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Also, you can lose a yubikey even more easily than you can lose a phone (because yubikeys are smaller and you typically use them less often).
Well maybe if the people with their million dollar homes let some more housing be built in the general area (shock & horror) there wouldn't be this problem.

This is largely a self inflicted problem that California has caused for itself.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments in this thread (and in any HN thread)? You're crossing into trolling at this point.
"Yet in practice, has it hurt Linux? "

Very much, yes. There are still so many bugs and the monolithic nature which forces driver to be integrated in the kernel ... requires so much more people at least to understand the kernel better.
Linus could still have his elite darwinist selected core hacker group, but for the whole linux eco system it is very bad that the barriers for the kernel are so arbitarily high.
What about having ground level RV, and apartment/condo/business space on top?

* And perhaps additional levels of parking for tenants.
Guessing it's because you call a normal telephone number and join a meeting. Handy if you don't have any internet connection.
> Usually there’s just small easily avoidable areas if you don’t want to deal with crowds

I recently visited Madrid, a city I lived in nearly 20 years ago. What struck me was not just the suffocating crowds of tourists in the very center of the city compared to back then. I also found that what used to be quiet residential neighborhoods (after all, they lack any particular sights) now had a distinct amount of tourists walking around with suitcases or backpacks – I assumed that AirBnB was now spreading tourists throughout the whole city.
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As someone who isn't the OP you're responding to, I definitely interpreted the title to be a reference to the essay. I think "A Modest Proposal" is one of those phrases where it is hard to use it without immediately connecting it to the essay (at least for some people).
I rented one of those expensive Ocean Beach ocean-view houses right by the parking lot they are talking about for a few months once. I've also lived out of a van in San Diego for some range of years (I used to do Oceanographic research and traveled 3-5 months a year). I quite literally have lived both sides of this story -- although I never once stayed in the parking lot in question in my van. I honestly can't imagine why anyone would want to stay in a van in that parking lot -- it is much too exposed and intrusive both in terms of the outside world coming in and in your inside world going out. It would also be very annoying to comply with the parking requirements ...

I think regulation to provide a path to legality for people to van dwell should happen but it should also take into account the needs of the communities and home-dwellers in an area. I never parked overnight in residential areas -- it seems to me a strange van parked overnight in a neighborhood could easily impact somebody who lived nearby, especially if they saw someone climbing in or out. Making someone nervous when they go for a walk in their own neighborhood is more than high enough cost to be worth avoiding.

The reality though is that there is a _lot_ of space in a most American cities that _nobody uses at night_ -- and its often not far from desirable places to be. Opening up small pockets of space sufficiently close to desirable locations for legal and safe use by van dwellers, in conjunction with other regulatory approaches (special vehicle registration, possibly even innovation via things like ODBC-gps appliances to allow local municipalities to collect van-dwelling taxes) could really curtail the negative effects residents experience while also enabling people the freedom to pursue the lifestyles they are already pursuing ...

Its possible to do all of (1) limit impact of van dwellers on communities (2) make van dwelling safer and more convenient (3) keep costs of van-dwelling lower than traditional housing and viable for people on a range of incomes
We need stacks like in ready player one!
I use zoom regularly (and have for more than a year). Paid customer.

I've the equivalent from google... horrible experience both times I've used it. UI is a mess. Quality of call was terrible.

As a g suite customer, I will stay far away from the google offerings.
They were getting lynched up into the 1900s by whites and Hispanics, put in camps in the mid 1900s, and discriminated against up until just a few generations ago, and now they're expected to lay down and be trodden upon, or else. Very cool, very progressive.
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This is overlooking the problem of detecting that people are doing something malicious. There is a fairly large variety of unwanted behavior, both by the advertisements, and by the sites or apps hosting the ads.
Well, for one, it's not obviously useful in traditional applications:

> This makes images a few percent larger (due to more gzip headers and loss of compression context between files), but it's plenty acceptable.

Compressing an entire image is generally great. Compressing all of the individual files in an image, is generally not great.
As a Northwesterner, it's clear to me how Northwest he is. He's like Ballard in a person. Or Bellingham.
I love Bari. In general, I've found the "deep cuts" in Italy to be way better than the tourist traps. I most recently spent two weeks in rural Sicily where there wasn't much to do and it was fantastic.
>We give cars free places to sleep while people are homeless.

This is basically the equivalent of saying, "People give pets free food and shelter while letting the homeless starve, what's wrong with our society"

Sure sounds deep and meaningful, but really it isn't
But why use a mac pro for that? It's not like UE4 only runs on mac or even has an advantage running on mac.
The missing middle housing makes sense in theory.

