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“But I imagine if I was a fully remote worker I would make active changes in my life to see more people every day.”

That’s one of the biggest improvements in quality of life when I work remotely. I find working in an office (especially open space or cubes) very exhausting due to noise and lack of privacy. So I come home at night totally exhausted and do nothing. When I work from home I naturally feel motivated to do something after work which I find very positive.
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How to increase the housing supply: get the government out.

Places in California requires things like requiring all homes to have a high amperage outlet in the garage for charging electric cars. Do you really think people that are struggling to keep a roof over their head are driving a Tesla?
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> Not only does he have a track record of not having an imagination, he seems to have got it into his head, that if he reads two books on Economics and Sociology over the summer he needs to be at the policy making table.

The latter is at least arguably true if one assumes that's all the thought he's put into things, but the former statement is just wildly false
Rates of entrepreneurship are comparable to (and in some cases higher than) the US in most wealthy European countries. The difference in “startup” culture has more to do with the access to capital and the US government’s historic, unmatched investment in technology infrastructure in the context of the Cold War. It’s the same reason why Russia today still punches above its weight in the IT sector.
Yeah, I was interested when they said "computer company", which the average reader would associate with Apple or Dell but the homepage described something entirely different, and much less interesting to anybody who isn't a sysadmin.
.NET done right? haha really? I find Go to be an order of magnitude less productive than C# and more complicated to get up and running with actually building useful things. Go over-complicates things which C# and .NET make easy while also having less readable code and less robust tooling.
As a recent transplant, it's as insane as it sounds.
> Can someone explain in simple terms what this company will be building?

Computers. Literal, physical computers you can buy and stick in a server rack.

Specifically, computers with the hardware/software optimized and tuned for "hyperscaler" uses (think Kubernetes).
> ASGI support

> Django 3.0 begins our journey to making Django fully async-capable by providing support for running as an ASGI application.

Bleh. ASGI is probably the worst implementation I can think of for a common async interface. Stringly-typed callbacks? async generators exist for a good reason. It's also very asyncio-centric, and asyncio is Not Good.
Looks like it's still being built out in that picture. For their sake, hopefully they remember to put up some walls.
> These tweets are about hacking shibboleths, which is advanced mode. Basic mode would be just noticing shibboleths, and also why and how they so clearly identify speakers.

Yeah. Also using the word "shibboleth" for "advance mode" make some sense, but seems like an uncommon usage. To me, has strong connotations of the "basic mode," i.e. a word use that indirectly gives away someones identity.
Want to solve more car break-in and bike theft cases? Authorize the police to roll the helicopters and armored personnel carriers to catch suspects. We've bought police all these toys and their not going to want to work a case unless they get to use them.

I'm only half-joking.
We have other developed countries we can compare to. Also, you can consider the lack of care as a smaller part of the general economic anxiety that plagues the areas described in the article.
It will force you to find social outside of work, but that's a good thing to do in general. Once you start getting out the house at what is normally work hours you'll start to meet other people who work remote.

But, and this can be hard for people, you have to make an effort to be social. The default that someone works with you they will likely have to talk to you is no longer an option.
Occasionally public-private data sharing gets in the news. Where I see it reported, it’s treated as a scandal even when the company in question is Alphabet and they got the data for AI research: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/10/nhs-data-goo...

Medical privacy is one of those places where I wonder if a personal desire for privacy might hurt society as a whole — Almost, but not quite, like the tragedy of the commons.

Still, it’s easy for me to say that, none of my embarrassing aspects have medical consequences.
There's a podcast called Darknet Diaries with an episode about this program[1], where the host interviews an ex-member. It's all very interesting, but there's one part in particular where he talks about the reunions that some ex-members regularly attend. It raises questions since many of these people are working in important positions at major corporations that compete with each other and compete with Israeli companies and companies founded by other members of their unit.

It wouldn't be fair to assume any collusion is going on of course, but considering their past in espionage and the military, it's at least worth mentioning.

[1]: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/28/
At worst, you'll break even, at best, you'll make a profit, and if you don't, it's an automatic loss.
This is awesome! I'm one of the community maintainers of connexion (I added openapi 3 support), but I don't have write access to the repo, and it's been really tough to get any changes landed lately. nice work!
> “I know my rights, I know my rights”. What are the cashiers and security going to do? Nothing, they let her go.

I've seen a shoplifter (also in SF, Safeway) take it to the next level, repeatedly yelling, "I'm pregnant! The guards are killing me and my baby!". None of which appeared to be the case, and security was as nervous as you might imagine.

This kind of stuff happens a lot at Safeways in SF (also Starbucks and CVS, but mostly Safeway it seems). Other times you'll just see someone running out the door, guards look into the distance for a moment and that's that.

