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High rises don't necessarily help much with adding additional population, the real key is consistently higher density being allowed. Barcelona is an absolutely beautiful city with amazing transit and amenities, all without any high rises at all.

Really the key is to ban single unit detached homes, get rid of setbacks, get rid of parking minimums, establish parking maximums, even.

Basically, the entire planning profession has gotten every single thing wrong. Take any limit they have established, and reverse it, IMHO. All that feeder street nonsense has destroyed an entire century's worth of planning.
The current system just keeps track of inventory. Like when a warehouse inventory system says "15 Honda Civics currently in stock" it doesn't mean digital cars.

A digital currency system would make a digital representation of the actual money that could contain a bunch of information, like unique serialnumbers, creation date, expiration date, physical equivalent etc.
I don't see the retro complaint they're making. They switched to a common indicator for drive (black box with green light) and an indicator for the type of drive. (7 1/2 floppy, 3 1/4 floppy, network, optical)

They look great to me.
Harmonically complex is unrelated (unless they do something like Tuvan throat singing), but the species thing is a good point.

Compare a parrot or a crow vocalizing. From that it seems some can control the amount of overtone or at least can use two different modes or something.

Seems almost like comparing humans whistling vs speaking or something (assuming whistling is closer to a pure sine tone).
I'm usually a huge cheerleader for most things California, but I think this comment is missing some important considerations. Namely, people don't just need housing, they also need food, energy, water, transportation, waste management, employment, education, health care, and space for recreation. Every new home that goes up requires a lot of infrastructure to support a healthy population.

And people don't want to be evenly distributed throughout the state. There's still plenty of space in Fresno! But, many of the people who live there wish they lived somewhere else. Lots of people all want to live in the same places; doing some math based off 2010 census numbers, the San Francisco Bay Area currently has an average population density of about 912 people per square mile [1]. That may be getting asymptotically close to the carrying capacity for those areas for people who want to live suburban lifestyles.

California might be able to carry 80 million people, twice its current population, but that will require solving California's population distribution problem -- making some undesirable places a lot more desirable.

[1]: http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm, includes Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties.
We changed the title from "True U.S. death toll from Covid is more than 900k, study finds". That was editorialized, which breaks the site guidelines. It was also arguably both misleading and baity, which means that it broke the site guidelines on all three points:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Please don't do that!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How do I see Goodwill's current trash bill and pay part of all of it on a donation site?

This is where we need a slider and push notification support

"People gave us a million dollars of trash this year. We could use your support paying for that."

Or to put that in lazyweb construct —

Patreon + Goodwill + #accounting/garbage + Donate.me^

If any of you know a 501c3 org that can handle this and make it happen for them, I'd sure welcome Goodwill and Roden Crater and like five hundred MOMAs on a list of "here's what I can afford to donate right now, let me pick my favorites from a list^^". It would normalize the distribution from the hockey tail it gets right now of Goodwill the Stuff Acceptors.

^ or whatever the typical 501(c)3 white-labels / intermediates are in the donation-routing finance space. But I made up that domain, so I assume it's real. Let's see. Yes! It is! I've never heard of it before. It's totally niche. Thanks, brain.

^^ The real fun part is classifying foundations by their purposes, so that "Making up for human process failures" (which needs a marketing pass) is something I can filter for or just bulk donate to at a site category level and let you batch it.
The entire time I was reading the article, I kept waiting to an explanation of how "digital currencies" enable all these new fancy tools and powers. It never came. The article is nothing but hype with no content of value I could find.

Most of what the article talks about seems much more related to having a central bank provide retail banking services and modernizing our transactiok settlement network. All of that seems easily doable with creating a serparate currency.

The concerns listed also don't seem new. Worried about people buying foriegn currency and tanking the value of the local currency? So is Argentina and that has nothing to do with any digital currency.
That's no different than actors and singers, who act out situations scripted by their publicists and managers who understand how to market their products. Regardless, we are talking about the kind of product that's being sold, which is fundamentally different than those sold by actors and singers.
I didn't downvote you, but I haven't grokked your answer yet. Yep, I gotta read something about monetary policy. In any case, I gather that "new digital currency" in this context mean centralization of accounts.