In practice, it still needs clarification on preventing sprawl and allowing car-free transportation:

1. This type of housing (various mid-level multiplex housing) seems to pragmatically fit in the area between urban (high-rises) and suburban (single-family homes) for cost and accessibility. To prevent sprawl, more people would have to choose middle housing over detached (single-family) housing, and there would need to be more of a geographic cap to the suburbs. There needs to be some compulsion to discourage developers from buying cheaper rural land to push the suburbs out further with more detached homes and McMansions for people who want to be further removed (thus having an unintended consequence of more sprawl).

The US in particular has so much damn land its been crazy to see new suburban developments pop up in just a few years. Conversely, in Europe (or Japan), it would be astounding to see suburbs being built the way they are in the US where there always seems to be a supply of land.

2. Public transportation needs to seriously catch up to allow for car-free middle housing. US cities have had so much planning around cars that public transportation is still a greater inconvenience in various cities. Buses and trains need major improvement to be cheap and reliable. Bicycles (and mopeds) also need to be less of an afterthought to appropriately integrate with the other forms of transportation.

I don't know how to fix this without city grid changes and/or more transportation investment (or incentives to use it). Relying on a $10 metro ride, or 2 hour bus ride, or 3 hour walk is not convenient to get across town on a daily basis.

In some ways, SROs may be more immediately impactful than middle housing. SROs can house more people for the given real estate in urban areas, and could offer shorter/easier commutes to work. Perhaps they are also cheaper to maintain if they are in high rises setups.

In NYC, there are "Projects" buildings next to newer, "luxury" apartments in various neighborhoods. If that kind of setup works, why does adding SROs not?
Unmoderated communities increase the necessity of trolls. In fact, 8chan and 4chan may be "unmoderated", but that doesn't mean that they're missing out on virtue-signaling or other acts which hamper discussion. You still need to follow the "rules" of the site.

4chan and 8chan political discussions will inevitably move towards defending free speech (even in the face of child porn, or whatever). Is that really what people think? Or is it virtue signaling to all of the other posters, to hold back trolls?

The fact of the matter is: unmoderated communities have their own rules. Its just more fluid and unwritten. People have a way of making you feel unwelcome even when things are anonymous, and that feeling itself is enough to hamper discussion.

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In effect, moderation on 8chan is handled by trolls deciding when and where to pick fights with specific users. With enough VPNs, you can pick out new IP addresses and stage copypasta campaigns to push your own viewpoints and astroturf your viewpoint.

I dunno, its just different. I still think it has the same issues as any other community. There's a veneer that things are more fair on 8chan, but really it just gives more power to the people who have more time on their hands.

You're right in that its important to learn "what people really think". I'm not coming forth with any solution myself, I'm just saying that all websites have their issues in my experience.
They are working with a terrible definition of "robot". Most robot companies are profitable, if we are talking about all of the companies that participated in the huge surge of automation that swept of the Western world during the postwar boom of 1945 to 1973. Some of the biggest of the companies are still profitable. This is also a line of work that has, somewhat, consolidated into the hands of German firms. Siemens is probably the best known of the older companies, and SAP is the best known of the modern software companies, but there is a lot out there.

See: https://ias.german-pavilion.com/en/home/
A similar route of introduction can be shown for Pacific chickens and Pacific rats, both of which were introduced to most Polynesian islands in pre-European times. The full inventory of pre-European tropical crops in Polynesia alone runs to almost 50 species. A lot of this is covered in Pathway of the Birds.
I know a lot of places put Senior as just a way of differentiating from Tier 1,2,3 positions etc. Doesn't always mean they're managers. It's also like how the title VP is used these days in finance.
> The near impossibility of building a robot to do something as simple as taking out the trash

Part of this issue is that we think we need the robot to do it like a human would; in this example of "taking out the trash", we imagine the robot grabbing the bag of garbage from wherever, going outside, and throwing the garbage away, then returning.

Instead, what if the robot was the garbage bins themselves?

You have an inside robot garbage bin, and an outside one. The inside one would - once full - wheel itself outside and interface with the larger one to dump, then return. The outside one would periodically wheel itself to the curb to be dumped by the (probably someday fully automated - it's already most of the way there) garbage truck.

Essentially, make each robot a slightly smaller "garbage truck" that can be dumped by the larger units.

Of course, that still means the robot needs to be able to navigate a home, open and close doors, etc. If the home had automatic doors, that would make things easier. Then it would become a navigation problem mostly.

