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How can socialized housing be the answer? Government has proven repeatedly that it cannot build housing as efficiently as private companies. Government housing projects also very quickly turn into slums since there are insufficient employment opportunities nearby.

The single best thing governments could do is increase density in areas with high economic opportunity. This can also be done very easily with a few strokes of the pen: Higher density zoning, and a land value tax.

Land value tax is critical as it ensures that landowners must develop their land rather than simply rent-seek if they are lucky enough to own in a desirable and growing area.
It seems odd to complain about that when that's exactly the book that student want. I actually have a cheap international edition of Statistical Inference on my shelf right now that I used in college and it was (and still is) perfectly good.

The listing is scummy dgmw, but the product is legit. I don't know anyone outside of the clique of rich international students that actually bought the "legit" versions.

I feel bad for anyone who had a professor that mandated a specific version and edition but that's really the only people who should be buying it. The maths in the cheap versions are just the same.
"The Cloud" is just managed hosting and SaaS/PaaS. There are literally thousands of such providers in the world, and until everything about providing managed hosting and SaaS/PaaS becomes impossible to compete on, there always will be.

The only "duopoly" will be in terms of the hyper-scale size of such providers, but very, very, very few customers actually need such hyper-scale. Not to mention, you literally get to pick and choose how much of their tech you use, limiting any potential risk of lock-in. Not to mention, the hyper-scale providers are probably the most expensive ones!

I think this is all very over-blown. AWS's services are fantastic for scaling up services quickly, and their customer focus is great, but if they were all gone tomorrow we'd still be doing the same things as before, just slower and with less reliable infrastructure.
There are too many "it depends" issues, especially the hardware, and not least the application architecture sitting on top of it.

There's a script in the Message DB codebase that will do some fairly rudimentary read and write performance measures for your Postgres deployment:

https://github.com/message-db/message-db/blob/master/databas...

It's run right on the database, so no network I/O or client implementation in the loop - which is inevitably non-representative of "real world" scenarios.
Or they're just talking about different ratios of saving/spending.

As I posted below - the situation in which you have 40 weeks of spending set aside is radically different to that of having 4.

From my perspective, and I recognise things are probably very different in the USA with your health insurance catastrophe, taking a few months off work to unwind, or check out the job market, or whatever else every now and then is a completely normal thing to do.

My first software job came about because I left a job and bounced around for a bit. I had enough mental space and time to physically visit interviews without the sort of typical "pretend to your boss you're ill" stuff. Without that time I'd be somewhere completely different now.
there's not any official public github issue tracker site so posting here so that it gets a bit of spotlight and github guys would take it into consideration.
> The whole idea that increasing supply will drop the price isn't 100% accurate.

That simply means there isn’t sufficient new supply proportional to the new demand. New supply may make an area more desirable, inducing more demand. But there is a limit to the total demand, so one just needs to keep adding supply.
Who do you think does most of the pharmaceutical research? According to some quickly googleable info, private funding for pharmaceuticals is about 5 times that of public NIH research [0]. And before we assume that it all goes into the executive pay, turns out that private pharma in the US reinvests more of its revenues back into research and development than any other industry in the US (according to the same source).

0. https://www.drugcostfacts.org/public-vs-private-drug-funding
Is this really an “exit”? The stock was already publicly traded.
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It looks like Kathryn posted her side here - https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/google-has-fired-another-w...

A few interesting tidbits:
1. She received extraordinary performance ratings during her short time at google, and got promoted recently
2. Google has not acted this aggressively in the past, where someone deploy a change in people’s Linux wallpaper while the protest happened.
3. She limited the notification to just people visiting the union busting firm

Given those, it does looks like an unusually aggressive response from Google, which would imply that Google has become very aggressive when it comes to unions.

With that said, it is also mentioned in her post that it took several weeks of investigation from Google until they made the final call, which could imply that there is more of a back story here.
Is it time for the government to drag financial sector jobs out of New York? Is it time for the US to drag credit card companies out of Delaware, or agribusiness out of the heartland and toward the coasts?

No. It isn't.

Funny the regionally exclusive monopolies that we seem to have tolerated for literally decades and the ones we suddenly, for some reason, don't.

Or maybe it isn't funny at all. Maybe it's a totally predictable outcome of a system that is highly tolerant of calcified, politically-connected regional monopolies. A system that is intolerant of disruptive, politically-indifferent or unestablished regional monopolies.

