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Yep.

Japan's urban population is somewhere between stagnating and declining, not increasing. The contraction trend is even worse in most of their cities other than Tokyo.

Simultaneously the percentage of the population that is urban, is very slowly increasing.

Those are two very different things. Their cities are net contracting in population. They're now nationally losing people faster than they're urbanizing. They're currently losing around a quarter of a million people per year nationally. Their cities are not expanding faster than that drop. And given their already very high urbanization rate (and very slow rate of urbanization increase), it's unlikely anything will significantly change in that regard. This decade will see either a mostly flat population trend in Tokyo, or a modest contraction. What it won't show, is a meaningful expansion, as their national population contraction gets worse.

The pandemic put enough pressure on Tokyo that it actually contracted for the first time in ~25 years.

February 25, 2021

"Tokyo, Feb. 25 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo's estimated population fell by 662 from a year before to 13,952,915 as of Feb. 1, marking its first year-on-year decline in about 25 years, the metropolitan government said Thursday."

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2021022500969/

However, if you go back further, you can see the trend was already toward decline. This is from 2019:

June, 2019, The Guardian

"Has Tokyo reached ‘peak city’?"

"One could argue that the world’s biggest city has hit a sweet spot: a flatlining population, pervasive transit and little gentrification. But is ‘peak city’ even possible – and where does Tokyo go from here?"

"Unlike many megacities, the world’s largest metropolitan area has largely stopped growing, either in land or population."

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/14/has-tokyo-rea...
Related to the post, I've enjoyed using the Trocker extension[0].

[0] https://trockerapp.github.io/
You use more open source software than you think
I never get an email confirmation when I try to sign up for Starboard :(

Edit: Suddenly got both!
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Most RTOS are 'language centric', it's just that the language is C.
> People can change, but in the end it's all probabilities and statistical distributions: it's much easier to be constantly exercising all our lives or working hard all our lives than to have a Damascus moment and radically change our ways (and it's much easier to move in the direction of less, rather than more, effort or commitment).

Yes, that's right. People CAN change, but they usually don't.

> But I remember seeing a picture of PG taken at one of the YC events a few years ago and immediately thinking " this physical condition is approaching heart-attack risk". From reading his tweets, from which it's clear how much he loves his kids, it's easy to come to the conclusion that we all have some sort of ongoing cognitive dissonance and convenient rationalizations for whatever behavior we support or defend.

You could just as easily be describing my dad. I'm going to call him on the cognitive dissonance next time we Skype. I don't expect he will change, see the first point, but I have to try.

> I could make up all kinds of rationalizations for why work-life balance is important and spending time with our families is fulfilling and cite that shaky study about people on their deathbeds who say they regret spending too much time at work and not enough time with their loved ones.

I would say that's very true. Balance is important, but one might temporarily balance things at an unsustainable level to achieve an important goal. Or one might find other ways of compensating. I'm a workaholic, but I balance that with my marriage by spending almost no time on outside relationships. My wife gets almost all my free time, so it's functional.

> Yes, a more exciting work environment, with more agency, surrounded by brilliant people is more inviting (for some!) than working in a top-down, no-agency workplace. But most of all, I confess that I don't like to spend too much time working, which doesn't mean I love not doing anything, but that I don’t like working the way we normally think of it, which can include: managers, deadlines, commuting, finding someone to cover for us when we have to go to the hospital when a parent isn't feeling well, performance reviews, or the usual start-up issues we all know.

Well you're talking about the same plodding kind of work PG is talking about. Who enjoys that or wants to overwork on that (unless there's some concrete benefit that makes it worthwhile for temporarily doing so.) I don't overwork on my day job. I will put in more hours if it's an emergency, but then I take that time off afterwards when things settle down. I don't ask permission, I just say I worked overtime yesterday to fix the problem we had, so Friday will be a half-day for me. If an employer objected you can bet next time there's an emergency I will leave it until the next day.

I overwork on my own projects, and that's fine by me. That's also when I feel most alive and happy (at least when things are going well) - even more sore than playing games or drinking with friends or whatever other activity I enjoy.
Another very useful pointer. Thank you.

I wonder what "Files are automatically optimized" means, exactly?

Have tried this out.

(See comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452226)
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Transferwise (now they are just known as Wise). Been using them for a while for business/vendor payments internationally. Works well and had few minor glitches over the years. Decent FX rates even though they do charge transaction fee on top. But works for us.
In my city (Milwaukee Wi) there are plenty of areas with single family houses, less than 10 units/acre with 0-1 cars per house.