It's kind of like something I told a guy at my work who said he wanted to build a robot to bring him a beer. He was wondering about all the complexity, etc.

I told him - why don't you make the robot be the refrigerator, then you'd just summon the fridge to wherever you were, and it would dispense a beer, then return back to the kitchen.

Dish cleaning? What if the cabinets were dishwashers instead? Plumbing would be a nightmare - but in theory it would be possible.

Basically - think of ways to make the problems more tractable for the machine, instead of trying to make the machine act like a human (note the automation in many factories that does jobs humans use to do - they didn't make the machines/robots look like humans to do them, right? In many cases, the tasks and such were even changed for the sake of the machine handling/assembly - such home tasks could be looked at in the same manner, to an extent).
This is pretty much the Luke Skywalker turning off his targeting system approach, and the reason why IDEs are a blight on programming. I run into Java programmers who have incredibly weak mental modeling faculties. The are so reliant on a machine telling them what to do, invoking their toolchains, and boiler plating for them that they can't begin to understand what's really going on under the hood.

You've got to turn off the targeting system and start thinking about problems holistically. Programming is not yet a solved problem and the really valuable element in the equation is a human's ability to reason and predict by aggregating massive amounts of information.
To be sold in a particular country every model needs certification which obviously may be a very complicated thing if that country's authorities are not happy with counter-censorship capabilities. Moreover, in many countries (including AFAIK Russia, and Chine) every shop selling satcom needs a separate certification. I am not sure Samsung, or Apple will ever risk to invest in something which cannot be legally exported to a large number of countries.

Finally, you should not underestimate how far a state can go to keep the status quo. Did we hear already:
- What, they will check every phone?
- What, they will demand our passwords?
- What, they will slow down all out-of-country traffic?
- What, they will block millions if websites, and look into every network packet?
All of these were asked sarcastically, yet every point is happening now on a massive scale.

Actually, in late 90s there were a lot of talk about 'new era', because 'internet made censorship impossible'. Hold my beer! - said state bureaucracy everywhere.

Of course, technology can sometimes leapfrog gov't capabilities, but as a rule it's a very temporary thing. Censorship is a political, and cultural problem, and it needs political, and cultural pressure to be resolved.
Presumably the sampling rate can also be limited in places the user isn't looking (with eyetracking etc)?
Yup; I stayed in a rented room (AirBnB) in Vienna with a few software developers in their 20s, 25 euro a night. Their penthouse apartment directly overlooked the Danube. I couldn't believe what a deal I stumbled upon, but then I found some of the clean budget hotels (Ibis or similar) were like 45 euro a night. In a major European city!
One of my favorite examples from the Boston Symphony Orchestra[1]:

> For the auditions, the musicians would be playing behind a screen, in an effort to remove all chance of bias and allow for a merit based selection only - a selection that would hopefully increase the number of women in the orchestra.

> To their surprise, their initial audition results still skewed male.

> Then they asked the musicians to take off their shoes. The reason? The sound of the women's heels as they entered the audition unknowingly influenced the adjudicators. Once the musicians removed their shoes, almost 50% of the women made it past the first audition.

[1] https://www.upworthy.com/this-orchestras-blind-audition-prov...
Good to see.

I always thought a way to have individually targeted ads but not give up privacy is for the user to indicate what topics they are or are not interested in. An agent could manage an anonymous profile somewhere that provided a identifying token that the user's browser provides in place of a tracking cookie.
>AirBnB has priced locals out of their own housing markets. Just ask Venice.

AirBnB can be good and bad. I used AirBnB in Germany last year because the hotel rates in Nuremberg were ridiculous because it was tourist season; I stayed at a private home, in an extra bedroom that used to be their kid's room (now moved out). It was a great experience: I saved a bunch of money, I got to see a small town outside the main city that I otherwise wouldn't have seen (not really much to see there, but it was good seeing someplace "normal" that tourists never see), and I got to talk to the homeowner with his broken English and my broken German. I wouldn't have had an experience like that in a hotel, and there was no negative effect on the housing for locals since I was only renting an unused bedroom, not a whole house. This, to me, is what AirBnB is really supposed to be about.
What is unpalatable is the extractive industry thinking they can get by on goodwill.

Why don't we force mining and oil companies to pay for the externalities of their profit and pollution-generating enterprise, and let that money flow to institutions that do the research to clean it up?
This comes off as super NIMBYish.

