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> But if housing costs go down, somebody has to be getting less money, and it's the people who live in the place that isn't rezone

I think you may have missed my point: housing costs go down, but the cost of existing established housing does not — what goes down is the cost of having, e.g., a 2-br unit in a neighborhood — specifically NOT the cost of an existing 2-br detached house, but of a 2-br condo newly built in that neighborhood, where that type of housing did not previously exist.

People are not making the decision to act in a “NIMBY” way for purely economic reasons — the “preserve the character of the neighborhood” is not a smokescreen for economic interests, it often really is a desire to preserve a way of life that seems incompatible with a 20-story tower plopped in the middle of it. (Ask me how I know!)

> Because the people who move into those new condos are no longer bidding up the price of their existing houses

The reality is that most of those people are just priced out, and not moving into the neighborhood — they’re not in a position to “bid up” the prices of the existing houses because they can’t afford it.
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This will undoubtly cause a shortage in low skilled jobs which will increase their demand and therefore you will see a salary spike for those roles and maybe just maybe British natives actually bothering to take up the jobs they never wanted to do.
> The U.K. is the most successful country in the history of the world, and it achieved all of it without the EU.

You might be too young to remember, but before joining the EU, the UK was something of a failed state. It had to go cap in hand to the IMF begging for handouts, the rubbish was piling up on the streets, and so on. Look up the Winter of Discontent.

Brexit not a choice between the British Empire or the EU, it is a choice for being run by Johnson’s SPADs rather than a sane government.
I've created the Docs2Book because I wanted to share my resume to recruiters without burden. And I've saw that huge E-Book distribution so broken so Docs2Book is just to solve in that space.

You create e-book in Google Docs and using Docs2Book to distribute to your audience.

Feedback welcome.
> Desperately thirsty men were now drinking contaminated water from old abandoned wells and from the River Modder.

‘Modder’ means ‘mud’ in Afrikaans and Dutch, which certainly doesn't sound like a river you would want to drink from. :)
This looks like it’s based around the “page” paradigm, which is fine for some sites, but for many types of sites I’ve found that you often want to manage entities with a set of custom fields instead of full pages, then compose the pages from combinations of these entities.

I’ve been pretty pleased with Cockpit CMS (getcockpit.com) for these kinds of sites. It’s a headless CMS similar to something like Prismic or Contentful, but it’s self-hosted and open source. It uses PHP and SQLite (which means it’s easy to host wherever) and the code is fairly easy to understand if you do want to make changes.

The way I’ve been working with it is using Cockpit to manage the content, which is then consumed by a React site via Cockpit’s API. In order to decouple the CMS and the actual site (and to provide security, versioning and fast page loads), I use react-static (also highly recommended!) to create a static HTML/JS site - so the workflow is: edit content in Cockpit, then trigger a build (I use Netlify for this) which generates a static version of the site which you can then preview and publish easily - it’s just HTML and JS files.

You could use e.g. Drupal or Wordpress to do this with the right plugins, but I’ve found the level of complexity there (both from a developer point of view, and for end users especially in the case of Drupal) too high for simple freelance projects. Cockpit strikes a good balance of flexible yet easy to understand and customise for me - I did also investigate some options such as Netlify CMS, but at the time it didn't seem flexible enough to meet my requirements, this may have changed!
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And when they are enforced they seem to think that laws can be hacked with cutesy little games to a judge.
>And dating addicted gamer that also drinks or takes drugs sounds like special kind of hell. It would just make her suffer in bad relationship where she has no meaningfull companion and partner.

That happened once they accepted that they'll find any relationship - everyone they were interested in, rejected them and they gave up.

>No girl can cure any of these. And guys like this won't change after starting to date a girl - not for long. The idea that she will civilised him by her presence is bonkers

Do we always live for ourselves? Do we never try to live up to expectations of our family or friends? Or those who believe in us, being on our side in life?
What does it mean that Sundar is a McKinsey guy?
I don't know if this is a recent thing, but my CZ bank charges nothing on incoming/outgoing SEPA payments (mbank).
Regarding instant transfers, already supported by many banks in CZ (not mbank though, so can't tell if there is a fee), see https://www.mesec.cz/aktuality/okamzite-platby-umi-prijimat-...
See also boulos' comment:

"As for 224, we've always reserved threads on each host for I/O and so on. Figure 2 from the Snap paper [1] is probably the best public reference. We also don't make it clear (on purpose) what size the underlying host processors are, though you can clearly guesstimate pretty easily."