It’s not that uncommon in the US, especially in poorer areas
Thunderbird by default.

Turning in html should be an option done only when really needed.
My impression is that Gmail prefetches ALL email images, and then serves them to the reader via their CDN. (Checking a random email in my inbox demonstrates this, https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/...)

As a result, I thought there was no signal for tracking pixels? I might be wrong though
Here's an question... Suppose I'd like to send emails that include images. The images are content, I don't care about tracking. Is there any way to do that in a way that's privacy friendly?

The natural way of doing this would be embedded images. However, it seems that many mail clients don't support these. (https://www.emaillistvalidation.com/blog/embedded-image-supp...)

Are there any other options? The only other option I can see would be to use SVG images and then sort of "compile" the SVG into the html source. However, given how email clients have limited html support, this doesn't seem workable either...

It's frustrating that these tracking pixels have made genuine content images so unreliable.
Seriously curious, what percentage is “fair”? Or is the issue you can’t side load this app without going through the App Store?
> There is no malice in the law as it is written, its just data protection _from_ the US government.

That is absolutely not the reason for this regulation existing.
> This is more about NIMBY attitudes and zoning laws, which are separate issues.

NIMBY issues and zoning laws are very much not separate issues when one of the chief selling points of LVT is building denser. It's a selling point the public aren't buying because they mostly don't want the value-maximising development next door, and being taxed as if they could develop it whilst still living in a zoned area so they can't is obviously worse. Sure, an LVT can be designed with deductions and exemptions for land use restrictions (and would have to be), but that's conceding away one of its key purported advantages.

> An LVT won't tax the house, only the value of the land. If the plot itself is hyper-valuable, that's not a bad place to be, financially speaking. Beyond that, "won't someone think of the poor landowners?" doesn't strike me as a very compelling argument in this day and age.

"Let's ignore the poor landowners" is a much worse place to be if you're trying to win over the large portion of the electorate which owns some land, which in most cases is probably the second most valuable thing they own after the house they live in (which is separate from the land for tax valuation purposes, but not in the reality that if they can't afford the land it sits on, they're under pressure to sell their home) and not closely coupled to their current income. The general principle of Georgist efficiency is that people on low incomes relative to the value of the land their house are forced to sell and this should drive down land prices for everyone, but the prospect of devaluation or forced sale of very expensive stuff they've already paid for is even less appealing to voters than being taxed on next year's unspent income. (Also, the entities which own the majority of the land turn out to be both less profitable and more relevant to the cost of basic goods like food than the businesses liberated from tax)

Regardless of whether you think these are not insurmountable problems for LVT or not, the thought of being caricatured as the guy who wants the tax system to force people to develop their homes into nice efficient apartment towers or sell in a great hurry to someone with deeper pockets is a much bigger concern for politicians than the thought people with different economic philosophies might actually agree with them for a change.
What? The primary revenue source of Mozilla is Firefox due to the search engine revenue they get
> they know your neighbors will do the dirty work of artificially constraining the housing supply, which makes it a good investment

...until your neighbors are all renters, at which point the tide turns?
Can you point me to some mice and / or keyboards that can do that? I searched for something like this for ages and gave up.
Sidecar is VNC, universal control is synergy.
Perhaps in practice, if they passed the M&Ms check, you would say "Great, okay, now talk me through all the other things you set up." whereas if they failed that test, you would say "I'm not willing to take your word on anything, so I'm going to call in an external auditor to check everything, and I'll recover the costs of that from you, for breach of contract."
only if the "wrong" people are in power

/s
The image is dynamically generated at request time, so there isn't much Gmail can do, aside from eagerly preloading all images as soon as the email comes in.
Well put.

For simplicity, in js+help.html, not markdown, but plain HTML.
No it isn't, the FED is buying mortgages and treasuries to keep the rates from rising.

How can you say rates would be higher absent the FED buying it?

Rates aren't negative nominally, but they are negative taking inflation into account.
Generally speaking these features maybe are faster on M1 but I don't fully buy into the claim that this is a technical requirement. Seems more like a technical decision to me.

As a user it would be vastly preferable for Apple to deploy these features to both cpu architectures, and sure M1 would offer acceleration and better performance.

Considering that Apple hasn't finished fully migrating their hardware lineup to M1 (and are still selling intel macs), this deprecation feels a bit rushed.
Hey, that’s an awesome resource!
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The GP alluded to housing being a scarce good. Yes, you can increase housing density, but you eventually hit a wall where infrastructure is limiting and expensive to build meaning that you can't drop the price of housing. At which point the only solution is to build more cities or enter a death spiral.

