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Let’s face it, California is run by a bunch of faux progressive NIMBYs and their chosen politician. I live in a suburb close to Oakland and my tree lined streets are filled with BLM posters, but our state legislative rep voted against this bill. Nextdoor is full of posts opposing this bill with Trumpian scare mongering “those people will come to your neighborhood if you end single family zoning”. Good news is that things are changing slowly. Lots of young people are getting involved and pushing back. But it will take a while to take NIMBY out of suburbs
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The RSS feed is sadly lacking the URL directly to the MP3 data.
If healthcare is not tied to your job, you have much more leverage because you are not shackled to a particular employer with an attractive healthcare plan. The cost-benefit analysis of working for or leaving a company no longer includes basic human needs which are held effectively hostage via your employment status.

This can be extended to other social services such as childcare.
Focussing on synaptic connections seems rather simplistic. For full "emulation" they would probably need to emulate the electric fields and neurotransmitter concentrations, otherwise just-the-spikes simulation will probably capture only a small percentage of brain dynamics.
I keep remembering hearing Capcom keep saying "COLUMBIA HOUSTON,UHF COMM CHECK OVER" You could just tell every time he repeated that it just got harder and harder for him to say it with out cracking.
I don’t know. Don’t ask me, ask Wikipedia.
I had a couple confusing situations happen in a Git repo, where a capitalized file name was changed to lowercase, or vice versa.

It caused an issue that only one of us in the team experienced, since they had a case-insensitive file system, I think Windows. The reverse also happened, where everyone but that person saw an issue, due to their case-sensitive file system.

In the end, "git mv" solved those cases, but I never fully understood how to avoid them occurring in the first place. I think we all just agreed on a convention of all lowercase folder/file names.
This isn't talking about banning a specific company for violating local laws. This is talking about banning all companies from a specific country because that country has laws the US doesn't agree with. Should Europe ban all American companies because the US doesn't have GDPR? Or flip it around, which US law did Tiktok violate?
Yeah, it’s discouraging. But Hacker News is a place for capitalists (self-identified) or wannabe capitalists to hold discussions, and the site is run by a venture capital firm, so makes sense. Still discouraging to see the lack of education HNers have on unions. Maybe ignorance is a better word.
Why? Keeping afloat a system that siphons all the fruits of progress to the 0,01% by throwing just enough trickles to the bottom so they don't revolt?
It's not unequivocally good; the law could have equalized by removing discretion in all cases.
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It depends on what you mean by "measuring brain activity". fMRI has a spatial resolution on the order of the summed activity of tens of thousands of neurons and a temporal resolution of 2-4 seconds, so it's often very imprecise if you want to know what one neuron in particular is up to.

I've seen single-unit recordings done with electrodes and simultaneous Ca2+ imaging with a 2-photon microscope. You trade real-time speed and single unit specificity for a loss of knowledge about the population.

MEG can give you real-time summed behavior, but the inverse problem is indeterminate so you're less sure of _where_ that activity is coming from.

"what's the good tool to measure brain activity" is very often a function of "what do i want to find out about the brain?"
This is pure evil. You want to see every small buisness go under?

Remember, big companies like Apple make special deals for their property tax rates. Only the little guys (like me, with our 15000 ft/sq building in Sunnyvale) will be screwed.

When it comes time to fire people to make up for the property tax increase, I'll let you pick which ones.

BTW: I am FOR the Duplex Bill. I'm FOR building more, denser housing.
Why Warren Buffett is gambling on Japan’s distinctive dealmakers
While being in Basic Income meetings frequent subject was "what will happen to people rights when AI takes over" sadly this is example of the answer of what is the most probable outcome...
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California reminds me of the pre-revolutionary France #. Huge country easily dwarfing its neighbors in size and population, yet hopelessly entangled in a gridlock of various special interests to the point of strangulation. Each one pursues its own best interest, collectively dooming their host to suffocation, and none willing to budge.

And it's not just the real estate, and not just California. Healthcare system comes to mind as another clusterfuck - no individual actor seems malevolent or dangerous enough, yet the total is much worse than the sum of the individual participants.

# I highly recommend The Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan.
> The core of a union is bad for workers that excel

You should really let go of that folclore because it makes absolutely no sense at all and has absolutely zero connection to the real world.

First of all, it's widely known that Amazon already has a rigid employee structure that pays according to the internal pay scale. This alone shuts dispels the "omg unions keep top performers down", because internally your only shot at a pay increase is to run through their promotion obstacle course.

Unions are about employee representation and negotiating power. They are the only way to create change such as limiting working hours and demand safe working conditions and cut down on arbitrarily firing people for no reason. Without unions you have zero power. With an underperforming union you have some power. Sounds like even a bad union is progress.
> The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 is a foundational statute of United States labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary.

It's truly late stage capitalism if companies can impede labor organizing so brazenly in public like this and have only encouragement at the federal level to go further. HN a few days ago (the 787 structural issue) was also talking about Boeing closing plants and sacrificing safety to avoid union labor.
My assumption was that they wanted to cash in on the renewed interest with Disney+.
I would like to know exactly which frequency/airspace he was using that allowed all mentioned parties to hear each other.
Vulkan support is being worked on, the current progress can be seen here [1].

