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> Far from welcoming experimentation, it has sought to undermine or stamp out home-rental services, food-delivery apps, ride-hailing firms, electric-scooter companies, facial recognition technology, delivery robots and more, even as the pioneers in each of those fields attempted to set up shop in the city.

This feels pretty hyperbolic and unreasonable to frame it this way. Startups have been trying to "disrupt" markets by doing things that are in gray areas, or sometimes are outright illegal, and they cause all kinds of problems and outsource the management and cleanup of the problems they cause to the communities and cities. Littering scooters on sidewalks everywhere and taking no responsibility for user safety isn't the kind of experimentation we need.

California labor is super expensive, and HPE's stated reason for moving is cost savings. If anything, I might suggest that the Bay Area's friendliness to tech companies is the very reason the salaries there are so high. People in San Francisco have been complaining and protesting for at least a decade about the tech migration there, and the complete pricing out of the blue collar workforce. I think this article might have it completely wrong.
What will these poor soul's fate be if/when they can't be forced to work?
The only crashes were stationary vehicles get hit are because the vehicle that hits them can't stop.
This is exactly my point. That Uber legislation, for example, OF COURSE it's going to eviscerate exploitative business models, as that is exactly what it was designed to do.

That privacy legislation means that I get a bit more control over my data than I had before.

I'm all for making life harder for businesspeople that fail or don't want to take into account the human consequences and second/third-order effects of their "innovative thinking" and market "disruption"
The “In & Out Burger” chain actually lists burgers without buns on the menu. They put it on an extra bit of lettuce.
Let's see how the HN crowd feels about one of their own getting canceled
Anonymous posted a tweet blaiming Erdogan
> higher priority places would be getting their previous orders filled before us

Hmm yeah that's a problem with the vaccine manufacturer. Ideally in such a scenario, the second doses get served first, after which the higher priority first doses get served.

> How do antibiotics help for covid?

Urgh my fault sorry, I meant antibodies not antibiotics. I tried to use them as example for something that has limited availability but allows to shorten disease durations.

> How do daily tests help avert a shutdown when you can spread the disease while testing negative?

Of course a shutdown is most effective and if done on a population scale it's bad for the pandemic. But daily tests do help to curb the spread.
Doesn't seem much like a hit piece. Coinbase is widely known to pay terrible comp packages by exploiting peoples "passion" for cryptocurrency.
several people in the area reported hearing several shots fired within minutes before the explosion. If it was a lone person, why was there shots fired?
The tech exodus is going to be maybe 200-300k high-earners. Big impact, but we're not talking 10 million people.

They aren't a monotonic blue voting block. And they're not all moving to rural Wyoming.
While recording video? I've never seen over 20 mins.
I don't see it as a religious war between believers and non-believers, so much as a sectarian war between different sects of believers. The academics who wrote this open letter are still quite happy to arrogate to themselves the power to decide what constitutes "scientific research" that should be freely debated, and what constitutes "unacceptable opinions" which can be freely suppressed. In other words, all of the believers agree that some speech should be suppressed; the various sects just disagree on exactly where the line should be drawn.

The non-believers are just unlucky enough to be within the blast radius.
Most measures against covid-19 like social distance also reduce the spread of other virus like the ones that cause common cold and flu.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2306/
It's quick to sample 10-20 accepted NeurIPS papers randomly and realize that almost all of those have useless platitudes as impact statements.

I am not so sure the letter attempts to cancel Anandkumar. Although her blacklist clearly went too far, it's quite difficult to find the context that led to the letter (as several comments show in the thread).

The sad truth is that expressing publicly any opinion on diversity/politics/AI ethics is currently a minefield for anyone's career and online safety. It shouldn't be the case and that's how I understand the letter.
If they are using an existing & proven diagnostic tool to quantify aggression then you can't criticize them for quantifying a qualitative variable (which is perfectly acceptable when done right) unless you are appropriately addressing flaws within that diagnostic tool.

You're correct, use of such a tool doesn't automatically validate their methodology, but it does shift a lot of the focus of any criticism in the direction of that tool and its implementation, which is not a discussion I've seen in the comment thread. Criticizing or affirming the results of the study are pre-mature without that.
Sure, but I'm an RC aircraft builder so my expectations are calibrated for that. Motors that small have a hard time lifting 180g at 1S.
Using FiberScheduler allows you to use async IO without the additional complexity of callbacks.
>> It won't because for non-techies it's just a random video without any significance.

> What a bizarre thing to say. Surely "non-techies" are able to extract some value from the video.

