skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The myth is that there is overall net out migration. But the reality is that California's population is actually growing and there is net migration into the state. There is net domestic migration out of the state, which is more than offset by positive international migration into the state.

Even within domestic migration - people leaving are poorer and people coming over are richer and wealthier.

The "exodus" stories are often peddled to tell a story on how productive people are leaving and there will be no tax revenues. But the opposite is actually true.

So, to summarize - 1) Net migration to CA is positive and 2) Net migration is actually bringing in more high income folks

https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-population-migr...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-income-t...
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>I would assume such things were considered.
>Don't assume you have the entire story.

You're contradicting yourself here.
The market is a feedback loop, not a static system. Daycares may have started appearing because some mothers wanted to go back to work earlier. But, as more and more families started using them - whether to gain a financial leg up, boost the mother's career, or for personal reasons - they've become established. At the same time, the market started pricing it in - what was perhaps once a trick to boost your material status, now became the default, and these days sending kids to daycare isn't a way to boost anything - not sending them is a way to have less money. Similarly, daycare is expected in careers simply because there's more than enough mothers doing it that not doing it puts you at a competitive disadvantage.

The market rewards being above the mean, but otherwise works to make the mean cheaper. If a few % of people find a way to move above the mean, they reap great rewards - which encourages others to do the same; the mean starts to move up, and competitive pressure starts to push its value down. In the end, "the new way" becomes the default way, and initial rewards from doing it are erased.
>I hope laser printers will never become such a scam product like inkjet...

They can already be, JFYI.

For years I had HP printers (only), when they (particularly their drivers) started to become crap (around 10 years ago) I switched to Brother (small office, 3-4 printers, very little print volume).

Lately, on two different multifunctions, "low cost" but rated for around 10,000-15,000 pages per month (we do like 1/10th of that or less) multifunction B/W laser printers, the fuser (rated for 100,000 pages) failed, on one machine at 18,000 pages, on the other at 46,000, printers are 3 or 4 years old (models DCP-8110DN and MFC-8520DN).

Cost of the spare fuser around 150 Euro! + some 30-50 Euro of labour, total 180-200.

Cost of a comparable brand new printer from Brother around 200-220 Euro.

After some research, I found out that half the world experienced the same on that particular "printing engine", which was used on several Brother models, and new series printer use a different one, with a fuser hopefully more reliable.

Anyway, besides the money involved, the obvious choice, buying two new printers would have meant sending to waste some 15 kg x 2 = 30 kg of material, so searched and found a few videos about the issue, bought for 25 Euro each two "fuser refurbishing kits" from China (roller+sleeve+grease) and in less than two hours time I "fixed" (at least temporarily) the issue (it is too recent to know how long the fusers will last).

Imagine that your car, that you paid some 30,000 Euro and that reasonably could do 200,000 km, at 50,000 and right out of warranty breaks a piston and you can only replace the whole engine block and it is a 28,000 Euro repair.
I hope this is useful not only for personal users, but also for company users. So performance is very important.
Its so rare that I didn't even realize you could put gifs in your readmes on github. Slick
The redcars inspire a lot of whimsy, but they were a private company that could never turn a profit, cut service to the point where one train went from LA to santa monica a day, and folded in the face of poor service and traffic due to sharing the road with cars.

The bus network today is far more expansive, faster, and with far lower headways than the old redcar network that it replaced. The articulated buses used on busy corridors are probably about as long as a street car. Later this year LA Metro will implement a bus plan where 83% of the population will be in walking distance to a bus line with a 5-10 minute headway.
Bitcoin is in the same position the internet was years ago
ECL is fast but hot because the transistors are never fully saturated, so current is always flowing.

CMOS is more like the electronic equivalent of a stiff mechanical lever system. Logic voltages change the charge distribution inside the MOS transistors. There's almost no current flow outside of them.

This is great for super-low power draw, but it's not particularly snappy, it can't drive LEDs directly, and it's not happy driving long wires without buffering. It's also very easily damaged by static electricity - which is why wrist grounding straps are a thing. Because the transistors are so tiny it's easy to scale it to VLSI.

