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It seems extremely unlikely that affordable housing will ever happen in the Bay Area, since that would essentially mean a crash of the housing market (maybe even by government intervention). This would of course be extremely unwelcome. As such any acceptable solution would have to be ineffective. And an ineffective solution have little chances of counteracting the inertia of current developments.
Why? I use airmail on macOS and iOS and I love it.
I am not from
the automotive industry, but if they are selling predominantly to automotive OEMs then I suppose Otonomo can be in serious trouble. Even a pending IP infringement case could potentially stop OEMs from working with them.
Plus OEMs don't typically like companies that infringe IP, afaik.
IIRC (and it's been 5 years since I left Google, and I didn't save any of her e-mails since they weren't mine to save), Claire Stapleton used to write internal employee communications around TGIF (that's the weekly Q&A session with executives). Meeting logistics like when & where, videoconferencing links, but also things like the agenda and list of speakers. Her writing had a very distinctive, very whimsical feel to it that was quite popular with many Google employees.
AWS in China is not run by AWS:

"To provide the best experience for customers in China and to comply with China’s legal and regulatory requirements, AWS has collaborated with China local partners with proper telecom licenses for delivering cloud services. The service operator and provider for AWS China (Beijing) Region based out of Beijing and adjacent areas is Beijing Sinnet Technology Co., Ltd. (Sinnet), and the service operator and provider for AWS (Ningxia) Region based out of Ningxia is Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. (NWCD)."

https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/
What would be a smart move for Otonomo now? Complicated perhaps... we are at Peak HN now, so there is a feeling to calm the storm immediately, but maybe there is an argument that things will die down and they have not broken the law (depending on the technicalities re gepoch’s comment), so doing nothing is prudent, though mean. My gut feeling is to put it right today though, maybe 1) give $1MM to Smartcar, 2) put a link to Smartcar’s site while the current document structure exists 3) redo the docs and try to make them better then Smartcar’s.
> ensure that animals get to experience life in their native habitats including the ability to mate and get eaten

This falls under A) fallacious appeal to nature.

You're suggesting that living is nature is the better way to live simply because it is natural.
"This has nothing to do with communications or product development. "

And yet the users in this thread have repeatedly said that there are major product differences between Amazon and its Chinese competitors, where the alternatives offer much better value propositions to their customers.

In addition, Amazon is having trouble in many countries other than China.
I heard the model was to actually sell the European copy to the original US startup as it got bigger. It was never in their interest to end up operating an actual company. This backfired on them for one of their "investments" (I think an Airbnb clone?) when the US counterpart decided to go head and head against the Rocket's copy in Europe instead of simply acquiring.
If I understand correctly, Western Governors University does this now.
Food cooperatives are another option, which is what I increasingly use: http://www.lamauve.com/

They taste better than grocery store meat too.
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This is an interesting idea:

Our catalog of active and extinct organisms is considered to be: "That we observed" What that translates into: The organism has adapted to a new environment. (Pretty cool)

it would be interesting to have a shared system (like a Kafka system) to report sightings and alerts about extinct animals/plants. This would help with an automated approach.
Yeah, fair point. I should have said "was meant to imply" instead. That's certainly at least what a lot of people in the article seemed to be pushing for.
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Amazon has severe product development issues for their goods marketplace, up here in Canada the wind is saying that Amazon's quality is always somewhat questionable with white-labeled resellers that are offering goods available through AliExpress or Wish but at a steep markup. Amazon has shifted from a company that sells highish quality goods of a wide variety to selling goods of random quality of that wide variety which simply can't compete with the markup they're placing on their products. Again, I only know Canada's market over the last few years, but Amazon doesn't really bring a lot to the table - concurrently their cloud services are pretty good... but becoming indistinguishable from their competitors and their price transparency and customer support is crap.
A twin bed isn´t a requirement for a single person. I lived in a 14 square meter apartment for 8 years, it´s not that harsh.
Because if you're using lidar for depth and you try to mass produce the there a high chance the lidar will be broken and because it accurate people will assume it more correctly. Eyes and camera may sometime make mistake with distance but usually it will be software not hardware. Lidar opens the issue for both. So it's easier to use the camera and just try to make a camera as good as lidar.
Man, plagerism is too bad.
That's all I can say.
That's a decent mid-level developer salary in many parts of western europe.
Sure, but the article points out that Buca was emulating (or evoking or whatever) Italian-American, not Italian.

Maybe those things are conflated in places with no direct connections, but any Italian American with ties to Italy knows that the two are very distinct cultures.
If this is true, why do Waymo (or any of the top 10 self-driving companies besides Tesla) use Lidar?