Movies and TV have stolen most of that value and wonder by showing fake robots moving like this for years. My thought watching the video was "this looks like CGI", not because I think it is CGI (or the lighting or background or anything), but because the only robots I have seen move that fluidly have been fake computer animated ones. Because I believe it's not CGI, I was amazed, but that takes a little domain knowledge.

I suspect a lot of people already think robots moving this well are fairly normal, and not impressive.
Too many homeless people? Give them homes.

Has this actually been attempted?
Many people don't ever have the opportunity or training to properly plan for retirement.
Prototype microprocessor with substantial energy savings potential
HPE and Oracle didn't leave the state, they moved their headquarters. The Oracle campus in Redwood City and the HPE campus in San Jose will remain, and they continue to hire locally. Also of note, both companies are incorporated in Delaware and that will continue to be the case.
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Apple cannot wean themselves off of China until it’s competitive to do so. That requires a lot of long term planning and lobbying today.

What efforts has Apple made in order to make manufacturing in nations like China less appealing?

Have they collaborated with other large companies and even governments, to make doing business in authoritarian nations unappealing?

It’s the inaction and contentment with the status quo that distresses me.
As there have been three massive threads:

4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25534588

8 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25494789

3 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24593093

... I think we need to consider this one a dupe.

There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25560894 on the front page right now, but that's a more specialized writeup.
No camera, and no camera mount included

So once you do, you blow past the 250g limit, and it's in a different class.
But what about fair use? That's the argument Corellium used.
I guess it depends if you want to interact with your readers.
You're not comparing apples to apples. E-sports leagues will penalize you if you audaciously disrespect your opponents. Also, the majority of the most popular e-sports don't include extreme game play distractions like kill cams. In League of Legends, CS:GO, Overwatch, and Dota, a kill does not disrupt the killer's animations (it would be infuriating if it did).

Comparing the tea-bagging that occurs in online Halo play with the rules in place in the NFL is silly. Better to compare online Halo or Call of Duty with beer league hockey.
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> Often, AWS's prices are _really_ high for new services. I think this is useful for two reasons: it ensures your early adopters are those who get the most value, and it gives you a big buffer when discovering how much it actually costs to operate.

I've thought about this concept a few times lately.

Like, I get the impression that a savvy business, when starting a new product with very little competition, should start with prices as bad and guarantees as low as they can get away with, because they can always improve their offer later, whereas going the other way runs into loss aversion and consumer alienation.

Eg it's better to start at 40$/month and lower to 30$/month after a year than to start at 20$/month and get a lot of angry users when you realize you need 30 to break even.

I wonder if there's a name for that concept.
I highly recommend The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert if you like this topic. A great read that tells you about the extinction-level event that we are currently part of and, is most likely, caused by us (i.e., humans).
Remote = far to drive for essentially everyone (farther than Mammoth/Tahoe, even coming from Reno). Hitchhiking is not the best option to rely on. Once you’re in, you’re also the farther from help than anywhere else in the Sierra. Duck Pass and much of the Tahoe area has cell service.

Rugged = safety traversing passes can require an ice axe and/or crampons (plus the skills to use them properly), depending on the conditions. That region is at high elevation which becomes problematic for people. Lots of inexperienced backpackers get airlifted out of there because of acute altitude sickness. There is a lot of weather exposure (harder to get below treeline if a storm rolls in). Bigger stream crossings, which tend to be the most serious danger to hikers.

I don’t disagree that Bishop rules and the area is (extremely) beautiful, but it’s absolutely not the best recommendation for people who are trying to backpack for the first time. Doable? Yes. Advisable? Not really.
It's in link number [3] that you posted in the section called "C — Types of societal impact"
> In 2008, Facebook was hailed as tool for democracy

not everyone. some saw the "fake news" and "alternative facts" spreading and knew what was coming
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The problem is the direct proposition system. It makes good governance impossible. Most states require the legislature to approve all direct propositions, but California does not.

Prop 13 was voted in by people who did not understand the long term ramifications of what they were doing. All they heard was "lower taxes!". The partial repeal of Prop 13 on the ballot failed (and the expansion of it passed!) just this November, again by people who don't understand the ramifications of what they are doing and just hear "lower taxes!".

Prop 13 is single handedly destroying this state. 49 other states manage to get by without an equivalent and don't have old people getting priced out of their homes from tax increases. Yet somehow that is the red herring people use to keep Prop 13 around.

Because of Prop 13, people won't sell their house, middle class people are subsidizing rich people, and in some cases, the profit being made on rentals is purely because of the low tax. If not for Prop 13, the rental would be breakeven and it would make more sense to sell.

Prop 13 also encourages people to vote against expansion in housing supply, because they want their home price to go up, up, up! Especially since their property tax will be nearly flat.