TTL is mid-way between the two. The transistors saturate cleanly, so switching is faster than CMOS. The source/sink currents are much smaller than with ECL, so power requirements are manageable, although switching glitches need good decoupling. It's a robust and reliable system, with low-power options. But it's not as dense as CMOS, which is why 74xx series TTL never got any more complex than a simple 4-bit ALU, while MOS soon expanded into full 8-bit VLSI microprocessors.
This comment is helpful and relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22080563

While women experience a "parent penalty", the one men would/do experience is much more severe because rather than being seen as necessary or expected, it is a character judgement: you chose to walk away and didn't have to so you have demonstrated you are wiling to be a traitor. (fair or not, this is the judgment).

If one is to advocate for men "stepping up", one must at least understand what they are asking.

"What, just step in front of the cavalry charge, they'll go around you don't worry you're just chicken hehe checkmate".

And while it might be unpopular to suggest this is so, I agree with the parent poster that the first thing that seems to get lost in these discussions is that taking care of children is not a burden. Work, yes, hard, yes, a burden? Only if you didn't want them in the first place. I say this as a father of 2 who sometimes sacrifices work to take care of my kids. It's a privilege the days I do so and I am currently undertaking a Herculean effort to modify the shape of my career and my income in order to do so more often because I love them and want them brought up right instead of leaving them in the hands of some daycare. Burden? WTF?

And it seems to be an absurd argument: "Caring for the children is a burden that holds back women therefore men should do it so women can work." Wait what? How does that fix anything?

This is why I largely stay out of these discussions. It seems to be impossible for them ultimately to be realized as nuanced. This problem is hard and a balanced, equitable solution is multifaceted. To state the solution as "well men should just...." in any context whatsoever does a disservice to the discussion.
What can you express in C# which you cant express in Assembler?
I’ll take that bet. I think the market will surge upward 20% by year end because of a Trump re-election then level off over the next 3 years as the blue wave rises and drowns out the embers.
The solution to bad government housing policy is reversing policies set by bad actors in bad faith (E.g. nimbys). Disallow speculative investment into housing markets by putting heavy taxes on:

second+ homes,

all rentals that cost more than 30% average area take home (with the top 10% of incomes removed). Scale said taxes with the cost of living in that area. Double the tax on short term stays in 'rentable units'. (E.g. airbnb).

Everyone deserves a place to call home that is safe, insulated from the elements, has plumbing, electricity, and internet at a fair price. I simply don't care if that makes housing speculation, land ownership, and utilities, unprofitable. Making a profit off of necessities is obscene. Eg everyone should have access to a basic internet package that costs around $10-30/mo for ~25mbps. Same for everything else. Everyone should get the minimum, and if they want more they need to find a way to earn more in a way that isn't extracting value from the vulnerable. Extract from the rich instead, or don't. You shouldn't starve to death under a bridge if you can't compete in a society that needs less unskilled labor every day.
AFAICT SimpleHTTPServer has been protected against basic traversal attacks for a very long time.

There have been bugs though, like https://bugs.python.org/issue26657
It was my understanding that most restrictive housing policy is implemented at a city and not state level.
Yes, a state with the best business friendly outcome and best business growth, is by definition the most business friendly. In data science and research, we believe in the concept of don't trust what they say, but look at what they do. A user behavior is far more telling, than their response to a survey. Similarly, a businesses behavior is far more reflective of business friendly than a bunch of partisan rhetoric.

I strongly believe that in the knowledge economy, the traditional narrow definition of business friendliness (defined by low tax and low regulation) doesn't apply. That's why many states (e.g., Kansas) tried this tax based pull strategy which fell flat. In the 21st century, you need a more a holistic definition of business friendliness that takes into account talent as a stakeholder. Thus defining policies that make a place attractive for talent to migrate, should be part of the business friendly discussion. This will include non-competes, climate and environmental laws, labor protections, social safety nets, parental leaves, LGBT friendliness, other protections etc.
You're excluding women who are not straight but want or are having children! Seriously though, I find the post you replied to to accurately distinguish between women and mothers. The women who are not bearing are included in those numbers! If we peg the share of women who don't have children at ten percent the child-per-women number of 2 means a child-per-mother ratio of around 2.2. It doesn't change the argument and is an unnecessary detail.