EDIT: Do I understand it correctly that under this new system, there would be no money multiplication or IOW no fraction reserve banking?
There are architectures with a separate (and limited) call stack. They also tend to be Harvards, with the data and program memory completely separate. In other words, go down that path and you end up with what amounts to a restricted microcontroller instead of a general-purpose computer... which unfortunately seems to be where things are heading with the rising authoritarian technocracy.
Ok, perhaps I should qualify that: they don’t want normal app developers doing this, because those ones want stability. But I believe there are some at Apple that (correctly) see that allowing certain extension points like these is healthy for the overall community. But it’s all under the table…
Twitter's done some work in this area.
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
privacy concerns will likely not even be on a central bank’s radar should any of this come to be.
Some online friends & acquaintances held a "HyperCard Jam" just a little over a year ago. Lots of cool/creative games and apps came out of this fun jam! I think most people developed in a Mini vMac virtual machine (rather than firing up physical Macintosh hardware). Take a look here: https://itch.io/jam/merveilles-hyperjam
> Criticising religion is a lot more nuanced though; for example I don't think it's especially controversial to criticise Matthew 25, where Jesus says that "A woman a should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."

1) Jesus did not say this, Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ did.
2) This is not from Matthew 25 but from 1 Timothy 2:11-12 and is one of Paul's letters to Timothy. https://nasb.literalword.com/?q=1+Timothy+2%3A11-12
3) Matthew 25 consists of the parable of the ten virgins, parable of the tenants and the judgement of God. https://nasb.literalword.com/?q=Matthew+25

If you're going to use the Bible to make a point, at least make the effort to accurately do so.
I'm ok with taller buildings if we ever finally allow more CLT construction in this state. Our building code is antiquated and silly, and the construction industry itself is probably the least innovative or capable industry in the entire US, which is probably to be expected with the way we've treated it to such awful boom and bust cycles.
I'm for building reasonably priced housing, and apartments.

In CA, Governor Neusome signed some sort of mandate, that put hard limits (build more you NIMBY's) on new housing.

It was done for the right reasons. A lot of his wealthy supporters could care less about rent, but he doesn't seem to be able to be bought--yet.

It's tied to state funds? I would like to know more, but too lazy to do research.

Our little towns, in Marin County, are scrambling for a solution to enable more housing. I shouldn't have used "scrambling". I don't think they really care. They own their homes, but they need funds.

Ok---that said, I don't know how they can think about building anything because of the water shortage?

Not having enough water is huge. They could offer incentives for digging wells I guess?

I am glad Neusome made putting in a mother in-law units much easier. We need more low/middle income housing. We need less mansions though. Neusome is a rich boy, but has progressive values. I went to school with him, and he knows what a struggle life can be sometimes. Yes--even for a rich boy, I felt sorry for him a bit at certain points in his life. He was actually voted most Fashionable in the year book.

Fun fact for those that know nothing about Marin County. Most of you have probally heard of Bolinas before? The town without a sign. A town the locals want kept a secret?

The history of building in Bolinas is kinda interesting. Years ago a bunch of hippies, and other brilliant creative people, saw what a beautiful area Bolinas is, but they knew it could be ruined by overbuilding. They knew it was a far commute, but people would suffer with the long drive to SF because it was such a idyllic location.

The hippies got themselfs on the town council. (I use hippies in the best sence. The world needs more hippies.)

They passed a law that the size of their town would be mandated by water hookups.

There is a hard set number of water hookups, and they went quick. A few years ago a small plot of land with a water hookup became available. Just a tiny piece of land, but it had a legal water spigot. It went for a huge amount money.

Mu point is without more water, I don't know how these housing mandates will work?

A desalination plant might work?

Would I mind seeing a desalination plant instead of San Quentin--yes. San Quentin is a prison right near the bay. It's old, and just a prison to be honest. A lot of those guys could be in a minimum security prison, in better living conditions, but that's another story.

I would like to see some Stimulus money being spent on a desalination plant.

I know nothing about the technology though. I just know water is something very important.

I do feel the wealthy, and those living in mansions, should pay more for water than the rest of us.

(Yes-- I'm all over the place today. I guess I'm nervous over reopening? I need to take a walk.)
That's where lessons like "treat others as you would have them treat you" come in.
Your post seems to have an undertone of nervousness about the exchange rate of USD/cryptocurrency which is understandable in the middle of this bull market. In my opinion bitcoin is a revolution disguised as a get-rich-quick scheme. A whale liquidating lots of BTC sounds like a sweet bargain to me. BTC has a capped supply so they will run out of steam at some point.

Due to game theory mechanics most network participants have an incentive to play by the rules and agree on rules that are as fair as possible. A hard fork has to be embraced by the majority of the users to be accepted. It's not just the miners or the whales who decide the rules.

