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Related to this, I recall two issues that could inform his Hong Kong life expectancy point:

1. A recent study that found very high life expectancy "blue zones" were highly correlated with poor record keeping and pensions - the strong implication was that it was mostly fraud. Don't think Hong Kong was one of the areas studied, but I think skepticism is warranted.
2. A common thread I've seen in many longevity studies is that social connectedness is one of the strongest predictors of a long lifespan, and contrarily, "lonely people die young." I'd expect that a very close-knit urban area with relatively low migration (e.g. as opposed to NY or SF where there is so much moving in and moving out) would exhibit this social connectedness.
North beach, Russian hill, marina, cow hollow, telegraph hill are all basically unchanged too.
It’s not starved for cash, SF's budget is bigger than many countries and with less a population. Also Prop 13 rates do go up, just not the bubbly rate that prices do.
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Other cities literally buy homeless people tickets to LA or SF to get rid of them, and cities generally don't have the amount of revenue they should have because of Prop 13.

Please propose a fix for dealing with the homeless population of the entire country on a budget that is mostly pre-allocated by propositions with no ability to raise taxes.

Nobody really wants to address the elephant in the room because they're all Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires who might hypothetically benefit from Prop 13 someday.
That sounds like the best workaround here if that's indeed possible.

I've got to say, it doesn't surprise me much that Google sucks at this. They're hardly the only ones, though. My son plays games on Steam, and I put his account in Family Mode or something like that. It disables a bunch of stuff, but it disables a bit too much. He sees that he has notifications, but the only way to access them is to turn off this family mode.
Depends what else is different about the plant. They might be very susceptible to disease, or exceptionally tempting for insects to eat, or consume nitrate fertiliser really quickly, or need carefully controlled temperature/water supply/soil pH.
>>is a warrant that is perfectly within the powers of a judge to grant.

Not under the 4th amendment of the US Consitution they don't, they have the power to grant a warrant for a Specific thing to be searched pursuant to probable cause a specific crime has been committed

General Search warrants are and should remain unconstitutional
> Commom UI widgets are not prepared to deal with collections of widely varying sizes.

I don't think there is a standard widget other than what's implemented by each solution. Broot is one way of looking at a volume at the expense of lots of disk reads (for every file on the volume). Ranger does that at a single depth and that's a design choice in Miller's view. nnn doesn't prefer to read within directories unless explicitly requested and that's a design choice too. There's nothing good or bad about these other than a choice to the user to pick the one that fits his use case.

A user always has the liberty to concentrate only on the current directory, just know where he is in the filesystem from the file path and do a fuzzy search to find a file deep in the subtree when he needs to do so. As you might have noticed, even with Broot there's no simple way to list the files marked "unlisted" without navigating to the dir and expanding it. It's a nice program and is a solution to people who likes to see a snapshot of the filesystem in a glance. But would everyone be always interested in the contents of /etc, /run, /usr and /var as shown in one of the sample images?
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What kind of research project does that translate to?
Look: I work on a lot of open source projects; I assert a bunch of undocumented changes without any attempt at organizing them, pushed to a fork on GitHub is still close enough to "hoarding".
The Americans, in turn, bugged the Xerox copiers in the Soviet embassy [0]. The copier machines were so complex that even the Soviets bought them from Xerox, instead of trying to make their own clones.

Edit: this link [1] has more details about the story.

[0] https://www.p4photel.com/topic/at-the-height-of-the-cold-war...

[1] https://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-...
this sounds a lot like "new public management" to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Public_Management
I had the misfortune of looking through your link, finding it to be a waste of time. The "committing three felonies a day" is the title of a book, the Amazon reviews claim it to be extreme hyperbole and just a series of case studies where the process of the law was admittedly abused.

The other anecdote in that link is the story of Joseph P. Nacchio, a CEO who was convicted for cashing out over $50 million in stock when the price was around $40, only for the price to drop all the way to $2 a year later. The NSA involvement was a failed bid by his defense to make it seem like his trading was legitimate.
I had a good play with this a few months back. Really really impressive tool!
Asimov gave the world plenty of mind-expanding ideas, many that we take for granted today as staples of science fiction. I'm also amused and a bit humbled at reading his many stories featuring futures with "a world market for maybe five [building-size] computers" on my one-of-billions smartphone.

That said, I've witnessed (and been guilty of) full-throated defenses against character assassinations based on little more than being a fan of the work. It's important for fans, who ought to be more informed than average, to be aware of and acknowledge the works' and creator's flaws. This both gives the fan more credibility, and by reducing the perceived personal protection the creator may feel from their fans, in aggregate should discourage bad behavior.

