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Housing is built all the time, to serve the needs of the market it's built to serve.
The way San Francisco and Seattle run affordable housing is just tossing scrapes to the poor so businesses can retain cheap labor. They do nothing to maintain communities, just token diversity.

Sustainable affordability is achieved at the balance of supply and demand.

Supply can only be increased by building upward and outward: increase density near jobs, and invest in effective regional public transportation to mitigate "Manhattanization" (extreme density) or "Los Angeleization" (car commuting hell).

Demand grows from increased economic prospects, so can be managed with progressive taxes (ideally reinvested in transit/education/job training that equalize economic opportunities).

Subsidized housing makes sense as an interim solution, a buffer as the market adapts, but those subsidies are ultimately unsustainable (requiring prescient central planning).
Is there a measurement for how much power a superconductor of a given diameter can actually conduct? Of course we're all familiar with the "resistance = 0" concept but I don't think that means you could pump ten billion amps through a superconductor the diameter of a hair, or does it? What other forces limit high-density current flow besides simple resistance?
At a certain point - people are weighing the cost of the good (cable bundle, HBO Now, etc) vs the moral guilt + expected value of litigation (costs of piracy). When the cost is not absurd, (seems like most people are willing to pay $10-$15 a month), the decision is pretty clear (i.e. buy Netflix).

The middle man taking a cut is the problem. It jacks up the price to a point where it's too high - and piracy becomes extremely attractive (especially when it is more convenient to pirate a good than to buy it).

To me, the article is really describing why middle men in this supply chain harm both the creator and the consumer. That's why applying pricing pressure in the form of piracy actually benefits both the creator and consumer (and could potentially even help the middle man find the profit maximizing price, although that depends on the "Just Enough" piracy level).

But isn't this kind of true much of the time? Removing a superfluous middle man will reduce costs and make everyone better off. But unfortunately, the middle man often provides value - they aggregate lots of content and own the customer experience.

Businesses and technologies that attack the middle man are very interesting. Shopify for e-commerce is potentially another example.
But those NDA contracts on price information make the market non-transparent, and transparency is essential for a free market.

Just like you're not free to sell your vote, and not free to sell yourself into slavery, there should probably be other rights that you're also not free to sell.
Thanks for that. That intro was anemic, even for laypeople.

Sounds like you still need a server unless you use local storage.
Are you sure? Eventually people are going to realize that the SaaS companies have sold them out. And they may not understand what a private cloud is, but that's what they're going to want: The convenience they're accustomed to in a device only they control which can't be shut down or taken away from them.
What we think of as LA is actually more than a dozen cities, including "Los Angeles," plus unincorporated areas, comprising of more than 13 million people.

LA covers a large area because it's a very nice place to live and a lot of people choose to live here.
Electric cars are not much greener than normal cars if they use electricity produced in coal plants. I think it makes a lot of sense to push for solar power when you are in the electric car business. Without renewable energy they are really not that green after all.
Small town government is student council with armed sheriffs.

In the majority of these jurisdictions, the local government is not actually doing useful work towards a flourishing community, or perhaps to be fair, they aren't doing any useful work that couldn't be done more fairly and effectively at the state level.
But dependencies is exactly what I mean though. You can randomly uninstall an update to a common dependency on Windows. While keeping a later update that patches the same libraries installed. (!) I don't really get how they handle it (probably SxS magic), but somehow they do, whereas on Linux you can't do this.
They have some fairly hefty competition:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/drive

https://www.drobo.com/homeoffice/#file

I'm pretty sure that most NAS vendors have some variation on "Home Cloud."

I think most folks that want to set something like this up, will want a turnkey solution.
I like physical books as much as the next person. And providing access to and/or lending out physical books, journals, references, etc. is certainly an important library function. But, at the same time, it's important not to fetishize the value of a library as being defined by how much dead tree storage it has.
so, prostitution?
The supply chain is long and fragile.

With interruptions in the provisioning of everything from the electricity required to parts for power management, cooling, air handling, networking, memory, disks, CPU, etc., the half-life of such centres would likely be on the order of a few years, even assuming local power.

Talent is probably the biggest factor.

Even absent greater civilisational collapse, a multi-billion-dollar-a-year income company such as Google can barely keep the lights on for a given project for 5-8 years, if that. Many startups fail even faster.
Dropbox and Google Drive both removed HTML hosting over the past few years. With drive you can't even get direct links to images etc anymore. Not sure if public Dropbox files have the same limitation.
I live in Austin and the new library has everything (except alot of books...).
What mistakes do startups make with their cap table?
Courts have limited the degree to which you can leverage pre-existing characters, etc., but if you truly create your own thing without relying on the work of others, incidental similarity will not result in infringement. (Of course, incidental similarity might be evidence that you actually copied, instead of independently creating the work.)
Of course using natural selection and random mutation is a pretty dumb method when you can artificially select and selectively mutate instead.

