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>That only works if the system is closed. If housing in the bay area goes down in price, you get people moving in from New York, LA, Boston, Austin

If that were true the bay area would have been empty long ago because of the ridiculous housing cost. Fact is most people won't change cities for lower housing cost.

>The reason housing in the bay area is so high has nothing to do with fixed material costs or else housing everywhere would be that astronomical. The reason housing is so high is because demand is high and the supply of land is limited. Land is the primary costs. You fight that by building vertically. The higher the building, the lower the marginal cost of land for each unit and therefore things become more affordable. But like I said in my first post, this doesn't happen if everything is left up to the market because it isn't the way to be most profitable, so the government would need to be involved to incentivize this.

Developers are putting 5 on 1 buildings every where they possibly can because it's the most economically efficient use of the land. They can't in the bay area because of zoning restrictions. Remove the zoning restrictions and you'd see skyrocketing density.
Microsoft engineer whines on Twitter about his own product's hacks not being general enough to render youtube.com. Please. Do we have to listen to someone make a big conspiracy story every time Google adds a DIV to one of their sites?
Not the original poster, but it's easy for a commute to be 1 hour each way even if you live very close to work. I'm about 18 minutes away from the office by car, but by bus, it takes about 1 hour or more, and monthly parking costs are insane. (several hundreds of dollars per month)

As for your wife, I may be misunderstanding if she works from home as a Mom or remotely, but my wife works from home as a stay-at-home-mom and exercises almost every day with two young ones. She takes long walks with the children, one in a stroller and the other in a front pack.

The other thing she does is a variety of workout videos. Our oldest actually does some of the workout with her and encourages her with the same phrases the people on the workout video use. (ex. "train your body!") It's cute.
That's trend that I see often. The other day I saw someone providing a response to argument that when using NoSQL database you need to plan in advance how the data is accessed (so you can pick the right key). The response was "don't you need to do that in every database?".

So many people immediately dismiss relational databases, then re-implement all that functionality in their apps with various bugs and performance bottlenecks.

ORM is another bad technique. It supposedly promises you that you don't need to know SQL to use, and that is true for the simplest examples, but you absolutely have to know it for anything less trivial, then you have to figure out how to write query in ORM to get a desired SQL statement (it makes it very difficult to use advanced SQL functionality), and that's not the end. ORM constantly will make unnecessary SQL queries and by default request all fields, even if you don't use them, adding additional performance bottleneck.

In my current workplace thanks to ORM we make on average 10 queries per request and at peak generate 1Gbps throughput from/to database because of those inefficiencies.

I think the way to go is SQL support in IDE, I recently saw PyCharm with DataGrip where if you configure it to connect to a database it will start recognizing SQL in string statements and start treating it like code (so you now have autocomplete, refactoring etc). I think this is probably the proper way to do it and I wish that other IDEs would have similar features.
going deeper into these threads has got me asking, wait, am I still on hackernews?
Not quite. Ollie provides kitchens, along with other luxury amenities, which makes their price point still pretty high with the cheapest apartment being ~$2800/month.
The breakup of the Bell System was a huge failure. When they were separate they never actually tried to compete with each other and then they just bought each other back up again.

What actually created competition for the telephone network was the internet. Competition from cable and satellite and cellular.

That's what you need. Something similar but not exactly the same, so they can each carve out a niche and provide a backstop against the most flagrant abuses but they aren't in such direct competition that they're more inclined to cooperate than compete. So that you have companies who can make choices knowing that their position is different than their competitors and the competitor can't just mirror their action to neutralize its competitive advantage, which otherwise removes any incentive to be the first to engage in pro-consumer behavior.
As horrible at it sounds, it's just business. Large companies have a checklist that databases MUST be protected by authentication, so they always pay for the enterprise edition just to get authentication, and corollary the only way as a software editor to get money is to have authentication behind a pay wall.
A cognitive psychologist I worked with referred to these as insight problems. You need to have one critical piece of insight to solve the problem, and then it's done. If you have the insight, you solve it, if you don't, you don't.