Of course there are countless of cryptocurrencies in use right now of which most are doomed to fail (maybe even all but one are doomed to fail).
Can someone recommend a better forum for discussing articles like this?

HN is wonderful but it's too many engineers (incl me!) who haven't a clue about economics, digital currency, monetary policy, etc.
Curious to know if anyone can explain why on-line storage is so expensive? Most places want $100+/mo for 1TB of storage, while a 1TB drive only costs $50. I understand there's management costs, cooling, electricity, physical space, etc. But those would be per drive costs, not per TB, and certainly wouldn't add up to $100/mo.

Meanwhile, there's services like Google Drive, etc which costs about $100/yr per TB. Still exorbitant, but not as much so. 3rd party software can mount it as a drive, but only for a short period of time before the token expires. So they seem happy to sell you space at less than 1/10th the cost, as long as it's harder to use.

There just seems to be a lot of cash on the table for someone to offer much cheaper storage solutions, but no one is actually doing it.
Protobuf is commonly used to refer to both the serialization format and the IDL. You can use protos to specify JSON/REST endpoints. In past companies I've also used it to specify DB schemas.
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Much of Paris only allows 4-5 story buildings, but Paris is more dense than NYC where skyscrapers are allowed
Protobuf and gRPC are great, and AWS will continue to make sure developers can be successful using them with AWS. I’ll try to explain how we ended up at Smithy instead of using other existing tools.

We started working on Smithy around 2018 because we wanted to improve the scale of our API program and the AWS SDK team to deal with the growing number of services (over 250 now!) and languages we want to support in official AWS SDKs (like the newly released Rust SDK). We had a ton of existing services that we needed to be compatible with, but we also wanted to add new features to improve new services going forward too.

We needed a very flexible meta-model that allows us to continue to evolve the model to account for things like integrating with other systems and to model service-specific customizations that each AWS SDK team can implement independently. Smithy's meta-model is based on traits, a self-describing way to add more information to models. Lots of validation can be built in to custom traits, which helps to ensure that service teams are using traits properly and adhere to their specifications. Smithy's resource modeling helps us here too because it allows AWS service teams, as they adopt Smithy, to essentially automatically support CloudFormation resource schemas. Resources also help us to point service teams in the right direction to make their services work well over HTTP (which methods to use, URIs, safety, idempotency, etc).

We needed an integrated model validation, linting, and diff tool to keep services consistent and detect breaking changes, and it needed to support company-wide standards as well as service-specific standards. We use Smithy’s validation system to automatically enforce API standards, and service teams often create their own service-specific rules to keep their own internal consistency.

We needed built-in input validation constraints so that they're standard across services and clients (e.g., length, range, pattern, etc). We didn't want to rely on third-party extensions to provide this feature since validating inputs is important. AWS uses internal service frameworks that enforce these constraints and are compatible with Smithy models. We're working to create open source service frameworks for Smithy as well.

We also wanted to support various serialization formats so that clients work with all of our existing services spread across JSON, XML, query strings, RPC, and HTTP APIs, but we also wanted to be able to evolve our serialization formats in the future as new technology comes along. That's why Smithy is protocol agnostic (like gRPC actually). The serialization format is an implementation detail. Smithy has some support for MQTT as well.

And finally, we need our code generators to be really flexible to support service customizations. There's quite a few customizations across AWS services, and we needed a way to inject custom code generation logic in various parts of our generators.

Smithy is still in heavy development, and we're working on building out more of the tooling so it can be used easily outside of AWS SDKs too, including client and server code generation.
I'm a PhD student at Caltech. I'd love to stay in CA and become a prof at one of the world-renown universities in the state. The cost for a nice house is > $800K in all of the cities hosting these universities; on top of that, the state income tax on a prof's salary is 9-10%. CA is basically telling me (and millions of other millennials) that we are not wanted here.
I suppose you could say that my question were an ad hominem argument if it were an argument, but it's not - it's a question. Your comments shocked me by how mean they were, even relative to the other stuff that I read on here. And I have vague memories of having been shocked in the past by how mean you were on other occasions—I don't remember anything specific, but I have a residual Pavlovian wince about it. All of that made want to ask you why.
Certainly there's nothing new under the sun. The difference is the degree in which these people are prominent in media and the zeitgeist, to the point where they make a comfortable living from this work.
Most privacy policies say that continued use constitutes acceptance. Does anybody know why this update requires explicit acceptance? What's in it that's so serious?
Yes, it does but through that centralization of accounts, you are fundamentally changing how monetary policy operates (again, the concept of high-powered money changes totally...we are talking about the most fundamental aspects of how monetary policy works).