In other words, this isn't about economic efficiency or anti-trust law. It's about political sour grapes first. Everything else second.
I find it hard to believe that Stadia would outlast GCloud, but then again I find this entire kerfluffle hard to believe..
Or maybe they just know that people that will pay five figures for a Mac Pro are not the kind of people that will fix anything themselves, or go to a non-authorized repair shop.
It is a right of a juror to say that the defendant is innocent even though the law says otherwise (jury nullification). But trying to inform jurors about that jury nullification right can get one into a very hot water.
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This is a ridiculous interpretation.

If Jeff Bezos sent an email to the company saying "We want retail revenue to increase by X% by 2023" would you assume that they'd shutter the whole thing if they didn't meet that goal? Of course not.

Why is a goal and strategy for Google treated differently?
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It’s a game of probabilities, and right now P(Amazon turns into Oracle) < P(Google cancels GCP in 3 years).
This isn't limited to C. If you run compiles as root, game over.

fn main() {
let shadow = include_str!("/etc/shadow");
println!("{}", shadow);
}

That's why OpenBSD ports clusters uses unprivileged users for fetching and building (with no network access/chroot).
Your assumptions are incorrect; I have already showed why I wouldn't have been able to work in a prior comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21810451

You're wrong that the "ABC" test is beneficial to contractors. I was doing software development for a software development company, so I wouldn't have passed B. As you have already agreed, I'd have failed C. Finally, I may or may not have met A.

Your response to this is, "get an LLC?" You think gig economy workers and high schoolers are capable of this? As you said, that's fine for professionals with those kinds of resources and expertise (or the money for a lawyer). It's also different paperwork for the company. Showing that the best solution is to bypass the law via a loophole also doesn't exactly extol it's virtues.
Microsoft Azure: The cloud service that wont abruptly close out of nowhere with no transition plan leaving you stranded, and a service that actually comes with that thing you call when you need help and support.

The marketing writes itself.
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The market will bring in other firms and other jobs to NYC, without the government intervention that a deal with Amazon would entail.
(b) is what I had in mind as the problem.
Just as a note, Consumer Reports definitely has a financial interest in putting down online reviews. Not that these issues dont exist, but Consumer Reports has its own set of flaws that they dont publish articles about.
Closely yes.

But I think even the idea of retiring is insane. This is not any free customer facing product. The impact is totally different.
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Because it's not profitable "enough". Presumably they'd like to reassign their engineers on projects that could make more money.
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Do you own stocks?

If you don't, and your reasoning above is the reason why, I strongly recommend you reconsider. There is more to be lost by fearing your lack of control and failing to invest than there is by investing, in say, index funds.
The underlying study is dubious...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0499-z

They took 0.5 meters of sediment.

They examined shells in the sediment, and using a very convoluted and new measurement technique, they found that 'larger' shells were at the bottom (without very much statistical certainty.) And, the study admits that other factors -- such as water temperature -- could effect the size/shell thickness... to what degree is ignored.

They then radiodated this 0.5 meter column of sludge, and after making assumptions about this and that and nuclear bomb testing and a host of other assumptions, they determined that the bottom of the 0.5 meter column was from 100 years ago, and the top more recent. (And, of course, they assume the sedimentation was perfectly uniform during the century because... reasons.)

And, then you have a graph, showing a decrease in some factor of shells (using a new measuring system) over a span of 100 years (give or take 100 years)...

they then claim the decrease is due to CO2, and Voila, the paper is sucked up by Nature.

I'm not criticizing the work. I'm sure the researchers would be the first to admit their conclusion is based on a host of assumptions and guesswork.

But, what I do find amusing is that a speculative study involving 0.5 meters of mud can get HN readers to begin proposing massive 'de-acidification' plants and fretting about the end of the world.
Because we have object permanence. People like Deepak Chopra select magical assumptions specifically because they can't produce any verifiable predictions, and waste everybody's time promoting meaningless nonsense.
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I mean - more conventional stores solve this with oversight, but amazon is trying to be amazon scale with zero oversight - can't let those unsustainable profit margins suffer.
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> Silicon Valley is a place where you have lots of smart people because the smart people all go there because that's where the other smart people are.

The bell curve in the valley is no different than any other city of comparable size. The only exceptionalism is ego.
Your point is? a lot of the USA's railroads where funded by Investment trusts based in London and Edinburg which had small middle class investors going back to the 19th century.
I do think their engineers have likely slipped in quality over the years, but that's not the problem. The problem is their culture of product managers being rewarded for launching projects and nobody being rewarded for maintaining projects. They financially incentivize people to launch and kill projects.

It sounds like a leadership problem, because only leadership can change the culture like that.
The article claims, if I understood it correctly, that GCP will not be profitable unless it reaches the scale of being at least #2. The implication is that economies of scale are necessary for profitability.