[1] https://developer.blender.org/T68990
See? It’s almost deterministic. People really can’t accept that we don’t know how to do something.

Plop a nature video next to your forest rendering and it’ll become apparent just how unsolved trees are. And everything else, for that matter.

The precise claim is this: viewers should be able to identify a rendered video no better than random chance. If you conduct this experiment, you’ll see that real videos from actual video cameras wipe the floor.
Columbia happened on a Saturday.
I'm not as critical of these goals as some, but to not even mention another dimension of complexity beyond connections: electrophysiological firing pattern, is quite an oversimplification.
What other political party has a good solution to this? Those who supported SB 1120 were mostly on the left. A better diagnosis is the observation that the democrats can no longer be the "large" tent they claimed to be, the left is out growing the democratic party.
Looks like a bunch of kids have watched too much Westworld.
It's not a first run theater. They don't typically block that segment based on the first run segment.
There already exist 1/2 8K VR headsets though (full 16:9 4K per eye), and you can keep seeing a difference there up through around 16K per eye and higher refresh rates than they showed.
Well, it's not just 1.5x faster than the Titan, it really is 1.5x faster than the aftermarket 2080Tis too since they basically are the same chip anyways.

If you're happy paying 40% more for a 50% faster card, that's okay. I just don't think it's very good for the industry.
I would not make "Get the government out of the demand side" a rallying cry because UBI is the huge counter-example of something governments should be doing.

Better to say governments should do, not fund, on the institutional level (run the school, run the hospital, like you say), and fund, not do, in the individual level (UBI not SNAP).
Assuming we want something that works now and prefer something that works on POSIX systems over something that is not portable at all, would using GNU Guix (as a package manager) be able to improve the situation? As far as I understand, it is hermetic, deterministically repeatable, and redistributable. Just limited to POSIX.

https://guix.gnu.org/packages/P/page/12/
it's a new name and the addition of non-grocery items to their existing grocery delivery service. presumably they have some customers for this already. letting them order other store items seems like a fairly obvious move, even if the whole program doesn't look that attractive compared to prime.
I don't know of anyone who disputes the killing of Wilkie happened or claims that it was somehow exaggerated.

As a taxi driver he was also not a police officer or an agent of the state. He was not armed or causing violence to anyone.

He was just driving someone who didn't agree with the union to work.

So they killed him.
I'd been wondering if this was a friendly fork. Glad to see it has his blessing.
I could be wrong - but I believe Nvidia bins the chips for Founders Edition cards
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I looked with FF both with and without ublock, and I don't see any ads. I don't understand people who gripe about ads when the solutions are ubiquitous and friction-free these days.
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His leather jacket is a meme at this point. Be a shame to waste it.
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Yes I too used to belong to a scary union. I was forced pay dues and there was this bad employee that didn't get fired! Now at my non-union job we only have the best employees and managers because we are allowed to fire the bad ones.
The petitioners can also just wage wars of attrition. There's no cooling-off period, so they can just go to the ballot again and again until their junk finally passes, and they can even add one-way moats to their amendments such that they can pass with bare majorities but require supermajorities to amend.
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You'd generally hope in the back and forth that what you are left with is better laws on average, over time. But even stuff like the high-speed rail was just so poorly managed that you question if the state has the capacity to even do anything.
Ask HN: What technology to chose for a web app in 2020?
TL;DR: What front end technology should an inexperienced web developer team of two pick when starting a new project?

My startup is developing a web app that is very visualization-heavy. Since I have a background in machine learning and Python the prototype is based on plot.ly's dash. Changing the prototype has become more and more difficult and there are some aspects of dash that I'm not very happy with:

Poor separation of front end and back end code, Mix of Python and JS/HTML/CSS, No support for mobile, Difficult to extend (e.g. integrating maps was painful)

The bottom line is, it all feels like we have reached the limits of our current technology stack and we should start from scratch with more suitable technology.

So I went out to see how web apps are done "properly" in 2020. Separating front end and back end is a very obvious first step. The back end technology is also very easy to pick. But the technologies and trends regarding front end are just overwhelming for me. I've read/watched multiple guides on the topic (e.g. https://youtu.be/0pThnRneDjw) and they all present multiple areas (UI, CSS, transpiler, database, etc.) from which one library/framework/etc. must be chosen.

I'm looking for a as-small-as-possible subset of these technologies that is strong in the following areas:
Maintainability: This is the number one priority. The code must be easy to change, extend and debug. Extensibility: Plays well with new libraries/technologies. Easy to learn. Good solution for the long term

Some technologies that caught my eye are: TypeScript, vue.js, chart.js, GraphQL. But I have very little confidence in my choices. Can you help me navigate this space?
Testing in mice is considered lab testing though, so clearly something is getting lost in translation, no? All you really need to know to infer from context is "vivo" = "alive" and "vitro" = "glass".
In my mind they are all the same. I honestly paid so little attention, I didn't even do the research. Everyone just kept referring to the local, but I don't remember what number. This was 2010 time frame. I've slept (a lot) since then.

