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>Second, due to labor and materials costs, the price of housing in many areas is far below the cost to build new housing so housing prices will necessarily go up even with maximum build rates.

Specifically, the cost of land is what causes the cost to build to be so high. Owning unproductive land is cheap, and incentivizes simply holding onto it until it appreciates sufficiently.
Nobody really brings up that the bay area is one of few places in the US where you can live without a car. Really, even compared to other "walkable" cities beyond a select few, similarly expensive places.

Nobody really brings up that the bay area has better LGBT and other minority protections than anywhere in the US, either. Every time someone mentions cheap midwest cities I have to pull up https://crossingenres.com/out-in-the-united-states-where-can... and see if anything's changed since I last checked.

Nobody really brings up the general art and culture scene in SF and Oakland. Or access to extremely high quality produce and food.

Generally nobody brings up the possibility that some people _want to be here_ outside of their jobs. It's weird.

I guess most of those that want to be here don't really comment on articles like this.
As you have been repeatedly informed, that data is very easy to deanonymize. The last time you were told this, you then made the wacky claim that the data isn't sent to Apple at all. After being shown that it was, you just went on your way only to repeat the original lie again.

I have not seen sneak be repeatedly pointed out that his statement is incorrect. That is a lie. He is completely correct, which is why he has never been corrected.
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There have been endless articles about Bay Area "exodus", yet I see suburban housing demand going through the roof. Many companies haven't committed to full WFH (Google, Uber, Airbnb, Doordash, Tesla comes to mind). I will wait for a while before writing Bay Area's obituary.
Both of those were true for DOOM, but Id did it anyway. It did take 4 years for the initial source release and an additional 2 more for GPL though. It is worth noting that DOOM is still selling today.

Not that I'm saying any developer should feel compelled to do it.
I agree 100%, and that's the answer to OP statement - it's not enough to just wish that the market is different. Someone needs to put their money where their mouth is.

Currently, the only company willing to bet enormous amount of money and frankly the entire Mac platform to change status quo is Apple. Maybe (and I really hope so) Apple will push other ARM processors on the desktop as a side-effects - while Qualcomm is more or less "just" the packer of ARM designed cores, and if I understand the market it's entirely out of their reach to design M1-class CPU, maybe Apple will push ARM to design more efficient desktop cores. Maybe Amazon or Google will do that with their custom ARM silicon now when Apple demonstrated that processors doesn't need to be hot to be powerful. For so long Intel sold us basically the same thing, and we cheered when AMD was just a couple percent faster. However this ends, I'm glad that someone at least rocks the boat.
How is gaming a lottery a subject for a founders handbook? That seems like over emphasis on the role of chance in starting companies and arguably the opposite of achieving market fit.
Encryption is the only thing that forces law enforcement to use warrants, without it it's just a wild wild west of privacy abuse. I do hope we see more services crop up, and new methods for people to encrypt email outside of specific services, maybe better plugins for Thunderbird or something, hell I'd easily pay for such a plugin if someone else can communicate back and forth with me through it and it is encrypted. Maybe even some sort of forward secrecy involved in the system.
> I don't see why I, as a developing nation, shouldn't overfish the seas.

Developed nations should pay them not to.
This is not what I am saying. I am saying we don't have 30 years. Waiting 30 years is like saying that lifeboats will be delivered next week, while the Titanic is already sinking.

I do appreciate every step in the right direction. I really do. But this is not even an attempt to make a step. The climate minister will be in retirement in 2050 and take no political responsibility.
As a guy who plays games that have a lot of cheaters, it is incredibly frustrating. Riot's rootkit shit is a small price to play enjoyably with friends. I care more about the experience than I do about the risk of Riot fucking up my Windows install.

Keep doing what you're doing. Just, if you'd leave the anti-cheat off friend-to-friend-PvP games, that would be cool. I don't care if my younger brother 'cheats' against me. He's not going to and if he is 'cheating' it's probably some mod or something.
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yes, it's a whole chapter written ironically. I too find this to be misleading.
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Genuinely wondering -

- How a 600 person company will determine who among the 1200 at ATG gets acquihired?

- How will the Uber employee unvested stocks get paid out (or not) in an almost no cash deal?
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Most of the forest in the US has been cut at least once.

We also reduced the Bison population from tens of millions down to ~150,000.

So no different really.
So Uber is throwing in $6.2B in ATG equity plus $400M in cash and getting $2.6B in Aurora equity? Sounds like a massively down round.
I think the last unspoken one and perhaps most important one in this list is access to family in the APAC region. The other proposals (i.e. Colorado, Arizona, etc.) have all the other stuff but not the access to Asia.