Local areas are starved for money because of long term owners. Here in the Silicon Valley I have found homes valued at over $4M that pay less than $1000 a year in property tax (whereas someone just buying that home would pay about $30,000).

Pretty much every problem in this state can be traced to Prop 13. Everything else is just a poor workaround.
(A Spot, for those—like me—who didn't know, is the yellow 4-legged robot.)
There's also evidence of sports fans and music fans and film fans doing all those things, and people involved in all those committing suicide.

Does that make those other things toxic? On a purely comparative level, gaming is probably less 'toxic' if you go just by the worst things done by its fans.
So what's missing is a "don't notify" flag when posting to a channel ?
I do believe there is an effect from zoning and resistance to rezoning. Though people who think abolishing zoning is the answer should be forced to live for a time in any number of cities that have done this.

Little secret, it doesn't produce places most people want to live. Endless, monotonous grid, no community center, school next to a paper mill, etc
I was replying to something else I believe and got mixed up. Edited reply...
We had different lunches in the 70s. Cooking on site, no fast food boxes brought in.

I’m sure they were still too much carbs, but they had protein and real vegetables, though usually canned.
COVID has already killed around half as many Americans in less than a year as HIV/AIDS did in nearly 40, and has killed nearly three times as many Americans as the "Asian flu" pandemic (which was in 1957/58, not "the 60s", by the way).

And while I get that most countries haven't completely shat the bed with their COVID responses like we have here in the US, those countries doing better (like New Zealand and Taiwan) have been able to react accordingly and return approximately to normal.
Some of your requirements are covered here:
https://restya.com/board

PS>I think you should narrow down your wish little bit or increase budget :-)
Why is Tokyo able to support density levels several times higher then SF, without worrying about pricing anyone out?
interestingly, most of the tweets linked in your link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419871) are either unavailable or from an account that "does not exist anymore".
How can Google automatically add its own DNS resolver? Is that just what Chrome or Android does or is it some other way?
Why is this not available to drivers of other brands as a simple app if the local authorities, and thus all taxpayers, are funding this?
I want to throw DHCP in because in practice, you need it to connect to random IPv4 networks.

Besides, the counterpoint is even tougher. Should we expect beginners to configure static addresses when actually configuring their networks? Getting bogged down in the details of broadcast addresses, subnet masks and gateway addresses can be a bit unsettling for a total beginner. It's second nature to seasoned hackers, so we discount how foreign it was when we first learned it.
> As for citations: the US has just passed the second, largest stimulus package in its history beating or the first from a couple of months back. Are we’re ignoring this gorilla so much that people need citations?

I'm going to push back on the tenuous link between the US being protectionist and the stimulus package. It's not like protectionist policies directly led to the economic problems the US - and a lot of the world - are experiencing thus requiring the stimulus package.

Your argument is that if the trade war didn't happen China would have been far more likely to help us. That's not an unreasonable argument but even if they did do that how would that have prevented the economic damages caused by all of the lockdowns the US - and China - went through?

A reasonable argument could also be made that even if the trade war didn't happen China would not have done what you described anyway. China and the US have always had a tumultuous relationship. Plus let's not forget the panicked free-for-all when it came to PPE during the early days of the pandemic which many, many countries participated in.

So I would say the US's bungled response to the early days of the pandemic are what lead to the stimulus package, not any sort of protectionist policies. If the US were on better terms with China perhaps it would have been slightly less severe due to Chinese supplied masks during the shortage and all that; but given how difficult its been to make people wear masks in general I'm not so sure.
I mean, duh?

Eating makes you feel good. It releases all kinds of feel-good chemicals in your body, and it just feels good to be, if not full, satiated. It's an activity chock-full of positive reinforcements.

Exercise, in contrast, is filled with various forms of pain (short and long term) and lots of tedium. If you're lucky, you get an endorphin rush to help offset these, but not everybody (and not every exercise regimen) provides these. It's an activity with lots of built-in negative reinforcements.

And dieting? Dieting is constantly saying "No" to the positive feelings associated with eating. A piece of Christmas fudge? No. A side of fries with your hamburger? No. A full rack of sauced BBQ ribs? No. Creamy dressing for your salad? No. Seconds? A whole lot of No.

It takes a lot of willpower and a long term goal to maintain a certain body shape to consistently - over the course of your entire lifetime - exercise more and eat less. And any mistake, any injury or illness which pushes you into obesity, and you're having to go even further into the "this doesn't make me feel good" category.