It's why we don't use genetic algorithms when we have a better method. It's really expensive to simulate a "natural environment" and run it for hundreds, thousands, or even millions of generations.

Like I said, if nature found a shortcut - and it has, in the case of HGT or CRISPR - it will use that shortcut. It's just more efficient. The same goes for sexual selection, which Darwin didn't pay special attention to, but which is clearly a very important part of "natural" selection.

In my view, those shortcuts could have developed through Darwinian processes alone, in simpler lifeforms. If you can't conceive of that being possible, that's fine. We can't exactly prove it right through a simulation that is accurate to life on earth.
I'd say that the abundance of (arguably) high quality derivative content is the worse option. Mostly because the alternative to that is not necessarily a lack of choice.

In my experience, in recent years I've found to enjoy lot more independently produced content (which either happens to be free or very cheaply available) as opposed to big budget titles produced by big corporations. Not because I actively seek such content, but because I genuinely find it to be more worthwhile and enjoyable than the other option.

Now I can't really speak for motion pictures, because I don't watch tv shows and movies anymore - but I can definitely say this is very true for the music and video game industries - big investment and quality are not correlated.
When does China claim to be a developed nation?

Also, is there any reasonable metric by which China is not a developing economy?
Arch has a much longer dependencies list for qemu than Alpine does[0, 1]. Arch has 7 sub-packages to qemu, while Alpine has 82. This suggests to me that Arch's base package includes functionality that Alpine has placed into subpackages. Not all packages named "qemu" are created equal.

Also, without separating out the time spent waiting for the download, the author's choice of mirrors probably has a significant impact.

0: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu/

1: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/qemu
Yes and let me remind you that the German branch of IBM supplied the punch card computers and programs for identifying jews in census data in the third reich which enabled the holocaust.

Palantir is doing exactly the same but with much more powerful tools. It is only a matter of time until some government will use their software to commit genocide, not to mention prosecution of political dissidents which is already happening.

Of course Palantir will profit off this and get away with it just like IBM did.

I get downvoted for this every time but someone has to say it. It's the truth whether you like it or not.
It's not uncommon to hear a fan talking about buying a product specifically to support the creator.

And that sentiment is great, but while it's not unusual, it's certainly not the view that most people take. If even 10% of the people who like our stuff on social media and enjoy using the free versions actually paid even for the cheapest one-off purchase or shortest subscription to support the creators, I'd be writing to you from great hall of my palace right now.
Digital assets are pushing custody services to evolve
>The folks in charge get paid by the government and the amount the government is able to pay is highly dependent on the amount of funding it gets.

Doesn't that apply to all government where someone is paid?
I wanted also a small, energy efficient server for CI at home. I was looking at SBCs (Single Board Computers) like Raspberri Pi and now others. Most are ARM based and max out at 2Gb or 4Gb RAM. I ended up buying an Odroid H2, which is x86 and takes up to 32GB RAM. I just received it so haven't put it together yet... also depends what you want to do with it how much you want to spend, I bought 32GB RAM, 1TB nvme and 6TB SATA HDD and plan to run everything on containers (docker). Also instead of say, Gitlab, Jenkins and Artifactory I think I'll use Gitea, Drone.io self hosted and I was looking at strongbox instead of Artifactory but not sure if it's production ready.
White labelling and counterfeiting are two different things.

White labelling is just rebranding; I go to Home Depot and buy some screws, print out a label that says "jrockway's miracle fasteners", slap it on top of Home Depot's label, and sell them to you, that's white labeling.

Counterfeiting is when you inject seemingly-identical goods into the supply chain. You mix up some soap and blue dye in your bathtub, pour it into some recycled Tide bottles, and ship them off to Amazon's warehouse as "Tide brand laundry detergent". Now you are selling them to customers seeking a genuine product, but they're not getting the real thing.

White-labelling is a perfectly legitimate thing. Counterfeiting is a crime.

To be extra clear, your "I look at things on Amazon before I buy them" technique is exactly the sort of procedure that won't protect you from counterfeiting. The counterfeiters already fooled Amazon. Amazon thinks they're selling you genuine merchandise. But they're not. That's what upsets people.
macOS Catalina is actually much more aggressive about this. Even in unsigned unsandboxed apps, the OS will pause the app and ask the user for permission when the app tried to access any directory it doesn’t have permission for, and this behavior is replicated across many other parts of the system too (webcam, mic, etc).