Ie. if there's even one thread reserved on the host, your speculation comes to naught. Sorry.
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Subpoenas are the gold standard. There's also audits.

https://www.techspot.com/news/82259-keeping-private-5-vpns-h...
Exactly what people feared and what was promised that it wouldn't ever happen. In Germany, the current right-leaning party is currently satiated with extreme voices. But several years ago that was still different. They had some economist voices that correctly predicted the current dilemma. Given, those already left the party because of the surfacing extremism. But for that the other political parties are even more to blame in my opinion. Overall the current situation of the EU is barely acceptable.
In the case of the Linux kernel, the internal APIs are much nicer that the user space POSIX API.

People love to praise "everything is a file", but the other side of the medal is "every piece of configuration is a byte array".
Interested in seeing where symbolic AI crowd has disagreed with that. Only group of people who disagree that I know of are a small set of people who think you should build inherently explainable models as opposed to explaining the decisions of deep neural networks.
I agree, Steve Jobs is the most inspiring person to ever live. Not only did he take $1 as his salary, but he personally gave us revolutionary tech products.
/s

I like Apple and Steve Jobs, it's not the same without him but in the age where we are building the capacity to colonize another planet that far exceeds "one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind", it's baffling to see people inspired by the frugality of one's personal income.

Some of the greatest achievements in the history of humankind are on the verge of happening and most people on HN can't see past their neighbor's pocketbook.
This they can do, but you can't change your display name unless you hook up with Facebook. [0]

[0] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Account-Change-U...
Depends what you call a signal. Imagine the earth was just a bit more focused on science, united, and thought a bit longer term (on the order of 100k years). Living sustainable, but curious and motivated to explore.

Imagine an earth where literacy, science, and peace were priorities. All countries joined a UN like organization and decided to spend 1% of the planets resources on exploring.

Assuming earth level tech and the next 1000 years of progress (.000007% of the life of the universe) we manage a ship/converted asteroid/similar that can travel for 500 years at 2% of the speed of light with some combination of power solar power lasers orbiting the sun, solar sails, nuclear power (ion, explosion and/or pulse), or antimatter. That gets us to the nearest 10 stars. Hard to say what earth technology will be like in 1000 years, but no new physics are needed. Would that be a huge ship with kitchens, gyms, entertainment etc? Or maybe just some autonomous AI with some genetic samples, some robots, and a 3d printer?

After another 1000 years things have improved further, and slowly spreading across the galaxy at a few % of the speed of light becomes ever more practical. Maybe just enough so that a 2nd solar system in the galaxy an start launching ships. Said 2nd solar system could make it dramatically easier for travel between those two systems since they could use a laser to help decelerate the incoming light sails.

Those huge solar arrays + lasers for pushing a large ship up to a few % of the speed of light make for a hell of a beacon. Even unintentionally it should be visible from quite a distance, even by astronomical standards. A ring of solar panels near a sun could provide considerably more power than is available on earth today, even crazy inefficient things like producing antimatter might become viable. Things like geo-engineering become feasible, some distant civilization might detect things like an implausibly quick change in the atmosphere of mars. Or unusually energetic particles coming out of ships trying to accelerate or decelerate to a few % of the speed of light.

As technology progresses we might even be able to focus the energy coming from the sun more directly to directly push ships to other stars. After all solar power -> laser is horribly inefficient.

Distant observers on the same plane as our solar system might even start to notice the particular pattern caused by the solar/whatever energy collection.

Earths atmosphere might start to exhibit unusual characteristics. Even nuclear propulsion becomes common and we start mining the outer reaches of the solar system that might exhibit some unusual characteristics.

Of course any similar civilization in the galaxy could similarly expanding and eventually the two civilizations would get close enough to notice each other, even without deliberate signals.
That reminds me of this:
https://xkcd.com/927/
No, you check the bank accounts associated with the business.

You check other proxies relating to services rendered vs. money earned for an initial estimate.
Old operating systems like VMS, MULTICS, OS/400, etc. aimed for this; they were large and contained support for a lot of structure. Problem is, they always evolved to be too complex, and/or the available complexity was not what turned out to be needed, but different complexities had to be built on top of the old, unneeded, complexities.

Along comes Unix and dispenses with all of that. Files? Bytes only. Devices? Accessible as files in the file system. Etc. This became popular for a reason.
My first sale of my selfwritten software (about 35 years ago) was for a car driving instructor. The initial sales conversations where difficult. I thought they did not see the advantages of having their planning & bookkeeping in a computer...

How wrong I was. It was their "creative bookkeeping" that worried them. When I offered to make that all possible ('zapping' as it is called now), they loved it. Based on their referrals I sold it many times over.

Come next customer / market: bookshops. Guess what the most important selling argument was, besides easy cataloging, inventory, searching, website publishing and reporting? Right: zapping.

