skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One difference, as highlighted by the YIMBY Action lawsuit against the California Department of Housing and Community Development, is that both Beverly Hills and San Bernardino are included in the Southern California Association of Governments, and thus they are considered together while planning for housing needs.

Whereas Stockton is excluded from the Association of Bay Area Governments. The housing shortage in the Bay Area is not accurately assessed, and not accurately planned for.

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/yimbys-sue-for-even-more-housi...
Ask HN: Should I leave my job at a FAANG to pursue a PhD?
Hello HN,
Tldr. Should I leave my comfortable first job at a FAANG for a PhD if I'm passionate for teaching and doing research? What was your experience?

Last May I started working in a FAANG in western Europe as my first job out of university. Considering the fact that I'm from southeast Europe, the salary and working conditions are amazing, especially for a first job. There's also a lot of promises for career development. At 24, I have the financial freedom to do whatever I want, disregarding covid 19.

I have this itch however which is telling me that this is not what I want after all. Just before getting this job, I was doing my diploma thesis on a framework for creating thread-safe trees. I absolutely adored the process of research and creating something new for the sake of showing that it can be done. Throughout the process, I had to also make presentations of my ideas and concepts to people of different backgrounds, coming very close to teaching and I also felt extremely content while doing it. In general, it felt like an academic career is my calling.

Unfortunately, having heard a lot about the working conditions in PhDs and how hard they can be if there's a bad relationship with a supervisor, I decided to take the opportunity of getting a good job instead of a PhD in parallel systems.

I feel like I'm in a 'the grass is always greener on the other side' situation and I would like some opinions from people who actually did a PhD to get a feel of what it's like. Did you have the opportunity to create something of your own? Was it easy to actually get a teaching position afterwards? Was the investment in years worth it after all?
Well, I think you have 2 factors colliding together.

1) As people moved here and got good jobs, made a life for themselves, they (you and I) inevitably become more sympathetic to and desiring of middle class values. Stability, some measure of comfort, concern about taxation, their local neighborhood. It's understandable, it's natural.

Yet this is in conflict (especially when growth needs to happen) with:

2) The people who have not yet moved here (or become voters, or homeowners in particular), don't get to have a say in the policies that govern a place, yet at some point are the ones who have to live within policies that others decide.

So, a lot of the policies around here favor those who "got theirs" already, and there's very little incentive to fix this. Because the people who it benefits aren't here yet!

I think the question is, what do you do about this conflict, and what do you want a region's population/demographic renewal policy to be? How do you turn over property, wealth, a city/region to the next generation in a way that's sustainable, especially if you want it to grow?

Because right now, it's a "here's what I want for me right now" policy landscape. And that favors old people who own houses in the Bay Area to the detriment of young/poor/up and coming people who want to find a place in the area. The only thing to do is wait for the few % of people to die or move out from frustration, and face high housing prices that preserve everyone else's interests.

It gets masked in terms like "neighborhood preservation" or "local control" (or even using some minorities as a headline grabber, when in the end it actually favors mostly the rich property owners).

It's a big problem.
Many car parts are outsourced. Headlights, seats, airbags etc. I don't see how the batteries could be different. It's not like Tesla itself makes cells that are assembled into batteries in their factories, is it? Even if it does (I honestly don't know, last time I had this discussion about a year ago it had cells made by Panasonic though Panasonic line was located in their factory), Sony, Samsung, LG and aforementioned Panasonic still make these cells and sell to anybody who is willing to buy.
> Given the regulation itself this is not a bipartisan effort (this is different from support bipartisan)

Would you like to finish the sentence? It is incomplete.
Is it me, or are the voxels way bigger than in 90s novalogic games? It's hard to say for sure because it's rendered at a much higher resolution, but it sure looks that way. I know the depth-of-field was crappy in those, but this just seems like not even as good as 25 year old technology.
> I've seen it said a few times that there's a reason why electricians, contractors, plumbers, diesel mechanics, etc send their kids to college

It’s because they’ve been sold a lie that a degree is a free pass to the middle class. If you thought all your kid had to do for a middle class lifestyle was study differential literary analysis, you’d be onboard too.
> It's a solid base for you to build your software on top.

Agreed. It is what I usually find at client installations in backend systems (at least for the last five years). IMHO it would be pointless to ask them to re-test/re-certify all their already running applications (in turn, specified for Java 8 by their respective providers), with promises about (unrequested) performance gains.

