skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot’s 3.0 Update Adds Increased Autonomy, New Door Tricks
We live in a capitalist dystopian hellscape.
6% increase in housing units isn't nothing [1]. That said, I think you're right that more aggressive measures would need to be taken to resolve the shortage. Is there a link to recommendations that would have larger impact? I know CEQA's brought up a lot, but is there some paper that's been written around proposals and estimated housing units?

[1] https://www.infoplease.com/us/census/california/housing-stat...
My android calculator app gives me 9.00000... and lets me scroll through the decimal expansion, it's zeros at least to 1000 places, so presumably the calculator's answer is exactly 9.

I wonder if our calculator apps are doing some symbolic computations? Or just have >>64 bit precision (which I presume is the default for excel/python)?
More supply also increases traffic. This isn't just about everyone worrying about their housing prices (there are a lot of NIMBY reasons beyond that).
Ban the prefix instead.
I'm pretty sure we had plenty of evidence this was the case long before covid-19 was a thing. Wealthy people have better lawyers which affords them to do things like get away with murder, not pay taxes, have better medical care, have better housing, have better education, on and on and on.
700,000 new housing units sounds pretty good for such a modest change? It does seem like more action will be needed in the future - perhaps once people see that CA isn't transformed into MegaCity One by this change, they'll be further open to options like the previous SB 50 bill?
I think Thor being C-level comes from a pure MCU standpoint: the first two Thor movies weren't as well-rated as the rest of the Phase 1 and 2 movies. They're the only two anyone considers skipping for newcomers/when re-watching the MCU, with TDW being the least important of the two (and the plot points in the movie are explained in the first act of the movies they were set up for, that being the reality stone and Loki disguised as Odin).
Look at what Sneaker Heads pay for shoes. It's rediculious, and it's not just Nike's.

On Nike's side, I see it at pure greed.

For what they charge, they could pay an American Worker $40/hr, plus medical? (Yes--I pulled that $40 out my arse.)

My sister has two shoe stores in LA. She made everything here prior to Covid.

She paid her employees $10/hr, and offered zero benefits.

Pre-covid she was a multimillionaire.

(To anyone selling a craft, don't skimp on stuff people throw away, like bags, tissue, fancy price tags. It's about branding. Oh yea, sometimes the higher the price--the more they want it. My sister is a cutthroat businesswoman. I always knew she would be wealthy. She's not a great person though.)
I have to wonder if some of the more affluent neighborhoods/cities won't just find a way to stop this in their area. Does anyone have a sense of how effective this law will really be, particularly in cities with NIMBY attitudes?
Why would you expect a vaccine to confer significantly longer lasting immunity than an ordinary infection? What evidence do we have that natural immunity lasts any longer than a year?
There seem to be 2 provisions. If one's lot is smaller, one can have a duplex on it. If one's lot is larger, one can split the lot and have a duplex on each sub-lot (i.e. 2 duplexes total).

However, I can't find the guidelines for when one is allowed to split the lot into 2 sub-lots. I'm curious because I have a large-ish empty lot (8,000 sqft in a coastal town) and yes, would make out like a bandit if I'm allowed to split the lot into 2.

Anyone know the guidelines?

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Update: could someone please clarify "criteria around 3 years of tenancy"... does this mean one has to have owned the lot for 3 years minimum?
> seattle over the last 5 years, as well as down town Houston Texas have both seen construction booms and price declines or slower than average price increases.

Not sure about Houston, but our price increases here in Seattle have been anything but "slower than average." But that isn't to say that the price increases wouldn't have been worse if they didn't build housing like crazy here.
I think you're confusing "Banning single family homes" and "Banning single family zoning". Nothing about this law prevents you buying land and building a SFH on it, so your characterization as "no more future supply" is inaccurate.

It simply gives you the right to, in certain circumstances, build an additional home on your property.
Idk man.