Two facts:

1. Tesla can't use Lidar because of cost and aesthetics.

2. Elon has a strong incentive to oversell their approach to self-driving.
> there are major product differences between Amazon and its Chinese competitors,

Because the Chinese counterparts are government propped.
These are all very good reasons, but in practice it mainly means that the richer you are, the less you pay in taxes as proportion of your overall income, and there's a point past which taxation is essentially regressive as a result. So any such argument has to demonstrate that the obvious disparity that already exists in that arrangement is less of a problem than any of the hypothetical problems from taxing capital gains more.

Especially since there are countries that do tax at least some capital gains at the same rate, and they don't seem to be doing appreciably worse than other countries in a similar economic bucket that do not. Indeed, it seems to be more popular among economically liberal countries with flat income taxes.
Just to give you my perspective as an Uruguayan (South American) software developer, whenever I visit the U.S. I think houses are ridiculously huge - most are bigger than mansions here in Uruguay.

I don´t have the same experience in Europe.
This wsj article suggests that Tokyo, a much larger city, has been able to keep housing costs flat by building a much larger supply than most other city: https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-housing-crisis-in-japan-ho...

This could work in SF I think, as there's a lot of potential for up-zoning.
On the other hand, the city is surrounded by water, so it doesn't leave a lot of space to expand.
The title here appears to be a substantial mischaracterization of the actual article; a gay male character in a Norwegian series being flipped to female in the US version could be the result of any number of artistic choices.
Umami Burger in the bay area (at least the one in SF) has the latest Impossible 2 burger patty. Rosemunde offers the Beyond Sausage, I am unsure of a place that sells the Beyond Burger in SF.
After Wickard v Filburn, and more recently Gonzales v Raich, everything effects interstate commerce.
No personal connection at all. I cold called around. My local farmers markets publish a guide of local farmers. [1]

I just put together a spreadsheet with all the farms within 50 miles and visited a few websites/made a few calls. Some farmers had already sold their beef for the season, others weren't grass fed, etc. Eventually I narrowed the candidate pool down to two or three and asked if I could come see their farms. One farmer said no, so I went with one of the others.

[1] http://www.pugetsoundfresh.org/
Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC = unimportant. The world's best food is Chinese food anyway. China won this "war" hundreds of year ago

Boeing = no chinese competitor available

Apple = is feeling the pressure now
> They could refuse to publish their articles for a corporation with such an "immoral" advertising department, but they don't, because they aren't genuine in their beliefs.

That's an un-nuanced and extremely uncharitable statement. Have you ever heard the saying "choose your battles?" Don't you think people have to prioritize the actions they take to support their multifarious beliefs? You can have genuine beliefs without being destructively unreasonable.

I'm pretty sure the people in the New York Times newsroom value public good of having a functioning "fourth estate" [1] over having a tracker-free nytimes.com website, and thus are unwilling wage some destructive pyrrhic war with their employers over something as trifling as the latter. Especially when they can instead write a widely read series of articles that bring light to those practices, and perhaps lead to wider change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
That's fantastic if so. Their FAQ still says it's "coming later this year, find it at a restaurant". I follow them pretty closely and haven't seen any press about it.

https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600190998...

I guess I'll look at some Safeways to see if I can find it, maybe it's in some stealth release or something.
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> The solution is the same as every other time this comes up.

And this [1] study says it doesn't work.

> Freemark reaches two startling conclusions that should at least temper our enthusiasm about the potential of zoning reform to solve the housing crisis—conclusions that, interestingly enough, he has said he did not set out to find.

> First, he finds no effect from zoning changes on housing supply—that is, on the construction of newly permitted units over five years. (As he acknowledges, the process of adding supply is arduous and may take longer than five years to register.) Caveats and all, this is an important finding that is very much at odds with the conventional wisdom.

> Second, instead of falling prices, as the conventional wisdom predicts, the study finds the opposite. Housing prices rose on the parcels and in projects that were upzoned, notably those where building sizes increased.

[1] https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/zoning-reform-house-cos...
If you can post your code, we can help you out. One requirement, is that your function returns a Result<Ok, Err>. The Err needs to implement the same type for all the type returned.

This means you can use the "?" operator for functions that you did not create (libraries) but you'll also have to convert their Error type to your Error type.
I've tried Impossible Burger once in a some random bar. Was dissatisfied - texture was ok, but had weird after taste.

Also tried to cook some Beyond Meat burgers the other week. The stench was horrible, even my roommates noticed. Topped with mayo, garlic butter, bbq sauce and onions it did kinda hide the horrible flavour, but still I couldn't finish it. I could feel that horrible flavour for a day or two after.