The rise of this lifestyle is a direct result of rising inequality in our society. Yeah, that mother of 2 living in a vehicle probably has way bigger problems than paying for disposal service. But people utilizing services they can't pay for is what concerns you, not the fact that so many people are in such dire financial straits that living in a car makes economic sense.
It is a fallacy. If having a oligopoly is bad for the economy, it doesn't matter what other countries may want to do. Why weakening your economy, to satisfy the desires of an oligopoly, will be any better?
With the amount of country codes they support for call in numbers, it could just be availability, costs and scale. Not all countries have a 100% Voip network. It could also be call quality because they seem to have the better dial-in audio than others. They seem to have their tech stack setup well, so I'm sure there is a very valid reason that is just not common knowledge to those outside of the phone industry.
I think anywhere you could park a vehicle unattended for extended periods without fees/fines you could probably afford to buy a small plot of undeveloped land in cash instead. Then just build some small utility structures on your properties, they'll be more comfortable than a vehicle (and you could park vehicles on them if desired, without concerns for tickets).

It's a far better investment IMHO, and as the years go by you may find yourself slowly adding infrastructure and before you know it you have multiple small off-grid homes.

Also keep in mind a small shed requires a lot less maintenance than an automobile to serve its purpose. Leaving automobiles unused for months or years tends to break them. A shed needs a coat of paint or shingles replaced occasionally (corrugated metal roofs last > 50 years).
Excited about this. Surprisingly good product overall and what looks like profit!
I'd be happy to, if you give me a reason to believe that this is a good faith question and not a hostile cross-examination. That game is no fun, and only leads to more hostile cross-examination—exponentially more, in fact, as each entry produces multiple replies. It is also a bad thing for HN, soaking up time that could otherwise go into making HN better.

(The short version, though, is that (a) turning this into a race war about white men is obviously off topic, and (b) when people comment like this, they're essentially copying pre-existing talking points, which is neither thoughtful nor conversation.)
What's the evidence that women aren't coding because they aren't "interested"? If you want to make that argument, don't you need to go and refute all the anecdotal evidence that women aren't entering tech careers because they don't feel welcome?

I cite as evidence the fact that women in med schools have not, in fact, always been well represented and that the same kind of rhetoric about their "interests" was used to exclude them from medicine as recently as our parents' generation.

So... given a choice between "tech is fundamentally different from medicine and chicks don't like it" and "tech is behind medicine's adoption curve with resepect to gender inclusion", I'm taking the later as the obvious hypothesis.
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I never said it's not possible. I said good luck. Pointing out a handful of cases hardly proves that they're given the same level of consideration.
Because capitalism has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

'Capitalism' is also a misnomer in this context. We live in a market-based economy with a social safety net and democratic government. This is true whether you are talking about United States, Canada, Germany or France. Our governments have all the legal and revenue-generating tools they need to enact any policy they wish.

Finally, I'm not sure what alternative you're advocating for. Destroying our current system to adopt a Soviet-style, or Cuban-style, or Venezuelan-style socialism would be a disaster. Is that your solution?
Do you think education is a female thing? Is that the message having 85% of primary teachers being female (100% in my kids UK school) gives to boys.

If your contention is correct, the absence of male teachers for impressionable young children must be a massively damaging thing? Much worse than a preponderance of one sex or another of students in a lecture theatre?
First of all, you are not a victim. Instead of blaming other people ("the thought police") or trying to call out fellow commenters, maybe try to assess why your post was received so negatively. Perhaps you could have presented it in a better way. It's possible that something you find reasonable, is not viewed that way by others.

I still can't see where you've presented evidence that IQ measures have an impact on a prisoners ability to be rehabilitated. This is the crux of your entire argument.
...and to live in Montana, owning a pickup truck..
I shared my experience sometime back in another HN thread [1]:

"A key difference I observed was that if a Kafka consumer crashes, a rebalance is triggered by Kafka after which the remaining consumers seamlessly start consuming the messages from the last committed offset of the failed consumer.

Whereas with Redis streams I had to write code in my application to periodically poll and claim unacked messages pending for more than some threshold time."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19231178
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You're misunderstanding what they're saying. They're literally saying that entire exchanges are clearly faking their trading volume because the data can be observed to be fraudulent - volume doesn't has no time correlation with other exchanges and the distribution of trades by volume is clearly fake.
We know you're manipulating the front page ideologically. We know you've shadow banned hundreds not due to anything in the HN rules, but due to your ideology. I'm just posting this for others to see... You and I have been over this many times in the past and you refuse to be honest.
You think that I am to blame for American drones murdering families in foreign countries? How about my parents for not teaching me to vote better?