Everyone has a bias. I've been seeing a lot of rueters recently.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28559517
As a designer, I find stuff like this embarrassing, snakeoil-y and insipid. yuck
Doesn’t sound like commercial use is included in this? This is more of a problem than I realised - I live in a fairly old suburb (in Australia) where I can walk to some small shops, cafes and restaurants, as well as having the option of two schools in walking distance if I had kids, and sort of take it for granted, but watching some videos about city planning recently (Not Just Bikes on YouTube is great, along with City Beautiful, Strong Towns etc.), I realise now that it is actually something that makes living here so enjoyable that I hardly even thought about. Then, getting an electric scooter sort of opened up a whole new world of exploring bike paths (I have hardly done any cycling since I was a teenager). Our city seems way better than most of the US and Canada at that, but could be so, so much better.

So this seems like a positive step, but I think in general the goal should be having mixes of single family houses, townhouses/terrace houses, and low rise apartments with small shops, cafes and restaurants, with good walkability and separated cycle paths. As much as I love the flexibility of having a car, looking into this now I do agree that in a lot of places we have actually sacrificed the freedom to not always need to own and use a car to get a lot of places…
I remember as a kid doing:

100/3

ans×3

on different calculators, and at the time being baffled at how they often said 99.9999999.
Thanks kinda the point. System is rigged in favor of the land owners, at the expense of renters and future owners. Perfect example of legislating supply constraints is Prop 13, which fixes the tax basis to the purchase price making people stay in their homes to avoid a huge increase in property taxes were they to move. This drives up asset values and land owners love it! Boomers retirement is based on this! And it’s even better for commercial property owners who can charge 2021 sky high rents while paying taxes as if it were still 1978.
Aren't various boilerplates created for this which already route all the necessary libraries and tools like analytics, stripe etc?
There was a push for offering homeless individuals the Johnson and Johnson vaccine in several places due to it being a single dose vaccine. There was concern about the logistics of scheduling a second dose for the unhoused and adherence rates.
Notwithstanding the write-itself scandal of a "privacy-champion spying on employees and cracking down on their communications" angle, you won't be able to enforce anything on personal devices congregating on off-company platforms and being spread by word of mouth (or company email, if they are feeling saucy)
Those "free" returns are then packaged onto palettes resold to the highest bidder who extracts a few valuable products, trashing everything else. And none of this is free, it's just included in the price you pay when you buy what would be a $1 item on AliExpress for $10 on Amazon.
Still rockin the original iPhone se. I’ve shown friends/others, with a little patients, replacing a screen/battery/port is fairly simple and cheap. the “new” feeling, and the feeling that you “cheated” the system wash over you... it’s great
>There were supply problems with J&J

Supply problems makes it sound like they didn't have enough ingredients to make it. IIRC the labs making it were contaminated. That's less of a supply problem than a competency problem.
The first baby in history to be conceived with polygenic testing
Eh, you don't need money: nothing's stopping you from going to a CVS and not disclosing your earlier shots.
You're right but I think overall Clone Wars is more sophisticated than Mandalorian. Mandalorian isn't being released into a vacuum.
When tinkering with black box hardware you run the risk of bricking it.

I'd be a little upset if I bricked my router. If I owned a 5000$ TV and bricked that I'd be extremely, extremely upset.

I'm sure that the price point discourages tinkering.
That’s effectively nothing when everything is so constrained already.

A 3bd/2ba house in Sunnyvale runs for a couple of million dollars. Do you think 6% is going to bring it down to 300-500k like other suburbs in the country (e.g. around Indianapolis, Atlanta, Dallas)?
cool concept, I enjoy listening to lex's podcast

I'm curious is it searching through fetched data from live Youtube API or did you have to download all the data somewhere locally?

I like how this query generates interesting math-related clips
https://hedgy.app/?query=Math&max=50
> And that cost quadruples after wholesale and retail markups, he said, ballooning into a $50 price difference between a pair made in the U.S. versus in China.