Really had big hopes for it and will definitely try again, but for now it's a joke.
What does a cake have to do with a burger? What point are you making?
Yes, and that only works by changing how scoping works. Unless of course you don't care about the variables created inside.

i.e.

public void DoThing()
{
var someVar = SomeStaticClass.FooFunc();
someVar.DoSomething();
}
catch (Exception x)
{
// Scoping rules will need to change
// to put someVar in scope:
_logger.Log($"{someVar.GetId()} is invalid");
}
finally
{
someVar.Cleanup();
}

And this also implies that there's no way to make a variable declared inside the method inaccessible to the catch block without additional changes to the language.
They have the freedom to speak, but there's no obligation for anyone to ever listen. The time of the person being asked for is significantly more valuable than the person presenting something. If you want to be heard, you generally need to put in a good amount of time, often by contributing to smaller problems and earning a reputation. This stuff is earned, not given out, that includes even listening to someone's ideas. Time is limited, a random person's ideas are no more valuable than anyone else's, this is why we rely on reputation, intuition, etc.
I cannot believe this is the top comment. What you say is totally anecdotal. Do you have any evidence that Chinese government went out stopping Amazon from succeeding in China?
I tried Svelte/Sapper a few weeks ago. It is definitely not the new framework of the month that come and go.

I love it. I cannot believe how fast the app load on both first and second time visits. 100% in lighthouse.

I think Svelte is the way to go! I hope the community will accelerate and eventually catch up with React and Vue!
Yeah, it's definitely disappointing that we have to worry about things like that, but that's the nature of the beast I guess. I hope you don't take any offense at my skepticism! For what it's worth, I'm happy assuming you're the real deal because being a cynic all the time is no fun and I have no specific reason to believe otherwise at the moment; I just also wouldn't be surprised to discover it's fake haha.

Also, I walk by your face a few times a week whenever I head into my lab. MEB has redecorated a few times over the years, but they always have a section of pictures of notable alumni and (of course) you're up there. Thanks for giving us a good name in the field and for all you've done!
Honestly, what? The US props up US corporations all the time... didn't Amazon just pay -$129M (as in, received free money) in taxes to the US government?
HN has increasingly gotten vegetarian/ vegan, so posting articles like this get downvoted en masse.

Here's one more: http://meatheals.com/
> If you look at his past claims it becomes clear that he should just be ignored.

What's an example of this? His timelines are often much too aggressive for reality but he repeatedly delivers (eventually).
If you use ssh-agent with default settings it's very easy to accidentally expose access to systems you would not expect via the agent.

This seems to be a good post about the problem: https://heipei.io/2015/02/26/SSH-Agent-Forwarding-considered...

The key takeaway is that using ssh -A with default settings allows root on the system you've connected to "to impersonate you to any host as long as you’re connected".
You know I've always thought that rivers deserved the right to privacy /s
Does it, though, if it helps cement stuff like Citizens United?

(I'm well aware that New Zealand is a different country, so it doesn't set a legal precedent. It does set a cultural and moral one, however.)
Not too much really. Its a big interest of Mark's but its still early in the planning stages. I helped him with some preliminary research and gave this brief talk about our work: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2018/facilitating-di...
I believe this was Wimdu. Seems like they finally ended up shutting down last year.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/wimdu-rocket-internets-air...
They should all quit. Then donate six months to Mozilla and find a way to kill AMP.
This was also my experience with the Impossible Burger. It is so good at tasting like meat that it is crazy.

I look forward to trying a Beyond Meat burger / sandwich sometime.
Depends on what you mean by learning. I don't think I learned anything about thermodynamics, control theory, or algorithms anywhere other than while reading and doing exercises. Even the tutorials are of limited use for that, mainly providing a shortcut to the answer when needed.

The larger learning of "how do you you get stuff done in your life, what kind of stuff do you want to do?" is one of those things you get once you look back. It's actually hard to do while cramming for exams.

I really do think a lot of exam prep is a waste of time, but then we're looking for a replacement for a 4-year degree costing $250K or something like that. Surely if you just do the exams at a cost of $1K you can find communities of like minded people for a lot less than what remains?
Ah sorry, I was speaking in the context of Kay's OOP! In retrospect my phrasing made it seem like I was stating an opinion as fact, but what I meant was just that Kay's OOP mandated that internal state could not be exposed and was very opinionated on the matter.
For a vegan that is craving meat, this could be acceptable lol
If being an aged care nurse suddenly paid handsomely I would bet that you'd find the field full of men in a mid term. Men make a habit out of taking whatever work makes them the best money.
> an post-hoc modification to the general theory without much deeper examination into the inconsistency.

I don't see it that way at all ... it is clearly true in a statistical sense that outcomes from a small sub-population do not necessarily tell you much about the general population at all. It is obviously possible that there is a general systematic bias in favor of men across most segments of society, but a different stronger bias against some sub-population of low-status men that easily compensates for it.