(I disagree with the thrust of the post and think that letting mothers participate in society outside home an important factor in female empowerment. But please let's talk about that, not haggle over definitions.)
LA is actively building three rail projects right now, with more set to be expedited once these current projects are completed and the limited labor pool is freed.
They use the IRS 0.58$/mile tax deductible to estimate the car related costs. This is probably on the high side, especially for a small car.
Reminds me of the time some politicians thought it would be a good idea to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
It’s strange that you’re unfamiliar with the term. It’s an important concept in legal contexts, and the same general concept applies in all sorts of situations where people make reasonable inferences about other people’s behavior. It’s even called out as a real thing that is then explicitly denied in many OSS licenses, because otherwise such implicit promises might have legal implications.
I don't know about Dallas, but Houston and Austin are solidly liberal, and I don't think term limits would change that. Most people would still vote the same way for mayor and city and councilman.
No no, lesser being as in "we decide your duties and remobe your opportunities".
There's truth to what you're saying; assuming one knows where relative medium term peaks and troughs are in multiple asset classes. That's a whale of an assumption. As is the assumption that fossil fuels are going to be higher growth rate over the medium term. Your strategy also requires attention and likely incurs more transaction costs if executing it yourself.

I thought I would do a ballpark check. Random first index of oil & gas I found was FTSE 350 Oil & Gas. Start 2010 value: ~7914. Start 2020: ~8253. Return: 1.043. General FTSE350 at the start of 2010: 2718. Start 2020: 4311. Return: 1.59. So we'd have done better buying a fossil fuel divested index 10 years ago. I see no reason to think this trend will reverse.

The fundamentals to me are that fossil fuels are likely only see more regulation, divestment and less importance to new technologies. While the upside wildcards in energy are most likely not in fossil fuels.
I do the same, and it works well for me.

The printers they use at print shops are not the same crappy, consumer-grade inkjets that people have in their homes - the quality is much better. And you don't need to deal with a constantly "needy" printer that guzzles ink like it's going out of fashion, and needs cleaned/declogged/realigned every time you look at it.
-That's very true, I should have been more specific - I mostly did circuits with the occasional IC in it - trying to dead bug a QFN or TSOP gets old fast. :)
There are a lot of things in life that aren't perfect, yet they're still solutions.
> Cryptocurrencies are one (infamous) use-case of blockchain technology

None of the "other use cases" have been interesting in any way.

> The main blockchains today are actually fully transparent

So what? If the exchange between the cryptocurrency and real cash is not compromised, the only traceable thing is that some address which you don't know anything about got paid from another address which you don't know anything about.

Again, real world ransomware mostly uses Bitcoin.

> I don't think there is any distributed consensus algorithms that is not a tremendous energy burn today

Anything that is not trustless, even physical voting, should be vastly more efficient.

> Proof-of-stake […] Proof-of-spacetime

Yeah, when did Ethereum promise a switch to proof-of-steak? Where is that again? Has anyone actually proven the security of any of these alternatives?
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I interpreted it differently, like it was saying "some people are lazy, and you need to get rid of them". If I were one of the people who'd just been made redundant because a layer of management above me changed strategy, I'd find that comment really hurtful.
Seriously. Pin rent to minimum wage pinned to inflation, and build. There is no reason why the LA river doesn't look like the chicago river or something, lined with highrise housing from glendale to long beach atop public land, other than corruption and graft.
Seriously? The cost of used Toyota's (Avalon, Camry, Tacoma, tundra) and jeeps (wrangler/gladiators) are completely disconnected from reality.

Regardless, the industry is rife with bad actors exploiting an imbalance of information.

The advertising on vehicles is designed to make you feel bad for not owning the best. Get slammed with that enough and you won't even realize you just bought that $90k coupe that will cost $10k in maintenance/yr to keep running to show off how wealthy you are while you hunt for a mate. Then if you have kids you'll take a bath on it for the dealer to make a profit when they resell it.
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I live in Houston and I'll agree it's not a great place to walk except for a few expensive neighborhoods but I've never notice any gated communities.
Thanks for open sourcing your work.

Question: is it possible to describe the build environment inside a project with your approach? Bonus question: Is it possible to generate the build environment within a project? Because this is a totally missing feature for me, to the point I might add it one day to gitlab or Jenkins. As a developer, you should not be forced to repeat yourself in any way. And you should be able to replicate your build everywhere, including your local machine. Hence I consider it important to put the dockerfiles, etc. Inside the repo. I would be fine with having a script that generates the Jenkins pipeline, gitlab ci, or whatever on demand, but I do not want to keep the same information in sync everywhere.
Sure, but people whose behavior is only constrained by law rather than the general expectations of good taste in their community are generally referred to as assholes or with some similar term to indicate that their behavior is disapproved of but not to the extent that it would make sense to prohibit.
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We use Discourse for all complex conversations that can happen asynchronously (meaning not urgent) and we want to capture/document decisions for. Discourse is also great as internal knowledge base.
Moving this sort of comms out of Slack has also made Slack better for us, as there is less FOMO and thus more deep work.
Housing is only expensive in (big) cities but we all need to go there because of jobs. Good hobs are only created in (big) cities because that's where the talent is. Solution is to build more cities and provide seed / anchor jobs. Government could do that easily.