Shoes have such a huge price range, from $20 to $200 for pretty similar shoes, so a $50 hike in prices for made in USA sneakers should be a slam dunk for a company with some good marketing.
The CDC is putting our solid data and reports. They don't seem to be hurting too badly, and shouldn't be ignored.
It’s tiny when it’s the max end of the estimation in a state of 40 million people.
That only works when they can get together and ban higher density via zoning or whatever other mechanism. If individual homeowners can "defect" without their neighbors blocking the construction, the "union" will quickly fall apart.
I was originally thinking of an IBM RT3200 keyboard, which I bought in 2005 or so, and which has a PS/2 interface.

The modern incarnation, which I'm using now is the Lenovo KU-1255, which I have grown to prefer, because I prefer the low-travel, laptop-like keys. Some people call them "chiclet", but I never used the original "chiclet" keyboard, so I can't say.

Anyway, the link you want is...

https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/solutions/pd026745-thinkpad...

The other thing about the ThinkPad-inspired keyboards is that the mouse button arrangement reminds me of the "Leap" keys on the Canon Cat, and every so often I wonder what it would be like to use them in that fashion.
Do you know what “minimum wage” means?
AFAIK I only had a single stage.

1/ Finally!
It's unusual for commercial customers to pay for bandwidth on a per-byte-transferred basis. Instead, it's usually on a peak or percentile bandwidth basis. It's not cheap, but once you shell out for say a gbps of transit you can put a very large number of customers on that. The cost of the bandwidth ends up not being that large of a consideration.
You don’t need a bachelor’s degree to become a shift manager.
The bill will likely make single family residences more expensive. Since single family residences will now compete for multifamily, and multifamily uses land so much more efficiently, multifamily development will be able to outbid single family construction.

Not that this is a problem. The goal of housing policy is to house people, not give a certain fraction of the population exactly what they want and telling everyone else ‘sucks to be you, I got mine’
Literally every shoe that I have bought in the past 10 years has been made in the USA: Allen Edmonds dress shoes, Red Wing (Heritage series) work boots, New Balance (USA 990 series) running shoes, Rainbow (USA series) flip-flops.

These are all high quality, well made, durable products that cover all my needs and are a better value for me than cheap imported products.
Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX Spectrum personal computer, has died
Just guessing, would another factor be that these are highly capitalized, highly leveraged, highly competitive industries, so a 10% increase in profits can multiply and where anything that increases costs must avoided at all costs because your competitors are lowering their cost constantly.

Edit: I think we can see huge companies tightly locked into their paradigm because it involves so much capital and so many connections to suppliers etc.
If “tech lead” is not at least equivalent to senior, then we have even a bigger problem.
I think you have it backwards. More housing reduces housing pressure and prices.
From the article,

> Footwear manufacturing has long included machines — cutting or gluing soles. But higher-level innovation? Ironically, factory owners said that's happening where the industry is — overseas.

Even the automation is happening in Asia.

If we don't use this as our opportunity to re-onshore, we're going to fall far behind. Perhaps permanently so.

We should be providing every tax incentive under the sun to domestic companies working on automating manufacturing.
Even if it isn’t the latter , there will always be such open cards.It would remain utopian to claim anything in any democracy is purely fact based and nothing can change with political will.You can probably get it in more authoritative regimes however.
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My sister worked for Doc Marten 30 years ago.

No college, but a great resume, and a natural seller.

The guys running the business didn't realize the fashion potential of their shoes.

They told her whatever you sell; we will give you a healthy percentage.

All the salesmen were guys in their 50's.

By year three, she was making $600,000/yr.

When they realized their utilitarian product was now a fashion statement, they let her go. She went on to make more money though doing her own line of shoes in America.

