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I listen to tech podcasts while walking and often think about how to connect technology to my business issues. I find it to be a creative exercise that has paid off in my career in solving problems.
This is a really abnormal article to see on hackernews. I generally don't expect to see the politics of a random city in the U.S. here. Maybe because Austin is becoming more of a tech hub? So now the politics of the city seem more relevant to the tech community?
Over time air pollution has to go out of cities anyway if people need to move to cities to be able to get a job. I think that's just a matter of time.
I can't speculate on what's actually on US Navy warships right now, but I'm telling you commercially you can distinguish birds from drones under a kilometer away today. The knowledge has been around on how to do so with radar since 2006 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1603402, but even without that, there are numerous combined radar-camera surveillance systems out there for accurate target classification. Not like you don't have time to cue a camera to look at an interesting radar target when it's travelling slowly like a UAV might.
What's the issue with gentrification?

We are living in a fast paced world so one needs to adapt to the changes. It could be my neighbor, skill sets, policies, etc.
Killing Kim Jong Un will not make anything better. Foreign state assasinations especially never work out.

Homegrown assasinations of fascist leaders whose basis for power is a projection of strength and a cult of personality, with strong existing domestic oppositions?

That's very different in outcome.
Ok so this is a union specific to Medium. What I'm not understanding is can't you have a union anyway? Why does it need to be a majority/some threshold?
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Austin looks like the new cool kid in the town, so many famous / rich people moved there. I expect to read more about it in the future.
Based on the photos, the most useful vector a tug (of any strength) might take is not available. Yanking the ship backwards, off the bank, would work nicely but pulling its bow 35 degrees through the bank is pretty rough.
> I generally don't expect to see the politics of a random city in the U.S. here

This regularly happens on HN for SF, LA, NYC, Seattle, etc. Austin is pretty in line with those for the reasoning you suggested.
If just looking at a boat is enough to reveal vital secrets, then that ship has already sailed.
I have been following remirror since the start and also started working on bangle.dev at the same time.

bangle.dev aims to add little API overhead on top of Prosemirror (PM) whereas Remirror tries really hard to hide the PM API and attempts to provide its own React-ish abstraction. This might be a totally fine choice, but I went with the route of building reusable components instead of abstractions.
The authority who grants you your SSL certificate. There is more than one out there, sure, but you can't do it without them. And ultimately, they all answer to the same authority above them: the browser maker who populates the root trust store.

So, to summarize: one more way for the browser maker to control what the user can and cannot access without jumping through hoops.
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Very cool! If you are considering codemirror 6, the author had a nice little talk at fosdem this year that goes into a bit of the features and design: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/codemirror/
Yev from Backblaze here - with sincere apologies. After we removed the offending code on Sunday night we went into investigation mode and conducted a rca - we wanted to get some kind of blog post out there so that folks could see that we were working and investigating the issue. I will grant you that maybe our initial execution on that was lackluster, but we wanted to make sure we had a better handle on what we were talking about. We've since updated the blog with additional information, you can read those here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr....
They should buy up things and max out their loans...even a parking place will worth 10x there soon.
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I don't agree with this, ads are just a part of the problem. Bloat on the web is insane. Open any site using WordPress with a popular off the shelf theme, they weigh in many mb of CSS and js just to show a text article before you count in any ads. Incidentally these sites are the ones who get to benefit most from amp.
> At the same time it is a free-for-all for employees for blog posts marked Unfiltered as this one is.

So you allow your employees to have a "free-for-all" approach when posting blogs to your official company website? So tomorrow, one of your employees can post a "We are now Heroku" or "We have acquired Heroku" or some such post and your response will be to blame the author (even though, as per the records, in this current case you are one among the approvers of this blog[1]) and tell the rest of us that since this blog is in "Unfiltered" section, the readers are to be blamed for taking the blog seriously?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557589
>One of Gemini's design goals seems to be client diversity and allowing clients to interpret responses on their own terms.

No, the design goal is the exact opposite of that. The protocol is intentionally designed to be non-extensible so that other features that go against its spirit are not added.

You can of course add a content-length header to your server and write your own client that parses it, but you wouldn't be writing a Gemini server and client any more.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi goes in great length about this in section 2, and even specifically about (the lack of) content-length in section 2.12
> Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea?

