skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As convenient as it would be to have a single scapegoat to hang the problems on like the dreaded "tech industry" my experience is that housing shortages in Santa Cruz is a complex multi factor problem. Some example contributing factors:

- UC Santa Cruz has increased enrollment to 19,500 students with only just around half of them living on campus. Living on campus is relatively expensive at $1940 for room & board to share a room [1,2]

- Considering Santa Cruz itself has just around 65,000 residents the half of students living off campus make up 15% of population

- Certainly people commute over to tech for higher pay, but according to HUD that number has climbed just 4% from 26-30% between 2005 to 2015 [3]

- Santa Cruz itself greatly limits development with annual permits averaging around 250 for the past 10 years and almost all single family homes and townhomes rather than higher density [4]

- California's entire real estate market has been warped by Prop 13 which fixes real estate taxes to the time property was purchased with limited increases [5]. This incentivizes companies and people to stay on a property longer than other real estate markets as they have lower taxes. It also dissuades towns from building housing as long term the costs such as schools, services, etc. go up with market, but not tax revenues.

The availability and cost of housing in California and Santa Cruz is a real problem for many people. I've seen a lot of finger pointing with people's favorite scapegoats. I'd like to see the same energy go into the difficult work of city planning for construction, transportation, schools, etc.

[1] https://admissions.ucsc.edu/why-ucsc/faq/housing.html

[2] https://housing.ucsc.edu/rates/index.html

[3] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications
/pdf/SantaCruzCA-CHMA-19.pdf (page 7)

[4] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications /pdf/SantaCruzCA-CHMA-19.pdf (page 14)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

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Spreadsheets are highly hackable sandboxed self-contained runtimes. They’re a really great way to deliver self-contained client-side software that can quickly evolve.
Interested in adding ADS-B to some of those AIS devices? ADSBx is always looking to partner for win-win installs!
You make it sound like Bulgarians were enslaved and sent to work on foreign lands. No, people left voluntarily for a better life.
Also, these policies benefitted Bulgaria as well, otherwise they wouldn't have joined.
At 7.3 GW, India’s Solar Installations in 2019 Declined by 12%
If by chance anyone is not aware, the namesake is Rosalind Franklin [1] who made seminal contributions in the fields of X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy.

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

It was her X-ray image that led to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.
Thanks for the link, I really like COST. Will reference this on technical sales calls.

We've seen a few customers with complex data processing setups using Spark, Airflow, etc. which we replaced with a single threaded python script with better performance.
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Wuhan Vlog: 20 Days into the Quarantine, How Do the People Live Their Lives?
>> They insisted I never talk to any LEO

> Nothing wrong with this ...

Depending on where they're located, failure to report certain types of crime to law enforcement may itself be a crime.
Try to get your circle of friends more engaged and present if you can.
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ADSBx was happy to help with that and more!

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-drones-over-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-sanctions-cause-russian-t...

https://www.insider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-private-jet-flight-...
My favorite recent infrastructure tool is Ansible. Really makes it easy to set those boxes up and derive full utility from them.

Don't know if I hang around the wrong circles, but Ansible doesn't seem to get much love.
I’m guessing you’ve never actually been lonely. I am not lonely because of greed.

I am lonely because my friends have all married and moved away to start families.

I am lonely because I have always been socially awkward and being in my mid 30s with less time and energy than ever the prospect of trying to make new friends is a terrifying maze. I go to meetups and other social events and put myself out ther but connecting with people I don’t already know on anything more than a superficial level has proven impossible.

I am not lonely because of greed.
Different worlds.

An engineer with N3 is great.

An English teacher with N(anything) is meh.

Interestingly, the best English teachers can probably make more than the median engineers, but that’s a marketing issue.

Stay true to your path, and learn something about the culture. If you dig it after a year or two, then switch to being a go-between.

Folks who can bridge cultures are invaluable and are priced accordingly.
Those aren't the only options anymore, Netflix is for instance famous for compensating very well, and large startups can be competitive too. https://www.levels.fyi/
Is anthropology more valuable than pure math? Philosophy?

Does society need 100,000 philosophers? 1 million? 10 million?

How much "studying of where we came from" is required?
I am not sure of the point. Limiting liability is one of the things an LLC exists for.
It is interesting to see so many homeless people in a very rich US state. A state governed by Democrats on multiple levels and full of virtuous people who are full of compassion for everyone (except Donald Trump of course).
> Why javascript projects tend to be this way?

Because "you don't need $LIBRARY" / "bundling is crap" / "Vanilla JS is better". Some combination of those three.
Really, you think buying my own snacks doesn't work? I gotta tell you, I've been accused of many things, but being unable to buy snacks is not one of them.