Thought me an important rule: do not underestimate what your customer is NOT telling you.
They never had that much money, but no manufacturer of food or cosmetic products anywhere is even going to pick up the phone if you don't intend to buy an extremely significant amount of product from them. If you intend to demand recipe/formulation changes as well, then they want even more.

The office was honestly a cramped, sweltering sty and not at all showy.
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> So no one re-writes their own stuff

I have (unwillingly) had to do this. I did look at off-the-shelf solvers but they all seemed to restrict themselves to nice domains in low dimensions.

Edit: Perhaps you are only talking about the linear algebra "stuff". I did use SciPy for that.
I should probably add, at one time I had a throw-away car, it cost <£100, it's scrap value was £100+ and at the time the MOT and tax was registered to the car itself and it had a few months left of road-legal use.

Before scrapping it I decided to drive it around as a "risk free" car. The exhaust fell off (so not even a straight pipe), the battery was dead (had to push start it everywhere), the clutch was teetering on death, brakes were merely a suggestion to your speed (it had drums), the radiator leaked, the oil was probably as old as the car, tires were barely legal and it had no working headlight bulbs.

We ripped out all of seats, removed the air filter, filled the tank with contaminated petrol (had diesel in it - added a small amount of nitro-car fuel to balance it out) and drove it very hard.

I ended up using it for quick 20 minute journeys (that's about how long it took for all the coolant to leak out). We would leave it unlocked with the keys in the ignition - I think it was more hassle to whoever tried to steal it. The car survived long enough to drive itself onto the back of a flat-bed lorry to be taken to the scrap dealers once the MOT and tax ran out.

This is not uncommon either, many people get "traders plates" just so that they can drive barely legal cars around before getting rid of them.
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Regarding structured logging, the systemd journal supports structured logs, for those who want it.
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> Doing an anthropology Ph.D. is not bettering yourself through education.

It is bettering themselves in the sense that you (on average) become a better, more developed person thanks to it. However, I agree that it's not helping your job prospects and bettering yourself is higher on Maslow's hierarchy than securing food and shelter (through job) for you and the child.
Yeah, I agree. I want SO BADLY to believe in this, and so far I haven't found anything that I can clearly see is wrong. But I've NEVER seen a company succeed by doing something legitimately prosocial, so my default position isn't trust here.
I do not know any truthful books about Soviet history, especially in English. We lost the cold war and winners always write the history. So even in contemporary books in Russian there's all kinds of nonsense about Soviet history.

I was a teenager when USSR collapsed so I can only guess from my own short experience living in USSR and from tales of my parents and grandparents. It's radically different from anything you can find in any book.

Memories of horrible years of "freedom" are brighter though. We had nothing to eat (millions died because of hunger but nobody cares, there's no Amnesty International to punish somebody for this), but were inundated in a flood of all kinds of bullshit. Soros-published books for the schools that contained nothing but lies about history and economics. Good and enlightening Soviet science shows were replaced with gross shows showing nudity and all kinds of fake science (psychics, UFO freaks, etc). Academics running the old shows said that they were closed specifically by request from the very top. Same for education: it was deliberately destroyed by direct guidance of US advisers.

But we're still struggling...

But I do not know if there's a book about it. It's a taboo theme both here and especially on the West. Everybody just reinforces the same old meme how "repressive" was Soviet society and how everybody was happy to become free (just conveniently omit the ending: "free from education, free from having work, free from having enough food, free from having self-esteem").

Regarding news: I simply avoid consuming any news. I do not want to receive anything from news. I don't need it. I work as a developer, in my job it's not necessary to know the "news". They doesn't affect my life much and even if they does, there's nothing I can do about it.

All the news I consume against my will (by browsing social media where it's almost impossible to avoid seeing shared articles). So my ultimate goal is to stop consuming social media as well, but I lack the willpower.

I also believe that it's good to know what is happening around IT (new languages, frameworks, etc) but all IT sources also publish lots of news about current politics (e.g. witch hunt against Huawei), so it seems as almost impossible to avoid news.
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> For simple graph diagrams it's easy enough to open up a separate graphviz .dot file, write up a graph specification, run it through dot or neato, and include the .png in your markdown file. And then automate this with a Makefile.

Or just use zim ( https://zim-wiki.org/ ) which allows you to embed graphviz diagrams in any 'page', and many other features.
Or formalize phrases. The Google review guide [1] defines some phrases and as such there is no question about the tone of it. Prefix comments on non-essential parts of the commit with "Nit:", approve the changes with "LGTM" (looks good to me).