Looking at air travel - Denver to India or Austin to China - everything is a 1 day+ and over $2000+. SF/LA to these places is about 15 hours and about $1500.

If the business (i.e. Apple/Google making phones) needs to fly execs, production folks as well as if the tech engineers need in person meetings or have family, that's going to be a made much more challenging.
Client IP is city-level geolocation. It's sent with every communication to Apple, necessarily, because Apple has not embedded Tor into their OS.

AppleID (which you have stipulated) + timestamp (obvious) + client IP (necessary for a TCP/UDP connection) on inbound App Store requests is travel history, because client IP = city. It's quite simple.

Each time you open the App Store not on a VPN, Apple knows which city that Apple ID holder is in.

Additionally, the App Store sends the device serial number to Apple (per Apple's disclosures), so the device serial number is associated with your Apple ID.

The device maintains a persistent, serial-number-linked connection to Apple at all times (APNS) for receiving push notifications. This device-serial linked connection involves Apple seeing the client IP (and thus city) as well. Because Apple has linked the device serial with your Apple ID via the App Store, the persistent, 24/7 APNS connection allows Apple to track which client IP (and thus city) is in use by which AppleID, in real-time, whenever the device is on and connected.

I would appreciate it if you stop systematically responding negatively to so many of my comments. It feels like a pattern of harassment based on my identity to me, rather than you sincerely engaging with what I have to say.
200 acre tech village clusters in the mid west that are modern and sustainable islands. They can bring in capital and still not step on the toes of rural America if they don’t want to change the fabric of their society.

It makes me uncomfortable to think tech population from Ca descending onto unsuspecting laid back mid western towns. Integration should be gentle and respectful and with consent.
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I would say something but I'll pass. Working on breaking the lottery at the moment. Could give away trade secrets to make everyone rich.
To be fair, his writing also appears to consist primarily of sophomoric moralizing...
The key here is that you were venting to 'managers you could trust about feeling burnt out'. If you were talking to a manager who didn't see this as just 'venting', nothing stops them from accepting your resignation.
I have a 2500 sq ft house in a 10 rated school district, 16 miles from SF, that I purchased this year for 1.4mn. Here's another similar example: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Lafayette/3399-Angelo-St-94549/hom...
Thanks for the feedback. It's simple - I realised that having a better system to read and learn is needed, and I did research and created a system for myself. During this process, I decided to share as my friends and colleagues are interested in this topics. It got picked up by HN.

So no advice were given and you don't have to take it. But I'm also always happy to learn from others.
Canada has reserved more vaccine doses per person than anywhere
For the price point is key, because many Windows and ChromeOS machines are sold at lower prices than Apple's cheapest machine.
I'm currently strongly conflicted on whether I should bother building a PC. I had been wanting to do one for years, but now that I have the space and the money I find I don't actually have time to justify the expense for how little I play.

I'm hoping a cloud gaming service takes off that works more like a dedicated remote desktop rather than an a la carte storefront the way they all seem to be.
You are probably missing the context. To a non-programmer, C and Python look the same.

Take Citizen Kane. I'd call it a 7/10 film and kinda boring, but that's because I'm seeing it in a "post-Kane" world. At the time, however, it was so revolutionary that people still call it the best film ever made. Nowadays it's quite standard because everyone has been building on it ever since

While I'm not going to disagree with you regarding some art, there is a point to be made that what to us, un-cultured people, may seem like random scribbles could actually be something revolutionary. We simply don't notice it because we are missing the context.

I do believe, however, that you are right and that there's an element of luck too. But that's not exclusive to art - how many technologies are we using right now not because they are the best but because they got a lucky break at the right time? And then again, while many good painters may never get their big break, I doubt there are that many bad painters who get famous.
I also worked in the crypto space, as an architect/applied cryptographer with ConsenSys, here's what's not to like with Zcash:

* the fact that 20% of the block reward is given to the founders as a "fee". i.e. 6 people will end up with 20% of a "global currency".

* the fact that it's a "privacy focused" crypto-currency and the CEO said "we can make it private, but not for criminals" i.e. backdoored. (https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856?s=20)

* the fact it's a crypto-currency with a CEO.

* the fact that the ZK-SNARKs they use (however mathematically beautiful), requires a trusted setup, i.e. prover key(non I/O), verify key(target polynomial, secret point, I/O), from random elements. Trusted setup generates a point where the polynomial is evaluated on, and should it not be disposed of properly the consequences are devastating. (You shouldn't need to trust people to use crypto).

