skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to affect an objective morality to say it's "wrong", I'm just saying the US does it too. So let's not get up in arms about supposed Chinese internet commenters or Russian fake news.
California is paradise, still, except for the exclusion which leads to high prices, and the car-dependent city design which leads to traffic and misery.

There's one trick to solve both these at once, while simultaneously helping the environment: more mixed-use walkable housing close to job centers.
> Even more importantly: Kagi didn’t review our app. I suppose, if we had been selling something egregious in some way, they might have learned of it and cut us off. But that’s a standard business relationship. Kagi was not a gatekeeper.

The community of Mac software vendors was tiny in 2003. And the "No Virus on Macs" marketing was true because of the tiny marketshare.
Implementing that policy would require the central bank to be doing a wholesale analysis of consumer spending (local restaurants). That's an extreme increase in the amount of citizens information we're giving to the government, for at best a dubious reason.
Natural language interfaces are coming
Obviously Opera ;). Then just switch back to Chrome when you want to visit Opera's website to close the loop.
What is the evidence that Marc Andreessen is a NIMBY other than he lives close to his office?
The company is Desktop Metal https://www.desktopmetal.com/

The technology is Forust: https://www.forust.com/

(why are neither linked in the Gizmodo article?!)
You clearly don’t understand my point. It becomes location data as soon as it’s triggered.
Central banks can only create high powered money.

How high powered money gets intermediated into actual economic activity is probably one of the largest unknown factors in central banking/monetary policy. This would, in theory, remove that discussion.

That being said, if you are familiar with the history of monetary policy across countries, there is already quite a significant spectrum of central banks adopting new approaches to this problem. And it is not particularly evident that removing banks from the equation improves outcomes (although this is one of those lessons that falls in the blind spot of certain popular ideologies today).

Simply: when you talk about disintermediation of banks, you get into the discussion of whether central banks are able to make lending decisions better than banks. When this works, as in Japan pre-1991, it works very well...Japan post-1991 demonstrates that it doesn't always work well.

Also, this would change the politics of monetary policy. Most monetary systems that disintermediate banks are usually one-party states with extremely high levels of centralization of economic authority (you also tend to see heavily monopolized banking sectors, the US is the polar opposite of this, although this may not apply in this case). I am 95% sure that if you attempt to do this in a democracy, you will Zimbabwe your currency quickly and trigger a move away from democracy (unf, this also falls into a blindspot of lots of people today...economics PHds don't learn this stuff). It is very hard to have stable politics when the winner of an election will gain the power to make their family/their associates/all political allies permanently wealthy.

EDIT: because I cannot reply, if you are asking how this fails to change anything...read a monetary policy textbook. There is a deep lack of understanding about basic elements of the financial system here (as ever). This isn't a facetious comment...srs, read a book.
Can someone kindly make clear; I read this entire article assuming that the "digital currency" referenced was a drop-in term for a cryptocurrency minted and controlled by a central bank. I realise now I have no idea how China are implementing the e-Yuan.
Also like a very steep negative interest rate.
A16Z’s interests are aligned against nimbyism, not with it, so it’s completely fallacious to treat Marc Andreesen and Atherton as synonymous entities.
In retrospect, replacing fall with live-action Dante's Inferno was suboptimal.
Normal contracts can accomplish everyone of those things. What is missing your your comment (and the article) is an explanation how how these things are magically easier to do with a new digital currency rather just adding feautures our our existing transaction infrastructures.
I'm interested in what your opinion is of the exact same thing with poor countries burning lots of coal and polluting the oceans to lift their population out of poverty. Is it okay for China and India to have their time doing industrial era style pollution today or should we try to apply our modern anti-pollution rules on them?

Because when the rich western countries have launched lots and lots of satellits then poor countries do of course have the right to launch just as many, with no further caution than we use today at launch and positioning, when it's their turn to shine on the night shy.

I'm sure my opinion of Starlink is clear..
I think it is one of those situations where hindsight results in overly rose-colored views. The F-16 (as with a number of single-engined aircraft) was nicknamed "lawn-dart", and the F-18 required a mid-career SuperHornet upgrade into a different aircraft. The F-14 was a hangar-queen, etc. etc.
The primary reason we have a fire season at all is that we don't let people build housing in California's existing cities and towns, and so instead they sprawl out into fire-prone areas requiring long-distance power lines.

https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/news/release/wui-interface-intermi...
As other have pointed out, most money is already digital. This is really about retail bank accounts at central banks, and how how this gives policy makers additional tools.

Which..... seems fine? As long as companies can build products on top of this system, and as long as people can diversify across various types of e-dollars and the existing set of securities, it sounds pretty good.