People who don’t mind noise and want to make a shitload of their mortgage back on Airbnb.
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This blog post from a theoretical physicist should be a decent source:

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-brief-history-of-...
> It's polarizing, but a lot of people (including me) absolutely love the "wall of unnecessary text" on some Casio models. I can't defend it on any logical level, but I'm certainly not alone.

For people who grew up wearing the famous low-cost Casio F-91W [1], I'm guessing it might have something to do with nostalgia.

I know I chuckled when I clicked on those image links and saw the abovementioned "wall of unnecessary text".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W
I'm not surprised. The article struck me as particularly amateurish, which is unfortunate because the situation is an unusually nuanced and interesting one on a topic that's constantly talked about.
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We've used Google Appengine for over ten years now. It was the first service to abstract infrastructure, so developers could simply deploy code without worrying about scaling and redundancy.

Google's edge (for us) is reliability. Over our ten-year tenure (heh), there have been a handful of incidents when our service was down, most early on before the NDB datastore. I seriously can't remember how many years it's been since our service was down.

And when Appengine does break, they do a brutally honest report about exactly what happened, and how they are going to make sure it never happens again. If you've got the interest and time, it's worth searching for articles/videos about Google's SREs. They are fanatics.

I know this is anecdotal, but AWS and Azure seem to have multiple outages a year. Every time I'm immensely relieved to be on Appengine.
Yev from Backblaze here -> I apologize for this mistake. We've updated the post with additional information now that we have it and there's also an apology.
I've been doing quite a lot of gardening in the past 3 years.

There is a plethora of home gardeners and/or permaculture resources on the internet that generally like as much organic matter as possible.

I some of that strategy as it's convenient at home to supply nutrients to plants without much work.

But, I can't help but feel it's all sort of wish washy science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZHy3_7PPE

^ I found this guys videos much more satisfactory to "need the facts" mindset. He uses knowledge from the agricultural industry instead of the "organic" approach.

In short, plant roots actually love sand, silt and clay, and actually don't like organic matter around their roots as it causes rot. He suggests that you should always just top feed your plants. (throw compost around the top of the plants only)
When people say don't over water your plants, it's not because of the water, but because of the organic matter in your pots mixing with water and making sewerage. (e.g. this is why hydroponics works)

Anyway, I'd suggest watching some of his videos on perfect soil for an opinion you don't find much of in home gardening videos.

(This was touchy for me because when I started gardened everyone described my soil as sandy, shit and told me to amend it with X, Y and Z. I was too lazy to listen at the time and noticed that my plants were perfectly fine growing in sand as long as I top fed regularly.)
Eventually it shouldn't be a choice though, it should be a deeply ingrained habit. There shouldn't even be a treat then, it should be faded out.

Of course that takes a lot of training, where you can control the situation to give the dog a fake choice (by leashing him) and/or ensure the bad choice is the right amount less awesome than the treat.

I am not advocating against negative reinforcement here. It can help build good habits by steering the dog towards the good choice and preventing the bad one. I'm just disagreeing with the notion that the end result should be the dog deciding based on expected reward and punishment.

(I know this is quite idealistic.)
Interesting that both Intel and TSMC chose AZ. Isn't chip manufacturing very water intensive? Other states like say Michigan have more water than they know what to do with, between their giant aquifers, great lakes, and 1 meter of annual rainfall.
> They move in, knowing full well (or should know full well) that there is an airport there, then a year later they bitch and moan about the noise and try to shut it down.

Would this be relevant for something that is in violation of the letter of the law? I ask this purely legally, as the ethical question of community rights and the tyranny of bureaucracy is a separate one.
A variation of this rinsing out of any local culture is going on in Sacramento County California, where arguably gentrification has resulted in a 2019 autocratic edict that residents are not allowed to work on cars in their homes except fluid changes, with fines if you are found to have professional tools on the premises.

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/it-is-illegal-to...

Since Sacramento County is approx 50% white, 50% hispanic/black, a case can be made this is a racist law given the relatively high number of hispanics and black who work on their cars, including car clubs such as the Austin tradition.

This is culturally very unhealthy given how fundamental freedom of movement is to the US zeitgeist, and how important car culture is as the core of US life.
Would that weaponry be capable of taking out a small target that can dance?

I’d like to understand the rules of engagement- it seems a bit odd we’d just stand around watching them.
> Mass stabbing? Not a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China

I think someone needs to look more into global stats of mass attacks by weapons...
Ya. I agree. If you can write good tests, they are very useful. I guess I'm thinking that for a lot of shops, for alot of features, the tests are doing more harm than good. Perhaps by merely sucking up so much developer time that the devs take longer to develop the intuitive feel for good code vs bad code.

