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I just visited New York on an extended trip.

Most of NYC is better connected, more vibrant, more concerts, more sports, more universities, more housing, more international people, more business activity.

Yet, NYC is affordable with a "functioning" commute system. People on all spectrum of income can live there.

SF bay area has none of all that and yet is super expensive wasteland of suburbia. SF city is better but not even comparable to major cities of the world.

The only thing SF has going on for it is weather, outdoors (for which you need a car and a parking spot) and tech companies.

For any young padawans considering SF, it has its attractions but you won't know what a bubble it is until you get out. It's not worth spending one single life in the bubble.
K8s is going in that direction. Providing an API for storage providers to implement and letting them drive the implementation versus trying to offer a monolithic all batteries included solution.
I think Haskell is a very nice general purpose language. I think of it as a better Java. There's no need to think of it as a scary academic thing, unless one focuses on the wrong kind of blog posts. https://patrickmn.com/software/the-haskell-pyramid/
Thanks! So it's not that much more expensive than NYC.
This isn't self-medication - it's talking to a licensed professional and asking for a prescription for the actual condition you have. (Of course it's abusable but it's not the same thing as buying controlled substances on the dark web or even lying about symptoms to get a prescription.)
What is that cost? There's an enclave in my city where I can't afford to live, and I live in a neighborhood where others can't afford to live.

Now in my case, the people who are shut out of my neighborhood arguably have less access to things like good schools, so in principle I'm uncomfortable with exclusionary zoning and economic segregation. But I don't know if that's the case in SF. Are the elementary schools in SF that much better than in surrounding towns?
The personality changes are real. Psychedelics fixed my autism. Or at least, taught me how to cope with it in a way that’s compatible with a good social life and less suffering.
$1800 is probably your floor. You'd need to get to the east bay and do something like Oakland, Berkeley, or something beyond the hills like WC.
You sparked a lot of comments in this post.

Thank you for explaining these concepts to me, I have not heard of the aesthetic usability effect. I will read into this as I am curious what it is now.

To be clear, I do value design. I think design is important and I write that out in the article that I value design. What I struggle to value are redesigns, that is, complete redesigns of a UI - instead preferring incremental updates of the UX that is necessary to use the product or application.

Thank you for the work that you've done, as I'm sure you have had a great impact on the customers you've directly and indirectly served. Continue to do design, because if it were up to me, nothing would look good at all.

Cheers.
Wow, that was some really toxic shit, there. Glad you got out.
The article mentions the exorbitant cost of DNA/paternity testing for sexy workers; I wonder what happens if sites like Ancestory and 23andme were made more available for paternal identification (or even familial searching, “close enough” genetically).

Also curious if and how you petition across countries for child support once you have evidence in hand.
I think that American corporations should not facilitate evil.

You might be 100% right, I certainly don't know the perspectives of Saudi women, but I will take your word for it.

But if Google resisting evil means that the Saudi government punishes Saudi women, then that is the fault of the Saudi government.

Should Google accede to every despotic government that threatens its people? I wrote in a previous comment about how Google does nothing to prevent China from using its technology to put innocent people in camps. Perhaps China will be even more brutal if Google tries to thwart them. But I still think Google has an obligation not to cooperate.

I sympathize with what you are saying. And if I were a woman in Saudi Arabia, I would probably not want the app banned too.
The article does a good job at keeping ideas within the realm of reality.

> I especially like the idea of CO2 scrubbing for coal-fired power plants. Of course to cut carbon emissions it would be better to ban coal-fired power plants.

I don't like this idea at all. It shows that at the current rate of action, global warming handling is a tragedy. It's a life threatening issue for billions of us, yet nothing happens, only insignificant changes.
I know him and believe in protecting others by spreading the word.
No need to go ballistic over OP's Q.

Automation of tasks is in demand and is a good win-win business model.

There are different ways to do that - API could be the one, and different services do store users passwords to help users to do what they want and need.

No need to scream "banned".
There is actually a very simple solution to this: publish a Merkel tree of submitted bug reports.
Impressive!

This one 19 year old has earned 2.5% of all cash paid out by HackerOne...
This article gets basically everything wrong about German politics. No, the AfD could not "very quickly [...] force their way into a coalition, and eventually become the largest party in the Reichstag" (for one: it's called Bundestag, it's just located in a building called the "Reichstagsgebäude"). Neither the right nor the left wing parties have gained substantially since the last elections. Merkel has been a focus point for right wing engagement.

