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I'd like to add that the Bay Area affordability problem is not some unsolvable situation that we have to just be resigned to accept. But it does require getting involved somehow. If you have a decent paying job, the easiest way is to start donating to organizations like SF YIMBY, and / or political campains of pro YIMBY candidates. People such as Sonja Trauss, Christine Johnson, who are both running for SF D6. David Chiu and Scott Wiener have had a great track record in the State Assembly and State Senate.

We got into this affordability situation by passing a series of laws at the state and local levels, over many years. We're never going to be as cheap as Akron OH, but we can slow the price growth, and maybe reduce it some by making it easier, and cheaper to build, by changing state and local laws to allow that.

Finally, local politicians are actually quite accessible, so your voice can be heard. And groups like SF YIMBY help to amplify that voice. Fundamentally, most politicians do what they think will get them votes, so it helps to find a group of like minded individuals.
I have similar complaints and no optometrist has been of help. It's really annoying at night, or simply when watching TV, the subtitles are always subtly doubled.

I did get a corneal topography scan a few years ago, and they ruled out keratoconus. Perhaps you can ask for it, it takes like 5 seconds.
The bit that's new to me is "popularized". How popular was this block list and how much of the popularity of it could be attributed to Wil?

Also, do people really contact potential employers through Twitter and don't have an alternative like email?
There are very few libraries that I need to write type definitions for. However, they do not always get them right and sometimes can prove to be annoying when the typedefs do not keep up with latest versions of the third-party library. Any library I write now is done with typescript so typedefs are automatic which is fantastic.
Not to mention 23andMe, Genentech, Palantir, Apple, Cisco, Seagate, NVidia, Lockheed Martin, etc.

I somewhat agree with the grandparent - tech is a lot more than just consumer Internet tech. And yet there's a useful distinction there - once tech is more than about 10-15 years old, it ceases to be considered "tech", because it either dies out or becomes big enough that it gets its own label. United Airlines (another SF company) was some fantastic technology - in the 1920s. Now, it's just an airline, because we've gotten used to the ability to fly through the air and cross the country within a few hours.

And I'd say that Silicon Valley has an advantage in "tech" (i.e. innovations that are < 15 years old) in that a.) it has a culture that's open to the next new thing instead of assuming it's a threat to the natural order and b.) has a large number of service providers that are all eager to find & support that next new thing and c.) has a legal framework that prevents past employers from stopping you from going off and starting the next thing.
I find it slightly bemusing to hear JWT called "a growing favorite for serverless projects". I thought we'd past the favourites phase years ago and now we're on to the backlash phase.

Or maybe that's just HN?
There are several reports saying that if you "just" use HDMI and not their special drivers, the display will periodically stop, freeze, and display a message steering you towards the drivers.
The fastest way to expedite a job is not to have to do it in the first place. A homoiconic language doesn't require de/serialization. So many problems disappear when you have this design.
Surprised this comment is getting downvoted, because it is dead-right. The core "problem" is that the Bay Area has experienced a gold rush unlike any other in human history, and it's happened so quickly that some things can't keep up. Yes, there are regulatory problems that have compounded this, but those problems are just tangential and I doubt fixing them would do a ton to completely alleviate housing affordability.

The problem is that Silicon Valley is awash in money.
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I think the argument is that he promoted somebody's personal blocklist as a general blocklist, and that this therefore made him culpable. Which I think was a judgement failure on his part, but not necessarily a trust related one, and I don't find the culpability part of the argument particularly convincing.

Note also that I said "the subset of people involved I dislike" to try and keep my opinions separate; I'm unsure why you're responding as if I'm supporting any specific person involved when I've merely done my best to outline the situation as I understand it.
On the flipside, I really appreciate a short but sweet single player campaign. Titanfall 2 had some truly awesome levels (time travel!) and ended when it had said what it wanted to say. I really dislike games that feel drawn out like too little butter on too much toast (some JRPGs come to mind..).
No, we've never heard about this padding of which you speak.
Not so useful if your airliner flies at night as well
i think we are talking past each other - my point is that passenger wight vs total weight is not a very relevant metric - you need to think about in the context of payload [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Takeoff_weight_diagr...] which can be as little as ~10% of MTOW
Surprised to find this on HN this morning! I'm Director of Engineering at UrbanFootprint (https://urbanfootprint.com/), the company featured in the Fast Company article. We provide data and tools for urban planners to assess and compare the impacts of land use and transportation decisions.

A basic use case is a city updating its General Plan, which would start with a forecast of how much population growth is anticipated / needs to be accommodated. A planner then needs to assess where new residents will live, work, shop, and play. Perhaps even more essential, how are people going to travel between all of these activities? Will the new growth be auto-dependent, transit-focused, walkable? Is any of the existing or planned development in hazard areas such as flood of wildfire? What are the energy and water use impacts of the plans?

