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That argument boils down to "I'd rather let poor people be homeless than allow less than middle class housing to exist at all."

I spent nearly six years homeless. I got off the street by moving into an SRO.

An SRO with access to electricity, heat, bathroom facilities etc beats the hell out of living in a tent, peeing in the bushes and living in fear of being rounded up by the police for being too poor for my existence to be legal.

I'm working on resolving my personal problems and raising my income. I still struggle to make ends meet every single month. I'm not a drug addict and I don't have a mental health diagnosis.

I do have two special needs sons who still live with me and I'm medically handicapped.

If you really want to outlaw poverty, you basically need to start applying the death sentence to anyone who has intractable personal problems, no matter the cause.

Beat up by your husband and no place else to go but a shelter? Oh, death penalty for you.

Gave birth to a child with an expensive genetic disorder? The baby needs to die so you can keep being a productive member of society.

Etc.

I don't think that works so well, personally. Our current system does a poor job of helping people find their way back to a middle class life once things go wrong somewhere and, so far, no one is quite yet proposing the death penalty for such problems. Which means people barred from having minimal housing become an increasing drag on the system because they have no immediate way out of their predicament.

That's not intended as hyperbole:

The average life expectancy in the homeless population is estimated between 42 and 52 years, compared to 78 years in the general population.

https://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/health.html

Our housing policies are killing people, just more slowly and with more plausible deniability than putting a bullet through their brain. And some do get murdered simply for being homeless. Four homeless individuals were murdered in their sleep in New York recently and three years ago someone was setting tents on fire in San Diego.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-crime/man-accuse...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-diego-police-looking-for-pers...
How is this different then the app/website CopyMeThat? I use that app all the time on my ipad to save recipes from random sites to my own "recipe book"
The natural predator for larger animals is often humans. We stop hunting them and the numbers grow until the food supply limits are hit. This often affects other creatures too, who may also rely on the same food.
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If you've not heard of TIS-100 then, given that you're currently on a site called "Hacker News", I heartily recommend it to you: http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

Also excellent is Shenzhen IO: http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/

Also excellent is everything here: http://www.zachtronics.com
I know it's not what you were referring to, but we may legit see favelas in the Bay Area if the current madness continues.
"Gosh. How can it possibly be bigotry to call people something they don't want to be called? I do it all the time." - the belief system of a bigot, spoiler alert.

So let's speak frankly for a tick. Is it that you have such a low opinion of your readers that you think that "oh, it's a well-known and self-admitted regressive's free speech in question, not that he hates trans people and has a vested interest in catering to those who hate trans people" is an actual argument? Or are you a dupe who genuinely buys it as if it were true?

Of course, my question is rhetorical. Not attempting to other trans people? Don't insult the people reading your comments like that. Shapiro's entire schtick is othering anyone who the GOP doesn't have in their pocket. His entire ethos, hell his entire telos, is to maximally hurt and control those who are not white, straight, preferably-Christian men (and them too, so long as they are poor).It has nothing to do with "free speech" except insofar as "free speech" can be perverted to "freedom to abuse others while remaining beyond their reach." That's what he gets out of bed in the morning for.
I happen to agree with EFF on this, but even when I don’t agree with EFF, I appreciate that they are consistent on their pro-privacy stance. We need more organizations like EFF that are a consistent voice for one cause and aren’t swayed by unrelated political matters.
A 5' wide room is _really_ pushing the limits of what a space can be used for -- you can't even place furniture on both walls and that's less than 2' from the side of a twin bed to the wall. I mean sure, you can use it, but it's _extremely_ limiting.
> I live in rural Illinois,

To me, living somewhere is more than just the physical structure. My wife and I grew up in “tiny towns” and after we left, we swore we would never go back.

We love cities and are willing to live in a smaller home for a bigger city.
Can you use it for teams as well?
And taxes on alcohol fund schools,let's encourage that!
If a proprietary software is not much more better than an open source one, I will not choose it.
Coast Guard workers who were going home when their shift was over (28 days on and 28 off). The ship docked at the wharf in the small seaside town when patrolling in the area. The ship was leaving and they were waiting for a drive home but had to stay overnight. My dad worked on the same ship and they told him the story later.
Market approaches work when demand is elastic.