Sure, maybe it costs me some minuscule amount of money: if that's your point you can have it. Congrats! You win that argument.

My argument is: pretending that snacks are a meaningful benefit in negotiating employment is a huge loss to employees. But if you want to choose your job based on the snack benefit, have fun working for reduced wages so you can sit at your desk more.
I’m a big fan of the British TV show Time Team that is now on Amazon Prime streaming

In earlier seasons, they often recreate some of the artifacts of the age they are digging, and it’s fascinating to see some of that technology in action
China seeks help of national tech giants to track coronavirus with QR codes
PHP Language evolution overview proposal
Apparently some firms used to be like that. Benevolent societies rather than money making machines. Then globalisation happened and those companies were competed out of the market by aggressive multinationals or low wage countries.
Started here:
https://github.com/psychoslave/c4

But help would be welcome to retrieve the intended meaning for many of variable names that were turned to nonsense, be it a comment here, an issue on the repository, a pull request or anything else.
Happily, some legislators understand the crisis. While SB-827 and SB-50 were drawing fire from the NIMBYs, other pro-housing bills passed into law, including SB-167 (sue more suburbs for denying housing permits), SB-828 (double the expected housing growth that cities are required to zone) and SB-330 (limit the number of hearings and the timeline for permits and prohibit downzoning for the next few years).

We need to elect and re-elect more pro-housing candidates, e.g., Scott Wiener from San Francisco, Shelly Masur from Redwood City, Dave Cortese from San Jose, Nancy Skinner from Berkeley, Marisol Rubio from San Ramon, Maria Cadenas from Santa Cruz.
I'm sure this is true by the standard MBA tooling. But if everybody is using those tools, it leaves opportunities for people thinking differently. Amazon, for example, has been hoisting a giant middle finger to MBA dogma for years with their overinvestment, and Bezos seems to be doing fine by it.

Another way to think about it is that Google really should be doing long-term research, because only finding and monetizing a major breakthrough is going to make it so that they don't have all their eggs in one basket. A basket that will, like all baskets, eventually break.

A third way is that as long as Google is extracting monopoly rents, they should probably put some of that money into government-like things that could have broad societal benefit. Because if they keep trying to maximize quarterly profit, they'll burn up all the societal goodwill that insulates them from real regulation.
It's not like unionization is a zero sum game, why would a travel blogger's choices affect the retail worker's?
Google X aka the moonshot factory has existed for longer than the original Apollo program. Has it launched any successful products for Alphabet?
Do you know how much of a time sink, hassle, and mental overhead it is to work for $5000 you didn't make because you accepted $500 in snacks instead?

If not, I can point you to a few devs who can tell you from their experiences. ;)
I have made close friendships from people on IRC without ever knowing who they look like.

Sure, that’s what tinder is, but you don’t have to use tinder.
If it leads to the default of a large province or local government financing vehicle (LGFV), it will.

Monetary authorities on both sides of the Pacific are doing their damnedest to make sure that doesn't happen though, lowering rates and printing money, so we are probably safe for a while.

Watch out if the US has to go to ZIRP (0% interest) or the day we get enough inflation that the Fed has to shift tack and start talking about tightening...
> you’ll fail a job interview if you don’t speak both fluent French and Dutch.

That seems entirely reasonable in a country that speaks French and Dutch. Try getting an Engineering job in the US without speaking English. Even in low skill retail you need to speak Spanish, English, or both preferably.
Very cool Twitter feed! Would you consider adding a second account that doesn't include cargo/tanker ships so I can follow and turn on notifications?
I made a GDPR request for my data shortly after the law was enacted, and they provided me with 280mb of data for the past 90 days of me listening to music.
Tyranny of the majority is considered a pitfall of democracy, or consider how to enforce "the will of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority"
> Wishing to see new development first happen at the low end before saturating the high end

Development is basically not happening at any end, low-, high-, or middle-!

This is also not the fault of Netflix, et al.
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It absolutely wasn't my intent to discourage you!

The way I think of it, we all likely have decades left in our career. Consistently spending a few hours per week studying mathematics or some other technical subject related to our goals will only take a few years to reach a non-trivial level and then you still get to enjoy decades of returns off that initial investment of time.

How much more effectful will you be with a deep understanding of the fundamentals of your craft? How much more fulfilling will your work be when you have a top X percentile set of skills within your field or a unique combination of skills that give you unique insights or career leverage?

And that doesn't even touch on the aesthetic beauty of the subject matter itself! How will it affect the way you view and understand the world around you?

Remember the lessons of compound interest: a small increase of investment consistently made early on will likely have outsized effects down the line.
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> The accuracy, scope, density, longevity, and reproducibility of written information has clear advantages over speech-based transmission.