For example, in 2014, James Hamilton spoke about how every day that year, AWS was adding enough new server capacity to support all of Amazon's global infrastructure when it was a $7B annual revenue enterprise (2004). That scale of build-out, server purchasing, etc. presumably justifies and enables significant cost reductions, such as buying equipment from vendors in bulk with steep discounts, or buying or building large facilities at once, etc. AWS is custom designing many parts of its stack including networking chips and software, ARM-based CPUs, and more; that kind of investment is only worthwhile at a certain large scale. This scale presumably motivated AWS's purchase of chipmaker Annapurna Labs in 2015. Some operator of a few colocation facilities, by comparison, could not justify designing custom silicon since their scale would not allow them to recoup the R&D costs. Before AWS reached whatever scale made these kinds of investments worthwhile, they were purchasing commodity hardware.

To pick another example, a company like SpaceX can only be profitable if it launches a certain minimum number of rockets per year. Without enough rocket launches, and demand from customers, you can't recoup the R&D budget needed to design them.

Google has a head start in cloud because their company's existing facilities are already huge. However, public infrastructure has different demands than internal infrastructure, and it sounds like the necessary investments in public have been costly.
Google has a well established track record of killing things that aren't working out.
The "feeling of doing something wrong" - as mentioned in the article - when automating your tasks is somehow relevant but not in current context of alienated work. For natural working context (e.g. a team) it's normal to look for something else to do once you finished your tasks or got rid of them completely by automation. It is because the natural flow of profits considers you as as beneficient. Dooing good for your team, company, etc. = doing good for yourself.

On the other hand in current working context that feeling arises as an error (like non-adaptive-anymore feature of organism, not yet cancelled by evolutionary processes).
It's a little strange to me that otherwise experienced people feel the need to "study" for Google interviews.

To me, this seems less like they're selecting for good engineers and more like they're just selecting for people who really want Google on their resume.
The Left is so lacking in wisdom, and hopefully we will all be able to look back some day and roll our eyes about it.

It might be men vs women. It might be adult children of alcoholics vs folks from sober homes. It might be extroverts vs introverts. It might be native speakers of the dominant language vs those with another first language. It might be those who struggle with depression vs those who don't.

The world is a complicated place. Find your way in it; do your best. Count your blessings. Move on.
Having extensively used AWS, and having spent a considerable amount of time with GCP, I think AWS is the superior product for the vast majority of enterprises.
We also have Jack Welch to thank for stack ranking (ranking the bottom X% of employees in any given team, no matter how elite they are, as "underperforming").

The self-inflicted damage management fads (and Welch's Ilk in particular) have caused to our economy is incalculable.
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Many great comments on this thread but I, a sikh immigrant who wears a turban, would rather leave the US than live anywhere except for the valley or NYC. Comments on this thread address everything from internet speed to "gov intervention is bad" but fail to miss a very important point - US tech workforce has a lot of immigrants and cities outside the list mentioned in the article are actively hostile to immigrants.

It would be very difficult to build tech hubs without making them friendlier towards an immigrant workforce.

I spent 6 days in Houston visiting a friend, here's what I remember from the trip:

- Random airport check in a private room (check)
- Called random names more times in 6 days than in my entire life (check)
- Stared down actively in every bar I went to (check)

Imagine being on an evening out, people staring at you trying to figure out "what" you are and knowing that they may be carrying a gun on them. Silicon valley (and NYC) is a place where its okay to be whoever you are, and that is something government intervention can't inject no matter how hard they try.

I hope my comment doesn't come off as offensive, just trying to provide an important perspective which I believe the article misses.
She should have just put up flyers in the women's bathroom stalls. If Google is anything like my old workplace, there's no chance any management would've seen it...
Worst than that. Google only seems interested in huge successes.

Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night.

They could even sell most of the products they murder to someone else for millions.
> For the rest of us though, who appreciate mountains, good weather, and culture, we're going to stick to the existing cities in geologically and culturally diverse areas regardless of the cost.

Do you have time to actually take advantages of the cultural resources of a city or visit mountains during the work week? Or is that a weekend thing generally?

I suspect that for most tech workers, it is a weekend thing. I'd like to see more companies optimize for that.

For the Bay area that would mean putting tech offices away from San Francisco and SV in smaller cities, but close enough that driving in to SF for the weekend would not be too arduous a trip to do regularly.

Modesto, for example, is a 2 hour drive from SF if you avoid rush hour on the SF end, has much cheaper housing than SF, and is a lot closer to the mountains.
It's next to impossible to do this at scale while maintaining user privacy.

