skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lumping Mountain View in there with Palo Alto and others is really unfair. MV is doing the best it can but it can't carry all the weight of Bay Area growth. 1/5 housing starts in Santa Clara county was in MV. MV issued more permits than ALL its neighboring cities COMBINED. MV issued more permits than even San Jose.

https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/09/28/mountain-view-leads...

Unless the whole of Santa Clara county and San Mateo county work together instead of playing chicken with each other, we will make no progress on this problem. MV has been willing to do more but it would be unfair for MV to carry the weight while all the other cities limit housing to maintain the "character" of their towns.

The tech boom is a huge blessing that any city, state, or even country would be lucky to have. However, people wanting it all and NIMBYism are turning an opportunity into a problem.
I am not sure if I agree. Culture-wise (IMHO, of coursde and all the disclaimers) it is lightyears ahead of the Bay Area.

In education, both schools and universities, Chicagoland would compare very favorably with Bay Area (stepkid went to schools in both; entirely unimpressed with BA schools).

In job opportunities at FAANG-type companies Bay Area obviously comes out ahead,but for the vast majority of people both in and out of high tech Chicago both has jobs and is actually affordable and salaries are lower by a far lesser amount than the cost of living, at least if you believe all of the comparison sites like Numbeo. In my personal experience I've had much more money left over in Chicago, working for as Chicago company than working for one in Sunnyvale, and that's even before adding up intangibles of better (well, for the USA, anyway) public transit, better museums, theaters, etc. etc.

On climate BA might win on paper, but personally I like to have actual seasons.
1) I'm not saying that's wrong, but I don't think it has the self-evident nature you attribute to it.

2) Agreed, though I'd really like it to be someone other than Facebook that does it.

3) We already have all sorts of other currencies. Frequent flier miles spring to mind, which can often be converted for other use. If they're not popular enough to be universally fungible, then in your terms they're not a "better" currency. It's also not self evident that any coin will do any better.
We do have nuclear, and have had it for decades. Concerns about what to do with the waste are indeed an issue, but the bigger problems is nuclear hasn't been cost competitive with coal and more recently natural gas. It is complex trade-off and just blaming it on NIBMY sentiment is not really engaging the issue.
Singapore is the opposite of lax zoning: not only do they centrally plan everything but the government owns 75% of the land and develops the majority of the residential property. The difference was the lack of low-rise, high-value property owners to try to block the high density zoning.
> - A currency outside of traditional governments would theoretically be free of currency manipulation by those governments (ex. China and the Yuan)

As long as these three points are true: a) the notion of a stablecoin means stable relative to one selected fiat currency, b) the goods you are selling or purchasing are priced both in your local currency (which may or may not be the stablecoin peg) and the stablecoin, and c) that governments can still manipulate the ordinary currencies, then I don't see how you can be free from government manipulation.
After 10 years of living in an apartments and hearing all of my neighbors I got tired of it. So I bought a single family house. I have a small yard, only 1/8th acre, but it is enough of an air gap that I don't hear my neighbors.
Sure. I should just have taken 6 months off to write my own!
As someone who is currently invested in XRP, I would appreciate if you could elaborate on this flawed design instead of just posting a vague comment. I've done my research and thought the design was genius so I'm curious why you wouldn't like it.
This time.

When the next freeze takes place, your residential construction won't be "new" anymore.
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Depends on how you define database. Wikipedia starts with...

”A database is an organized collection of data, generally stored and accessed electronically from a computer system. Where databases are more complex they are often developed using formal design and modeling techniques." [1]

...which makes Redis sound like a database to me. If I am not technically correct, feel to educate me.