And for the parts of the world where few people have bank accounts, it sounds like an obvious big win.
I've been measuring the extent of romanization of local languages in india and in the web age it is only accelerating. The vast majority of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil content is written in the English alphabet online - https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.wnut-1.24.pdf

Romanized Hindi / En / tamil are likely the dominant form of expression online - only going to keep growing at this point.
TF supports this just fine
May I know which country you live in? - that pricing for sms is absurd
My company is on the next stage, which is vaccine threatening. I’ve already been through my first dose and will get a second, but the corporate threat to others is: if you don’t get a vaccine you may not be able to go to client sites and complete your job (i.e you’ll probably be fired.) They haven’t yet made a decision on whether vaccines will be required for the office that they’re making people return to. I endorse vaccination and would recommend it if asked, but it doesn’t sit right with me to force people into making a decision that they’re uncomfortable with. If we don’t get vaccination high enough for herd immunity it would be something that you could start to make a case for, but we have to see how the voluntary participation goes first.
Agreed; The F-35 was the "low" mix of "high-low", and has now transformed into the "Ferrari you don't take out every day".
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-...]
Related past threads:

Little Free Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20637291 - Aug 2019 (2 comments)

Little Free Pantry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20224309 - June 2019 (54 comments) - might as well include this one

Against Little Free Libraries (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19700204 - April 2019 (59 comments)

RIP Todd Bol, Inventor of ‘Little Free Libraries’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18286738 - Oct 2018 (33 comments)

Against Little Free Libraries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14282076 - May 2017 (1 comment)

An enclosure to house books outside your house, borrow or leave a book for free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206407 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)

The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089716 - Feb 2015 (1 comment)

Little Free Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8237696 - Aug 2014 (32 comments)
Not sure it is even disguised at this point; it is also very effective at this.
Not sure why, but the most interesting comment here to me is marked [dead]
Some things are priceless because they're worthless and this op-ed is one of them. Yes professional development is hard, but blaming your remotes entirely for their lack of it will only make it harder. The remote workers I know are busy gleaning important details from the multitudes of emails their CEOs and managers send because they're "too busy" to talk on the phone. This CEO needs to learn about "passing the buck" before she attempts "professional development."
I think digital currency in the CBDC (central bank digital) sense is that its "programmable money." For example my understanding is that the beta testers (my term) for the e-yuan literally have 30 days to spend the currency through alipay or whatever they're using or it disappears forever. I'm sort of looking at it as a combo of regular money and smart contracts but thats just me.

Interestingly Jim Bianco (who you may see regularly on old-financial media) argues that all of these currencies will fail in favor of the defi stuff that's already being spun up. For example by the time fed coin is even being tested (2025) the technologies behind cryptos will be so mature that the tech the us fed is using (from 2015) will be dead on arrival
Crypto is tied to far more esoteric whims. Honestly the Fed has done an absolutely heroic job in the last 20 years and proven the USD to be almost indestructible. Crypto was founded for privacy, not for it's economic foundations which are still nonsense.
I went through a bit of having trouble getting them to initialize consistently too. But I eventually went back to the original Hitachi "LCD Driver Data Book" from 1985 and used the initialization timing and sequence from that, and since then I've never had an issue with any of the clones.
I am surprised that the article fails to mention that the traditional Mongolian script is, in fact, a form of the modern Aramaic script (Syriac). (This fun fact makes the history of Mongolian writing system much more interesting.)
Man, I am so sick of my industry being a punching bag.

I work in "Wall Street".

My firm sells things to those who want to buy them in a highly regulated marketplace with considerable governmental and self-regulatory oversight.

We do this on behalf of investors who entrust us to use their capital as fiduciaries for their, and their clients, best interests.

We solve challenging problems with cutting edge approaches involving non-trivial technical, statistical, and business considerations.

And we are not paid _poorly_ for our efforts.

Please stop pushing a strawman financial industry narrative that we've no meaningful mission to serve your industry's recruiting needs. I don't poo on biotech to source my hires.

(Of course none of this constitutes financial, or personal, advice.)
Fortunately, there’s a competitive crypto landscape. If none of these are actually decentralized, people will move to different currencies. Sure it will be turbulent, but we’ll probably get to something effectively decentralized eventually.
I love someone from Florida calling California's political system dysfunctional.
LOL. OK. How many lives could’ve been saved if everyone had Covid exposure notifications enabled during the pandemic? The answer is most certainly not zero. Maybe it’s hundreds or thousands.
there is a weird UI thing too, I know people message or call me by whatsapp when they intended to use the phone or SMS.

probably something like the preferred network to talk to someone or something.
Also need to emphasize the absolute necessity of VTOL
Why no need for highrises?
The IPA is invaluable for studying human language, not just _a_ language. I.e.: For linguists.