There are some differential privacy techniques which might help, but so far they're rather hard to use and there is no tooling for such things.
I've never had an issue with the supposed "co-mingling". If I'm careful when I choose what product I order, I have no problem. That said, choosing a good product is definitely becoming harder and harder. Amazon reviews are mostly useless, and some product searches are overwhelmed with the fly-by-night Chinese companies' listings, to the extent that you can't find any legitimate listings at all.

So there's a couple different problems. If there's actively fraud going on, then yeah they need to fight that, but it's not usually true "fraud" when TOPGOODTOYPRODUCTS lists their toy with an SEO-approved title. It's just an obvious garbage listing that I don't want to see when looking for something.
Two numbers are similar. Obviously they must both be fictitious. Such a sound argument of the highest caliber.

Or maybe it was just money laundering for an ad hominem.
It was my impression that the publicly-released versions are better than the originals. It's not that k8s is a knock-off of borg; k8s is a sort of borg 2.0, etc. Am I mistaken?
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> For decades now, I've not understood why companies don't relocate to places like Des Moines or Kansas City.

I can tell you exactly why: these cities aren't places senior management want to live. I know this because I've worked for three companies over the years that have moved technology centers from cities on that list, to places like NYC & SF. The labor cost increase didn't seem to bother them, nor the price of real estate.

What happened was the company hired a new CEO, the new CEO hates living in Smallville, USA, and creates an initiative to relocate the company back to where they want to be. Ostensibly, this move is part of plan to improve technical innovation. They all claimed that coastal workers were superior to those from the Mid-west. Whether because they are higher educated, have more exposure to cutting edge technology, or whatever ("[SF, NYC, Dallas, etc] is home to (famous university/tech company"). It's pretty obvious what the real reason is, as the new executives are the first people out the door.

The only way to keep these companies is to either force them, or make the region desirable to rich people.
I think that's a hole Google dug for themselves, they don't need any help from Amazon or Microsoft
It's a violation of the jury's duty to render a verdict based on the law and the facts presented.

Who assigned the jury that duty? And when did that happen?

Per http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/nullifi... and other sources that I have seen, the understanding of the law when the Constitution was written was that juries should judge both the law and the facts. The view that they should not judge the law only arose decades later in the late 1800s. The fact that the legal profession today sees jurors as having a duty to NOT judge the law I see as undermining the intent of having jury trials in the first place.

The understanding of jury trials when the Constitution was written was that juries had a right and obligation to judge both the law and the facts. The first laws
Whoa. Don't know how this got here (I'm the presenter)

I'm doing a write up of each of these 7 deadly sins. Will share links when I'm finished.
To me, this is a feature, not a bug. I'd be overjoyed to save one thousand dollars on a text book with slightly worse printing.

Saving a few dollars to buy trash... not so much.

Edit: thanks for the response below pointing out that the savings is not so extreme. Still, when I was an undergrad, money was very tight for me, so if I could find a way to save a few bucks, I was grateful for it.
No. The rules around breaking the law are very clear. If you feel that a law is unjust, you can do an MLK and openly flout it and then take the consequences. If you think it's just unwise, you can lobby against it. You don't get to just break laws "because internet and libertarianism". That behavior should get you thrown in jail.

On the specific question of medallions, medallions have the ostensible purpose of managing traffic congestion. Libertarians contend that this reasoning is just a cover for rent seeking by suppressing competition. Libertarians have been proven wrong by the huge increase in traffic in NYC as ride hailing congests the streets.
money that moves through PACs/SuperPACs and thus doesn't have to be disclosed and is not subject to campaign finance limitations, as opposed to direct spending by individuals or campaign funding.
This will be a great lawsuit and exploration of the right to organize in the digital age.
Yeah, why not play the long game by focusing on providing a great experience for developers? Enable today's hobbyists to start the companies of tomorrow on your platform, and let go of chasing the #1 spot with enterprise customers of today. Cloud computing as a market isn't going anywhere, and demand is only going to grow for the foreseeable future.

Google already has a leg up on this, their cloud offerings and APIs make a lot more sense than AWS.
Kritis[0] is a K8s implementation of this that intends to block deployments of images that haven't been properly vetted beforehand, or has critical vulnerabilities, etc.

Whitepaper: https://github.com/grafeas/kritis/blob/master/docs/binary-au...

[0] https://github.com/grafeas/kritis
No which country do you live in thease are not US employee stock options but real stocks.

There strict laws about that sort of things even more so in places like Germany and the UK