Side note: I try to focus on what problems we're trying to solve, because it's hard enough to get people to sync up on that.
I've found focusing on being right is inversely proportional to the health of my relationships.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database
Libra is a attempt to cut out issuer banks, as in credit cars issuance, out of the equation. That is why Visa/PayPal/Mastercard are on the board. It is less fees for the consumers, definitely better UX, and in a sense relief from the legacy banking woes.
"The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC" - https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8433

It’s been a couple of weeks now since the IPCC report came out. You know what it says. If the whole damn species pulls together in a concerted effort “without historical precedent”— if we start right now, and never let up on the throttle— we just might be able to swing the needle back from Catastrophe to mere Disaster. If we cut carbon emissions by half over the next decade, eliminate them entirely by 2050; if the species cuts its meat and dairy consumption by 90%; if we invent new unicorn technologies for sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere (or scale up extant prototype tech by a factor of two million in two years) — if we commit to these and other equally Herculean tasks, then we might just barely be able to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5°C.[1] We’ll only lose 70-90% of the word’s remaining coral reefs (which are already down by about 50%, let’s not forget). Only 350 million more urban dwellers will be exposed to severe drought and “deadly heat” events. Only 130-140 million will be inundated. Global fire frequency will only increase by 38%. Fish stocks in low latitudes will be irreparably hammered, but it might be possible to save the higher-latitude populations. We’ll only lose a third of the permafrost. You get the idea.

We have twelve years to show results.
This is Go not Python.
Well, in that case, either the rent lock will actually work - or it will increase the difficulty for everyone to get a flat, which essentially would have the same effect of driving people to the outskirts.
I really wish someone would bring back truly small trucks like the old Rangers, or even something like an el Camino. Having a truck is really nice sometimes, but driving a tank around every day seems just silly.
Ithemal: Accurate, fast and portable throughput prediction for x86 codes [pdf]
If anyone else was wondering: http://wiki.c2.com/?IntentionRevealingSelector

> Name methods after what the method does, don't name methods after how it works.
Randomly saw a youtube video on Devil's Gardens in Rainforests, where ants use formic acid to destroy non-symbiotic/competing plants in given areas. Makes me wonder if this could be something similar.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P..., RCP 4.5 predicts a maximum of 2.6 degrees warming by 2100. But we're currently on pace to most likely hit 3.3 degrees by then, so it doesn't seem odd that we're ahead of that pace. https://climateactiontracker.org/global/cat-thermometer/
Super interesting finding, but horrible clickbait title. 2cm bone growth != a horn.

It is pretty cool how plastic our skeletal systems are. Use it or lose it, but use it in a novel fashion and it will adapt.
Adding housing is adding housing. It doesn't matter who it's for or who builds it, it adds to the total number of dwellings and reduces occupancy of other units.
Are you saying that shortages are not reduced by having more of the thing that there is a shortage of?
I received a rent increase today, with an apologetic letter that the government is forcing their hands. I suppose I could technically turn it down, but since I have always been on good terms with the landlord, I a not yet sure that I will. I sympathize with his cause.

Other than that, there are also restrictions in place for how much rent may be increased, so I doubt they would be able to make up for the 5 years.
Does this hold for Go? The tracing is the only relevant cost and tracing is very, very fast, so I would expect this to be negligible? Or am I misunderstanding the hypothetical scenario?
This reads a lot like the founding of the Federal Reserve:

> [The Federal Reserve] had several key components, including a central bank with a Washington-based headquarters and fifteen branches located throughout the U.S. in geographically strategic locations, and a uniform elastic currency based on gold and commercial paper.

1. Geographically dispersed

2. Value elastic but secured by assets

3. Controlled by a small group of people

4. Goal of stable long term prices

Key differences between this and the US federal reserve seem to be:

1. Libra involves no state actors

2. Libra is pay-to-play (vs representative democracy for directors of the US Fed)

3. Libra has no employment objective

4. Libra has no interest objective (outside of maintaining investment in its reserve assets)

5. Libra is "fully backed by real assets"

While personal socio-political beliefs make #1 a huge concern for me, and #2 has been widely critiqued already, #3 - the US Fed's employment objective - is an interesting difference to me.