Stuff can still be made here, but the profits won't be as high.
The right to enter into an agreement with someone to work temporarily in exchange for some income.
More housing where the jobs are creates less traffic. Putting your jobs in Berkeley and your housing in Vacaville is what creates more traffic. A Berkeley with 300k people - which is the population that would support the number of jobs already in Berkeley today - would have noticeably less traffic. Same for a San Francisco with two million people etc.
Do you know what scabbing is? It’s allowing people to take a job at a company.
> There is a capability in Windows for this, but I never found a VPN where it works properly.

This works with Cisco AnyConnect and Palo Alto GlobalProtect (I've seen it work). Those products are pretty terrible, but that one thing works.
Alden's are truly fine. They are however, very expensive and as such, I rarely wear them except for special occasions.
> The US hasn’t withdrawn any troops.

Sure but I thought your point is that US should or will leave Europe. I actually don't believe that will happen.

> No the US and the Anglosphere is just arming Australia.

The first sub is not expected to be in service before 2040.
not to mention all kinds of anti-piracy/DRM measures that are usually baked into these machines, and things like HDPC [1] that are made to make this kind of tinkering a absolute pain in the arse.

To add to that this is such a niche market that nobody really cares. It's wayyy easier to just pirate the shows you want to watch and just play them locally via HDMI.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
It lowers housing prices, not necessarily property prices. If you own a single family home right next to an apartment building, and it's permitted to build an apartment building there, that lot's probably worth a lot more than it would be if you could only build a single family home there.

Imagine a neighborhood with only two single family homes in it; you can only have two families live there, so if more than two families want to live there, they're going to bid up the price. In this case, the cost of the property is the cost of housing in general in that neighborhood, since it's one home per lot.

Now imagine one of those SFHs is replaced by an apartment building with 40 units. Now 41 families can live in that neighborhood, so there's comparatively less competition for housing, which drives down the cost to live there. But the landlord for that apartment building can make a lot more in rent from the units in that building than they could from renting a house to one family, because it's distributed across 40.

If there's enough demand for housing in that area (and in general right now there is in many places due to lack of supply), there are probably lots of people who'd be interested in replacing that second house with another apartment building, and the property values would reflect that. So yeah basically: housing prices go down, property values go up.
>and maybe the customers

I don't think people give this enough credit. It's one thing to be shit on by your employer, but having the customers treating like shit as well is just as bad. Getting the double whammy of getting it from both sides must be brutal.
3 years until P1 is complete. That's a long time to wait, but one can only hope for good results. Occasionally a drug will be accelerated if it shows very obvious promise. Rarely the case for cancer new drugs though.
Wouldn't it also allow developers to build apartments in places that previously they couldn't have because the ritzy neighborhood down the street can't bear the site of 'em?
So you had one bad experience building a home with a non-union contractor and extrapolated. Seems sound enough.
Do these device management tools extend to personal cell phones that have corporate software installed on them? For example, using a token that’s generated on the phone to log in to the corporate VPN while working remotely from home, would this give a company the same device management access?
Competition between 2 different approaches is great. It will only push each other to be more effective in the long run.
I think many of the reasons are rationalizations or invented primarily in support of protecting net worth, even if they have some truth.
I don't think anyone believes this bill will single-handedly solve the housing crisis or intended it to do so. The hope is that it will be a good incremental step, and encourage other reforms to promote more housing as people discover that multifamily units aren't a big deal.
How much do you have to return? That could be the most rewarding bottle recycling plan I've heard of. Screw your 10 cents, I want a refill.
Aren’t many of the single family houses currently occupied by people flatsharing, which would be better served by other types of housing?
This deal had it's genesis before China made all it's land grabs on the Spratleys etc. When China did that, a game changer = deal changer, there came an instant need for the range that has been cited. France should have taken this this into account and added US/UK technical capabilities into the deal or voluntarily released the Aussies from their deal. Instead the French chose to erect a high horse of broken honor upon which to stand.There were probably quiet consultations, which were rebuffed, before this bold stroke.
> why do the US Air Force care about multirole anything

The Air Force doesn't, but the Navy does.

