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> It's a bit of a tradeoff. As consumers, we get some benefits and the company gets their existence & rent guaranteed indefinitely.

You have misunderstood regulatory capture. Regulatory capture occurs when the regulator puts the interests of those in the industry ahead of consumers.

> In return, this regulation raised the startup costs so significantly that only the pre-existing large companies could adapt and new entrants effectively ceased to exist.

This isn't regulatory capture. Regulatory capture is things like making laws that it is only possible for incumbents to be licensed to do specific jobs.
Well, that's certainly an opinion...

The lumber industries in the 90's were dead set on aggressively clearcutting old growth forest. Once environmentalists started having successes slowing them down, the lumber industry started using salvage logging exemptions to bypass environmental regulations and log protected areas. If a small fire ran through an old-growth area (a good and healthy event!), you could bet that it would soon be followed by an effort to cut down the 'damaged' surviving trees.

The Timber Wars podcast is a pretty great recent look at the forest politics of the 80's and 90's. I think it does a great job of presenting many sides of the issues. At the end, it demonstrates a much closer relationship between current working environmentalists and lumber operations, with environmentalists even working to keep a mill open at one point. (Because they, too, support selective logging and healthy forests.)

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/906829608/timber-wars
brings back memories. indigo2. my wife almosted killed me.
The top 400 wealthiest could purchase 246 Nimitz class aircraft carriers, and still have about $2B in change ($5M each). The US has 10 (of 20 total US carriers). Or, put another way, the top 400 could duplicate the entire US Navy fleet 5 times over (so, like, 55 super carriers, 100 carriers, 340 destroyers, 330 submarines, 2560 F/A-18E/F, etc.) and still have $370B in change ($925M each).
More like, "kind of thing I'd expect the states of Texas or Alabama to be doing".
I changed the condition from good to fair to poor as well as the trim levels, and got the same price every time
I care about the future, I don't care much for reading other people's Magic 8 Balls.

If you like doom prophecies so much, I have one for you!

Looks like the effects of climate change will take us all out before TikTok goes down the drain, so enjoy it while it (and the humanity) lasts.
> Another similar one is the cuckoo filter which works in a similar way to a bloom filter, except it has a inbuilt limit after which it will no longer add items, can delete items

Bloom filters have the same "inbuilt limit" unless you're okay with your false positive rate becoming one!

> and has some different memory characteristics.

Yes, radically lower numbers of memory accesses needed for filter hits, especially in filters with low false positive rates.
And then use those extra hours trolling on the internet?

Something that provides value (liquidity) can’t be rent-seeking.

Likewise the electricity isn’t waste since it enables something people value (bitcoin).
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It is? So, there's an adjustment for people with families, then? And that adjustment gets larger for people with bigger families?

Although I truly don't know the details here, what you are saying is not logically consistent with how these types of things are typically implemented. It's just "you live $HERE, so you make $THIS_MUCH," with no actual regard for expenses.
I always love going to used car listings websites like Cargurus and Autotrader and having to scrub the price range all the way down to the furthest left 2 pixels because I'm not looking for a $250,000 fully specced Toyota, and if I sneeze and move the mouse too far, I get a search result with one car with a salvage title for $2,000 with 250,000 miles on it.

Oh, you're not looking for a $150,000 Ford F-150 either? Weird how they don't do something about that price range UI element user experience.
An enterprise seat is $2400 a year per seat, no? At 3000 seats, isn't it closer to 40-50 years?
Yes this. With I often think about questions like:

- Is this code useful in other contexts? Are there other contexts where I might want this? (Or someone else might want this?)

- Modules have a clear API boundary

- Modules can be described independently of the code which uses them

- Modules can (and should) have their own testing suite, independent of the test suite of the containing module

There's lots of examples; but you can kind of spot code like this in your projects. It has a property of being disentangled. "This just solves this one specific problem I have with strings / event emitters / random numbers / my database, separate from anything else I'm trying to do". "I kinda want to just document this code separate from the documentation of everything else". "I don't want to pull that whole library in, but can I just steal these 3 functions for this other project?"
Except that a Google employee moving to someplace with a weaker economy has not reduced their leverage. These are people who have the power to simply move back.
A bloom filter is much much ... other than a hashmap.
So no good reason at all.
How does one use bloom filters in practice with their inability to remove items? Do one just toss it regularly and start over?
>The number of taxis was such that in a busy central business district you had a pretty good chance of catching one (presuming you didn't look too 'scary') but pretty much anywhere else you would never see one.