I have not read all of the Libra material yet, but so far this belief is the only reference I've found to Libra's relationship to work:

> We believe that people have an inherent right to control the fruit of their legal labor.

Seems simple enough on the face of it. An extremist could perhaps liken it to "taxes are theft," but I don't see evidence of that in one vague sentence.

I think instead this outlines a key philosophical difference between the US Fed and the Facebook Fed:

The US Fed has an objective of (indirectly through labor) distributing capital.

The Facebook Fed has an objective of easing the flow of capital.

The Facebook Fed therefore is neutral, amoral, technocratic in its approach: make what you have easier to use.

Whereas the US fed (and I suspect other federal reserves) have a non-fiscal social component builtin: increase capital distribution through availability of labor.
Ready Player One is stacked manufactured homes.

Snow Crash is storage units.

I am not aware of any sci-fi story that predicted people living in ISO shipping containers prior to its real-world occurrence.
Not the original poster, but any kind of overtime is rare for salaried work? At least in the US.

I'd take 60% per hour for overtime in a heartbeat as long as it was optional, since I've always ended up doing that kind of work for client/manager goodwill (or the pleasure of not being fired).
Unfortunately everything points to the effect being the opposite. Remote means you don't have to be in Detroit, but can contract a factory in China from New York or run a data center anywhere from the Bay Area.
I myself write books in Markdown. Each chapter has a markdown file, the book is version controlled with Git, there is a "build script" that does a "build" (in this case it's a shell script that concatenates the markdown files and runs them through pandoc and calibre CLIs to generate eBooks and PDFs).

When I send to my editor I just tell her to modify the files as she sees fit. When I get them back I put the new files on a branch and create a PR so I can start discussions on changes, etc.

I think the process is pretty darn efficient but it's hard to sell it to non-techie writers/editors.
Imagine, if you can, a world where no one owned an electronic calculator and few people had ever seen a computer outside of photographs or TV. I found out that my high school's school district owned a computer at its administration building. It was 1967 or 1968.

I decided to write a program and see if someone at the school district would run it for me. I picked up a book on FORTRAN (I still own it) and tried writing my first program. It was a disaster.

After key punching the program on an IBM 026 keypunch machine (keypunch machines back then were mainly used for data entry, the parentheses, the equals sign, and the plus signs weren't even on the keyboard), I gave the deck of cards to a friend. He agreed to run it at the administration building, and the following week (one week turnaround time) I was informed that my program had syntax errors,
:(

Because of BASIC, my next attempt went much better. I realized I didn't know what I was doing, but I was able to find a book on BASIC and studied it carefully one weekend. BASIC was so easy to understand that I learned from that book how programs work.

I didn't have BASIC available at the school district, but it had served its intended purpose--it explained programming to me--and armed with what that BASIC book had taught me, I went back to FORTRAN and successfully wrote my first program.
>I don't have the real story, but there was a lot of cross-pollination between smalltalk and lisp.

Smalltalk was influenced by Lisp, and in turn, Smalltalk influenced the subsequent Lisp systems; that's where OOP support appeared in Lisp, first with LOOPS and MIT Flavors, ultimately with CLOS on ANSI Common Lisp.

Common Lisp also is "image-based development", just like Smalltalk. This is a direct ST influence.
TCP latency increases when you have high load and buffers in the way. Over 50% of CPU time is spent in the TCP stack for Redis, with the bulk of the rest in query parsing.
Rust makes it less painful by not having constructors, default constructors, move constructors, rvalue references, or exceptions.
Solve the following problem:

"I want to find all research labs concerned with topic X in this area"

=> Create an (open) crunchbase/patreon for university research groups

Right now, each university has their own website, with their own layout and varying degrees of information. General scraping is impossible. Finding research groups with certain interests without trawling through an endless amount of publications in related journals or randomly meeting people at conferences is difficult. The only comprehensive lists are university ranking sites, but they are not detailed down to the research group level.