If you read about Positive Money, they have written a few books about how this works. A significant simplification is: our monetary policy would be more like Japan pre-1991...but it is more complex than this (the politics of this are also significantly more complex...no-one has written any books about this). But reading something like Mishkin is a better starting point.

EDIT: there is no "money multiplier" in the real economy, that is a device used to teach undergraduates...when banks make a loan, they just credit your deposit account, the money doesn't come from anywhere, the bank needs no reserves (reserve requirements are used functionally in China, I don't believe they are functional in the US, and they haven't been a central policy instrument in monetary policy generally since the 60s)...so the central bank "outsources" money creation to private banks, the exact purpose of these proposals is to stop this outsourcing although the actual implementation will vary.
Unfortunately countless coastal communities will happily watch their children flee so that they can keep their "beach bungalow vibe" or whatever other delusion they have. Meanwhile we will keep building huge roads and parking lots to accomodate their lifestyle.
Printing tons of money is not “heroic”. There is nothing difficult about handing out trillions of dollars.
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To add, one have a minimum wage while the other have a system where politicians have no say in wages (it's decided by employers and unions).
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> White “progressives” have not made Omar (or Tlaib) the face of anything, nor does Omar pretend to speak for all Muslims (or all Somali refugees for that matter). Omar also does not have “extreme” views; she is a mainstream Democrat with mainstream center-left policy positions.

Not even Democrats think she’s a “mainstream Democrat.” Political she’s squarely in the progressive wing. But my point was theological. She has extreme views on social issues recognized by virtually no American Muslim scholars.

I didn’t form any opinions of Omar from watching “Fox News.” I’m a longtime Democrat, from a Muslim country, who started watching Fox News during the Trump era because I was sick of progressives trading on the moral authority of purporting to represent Muslims while amplifying people like Omar whose views are highly unrepresentative of Muslims.

Progressives shouldn’t amplify the voices of moderate and conservative Muslims. They should stop acting like they represent “people of color” when the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is as white as the Republican Party.
We don't even need to ban single-family houses; we just need to repeal the laws that ban everything else. People who want to pay extra for SFHs will continue to be able to do so, but crucially, people who want to put something else on their land would be able to as well. Those folks would build enough housing to accommodate at least a doubling of the state population.
so true!! we need to let more people out like this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1390418462820814...

the stabber was being oppressed and just took out his oppression. we shouldn’t arrest him either. we just let
him out for his previous violent crime
I wonder if this is why I'm not able to see photos friends send me anymore, I have to ask them to use SMS instead
> It's like blaming co2 emissions on fossil fuel companies

But it's not. In this scheme, the emissions get assigned to the people driving, and not to the oil companies (except the emissions produced during oil extraction).

The "don't count exports" scheme is easy to fool. Focus your economy into products that require high emissions to produce (and don't bother trying to reduce these emissions, that way you can undercut foreign markets better), export them, import low emissions products, and you get the moral high-ground that, once your exports are ignored, you're producing little emissions, even as those exports enrich you.
Considering that is how congressional seats are apportioned, there is plenty of reason to fudge the numbers.
My dad rejects the hyphenated American label. He prefers to be called just “an American.” These days that’s a right wing view.
A Hitchiker's Guide to SQLite with Python
California is BIG. You've got lots of room.
Sure, but only if you have write access to the binary. If you have that you can already replace it with anything you like, so I am not seeing the privilege escalation there.
Easier said then done. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/NotMadeInChina/ for some cases where you can get a nmic product, but if you go to a store to shop or even shop on Amazon, it’s increasingly difficult. Amazon doesn’t even show country of origin, so you usually have to go to the Q&A to see if it’s been answered. Almost certainly it will say something like, “our products are proudly designed by our team in Sweden and manufactured by our partner in China.”
Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27082295
If housing in California were affordable I'd come and sweep the forests myself.
8051. Quite a popular microcontroller.
The job of education is to maximize the potential of my kid, not to use my kid as a vehicle to fix society’s problems.

As to your claim of immigrants “sucking up”—if I wanted to suck up to elite whites I’d embrace teaching kids of color about “white supremacy.” If I didn’t think it would hurt my kid I would have no incentivize to oppose it.