I well remember being unable to get a taxi in 45 minutes of waiting at 19th Avenue and Judah in San Francisco's Sunset district, despite calling taxi companies' dispatch offices. Yes, it was Sunday, but it was also 2pm, and anyone who knows the area knows that 19th is a very, very busy street at all times because it is the de facto north-south route between the Golden Gate Bridge and the peninsula, in the absence of a true highway.

Now no one ever thinks of not being able to get a rideshare regardless of time or place, as long as the area isn't completely rural.
Nope, frugality is a virtue. FIRE is only half-truth

“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.”
- Calvin Coolidge
HN Downtime
Curious whether HN shares the causes of downtime anywhere. I was seeing a 504 Gateway timeout for at least a couple of minutes.
I love the idea of a car free neighborhood, and Irvine is the exact opposite of what I want. My in laws are there and my partner unfortunately loves it but the urban planning makes me viscerally uncomfortable. Sure you can walk from the million+ dollar homes to the gated communities admittedly nice pool, but I felt like most of what I was doing was driving long distances on wide roads through depressing big box stores and strip malls.
fear

I am in fear for my loved ones. I am hiding under my blanket.
if they lower pay and still have the workforce they need, then that is their value, right?

it goes without saying that a company will cut wages as much as they can. if google paid its workers the value they created, then google would have no money.
Yes, actually, you've got it exactly right. They should compete with SF companies for the type of workers SF companies want to hire and who have the capability to work remotely. In fact, they do, implicitly, because, by and large, people who can make SF salaries don't generally apply to companies that exist in rural areas in the first place.
Ouch. Would hate to have to use VBA at the day job.
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I thought Google was not allowing work-from-home except in exceptional cases. Does this tool mean that is not the case and they are providing the option more generally?
Didn't know AeroVironment was involved in Ingenuity. They make a lot of cool and tiny military drones. Personally one of my favourite things is how Ingenuity used a lots of off the shelf hardware.
Migration. Large parts of the taiga and permafrost are about to open up to human habitation. All the folks in the Middle East and India should move north in search of better weather.

Human societies have been historically very bad at handling large scale migrations, but it's about to become necessary.
Having just replied to another comment about Irvine I'm glad I'm not crazy in feeling the same way.
I'm 35 and definitely too old for tiktok. Sometimes people send me links to videos or ppl to follow, and when I'm trying to play this stuff both their website and the app fight me hard with terrible UI. Like I can't even figure out how to go back to the beginning of a video because it started playing but the sound was off and I had to turn it on, meaning I want to go back to the start. It's also full of random text everywhere and taking control of your back button or I dunno, everything is just all over the place.

I'm definitely too old for this shit.
After spending hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work and by chance landing on the above post when searching for inline and C.
In a small neighborhood, that would shatter the illusion that you never need to leave, at which point the distant walk to your car for actual shopping becomes a problem. (Or, alternatively, the lack of delivery services because they can't actually reach both your home and the place they shopped using the same mode of transportation.)
there seems to be a struggle going on between the people that own google and the people that make google, and the owners are winning.
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No, not really. I'm talking about OS-level window management. Being able to open a specific window with a single chord.
> Mostly to do with the inconsistencies in the interface. Coming from something like OSX which, for all its faults, presents a completely consistent user interface,

I used Mac OS X from 2009 to 2012.

It was sold as consistent and keyboard friendly back then.

However: Describing a desktop interface where selecting a single word using the keyboard needs a different keystroke in different apps, that is - rich.

Maybe this is fixed now but back then even official applications had different ways to select a word using the keyboard: in one it was cmd+shift+arrowkey in the next it was ctrl-shift-arrowkey or even fn-shift-arrowkey.

Especially infuriating because one of the most used ones in other applications meant "navigate back" in Safari.

Meanwhile in Windows and Linux ctrl+arrowkey always moves one word and ctrl+shift+arrowkey almost always (hi Excel!) selects a full word.

Maybe it is fixed now. But I'll never let a Mac user lecture me about consistency again.
Also, because the employee is at home now they can allocate that office space and resources to someone else. They are saving on individuals working from home! They should be compensating for office equipment at home.
I disagree, it just shows that NASA was willing to take more risks/ fail-fast approach. "if you aren't failing you're not trying hard enough".
Isn't remote work obviously good for the environment, especially in the big cities like SF and Seattle? Shouldn't Google, MSFT, Apple, et al be encouraging more remote work - given their size their local impact on rush hour traffic is likely noticeable.