I've always felt that "good code" is far superior to mediocre code with tests. I'm sure a lot of this is because I've never been impressed with the "testing culture" at any place where I have worked, it's always just a tacked on bullet point on some sprint board check list.

I guess for me, I feel like I have developed an intuitive sense for good code that has mostly come through real, lived, expensive, mistakes. I know it makes no sense as a programmer philosophy, but I truly think I care way more about every line of code because I have no unit tests. There is no safety net. I've been writing code like this for a very long time, and I think I've developed a certain skill that has been empowered by these high stakes. Pushing bad code and having GitHub tell you about a failed test before it ever hits prod is not nearly as powerful of a feedback loop as watching a crash rate sky rocket, having the Google Play store ranking tank and ultimately cost an unknown, large amount of revenue. I'll never forget that merge.

I guess I'm not against "unit tests", I'm just speaking about the kinds of lessons I've had and how they influence literally every line of code I write or read. Ultimately, yes, I've made big mistakes, but at this point I think I write better code, at a faster pace, than my peers who haven't had these "trial by fire" experiences. I know it's not for everyone, but I feel as though it has made me stronger.
It sounds like these are only visible as lights. Not sure we have any real evidence that there's machinery, there.

https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/03/foo-fighters.html seems like a similar phenomenon; maybe there weren't any drones in the first place.
I guess this would be true even if the correct complexity was say,

O(n^2 * ln(n)).

Waxing theoretically, there is some integer-valued function f such that optimal matrix multiplication is

Ω(n^2 * f(n)).

We can ask whether f is O(1). I think your statement is equivalent to saying that f is o(n^ε) for any ε > 0.
But there's a measurable difference in the browser's behavior between the two modes, so you can determine which one is being used.
Note that ownership is supplanted by rentership.

I like urban density, but renting is extraction of wealth rather than a one-time transfer. I wish more of these developments were condos/ownership/co-op/what have you.
At the general level, I doubt anyone is surprised to see this story, and there will likely be more to come as tech flocks to Austin (though it was already a notable tech hub with some of these pressures already before the billionaires decided to give it the seal of approval).

To me, the more interesting question here is how does Austin avoid what happened to SF, where tech hollowed out nearly all of its existing culture and then tech workers began to complain it was bland.

Real estate and zoning policy is going to be key here. I've seen a decent deal of discussion about "Yuppie Fishtanks" [0] recently and generally it seems to be supported that massively increasing the housing supply is one of the best ways to keep rents intact and avoid hollowing gentrification. For the existing Austin residents here, how is the city approaching it thusfar? Do people think this is another SF gentrification story in the making, or is something different?

[0] http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/yimbyism-explaine...
> The second sentence calls him three slurs - misogynist, ableist, and transphobic.

What a ignorant attempt at a rebuttal. The letter substantiates aren't characterizing RMS as such without substantiation: they link in the letter to what they believe is behavior that displays these characterizations.

> https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix
But you can get an X86 plus ??? with the Intel fabs, this is huge. Intel will be your partner for your post x86 journey. This is clearly a "crossing the innovators chasm" territory.
Many areas of Texas and California have had large, stable, resident latino communities for over a hundred years or more, and thus far greater percentages of property ownership than in most other areas.
Shotguns. Automatic shotguns would seem to be right for this.
Texas Monthly has a strong political agenda over anything else. They don't do much serious reporting other than overly dramatic fluff stories.
Most of that doesn't affect the site UX. Visit any "static" site that are tremendously popular today and you'll see tons of JS files.

It's ads/tracking with their complex network payloads and rendering that create the slowdown.
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From my perspective of American warfare - shooting a $1 million dollar missile at every $100 drone is how they keep the war going :)
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Facts don't matter for certain people. That being said, I'm sympathetic to the people who like to parade and show off their custom cars. I used to see that in California when I first moved here. No drag racing, or dangerous stunts, just people driving cars slowly down the street.
That seems broadly accurate, yes. If anything, you're leaving out a few pivots, mistakes, and embarrassing backtracks. This article from 2019 is a bit out of date (https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-long-complicated-and-e...) but has a lot of details.

What's happened since fits seamlessly into the pattern.
> It took Victoria 3+ months to go from 700 case to 0

The first 6 weeks or so weren't strict enough and cases were still growing at the half way point, we squandered the first 6 weeks with ineffective half measures.