Rural land is cheap. Government could build a "starter pack" of 1000 homes and move one of their offices from a big city there to provide employment. Borrow / print money to do this instead of QE. Heck, with the current prices the whole thing could be financed by leasing or reselling gov owned buildings in "old city" cenres.
The range check filters out the cases where the cast is undefined.
I bet that epson still has a programmed death event and will start barking about the print head after x number of pages. We needed an open source printer yesterday, but of course the priorities aren't there because it is just a printer after all.
Add to that the infrastructure to commute between medium-sized cities easily (either by Carbon-neutral air travel or fast trains, which both need upfront support) and you are golden, I guess.
It's not six months, it's 9 months of pregnancy + ideally another year to recuperate, bond with the child and care for them.

Children don't magically become independent when they turn 1 either, they need a lot of investment from both parents in order to develop harmoniously.

Starting at this point one could wonder if fathers couldn't spend the same amount of effort as mothers. Technically they could, but by that point they probably aren't very good at some kinds of care and bonding, nor is the baby used to them in that way, unless they already did it during the first year.

It's also not something that is appreciated by others, except maybe the mother, if she can get over their clumsiness and has the patience to teach them what to do. All in all, there's no benefit for the family if the fathers instead of the mothers work part time or stay at hole.
Where is it becoming more acceptable? In Germany I read an article about a stay at home dad and their life sounded quite miserable. They couldn't even hang around with other mothers because their husbands became suspicious.
Why should home owners give up their way of life just because a particular city is now hip and everyone pushes into the new hyper-dense zones? I demand space for living, a little bit of nature, and privacy. So go build some effing infrastructure instead of pushing everyone to live like a chicken in an egg factory, ffs.
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Depending on the location of the hotel, this is often not very optimal.
Companies are not and never will be people, and hearsay is necessary for markets to work. "Innocent until proven guilty" only makes sense with people; with companies, it should be "Innocent unless there's reasonable suspicion to assume literally anything else," in most cases.

On top of that, this isn't an uncommon circumstance: the counterfeit problem on Amazon brings up 1,812 results with a completely unsophisticated search of HN; there are a lot of different variations of that, it's probably half-again that number.
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Yup and these days I would say that individuals need to go the extra step by using technologies to ensure their rights are never violated. Simply having the right written into law is not good enough anymore.
Tenure track professors in the US have 3 major levels:

1. Assistant Professor = no tenure, up or out after ~5 years.

2. Associate Professor = tenured, but still not "full"

3. Professor = tenured "full professor"
And now for something completely different - try dumping the things you have on your mind into a trusted system - part of Getting Things Done productivity method. This will help you in avoiding thinking about all that in bed.
There is no pronounced trend. In fact, this very article says so. The trend is for people to move from conservative rural areas to liberal urban areas. In fact, a deeper look at the data will actually prove the opposite. That Democratic controlled locations are thriving and people are moving to it. For example, within New York, NYC population is actually growing.
What if some people prefer to live in nice "hip" cities (that for them means culturally interesting) even at the cost of living without a private garden in a detached house?
Off topic, but wow, this website has a bizzarre combination of 2 annoying "features":

1. splitting the article into a ton of tiny pages, and forcing you to click to go to the next page

2. infinite scrolling of different articles

This combination means that if you just read what is shown, you will read 1/10th of a ton of different articles, rather than anything coherent.
It is purely ideological. Truth be told, there are major differences between a good CEO and a bad one.
Nah economy is just one part of the puzzle, society has moved on from the "you need to have kids to live a full life" mentality too. Good luck finding an interesting career driven woman who wants kids at 20 something.

Also, imo- for the most part kids degrade life experience significantly before they improve it, often in the part of your lifespan that you can actually enjoy life the most. Are you going to be taking risks and travelling to far flung countries in your 40-50s? most probably not by choice.

Hanging out with my kids at 40 isn't gonna happen even if i had chosen to have kids. Kids nowadays will be in school/tutoring programs/hanging out on social media not have time for me as a father to teach them outdated cultural mores(that they will ignore anyways just like i did).