We’re using Python and Postgres/PostGIS on the backend to answer these questions and a React SPA to serve it up and make it interactive in a browser.

Also, if you happen to live in California, UrbanFootprint is available for free to your city through our California Civic Program (http://info.urbanfootprint.com/california-civic-program) so feel free to nudge them to get in touch ;)
I didn't have mice or keyboards in mind, but yeah, a full stack would be surely overkill for their minuscule uCs; this would call for more intelligent devices, peers rather than slaves, which for smaller ones would be a problem now.
I'm far from an expert and you're 100% right on the involved complexity, still I dream of a standard for devices and systems where just adding a software layer can extend a board to board communication to a geographic level, and Ethernet seems very close to that.
It is ironic that the same people who support immigration on a national level become extremely nativist when it comes to their own city.
I use a MacBook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015, and it's amazing. I hope it lasts forever.

I've tried a friends new MBP and I can't stand the keyboard, or the dongles. When I sit at my work desk, I have 2x DisplayPorts to my monitors, a USB 3.0 hub, and often a USB thumb drive. Swapping to USB-C would be a pain.

My biggest gripe with Apple's current MBP line up is the insulting specs you get for the price. I can buy a 128GB SSD delivered for £24, I imagine at bulk wholesale Apple is barely paying £10 - yet that's what they put in their 'entry level' £1,250 13" MBP. Absolute madness.
YAGNI is, as ever, pretty good advice. It’s hard to follow, it’s always tempting to ignore.
oh, I miss the backgammon games over telnet.

Does anyone knows of any servers still online?
Serious A/B testing is usually done with a bandit algo these days, you can converge with far fewer trials than a statistically meaningful A/B. News or other articles recommendations are often bandits too - MSN being a prime example.
Farming allowed for specialization. So school, or learning a trade, or how to make something.
Even given the dynamics you're describing, the basic idea still makes intuitive sense to me: it's easier to convince someone with a pretty & intuitive simulation than it is without.

Your case would require complete rejection of rational arguments by the population. And while I do enjoy indulging in gratuitous negativity from time to time, reality clearly isn't quite as bleak as one may think. As but one example: power generation & distribution are one of the segments of infrastructure that often lead to controversies, but supply has so far managed to remain stable.

The optimist might say we're using some slack in the system to take our time to find solutions that might actually better than first drafts. Yet even the pessimist will at least agree that there's still a lot of potential to get worse.
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I don't think that you can. The CSRF token must either be in the headers or the meta tags. Storing it inside the JWT cookie would defeat the purpose (unless you are not using cookies at all in which case you don't have to).
It’s funny to me, as a professional statistician, because most methods popularized by Fischer et al in the early 1900s are wildly inappropriate for practical problems, especially policy decision science or causal inference.

All the theory behind t-testing, Wald testing, using the detivatives of the log likelihood near to the MLE point estimate in order to also estimate standard errors when no analytical solution exists, ANOVA, instrumental variables, etc.

It is in no sense exaggerative or incendiary to say that whole collection of stuff is truly garbage statistics that is insanely rife with counter-intuitive results, common situations when minor violations of the assumptions can easily lead to statistically significant results of the wrong sign, and common practical needs (like model selection without doing a bunch of pairwise or subset selection calculations, or correcting for multicollinearity in large regressions where calculating something like variance inflation factors is totally intractable) are difficult or impossible.

Modern Bayesian approaches fully and entirely subsume these techniques, and not just for large data (in fact, using Bayesian methods is more critical for small data), and also not because of modern computing frameworks, but because, from very first principle of null-hypothesis significance testing, that whole field of stats/econometrics is fundamentally incapable of giving evidence or estimations that could address the very questions that the whole field is based on.

NHST basically solves a type of inference problem that nobody can ever actually have in reality, and which is almost always not even approximately close enough to actually be non-misleading.

NHST is like the stats analogue of Javascript: a horrible historical accident that gained market traction despite being utterly and unequivocally a bad choice for the very problem domain it’s intended to be used for. The historical accident of adoption and momentum in Javascript sets back professional computer science by decades until it’s eventually wholesale replaced with something whose first principles are actually appropriate.

That same reckoning is in flux in many fields of statistics, as the fundamental unreliability of NHST estimation is more understood and drop-in Bayesian replacements are more available.
Will "the brain", which is in question here, not loose the attained rhythm once the stimuli are removed?

Even if making a stronger claim not focused on the brain specifically, plants especially need light for like everything.
If they're active members of the community that are regularly quoted then banning them is unlikely to be the best course of action; I prefer to publicly announce that I'm ignoring someone, and perhaps why, before I do. Banning active and valuable community members should, at least, be public and transparent, lest the community react negatively.