So thanks for sharing.
You can write Ruby that looks like Perl, but in my experience (6 years of fulltime Ruby) this is very rare in the wild.

I don't think I've ever seen a popular Rubygem with dense, nasty, Perl-like code.

That sort of style may have been more prevalent in the early days of Ruby, which I'm roughly defining as the days before Rails.
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It depends on the context. An ISP can trivially map an IP to a person.

So can Amazon/whoever if they saved the IP alongside other customer information.

But a naked ip->person lookup would require a warrant.
Could you elaborate which devops headaches got solved ? :)
Haha yes, before you edited I was going to say he's 57! It's more the bubble/think-tank thing, you're right.
Living in denslier populated areas makes you use less energy, because your commute is shorter, you need less energy to heat, you are sharing all the infrastructure with more people, so footprint/person decreases.

I don't think I am very far along. If you have a lifestyle like I do, you get most of the benefits almost for free. Improving upon that is very hard.

On the other hand, I think someone living in a (first world) village, could be way more conscious about these things than I am and would still have a hard time to come close, just because he or she is sharing his house/car/roads/infrastructure with less people.
> but it clearly doesn't.

Misery is a very strong inverse correlate however. I'd be given to thinking that a lot of economic activity is driven by the need to escape [EDIT and stay out of] poverty on one end, and a cohort of super-competitive success-addicts on the other. Most other people are quite content in the middle, and want to stay there. It is the threat of penury we should be looking more at than the lure of riches.
Seems like an important topic to discuss.
Serious question, how do should I understand the concluding sentence/word,

"But walk through parts of San Francisco today, and you get a different sense altogether: not an uncanny effectiveness, but a panicked swirl of homeless capital."

What is meant by "homeless capital"? does it mean SF is the capital city for homeless like Washington DC, or does capital go to opposite of venture capital, like in banking/finance/Wall St?
Yes. I am suggesting that you stop hiding behind "they're family" and follow the law. It may be cute to you but it won't be cute when WalMart starts calling its employees "family" as well.
I expected such semi-negative, distrustful comment the second I finished reading this list. Some will dislike the individualistic, anti-collectivist character of it.
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Well done!

A small suggestion to rename the language to "dogmeat" instead to align even better with your meat logo. Filename extension could be ".dm".
There seems to be a confidence that these things can simply be measured by some metric and then improved. That sort of implies a lack of appreciation for the nuance / complexity for some of these topics ... let alone any understanding of what happens if you do simply measure and improve such systems.

It doesn't help that there is no sense of policy or what the goal of some of these things are, like there's no policy here to indicate if we're hoping for an outcome or not...

Reminds me of the manager who shows up and says "oh man look at this mess and all these terrible metrics" and after a few months just changes the metrics and doesn't understand that the metrics themselves create problems ;)
I got exactly the same thought the minute I saw this post. I use Commander clones on all the OSes. To me they're irreplaceable tool.
This.. doesn't make much sense actually.
He's a "policy wonk"
1) VSCode was not able to accomplish the development experience I wanted, but I would certainly support a BeefLang language server for VSCode (and other editors/IDEs).

2) Like C, BeefLang idiomatically allows certain types of safe data patterns that the Rust checker would disallow since they cannot be reasonably statically proven to be safe. If you want to conform to Rust patterns then use Rust. If you don't, then BeefLang is another choice for you.

3) Do you mean if the IDE supports C++? It used to support Clang autocompletion and such, but it just wasn't anywhere near the quality of VS Intellisense so I just took it out and I still use VS for C++ editing.

4) Command-line compiler only.
This is a serious attempt. Dave Hakkens [1] graduated cum laude at the Design Academy Eindhoven, a highly regarded art school in the south of The Netherlands. The Wikipedia page is informative and a recommended read, though it does not include at least one grand he received after 2014 which I saw on TV (I don't remember the year or name of award, just that it was a design contest he won concerning Precious Plastic). You might've heard of Phonebloks before (a project with the same goal as Project Ara)? Same dude.

In Precious Plastic v4, many people collaborated, so it does not surprise me that the quality is high enough for someone to say "is this art?" Dave is a designer though (industrial designer); arguably not an artist. The goals of his projects have a practical use. I mean, is Jony Ive an artist, or a designer? Are his designs a work of art? Not sure it has to be one or the other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Hakkens
I think any large scale plans tend to hint at all sorts of large central planning type systems, in all political directions.
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It seems like iOS developers prefer Snapkit over Apple’s own APIs for auto layout
I feel like I bring this up on HN once a month, but here goes -

The pricing is IMO going to hold back adoption of this product. There's a free plan, but with 3 boards and 50 cards, that's just a quick demo. There's no way you could do anything serious with that. It's not even enough to seriously try out the product.