And lastly: "far right" is a problematic party attribution when the far right is for all intents and purposes claiming policies that Merkel's CDU and her personally claimed 10-15 years ago. It's correct to say that the AfD has lots of far right members, though. It just hasn't shown up in their (stated) political goals, as it does for the actual far right parties we have.
And Amazon lumps WorkDocs and WorkMail and Chime into their AWS line item as well. Its the same thing. Except Amazon's just sucks, so they don't generate nearly as much revenue.
Why do you assume that it was China vs. the world, not China and many others vs. US and many others?

I hope you take a clearer look at the current geopolitical map and have a more updated view of the world.
If the NSA spies on your text messages as opposed to the CCP, you (and your family) are much less likely to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed on the basis of your religious or political beliefs.
I guess it depends on what question you're asking. You seem to be pointing out that you think the real question is: "what is the median rent for anyone living in San Francisco?" whereas Zumper seems to be more answering the question: "if someone moved to San Francisco today, and has zero connections, what rent would they pay?"
Both are valid questions, but I think it's good to set the context for if you're having a conversation about "general median rent" vs "newcomer median rent."
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746426/

That article shows that people who regularly go to AA meetings are more likely to be sober (e.g. 67% people who went to one or more meeting a week were sober 16 years later).

Because of the universal nature of AA, it is hard to randomize for it (if you just randomly tell an alcoholic to go to AA, they have already been told that by others, so that's not a very good randomization; the control is contaminated); that said, there are studies where people randomly selected to go to AA are more likely to be sober. A 2014 meta study shows that greater AA attendance results in greater sobriety, which can not be attributed to self-selection (in other words, we have finally scientifically demonstrated that the people doing well are being helped by AA):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285560/

Now, that Gabrielle Glaser article you link to which claims AA is a cult uses some very dubious figures for AA's success. They come from Lance Dodes; since Dodes could not find any studies that AA has a 5% success rate, he instead multiplied multiple numbers from unrelated studies to synthesize the 5% figure. His numbers have been questioned by a number of treatment experts, including Thomas Beresford, John Kelly, Gene Beresin, and Jeffrey D. Roth (who called Dodes's figures a "pseudostatistical polemic").
Ocaml has 100% less bikeshedding and no propensity for unending puritanical holy wars. It's a language for getting things done, as opposed to thinking about finding a way to do something that satisfies an obsessive compulsive desire to eliminate 100% of sides effects for no practical reason.
Simple three-legged saw horse:

https://www.toolsofthetrade.net/trucks-equipment/jobsite-equ...
I think high rent prices are bad for a number of reasons:

Less flexibility in starting a company: You can't choose to bootstrap unless you do it as a side hustle at a megacorp, and it's hard to not compete with a megacorp because it does everything. You have to take VC funding and follow VC rules to some degree, and it may not be a direction you wish to follow. This is a feedback loop.

Oligopsony employment conditions: If you wish to build savings and not spend all your money on rent, you can really only work for the largest and best funded companies, and even then you need to negotiate at a disadvantage, since they have far more information on the employment markets (because they're big) and they each know the other big players (because they're few) and can bound salaries through price leadership. This is also a feedback loop.

I'm concerned we will see fewer "real" companies like Intel/Apple, and more Snapchat clones and e-scooter startups. Less meaningful bets, less drive, and more complacency -- borne out of the desire to cannibalize social trust (e.g. if you work hard, you earn shelter) and the societal fabric (e.g. all people deserve shelter as a basic human right) for privatized financial gain.
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I don't mean to knock Haskell at all. It's a fine language with a great community around it.

That said, the number of commercial applications developed in Haskell is very small, because, I think, it doesn't integrate as well into the larger ecosystems around it. It seems like it's a beautiful island all by itself.
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/02/26/on-dots-c-c/ has a high-level overview for why not C++.

Moreover, Unity has invested heavily in the c#/.net/mono ecosystem; the editor runs on mono, and the runtimes are all either IL2CPP (an in-house translation from .NET bytecode to C++) or mono as well. It would be a truly crazy amount of work to switch, for little or no clear benefit. If one were picking a language today to write an engine in, Rust might be a reasonable competitor, but it's also fairly new and is arguably less noob-friendly. C# offers a nice ramp from new programmer to performance-critical AAA with burst.
This is a thermodynamically losing proposition for a human industry - liberating carbon is enthalpically and entropically favorable. Sequestering it requires putting the genie back in the bottle, and where will the energy budget for that come from?