BTW, I remember in the past the only way for me to "push" some clients to upgrade from Java 5/6 (to Java 8) was the security/regulatory threat related to running an "unsupported" version of Java: think of the regulatory move from TLS 1.1 to 1.2 and now into 1.3.
I'm a huge fan of Spyder. I have tried PyCharm and found myself much less productive. I think it's the integration of the variable explorer, and how you can easily look into tabular data or lists. I wish the updating process were more seamless, without requiring installers, similar to how VSCode or Chrome handle updates.
Non US link: https://youtu.be/KodqIPMbyUg
From what I've been able to read it's not fab capacity but ABF substrate shortage screwing up most chipmakers
Perhaps taxes are too high?
Wow bikeshedding thanks for this, this describes my company incredibly well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
It sounds like you're guilt tripping guilt tripping?
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I'll go with Palo Alto, since that's what I'm most familiar with. It's still a city with >65,000 residents. You need tax revenue to support a city that large, along with all the services and maintenance that comes from supporting a 3-4x larger daytime (pre-COVID) population of people coming in to the city to work.

Prop 13 limits the % you can raise property tax each year, unless they sell the property (at which point the property tax resets to the sale value). That leads to a lot of people not moving and holding onto their old, low tax property.
I’m adding to specifically say to dang: you put probably horrific effort into maintaining this community and no ill will at all was meant to be directed toward you. I’m only sharing what I saw as a frame of reference for what’s currently in the HTML we consume every day and the challenge of tailoring it to other use cases.
Something that may be useful here: https://stopforumspam.com/
`aria-hidden` and `display: none` should effectively hide it from screen readers and you shouldn’t hit it with tab.
I think your analysis is spot-on. Those existing NIMBY's bought their house with an expectation, and they vote accordingly.

I don't think there's really a way forward without torching rule of law. They don't want the place to be amenable to new/young people, and they make the rules.

It's unfortunate that big tech decided to make this place their home, perhaps with covid and remote work it will go back to a dreamy boomer-land.
Looks like that was an Iowa City based company back in the day?

I was thinking about Whitey's, based in Moline, IL as I read through the story. They have a factory in Moline, 8 locations in the Quad Cities, and supply to some Midwest grocery stores (notably Hy-Vee). They pull it off well, and have very reasonable prices. A friend from Minneapolis noted them as being the best value ice cream shop he's been to.

Whitey's closed its two Iowa City locations a number of years ago. I'm guessing it simply wasn't worth it logistically. ~120 miles round trip in their own trucks, empty one way, driving up the cost per scoop compared to their locations in close proximity to the factory.
At least that was a lot better than using &nbsp; which most FrontPage users did. I cleaned up so much in that time :D
Probabilities are still facts.

If I flip a coin 1000 times it will probably land on heads at least once.

Thousands of huge corporations have continuously been caught up in data dumps, hacks, insider schemes, etc. Especially with data that has no liability. This case is statistically unlikely to be any different.

Now if I had made this up in a world where experian, Adobe, capital one, etc didn’t happen, then I could see where you’re coming from. But I’m not, this is the world we live in and it’s rightfully why people get upset when companies suck in yet more PII.
I completely agree with fabian2k. It's incredibly risky to throw all random sequences peptides into the blood stream for evoking immune response. What happens if a sub-sequence of peptide matches with one of our own's body proteins and our immune system starts building antibody against it? That's what happens in most of autoimmune disease.

In addition, most of the peptides that can be synthesized from a protein structures are sequential epitopes. To ELI5, imagine a string with beads that starts with A-Z letters and we take a smaller sequence A-B-C-D or B-C-D-E and throw to system to build antibody against it. Yes, the immune system can make antibodies against it. But in real life, most of the protective or virus neutralizing antibodies comes from conformational epitopes. Imagine when the protein gets folded to its natural form then the beads with letter sequences are just jumbled sequences and finding a conformational epitope is key to raise neutralizing antibodies. That is only possible when a protein's structure is fully understood using x-ray crystallography. The article does not disclose how the author was able to get those sequences and how he was sure about its efficacy.

However, the author's bold step towards the experiment is praiseworthy. But extreme caution is needs to be taken as self administering an untested drug or vaccine may fall within the boundary of law and it can invoke regulatory actions against him.
Agreed, I use the snippet function of Alfred after I tried textblaze but now that I know of dynamic snippets I’m really curious to give it a second look.
The center is getting denser too though, its just not enough. You can only fit so much housing in SF. The suburb cities dont need to be filled will 20 story apartments, but every city should be building similar percent increases.
SF/ oakland/ SJ are all building up and building lots of new units.