Then it jumps to $60 a year. I know the standard line about a cup of coffee, blah blah. That's a lot of money for most folks in a very crowded space. (I won't comment on product differentiation.) For someone that uses this heavily, I'm sure $60/year is a great deal. Very few people will, and they'll just move on.

In my opinion, for this to have any chance of catching on, it needs either a real free tier, or a low-price tier of maybe $20/year. Storage is a great way to differentiate tiers because everyone knows storage costs money. 100 boards and 10,000 cards plus 200 MB of storage for the free plan, upgrade to 5 GB of storage for $20/year, or get the current basic plan for $60/year.

As someone that has evaluated many products in this space, I really think you need to reconsider your pricing. You're using the wrong mindset if you expect someone to drop $60 to try out your product.
It’s a bubble. Get out while you can. Properties with zero income being sold and resold in a closed loop- an ourobouros of prosperity. What could go wrong?
I have, but I also tend to not visit sites that have a lot of bloat. El Reg and Scientific American are about the most bloated site I visit and I only pull them up once a day.
I would strongly suggest spending the extra $10 or so and getting wryboard.com before someone else does... and getting @wryboard twitter handle.

Looking at your twitter, I see this is based in Seoul. No doubt English is known thing, but 'wry' and 'rye' are sound-alike words, and the moment I read 'ryeboard' I also heard 'wryboard'.
New York, Boston, most expensive urban areas are experiencing some version of this. Landlords with commercial space either want a bank or some other national chain that afford an expensive long-term lease, or they're willing to let the space sit empty because it's just a safe-deposit box for some investor's cash--the appreciation of property value is worth more than the rent.
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I think there's a large undocumented migrant population too, who make up a lot of the working classes and this could skew that stats as well.

EDIT it's a lovely place too, Hong Kong (picturesque, pleasant climate, easy to get around). I'd say that would have a lot to do with it as well, once you can pay the rent ...
> It doesn't help that these cash strapped cities (Toronto) just rubber stamp any new development since the tax haul will be several times what they got for what was there.

The problem is not too much building, but not enough. The only real solution to the real estate problems in expensive cities is to get enough new building that real estate values tank.

I could fix the SF real estate market in 10 seconds (although it would take maybe 10-20 years for developers to enact the change).

1. Minimum residential zoning is 15 story multi-family (subject to engineering limitations)

2. Axe rent control

3. No requirement to conform to the character of the neighborhood

This would make lots of people very unhappy. People wouldn't like it that huge buildings are going up next to their 1 story house. People wouldn't like it that their real estate values will tank my 80-90%. That's a big part of the reason why there will never be a fix.

But that level of change is what's necessary to fix the problems the city has.
GPG just happened to have a check that could of prevented this particular attack if the client had done certain things in response to the failure of that check. S/MIME didn't have a check of that type and was as a result was more affected by the attack. S/MIME had one less "footgun" than GPG did. That still didn't help anyone and in this particular case make things worse in practice.

There is a tendency in these sorts of things to get so wrapped up in the details that the root issue gets forgotten about. In this case the root issue is the leakage of information from HTML emails. After that, what really matters here? What point is there in considering each and every thing that could of been different that would of prevented the attack? Sure, if I hadn't of left the house on Thursday I would not of been hit by the bus, but this particular insight is not valuable in any way.

The hoax here is the suggestion that PGP (and S/MIME for that matter) was broken in some way. The original paper was called "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels" which was not just misleading, it was straight up wrong.
Public cloud is only the equivalent of renting a hotel if buying a house means hiring the builders full-time for continued maintenance.
> why France managed to modernize so well in XIXth, even though it had bad institutions.

I've mostly read about France's rural history in the 19th century, but imho its institutions were not that bad, whatever the term might mean for the 19th century. Afaik both Louis Philippe I and Napoleon III were pretty laissez-faire when it came to business, an attitude that proved successful for the first waves of industrialisation. Napoleon III's reign also added some proto-Keynes-ian touches to France's economy. A very quick search gave me this quick write-up on the issue [1]:

> Napoléon III also directed the building of the French railway network, which greatly contributed to the development of the coal mining and steel industry in France, radically changing the nature of the French economy, which entered the modern age of large-scale capitalism. The French economy, the second largest in the world at the time (behind the United Kingdom), experienced a very strong growth during the reign of Napoléon III. Names such as steel tycoon Eugène Schneider or banking mogul James de Rothschild are symbols of the period

[1] https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Napoleon_III#Deve...
Social capital works differently at different scales. By definition, the kind of tribe you're talking about where "everyone knows (and trusts) everyone else" cannot possibly scale beyond 100 members, which today doesn't even cover a tiny neighborhood in a city. But having dense and reasonably stable social connections is quite helpful even beyond that.
My favourite definition of a tribe is that it's a group where everyone gives what they can and takes as little as they need to.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Karl Marx.
My take is that the article expresses interest in topics a certain fraction of the right are interested in (IQ) but it often leans left relative to the interest in those topics (IQ is affected more by environment than 'people who care about IQ' think.)