He was constantly bemoaning how much of the research into human thinking revolved around insight problems, which you can give each subject once and at best time how long it takes for the insight to occur, instead of repeatable cognitive tasks that you could give the same subjects over and over while varying different parameters, to draw richer conclusions from.
One of the issues with React-style "declarative" UI frameworks is that they have a hard time modeling transitions and animations. I'm not a Rustacean but that would be one of the things I'd look for here.
Although I am not on the Rust team and do not speak for them, I have enough familiarity Rust's funding situation to assure you that there is no budget available for developer evangelism. :P
>major US metropolitan areas that have gun control

They don't have gun control in the sense that the UK and most other European countries have gun control. You can even get a permit to carry a concealed weapon in NYC, for example.
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Not everywhere, not for everyone, and if you're making $12/hour, there's a decent chance a day or two out of work is going to put you in the red if you're not already.
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It's true.

But Google fails as well.

Most of the world population is not native english speaker.

Try "attore che recita la parte del giornalista in spiderman" (the actor that plays the journalist in spiderman) in Italian

- Spider-Man: Homecoming - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)

- James Franco - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)

- Spider-Man film: tutti gli attori | Popcorn Tv (https://popcorntv.it)

- Martin Sheen, dieci ruoli per scoprire un grande attore ... (https://www.consigli.it)

Or the simplified version "attore che fa il giornalista in spiderman" (same meaning as before, just more down to earth)

- J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)

- J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org)

- Spider-Man: Far From Home, nel cast anche l'attore ... (https://tg24.sky.it)

Refining is still a very present need, it's simply that for common searches on common topics in english it's less so...

It's more or less the same in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese... I can't even imagine the results in languages like Arabic, Indonesian or Balinese.

Local, culture aware, search engines are the future, despite Google efforts, the generalist "one size fits all" search engine is not.
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Then compare EU with US. They have comparable GDP throughout the years, with EU being generally slightly ahead, yet they've been involved in less disputes. Around 1/2 as much as respondents, i.e. abusers.

>The EU was involved in 184 disputes with 27 Economies from the time it acceded to the WTO in 1995 through 2018. The European Union has been the complainant 99 times and the respondent 85 times.

VS

>United States was involved in 275 disputes with 42 Economies from the time it acceded to the WTO in 1995 through 2018. The United States has been the complainant 123 times and the respondent 152 times.

If you want to consider the scale of economy, then also factor in that US is one of the least trade-dependent developed economies in the world, i.e. trade-GDP is very low. Comparison of OECD countries including EU [1], US trades (low end estimate) half as much as EU, which makes the number of US disputes even more disproportional relative to unit of trade. Or the fact that US as a country somehow lodged more complaints than all EU members with their wildly disparate interests.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods-and-services.htm
I lived in SF in 1999, and that mentality was exactly the same then as it is today.

The long time residents of SF don't believe in _change_, and that isn't going to change.

It is just happenstance that the initial San Jose tech explosion happened near SF. ...but maybe other parts of the country are better suited to it going forward...
It's worth noting that some of the groups you mention are motivated by a general opposition to rent seeking developers, and would be perfectly amenable to a 6 unit resident-owned coop in the same location.
> Besides, it’s really annoying I need to upgrade from DDR3.

Do you? You can use an older AM4 motherboard that uses DDR3 with Ryzen 3000, no?
Agreed! I have some thoughts about how this can be handled but it’ll be a little bit before we can try them out.
Don't forget the many people who have spoken publicly about his toxicity. Cantrill had a tendency to treat people poorly and that nature of his is also in the soul of this company.