Why does only the center have to take on the burden of becoming 10% more dense? Why can't every city increase its housing supply by 10%?
Technically, it's a subset. Not all rapeseed oil is low-acid (the l-a in canola).
Honestly speaking, what you are asking for is almost impossible. When you put 2 people in a room, you get politics. The best bet is probably be a contractor as you do not have to participate in these stuff (or they pay you to do so). Companies expect you to be a good corporate citizen which generally involves more that just programming (interviewing, goal setting, career progression etc). So, I would suggest you seriously consider why you get annoyed by these and figure it out.
Thanks for the feedback. That's planned for this year, i.e. to have auto-updating and signed installers (at least on Mac). So stay tuned.
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The language already has an incredibly simple facility to compare version numbers (that GP mentions, but also there's macros), but you want to do it in a more complex way?
You don't really need an article to point out the Bay Area is failing people.

The crazy amount of "sleeping rough" homeless mixed with people typing on phones inside their auto driving Teslas going by without lifting an eyebrow. If you are not from the US and have learnt to think that is "normal" it's pretty confronting.
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> …I use the term "faucets and toilets" to mean the same thing. It should always work, be boring, obvious to use, and ideally not even be considered technology.

I like that, but I think that's something different than expressed by "the user is drink" or "the user is high".

Assuming I understand you correctly, "faucets and toilets" is a way of summarizing that UX design should favor popular convention when possible.

"The user is drunk/high" is a way of saying that, regardless of the novelty of a particular interaction (not all of which can be faucets/toilets), designers should assume that users will always be more-or-less impaired by the distractions of life.
Is there no dedicated HN console reader for HN using ncurses? I never looked for one but I'd be surprised considering there's so many mobile apps
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704501
Your comment implicitly defines legislative success in terms of long-running popularity.

What is the intended purpose of such a definition? Is it meant to be explanatory? Predictive? Normative? Have you thought about the limitations of such a definition along these three categories?

Is this definition an attempt to find a neutral definition of legislative success? Or at least an attempt to find a definition that can be easily measured?
Tucker Carlson! OMG , really? Who with at least one working brain cell is going to believe that freak.
I actually know someone who is going through immunotherapy (for leukemia) and so suddenly this kind of news is quite a bit more relevant than just a interesting factoid.

Thankfully this person seems to be responding to therapy, but it makes me wonder whether they will end up benefiting from microbiome therapy in the future.
Same here; had a large tubulovilous adenoma removed a couple years ago, at just about the same age. It wasn't cancerous, but it probably would have been soon if left to its own devices.

In my case it's probably genetic. My grandmother survived cancer by having part of her colon removed. She had a bunch of siblings who all died of cancer or undetermined causes; the difference is that she went to the doctor and they didn't.
The way forward is not to 'torch the rule of law'.

There are plenty of ways to do things. Oregon just passed a housing law (HB 2001) that re-legalizes "missing middle" housing for instance, by right, in all our cities.

In other words, you take some of the zoning control away from hyper-NIMBY local jurisdictions.
Indeed they are highly educated minority. Often it is thought that the British facilitated their establishment and growth and gave them opportunities both in the colony and abroad from which they prospered.
Certain manufacturers have been hit hardest, examples being NXP and Infineon, at least partly due to an increase in demand for automotive components. It seems as though motor control, and 'connected home'/IoT devices may have also contributed to shortages.

Either due to maxed-out fabs or shifts in uC/uP usage, the shortages are wide-spread.
This guy's writing sucks. I don't know why it's so popular here, besides the fact that men that have never seen war never tire of hearing other people who have never seen war talk about their idea of what war is.
It failed at least in part because of the timing. A global pandemic that was destroying small businesses was a pretty unpopular time for something that is perceived as damaging to small businesses. Maybe when things are booming and prosperous we could pass that.
Note, the grandparent is not actually quoting the website, they are referencing the fictional Turboencabulator[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
That's perfectly reasonable to say that society should do that.

In the meantime, though, society doesn't do that, at least not consistently enough. So in the current circumstances, I still have some compassion for someone in genuine need who steals food.
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Most likely they chronically overspend, just like any other organization with chronic budget issues. The people there seem to think that everything comes for free, and as long as the city can secure additional debt, they're right.

But it's not sustainable, and imo, downright evil.
Spending. Endless spending.

There is no amount of money that is enough.

Not spending fast enough? Maybe a high speed train would solve things!

Grew up there. Been traveling country since. Shocking how well states do with a lot less money.
I wonder where this source worked. Any guesses? I feel like that would be a good start in addressing the bigger issue, which is this incredible violation of people's privacy.