My wife calls them Unsafeway, heh.
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When Amazon formed, Bezos described it as a website you could buy books from. I'm sure the authors could have picked a plain-English description as well.
Conspiracy theory:

Allowing rampant car theft is yet another way rich San Franciscans - who can afford both indoor parking and new windows a few times a year - keep the non millionaire rabble away from the city.
I am not sure why this is news. Anyone can say they started a company. It’s news when someone actually ships a product. Until then, it’s literally nothing but talk. Apple Computer delivered an actual product April 1, 1976 and didn’t even incorporate until 1977. They certainly didn’t spend a year talking about being a computer company before shipping a product. These “we are starting a computer company!!” posts are useless beyond just creating vapid hype. Wasn’t there a companion post on how they started this in a garage? Let’s get real, until you ship a product, you don’t have a company, you have a blog and forcing the “started in a garage ! [omg, omg!]” just seems like a contrived attempt at capturing old-school, Silicon Valley magic.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix etc. didn’t spend time talking about their new company — the companies just sort of happened as a result of having a product to sell.

Get back to us when there is actually something people can buy that solves a real problem.
Who uses on-prem cloud?
It's a fun hobby =) works great as a software dev as well, to keep your hands busy while your brain works through a problem.

A few of them are OneDrop, including a Kuntosh near the front, and a Summit a bit further back :D
It runs by orders of magnitude, e.g. 1, 10, 100, 1000...
You're right, of course - I wouldn't say that Yocto's SDK generator is perfect. But it does work fine, and you can install the SDK anywhere you want.

From a CI system's point of view, what's the logical difference between [tar xf toolchain.tar.gz] and [./install_sdk.sh -yd .]?
If you keep building, eventually you will meet the pent up demand. Your scenario might match the first batch of new housing, but it can't continue indefinitely. Eventually you have more houses than people.

There is a ton of pent-up demand in the bay area, because this has been going on for a long time. People who own houses there are going to fight you the whole way.
Can you explain why asyncio is not good?
>Everyone who wants to sell product with processors. Data center upgrades etc.

Not when Speculative Execution mitigations cut performance literally in half in some cases.
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Just started working remote in Tel Aviv and I must say it's a life challenging. Without a boss so to say everything comes down to your decision.
I wish it said this on their “about the team” page.
We do ban lots of things. They're children.

>There is in my opinion a very clear danger associated with setting up draconian surveillance states borne out by history.

In my experience, if everything that was compared to 1984 was actually like 1984, we'd be at war with Eastasia.
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I've been building some fun side projects with Django lately and it's really a breath of fresh air. Normal, old, boring web applications with server side rendered html and basic forms. Sure, I can't add some super fast interactivity on my forms as easily without some json endpoints, but for most of my projects it's totally fine.
... and some of those folks became or already were genius programmers.

At the time, programmers could be divided into "corporate" types and "computer nerds", people like the ones who founded Apple or the various software firms of today. Software wasn't an industry, it was a function within companies that did other things. You needed software to do useful things with computers and even to boot them up, so you had someone write it.

Not knowing the identity of the person who wrote this code is NBD. He likely never even knew there was a bug or problem, and if he did he couldn't be held responsible in any way, nor could the managers of the time.

If anyone should be held responsible, it would be the FDA for not getting ahead of the technology curve at the time and regulating computerized devices better than they did sooner than they did.
>upper middle class and up people who previously decided to live further away over paying the extreme rent costs move in, the population grows, and the price break never trickles down to the poor people in the city

It does because the poor people move into the housing that the upper middle class vacated. Population growth is an independent confounding factor. In other words, housing cost can still go up due to population growth but they would go up less if the new luxury housing is built.

> You need to build new homes at every pricing level

But you can't. You have high fixed costs like land, hook ups to the city utilities, architect work, plumbing, electrical, permits, and HVAC. These are pretty much the same regardless of how big of a house you build. The stuff that varies directly with size like dry wall, paint, framing, flooring, etc. doesn't cost that much. And even then the more you do at one time the cheaper it gets. In other words, hanging the last section of drywall costs a lot less than hanging the first one because you incur all of the over head to hang that first sheet.

The end result is that you can't build a new house that a poor person can afford. They probably can't even afford the fixed costs. Even if you could, it wouldn't be economically viable. You're way better off spending the ~10% more to get a upper middle class house that you can sell for 50-100% more. It's still good for affordability because you've increase supply. Everybody takes one step up the ladder and the benefit will trickle down to the poor.
>On the bright side, next election people are going to be fed up and elect someone who takes crime seriously.

I'll believe it when it happens.
I'd love to hear your suggestions for changes we could make while keeping it somewhat WSGI-compatible. It took a few years to refine it to where it is now, so it's not like we just threw something at the wall.
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See also the base starlette, which is what FastAPI is built upon and is ASGI from the ground up. https://github.com/encode/starlette
>specially when it still requires conditional compilation to import either Darwin or Glibc, instead of Foundation.

you don't need to compile from source - binaries are distributed (if you actually read my link instead of assuming it was just github source you would see that).

>And I don't see any Windows there.

yes they're aware of this and it's being worked on

>Then there is the whole set of libraries that only compile on Apple platforms, no IDE, no Playgrounds and so on.

you're moving goal posts in order to be able to have an axe to grind.

your comment was

>For Mac OS only apparently.

the fact that there's a runtime that runs on linux shows that that was incorrect.