37,000 years of oral tradition versus .. 5,000 years (?) of written? The jury is still out.
> 'Singapore-on-Thames'

Talk about the irony.
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I liked the comment thread you started. Thanks for bringing your ideas here and defending them in a reasonable and rational manner.
The solution often is to have a warm standby that can take over immediately. You do not get any distributed overhead that is present in a fully load-balanced system during normal operation, and only pay a small amount in the very exceptional failure case.
Global settings never standardized in one place for some reason. Everything else is well-organized, but for whatever reason an "Application" menu never became common. It's a shame Microsoft didn't promote such a menu in their own software back in the day.
If I am paying the union and the union leaders are elected by me. Then the union is serving me, not the other way around.
The answer is: every old Japanese car with their hood open on a Friday evening at sheetz.
http://archive.is/zNJtq
Id be curious to see a list of cost of living adjusted stipends for PhD ranked across universities. It would be interesting to see what are the top places to go in terms of highest stipend .
> It's political suicide to do anything that would hurt the valuations of homes. If you are an older individual with your home making up a bulk of your retirement nest egg, you aren't going to vote for policies that make homes more affordable.

I hear this argument a lot, but it completely ignores the fact that development can allow more housing and continue to increase the value of existing housing.

The key is that more housing isn’t going to look like existing housing: it’s going to be condos and other apartments. Older folks in single-family homes are not going to see their houses lose value — if anything, the increase will continue, because now a developer can buy their house and turn it into four apartments.

Here’s how it would work: family buys single family home in year A for $100k. Lives there for a while, then sells in year B for $200k. The buyer is a developer, who then constructs a larger building on that same lot consisting of 4 apartments that now each sell for $100k again. Original family gains in wealth, developer makes tidy profit, new families can still buy a place to live for $100k. All numbers inflation-adjusted, you pick A and B to make whatever return you think is reasonable.

This is how densification happened almost everywhere until zoning laws spread mid-century.

Note what you don’t get out of this arrangement: a neighborhood that doesn’t change for 40 years; the ability to live in the same type of house your parents did, in the same neighborhood, for the same price. But you could have the same amount of (indoor) space they did, and outdoor space through public parks and the like.

What’s not sustainable is everyone having a suburban style detached single family home without increasing density in perpetuity.

The non-density alternative is sprawl, where prices rise in long-established neighborhoods, and outlying new developments are where you can buy new houses for less—which is what you observe all over California.
That's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, IMO.

Problem: the computer systems we use are insufficiently flexible/too flexible, encouraging the use of N different ways of serializing data.

Solution: make a computer system which encourages centralizing the mechanism by which data is serialized.
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Your comment is too true, especially about scratching the itch. Looking at the comments on HN first, I expected this to be a tutorial of sorts; I was totally surprised by the content within the post.

Reading the article invoked the sense of wonderment and fun that originally drew me to programming/software development.

Reading the comments on here did nothing but trigger my PTSD and flare up my anxiety. How is it people can be so pedantic and... mean? I don't know what else to call it when someone finds the the time to sit down and write comments that are hundreds of words long that do nothing but tear apart the creations of another person.

Would these commenters also take joy in attending children's science fairs, pointing out that none of them truly discovered anything because they gleaned it all off of books and the internet?

It's such a toxic, unproductive attitude. If even a fraction of the energy that went into writing vile comments on HN was spent writing code, maybe we would have one of these fancy new rendering engines half the people in here are raising hell about.
Good luck using one as a regular workstation (without resorting to classic unix, at which point we're back where we started).
Interesting! Which kinds of ships do you want, then? Just cruise ships? Tell me a bit more about why you'd want to be notified about them.
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Would have been nice to have a Julia version too. Some time ago I suggested [1] to create a Julia flavor of Biostar Handbook [2]. And now there is an initiative[3] to create similar, but open source book instead. So anyone can contribute already.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computati...

[2] https://www.biostarhandbook.com/

[3] https://github.com/BioJulia/biojulia_handbook/issues/1
> All the details of our comparison methodology are here, if you are interested in the details of exactly what we ran and how: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/nsdi2020-data

I am and this is awesome! Thanks for sharing it. And thanks for using the latest version of QEMU and the microvm machine type, that did make the comparison much fairer already.

> I saw the loss of velocity in the project, but couldn't find any details of why.

The Intel people moved on to work on Cloud-Hypervisor and a lot of the stuff done on NEMU was reworked (leading e.g. to the microvm machine type) and added to QEMU (such as disabling TCG on ARM). Before that however we collaborated to complete the configuration mechanism for disabling unwanted devices. [1] And we are still collaborating on rust-vmm, which is taking inspiration from QEMU for the more advanced parts of the design!