Maybe this is another area where government needs to step in and mandate all employers over a certain size allow work-from-home with no pay consequences.
While we’re calling out the literal evil the US prison system, this company in particular is terrible:

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

The first paragraph:

“The company has been criticized for developing phone tracking technologies that can be used outside prisons and for charging very high rates for calls, in addition to pushing to mandate the removal of in-person meetings of inmates with their families.“

My family uses their subsidiary, JPay, which is just as evil.
I think telemedicine from other countries could run into illegal territory really fast. It's not just prescriptions, to make medical advice you should be a qualified professional, and you could face liability from people who take that advice and suffer harm as a result (or even otherwise, tbh.) This also applies to the idea where you ask if you should go see a doctor or just sleep it off, as well. Imagine a case where the app tells someone to sleep a case of food poisoning out and it turns out to be a lethal mushroom or something.

As for daily health monitoring etc, I think that's a crowded space that's already in vogue right now - think Apple watch's features which remind you to stand for a minute every hour and encourage you to exercise by gamifying it. That doesn't mean you can't do anything new - just, IMO, not the most "high impact" it can be, especially when "low hanging fruit" like mental health are very, very crowded.

I think in general healthcare is a very difficult field to take on unless you have a lot of resources and are willing to work with the law (for good reason, ofc.) That doesn't mean you shouldn't try it, just that you might find something else that is higher impact and less likely to frustrate or burn you out.
One of the oldest tricks in the book, acclimation. Running your A/C to 78°F during the day rather than 68 will do wonders for your acclimation of the 110°F+ ambient temps, but few things can help with the reflective 150°F+ from asphalt and the like.

And yeah, a lot of A/C, misters, big outdoor fans, and the biggest of all, shade. Which, interestingly, is not highlighted in some of these sketches/mockups.

As a third-generation Tucsonan (one of the oldest continually inhabited places in North America), the heat is both something to be mindful of as it is something that you simply get used to.

The most glorious Monsoons are both a blessing and a curse. One of the wettest in my recent memory, but the humidity is as bad as my time in the summer at Ft. Gordon, GA; really did feel like your skin was melting off your bones...
This is one reason I hope it continues to be socially acceptable in the U.S. to wear masks. I've wanted to wear one even pre-covid for pollution and pollen, but you would get very weird looks, or even stopped by security in some cases.
> Surely it implies an ability to count incrementally

Not necessarily. It could be just ability observe scale not individual numbers. i.e. 3 bags look big enough amount of bags for a walk not that there are 3 bags. Would the dog not come when 4 bags are taken? What if 2 bigger bags are taken? It's kinda hard to deduce anything from this anecdote other than the dog seems to understand a pattern.
Prisons everywhere in the world with the exception of like 5 countries are corrupt and horrific.
> very little was known, was that "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission".

Wuhan hospitals were full starting in September, 2019 according to satellite photos and the first "officially reported" corona death was Dec. 1, 2019.

So I don't understand what your point is, but the CCP knew long before Jan. 14, 2020 that is was spreading human-to-human.

But here's more dates before Jan. 14, 2020 that further make your post seem like some kind of 50 cent army post:

"On 31 December 2019 Chinese health officials first reported to WHO that 41 patients in Wuhan had contracted a mysterious pneumonia that was not responding to conventional treatment. As most patients were from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market it was closed on the 1st of January. On the 7th of January Chinese scientists identified the virus as a novel Coronavirus later termed as the COVID-19 virus."

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/Whathappensif/how...
Proper hydration habits and efforts to acclimate help greatly with this.
It's not just adjusting salaries based on location. It's slashing people's salaries by quarters and halves even if they have been working at the company for years just because they moved somewhere cheaper.

Your value hasn't decreased just because you live in Wisconsin instead of California. Your contributions are the same and you are just as productive of an employee. They have no right decreasing your salary just because they can get away with it.
Local food delivery companies say Google devastated their business
Oh man. I miss Fravia.
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Django's default subset is enough to do 99.9% of what you'd need to do (I know from experience) and there are various packages you can install to extend the ORM if necessary or if it just makes your life easier.

Of course, as the other person said, you can always always always descend into raw SQL if you must or if it just saves you time.
The only legitimate way to influence the compiler's inlining decisions is by profile guidance. If you aren't providing a profile at compile time, you demonstrably do not care about performance.
I like the idea of a community that truly doesn’t need cars. I don’t like the idea of living in a community built and owned by a YC company. I don’t need Uber for housing.
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Again, talk to your accountant...

You might be able to take out small amounts strategically to avoid the 40k threshold.

I may be mistaken, but isn't FIRE telling people to live off 4% of their investments forever? If the goal is 1 million, that is exactly 40k.