I do find the calls for institutional criticism to be a bit thin.

In particular, the most troubling "institutions" in our society use decentralization to avoid responsibility. In health care, for instance, everybody can point to somebody else as the source of the problem -- the real case the status quo has against single payer is that now the system can limit costs by denying claims in an unaccountable manner. In a single payer system patients will descend on Washington with their wheelchairs and crutches with their airfare and hotel paid for by "charities" run by the health care industry.

Similar complaints can be made about the media. One reason people don't trust "experts" is that they've never seen real experts, they've only seen the likes of Cokie Roberts and Larry Kudlow. In a world with accountability, people like that wouldn't get traction.
I'm over here just wanting a laptop that isn't so thin it feels like it's going to snap in half every time I pick it up and has a battery that lets it run for more than 5 hours. Maybe one day the future will bless us with computers that are portable and usable.
Yeah I actually like AutoLayout and InterfaceBuilder but it is incredibly frustrating when it doesn’t work. It hates being over constrained, so your layout in IB makes logical sense to you but then the debugging console will clog with autolayout complaints about which constraint it had to break.

Also anything with scroll views and/or stack views has been a nightmare in my experience. What should happen is that the stack view and scroll view should “expand” outward from their sub views based on those sub views intrinsic content sizes. Instead a lot of the time autolayout seems to try to start with the scroll view or stackviews size and compress “inwards” and so the only way Autolayout thinks it can satisfy everything is for everything to have a size of zero and your views disappear.

Also mobile devices don’t seem to conform well with rigid grid systems from a design standpoint. System provided UI conponents(like tab bars and nav bars on iOS) have their own sizes that won’t conform to your grid, users can change text size (a good thing), and animations and “physics” (like UIKitDynamics) necessarily mean you won’t have a grid.
Because the value of the property will increase exponentially, forever. Don’t think about it too hard.
How? I cannot understand that logic at all.
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What are your thoughts on Unity's Burst compiler? It allows for writing C# code that is compiled to code that is (theoretically) as performant (or even more so!) than regular C/C++ code.
I'd love to be able to map this to ipad side switch (which no more exists) - my kids use it to fix the picture on screen so that they could put a paper over screen, and use the picture as a template for drawing.
No password managers really help in this scenario, as the attackers have access to the machine the client runs on. Any malware will simply wait untill you unlock it, and then siphon out any credentials.
Why forest can't be farms? They should not be opposite but complement each other.
Toronto's problems are very different from San Francisco's. Toronto currently has more cranes in the sky than New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle and Boston combined.

1: https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2019/07/toronto-c...

So there's lots of construction, but prices and rents keep going up. But there are signs of it softening a little.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/07/12/apartment-vacanc...
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Is that really a "serious question?"

There are a lot of homeless people in San Fransisco. Nothing else needs to be construed.
About half of the budget goes immediately to enterprise departments. Things like SFO, MTA, and the Port of San Fran. Another quarter goes directly to prop-approved set-asides for things such as libraries and Medi-Cal. Then some other large chunk goes to jails, courts, and hospitals. Then there is payroll for the 30,000+ city employees.

Not to mention San Francisco has a massive pension liability in excess of $6 billion. The city really is bankrupt.

And during the longest economic expansion in US history the city has done virtually nothing to shore up its finances. Not like San Fran is alone in that regard.
And there's the issue that a 17" screen is actually small compared to today's standards for desktops?
It all seems to be about increasing economic efficiency. Good little workers, turn dollars into more dollars as efficiently as possible! Nothing about increasing anyone's quality of life, solving environmental problems, advancing science (except tangentially for the NSF/NIH item) let alone arts, etc. It's an MBA wish list, not a human one. Not a surprise considering the source, but still disappointing.
I just don’t see how bendable or foldable displays are in any way durable. Bending like this is one thing, but truly folding something damages it. Even simple paper starts to fall apart after a few times folding and unfolding. There’s no way a complex display device would be able to survive 1000s of cycles.
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What crease?
It is simple, because the voters are selfish and don't want to take their medicine for their known ailment. Getting rid of Prop 13 and allowing more development which they fear would compromise their own situation. Indeed doing anything to help fix the situation is the surest way to make people angry, see their anger at effectively /carpooling/ with Google bus.

The harsh truth is that if voters want to find the source of the problem instead of a scapegoat they should look in a mirror.