[1] https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/stable/devel/kconfig.html
Humans don't read words letter by letter, you recognize the whole word pattern. Abbreviations are actually slowing you down on this point, at least the first times you encounter each new one. Having a longest but more usual term will take you least time of reading treatment.

Autocompletion will rarely ask you to type more than four keystrokes for selecting any arbitrary long term.

Meaningful terms in context often happen to be far more easier to grep.

Except for sounding far more impenetrable to the lay man, there is not much left to these H4x0r turns. Of course jargon curse is not a prerogative of CS, this is a common spontaneous social behaviour.
This was an amazing journey. Thank you for doing all the work to post that.
Around $24k, good luck finding one of those on the lot. At toyota.com the Camry pictured is $35,555.

Over 200k miles How much will you spend on brake pads? Brake Discs? Gas? How about the scheduled 40 Oil changes?

How about things outside of the regular maintenance? Belts? Catalytic converts? Timing chain? Engine mounts? Head gaskets? Spark plugs? Clutch?

How many miles will you burn driving to/from gas stations?

How much of your time worth finding, using, and returning from gas stations? Do you really want to visit a smelly gas station covered with signs about the cancer it causes (in California anyways)?

Sure a Tesla over 200k miles will burn a fair amount of power around 50,000 kwh (75 kwh per 300 miles or so). But the other consumables are few. Sure wipers, tires (replacement and rotation), cabin filters, windshield fluid, etc. But generally the electric motors have few parts, are extremely reliable, and don't require any regularly scheduled maintenance.

I've had 2 Subarus and a low end Acura Integra. And most maintenance I've had (except tires/and wipers) was for something that didn't exist on an electric car. Timing chains, spark plugs, oil changes, head gasket, catalytic converter, engine mounts, clutch, etc.
(Re-posting here, because too many people think this.) I hear this argument a lot, but it completely ignores the fact that development can allow more housing and continue to increase the value of existing housing.

The key is that more housing isn’t going to look like existing housing: it’s going to be condos and other apartments. Older folks in single-family homes are not going to see their houses lose value — if anything, the increase will continue, because now a developer can buy their house and turn it into four apartments.

Here’s how it would work: family buys single family home in year A for $100k. Lives there for a while, then sells in year B for $200k. The buyer is a developer, who then constructs a larger building on that same lot consisting of 4 apartments that now each sell for $100k again. Original family gains in wealth, developer makes tidy profit, new families can still buy a place to live for $100k. All numbers inflation-adjusted, you pick A and B to make whatever return you think is reasonable.

This is how densification happened almost everywhere until zoning laws spread mid-century.

Note what you don’t get out of this arrangement: a neighborhood that doesn’t change for 40 years; the ability to live in the same type of house your parents did, in the same neighborhood, for the same price. But you could have the same amount of (indoor) space they did, and outdoor space through public parks and the like.

What’s not sustainable is everyone having a suburban style detached single family home without increasing density in perpetuity.

The non-density alternative is sprawl, where prices rise in long-established neighborhoods, and outlying new developments are where you can buy new houses for less—which is what you observe all over California.
Reporting the issues to the legal department, which then deals with it could be a ways around this.

For blatant issues (i.e. there's a dead body) you'd still be expected to act on your own, but on any greyer area you'd be covered.
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I only have one receiver myself, on the north edge of SF, but I'm happy to set up ADS-B if you aren't covered here yet. Contact me via email or Twitter if you'd like.
For me blacklisting is bad idea in general. It can be achieved without blacklisting downsides by using asymmetric keys per user. Where you could rotate keys after things like logout or password change. Keys might be stored in replicated storage, same as session, and deleted/rotated as needed.

Don't get me wrong, JWT it's not silver bullet nor it was meant to be one in first place. It's not session replacement, but there are places where right implementation makes lot of sense.
Merkel Trees
I have friends who rent (and probably will never be able to own) and parents who own who freak out when apartments or new construction goes up in Santa Cruz. There’s a notion that any building will ruin Santa Cruz. They’re not in the tech industry either.

I know several folks who do work in tech and they’re able to buy a house outright and it’s better to commute from Santa Cruz and be able to surf than live in a boring city like Mountain View.
If anyone should be interested, I have since 2013 been working on building an integrated and unified simulation platform and GUI for FEA and multiphysics simulation codes, such as FEniCS, OpenFOAM, and SU2. The rather neat idea is to make it easy for users to learn one (easy) platform while allowing them to use essentially any simulation code underneath [1].

[1]: https://www.featool.com
The license plate of an auto is clear-text and can be visible by any individual happened to be around. Is it okay to deploy a network of cameras with real-time plate detection software ($100 setup) to record and broadcast positions of all cars in the world? Is it at least legal?
Naming the Universe
You can register an aircraft to an LLC / company. Doesn't always have to be registered to a person.