* the fact the SNARKS are computationally expensive and no-one uses them. Thus opt in privacy and reduced anonymity set.

People just associate “zk-snark” with "big-ass anonymity sets for free" when really it’s “complex circuit enforcement enabled by verifier-efficient trusted proving system"

I totally agree BTC + Privacy is the holy-grail of crypto, and Monero is the project that's the furthest towards that goal with an actually competent team.

Take it from someone that does this for a living, use Monero instead.
And still cooking on gas stove is so much more satisfying than electric. It can go from 0 power to full thermal power sand back to zero instantly. It's compatible with all kinds of cookware. Cast iron? Check. Wok? Check. Aluminium moka pot? Check. And even the sound of gas stove provides such an important cue. I suppose we should take ventilation more seriously, but gas is just better for cooking.
Based on what exactly do you imply that Jeff Dean is a perpetrator of racism? Because he is a white dude? Isn't that ironic?
It seems like a lot of refineries are burning natural gas 24/7 just to get rid of it (unwanted by product)... Maybe they should stop that first...
I only play two games at the moment and neither of them are viable on Linux. Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War is a non-starter even with Proton. Assetto Corsa Competizione will work, but not with my Thrustmaster wheel.

Both of these are deal breakers on their own, but the real deal breaker is the uncertainty that comes with running Linux as a gamer. For example Cyberpunk 2077 comes out this week. Will it work? I have no idea. With my Windows machine I don't even need to check - of course it will.
Thank you for the recommendation! Will add that to the list
Probably the most interesting piece is "Box G: “Low-For-Long” Interest Rates and Implications for Financial Stability"
...
" A longerterm risk is how the market participants’ exposures to greater levels of duration risk affect financial stability when rates eventually increase. The 2013 Taper Tantrum is an example of this potential dynamic, although the wider financial stability implications of that episode were limited. The potential risk here is that unexpected increases in rates negatively affect the balance sheets of financial institutions in such a way that leads to financial instability. Banks without adequate capital buffers could face solvency issues, while pension funds and insurance companies could
experience liquidity problems related to losses on
derivatives positions or increases in early liquidations.
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environment, the risk of a sharp correction becomes
more likely, especially in conjunction with high levels of
leverage or excessive reliance on short-term wholesale
funding. Even small changes to expectations of far-in-the-future cash flow may have a disproportionate effect on current valuations when interest rates are low. As a result, such rate changes can lead to sharp adjustments in valuations. The potential negative effects that an unexpected increase in rates would have across
a variety of market participants make this longer-term
risk worth monitoring. Adequate guidance on the timing
and pace of any such policy-related increase will likely
reduce this risk."

The 2013 Taper Tantrum refers to the 2013 collective reactionary panic that triggered a spike in U.S. Treasury yields, after investors learned that the Federal Reserve was slowly putting the breaks on its quantitative easing (QE) program. See https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-2013-timeline/key...
So they have Vulkan support because of stadia but won't release it publicly? That's kinda stupid
When someone says "I quit," (which you equated it to) I stop paying their paycheck.

What do you do?
Every major metro in the US has these things. There's nothing unique about SF/SV in that regard.
Economically, I agree that this is how the resources should flow. Practically, I suspect there is an enforcement problem.
"I notice, though, that your examples are not from programming at all. Your examples are about users of devices. "

Just to level set - as a program manager when I engage with programmers it's not because I want to buy programmers.

I want the fruits of their labors.

Let me put it another way - programmers love to bemoan the way users abuse Excel. Users abuse Excel because it meets their needs best, given all other factors in their environments.

If things like no code environments progress where they can provide at a minimum the level of functionality Excel can for many tasks then it will take off. No, it won't be "all of programming" but enough to be a paradigm shif?

You betcha.
>The abuse that still happens in these types of institutions is obscene.

I would like to see some good studies on this. I do wonder if the scale of the problem was really as large as you make it out to be. I suspect not.

It also raises the question why not simply implement better policy and better oversight, instead of wholesale closure, which as you argued, is much worse.
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Yes, but this wouldn't work either. I can add the node_modules/my-library path to be purged, but that means that I still will get included in my application EVERY class used in the component library, despite I might be using just every component or not.

This is a major shortcoming for using tailwind in a company/corporate context in my opinion.

I still like it for my own side projects though.
Is this on 19.x swarm mode? I thought it got a lot more reliable with that release.
1) Every defense contractor mentions interest in controlling costs; they bid against each other with these specific values in mind.

