shortage of hotel space (hence airBNB).

The reality of the situation is that hotels make terrible neighbors, particularly terrible hallway neighbors. Most people do not want to live next to temporary accommodations, and if they were going to they would rather have a separate building designated for the purpose. It is completely valid for a city to be in favor of its citizens, and not for a few short-term visitors and someone looking to make a quick buck on their apartment.
LedgerX, Deribit, and Coinut all facilitate options contracts.
How do you fit deployment doc in code ? And tutorials ? General graphs of the architecture ?

Because an API reference is a very poor doc.
The claim is unfounded, and contradicts established facts, amongst which: recipes for meatballs were common and used in Europe well before that (from Roman Antiquity to England in the Middle Ages, for example); and Swedish cooking was dominated by another, distinct form of meat preparation (frikadeller) until and including the 19th century, well beyond the war-filled life of Karl XII (1682-1718).
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Yeah, sure. Edison, Tesla, Ford were all public employees.
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Jeffrey Skilling had the same approach too. In fact, he was even bolder than Musk because he not only evaded an obviously mean-spirited question, but he called out the investor as an "asshole". You can listen to the excerpt at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSK0v0vTgXA
I recall reading an interview with musk on wait but why (edit: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html ) where the interview mentioned researching musks intolerance for "boring" questions and even trolled him a bit.

Obviously the appropriateness is different, but this is not new behavior. Anyone trying to draw conclusions about the state of tesla from his behavior here is probably making mistakes (or at least using bad data) unless they thought the same BEFORE this call.
Funny Javazone-style ad for System76 laptop
I would rather see a stripe through my schedule, say 1pm-3pm everyday, that could be used for meetings.

I actually enjoy the break sometime and the sidebars on the way to and after the meeting are sometimes great ways to get micromeetings done.

Having the rest blocked gives me a two solid blocks of three hours to do stuff.
I had the Google stock chart open while the call was running. It was pretty much night and day. Before the call, it was up by about 0.25%. Then after market, during the call it was hovering between 1% and -1% - then immediately after the dismissal it started dropping quickly.