Fortunately there is a system to do this which dwarfs in scale pretty much any industry humans ever have and ever will come up with: photosynthesis. While 10 Gigatons of C is a lot, terrestrial biomass is ~600 Gigatons of C. The best strategy for reversing carbon emissions is letting the Earth soak it back up again.
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> He could have treated a man with fake papers identifying him as Mr. Cotten

So what you're saying is that this "Mr. Cotten" (almost certainly not Indian given the surname), magically appears on death's doorstep at the hospital and promptly dies the next day.

It's so far outside the realm of possiblity, but perhaps Cotton and his wife went to a local cafe frequented by tourists; found a similarly baby faced looking Northern European male with light colored hair and blue eyes; offered him a large sum of cash to "drink this potion that will make you temporarily ill, but only for 24 hours, trust us". Together they walk to the local fake ID shop and do the necessary; then "Cotton" and his "wife" check in at the 5-star hotel and proceed with the plan (drink potion, get sick, go to hospital, but oh noes, "Cotton" dies!).

The real Cotton then visits a local plastic surgeon to get that Brad Pitt look he's always wanted, and slips off to a remote tropical island to lay low until his wife can extricate herself from all the unwanted attention she's getting back home -- when the dust settles she rejoins him in their happily ever after, lifestyles of the rich but not famous, world travels.

...More likely, Cotton is simply stone cold dead.
It's at an early stage but we've used these util functions in our production projects without significant issues.

The code is pretty short, so not too hard to grok if with Angular experience or used rxjs before :)
Does the US have:

(a) Social credit system which centres around facial recognition of the entire population ?

(b) Reeducation camps where tens of millions of Muslims, Uyghurs, dissidents, journalists etc are sent to based on surveillance of their online activity ?

(c) Free reign to do whatever they want unfettered by any judicial or political oversight mechanisms ?

(d) Companies and the government stealing intellectual property on an industrial scale ?

The answer to all of those is no. US is a democracy with checks and balances provided by Congress, Journalists and the Courts. China has none of these.
Exactly, OPs problem isn't that he's seeking escapism via drug usage, it's just that he isn't using the right drugs. Orgy Porgy Ford and Fun, kids are overrated, let's all get fucking high and watch the walls melt, surely that's the purpose of life.
Well, the single biggest threat to the US is if they can make better hardware cheaper than the American alternatives.

But of the two things you list, it probably depends on whether it is wartime or peacetime. In peacetime, better to be spied on by foreign governments and in wartime better not to be.
And in addition to that because it's San Franscisco you don't really own your own home or apartment. You just have a set of things you are allowed to do on it on the whim of the city (ie, no airbnb).
> see simpleDB which I used and still works even though they don't seem to market it

They don't market it, and if you create an AWS account after it was deprecated in favor of Dynamo you'd basically never know it existed except for some footnotes in the Dynamo documentation referencing its predecessor.

Which is fine; hats off to AWS for maintaining it for customers for so long.
SF maximizes technological intelligence, Wall Street maximizes financial intelligence. Plenty of overlap, but the top talent stays where the rest of the top talent is.
I’ll respectfully agree to disagree, especially as what you stated isn’t the full story either.
The number of commercial applications developed in functional programming languages as a whole is pretty small compared to mainstream languages. I am a dotnet dev and also like F# a lot, but I cannot think of very many commercial applications written in F# either.
Some of the research showed significant health improvements from 3 days a week of 3 reps of 20 second standing bike sprints. So only 3 minutes per week.
A faster way to find paths on grids http://mikolalysenko.github.io/l1-path-finder/www/
Were there sexual diseases back then?
Don't forget PEGA. Management love PEGA and Salesforce.
Right now we have Australian born citizens who were kidnapped on entry to China and sent to re-education camps based off anti-China comments made online. And many similar examples exist:

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/detention-of-an-australian...

Sorry but I will always prefer the US where at least there is a functioning judicial system.
And then you end up with brittle applications to support. Not fun for devs. Not happy times with management.
I'm more used to a workflow like Panic Coda (integrated text editor with built-in SFTP). For that, I found Quoda [1], even the name suggests it's trying to be a Coda clone for Android. It's a bit rough & needs work - nowhere near as good as Coda on the Mac - but it got the job done when my main machine was broken & I had to use my DeX for a while.

Termux filled the terminal gap for me as well.