- create a crowdsourced, public index of running projects

- help labs find each other and collaborate on work

- help people apply to labs with open positions

- let donors and investors find and support projects more efficiently

- make science journalism easier, by connecting reporters straight to the source

The main difficulty is creating the network effect which is why, I suppose, no one has done it yet.
I thought Netflix has slowly been moving stuff to their own data centers as they grow and has distanced themselves from AWS on more critical stuff?
Why in God's name if we can't trust FB with privacy of our kids photos should we trust them to handle our finances? This deserves all of the mockery that it will receive.
Very little of the Bayshore plan permits "high rise" building. I believe there is exactly one 15-story building in the plan. Everything else is 5 or less (sticks over garage style construction). The vast majority of the _land_ in the Bayshore plan is dedicated to open space.
Your filesystem then is a database. You can even stretch it to include your text editor. Redis is not a database.
Reminds me of a customer of ours, https://econavis.io
We built an entire API to fetch marine life data. If you're interested in bundling / including this data in your api, I'd suggest to contact them!
Contract law (as changed by MietAnpG) is part of the BGB ("civil code"), which is federal law, while the rent cap is built on top of housing law ("Wohnungsrecht"), which is - mostly - state law (e.g. https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article226212113/Mietendeck...).

The states are rather peculiar about the federal government trying to infringe on their right to set laws, so even if most other states agree that the rent cap is a bad idea (not a given), it's uncertain that they would support anything that uses federal powers (in the Bundesrat, which would be hard to avoid) to stop it in Berlin.
Most travel cards give rewards on those things.
That was a lot more than I expected! Thank you very much! I'll take the dive in later!
Just to be pedantic, the 757 is not a variant of the 777.
Only after you pay the tax! ;D
>“JPM Coin,” a digital token that will be used to instantly settle transactions between clients of its wholesale payments business.

JPM is for internal use. ZuckBucks I can transfer from my anon address to your address by signing with my private key.
...why the winky face?
You point out yourself that Linux kernel threads use more memory. For this and other reasons (e.g. slower context switches) you cannot spawn as many Linux kernel threads as you can spawn Goroutines.

The rest of your comment is just a repeated insistence that "Go doesn't scale" without a shred of evidence in support. You really seem to have some kind of beef with Go that's clouding your judgment in this area.

>Multithreaded epoll is the standard solution for such things

Multithreaded epoll is exactly what Go provides. Rather than having to manage thread pools yourself, the Go runtime does it for you by distributing logical threads of execution over OS threads.

>We usually talk about high scalability as C10K; C100K is an extreme case.

You seem to be assuming one Goroutine per connection. As I said before, a more plausible scenario for 100,000 goroutines is C10K with 10 goroutines per connection.
Yeah, the title is quite alarmist. But the point is valid: excessive use of a device in a certain posture will cause physical changes that cannot be reversed.
In the article, they mention that the price is pegged against 3 currencies (think they said: USD, JPY, EUR)
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> The whole point of cryptocurrency to avoid having to go through middlemen like Visa or even require banks.

"Whole point" is speaking for a whole lot of people who may not share your views. Certainly circumventing banks was an important founding concept, but circumventing _central_ banks is arguably much closer to the goal.

There's no reason why credit cards shouldn't exist denominated in Bitcoin -- they provide easy access for consumers to obtain unsecured credit. There's no reason why banks (even fractional reserve banks) shouldn't have accounts denominated in Bitcoin -- they provide an easy path for consumers to issue credit.

Opinions may vary on this, but if Bitcoin (or another decentralized cryptocurrency) succeeds the way that people want, I don't see any way to _stop_ these things from happening. People are willing to pay interest on loans; other people want to earn low-risk interest on capital.

