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Have lived in sf almost a decade. As someone also trapped in the housing struggle (gonna be a very long time until i can afford buying), I too do not want to see the city overrun by high rises, like NYC. I love NYC, but theres a reason why the two are distinctly different from one another.

the only way to get our heads over this crisis is to

1) increase tax on landlords and property owners who raise rent on their renters over 2% annually. that $ will go directly to addressing homelessness. why companies are targeted for increased taxes for this purpose is frankly, stupid as hell.

2) change zoning laws to permit up to 5 story single family homes, strictly for specific neighborhoods.

i believe Mayor Breed will tackle this problem with success.
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Ordered a TV from Amazon the same way. The dudes said it was not their job to actually put it on the stand despite paying for and ordering white glove delivery. Had to do it myself with a friend later as it was too big to put up alone. This was about ten years ago. In retrospect, I should have known better who I was dealing with, but like most people here, I was ignorant of what Amazon was really like. This is minor compared to all their other shit.
I found the removal of the cable pegs and only including the long charging cable a particularly tacky way to reduce the BOM on their computer considering the USB-C model had a price increase over the previous model that included these features.
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They're taking a different approach. They're positioning .NET to be the Platform regardless of the underlying Hardware/OS.
- Behaviour

- Sluggishness

- Not able to use OS widgets. They might look similar with lots of CSS effort, but we stay at the L, instead of L&F

- PWAs are a step in the right direction, yet ServiceWorkers feel like a hack for what native applications get for free

- As a example, writing an application that can seamless transition between mobile and desktop platforms, like Microsoft's Project Rome.

Many successful apps with lousy UX are successful, because they are the only way to access certain services.

As a consumer I only use web apps when there is no way around it.

As a developer I don't get to be picky about which projects I get to work on, but I surely make my point of view every time customers ask for something that can only be provided by proper OS integration.
It is true, I live in one of those cities (Omaha) at a tech startup, it's been tiring these last 4 years sitting next to people who openly talk and try to 'educate' peers about how immigrants kill people, vaccines cause cancer, and climate change is made up from dodgy scientist readings.

Education could be a lot better here.
Yes, I read that. But until this morning I'd never heard of Jackson Hole.
Roads (or any other high volume transit system) are like bandwidth. Peak demand times such as rush hour (for roads) or every windows machine updating at once (for bandwidth) will always use everything you've got, degrade the service and people will forgo trips (bad for quality of life) or not do their work because they can't access some cloud service well enough (bad for productivity). You don't add more roads or bandwidth with the expectation that service will not degrade but to reduce the length of time during which it's degraded.

(Yes I know that MS does P2P updated and WSUS is a thing but this is just meant to be an example)

The usage pattern for housing is totally different because everyone needs to use it and demand is basically constant per person over time.
Could it be Vox's project?

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/16936638/er-bills-emergency-ro...
All indicators point to that being the day you will be required to only run apps from the official Apple App Store, unless you pay for a developer cert like for iOS devices.
You always have the option to pay with cash at Best Buy, don't you?

I assume all credit card transactions are sold to third parties no matter the retailer. The only exceptions are large enough companies like Amazon/Google who are in enough categories that they can make more money using your information first party than they can by selling it. It's not that Amazon/Google respect your privacy more than other retailers, they're just sharing it with other departments instead of other orgs.
What you see as sequelitis, others see as brand new stories, using the guise of existing characters and settings to bring in an audience. Or in other words, what artists have been doing for centuries. Shakespeare was notorious for it...and yet is regarded as the best playwright in history.

What matters is what's underneath the surface. Winter Solder, examined the role of covert operations, the military-industrial complex, and nationalism. Civil War was about the motivations for regulation, patriotism, and even terrorism. Black Panther examined the role of fathers and environment on the black community. Antman satirized the situation of released convicts and the drives of divorced fathers. Spiderman Homecoming took a dive into the lives and drives of teenagers, showing how teenage conflicts were just as meaningful (to teenagers) as the Avengers and Captain America stuff was to adults. Infinity War examined the extremes of authoritarianism and conservationism and the costs of all-out conflict. Wreck-It Ralph was about chasing the American Dream. Each Toy Story movie has examined a different phase of its characters lives over the course of decades, and has explored the topics of inclusion, purpose, death, family, and commercialism.

You say rut? I say that we are in a glorious age of movies...as long as you can look beneath the surface to what the movies are really about.
And when the Man handed over our food stamps, we were called moochers, a drain on our country. It’s no different now—worse even, as those people on the Hill try to pass a bill that would make people earn their food stamps. Tacking on work requirements—implying that foster kids are too lazy to pay for their own food, that mothers like mine, whose husbands went off to serve and never came back quite the same, are just not trying hard enough to make ends meet.