SMTP tarpits are more likely to involve a perpetrator who is operating a bot, and less likely a perpetrator who is personally engaged in the conversation and community.
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DOOM shipped on the IRIX install CDs for many years.
The main issue with GC for system level use is avoiding GC pauses in latency critical parts of the code. You can achieve that a large number of ways, but one of the simplest is to simply disable the GC in latency critical sections (such as interrupts) and ensure you set aside enough memory to prevent needing a collection to let the critical sections complete.

If you need dynamic allocation in such sections, you can still do so as long as you set safety limits to ensure sufficient memory will be available, or e.g. let the latency critical code allocate from separate parts of the heap or using a different allocation scheme (e.g. pre-allocated arenas).

There are lots of details to get right, but the "common narrative" basically assumes you're not able to disable the collector when you want to and no way of safely pre-empting the collector. But making it possible to selectively disable a GC and ensure your latency critical code can safely do so is fairly straightforward.
Specific topics, examples?
Accidentally, I just found this: Bosch had a self-driving van prototype in 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTnBiTIvGqY
I live in SF and face daily the eldritch horror abominations NIMBY's brought upon this world. It's getting increasingly hard trying to keep my sanity. Their nextdoor incantations against a 24 hour bus schedule because it will degrade road quality (true story). The little leaflets they put in my mail inviting me to join their cthonian ceremonies of opposing and punishing a neighbor's hybris. The heretic wanted to remodel his parking space, but construction will raise up dust which their kids will breath while playing outside (true story). Trying to reason with them is impossible, it only results in madness..

Ok now, joking aside (though the 2 examples I mentioned are 100% true, they opposed a late-night bus because it would cause noise + somehow degrade road quality. Who can reason with old-bitter people with too much time on their hands?).

The issue I am seeing with them selling to developers for huge amounts of money, is that the developers will want to make that that amount of money++ back.
Current zoning laws limit the height of buildings, so... their only option is to only build small insanely overpriced condos and grant permissions only to super-upscale businesses, that only rich or rich-young-tech people can afford and want.
Perhaps the market will correct that in time, but powerful people as aways will fight for that to not happen.

I feel we need more relaxed zoning laws, let people build bigger and higher.
> If only we invested more in GWT (a Google project that compiles Java to JavaScript) or Dart (a Google project that compiles a new language to JavaScript) or WASM or [insert your favorite language here — Clojure? Haxe? Elm?] we wouldn't need to worry about JavaScript at all!

I'm on the Dart team. I don't know if the author intended this, but you could read this as saying that Google isn't investing much in Dart, which isn't true.

Flutter and Fuchsia are the high profile projects that use Dart. AdWords is also built in Dart. The Dart team itself is as large as its ever been and growing. (I'd give more precise numbers, but Google generally shies away from publicly stating personnel details.) We have a ton of internal and external code written in Dart, and it's growing at a nice clip.

Different projects have different needs. If you have a large existing JS corpus that's providing a lot of value for you, then an incremental migration to TypeScript makes sense.

If you're looking to rewrite a lot of code and pay off technical debt anyway, then moving to a new language that doesn't have all of JavaScript's baggage can be a smarter choice. Dart has a cleaner object model and fewer warts like "===", etc. Making a bigger break from JS means that Dart's type system can be simpler than TypeScript's and is sound. That in turn means the compiler can rely on types for optimization and minification.
Did not downvote - but your arguments about geographic size ring really hollow given the NHTS stats I shared originally which show that 60% of car trips are 5 miles or less.

Then you’ll add that you can’t cycle in the winter in New York because Western European has more moderate weather. But I’ll point out that many of the Western Europe capitals have a colder winter than NYC.

But then if you accept that, you’ll move on to claims about how you can’t go shopping for a 4 person family using a bike. Then I’ll share stats that the average US family size is 2.58, and that all kinds of stores offer home delivery.

The point is that people come up with a litany of rationalizations for the status quo, but it ends up sounding like apology for car culture when even heavy drivers would complain about all the negatives (congestion, parking, pollution, shitty drivers) in other forums.

I’m guessing some of that is behind the downvotes.
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I believe other instances get automatically subscribed (without admin's preapproval) when any user follows someone on the other instance.
> The problem I see is that the electorate doesn't work the way the founders imagine.

Ding ding ding! Precisely. We’ve been designing cities well for thousands of years. I mean, pre-automobile, it made zero sense to have 5, 10, 15, 20 miles between you and a merchant or a doctor or law enforcement.

This is a political problem. NIMBY property owners are increasingly the only ones able to vote in a given location, partially because they’re the only ones who can afford to live there. I mean, Jane Jacobs was writing in the ‘60s about how we’re ruining thousands of years of urban planning knowledge.
I second Wooldridge. Greene I found to be much denser without providing much additional insight. It is a popular MS/PhD entry text though.

