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> The MTA is a “public benefit corporation“ owned by the State of New York.

I've explained in a comment below what a public benefit corporation is. Court rulings have confirmed their status as private corporations, even though the governor has the authority to appoint the board of directors.
This is interesting, I didn't know 37° is considered normal in the US. In Ukraine where I grew up as a child (and I imagine also other post-USSR countries), 36.6° was always taught to be the norm, and 37° typically considered an onsetting light fever. However, the typical measurement was always armpit and not oral - maybe that explains the difference.
There is an easy solution preventing empty homes in markets with a high rate of vacant homes combined with a high rate of involuntary homeless: a tax of 40% of the value as recorded at deed transfer per year of emptiness. Exceptions only given in case of reasonable vacancy (e.g. due to construction works or damages).

If the property ends up vacant for 2 years, government appoints random renters - for a maximum rent no higher than the rate the lowest 10% city-wide is. No possibility of eviction for ten years, except for willful/grossly negligent damage to property or unfit conduct (e.g. disturbing the peace, running drug dens or harassment of other renters). If an owner intentionally does not repair damages to claim the tax exception, government is authorized to do the repairs themselves and recoup costs from the owner.

That should be proper incentive for developers to build housing that is actually wanted and for speculation owners to rent out homes and to keep them intact/rentable.

Edit: for the downvoters, please explain why. This is a system that is the law in Berlin, only with a drastically higher tax rate and lower minimum rent.
They do consume one thing: housing stock that would otherwise be available to residents. Whether or not that outweighs the benefits of paying taxes but not consuming city services is a different issue.
If it's public property, there's nothing to opt in to, nor is there a reasonable expectation of privacy by definition.
Encryption with customer managed keys solves that pretty easily. It also solves any ethical questions with regards to furnishing data to comply with warrants.

This creates a new problem of managing keys, of course, but that's been solved many times now in other parts of the industry.
While comprehensive, this reporting is very shortsighted -- I don't see how one can ignore the horrifying image of hundreds of cows locked in mechanical milk-extraction machines, while only reporting on the very narrow Wisconsin industry. Clearly health, animal-rights and environmental awakening is also a factor pushing more consumers to prefer plant-based milk (soy, almond, etc.) which influence the cow-based industry.
I prefer the Wyze cam all out, but it's already installed so I'm just leaving it there. I don't want to uninstall it until I have a better doorbell device or if theres serious security implications in keeping a Ring device.

I'm also waiting for the outdoor / weather resistant Wyze cams that are set to come out this year, so I can put them facing the front door from the front part of my porch. I hope to have it trigger a Wyze lightbulb, though I'm not sure if they're that smart or if they need the sensor instead.

Edit:

Matter of fact, I have a window next to the Ring where I have a Wyze cam looking outside, but the IR doesn't work through window, so I'm just waiting for the outside Wyze cams to be a thing. Once I get those I might repurpose some of the regular wyze cams to do time lapse videos of the weather from upstairs. Florida has interesting weather.
Some passengers use the ride as a confessional or just to vent. I feel it would be wrong to share too much about what they say. It seems like an unwritten rule. I don't have a front/rear view dash cam like a lot of drivers advise because I appreciate these conversations and don't want to inhibit them.
For those unaware -- men's sperm count has gone down 3% a year since we've started measuring.

I see these two facts as potentially related and warranting significant investigation.
I think it was meant to say "nobody is infallible", these events are extremely rare, but they /will/ occur, even if you're a customer of the best and biggest players.
I can see why somebody might view that as a counter argument intuitively, but as somebody who cares about the problem in a real, practical sense, it's immediately obvious to me that the point isn't to criticise the city's vacancy rate in a void, but to compare it to the potential waste. In a city where prices are disgustingly high and homelessness is appallingly common, the vacancy rate becomes much more sensitive to pragmatic criticism. Simply pointing out that other cities have a higher rate doesn't affect the criticism. Perhaps those other cities wouldn't benefit as much from lowering the vacancy rate. Perhaps those other cities would benefit a comparable amount, and we should hold them to the same criticism rather than declaring the criticism invalid.
Yes, don’t be mad at your landlord for charging high rent, be mad at other tenants
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I still stay away from Brother after having to support a bunch of really annoying Brother laser printers/faxes 15 years ago.

Is Brother ok quality these days?
> the housing crisis when the problem is one of distribution, not one of supply.

What’s your thesis for this? If the supply suddenly quintupled in the Bay Area and the population halved, I doubt we’d be calling it a “housing crisis”. Prices would fall dramatically because of supply.
> Optimization being what it is, it is very likely that whatever that improvement is already effectively exists in us.