It's why China had to start building cities, eventually density stops being economically feasible either.
That’s quite the burden of proof. Is someone supposed to collect a bunch (how big a bunch, exactly) of infected humanized mice in a room and introduce COVID-naive volunteers with various mask types or no masks into the room for varying times to see who gets sick?

It seems to me that a better approach would be for the lab to sequence all the virus samples they surely kept and see how similar they are to SARS-nCoV-2.
What kinds of tasks can Ansible do that Packer isn't also capable of?
Also consider that cache is typically a substantial portion of the die, that's some impressive cost savings to be able to etch the wafer without having to worry about the greater area with cache resulting in a potentially defective chip. Smaller chips, more chips on a wafer, less loss overall with a defect.
> But that is my entire point. SMS as a second factor is purely additive. It cannot reduce security.

It most certainly can reduce security, that's the point. If I don't have a phone number on my account (which I almost universally don't) then no amount of SMS hijacking will ever matter.

If some provider forces me to put a phone number in, now I may be vulnerable to a weakness I didn't want to be vulnerable to. Maaybe today that particular provider uses SMS in a stricly additive sense. Maybe. Just as likely next month they'll redesign their site to be "easier" and add back the vulnerability.

Same with recovery questions. They make the security stricly worse for most people since they are password-equivalents with far lower entropy. Although personally my best friend from high school was named D3ho9WvylJkws1zfAKUxZjdYuCsS.
Because it works better. Two very close antennas and two halves of a transformer are just a matter of tuning and opinion.
>> Why do people idolise him just because he is rich? China is going to be china.

>Said someone on a website where billionaires are idolized... just because they're rich.

Said someone on a website where people do the things which that person is criticizing.
> Either there is enough new land, then people eventually spread out (and prices revert to the CPI, to the cost of construction), or there isn't enough land and homelessness increases as more and more people are completely priced out.

It's not binary. People like to live near other people in cities. Demand to live close to one's job, friends, activities, and loved ones drives up prices in dense areas even with unlimited room to expand elsewhere.

Desirable locations are desirable even on an infinitely-sized map.
I've been a user of Synergy for many years.

Note that it doesn't like when any of the computers involved go to sleep. There's a reason you can bind a hotkey to restart the server.
I'd say the real "problem" with spending on yachts and other luxuries is that it takes real value to make - skilled labourers and valuable materials going to something that doesn't provide that much human happiness. Not saying the ultra rich shouldn't be allowed to spend their money how they want, just that it does seem to have consequences to me.
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That explains it. I looked it up and it does indeed say that it impacts those cases more when both people are high earners. Thanks. :-)
Apple technologies in general are great when they work, but entirely impervious to troubleshooting.
I wasn't very clear in my statement about migrations, sorry. I'll put it another way: the only migrations you should run in dev are ones you intend to eventually run in production.

The process of loading a base dump and then running SQL scripts is precisely to mimic what will happen when you release to production. As you say, this is a good test bed!

What you shouldn't do is try to move between existing intermediate, non-production-like, states of the database by migrating. And really, what i object to are down migrations, because you won't ever use those in production. Migrating up is not so bad. But since running individual up migrations is something you will never do in production, why do it in dev?

Indeed, always running your whole queue of up migrations on top of a fresh base dump is a way of catching the kind of problem you hit in production, where existing data violates a new constraint.

The nuke-and-pave rebuild approach also avoids the problem of moving between branches and reverting pushed but unreleased schema changes. Those become trivial.

As you say, and as i said in my initial comment, there will be data in production that you can't or don't want to use in dev for some reason. But that's just another development task - you need to take your base dumps in such a way that that data is not included. You can exclude certain tables. You can only dump certain rows, corresponding to some kind of testing user etc (one bank i worked with had a "shadow branch" defined in their production systems, a made-up branch with made-up customers, that they could use for final testing in the actual production environment). You can dump into an intermediate database in production, anonymise and delete any data you need to, and then take the base dump. I'm sure there are loads of ways to do this.
>gmail let's this behaviour

I'm assuming the server is just responding with a different image depending on a query param embedded in the image url? (an old technique), what should google do? any remote image url could respond with a new image in an old email it's just rare that it happens.
In this case it’s because Firefox doesn’t support the necessary APIs for FaceTime rather than just not testing.
If they FBI did actually crack a private key, it would almost certainly have to be with a top secret, insanely powerful quantum computer that's decades ahead of what is publicly known to exist. The existence of such a computer that could crack bitcoin private keys would also be a powerful tool against every organization on the planet and their ability to maintain secrets.