It's pretty easy to deduce that there is an anticorrelation between ability to adjust riding schedules and ability to pay increased fees.
NYT has an editorial up now by a woman who moved to a small town in Arkansas where the town council wouldn’t approve a $25/hour salary for a head librarian because who needs that much money, what is she greedy, fancy college graduates think they run everything ... That’s extreme, but it’s generally true that salaries are better in cities than rural areas.
Paul Graham:

I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Because that's literally what it was designed to do. Absorb the floodwaters and release them slowly.

All the water being siphoned out to supply Vegas and irrigation comes from somewhere. And doesn't make it downstream. Plus all the water retained by Urban build out (ponds, vegetation, pools) that normally would flow straight into a river and head downstream.

Over burden pressure from the lake forces water into the ground. The temperature of the water in the lake rises, causing chemical changes and making evaporation downstream more likely. Sediment drops out of the water column, allowing light to penetrate deeper than it normally would.

All of that is before you even get into the flow rate variance. Because winter floods don't "flush out" the canyon, there are problems with sedimentation downstream, which causes water to slow and evaporate more...

And this is just hydrology/hydraulics, before you touch any of the biological / ecological aspects.

It gets complicated, quickly.

Even if you assume it's only 5% evaporation reduction and exclude what's pumped out, there are at least what? 15-20 major dams that feed the Colorado? Even if you assume 3% times 15 dams, that's almost half the flow of the river, before you even pump anything out.
> Back in 1962 my grandma [...]

Good for her. She could actually afford to own. This generation doesn't have the same luxury.

I hope Millennials and Gen-Z will be courteous enough to not defund social security and Medicare. They're growing pretty angry with student loans, cost of living, and inability to afford housing and retirement. They'll be looking for someone to blame when they're 40 and jaded.

> You would change it forever, adding all the charm of a trailer park or housing project. The free parking would be gone.

That's extreme. I was going to say apartment tower, which makes much more sense than single family dwellings with wasted space for parking cars.

> You're trying to cheat by skipping a step. You don't want to wait half a century. You want that nice neighborhood now, without investing the time to create it.

I own a half million dollar condo on the Atlanta Beltline. By all rights I should be a NIMBY too, but I empathize with those that are struggling and hope for densification and affordability. I didn't buy my place as an "investment" - I bought it because I love it and the neighborhood I live in. Lower house prices will mean lower property taxes, so it'd be a win-win. I want them to build more here.

Housing shouldn't be an investment you horde and keep from others because you've already got yours. Housing is an escape from constant shackles of rent-seeking. It should be accessible. People this generation don't even have that as a dream anymore...

> neighborhood you now covet

SF is a smelly and cold quagmire, and I only travel for business. It's a total monoculture without a thriving art or music scene. I've no interest in ever living there.

Tech either needs to pack up and leave, the law needs to enable denser building, or land owners need to see their values drop through steep, progressive taxation.

SF the city is extorting too much from business for not much in return - all of their employees are getting fleeced by the cost of housing. Businesses should shop elsewhere for a better run town that isn't controlled by rent seeking leeches preventing progress because they refuse to work hard and add new value.

I'm hoping tech leaves. My startup will be on the east coast.
When reading I didn’t realize it was from the CEO. For some reason, that does make it seem kind of sleazy (not sure why).

On the other hand, it’s still damn good advice. It’s exactly how I would expect high-performing people to act. Victim mindset is (probably) never the right mindset.
I don't think I would consider living in Kansas in this day and age - people are more than vaguely aware of it from the news and it doesn't sound like a good place from the vantage point of CA or NY. You may regard what's in the news about the midwest as distorted or propaganda, but I don't think it's ignored or people on the coasts are unaware of what it's reported to be like.

...but places like DC are practically Kansas from the point of view of living costs relative to SF. So SF to Kansas is the wrong comparison in my opinion. Plenty of other coastal metro areas.
In UK and Norther europe solar is of minimal use, so the situation is reverse. Night time electricity is cheapest.
That’s quite true. And thank you for also recognizing that my snark can’t be reasoned with.
>Hundreds of millions of other Americans do fine not living in the Bay Area.

Do they though? Not sure why you singled out the bay area, but populations in less populated, non-coastal regions do pretty poor all around.