This only really works if there's evolutionary pressure on humans to live forever, though. And there probably isn't. We live longer than most mammals (even without good nutrition and modern medicine) but that's arguably because we're somewhat social animals; we provide a useful function after we stop reproducing. But there are limits. While having grandparents still around might be an advantage (and likely to make a prehistoric human more likely to pass on genes for long life), there are diminishing returns; having great-great-grandparents around is much less interesting.

Not to say massive human life extension is practical or even possible, but we shouldn't necessarily assume that our lifespans have already been fully optimised.
The article posits factors such as:

- reduced inflammation due to improvements in diet and health

- reduced incidence of diseases like tuberculosis

- reduced exposure to ambient temperature extremes

It doesn't mention alcohol, but alcohol consumption can increase inflammation, IIRC.
The fact that there are so many empty homes should be a bright, shining clue that basic supply vs. demand isn't the only factor at work.
Interesting that commenters are talking about overreach with data collection. I'm not sure if that's in the article because the paper in question blocks people in the EU out of a desire not to comply with privacy laws. A little ironic.
1) yes: https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/repl/overview.html
2) yes: https://almond.sh/, there are other options as well
3) The compile times don't bother me. I just set up sbt to watch for files saves and run tests. I'd say the dev cycle is faster than python due to compile time type checking.

It's not the same as Python or R, you are right. There is complexity, but it's rewarding once you get past the initial curve. I felt similarity regarding the JVM, but again, it's not that bad. Plus with GraalVM you can compile binaries, which I love for so many reasons.
I feel like comparing dark energy and dark matter is really disingenuous. Dark energy is a placeholder to explain a really bizarre phenomenon (which is now being questioned). Dark matter is something we can map the distribution of throughout the visible universe via it's gravitational effects. We even have plausible hypotheses for what kind of stuff it might be (WIMPs etc.)
That was actually a fairly awesome OS (for its day). Many folks thought Apple would buy it. When they purchased NeXT, instead, a lot of us were disappointed.

However, all these years later, I'm very glad that BeOS wasn't selected.
> Court rulings have confirmed their status as private corporations

Which are not part of the federal government and are allowed to make copyright claims.
correct! I believe that the only groups it is moral to care about are:

* people you love, care about, or otherwise know socially

* groups that are oppressed along some axis

* all of humanity
NAVOCEANO does all sorts of stuff. some of it's even unclassified.

I've taken fleet money and gotten peer reviewed open access open source publications and code out of it before.
Perhaps a related thought, but I find it fascinating that everything would reflect like a perfect mirror if there weren't these small imperfections in / the roughness of surfaces.
Yeah. Same in Poland. 36.6C is normal, 37C would be a cause for mild concern.
"Julie Pelloille
@juliepelloille Replying to
@gandi_net @andreaganduglia and 4 others

This post was disrespectful. It's not an excuse, but this is a stressful situation and the thread was getting heated. Either way, I truly regret posting it and it was my decision alone to do so. Please don't take this as representative of the high standard Gandi sets"

"That said, for the sake of transparency, we won't be deleting the tweet -- Julie"
I mostly agree.

Jobs was able to squeeze Microsoft. In a way I don't think any one else would or could.

Referring to Microsoft outright stealing Apple's IP and Gates' subsequent settlement. The $150m investment. The commitment to maintain Office on Mac. Forever license to all of Microsoft's API, enabling Mail.app to have pretty great integration with Exchange, for example.

BeOS was probably the better tech. But Jobs had the better strategies and the better team.

Compare this to Jonathan Schwartz cotemporaneous mismanagement of Sun's amazing IP, snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. Schwartz just wasn't a bare knuckled brawler like Jobs.
I miss them too. On a 1920x1080 laptop display I can see the grayscale font smoothing as a blur which my eyes try to correct for. In order to make it tolerable I've turned off font smoothing globally. Ugly and jagged text gives me less eyestrain than the built in blurriness of Windows font smoothing.
While stated in what I interpret is a joking way, it is a very real concern. As the average life expectancy increases we either have to plan for a longer period of non-productivity (in the private sector) or work longer. A blend of the two seems to be what is occurring, but over my life time I have seen my expected retirement age continue to push slightly further away.
I thought this was going to be kinda dumb but this was actually really neat. You never really take the time to understand the everyday things such as objects getting darker when wet.
> Why does it seem no one worries about what we might break in humanity by disrupting the evolved pattern of death

Well, we've disrupted pretty much everything else, by inventing modern society. What's one more thing?
Seems strange. Surely a management company would happily handle all that hassle and provide a secondary income stream. Sign a couple forms and boost investment income by a few percent?