The problem is over-run and underestimation, and the govts' lack of flexibility with regards to contract termination in most instances.

2) Defense spending has been historically hovering between 15-25 percent in the United States.

'Taxpayer savings' does not, nor has it ever, indicated more money in the hands of the taxpayer -- it indicates how many new projects will be budgeted.

In other words : The tax payer saves nothing, but the military is given extra toys within the same budget.

Now, whether or not you are for or against the further arming of our troops and allied fighters -- that's a personal question.. but let's not pretend this equates to saved cash for the citizenry.
>It already offers the lowest transcontinental latencies which for high frequency trading alone would be a bonanza.

Inter-satellite optical links aren't ready yet (and they're only barely getting to MVP on their initial generation sat shell). When those come online yes, Starlink should have a latency advantage over most any distance sufficiently long enough to make up their fixed RTT mileage cost with their 40% speed advantage vs standard optical fiber [1]. But for the current and near future deployment Starlink satellites act purely as "bent pipes" connecting terminals to a groundstation, both with LOS to the sat.

HFT gets cited a lot but probably one of their biggest bonanzas once intersat links are up will be marine and aviation internet. If you think rural pricing is bad...

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1: Possibly with a very few rarified exceptions that use terrestrial microwave links or if someone went to the trouble of using photonic bandgap fiber.
Cost is one problem. Availability is another: fresh produce takes up a lot of space, and the kinds of supermarkets that carry them don't want to move into poor neighborhoods.

Another is time: minimum wage for a 40 hour work week earns you less than $15,000 a year (in the US). So many working poor are working more than 40 hour weeks, and can't take the time to cook, even if they can afford and obtain ingredients. Fast food is cheap, available, and fast.
If individuals are fearing the repercussions from doing their jobs on a safety critical system like that, then the process has already failed.

Your process needs to be so bulletproof that everyone involved feels absolutely sure that a defect will be caught. If there's any doubt in their minds then that part of the chain needs to be addressed and corrected.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't take it seriously or should get sloppy, but if you're worried that making a commit could end in disaster then you're moving too fast.
Haha, okay, there we go then.

Perhaps the best way for us to preserve land for trees in America is to buy Weyerhaeuser stock.
I’ve been installing pro audio for more than 30 years and while there’s a lot of BS, specially in the “audiophile” market, there’s more to consider in a cable than just passing a signal, i’m tired of seeing braided instrument cables behind audio racks or in outdoor installations just because “they’re good quality” usually Belden + Switchcraft or Canare is all you need.
I think time of day, novelty, luck, and whether any mods notice the post and decide to give it a second wind.

By novelty I mean something that is easily recognized as new and important. It doesn’t help that something is new if no one catches the point of reading about it. Could be a bad title or a bad article. Or bad luck.

In terms of good luck I mean a couple of specific things especially:

- If a few people see it that are excited about it, either from hearing about it the first time or from knowing it in the past, and these people write positive comments about it, then others who come across the post may be encouraged to check it out and to upvote it too.

- “Micro zeitgeist”. If it’s about a topic that recently hit the front page and it adds something new about that, it could luck out. Why luck in this case? Because you probably don’t know ahead of submitting that people will care to read even more about some topic even if it was popular the day before. Perhaps instead people are tired of the topic.

- The other things submitted the same day did not gain enough traction to push this thing away.

- Evergreen topics that have not gotten traction in a while but that people care about.

- Topics that people in university and college are currently learning about so it catches their attention. I dunno how big the amount of people currently in university is versus people that are in jobs. But I remember that I learned about HN from some other students in a student union I was in back then. And I don’t know how students HN reading habits are compared to people in jobs either. I remember reading HN a lot when at the university. But I still read HN a lot. These days I read HN in the morning, the evening and at night though, not when I am working. But even if you have a job you might read HN in the lunch break, or perhaps you have some downtime where you are waiting for something at work and you read HN for a while.

There are other possible factors too that I have thought about in the past but these are the ones I can think of right now.

Please note that all of what I am saying here is only my thoughts based on my own habits and from what I’ve heard other people say and what I’ve seen.
I guess the point is that there are a lot of smash and grabs in SF.

I'll add this to echo that.

I have lived in a number of big cities in several countries and have never been the victim of a smash and grab until (or since) living in SF I where I averaged 5 a year. I had a jeep and I literally stopped putting the doors on it because even if I left my car unlocked, people would rather smash a window than even check if it was unlocked.

SF has a lot of crazies, so I don't even know that theft was the motivation. I have seen people vandalize a car because it was the wrong brand or because it had a bumper sticker they apparently did not like.