Ow.
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But accuracy of GPS signal is in microseconds, so if you suddenly detect a change in level of milliseconds (latency between A and B) - that would totally imply spoofing shenanigans?
I mean, everyone does that at some point. Just about no one would want to see their neighborhood turn into Hong Kong's Walled City, even if that meant squeezing in a few people. Different individuals naturally have different red lines - some might not want to see a historic single-family house neighborhood demolished to make apartment buildings. Others might be OK with that, but not want to see their neighborhood park destroyed to make a big box store. Others might be OK with that, but might not want to see the schoolyard where their kids play cut to a fraction of its size to make room for more development.

There seems to be a general lack of empathy when these issues are discussed - if the people who live there find think something is important but I personally don't care about it, then the people who live there are just selfish NIMBY types.
Here's a very straightforward study, "Evidence That Lifelong Low Dose Rates of Ionizing Radiation Increase Lifespan in Long- and Short-Lived Dogs" [1].

Two studies on beagles:

"One exposed the dogs to whole-body cobalt-60 γ-radiation."

"The other evaluated dogs whose lungs were exposed to α-particle radiation from plutonium."

For both studies, excess radiation improved their lifespans by 20-50 percent. It is a substantial beneficial effect. Above a beneficial level of radiation their lifespans shortened to the level of dogs who were not exposed at all and then to substantial reductions in lifespans.

This graph illustrates it best:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5347275/figure/...

We don't know why low radiation exposure is good, but it does seem to be.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5347275/
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1. I addressed this point by saying "I have no idea." I think the world has no idea. IEEE and other professional standards bodies are the only model I can think of, but it doesn't feel like a great fit. I tried to move the conversation forward. Maybe instead of challenging me, you could turn it into something actionable (or otherwise move the conversation forward).
2. Your "assertion" smacks a little of gaslighting. Python lies near the heart of the major Linux distributions that comprise, for example, AWS and Google Cloud. And they run services that directly or directly touch pretty much everyone in the industrialized world. Netflix by itself has 125M users, for example.
The government should just run deficits for financing projects and use tax for redistribution and inflation control, like it does today. The issue today is excessive private sector money creation and lack of federal deficits to offset the debt overhang created by private finance.
The term I use for this is Form Over Function and is a very Apple thing to do.
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> ... nothing would have gotten rescuers onto this scene any faster.

That's true in this case, but might very well not be the case in a future accident. That rescuers were able to reach the Leviathan II so quickly in this case is partly due to some very good luck after the accident -- crew members spotted a flare just floating in the water and were able to fire it. It was this flare that the first rescue boat saw.
It's an odd thought experiment to follow through that in the US we're supplying evolutionary selection for well networked extroverts via our healthcare + media and GoFundMe type mechanisms.
This is why we have cheap big-screen TVs now: you can just watch this stuff in the comfort of your own home, and not have to deal with: sticky floors, overpriced and unhealthy concessions, screaming children, conversing or texting viewers, inability to pause to go to the bathroom, etc.
> If built right, these high-rises can be beautiful, and provide welcome shade in summer.

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” -- Jack London
Man, this is really depressing to read.
Construction costs aren't much higher than they have been historically. Slightly higher because of demand for things with inelastic supplies (like tower cranes), but we're talking average cost change by a few percent at most.

And yes they would keep building. Land owners are the ones who gain/lose by fluctuations in demand, not developers. If demand drops and rental prices drop, land owners lower their prices that they sell to developers. This has been proven so substantially by Housing Economists that it's basically considered consensus by now. Spend some time with the Journal of Housing Economics if you would like to learn more.

The real reason why developers only build luxury buildings is that they can't build enough to satisfy all demand, so the few buildings that they can build will obviously go to the types with the highest margins. If we allowed for more development, developers would still build luxury buildings as long as there was unsatiated demand for them, but they'd also build normal and affordable housing as well.
I think that we should consider total underground transportation as a design goal. Even if we reduce, say, the highway traffic by 90%, the remaining 10% will still deal with weather conditions, peak usage times, and bottlenecks such as construction or traffic accidents.

There are plenty of reasons to move people underground rather than above, along with goods. My personal interest in this is that a scalable 100% underground transportation system would make for a better model for life on the moon or Mars than anything we currently have on Earth.

Besides, traveling underground doesn’t have to be a dreary, dystopian experience. If we moved people in rectangular structures resembling elevators, we could cover the floor and ceilings with LCD screens, so instead of feeling like you’re inside an elevator, you could set the screens to show a panorama of the city you’re in, or the Swiss Alps, or if you throw a camera and microphone in there, you could attend a meeting while you’re on your way to that meeting.