I'm referring for post quantum cryptography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography, which would negate the usefulness of such a quantum computer at cracking competitor secrets.

Bottom line, there are much more useful things you could use this computer for, like cracking all encrypted communications of a foreign power or hacking into their military or financial systems. Using it to crack a single bitcoin key to recover a few million dollars only serves to alert all your adversaries that it's time to upgrade their cryptography.
>But the one thing that was never an inspiration for the pirate flag: music piracy.

Give me a break. That is ridiculous and unbelievable. The entire point of Grooveshark was music piracy (something else this guy absurdly denies, putting his credibility at 0), and now he's gonna tell us that the giant pirate flag had nothing to do with that?

If I were him, maybe I'd say the same thing to cover my ass. But this is about as obvious of a self-serving lie as any I've ever seen.
That's a bit strange to say. Supply is restricted largely by capital required to compete. Because that results in more profits, it's the default tendency of capitalism/"free market" policies. So in a sense, it's naturally restricted, not artificially.
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I live in Berlin. This place is entirely Giant. It’s a great place to go and hangout in the summer. Two large dog off leash areas and a large outer ring and tons of places to ride cycles and things.

There’s also a few restaurants to eat at before you go exploring.
And what does that have to do with anything? The USA would need 3 billion citizens to rival the density of the Netherlands.

Or are you implying you need a 500sqm house to raise two kids?
They know when google loads the image, which is when you open the email.
Possible misleading title. Apple wants 30% of earnings, not “creator” earnings.
Wow it took 2 years for the PR to get merged.
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And I'm going to guess that's because of Apple restrictions, anyway. Good luck getting past the App Store Review a program that tries to read and/or control the mouse pointer position.

It's already hard enough to do a Synergy-like thing in Android, although technically still barely possible.

I ponder if this is a new business model -- make a shitton types of applications outright impossible in the name of "security", then announce your own (proprietary) implementations of these types of applications that bind people to your brand of devices in order to encourage sales.
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Terrible article.

Of course the virus most likely came from the lab, and had been engineered to be particularly effective against human cells. The burden of proof is one anyone else to show how it possibly evolved a furin cleavage site and many other odd sequences not seen in naturally occurring coronaviruses. And don't forget to explain why the outbreak started right next to the only lab doing gain of function research on coronaviruses, rather than near the bats thousands of miles away.

The dark truth is the "public health establishment" is happy there was an outbreak, anything to pretend they're the least bit important (they're not, and they got every single decision wrong during the pandemic).
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Gmail proxies images, if you send everybody the same image you will get very little information about who is grabbing the image and when (i.e. you'll be able to tell when google (re)populates the cache which gives some small indication that your email is being opened).
There's a loose vs lose typo in the second paragraph. It's like school teachers whipped they're, their, there into our heads and where one typo door closes another opens.
I was talking about behavior following a decision tree. You're talking about arguments. The "else" can't exactly be undetermined here. In checking out the M&Ms, he's making a choice to check the production in that moment or not. (Of course, he can check it later, too).
A bold prediction to be sure.

I hope you're right!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/03/25/the-...

This is pretty recent.
Kelly is special though, it's not just log utility. In fact, viewing it as maximizing log utility is ahistorical; the original derivation was in terms of information theory. (The paper's title is "A new interpretation of information rate" [0].) Further, and most importantly, Kelly betting has certain favorable asymptotic properties that betting strategies motivated by other utility functions don't have. See Breiman's "Optimal gambling systems for favorable games" [1].

This point is well known in the literature, for instance see [2]:

> Perhaps one reason is that maximizing E log S suggests that the investor has a logarithmic utility for money. However, the criticism of the choice of utility functions ignores the fact that maximizing E log S is a consequence of the goals represented by properties P1 and P2, and has nothing to do with utility theory.

[0] https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/refs/kelly_56.pdf

[1] http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Resources/FTSResou...

[2] https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/moor.5.2.161
I don't understand the question.

Who decided that we needed to migrate to HTTPs everywhere? Or that authentication for online bank accounts needed to be encrypted?

As cracking of traditional encryption becomes an obvious problem, systems will be upgraded or people will vote with their feet.
Memory is fallible. I know because I remember my memory failing me. If that meta-memory is accurate, then it is evidence that my memory is fallible. If it is inaccurate, then I remember something that didn't happen, so my memory is fallible anyway.