I add any of Ken Train's work to this mix, especially on estimating discrete choice theory.
The simpler your codebase is, the easier it is to adjust to fulfill a different purpose.

I think this is the most important sentence in the article. I've worked on a few extremely abstracted and horribly-indirect codebases that happened to be so very flexible and extensible in exactly all the wrong directions, so much that it made it much harder to change in the way that was actually required.
Interestingly, my Indy Irix “learning” workstation, circa 2001, is selling for more today on eBay then i bought it for back then. I guess it really has become a collectors item.
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I liked it. Fun lark. Also, Ace Echo And The Bunnymen video. I had forgotten how enjoyable they are.
Not really, unless there is something exceptional about the person. 400-500k is the general total compensation for most fully promoted engineers at FANG. (E.g. L5 at Google).
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""governed by complete nincompoops""

This will be true after you move too.
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Congrats for the PR successes, and also for turning what I can only assume was a worrying SimCity habit into a career & a tool for good.

To expand that SimCity analogy to its breaking point: I've long fantasised a game/simulator crossover that tries to get as close as possible to simulate a city. Down to, say, individual agent's decision to eat out or shop for groceries, and the resulting traffic etc.

Is that something you see happening in the (longish-term) future?
Where did "time flies when your having fun" come from? Time seems to move faster when you are actively doing something that envelopes your faculties, even if it has something to do with tracking time, like completing a complicated algorithm with a limited time to do it. Maybe you don't like general statements even if they are not implied to cover all cases?
A low refresh rate on an LCD is a lot more bearable than on a CRT
I've lived in three countries and a half-dozen states. The bay area's governance is easily the worst I've encountered.
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That is the dirty little secret of “silicon roundabout” or even worse “silicon beach” in the UK. There’s no actual tech there, just various tech-enabled ad and marketing firms.
Yeah - given all the data we have showing that SUV design is basically set up to kill pedestrians, I have to wonder when Ralph Nader is going to come out with “Unsafe at Any Speed 2”.
It is periodically blocked and unblocked. The GFW is extremely inconsistent on Chinese wiki.
I think you’re interpreting the “25km” part incorrectly. It could be a 25km long, x m wide stretch that’s turned to form a 25km long, x m high ‘wall’.
> I feel we need more relaxed zoning laws, let people build bigger and higher.

Bingo. If there is currently a detached house of 1500 sq ft that can be torn down and in its place can be put up a six story building apartments totaling 8000 sq ft of livable space, there’s plenty of room for profit for the prior homeowner, the developer, and also for the new units to be more affordable than what was there before. Increasing the supply is a win-win-win.

As I said, if necessary—-and it looks like it is—-higher levels of governments should step in to prevent local, narrow minded, parochial interests from killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
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There's a 386EX-based project. Not sure if it's still live:

https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=boards:sbc:sb...
>Why do laptop manufacturers insist on being stuck in 2005?

why does running apps these days require 16GB because developers insist on using as much RAM as possible
Did they, Olin Corp, ask Olin Shivers before using that name?
Oberon, Juice and Slim Binaries where really beautiful things.

But Worse is Better - https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
> And that is somewhat a good thing. Diversity of thoughts makes up for a good country. Shows up in the GDP. India is far ahead of both Pakistan and Bangladesh.

This argument is ludicrous. India isn't ahead of Pakistan and Bangladesh because of "diversity of thought". That's so reductionist I'm frankly astounded.
The problem with modern cmake is that it cannot run on older systems. So if you want to use it you end up either static compiling an incredibly hard and tedious depedency tree or have to use some just released OS.

What I want out of a make system isn't bleeding edge features. I want to be able to use it for more than 3 years.
Clearly, the courts are deferring this mess to the court of politics.

Poor representative government, representing the public interest poorly is a civic matter, not a legal one.

At some point, all of us need to think hatd about basic priorities, and then vote, do politicking, run for office, do business accordingly, or this is by implied consent, OK.

Frankly, there is no way this is OK, meaningful competition.

One could argue, satellite Internet, the various major efforts to connect are threats to telecoms. Agreed, but failure to encourage competition in each of those spaces is not market chouce or efficiency rewards for innovation either.

Doing just that is a competition between the means, OTA, wire, fiber, etc... the end game being a few entities controlling and pricing the resource.

In this scenario, people can expect the least per dollar, rather than the most per dollar where competition is robust.
The distribution is Pareto-like -- FANG compensation is at a 2-5x multipler compared to the modal Silicon Valley tech company. Coding talent at FANG relative to others almost certainly also follows a similar multiplier, given the market dynamics at work.
Sim City?
Are you talking about vaporwave?
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