Even if we get goods moving off the roads, personal transportation still has enormous costs. Just ask any American who has had to choose between paying high rent to live close to work, or buying a car to commute further away from their lower-rent home.
Harsh criticism Johnny! But we'll take it on board, feedback has been passed to the https://tyk.io/ team, there is certainly an opportunity to adjust proportions here. As a matter of interest, which blog/article page layout do you really rate?
I also have the feeling that the amount of links to Bloomberg articles on HN significantly increased in the past months. I'm not a fan of that though, because Bloomberg articles seldomly cover really new topics or add in-depth information. Which is fine, as Bloomberg's audience is a different one than HN's, isn't it?
Believe it or not, the most savvy investors in the nation are heavily biased to investing primarily within Silicon Valley.

As soon as large tech giants move to the Midwest, sure the trend might start. No big tech companies, no reason for tech workers to move.
> One of the reasons people go there is to see the charming old houses and nice old neighborhoods

The vast bulk of SF is probably not of any particular interest, though. Most European cities will have areas of historical interest where buildings are protected, sometimes incredibly strictly (here's a 250 year old 8000sqft house which would require 1.5million renovation to make it habitable, due to strict controls on acceptable renovation methods: https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/georgian-p...). But that doesn't mean that you can't densify anywhere. Areas of historical importance are normally a small fraction of a city.
Property owners are making out quite well.

My landlord inherited their house decades ago. They rent it out and make some good cash off of it. They could sell it for $1.8m. Either way, they're doing just fine.

Other landlords I've had owned apartment complexes for decades or inherited them and they too are making out really well because their property taxes are so low.
Wow, that's entitled. Did you know that Python has a money-back guarantee?
After the disaster my professor measured increases in radioactivity to try and determine if there was any increase in background radiation from man made sources. Unfortunately even our liquid nitrogen cooled gallium detector couldn't find anything. I think you need a mass spectrometer to really detect any change in California. (Fukushima itself is a different matter!)

Variation in radiation levels of the magnitude you are showing can be caused by many different sources, most of which are natural. Sun spots, changes in the upper atmosphere, cat sleeping on the detector, etc...

EditNote: We definitely could still detect the consequences of Chernobyl and atmospheric weapons testing. Fukushima didn't come close to touching the contamination from THAT
An excellent article, especially given the analysis of the social engineering tools used against the general public.

Sadly, I'm certain it will be read like as a too academical alarmist piece and forgotten soon.
I have been meaning to get into the FBA business and I downloaded the Helium10 extension for this. It allows you to see the inventory status of an item you are viewing on Amazon.

It is shocking how many times something that says `sold by Sony` or `Amazon` yet I press `inventory` on the menu that the extension injects into the product page and surprise, surprise, most of the stock is coming from FBA sellers.
That's actually another part that fell between the cracks and I'm attempting to address... Aside from the -n, everything is parsed as a whitespace-delimited stream. They just happen to be passed as command line arguments, but they're really just stream data. So all the input, output, formatting, and data commands can be passed as one big string argument

bo -n "oh1l2 Pc if4b 1.5 1.25 ii2b 1000 2000 3000 ih1 ff fe 7a ib1 10001011"

Or as multiple arguments (no point here, just that you can do it):

bo -n "oh1l2 Pc if4b 1.5 1.25" "ii2b 1000 2000 3000" "ih1 ff fe 7a ib1 10001011"

Or as a file from disk:

echo "oh1l2 Pc if4b 1.5 1.25 ii2b 1000 2000 3000 ih1 ff fe 7a ib1 10001011" >mycommands.txt
bo -n -i mycommands.txt

Or as multiple files from disk:

echo "oh1l2 Pc if4b 1.5 1.25 ii2b 1000 2000" >mycommands1.txt
echo "3000 ih1 ff fe 7a ib1 10001011" >mycommands2.txt
bo -n -i mycommands1.txt -i commands2.txt

Or as stdin:

echo "oh1l2 Pc if4b 1.5 1.25 ii2b 1000 2000 3000 ih1 ff fe 7a ib1 10001011" | bo -n -i -

Or as a crazy mix of all of that:

echo "if4b 1.5 1.25" >float-32s.txt
echo "ii2b 1000 2000 3000" >int-16s.txt
echo "ih1 ff fe 7a" >hex-bytes.txt
echo "ib1 10001011" >binary-bytes.txt
bo -n -i float-32s.txt -i int-16s.txt -i hex-bytes.txt -i binary-bytes.txt oh1l2 Pc

It's designed to fit in with the unix file and pipe paradigm, and also be composeable so that you can have saved data chunks to use in multiple cases, which by necessity makes it a bit opaque for someone approaching it for the first time, but also makes it incredibly powerful when mixed with other unix tools.
The Cleveland Clinic has the same system.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17242-mobil...
Maybe off topic, but I do a lot of ad-hoc python scripts where I drop scripts everywhere in my filesystem, but I need dependencies installed in a virtualenv so my ad-hoc scripts can access them. The problem I'm having is that sometimes things will run for a whole day and then fail at the end because of a typo or something.