Surely that's not significantly more burdensome than the bureaucratic hassle of purchasing the property in the first place.

I guess there's some significant tax/regulatory difference between capital gains from holding property vs. an income stream from renting said property.
coughlinuxcough
We have built a desktop app to manage AWS, and we will be rollin gout some of the main Azure serverless pieces over the next few months. I think you might found our GUI much more user friendly than what is out there now. https://getcommandeer.com
From whom? And who is doing the "taking", and how do you know where it is "taken" from? What is the relationship between the umbrella concept of all public policy and this specific issue?
Many states are just now having the ability to actually grow hemp, so I think that having a more mature farming community and better plant genetics is one step. Essentially just the ability to make more CBD easier with more experienced farmers.

I think another barrier is just the overall hype behind CBD. Everyone at least wants to try it This allows companies to jack up the price arbitrarily, because, "why not? people will still buy it." And even if legitimate companies did want to have cheaper prices, being too cheap can actually look bad form a market standpoint ("Oh this products is so cheap it must be bad or poor quality"). This along with the huge number of CBD companies has really ballooned the retail price for everyone.

I think as supply and demand start changing, we will hopefully see more reasonable prices for consumers.
The DMCA has always totally sucked. It was anti-user, pro-corporation from the beginning.
Didn't insomnia start as a free clone of postman?
Sounds an awful lot like Crossover for Work--those $300k+ remote VP postings that get spammed on LinkedIn constantly.
> Which are not part of the federal government and so able to make copyright claims.

If you'd like to be deliberately obtuse, go for it, but I think it's clear the original comment was in reference to the fact that state and local governments can own copyright (they can, but that's irrelevant here, because the MTA is not a branch of the state government).
You choose by voting for people to represent you.
This is a bad-faith argument advanced by the opponents of construction (landowners, essentially). The facts are that San Francisco vacancy rate is among the lowest in the nation, stands near the all-time low for that city, and is way below the level required for a healthy housing market. You need liquidity for a functioning market, and liquidity means vacancy.

The NIMBY groups who advanced this exact narrative in Los Angeles had to retract their "study" because it was BS. https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/poverty/471675-...
I think this is the kernel of a great idea. Empty homes in urban areas especially ought to be relatively rare and we need to have ways to incentivize utilization--with both carrot and stick.
It is great to see this kind of studies being done, as they are against the best interests of big food companies who usually don't care about the public health.

This phenomenon is already known in many circles but is still being rejected regularly by some people as not being backed by sufficient scientific data. Well here is some data. Hope to see more of it.
That's curious to me. Doom is specifically not 3D. Was it a publishing issue (that Doom and co weren't produced for the Amiga), or a power issue, or something else?
Sometimes people are careless and I get inside information but I'm smart enough to know that and not act on it.
gandi's response notwithstanding: email is hardly reliable

unless you run all the MXes (and can prove otherwise): you're likely having emails dropped all the time already
AYBABTU = All Your Base Are Belongs to Us, which is a mangled or broken translation in English of a Japanese phrase from a Japanese game `Zero Wing` [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

Edit: removed the extra A in the acronym
Because not enforcing trademarks means you can lose them.
That's what I meant when I said it was inspired by Roslyn. Did I miss other things from C# that Rust is borrowing* here?

* pun obviously intended
150 pounds is quite heavy. It could be a seismic air gun. They may float just below the surface.

The route of the ship also matches that of a seismic or some other kind of survey.
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The problem is that the prices are kept artificially high. You say the demand is there... But the homes are empty. That means the demand obviously does not exist.
Water is not transparent, not 100%. So it just absorb light enought that you would noticed it whent something is wet
98°F is a common reference, and that is about 36.6°C. 98.6°F is a more precise (not necessarily accurate - I don't know either way) measurement that I hear, and that's exactly 37°F.

I wouldn't be surprised if 36.6 is correct, people rounded that up to 37, converted to Fahrenheit, and we just converted back to Celsius.
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I have never used BeOS, can you explain why you are glad now that it wasn't selected?
If an injustice is one symptom of a deeper problem, is it a good idea to focus on treating the symptom? That approach helps minimize the visibility of the problem while diverting energy (public attention, political capital, financial resources) that could be used in solving the root issue.
I'm sorry that you're suffering. No one should discount your experience. Yet even through our cloudy lens we behold a miracle beyond our possession, even beyond our comprehension. We are all transitional forms, even the best of us. We'll all die. It's nature's equalizer, grinding everything to dust and recycling it. We're all made of garbage. Junkyard parts, you and me both, buddy. Isn't it incredible? We're all Wreck Gar https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wreck-Gar_(G1). I think the awe of that realization is worth the meager existence allowed to me for the moment.
Oh, definitely. Parties change, and people's priorities change, and that gradually leads to a strain. Even purely rational people have a hard time telling when that strain has become a breach.