It’s a bit annoying initially but it’s nice knowing that the system will put control back into my hands whenever apps try to do something shady.
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In the existing legal system you can't. But we could write laws that allow this to be a thing (i.e. instead of the current situation of "you have full control over who can copy/redistribute your IP" it becomes "anyone can copy/redistribute your IP but you are allowed to specify X criteria including the requirement to redistribute source code").
The author combined fetch and install, which is just silly. Fetch times are affected by any number of things, such as the number of mirrors the package repos have, whether you have a mirror near you, whether your system is configured to use it, and your current connection speed.

Both fetch and install are useful to know, but for very different reasons. Only so much of fetch speed is in control of the distro setting it up (but you can set up your own mirror if you like...), but install speed once the files are already staged locally is also useful to know. Additionally, whether the package manager keeps a local cache of metadata for packages, and whether it checks and updated it every request or only at certain intervals or when requested will affect this as well (and is very important, if you want to know about security updates immediately and not after some interval of hours).

What the author has done is the equivalent to testing how fast certain one mile and 10 mile stretches of highway are, but without controlling for time of day, and not realizing rush hour is invalidating all the results. The first step to measuring something is to learn about what you're measuring so you can avoid issues like these.
I ordered more than 1000 parcels from AliExpress, banggoods, gearbest and hobbyking. Never ever I had to pay import duty costs (Netherlands) and in most cases shipment was either free or a redicilous low amount. If everyone would be like me, no store would exist anymore here in Holland. Even though I am a bit of a hypocrite, I do think it's fair to make the market a bit more fair.
The HN post is by the author himself and in the first paragraph the author also mentions '23 year-old wget'.
I think you're conflating "deserved" with "entitled", when they're not the same at all. Deservedness is more an ideal concerning what one is merited, whereas entitlement is the practical application of "what is yours by legal right". Placing entitlement on intellectual property is - and always has been - a grey area, as there's no physical limitations preventing two people from having a roughly similar idea. There's plenty of limitations preventing two people from owning the same phone, car, or home.
LA is effectively several different cities tied together under a single government entity. It even has a few holes in it where it completely surrounds several independent cities (Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, for example.) There's no reason a Zurich-sized chunk of LA couldn't implement a Zurich-like system and test how it works out.
how is it a scam? they told you what it did
I agree with you. Furthermore, you are describing a negative aspect of the work around to the housing problem.

The true solution to the housing problem is to remove the laws that are allowing supply constraint in "liveable" areas like NY, CA, MA, etc.

The local government there in charge of housing policy prevents people from adding more liveable legal units to their land. So for example if you wanted to remodel your land to have 2 houses on it instead of one, or to be 4 floors tall with apartments, or to have only a very small energy efficent house on it, the local government will tell you "haha sorry no."

This is a really big problem because land is in finite supply and as a result if you have a very dense area of office buildings with 20,000 workers and only 1,000 houses are in a commutable distance, then you have 19,000+ workers who are either going to be renting illegally, sleeping in their car, commuting 50 miles, or paying through the nose for a house.
I made a spreadsheet to help run the numbers on your business idea: CAC,LTV
Not sure, just have a hunch it will be a problem in the coming years. Look at Japan.
Kill copyright. Curtail patent. Keep trademark.

In the absence of government-enforced monopoly, I think the next-best alternative for creatives would be to cartelize, trading new content for subscription fees covering a range of convenience services related to creative content, such as a recommendations engine, discoverability, favorites library, notifications, artist-specific storefronts, &c.

Pay $10/month or $100/year to the cartel, and from that, the cartel pays its participating artists a guaranteed stipend for living expenses, bonuses for each new work added to the cartel's library, a bonus for each work that meets a positive audience-review threshold, a bonus for each work that meets a positive peer-review threshold, and jackpot awards for works deemed particularly notable by peers and patrons.

The cartel spends heavily on advertising and promotion, to make new art be perceived as worth the cost of patronage, and portray patronage to the cartel as cool and fashionable. Paying patrons would get first shot at premium sales, such as concert tickets in favorable locations, or the opportunity to buy the original artwork or significant artifacts of the creation process.

So you might, through your account with the arts cartel, find a new band whose sound you like, add them to your personal favorites library, be notified that they are playing live near you in October, get pre-sale tickets for the front rows of seats, and order a patron-exclusive band t-shirt to wear when you go. Then you download their newest tracks, and maybe decide they're worth $X to you, so you hit the "tip" button on your app and pay the cartel $Y so that they pay Z% of that directly to the artists. Later, you might get the opportunity to buy the actual hair net that Leadvocal Rockstar wore at the concert in a patron-exclusive auction.

Meanwhile, your uncool non-patron friends are stuck listening to Top-40 format radio stations, because it's the most reliable curated content outside the arts cartel and the soulless corporate culture-for-consumption factories.