Read his comments here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115336

Making this company about him and not the product is typical behavior from Cantrill.
Remember Eucalyptus? Was lead by the former CEO of MySQL. Built an open-source project that attempted to be compatible with AWS. The project is still alive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)
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The RGB LEDs exist to be customised, so you can turn them off if they annoy you.
Which part of the "bad code?" The actual line that failed? The code that called it which didn't check a return value? The code below it that always returned the same value regardless of success or failure? The fault in the OS that allowed a race condition because it didn't lock processes properly?

Or did the failure happen because the code that was written for an 8-bit controller is now run on a 32-bit controller and no one realized that?

Perhaps you'd want to bring in the Test Engineer who verified that the particular feature passed? Why didn't they do their job? How about the Senior QA Engineer who wrote the test cases?

Do you also want to know who wrote the Requirement that the code met? Maybe the code did exactly what the Requirements said, but the Requirement was poorly written.

Point is, failures have to be analyzed on a Systems basis. Simply looking at a line of code can be completely meaningless and miss the big picture. And yes, each of the above failures is something I've come across in my career.
Reminds me of the top comment from PragmaticPulp in another HN thread [1], where Pragmatic realized the personality very much is the product:

I know two people on the “30 under 30” list. Both of them are incredibly charismatic and charming in person. Their Instagram and Twitter accounts churn out constant brand building material. They both have pseudo-startups with noble causes and vibrant websites. Their startups have a list of impressive advisers, including B-list senators and industry executives.

However, neither of them have made any progress on building an actual business. One of them has supposedly been developing the same simple product for almost 7 years now, but they’ve never been able to produce even a proof of concept prototype.

I thought I was missing something for the longest time, until I let go of the idea that they were really trying to build a company. They’re not. They’re building their personal brand, and succeeding wildly thanks to publications like the “30 under 30” list that have an insatiable appetite for underdog success stories.

Surely some of these companies are legitimately successful with great business models, but they’re mixed into these lists with the brand builders who know how to game the system. I’d be interested in reading an honest “Where are they now” follow up series that checks in with these founders at the 5-year mark after they make this list to see who the real successes are.

[1] The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle | Hacker News. (2019, December 02). Retrieved from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082523
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> I found their interfaces especially for simple things (traversing atoms/bonds in a molecule) quite unwieldy.

Somehow the same for me, this is part of why I started my own project (http://chemfiles.org). I have the impression that for cheminformatics you want to see molecules as graphes, is this true or is a list of bonds enough for usual purposes?

I have heard of OEChem but never used it. I'll try to find some documentation to have a look.
There is noting wrong getting funded by Koch in principle.

What your source points out is that the agreements Cowen made as a general director of the Mercatus Center seem to violate standard academic norms and "fall short of the standards of academic independence I expect any gift to meet."
Do you sleep well at night?
Me too. Mighty strange times indeed.
Have you considered working with S4 Energy/InEnTec to commercialize (they previously were a JV with Waste Management)? They've done some work in large scale gasification.
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This is actually one of the reasons I'm so excited about the space. If it is possible to combine modern, Web-inspired ways of building UI with Rust's performance and other qualities, I think the result could be compelling. But we don't know yet, and I think what's needed now is an exploration of the various ways to adapt these reactive approaches into idiomatic Rust. I've been tracking Moxie and think it brings a lot to the conversation - I think Adam and I have been learning a lot from each other.
What were the arguments you were getting against buying AMD?
it's actually returning them the money they were robbed by being paid below the value of their work
> Cantrill and Frazelle both have created software used by millions.

And yet here they are building a sever hardware company??

> That's like saying Carmack was just trying to cash out his Facebook fame.

Thats an absurd analogy. Carmack is responsible for arguably the most important advancements in video game design. Specifically for code he personally architected and wrote.

For example - Frazelle is one of 1300 contributors (currently 13th in terms of # of commits) to Docker core. Not to diminish her contribution, but these individuals are contributors, not single handed creators (which was implied), of "software used by millions".

For the record - I enjoy Frazelle's content and personality. I wish her the best, but the commentary here is near cultish.