And a new alliance isn't easy to construct. You can't just go to the opposite party and say, "I've swung to you, so start catering to my priorities". Usually, you'll spend some time voting for nobody, in hopes that somebody will notice you, but that's hard without some level of organization, and that's work. In the meantime, you're failing to vote for a party that you had at least some sympathy for, and possibly losing to a party that has no reason to be on your side.

So a lot of people make party-line decisions based on inertia. They could improve their situation, but it's not as simple as changing their vote, since the existing alliances have priorities that won't change for a few votes. That leaves a lot of people in limbo, where there is no really great rational choice.
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If Marry trusts Joseph and Joseph trusts John they make a tower of trust.

For any group of people this website allows for recording towers of trust within.

If anyone would be kind enough to play around there is an option for play account(no email, just name, can be fake) signup.

Also feel free to experiment with an existing group "klub dyskusyjny" as you kind of need other accounts to give/receive trust otherwise you cant do much action.

Basic real world experimentation could follow these steps: choose a group of people you are a part of. Create a group on the website. Ask people to join. Mark the person that you trust the most.
(Havent done much real world experimentation with the website if anyone would be interested in doing this let me know please)
Your definition claims "a backup is a copy."

The original claim was "a backup is a replication of the live dataset, although, usually out of sync to be useful when the main dataset goes bad."

The only thing that makes a replica special is that it's in sync. Once you add the caveat that it's out of sync, it's just a copy.
The corporate protections are unintended consequences of the original proposition. They really weren't on people's radar. (This is why California residents should almost always vote against propositions, even if the idea and goals are good: Fixing the unintended consequences is extremely difficult. It would be better to find other ways to implement the idea.

But getting anyone to fix proposition 13--even in this very limited instance of not protecting corporations anymore--brings out all the apocalyptic messaging (from basically everyone, but especially the corporations) that the old folks who bought in 1970 and have lived their whole lives there will be out on the street when their property taxes go up 10x.

There is no nuance in these messaging battles. And quite frankly, what property owner wants to take any kind of risk with this?
But I can't imagine what is going on at the MTA that they felt compelled to try to take this down in the first place. What on earth do they think they're trying to accomplish with it? Is there some kind of legal liability they think they're protecting themselves against? They're a governmental agency for crying out loud.

My guess is it's one person in a legal department operating somewhat independently trying to make a big splash with some higher-ups. That's the only way it would make sense to me.
BeOS had a regular Unix like (even posix IIRC) dev environment.

I was able to do most of the CS course work projects normally done on my University's Sun workstations on BeOS instead. Most of these of courses were data structures, algorithms, compilers, etc projects in C, and not things that required platform specific APIs.

But arguably, BeOS' overall model - a single user desktop OS built on top of but hiding its modern OS underpinnings like memory protection and preemptive multitasking - is far more similar to what eventually became MacOSX than Linux. Which isn't so surprising since it was built by ex apple folks. Remember that consumer OSs before this point had no memory protection or preemptive multitasking.

Linux, though it had the same modern OS features, was far more closely aligned in spirit with the timeshared modern multi-user Unix OS's like what ran the aforementioned Sun workstations (it's "Linus' Unix after all).
Jira reclassified to Critical Outage. Escalated to doody manager. Reviewing Log details.

In all seriousness, it sounds like these folks have an awful job. Curious if they will be permitted to or have the desire to form a "Moderators Union"
I am going to go against the grain here a bit. While I do think it is dumb that publicly funded IP isn't shared under a creative commons permissive license, I do think the maps do look very similar.

I'm having a little trouble finding the link, but I read an interesting article sometime in the past few years (possibly after it was posted on HN) about the difficulty of designing good metro maps. Geographically accurate maps would be cluttered and confusing, so lots of thought has to go into how geography is manipulated to make an understandable and visually pleasing design. The work that goes I to this is copyrightable, and I do think the two maps share a lot of these elements. Yes the independent map was worked on for 300 hours, but adding up all of the changes over the years probably amounts to thousands of hours to generate the original map.

Again I don't necessarily think this is a good use of government funds or time, but I don't believe the copyright claim is compeletely invalid.
FWIW, I've found GCP a pleasure to work with in comparison to AWS.
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It's basically impossible to increase housing utilization to 100%. It's pointless to even try. 10% is a healthy vacancy rate. Build 110% of the housing your city needs.
I think if they add some color coding to the resource groups in the diagram like google cloud style infrastructure diagrams it would make the diagrams much more readable and approachable.