* Not as well educated

* Lower incomes

* Less savings

* Higher chance of medical issues

* Drug issues

* Higher suicide rates

* Pockets of STD's spikes that happen every few years

I'll pay the extra $1000 a month to be surrounded by good food and constructive outlets.
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Sure, you can make that comparison, I just don't know what useful conclusion you'd get from it. Maybe property rights are stronger there. Maybe nobody offered enough money. Land in Atlanta has historically been relatively cheap compared to New England.

I have a pet theory that states that land values are higher on the coast mainly because sprawl doesn't have as many places to go, so it concentrates in smaller areas. Atlanta was historically a rail hub, exacerbating sprawl because transport could always move people farther outward. Picture pouring money onto a map, and walls are anywhere it's infeasible to develop the land. The money will spread out where there's no natural barriers. It will pile up if there's a lot of them. Money piling up means increased property values.
Atlanticism
I quite like this - I have one suggestion though. Please convert between US measurements and metric. I much prefer metric and for this reason tend to stick to UK/European websites - but occasionally there will be something on a US website I want to try - having to go through and convert is a chore.

It would also be great to be able to save known substitutions - like sometimes I have to use plain flour and baking powder rather than self-raising because it's what I have in the cupboard.
The article title is actually “Refusing to be the Victim”.
We have a 1926-built 1,400sqft house and it's more than enough for a family of 4.
MTA doesn’t even have variable pricing for distance. It’s a pretty poorly designed system qua system. It has good coverage. Everything else is substandard internationally.
That’s good to know. I hadn’t read that before.
Maybe. But something to keep in mind is that the person who called you out has issues and most likely should be ignored. Who talks that way to others in an honest discussion?
will this be followed by an apology for being rushed and shallow or will the new CoCs take care of the nonsense known as nuanced thinking?
My old workplace bought parts from a company in Graz, Austria occasionally they sent technicians over here to Canada. I had been practicing some German using Duolingo. At lunch I used a phrase and the Austrian guy told me how to say it in Austrian. It was funny more of a humorous jab at German pronounciation. My impression was the Austrian guys were really laid back.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21175225
I live in the US and am still astounded by this. I've seen cases where we have a portable traffic signal that's also manned by two guys.
It's pretty clear you don't want to follow. The point is quite clear. This is a subjective issue. Your ordering of what problems should be tackled first is not likely going to be the same as anyone else's.

To someone else, this may be a the most prioritized problem for any range of reasons from being the most important or being the one that they can make the most progress on at the moment.

But please, continue to hide behind burner accounts and spend more energy arguing this point -- definitely a productive use of everyone's time, complaining about which problems other people focus on.
> for many limited-production supercars, their value actually go up over time

It depends.

Daily driver cars are depreciating assets. A supercar in fantastic condition that has little / no miles is an appreciating asset. A Bugatti supercar with 150k miles doesn't really have a large market, so it's likely to take a huge loss to sell in a reasonable amount of time. It might sell faster if it is parted (sometimes rare vehicle owners will pay way over list price to get replacement parts fast so they can get their prized possession working again quickly).
The Boring Company is a startup exploring a transformative sweet spot around very-inexpensive small simple autonomous-EV single-lane road tunnels, when constructed very rapidly at extremely large scale. If BC were to attempt a conventionally sized and outfitted subway tunnel, bid against established contractors, for one of the very few contracts available, presumably with a machine in direct competition with established TBM manufacturers... well, that would be quite a pivot.
Oh man I feel so sorry for my artist friends who were forced out and can never move home again. One of them is slowly succumbing to depression due to ending up in Seattle and I really hope he can figure out how to get out of there before the winter blahs drive him to suicide.
Still counts as error!
I'm sorry, but you have completely missed the point. I generally try not to respond in ways that can be construed as rude, but there was only one point, it was core to my comment, and your comment indicates that you did not understand it.

> You could choose not to even if your ability to choose was not restricted.

Choosing not to install apps that aren't approved by Apple is not the same thing as choosing to use a device where apps that are not approved by Apple cannot be installed. That is the entire point.