For individuals wishing to learn a foreign language, the IPA probably isn't super helpful. Your mind needs to learn to pick up on new sounds if you are going to be able to converse anyway and you should definitely learn your target language's orthography to be a proficient reader/writer.

That said, I enjoy learning languages in addition to studying (comparing, contrasting, etc) and have found the IPA helpful to give me a leg up on that. Therefore, I recommend the IPA for polyglots and linguists.
Personally, the association of "top", "highest", "up", and "increase" is strongest, and similarly "bottom", "lowest", "down", and "decrease"; so from that perspective it's "top" and "bottom" when applied to the stack which is the inconsistent one.

I think it's better to just stop drawing memory diagrams vertically, and show it horizontally instead. At least most people seem to agree that left is lower and right is higher.
So, the next generation of fintech companies will just be interfaces on top of our central banks' financial plumbing?

This really would crash the utility of transfer apps like Venmo to zero.
Vote with your feet. At least send your property taxes to a town that allows for at least some multi-unit housing (Palo alto isn’t great but it’s better and right next door).
Some past threads:

The XY Problem (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20068686 - June 2019 (158 comments)

Ask HN: What's your favorite technical formulation (i.e., the XY problem)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17344147 - June 2018 (1 comment)

The XY problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13578522 - Feb 2017 (1 comment)

The XY Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023882 - Aug 2015 (70 comments)

The X-Y Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52486 - Sept 2007 (1 comment)
There are always going to be outliers (people in cities who use a lot of water, and people outside who don't), but on average you will always find that city families tend to use less water than non-city families.

In other words, public policies that divert people away from cities tend to increase water consumption (and harm the environment by just about any other metric you can name.)
I still fail to see how a new digital currency makes this easier compared to just modernizing the US payment infrastructure or letting the central bank provide retail banking services in our current currencies.
I don't think the issue is that people are growing almonds in California or even that growing almonds in California takes a large amount of water. The issue as I understand it is that water rights in California (and everywhere else) are a mess and that there are no incentives that would allow water rights that are being used for relatively unproductive uses to be transferred to people using them for more productive uses.
Wrong. Carbon accounting suggests it's easier to make cuts in the people who are using the most as they have far more fat to trim and you can get dramatically greater reductions in environmental damage with much smaller impact to overall. standard of living

This is both the moral and practical solution, it's just not what people want to hear.
Sure. That doesn’t change the fact that many are now being paid to not work.
Original author here, my fault.

I think it made more sense when there were less satellites, but this was a pretty common opinion from the start.
parabolic charts go brrr.
I'll give my perspective which I think is very different than the rest of the HN crowd here in the comments. I think this mainly stems from the fact that I'm probably much younger than a lot of the folks here. I do a lot of random shopping online...

I opted into the FB tracking when I got the popup yesterday because I do FB/IG a lot and I click on interesting ads. Honestly, I tend to buy quite a bit from the ads that I see because they genuinely interest me, and a lot of them are from smaller businesses that I want to try out. If I see ads on FB/IG, at least I want them to be relevant to me rather than be generic.
I thought of beer first too, but lucky for me I enjoy both these IPAs!
Actually I think the real reason is that PG&E has ≈100 year old power lines with components that are well past their service life and regularly arc/fail causing fires. But there doesn't appear to be any accountability for their lack of maintenance.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-images-of-pge-...
Personally, I disagree, the people of California are probably one of the best parts of it, IMHO. If it's just the climate or the views, there are many other great places in the West coast that are cheaper and have the same natural amenities. But the people are irreplaceable, which is what make California so much more desirable than those other places that you aren't living.

However if there was a system for limiting access, then I think it should be a time based thing, where you get like 30 years but then have to leave. It's the only fair way to deal with an in-demand resources and would quickly get rid of the people that don't really care for it much but are still here just because it's what they know.
To your first point, software and computer science are in their infancy. To say software has reached its limit speaks of the abilities, and imagination of the author.

As to your second point, we did have people with exceptional sense of social responsibility in software, but multiple factors, including easy/fast money, unspoken agendas, both co-opted and corrupted some, and drew in 'fresh blood' that was motivated purely by the new social cachet & easy fortunes of software work. (These are the ones Alan Kay would say are the 'pop artists' of 'pop software'.)

As to innovation and "limits", there are legion and everything from the hardware, OS, libraries, to languages are on the table for innovating, to say nothing of theoretical breakthroughs in pure comp-sci.