I've been looking at other languages to see if there's a language like python but type checked, or some kind of prechecking so I don't lose hours of processing to a print(str+int).

I took a look at Scala but instead of virtualenv style dependency management it's more like maven projects. It has Ammonite where you can declare dependencies at the top of files but that seems kind of hacky.

The other option is Python compile time checks using type hints and mypy, which I think I should eventually learn but haven't gotten around to.

The Lily language looks like the closest thing to "functional type checked python" that I've seen and that's cool.
It's just the natural order of public companies. You grow and grow to please shareholders and bring in more profits.
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That was powerful, made me tear up.
Harsh but fair!? We're listening, feedback has been passed to the team who look after https://tyk.io/.
> this decision will benefit apple a lot

I don't see how "unt[ying] the Play Store from Search and the Chrome browser," stopping "paying OEMs for portfolio-wide search exclusivity," or letting OEMs sell "devices with Android forks" helps Apple that much [1]. Android will still exist. Play Services and Store will remain Google's castles. OEMs will continue selling Google's bundle. All that changes is now they don't have to.

Worst case, Google adds a Play Services licensing fee. If this doesn't result in American antitrust action (for raising prices after forming a monopoly), all it will do is increase some phones' prices. If that matters to consumers, OEMs will be free to release non-Play Android phones at a lower price point.

[1] Stratchery
As someone from Kansas, absolutely an issue. It's probably 90% white, there's no culture in Kansas City, just a bunch of hipsters with clear framed glasses. When I interned for Garmin a few years back, they had intern events to hype us up about living in Kansas City.

It's essentially a cultural wasteland, and tech jobs are few and far between. The startup scene there is a joke too, they suck up new college grads too stupid to realize they can work elsewhere and pay them below market.
I've had similar issues with Verizon support reps. What I've started doing is if I get the feeling they're not helping, I just hang up and call again. At least with Verizon I'd say 50% of agents know what they're talking about, so usually that works.

I know this is a shitty solution (and to be honest, I've never had to do the same with Amazon) but it does help.
From my experience with UPS, they probably burned the shirts.
Just about every living thing that has lived since 1945 has had tracers of the atomic age within its body, in the form of isotopes that were far less common, prior to atmospheric nuclear tests.
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At the very end of the article:

> ...the levels of cesium-137 are barely detectable...

You'll get a lot more exposure from a single plane flight!
One of Android's major headaches is that Linux does not have a stable driver interface. Interfaces within linux change regularly, but only drivers that are checked into the main tree are updated. If you maintain a driver outside of that tree, you will experience pain. That's how Android operated and why it's linux kernel rarely changed (and why doing OS updates for phones was so hard).

Android has been trying to fix this with treble[0], which will make many more phones get OS updates going forward. So Android has attempted to work around one of linux major problems.

Another large problem is that Linux was designed for desktop architectures. It's design and focus continues to go that way. This has impact across an entire range of functionality that an OS is supposed to bring.

Fuschia seems to be a research project with a focus on mobile/laptop type devices. It could care less about server type environments, which lets it make different tradeoffs in design.

[0] https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/
They're on like their fourth attempt, aren't they? They tried Pen Windows, then Windows CE and its derivatives, then there was the ARM version of Windows 8, and now they're hoping Intel tablets running Windows 10 can become a thing.
That's right http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/20100807/NEWS/100809186
This selective application of reason makes no sense. Trigger a wave of secularism in the Islamic world that surrounds Israel, get them to acknowledge Israel as a country and take off their agenda the destruction of Israel. Maybe then, we can opine on Israel's proclamation as a Jewish state, which BTW, is the reason their neighbors want them off the map. Put another way "we want you gone because you're Jewish, but you're not allowed to officially claim to be a Jewish state" is the hypocrisy we're dealing with
> Take a look at C# which added it without many issues

I wouldn't say "without many issues." It took a major surgery in the CLR codebase to add generics. The difference between CLR 1.1 without generics and CLR 2.0 with generics was huge. No area of code was untouched.
Quite OT but I almost always wash my hands _before_ (and after) using the restroom. Especially in a public place, it always made sense to me to do it before and after. It seems much more hygienic both for the "holy object" and other people!
Those are all reasons why you should engineer in a thermal margin. If some proportion of machines are throttling out of the box, then most machines will start throttling as the thermal management system degrades. You're supposed to account for the ageing of the thermal material and clogging of the airflow path and degradation of the fan bearings. You're supposed to leave in some headroom for warm rooms, high altitude and partially blocked vents.

It's yet another symptom of Apple's preoccupation with thickness. The 2015 MacBook Pro was 18mm thick. The new MacBook Pro is 15mm thick. After all the furore over USB-C and unreliable keyboards and the loss of MagSafe, was that 3mm of z-height a worthwhile tradeoff?
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