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>This is based on an assumption that making the device serviceable is actually going to help with this.

We are choosing between repairing phones versus tossing them in the garbage. I can see which one is better for the planet, given that phones are purchased in the millions..

>Apple actually takes the old phones and is fairly good at recycling and/or refurbishing them. If you're going to toss your phone with that being the case, I somehow doubt you'd repair them either.

The "you" here is reputable repair shops. I don't have the skills to repair my phone, nor do I want to. There are forums littered with people taking their phone to the Apple store and being told that they need to buy a new one, when all they had to do was replace a capacitor that costs 5 cents, or given the standard lie about water damage, or being told to replace the entire motherboard for a component failure, etc, etc.

Okay, you can say that Apples policy on repair is such and such due to the cost of labor involved, and that would have been fine if the consumer had another option to go to. But Apple fights tooth and nail to restrict legitimate repair businesses from purchasing spare parts from suppliers, and providing repairs that Apple refuses to, which makes it worse.

>I can imagine a phone that's also a horse and a vacuum cleaner, but it's not imagination that helps. Extra demands restrict options.

That's ridiculous. i'm talking about a reasonable design compromise. In any case, I'll believe your statement when talented phone designers apply their creativity to this problem, and fail to make a sleek and repairable phone. Due to the commercial aspect, most phone makers are unfortunately focused on getting you to buy a new phone every 2 years, and so the focus is not on making it repairable.
Well, based on current distribution of resources, unplanned isn’t going so well either. What’s your suggestion?
Most rent control implementations are far too restrictive and create severe market distortions that can last generations. This one, thankfully, is not, and the allowable increases mean units are unlikely to get too far out of whack with market rates.
That book has junk science. I wouldn’t be so concerned.
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It's 5% above inflation, which would currently put it at about 6.8%.
> I thought they were just Cocaine Importing Agency.

No not at all--[1] Viet Nam was all about protecting the Opium Poppy... kinda like "we" do in Afghanistan now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...
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4-7 for the PhD alone, plus a few more years as a postdoc, plus the run-up to tenure (another 4-5 years).

None of these are particularly stable or relaxing.
Sorry if this comes off snarky but perhaps others posting here can see past next week. All too often these quick fix Band-Aids end up causing more problems in the long run while also spreading the problem far beyond where it had previously been contained.
> McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs

So that's a lie.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/McDonalds-acquires-Israeli...

Remember in 2006 how they outsourced the drive in windows to a call centre in Hawaii, how did that turn out?

Did it immediately sack everyone one or did it not work out?

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistan...

Yes, yes AI will kill jobs, what we don't know is when.

This article contributes nothing.

All evidence is AI/voice gen is to immature yet, since nothing is actually implemented by McDonald's nothing contradicts this yet.
It seems more and more clear that California, or at least those in power in California, don't want to fix the housing problem. Because if you're a land owner, the only problem is people trying to spoil the good times. All this VC money pouring into the pockets of tech employees, and a larger and larger fraction going straight into landlords' pockets. What's not to love?

If actually you want lower home prices, build more homes. Build tall (curb height restriction rules); build everywhere (no more minimum parking rules); build immediately (reduce complex planning permissions for developers). Just build more.

Supply and demand will decide the price of most goods, and housing is no exception. Rent control does not address the underlying issues that cause prices to rise- lack of supply and growing demand.
> Public-owned housing is the future. It works in Europe and it can work here.

Public housing has failed time and time again in the US, so citation needed.
Can you explain what you mean? I don't follow. Rent control is a bandaid that provides a level of stability to the lower classes. They can live without daily anxiety of being rudely defacto 'evicted' by radical, surprise rent increases.

This enables a society to continue to grow and function at a somewhat more sustainable pace, letting cities and counties grow without intense boom-bust and crash cycles, with a more stable working class, and therefore a long-term sustainable housing construction market.

I understand that rent control is no grand solution, and that we need more houses built - but I do not understand how rent control is part of the problem.

The problem starts and ends with personal and corporate greed. The rent control is an attempt at constructing a sustainable, stable society from the ashes of an out-of-control capitalism that is leaving most of its consumers in the dust.

Rent control is not part of the problem and would not deter rational actors from building additional housing - I believe it would increase it.
I agree.