[1] https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/
One really positive thing about the Ribbon was that it exposed every command in a Microsoft Office program to a keyboard shortcut. Yes, in earlier versions, most had a keyboard shortcut, but some commands only appeared in toolbars that only showed in certain situations and were never mapped to a keyboard stroke. Now in the ribbon, every button that you can see has a keyboard shortcut.
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Those few major cities make up a sizeable portion of the population though, you can't just remove them from the data and call it a day. Perhaps the solution is splitting it into a "high density inflation index" and "low density inflation index".
I'm going to read between the lines and assume that she did at least consider copying the file onto a USB stick/portable hard drive, but chose not to because hacking together an FTP or SSH connection would be more fun.
I can recognize why it will generates a feeling of elegance, as some say with short mathematical concise formula. However this is more like of esoteric practices: it's meaningful for the selected few that went through the initiation, and has only the charming/frustrating taste of mystery for other.

But, at least to me, it's nothing like poetry. Anyone, without any specific formation, can read poetry and understand something of it. In poetry, artistic license is the exception, not the general rule. The deep meanings, intertwines between form and content, the attention to metre, the use of allegories, and so on, will not be consciously grabbed by every reader. But still anyone that has the base language knowledge required can read it and find some sense to it.
Very sad situation - deeply empathize with the working class that's battling economic pain on top of a health crisis. No real blame can be placed on the manufacturing reliant employer base either - they work at razor thin margins and are optimized for just-in-time everything, including cash flow. No production == no cash on hand for salaries.

Reminder that our great civilization is fragile. If this situation lasts longer, it'll quickly devolve into civil unrest
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I've had good experience with Lektor for simple web sites.

https://getlektor.com/
Let's see what happens at next year's harvest.

Farmers in the UK typically hire hundreds of thousands of seasonal unskilled labourers, with many crops (fruit, asparagus) having no mechanised harvest option.

Farmers have already been struggling with shortfalls since the vote to leave the EU but this is going to kick them over the cliff edge. Tories get a lot of financial support from these land owners. Can't imagine they'll be too happy if their income rots away in a field.
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It might be interesting to compare Santa Cruz with Monterey, which is too far to commute to Silicon Valley but still has high rents and not enough housing.

It seems there are a lot of rich people who don't work in tech?
One thing that annoys me is that when "directing" other programs, you need to write tests that check if each program is alive and kicking. If you for example is checking a http server, you need a http client to test it. And the most frustrating part is that you don't know when the program is ready to do whatever it's supposed to do, so you have to constantly poll until it answers, but then when you disconnect it might have some warmup/warmdown mechanism, so you can't put it to use right away, you have to do manually testing - then set a timeout with a good margin. Then when you "director" worker crashes (and restarted by another "init" service) those children are still alive, so when you try to start another instance it will complain about the port being used, so the "director" worker also have to check for existing orphans.
.. It's sometimes easier to just rewrite the program yourself so it becomes a port of you "monolith".
I like the unix philosophy and micro-services. But I feel it can be better...
FWIW, I do think this project is really cool. I should have taken a little bit more time to write this comment, as it's overly negative right now.
I really like the pg protocol (like e.g. Cockroach), it let me use my usual tools. There are a few things I noticed:

1. It has a fairly rich support for types - these new-ish SQL engines often lack quite a lot of things, but this seems pretty decent.
2. I don't see any comparisons to KSQL, which seems to be the primary competitor.
3. Read the license. Read it carefully. It has a weird "will become open source in four years" clause, so keep that in mind. It also disallows it being hosted for clients to use (esentially as a DBaaS).
Given the rough form factor they describe (I think a hellfire when I read it), I'd expect they're looking to be able to quickly deploy multiple of these things to do targeted killing or automated area denial in firefights w/o having to risk a pilot or a whole plane.

Like a swarm of mini warthogs firing 5.56 or 7.62.
Oh they absolutely do cut up ships & recycle the steel. You can watch it happen from space!

Whether they keep any promises they make about how they handle oil, asbestos, worker safety, of course that's another question.
In case you hadn't made the connection, "medRxiv" is named by analogy with the arXiv, both being preprint repositories for papers in their respective fields.
If they feel that unionization can improve the conditions of their employment, regardless of stress, I don't see the difference. Their employer is optimizing towards less expenses per unit of work, and it's only fair that an equally resourceful organization can counter balance that goal with the workers in mind.
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> No, divorce rates are going down since 1980 or so. Rates, not just absolute numbers.

Okay, apatter's claim without citation was bad enough, but if you're going to directly contradict something someone says, link your damn source!

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying nobody wants your opinion on what the stats are, when we can have the stats themselves!