Edit: Turns out it was IATSE
Everyone that likes the New Deal should thank the union organizers and socialists that literally had to fight police in the streets to force the hand of the state. A large enough faction of the capitalists back then agreed to reforms because they feared things were going the way of revolution. In the 1930s, the 1917 revolution in Russia was a recent memory that scared the piss out of them.

Bezos would like to continue accumulating wealth from the labor of his workers without having to face real negotiations. A really great idea for anyone out of work that has any free time not applying for jobs right now would be to join labor discussion groups about the state of the economy and read some Marx. A great deal of those writings feels like hearing from Hari Seldon from Asimov's Foundation series given that we can look back 150 years and see that so many predictions and ways of thinking about the world were broadly true. Socialism or Barbarism as they say.
How can walmart compete without the ecosystem tie-in that amazon prime has? Amazon prime has movies, music, twitch, etc. What does walmart plus offer?

It's incredible that amazon's market cap is now 4X walmart's. Amazon is well on its way to becoming the 2nd 2 trillion dollar company after Apple. Bezos and his ex-wife's shares are now worth $260 billion. Bezos is the world's wealthiest person and his wife is the world's wealthiest woman. Of course it's mostly all on paper at the moment, but the run the big tech companies had in the past 5 years is breathtaking. Is it substantive or a gigantic bubble?

What's interesting is that it took AAPL and AMZN decades to become a trillion dollar company. It took AAPL a few months to add another trillion to their market cap. AMZN is on track to do the same.
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But strictly speaking, employers do not look where did you go to school - they look at which school has given you a degree.
I know a couple firefighters in the bay area and they definitely game this system.

They'll work a typical salaried position for ~30 years, and then in their last year (or last couple years) they'll stuff as much overtime as they possibly can in, sometimes more than triple their regular salary. Pension is based on wages over the last year or two, so their pension payments skyrocket upwards.

Managers know and are complicit in this, in solidarity with their coworkers. There's often peer pressure too; lower ranked staff are urged to not even request overtime so that it can all go to the near-retirees without a paper-trail of favoritism. It's not uncommon for >98% of overtime to go to the 2 or 3 people who are close to retirement.

I'm all for a living wage for people in critical or permanent roles, but this is not that, and it's not fair. This is the opposite, driving pay down for newer recruits (because they can't request overtime), driving retirement benefits up (far above what was earned during the career), and costing the public in the process.
A history of the medical mask and the rise of throwaway culture
You aren't going to see entirely functional applications "in the wild" because it's convenient to keep the top layer procedural. But, it's generally useful to use OO and functional design for components. Then you combine the components in a procedural manner. Here's a decent example of creating functional components and gluing them together imperatively:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

OO and Functional are just good design goals for making an easy to use API for your components. Even if those components are written in C, I think you'll find that many components are designed to be:

Object Oriented:

- has an interface

- hides implementation details

Functional:

- the same input always gives the same output. I.e. there's no hidden state changes which you need to keep track of

You can think of it like concrete vs cement. The OO and functional components are the rocks and rebar in concrete, and imperative code is the cement. The rocks make the concrete stronger, but it's easier to shape with cement in between the rocks and rebar.
This particular issue would be solved by extending the tax portability offered by proposition 60 and 90 to those under 55.

I'm not saying I like prop 13 or props 60 or 90, but the problem you're noting has already been _partially_ addressed.
> Yet they are robust - all the bugs in the commonly traficked code paths have already been sussed out

There are two ways this can be true: if the code paths users traffic are debugged, and if users only traffic code paths that are not buggy. In the end, all and only the code paths that are used are useful. Isn't that a truism?

Like I said, I feel this perspective (and thank you for responding!). But I'm kind of sick of working on codebases that are absolutely littered with dead code paths that are hopelessly interwoven with live code paths, to the point that when you know you're breaking something, you hope you're only breaking something that isn't used. To me, it's a really depressing, fatalistic worldview.

> A lot of these programs become immutable logs - if you want to change a feature, you add more code because you're afraid to touch anything that already exist.

Amen to that. Can we as an industry find ways to do this better in the first place, instead of resigning ourselves to "immutable log" as an inevitability?
>All previous generation Titan models have been cut down chips as well TU102, GV102, etc.

>With one exception:

This is simply wrong. The majority of Titans have been full chips: Titan, Titan Z and Titan Black as well as the Titan V and Titan X.

The other Titans were about as fast as manufacturer-overclocked 80Ti models.
>> that's clearly a national security threat and different from wanting data profiles on everyone.
> What's the threat model here? Certainly ousting LGBT people is scummy, but I'm not sure I understand how it jeopardizes the security of the nation.

Any kind of blackmail can be valuable, but one that is still illegal in many parts of the world is super valuable.

* Gay government employee travels on official business to one of the ~70 countries where homosexuality is illegal

* Chinese military operative threatens to turn them in to authorities if they don't cooperate
Of course they are. Most software developers wouldn't pass a PE exam. Professionalization of software engineering won't be done from the ground up. It will be imposed form the top down.