One of the NYT best selling authors I spoke to over beers told me at most he can hope to get in the range of $200k in his lifetime for his book that was top of the charts for a significant amount of time, and continues to be very, very famous in it's niche.

i.e. Writing for a publisher sucks.
Awesome! Thanks for posting it!
do you have any clue about this specific measure? Its limited to buildings that are 15 years old or older, and it limits rent increases to 8% annually, which in practice is about 1 - 3% of all lease agreements in CA, a very small amount. Commercial construction loans are based on the 15 year revenue generating potential of the proposed building, this law was created specifically with that in mind so as not to interfere.
After making the diagram I'm convinced what I actually want is the "XS" - the 4" all-screen option. Super compact and no less functional than an SE.
Imagine if we could somehow have optical closeups of these planets and all we found were trillions of dinosaurs incapable of all but crow-like tool-making. We’d be so buzzed and bummed at the same time.
So how is housing going to get built? Are you suggesting that the state have a monopoly on buildings and housing? What process do we use to begin the expropriations and confiscations?
> The bill limits annual rent increases to 5 percent after inflation and offers new barriers to eviction

The limits to rent increases seem like they are enough to avoid significant short term spikes, while keeping up with market rate rents.

The biggest problem with some existing rent control (like in SF) is that the limit is so low that rents can't keep up with market rates even over decades, which is clearly terrible economic policy. Maybe this limit is high enough that this won't be as much of a problem for the rest of California.
This comment honestly comes across as incredibly whiny. No one owes you anything. If you don’t like how things are done, pave your own way by starting your own company.
Yep, it's an issue with Firefox unfortunately. It'll work fine on any other browser. I still haven't been able to pinpoint what's causing it since it works perfectly fine on my local environment :(.

Haha, yeah I should probably post sideprojects.net on it as well :P
It doesn't look like this is an option for American readers, unfortunately :(
millennials in CA are disproportionately renters, not home owners. This bill will provide millennials with some extra security so they know their rent won't be spiked and they'll need to move.
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Prices should increase in the case of increased demand. Prices must increase in that case if you want the supply to increase, which is the only way to actually meet demand.

It's how the market works ffs.
European privacy laws are great, but I’m not so sure it’s as simple as you make it out to be. German intelligence also cooperates with the US on NSA surveillance.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-spying-merkel/mer...
> The value the government brings here is extreme negotiating ability with the private insurance providers that individual citizens lack.

This is not good, it distorts the market too much. Look at the negotiating power Spotify and Pandora have over musicians. Pandora negotiates rock-bottom prices with musicians on behalf of its consumers and the consumers think it's great because low prices. Long-term you've decreased compensation for becoming a musician, sound engineer, etc. and harmed the entire music ecosystem.

It's a trade-off between clear short-term gains and diffuse long-term costs.
Others have pointed out that Rust's type-checking is all done at compile time. Rust also does not have exception handling.

To be more specific: errors in Rust are either propagated by function return values (usually in the form of `Result` or `Option` types) which do not require any kind of runtime support, or by panicking, which unwinds the stack for clearing-up of resources and then halts the running thread. (Panics cannot be caught, although they can [EDIT: sometimes but not always; see burntsushi's comment below] be observed by a parent thread if they have occurred in a child thread.) Rust's "runtime", therefore is negligible, much like C's: it consists mainly of functions which can be called for things like stack unwinding or backtrace support.
I agree with your premise that baby boomers have very tenuous grasp on how unique and lucky they were to grow up in the economic time period that they did. When the vast majority of the world's population is third world farmers and your country is at the forefront of industry and technological progress it's easy to coast and succeed.

However, that's clearly no longer the case and the average American needs to compete with a much broader pool of labor, increasing automation, and a growing middle class in more populous, emerging countries. I don't think millennials "deserve" what the baby boomers had; I just think the baby boomers didn't particularly deserve it either and it's becoming more and more obvious that the "normal" they experienced is an outlier era that will not return. Millennials need to learn to compete in this world and on average they are not well equipped to do so because they learned their perspective from a particularly (and unusually) privileged generation.
I think that artificially decreasing the price of a good/service through regulation decreases the incentive to produce more of the good/service.

The solution to the housing crises is to build more housing. This discourages building more housing.
error rate is actually pretty low compared to HDD I believe
These things probably are not rare. They're just new to us because we can detect them now.
So are you willing to accept that if none of these things happen, and the homeless problems increase, that this measure failed and should be repealed?