The math works out perfectly to leech on society - and
(this is just a hypothesis) possibly causing S&P 500 ETFs to inflate as these FIRE "retirees" promote their methods online, creating a feedback loop and illusion of ever-increasing stock market boom for the last 10 years
Define fair.
Everyday I realize that the reason we're hitting all these dystopian practices and rules is because tech is trying to scale things that don't scale.
I think it was high 500's here (Nevada City) a last week. I wore a mask for the short period I had to go outdoors.

Ideally, you'd want a VOC filter along with a HEPA filter.

It's a hostile environment - so is a blizzard. That's not saying it's not a problem but humans are able to survive a lot.
It’s wild to me that even the Biden administration appears so cavalier on climate. $1.2T on infrastructure and a follow up $3.5T budget bill and in both the environmental provisions are lame. Still no carbon pricing or anything that might make Exxon execs too uncomfortable (yes, I know Exxon supports carbon pricing in public because they don’t think anyone will actually do it).
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A lot of people simply overestimate how irreplaceable they really are.

If the 1/100 Google employees that are actually hard to replace (and Google knows it) threatens to leave unless they keep their Bay Area salary, they won't get their pay adjusted.
The market would agree.
Usefulness and affecting my life are not the same thing. What you find to be a piece of trivia I find something beautiful that enriches my life.
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My all remote company specifically states that if you move to a higher cost of living area they will not adjust your salary but if you started out in that higher cost of living and moved to a lower cost of living area they will not cut your pay.
Seems like the liability problem could possibly be worked out if you had some entity that pays for the damages either way, and then they have an incentive to do the thing that has probabilistically the least cost. For instance, if the government agency responsible for forest management were to take out a fire damage insurance policy, and the insurance company were free to set different rates depending on how the forest is managed.

I think non-flammable buildings are a reasonable suggestion in general, but in a lot of cases the amount of heat involved in a serious forest fire just isn't survivable by any ordinary structure, even if the roof is steel and the walls are made of cinder blocks.

Landscaping restrictions might help, but it would have to be a lot more than 5 feet. And I think a lot of people would be justifiably resistant to restrictions such as requiring people to cut down all the large trees within a hundred yards of their house. Trees make the built environment much more pleasant to live in.
How does one show a flaw in a proof or a logical argument? A single contradiction or a plain error is enough. This is the core of science - a single flaw is enough to throw away the whole argument. Not just that, having the lack of basic understanding been exposed, a "scientist" should be marked as incompetent.

Yes, you systematically ban people like me and have narcissistic imposters and bullshitters instead. Millions of them.

This is the consequence of eradication of anonymity and heavy policing to comply with current idiotic pseudo-intellectual narrative of safe spaces or how do you justify it.

The next step would be enforced gender-neutral pronouns or something equally nonsensical.
Or they don't want to live on SF or California as a whole.
Not only tearing down, but it also introduce a new system as an exchange. That is innovation. There will be cons and challenges, but those will evolve crypto even further
Notice how I am discussing things that you said, and you are discussing me, while also making claims about me.

What I value on TikTok is lack of unprovoked hostility of this kind in the communities that I have discovered there.

Enjoy your day, my friend, and try to find another person to argue about.
The relationship isn't direct, but it ends up roughly working out this way, because whenever a company has a choice between two or more candidate employees, they bid the salary down to the point where one of them walks away. The point at which walking away happens is going to be related somehow to the cost of living in that location.

There are a lot of idealizations in that explanation, as I said it roughly works out this way.
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Try going all-in for a year on the other viewpoint, assuming you've reached a local maximum on your favored approach. At worst you'll be slightly less efficient for a year. At best you'll be more efficient and come out of it with a whole new dimension in your skillset.
You can with Discord? But what is really connecting?
This is all the next step. If they end up putting together an actual mission proposal, they can factor in power budgets for specific science instruments, sun angles and seasonality at the landing site, etc, but they're not quite there yet.

Not sure what you mean by limited operating time, though- if you mean that MSH has to spend 50% of its time charging, that's true, but relative to a rover, it can travel so much farther and faster that JPL is arguing it more than makes up for it.
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Lack of sun exposure can cause hypovitaminosis D, which is a known risk factor for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. It also impacts nitric oxide production which is a factor in cardiovascular system health. Supplements can mitigate the problems to an extent but are inferior to natural sun exposure.

And before anyone brings up skin cancer, there is no reliable evidence that brief daily sun exposure increases all cause mortality.
If your solution blindly trusts buggy user-space code due to its construction, is it not to blame?
Saturn Run (by John Sanford and Ctien) explored using a VASIMR propulsion system to maintain long-term thrust. Without giving away spoilers, I can say I enjoyed the overall story and intrigue. Sort of hard sci-fi geopolitical thriller, and the authors did their best to avoid hand-wavy physics.