Throw in a continuing shift towards jobs which don’t burn thousands of calories every day (e.g. forced exercise, overhead for increased caloric intake), and the availability of cheap meals with lots of calories, and boom. Obesity.
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And Facebook, Google, Nvidia and Apple all spent $1 Billion + to build new headquarters in the last 5 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/23/inside-...

https://officesnapshots.com/2018/10/15/nvidia-headquarters-s...
> Since Google found advertising to be a huge hose where money pours out like crazy, they're trying to find another such hose.

Other than advertising, which scales like crazy and has negligible unit costs, there isn't much that would meaningfully move the needle at Google scale. Cloud computing would work there, but it's definitely a lower margin business than selling ads online, since there are actual costs for hardware and ongoing software maintenance.

> I don't think this is all political, but rather they're aimlessly throwing projects at the wall to see which stick.

Which is kind of funny, because a decade or so ago, Larry Page said that they'd put "more wood behind fewer arrows." [0] That article even mentions Google+:

> Can Google still push the creative envelope without a testing facility? That’s yet to be proven. Although last month’s successful launch of Google+ could be taken as an early indication that Google’s knack for inventiveness will live on outside of the lab.

In retrospect, that didn't age too well.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/more-wood-behind-fewer-arrows-google-...
Once again you kept assuming that I support the zero tolerance policy, to then even accusing me of trolling.

> If the zero tolerance policy isn't the school policy you were speaking about, then what is?

There is extensive literature on the topic in pedagogy and it often applies to adults surprisingly well.

- hire psychologists instead of cops

- fire any teacher that sees bullying and ignores it on purpose

- require teachers to talk about the problem. Silence and "boys will be boys" bullshit is a huge enabler.

- teach teachers the basics of psychology to spot patterns in students at risk

- encourage students to talk to psychologists

- require teachers to walk around the school and don't leave areas where teachers never go

- teach students de-escalation. Yes it's as skill and it can be learned like other skills
If you omit Raspberry, sure. If you're going to truncate the whole thing to rpizero, the rpi being first, is quite important.

From 36,000ft, there's perhaps a similarity if you squint a bit, but as soon as you see the product, you know it's not a Raspberry Pi Zero. And that matters even if you don't know what a Raspberry Pi Zero looks like, because you have no frame of reference to confuse this with (everybody who's heard of a Raspberry Pi Zero, knows what it looks like).
U.S. confirms first case of the new Covid strain discovered in UK
If advertisers want to be on that channel, they can still advertise on that channel. Stop spreading misinformation.
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How do you read your ebooks?

Anyone have any success using the reMarkable 2 for it?
I hate to say that your story made the ethics paragraph sound like a worthwhile exercise.

If they didn't have an amazing canned answer it's because they weren't thinking about it enough to have something interesting to say.

Maybe not needed for every venue every year forever, but I like this better than requiring it just from ethics sensitive papers. Presumably the people writing about swarms of killer drones have some justification or are fine with being supervillains, the field is trying to figure out where the other blindspots are and that requires broader search efforts.

Edit: I just want to add this is the first I'm hearing about this letter and I'm not entirely sure what it's even in response to. Since my work is health adjacent, I haven't had time this year to know much about conferences I wasn't involved in.
That dog thing is way creepy.
In the article there is an image that says "flight times in excess of 40 minutes".
The inequality may not be as widespread as it appears to be. On HN earlier this year someone posted a link [1] which allows one to peruse property taxes anywhere in the state.

For this reply I picked a location in Daly City [2] to have a look. The black represent the highest property taxes and the green the lowest - there are few green bubbles. Take a look around, I'm sure there are areas like Huntington Beach [3] with absurdly low taxes, but I've not seen the actual analysis that favors the claims made either way.

Proposition 19 effectively eliminates the Parent to Child reassessment exemption, but it wasn't done for altruistic purposes. It was done to put more houses on the market for the real estate profession who funded the campaign to pass the proposition. Yes, this will increase property taxes and limit generational wealth transfer in the form of low property taxes, but it won't fix all the problems listed.

If you'd like to examine some potential problem areas in California I'd encourage you to google things like "Prevailing Wage Law" and similar.

1. https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax

2. https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#37.69076107721...

3. https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#33.65955360268...
The military has been the main funder, but as of late they've been purchased by non-military groups and have suggested their products will have use in warehousing and package delivery. I am being optimistic to hope they wouldn't see military use, but I think it'd worth discussing in any case.

> What happens in 20+ years when surplus ones are handed out like MRAPs to careless police departments?

Good question indeed.
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Come on, man. Are you 15? Hacking in the spirit of curiosity & experimentation shouldn't be illegal. Hacking to destroy computers, bankrupt companies, and dox journalists should certainly be.