Software is the closest thing to magic we have in the modern world. The imaginal sky is the limit.
LOL, this is some kind of Poe’s Law thing. Anyhoo the reason that these cartel tortures are filmed is to send to the family and associates of the victim and others who would think of working against the cartel. The purpose is to scare the fuck out of anyone trying to disrupt or compete with the cartel. The audience is the only reason it is filmed. Before phones they would just leave the flayed head in the town square or similar.
False. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/21/18230009/v...
Depends on the area. In some places (Canada, and I think California) gift cards don't expire.
StatusSnyc lets you sync your slack status in all of your workspaces
StatusSnyc is a Slack app that lets you sync your slack status in all of your workspaces no matter in which workspace you change it.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/statussnyc
StatusSnyc:
https://statussnyc.com/
US households are slightly bigger than European households (2.6 vs 2.2-2.3), but yeah, the US is on average much richer than most wealthier European states. A good comparison is states to countries - Germany is about the level of Alabama and UK is like Mississippi I think.
I'm not saying you need to become extroverted. "Introverts tend to feel drained after socializing and regain their energy by spending time alone. This is largely because introverts’ brains respond to dopamine differently than extroverts’ brains"[0]. Introvert is different than being shy. If your brain responds to dopamine differently than an extroverted person's, then you can't change this.

But I'm not suggesting you change, I'm suggesting that you learn how to balance your energy throughout the day. If socializing drains you, and being alone recharges you, you'll need to schedule your day around that. And you'll need to find a manager position that will allow you to do that.

[0]: https://introvertdear.com/what-is-an-introvert-definition/
That's the plan Stan. every transaction being recorded, and taking away citizens ability to not report income is the ultimate goal. Get rid of cash, make every transaction knowable, and suddenly the government's ability to collect it's taxes due becomes omnipotent
Is there any evidence that Musk actually owns Doge? I think he's said something like, it's fun as a meme but has too much central ownership for him to actually buy it.

(wouldn't be shocked if he holds BTC though, since he got Tesla to buy in there)
Most of California, even the densest regions like the city of San Francisco, are covered in a sea of single-family houses. This is primarily because in the 1970's, all other kinds of housing were banned. See, for instance, the map at:

http://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/

If we allowed four-story apartment buildings again like we used to, the state's population could easily double in size without even having to raise a single height limit anywhere.

(However, I should mention that I, for one, think six-story apartments are where it's at.)
And now they downvote you. The russian nesting dolls of downvotes by the increase of post-covid 19 HN crowd.

When it comes to communities I suppose too much success brings its own form of failure.

This is just an observation of downvotes over the last couple of months for what was once normal commentary, observations or stating facts.
For one, existing transaction infrastructures suck terribly with massive legacy tech debt that seems to make it impossible to do even simple things like use chip cards sanely?
Just want to chime in that where I live in Portland Oregon, these are common enough in my neighborhood you'll find one every few blocks. It's a small but neat thing. People really do enjoy this, and interestingly to me, the vandal folks don't tend to mess with them much.
Then you've been with the wrong ones. Here's what my favourite agile coach does first thing in his courses. I've seen him consistently do this over many many times I've seen/participated in his courses:

He runs a self organization exercise!

You laugh now because you imagine it the way you described it.

Well actually the first thing he does is to appoint someone as 'the worst micro manager in the world' and asks them to sort participant's by number of years of experience with agile development. He times this with a stop watch.

When that's done he simply states that he wants participants to self organize standing next to each other sorted from one end to the other by number of years of experience in software development now. He then stands somewhere in the middle of the room himself and just starts repeating over and over "21 years, 21 years, 21 years,..."

Usually it takes a little while for people to 'get' what he's doing but he stoically just repeats his 2 words.

This is timed too of course. It's interesting how much less organized the second round seems when you are in the room watching this. But it's so much faster and gets the point across brilliantly if you ask me.
Probably if you just sold like in the past few months, if it was a year ago or longer, probably not. And yes, I agree that will probably be seen as save in 1.5 years.
The other thing to remember is you generally expect population growth. Even if the decline isn't significant, it means theirs no growth.

This is a good thing. California is a horrible horrible place for most working class people. You will never get ahead.
It's an extreme tangent and exaggerated by a million million times. That means it has no connection to the story at all.

Maybe I'm wrong to not find it funny, but I'm not a buzzkill in general, I just think this joke doesn't work and needs to be workshopped.

And if we did get up to the ridiculous scale to block even half a percent of sunlight I'm pretty sure that would actually be a good thing.