Allowing for this (indeed proposing it) doesn't require any mental gymnastics at all, merely an allowance for complexity. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying it doesn't even run afoul of Occam.

> if society is systematically biased against women, then why are they disproportionately absent from the lowest tiers?

I proposed one possibility above, in terms of how their issues are dealt with. More generally though, it's not entirely clear that women are absent here - it really depends on how you draw the line "lowest tier". It's true that men are represented more highly in homeless populations (65/35 ish, if I recall correctly) and prisons (even higher). So it is of course interesting to ask why that is. Part of that might be answered by what interventions are available and taken up before that point (e.g. we know there are connections between homelessness and mental health, and we know women, for what ever reasons, are more likely to receive treatment. Are these connected to homelessness stats? Or how much of prison representation relates to prosecution and/or sentencing stats?). We also know most homeless children are with their (majority single) mothers. It's plausible that social programs work a lot harder to get children out of this status, and indirectly their mothers. Not sure what affect that would have on the overall stats.

It's much less clear to me that this is a good definition of "lowest tier" though, clearly some prison populations and most/all homeless are in there, but it inclusive enough? What about other populations? Sex-trade workers are disproportionately women, and most of them are very low-status, but relatively few are counted as homeless. Etc. etc. I would have to know a hell of a lot more of the poverty literature before I would be comfortable that I understood where to draw this line.

Anyway we have probably reached the depth of viable conversation in this medium, or close to it. And that on a subject that is difficult to get honest engagement with. Thank you for being reasonable the whole way through, it's rare and I appreciate it.
Adjusting for purchasing power of earnings in their home countries flattens out the numbers too. In South Africa, PPP is 1.63$/$, so that's actually a range of $16,300 to $32,300 in purchasing power. In Nigeria, PPP is 3$/$ so that's closer to $30,000-$60,000 in purchasing power.

In Canada the average software developer gets paid $70,000USD, which is $59,500 in purchasing power.
There are vast tracts of vacant land in SF, and the whole western half of the penninsula is low-density housing.

What Tokyo has that the Bay Area lacks is excellent public transit, and a willingness to build at high density.
Even here in Germany where salary talks are serious taboos, the younger generation is definitely more open about it.

I had people repeatedly asking me for my salary after accepting a new job. I think things have seriously changed.
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We would expect parcel prices to increase with upzoing - land becomes more valuable if more people are permitted to enjoy using it. That's the behavior that encourages developers to make multi-family housing.
I still find none of the vege meals are as satisfying as plain old chicken, etc.

Tofu is flimsy, tempeh kinda goes that direction, but not close. Fake burgers are absolutely gross and near vomit inducing. Quinoa has weird flavour of ashes or smth.

Some indian peas, etc are OK, but I find it's best to stick to pure vege meals (not substitutes) and eat meat when I want to.

I'm looking out for stem cell meat to come out.
Without data, one cannot say either way. What we have before us is a single anecdotal tale. And even that tale, even if you believe it rises to the level of "data," doesn’t provide clear guidance to others, because the details of their stack and capacity are unspecified.
Maybe instead of "restrict" it would be better to say "be cognizant of." If you want to expose a get/set interface, that's fine, but doing it with a public property in Java additionally says "and it's stored in this slot, and it always will be, and it will never do anything else, ever." I don't see what value that gives in making easy changes for anyone. I don't see why that additional declaration should be the default in a language.

You get into the same issue with eg making your interface be that you return an array, instead of a higher-level sequence abstraction like "something that responds to #each". By keeping a minimal interface that clearly expresses your intent, you can easily hook into modules specialised on providing functionality around that intent, and get power and flexibility right now in a way that doesn't hamstring you later. Other code can use that broad interface with your minimal implementation. Think about what you actually mean by the code you write, and try to be aware when you write code that says more than that.

I think it's interesting that you associate that interface-conscious viewpoint with bondage and discipline languages. I mostly think of it in terms of Lisp and Python and languages like that where interfaces are mostly conceptual and access control is mostly conventional. If anything, I think stricter type systems let you be more lax with exposing implementations. In a highly dynamic language, you don't have that guard rail protecting you from changing implementations falling out of sync with interfaces they used to provide, so writing good interfaces and being aware of what implementation details you're exposing becomes even more crucial to writing maintainable code, even if you don't have clients you care about breaking.

Of course all this stuff goes out the window if you're planning to ditch the codebase in a week.
Don't forget they are really selling a wider cknversation/story/narrative/worldview than just the meat. To focus too much on the product itself might therefore be a mistake.

(Besides, that part can always be tuned... )
This is why I love being Norwegian. Sustainable and cruelty free farming is the norm. So personally I wont stop eating regular meat until lab meat becomes available.