> How long do you think it would take America to go from 70,000 cases to 0?

Roughly the same time, cases were roughly halving every couple of weeks or so. Much like searching a binary tree doubling the size of the tree does not double the search time.

> The longer a lockdown, the less severe it can be

Victoria and several other places learned that this is not true, a less severe lockdown had cases growing or stagnating and delivered the worst of both worlds. Hard lockdowns offer a way back to normality.
Doesn’t matter who came first, you can’t generate a bunch of smoke and noise. I’m sure Austin has a noise ordinance. Easy solution is to move the event to a better location.
This is just asserting the conclusion instead of arguing it. Some people disagree that one needs to adapt to changes ad infinitum, and think that there's value in social capital, continuity, etc.

I'm personally pretty inclined towards the change side of the argument, but there's no sense in pretending there aren't two sides to discussion, particularly after the High Modernist failures of the 20th century.
Google Cloud is just a pleasure to use. It has by far the best documentation, the best user interface, the best CLIs (gcloud etc) and tooling, and they have the most accessible teams of any of the other cloud providers. I remember having an issue with firebase authentication a while back, I posted a question on stackoverflow and a firebase team member had answered it within a few hours. Good luck getting any help with AWS Amplify when you encounter any bugs/issues.
That one reminds me of something Bender said in futurama

> C’mon, it’s just like making love! Y’know… Left, down… Rotate 62 degrees… Engage rotor…
According to US Census data [0], between 2000 and 2010, the City of Austin (meaning the city proper not the metro area)'s "African American (non-Hispanic)" population fell by 5.4% (a decline of almost 3,500 people). Over the same time period, its overall population grew by around 20% (from 657,000 to 790,000). That seems more consistent with what the article says than with the picture you are painting.

[0] https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Planni...
"a non-Hispanic white woman with short blond hair who appeared to be in her fifties, claimed that smoke from the tires was killing nearby trees and that traffic from the gathering would make it impossible for an ambulance to reach her in the event of a medical emergency".

Did she demand to speak to the manager?
Doesn’t matter. Everything is about racism in the US now. You criticize a politician, you’re a racist. Your neighborhood gentrifies, you’re a racist. You want to discuss the border issue, you’re a racist. You want to improve quality of STEM education, you’re a racist. You ask journalists to wait for facts before asserting that the shooter in Boulder is a white supremacist, you’re a racist.

So, what’s wrong with the stats again? For all I can tell, you question the stats about black community, you’re a racist.

Facts, issues, solutions? They don’t matter. We should follow the lead of our great leaders like Elizabeth Warren, like AOC, like leaders of our teachers unions, brilliantly pointing out any dissident voice is racism. But who the fuck am I, right? The US people want to destroy their own country, why would an immigrant like me agonize? I guess I’m a racist for questioning the great wokeism in the US.
I mean sure, and they're certainly welcome to try. But the balance of world power, and all the things those powers do to ensure that power, almost certainly guarantees failure.
According to the article, this event has been happening almost weekly for years

1) Does this mean the developers did not take this into consideration and have a plan on how to deal with this or handle it?

2) Does it mean the folks buying the apartments (or renting) did not do their due diligence and find out this is a weekly event?

Takeaways here (for all of us reading this story) - do you research before you move to a place (rent or buy). Go there on a weekday and a weekend. Ask current residents about the place or other folks who live nearby about the place. It will save you a ton of hassle later on.
I’m a software engineer at one of these global logistics companies.

The market is extremely competitive. We are one of the biggest in the business, and we only capture small percent (I heard 3% before) of market share.

We build event driven systems primarily glued together with Kafka. There are thousands of deployed products.
The distribution of property owners is not the same as the distribution of renters (most obviously with respect to class), even in a subpopulation like "Latinos".
The article makes the residents appear petty and ridiculous, but to be fair these gatherings really are obnoxiously noisy and extremely annoying. I'd be surprised if many non-transplants didn't find them tiresome as well.
No, and the other comments about gas laws and volume are overthinking it a bit. Pressure at the surface is caused by the weight of the atmosphere. On earth, a column of air extending from sea level to space, with cross sectional area one square inch, weighs 15 pounds.

Neither the temperature or volume of the atmosphere changes its weight. (Ok, I suppose a hotter atmosphere has more volume and extends higher into space and weighs slightly less, as it is farther from the planet on average, but I assume that’s a fairly negligible effect)