It's one thing to describe a proposal's political motivations, but quite another to actually declare that you might be wrong in your approach and are willing to define object criteria for success.
Berkeley and Oakland are two places that have outrageous transfer taxes when you buy/sell your house. Its 15x what it is in most other cities in California. Basically more impediment to owning a home.
It usually comes from a recession or a depression were rewrites are finally deemed necessary. Unfortunately unless people with common sense participate in government and we vote in selfless people a generation will suffer the consequences of our inactivity.
Every Frame a Painting is what truly turned me on to Fincher, after I’d enjoyed Seven, Fight Club, The Social Network, Gone Girl, Zodiac.

He’s on the same level as Lynch for me; they both found their favourite perversion.

As for Fincher, Mindhunter is the spiritual successor to Zodiac. It’s fantastic.
AirBnb really changes the dynamics of rent control. If you rent to someone in a hot market, you are entering a long term agreement with less flexibility in raising the rent in accordance with market rates. In the past, when faced with rent control, the landlord had to either accept it, or let the property sit vacant.

Now, with AirBnb, landlords have a much more viable option. They can put the property on AirBnb and have the flexibility to charge what the market will bear.

I foresee that as a consequence of this law, there are going to be fewer rentals and more AirBnb properties in California.
From what I've read over the years, it's happened before.

Or at least, it's been claimed that it's happened before.

PR obviously also plays a huge role.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/09/business/recession-and-re...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession_in_the_U...

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-economy-and-the-elect...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/19/fox-friends-not-afra...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/50222/bill-maher-recession-wo...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/stocks-drop-as-recession...

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/24/history-suggests-that-a-rec...
I'm arguing that this kind of labour protections of changing employee classification rule is a weird thing to fight for.

Just because the fix is easier and more likely to achieve but if it doesn't address the core issue, its useless.
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I guess it’s more like in France, instead of being fired with no recourse, you can opt to be relocated instead (at least that’s what it works out to).
Their initial explanation is bounds checking specifically. While most abstractions are zero-cost, bounds checking isn't.

I do wish there were a way to track expectations about integer ranges in a type system, but there currently aren't.
> Lessig's utilitarian calculus doesn't convince me it's OK to take money anonymously from villains.

Meh. It's not OK, but it's not that bad either. Even if what Ito did was wrong, which at least with hindsight it clearly was, the guy is still a hero.

Even the allegations about him using his position to raise LP money for his fund is somewhat dubious, given that he's much more famous for being a venture capitalist than he is for running the media lab; it's literally why he was hired for that job in the first place. It was bad judgment, and maybe he deserved to get fired for it, but as scandals go it's fairly benign.
this doesn't impact new buildings (only buildings older than 15 years old), its impact on housing creating is miniscule compared with the regulatory barriers of zoning and cost barriers of impact fees and construction costs.
See how Apple cooked well the new iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
This, imo, is absolutely correct (it is a dark idea to have a "let's be unsafe for more performance" flag) but maybe a experimental build of the Rust compiler could have this as a configuration option? Possibly the toolchain could warn every step of the way if such a 'tainted' module is ever linked, etc.

It just seems like this sort of question is going to recur, and being able to persistently track the overhead of checking (it would allow you to monitor specific performance improvements) is much nicer than having someone do a one-off experiment.
Start small. People can own one, maybe two housing units (everyone loves a good cabin). Get rid of REITs. Expand building of public housing; don't means-test it, it's available to everyone. Means-testing is how you get impoverished housing projects. Universal public goods have a habit of sticking around and getting funded.
> This is based on an assumption that making the device serviceable is actually going to help with this. I'm pretty sure that's just an assumption, mostly based on a hope that we can keep consuming like we do and somehow not wreck the planet if we just pick a phone with "fair" in its name.

Why wound reparability not help with this? Especially since you note that we can't keep living like we do: Reparability is an active attempt to reduce the harmful effects of consuming by reducing waste.

> Apple actually takes the old phones and is fairly good at recycling and/or refurbishing them. If you're going to toss your phone with that being the case, I somehow doubt you'd repair them either.

Bringing it to Apple for repair might take weeks to process, a repair shop might not always be available and I might lose my local data. That's definitely a lot more friction than ordering a new battery (or hypothetically even buying it at the store) and taking a few minutes to put it in, all in the comfort of my home.
> While $350,000 might sound like a lot of money, it’ll go quickly when you’re raising a family in an expensive city. We all deserve to live a middle-class lifestyle. Unfortunately, we’ve first got to sacrifice more than ever to get there today.