The thing that will change is that hopefully without central banks consumers will have to realize that depositing money in banks is not risk-free. And hopefully society will learn this as well and we'll move out of the cronyism/free-money regime that we've been stuck in for the last hundred years or so.
Very nice work!

What was your writing process, and did you make any arrangements before getting started?

One of my forever back-burner projects is a deep(ish) dive like this into one of the tools that a lot of us kind of know how to use. I'm glad to see you went and did it!
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What properties make HotStuff different than Tendermint?
some of them get super foggy too. e.g. Gregory Bald.
Education has nothing to do with elimination of greed. White-collar crime exists, after all. You can't out-nurture human nature.
I can say the same. I self-published a 500+ page book last year and was so drained from the process I haven't even seriously thought about writing my second book.

When your armchair fan is sitting back criticizing George Martin for not finishing his books, I empathize with him. I totally get it.
I remember TOMS didn't want to host anything on AWS because they considered Amazon a direct competitor when they bought Zappos. That was well over a decade ago.
You'd think it would be profitable to turn that brine into sea salt starter
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> We do have nuclear, and have had it for decades.

Not enough. Some countries that had it even ran from it recently (like Germany).
Nothing really deep. I just want to test that our codes are portable on a large variety of distributions, so I run a few virtual machines. For linux distributions, I'm quite surprised by the bold simplicity of slackware and voidlinux.
So that next time someone says "down with tech bros gentrifying the bay area" or they get hauled up in front of the local government who sat the same thing, Google can say "we invested a billion dollars and built more homes than San Francisco added in the last seven years, we're doing our part."

And it sounds like they're 'investing' rather than 'spending' the $1 billion - if you take $750m of land and build flats and sell most of them at market rate, presumably you recoup a fair portion of your $750m - they might even make a profit.
Assuming you can buy/sell it with better fees/rates. It's bound to be better than some and worse than others.
HotStuff is a consensus algorithm used in Libra blockchain. A consensus algorithm is a critical part in distributed systems to decide what is the "right truth".

Here is a good analysis by Near Protocol author, Alex Skidanov:

https://twitter.com/AlexSkidanov/status/1141040292767789056

Also looks like one of the paper authors now works for the Ava blockchain (Avalanve consensus) from Cornell University:

https://avalabs.org/
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I was up at Camp Muir on Mt. Rainier for the first time in 29 years last weekend. It's located at 10,000 feet and is surrounded by glaciers. The temperature was around 60F in the sun. We're getting temps in May/June that were rarely seen in August in previous decades.

The impressive thing is how quickly the glaciers are receding. The Nisqually glacier, which used to be down near 4000 feet in the 1970s is about a mile shorter. The ablation boundaries on many of the glaciers appear to be high up the mountain (like around 12,000 feet), which means they are going to shrink quite a bit more.

I didn't expect this but there's a possibility that many of the Mt. Rainier glaciers will be gone in the next 30 years. This is a massive change to ecosystems from sea level up to the highest peaks.
Fine, add that to my spec sheet above:

Need to start your system with requirements about asking permissions? Not decentralized.

At some point, we need to recognize that playing games with the system so that Marketing can use the word "decentralized" does not change the meaning of the word.
I'm not American, but I share this opinion. Berlin needs housing - but what they're doing is to make it maximally unattractive to invest in housing. That's just illogical, and even critized by non-profit housing orgs (Baugenossenschaften).
I registered and here is my feedback after using it for 10 minutes:

- I find the interface awkward to use on a laptop(windows 10), scrolling on the touchpad zooms and the touchscreen does nothing, probably best with a mouse.

- Bulk operations actually make you go thought the items one by one. I would prefer it to be able to select a few items and set the same value for all of them(and delete or add dependency).

There is a lot of missing functionality that I expect from a paid app: markdown, checklists, attachments in the description, exports(both as an image and xls/doc with descriptions), real time collaboration, customization(modify status workflow, add custom fields), api/webhooks.

Overall I don't see myself using it.