The thing that everybody leaves out about the F35 is that you can take a relatively small ship, put a half-dozen F35's on it with some drones, and you have a tiny carrier with a remarkable amount of firepower.

So, now you don't have to sail your gigantic ass Nimitz carrier into the forward theater where a lucky cruise missile hit can cripple your entire fleet capability.
This is probably the best TI-99/4A emulator ever made. Runs entirely in the browser. Includes all carts and loads all carts and disks. Even has full assembler and debugger. A work of triumph.

http://js99er.net/#/
News was just coming out that Moderna faired better against the Delta variant than Pfizer which I had received back in February. I had an upcoming trip so I decided to go get the Moderna. The CVS pharmacist asked if I had received a Moderna shot before, nope, which is the truth. So I got the first Moderna shot about 3 weeks before my trip, and went ahead and got the 2nd round about 4 days ago.

I would much rather that every dose going un-used somehow find it's way into the arm of someone in the world that would take it and get us that much closer to stopping variants and achieving herd immunity, but that's not the world we live in. Instead doses are being thrown away, and enough people with access to the vaccine are instead insisting on dragging this pandemic out. So I'll take every defense available to me, and all the benefits it incurs to those around me, and not apologize for it (yes, I still wear a mask indoors even after 4 rounds.)

Edit: corrected March to February.
Prime is a subscription model, and is twice as much as Costco's.
Creating Quality Backtraces for Crash Reports
Neat! I was curious why types came after the variable name for structs, but for functions they came before the variable name. Are you in the middle of transitioning from one to the other right now?

e.g.

struct MyStruct {
x int
}

struct MyStruct2 {
y string
}

func Int add(Int x, Int y) {
return x + y
}

(both from https://github.com/adorad/adorad/blob/dev/docs/docs.md)
Eureka is burdened by high housing prices relative to the local economy, same as San Francisco. Yes houses cost less, but prevailing wages are also less. Eureka has basically no economy to speak of and the houses there still cost $400k.
Indeed. I've been wearing a pair of Keen trail boots from their "American Built" line since ~2015, and they're still going strong.
"Transparently" is a conceptually similar word that had positive connotations
You're part of the problem.

They're not banning single family homes. Just zoning for them. THere's a housing shortage, especially in urban areas right around what little public transit there is. Insisting that only a few people live on lots in this area is insane.
I'm not an economist, but you touched on an observation that I've made that I can't quite articulate using the appropriate technical terminology:

When products are not fully vertically integrated, and there's a large markup dowstream, the upstream manufacturing is highly incentivesed to "penny pinch" in a way that would be perceived to be highly counter-productive in an integrated organisation.

The example that first made me notice this was power management in server systems. If you're running $100K worth DBMS software (licenses) on a $100K box, all of which has a further $10-100M of web apps and systems relying on it, then it would be madness to throttle that CPU to save $50 in electricity annually, right?

Well, guess what: most places do this! It happens because they outsource the low-margin upstream component (colocation/hosting/cloud), and when you're a data centre provider living on thin margins, the cost of power / cooling can be very substantial relative to your own costs. If you rent the rack space for that server out for $500 per annum, that $50 of electricity is 10% more in your pocket! That's a big deal!

Meanwhile, that $50 saved has slowed down $100M worth of stuff, sometimes by 50% or more. But... that's not the hosting provider's problem.

(PS: Azure does this, and they don't let you turn it off.)
This disruption is about as serious as it gets (global pandemic) and I can still buy a brand new iPhone.

This isn’t shit compared to things like the gas rations in the oil crisis.
3 months ago I upgraded from my OnePlus 3T to a second hand OnePlus 7T.
I bought the 3T when it came out, around early 2018
My reasons for the upgrade where mainly the camera which did no longer work at all. I did replace the camera module 2 years ago and probably did not do a great job though.
I never had issues with broken or cracked screens so far and always wonder why as this seems to be a widely spread issue.
So I guess the user plays a big role in longevity aspects.