>set of libraries that only compile on Apple platforms

i don't know what you're talking about here - s4tf libraries compile on all platforms e.g. https://github.com/eaplatanios/swift-rl

>no IDE, no Playgrounds and so on.

i don't see how xcode being developed by apple (not the s4tf team) has anything to do with whether s4tf is multiplatform.
It's convuluted, it's not structured concurrency (https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...), fundamentally despite being async/await a lot of networking code is based on callbacks anyway (see: asyncio.Protocol), and I've had a lot of trouble debugging code that spawn tasks because asyncio code has zero obligation to care about any of the tasks it spawns.
It definitely happens, but the moderators have been good at keeping that to a minimum. And even with guerilla advertising, the comments can offer critiques of features, or suggest alternatives. That's much more helpful than pure astroturfing when all the comments are pro-product in question.
It's not really possible to correct errors like this without being a pretentious ass. It's possible that the apostrophe rules we have today we become outdated a-la the who/whom distinction.
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Huh? So it's healthier to have patients that never see the doctor? I'm not sure there are many fields in which prevention per unit provides higher margin and revenues than repair and recovery.
Both/And
> while keeping it somewhat WSGI-compatible

There's the problem. WSGI is fundamentally flawed too - it could also be using generators for a two-way communication channel instead of stringly typed callbacks.

In a world where Python has optional static type hints, it would be nice to have concrete objects passed too.
No. That's me. Been working on it for a while to make it more quoteworthy. It's my "Well, actually, not all nihilists..." quote.
Sorry i am mad now
> Django is now aware of asynchronous event loops and will block you calling code marked as “async unsafe” - such as ORM operations - from an asynchronous context.

So DB calls aren't async?
> It's not just incentives, bureaucracies and inefficiencies that caused cost increases.

This might be true if there weren't stark counterexamples, e.g. Singapore at 1/4 the cost, with better outcomes. Notably there, government dollars flow through to consumers who choose among competitors by price and quality.
I mean if we're talking about Switzerland we have to talk about how their gun laws would be considered extremely draconian and unconstitutional in the US. [see 0] For starters all guns and ammunition purchases have what are essentially background checks, and it's much easier to lose the right to purchase, carry permits are basically non-existent and most transit is explicitly only to and from shooting ranges or hunting. Just saying there's lots of guns in Switzerland so guns aren't the real problem is very disingenuous and ignores the fact that as they've continued to restrict gun ownership to align with broader EU rules gun violence (including suicides) have dropped.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-o...
I've replied to the post on the forum, but if this is the default way Jupyter runs then we're going to have to figure something out longer-term. Calling the Django ORM from an async thread just isn't safe...
You are right about developer tools, but these companies are not selling developer tools. Plus, the technical implementations are non-trivial.
When a city passes ~20,000 people per square mile the per person cost of infrastructure increases as roads stop being efficient. You start needing tunnels for roads and or subway systems. You also need deeper pipes for water etc, it’s not a deal breaker, but it is a real issue.

Having existing residents subsidize new residents is a common approach, but understandably unpopular.
YEP.

This is sadly most likely an attempt to change the channel and muddy the conversation by creating the illusion that there exists a viable alternative to deal with climate change other than the carbon tax and other demand side measures.

It's the "Technology will save us" non-solution that is mostly about kicking the can down the road and excusing doing nothing in the short term because a wondrous solution is 'just around the corner'.
> 99.97% of the passengers that pay by cash do not leave tips.

Correction - 99.97% of cash tips don't go recorded. Why pay tax if they never saw it happen?

Compare this to:

> 3.00% of the passengers that pay by card do not leave tips.
Yeah, it’s a horrible situation. Some illustrators I know live in terror of earning too much that they no longer qualify for Medicaid (which they rely on for various health conditions). It also pushes people in the arts into the gray economy where they’re more likely to get taken advantage of or build a stable, growing career.
> "a true cloud-like on-prem experience"

I'm afraid what people mean by that statement and what the startup is going to try to do are completely different things. As in people mean AWS-like cloud services running on multiple servers they control with all the fault tolerance and geographically distributed. But for the startup it probably means cloud services running on expensive servers in a fast local network.
That's the point. It doesn't matter what they did previously or who they are. The current product can only be judged on it's merits.
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Red Hat is absorbing some of their technology rather than just firing everyone and terminating the product like Travis CI for example.
Because most journalist jobs and thus journalists are in over demanded hip cities, instead of random rural flyover country, and thus write what they know.
What I was most struck by in the conversation is that Zuck is actually doing some of the things Cowen advocates - policy experimentation, taking on long-term projects with uncertain payoffs, etc. at CZI.

I'm a huge fan of Patrick Collison and know that Stripe is also doing tons of experimentation and product innovation, but I was struck by how much less like an academic Zuck sounded. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, but Cowen and Collison seem to focus on what everyone should be doing, while Zuck's focus is on what he, personally, can get done (again, caveat being that Collison is simply so well-read that he comes off as an academic, while I'm aware that in reality he's doing a ton himself as well).
Dask’ s compatibility with Pandas makes it ideal. Very easy to use.
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