Disney has proven that a giant aggregation of art-producers can sustain itself on almost pure self-promotion. Disney is a humongous self-reinforcing advertisement for itself, carrying multiple viable brands, each targeting different audience demographics. Disney could certainly survive loss of copyright protection, but they would definitely make less money without it, and may have trouble adapting to the new cash flows due to sheer hugeness.
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As time has gone by, more and more people are starting to use computers. Before, only technically-minded people that were willing to invest in a learning curve would buy and use computers, but now even toddlers are users. People need computers, but they have other work to do, other things to learn. They don't want to have to invest time in learning how to use a computer, and I believe that's what's driving the dumbing-down of user interfaces. I don't think this was initiated by developers, and in that sense, they are forced to comply to market forces.

I still hate developing GUI apps on Web technology. Most of the stuff I program would best be used on a CLI. It would be simpler to program and would provide much more productivity benefits to an experienced user. However, it's not really an option, when most users don't even know how to make a bookmark or have little notion of what files are, much less how to use a terminal.
Heh... that's my take on the Seattle public library. First time I visited it, It gave me anxiety. I fucking hate it and refuse to visit it. Part of it feels like some Eastern European communist polytechnic institute, other parts feel like it's a scene from blade runner. Grabbing a book and reading it by the shelf is the last thing I want to do. It's a weird building with a weird vibe designed to be anything but a library. I honestly don't like this trend of architecting 'interesting' buildings which serve little use to its intended purpose.

Turns out I wasn't the only one thinking this: https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/On-Architecture-How-the...
No, it's proportional, hence just.
Depends on implementation. The one I'm familiar with asks for time (e.g. x * daily income). That seems totally fair, since we all have roughly the same amount of days to spend in a life. Jail & co is balanced based on the same principle, but harder to store & exchange, thus bad for minor infraction.
Do we know what tracking Amazon does and how harmful it is?

I mean, I'm willing to believe that Amazon just doesn't care what I get up to. But as somebody who has watched the Amazon website be ever more about revenue maximization without regard to my interests, I can also believe that they will use any and all data if it gives them as much 0.1% bump in a key metric.

I'll also note that a lot of what people shrug off as normal nowadays would have seemed wildly paranoid to most people 15 years ago. So I don't think our intuitions for "oh, they'd never do that" are particularly reliable.
Alternative for what purpose? These towns and counties already have basically nil for services.
I haven't. I've never worked with podcasts. You bring up a good point however: advertising is a pretty broad brush that describes a whole host of activities. While I think advertising, and in particular "targeted" advertising, is overstated in its effect, there are probably particular subtypes or avenues that are quite powerful.
Show HN: Dat-keyserver: a distributed PGP keyserver based on the Dat protocol
I use it in VMs quite a bit, exactly because it is light on resources.
This was a major plot point in Disney's Cars.
> I really just feel like this is trying too hard to look for something clearly nefarious

Whereas I feel like you're trying too hard to look for a reason why Uber is not in the wrong.
> China may set a damaging precedent here with regard to US power

I'd say precedent was set when congress blocked China from joining the ISS, leading to China developing its own space station program.
I wouldn't blame the consumer on this. Retailers are responsible for the things they sell. That includes if it's low quality or if it says it's something that it isn't (counterfeit etc).
Also hosting fake reviews etc is also something they are responsible for.
Good! We need to 1) further strengthen an awareness of the "free product means you pay with your data" and 2) channel that into willingness to pay for products. The more news that link "paying" and "social media" together, the better!
Put `apt-get update && apt-get install -y jq` at the top of your CI script which runs hundreds of times a day and then tell me that apt isn't slow. Should I have to maintain a container just for `FROM node:10 ; RUN apt install jq`? If I do so everybody will assume that it's some sort of specialized testing container rather than just a very generic `node:10` and think they can't run test scripts on their local machine. If node:10 was based on Alpine rather than Ubuntu the equivalent `apk install jq` is blazing fast.
Yes you either pay for the shipping or you pay the middle man. It's much cheaper for the consumer to subsidize the shipping than it is for the consumer to subsidize the middle man.

I expect going forward Alibaba will open warehouses all over the US which their sellers can stock with goods which can then be shipped domestically for about the same cost. I doubt Alibaba will just go away.
is there any reasonable metric by which China is not a developing economy?

Here's one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

Here's another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Dear ImGui indeed <3
Would the operator itself throw the error, or trying to access `[e2]` on null?

I never used Dart, I would assume it's basically a cast from `Optional<SomeType>` to `SomeType`, so wouldn't throw an exception itself
There is an enormous drop in T levels and sperm motility in the past decades. Don't know if related