How can someone (perhaps yourself?) be in favor of expanding choice and also opposed to to the existence of this choice?
TOS of any electronic device or software. All the whereas and therfores the average Joe can't follow.
Very interesting read. I interpret this in the way that clustering (eg HDBSCAN) on UMAP-projected data makes some sense at least (contrary to tSNE), are there any differing opinions on this? Interesting related discussions: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/263539/clustering-...
Nothing like a nice relaxing game of assembly language programming.
Oh man. This is such a great resource. I wish I could give you multiple upvotes. Thanks for sharing!
"> excellence

How about their excellence at using English, by the way? Their attention to detail when it comes to using other languages? I hope you realize how wrong it is to make blanket statements. "

As crazy as it sounds, the horrible English is because their fanatic adherence to pedagogical grammar and vocabulary cramming along with the fact that English's utility is mainly for university entrance exams. If you interact with any Japanese person from an elite university they will surprise you with their knowledge of English despite being unable to fluently communicate with English.

It is more an issue of conservatism than this so-called "culture of excellence".
Holy shit, this is absolutely outrageous.
Honest question asked in good faith: Are you a developer? What's it like not having an escape key or function keys?
Well you are correct as per oxford dictionary[0] . I got a similar from someone for the word "architected". In my opinion its best to ignore and carry on.

[0]https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
Ed Fredkin was also the inspiration for Stephen Falken's character in War Games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin#WarGames
I am strongly aphantasiac but do on rare occasions get momentary flashes of visual imagery, so I'm not all the way on the end of the spectrum (though my mind was still blown when I realized many people think primarily in visuals - cannot fathom what that would be like).

I rarely remember dreams, and when I do they fade quickly.

They are visual, however, usually first-person though not always.

Other sensations are sometimes strong, too - I've had one or two nightmares involving physical trauma, physical shock, and excruciating pain.
New Orleans sits below sea level & oceans are projected to rise due to anthropogenic global warming. Should they move?
Similar here, from Quebec but worked in Milan for a while. I got prepaid plans in Milan for the equivalent of $29 CAD for 80GB of mobile data. It reminded me of how fucked up the market is back home.
Or you have different needs and don't need as much space? Please don't be so dismissive about other people's lives and imply that they aren't being "conscious" about what they need.
I've never used CopyMeThat but I just looked through it quickly. It looks like a good app for solving a similar problem that feastgenius is solving. I think the difference with what I built is that it also calculates the nutrition content per serving. This was important for me personally because I use the app to search for recipes in certain macros ranges. For example, Finding chicken recipes in a macro range of (carbs:30-50, protein:20-40, fat:10-20). The search for feastgenius was built on top of elasticseach and in the near future I'll be building out more features based around really robust searching. I'll also be focusing time on building features for discovering new recipes.
I hope that answers the question :)
I too having been asking around. Did not have much luck. Most of the requirements are in chip design. Software contribution is done by the open source community. Corporations are contributing to open source but the team size is very small.
I think I'll definetly check out the last one you mentioned, I'm far more comfortable with Java and CLRS was a bit too high level of maths for me (senior in hs)
I read the same article and felt that conclusion the NYT was trying to portray was off/I took away a different perspective from the article. The first point being that a small town librarian one doesn't require a master's degree in the field. (Research libraries/big city libraries might differ) On paper she's overqualified to run a small town library and just because she has a degree doesn't mean that she should get paid more.

Another factor is that the average wage in the area is around 12/13 dollars. For someone to be paid twice the average private sector wage for the area is quite significant. Especially when this is a small town and money that is paid for the librarian comes out of their budget and means an reallocation of resources from elsewhere.

Tl;dr I'm not saying that the librarian should not get a pay raise to 25 an hour. What I am saying is that just b/c people are skeptical about wages doesn't mean that it's a direct correlation with them hating on college graduates/ect.
And the funny thing about this and every other “code of conduct” is that it’s so vague that it reads like a corporate “mission statement”. So vague, in fact, that it can be (and is) used as a weapon arbitrarily by anybody with an axe to grind.
> Buying a hypothetical Apple device and never flicking on the sideloading switch would still give you that.

Until someone (my abusive spouse? someone with a narrowly scoped zero-day and physical access to my phone?) abuses the existence of this functionality in ways that compromise my security.

> Whereas the person who generally prefers the security engineering, design choices and/or integration of iOS but wants some exceptions is now told "If you care about this so much, you can go over to Android.".

I agree with you here. It would be great if Apple offered two classes of iPhone, one where such a switch was present and one where unsigned code was prevented from executing by hardware.