[1] http://getquoda.com/
Google declines to pull controversial Saudi government app
We can argue about which country has the worst spying record, but there's a fundamental difference between a country where you can be imprisoned for years for merely sharing a web post that is critical of the government and one where you can stand in front of the White House with signs calling the president an idiot racist and nothing bad happens. Genuine rule of law and a truly independent judiciary make all the difference. I say this as someone who is quite fond of China and travel there annually.
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No, the schools aren’t that good. And it’s not an enclave, the entire peninsula is extremely expensive except for a few patches (San Bruno, parts of Redwood City, Santa Clara) - and there’s not much availability in those places. The only place close to what most people outside of California would consider affordable is deep east Oakland or Richmond, after that you need to go to Tracy or Vallejo or past San José.
I understand, depression and alcohol is lethal.
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> Safe, picturesque, good schools and vibrant downtown

It's completely dead and devoid of culture.
That's true, but for someone like me in a C# shop, I can slip F# code into our apps seamlessly. No one would say the apps are written in F#, but several key components are.

Hopefully, FP will take over the world soon and Haskell and F# will both be at the top of the charts! :)
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And actual culture.
Xerox has around 20% market share of managed print and document services.

Not really a complete domination is it. Lol.
I wish there was a way to reduce stress the way you describe alcohol does, but without the tolerance-related escalation and the addiction. I have been trying meditation and progressive relaxation - they do work, but only for a limited duration. 2 hours later, you're back to being jittery and edge-of-the-seat.
Hi! Keep an eye on our blog and twitter accounts. We announced this workshop back in November (in the original blog post for Spinning Up, located here: https://blog.openai.com/spinning-up-in-deep-rl/), and tweeted about a deadline extension for the workshop back in December.

We are still picking a date for the second workshop, and will announce it as soon as we can (and with a reasonable amount of lead time).

Cheers!
“Taking the Cryptic Out of Crypto” – Jason Rosenstein from Portion
Unfortunately, I've never used a K2. I had someone sitting next to me at a restaurant show me his, he was psyched to find another KeyX user!, but I didn't ask to try out the keyboard. Reviews of the Key2 mention they made the keys slightly larger to make them easier to use. Whatever the change, I can't imagine it'd be any less pleasurable to type on.

I have huge hands, but don't have a problem typing on the Key1. The K2 should be more comfortable for epic typing sessions.

BB's Android is bone stock in appearance. Their built-in BB apps are excellent--especially the camera app. I much prefer them over Samsung and HTC's apps. They're similar in function to my wife's Sony Xperia.

They still have the classic suite of BlackBerry tools, such as that system-wide search. The map-to-whatever-you-want key on the right hand side can be setup to launch that search.

And you can map every single key on the keyboard (and combinations of keys!) to shortcuts from the "desktop."

It's a great phone. It's not going to be as fast as the Galaxy Note, but if you're interested in incredible battery life (I charge mine once a week) and a fantastic typing experience... You won't regret trying the K2. Worst case? You use it for a few weeks then sell it for the full purchase price on eBay. Resale prices seem to still be running high, last I checked.
Does anyone know if the Japanese omen about oarfish have any weight? How concerned should we be about events like these?
Very unwise. Only an accident of birth separates any given Googler from being someone whose freedom is constrained by this app. This will come back to haunt them later.
I'm teaching a stats/research methods/mini-data-science for lawyers class right now. Assign this article, because cats are the best? (Y/N)
yeah, very cool you were able to find a way to write some F# at work, I wish I could too.

Given trends, I don't expect to see any exponential growth though.
We asked Jason: "What are the barriers to entry the bigger art market and have more people on board to create and trade the art on portion?"

He says: "The major barrier to entry is 'taking the cryptic out of crypto". Right now there are as many cryptocurrency users as internet users in the year 1994. For the rest of the population to trade art on Portion we must obfuscate blockchain as much as possible (while still keeping it decentralized)."
Wouldn't the public transaction records on the cold wallet addresses confirm or deny this (plausible) hypothesis?
The service workers move somewhere else where they can afford to live. The ones that remain can demand a higher price for their work
If removing the app has 0 effect, then having the app has 0 effect also, so might as well remove it, no?
While I have personally found AA to e very useful, it may not be the right solution for everyone (personally, it took me a long time until it helped).

I'd also like to add, each group is different and yes, some can be cult-like. I'd suggest trying more than one.

I'm really not trying to promote AA, just mentioning that it's one of many options (in addition to medically assistant therapy, individual and group counseling etc).

Anybody who claims to know what will work for any one person is full of it. But to anyone struggling, please keep trying different methods until you find the treatment that works for you.
So the entire judicial system in Canada has been coopted by the Trudeau government.

Sure thing.