Also I find this story a bit icky in mentioning and tracking a particular individual.
I think without quantizing you can trade off between error size and update frequency, no?
There's no getting around it: wherever most of the people are will be the most competitive for housing, and when it comes to essentials like food and shelter, people /will/ compete

That's not true at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704501

We know how to build as much housing as people want to live in. We make building said housing illegal.
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These selfish NIMBY assholes have been borrowing from their cities future as they both condemn newcomers, tax them extra (prop 13), refuse to build new housing for them, and then profit off the induced housing demand.
For longevity I suppose. Don’t you need to power on flash storage occasionally?
The issue is that these same cities are constantly increasing their office space capacity, e.g. trying to have the cake and eat it too.
Maybe Kozmo didn't fail because of the internet bubble...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
I thought the same, no way :) But, it makes a point. If nobody notices any side-effects of a bad design, is it still a bad design?

The text-browser point made by the OP is the first that ran into this however most text browsers don't render the current 'best practice' (using CSS classes with margins) correctly either.
> How do you know they're inflated? Maybe that's just how much homes in economically productive areas are going to cost from now on.

My understanding of GP's thesis is that they're inflated because the homes, and even their surrounding neighbourhoods and infrastructure, actually haven't changed meaningfully while the price went way up.
And? I mean, obviously if you're going to correct me then you know "zero-sum game" refers to game theory. What game is Mr. Typeset playing here?
very cool design, one of the few airframes that can gain altitude without pitching up -- this is an important safety feature as it reduces chance to stall.

On the flipside, though, stalling a Ligeti Stratos is probably a major event since it's almost a flying-wing.
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So "torch the will of local citizens" instead? Why should the rest of the state get to decide what they do in their neighborhoods?

As long as you agree with the majority of the state, it works out for you, but it's a bold power grab that may not end well in other situations.
The problem with electronic voting machines, is no matter how secure you make them, people find the narrative that they are insecure easily believable, regardless of whether the narrative is true or not in any particular case.

If you stick entirely to paper-based voting, you don't have that problem. Of course low-tech means of fraud still exist (stuffing ballot boxes, etc), but there are low-tech means of presenting that – you allow each candidate/party to send poll observers to watch the counting process.
How often do you really write REST clients in the grand scheme of things? Are you sure you aren't optimizing for the 5%?
I would very much like to hear this battle story
I sold a 10 year old Asus Rampage III Black X58 motherboard last month on eBay for north of $650, which is more than what I paid for it new (even after accounting for inflation.)

Granted, this was a limited edition board, but it is still 10 year old tech!
> The people who have not yet moved here (or become voters, or homeowners in particular), don't get to have a say in the policies that govern a place, yet at some point are the ones who have to live within policies that others decide.

Same story for global warming. The current developed nations got rich (and still getting richer) by burning fossil fuels. But the ones that are trying to grow now are stuck.

Four options: 1. We’re doomed and stuck where we are, 2. Power struggle, 3. New tech provides an out, 4. Voluntary improvement via negotiation.

I’m hoping 3 and 4 work fast.
> You can tie together almost all bad laws passed when they are (a) ... (b) ... (c) ...

Can you provide detailed support for such a claim?
There are ways to do revenue neutral tax changes, where you raise one and lower another one somewhere else, at the same time.
Fwiw, I have been in the industry since 2008. I started in Canada. Have been living in the Bay Area for the last 5 yrs working for a FAANG company.

Am moving back to Canada this summer. The math for us (family of five) does not work in terms of ability to buy a house without spending an insane amount of time commuting
Because the residents are Bad(tm) and need to be punished.

These standards only seem to apply to America and Europe.

Does anyone have a counterexample outside of America or Europe where the underclass is allowed to live side-by-side with the rich? I've never heard of one but perhaps I'm ignorant. Most countries seem dead-set on rejecting any and all immigrants that don't bring $500k+ along with them.
Kids these days...
Spectrum protect/Tivoli storage manager/adsm is where the backup is. Since 1989.
Maybe, I'm guessing a prop 13 repeal attached to a corresponding reduction in income tax to make it revenue-neutral would have a better time passing.
I implied the same, and also kind of gave away the reason: because it's trendy for companies to pretend to care for LGBTQ now, and censoring it in 2021 would be a faux pas (Yes, Cook is himself gay, but that's not it, because he never was one for causes. Despite being ultra-powerful and rich, he only "went for the cause" for himself and Apple after it became Disney-safe to do so and every company did it - unlike the gay pioneers of the 60s to 90s who did it under really hostile environments).