Then don't live in a big city (read: SF, NYC). Not everyone should, nor deserves, to live somewhere just because they want to.

Hell, even in some of the bigger ones, like Phoenix, you could buy a giant home + drive to work in a Tesla for that type of salary.
If there was abundant supply, you could tell a landlord doubling your rent above current market rate to go pound sand. Rent control restricts supply.
It's 5% rent increase, not the 1-2% seen in SF and NYC. Properties don't typically increase in rent that much. This isn't likely to lead to the absurd $1000 studio apartments in Manhattan.
I think geogra4's tone was of a kind with the post to which he was responding, which seemed to be asserting that only "modern democracies" (which there appear to be a scant few of these days) could "play ball," and that therefore China is, I guess, disqualified from participating in the world economy?

This is deeply subjective obviously: It didn't strike me as "whataboutism," but more a refutation of what seemed like a moral-political superiority complex. Devopyl's comment expressed this old-fashioned view; very reminiscent of the 80s and 90s, for me, and I think geogra4's balloon-popping was well in order.

We may have different definitions of "whataboutism" as well :)
I'd like a pint of mead and a stout woman! /s
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20943405.
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Whew this is a long article, does anyone have the tl;dr?
I’m well aware that there are Supreme Court justices who claim to believe that courts should not make law. And yet... they continue to make law every time they contribute to a majority opinion.

As to AB5, I’m not really educated on the particulars of Dynamex or the political process around AB5 to opine on why it’s been codified. There are many possible reasons, ranging from a desire to try to freeze the law in place, to, as you say a “noop.” This, too, is just a part of the system.
On the plus side there are more moons than planets and many of them may be habitable. We've barely started looking at extra solar Jupiter like planets because of the much longer orbital periods.
Only volunteer your good references, and consider auditing your ex-employer by having a friend call HR asking about dates of employment, performance and references. Many states restrict what can be said about former employees, double check that what HR says is compliant with your local laws.
imo It will still benefit the older generation more. There's now even less motivation for people to build more housing inventory to rent out. With ever dwindling housing inventory, it's first come first serve. Guess who's there first?

"Economists from both the left and the right have a well-established aversion to rent control, arguing that such policies ignore the message of rising prices, which is to build more housing. Studies in San Francisco and elsewhere show that price caps often prompt landlords to abandon the rental business by converting their units to owner-occupied homes. And since rent controls typically have no income threshold, they have been faulted for benefiting high-income tenants."

This is what would really help with the housing problem

"State Senator Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, offered a bill that would essentially override local zoning to allow multiple-unit housing around transit stops and in suburbs where single-family homes are considered sacrosanct. The bill was shelved in its final committee hearing this year, but Mr. Wiener has vowed to keep pushing the idea."

But the NIMBYs killed it for now https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/business/economy/californ...

> This bill will provide millennials with some extra security so they know their rent won't be spiked and they'll need to move.

I'm not sure that's how rent control works. Unless I missed something, your rent is only capped if you don't move.
When I played around with the Decawave chips mentioned in the article, not well. When going through walls there'd be some weird attenuation and maybe some multipath stuff that gave unusual results. Going through a wall could throw the results off by 10cm which I suppose would prevent you from knowing which side of the wall something is on.
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The market is not working when actors frequently intentionally cause trauma and unexpected financial and life emergencies to tenets. The 'market' is not some divine thing that cannot go wrong; rather, trying to make the 'market' work is exactly why we have runaway climate change and incredible wealth disparity that's causing unnecessary pain and upheaval in the US today.

There's no need to swear at people, this is an interesting and complicated topic with many valid points to debate.
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I am amused by the idea of a "small giant".
Would be interesting to see how this unfolds, and how blockchain can come into play in this area.
DE and DM are not assumptions, there's strong indirect evidence of their existence. You don't have to see a thing directly to deduce it's there. The problem isn't the shows, the problem is you think you know more than the people who actually know and you're bothered by their confidence in something you wrongly think is just an assumption.
> Nothing is free on the internet anymore

That's a load of codswallop, mate. The following projects stand to prove otherwise:

https://www.gutenberg.org/

https://www.fsf.org/

Certainly understand your sentiment, though it's important to not spread silly FUD like "nothing is free, everyone's a shill, etc."