skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing in CA is also unique in that the combination of refinance rates and Prop 13 make selling your home for the same house right next door a losing proposition. Most long term owners are deeply incentivized by CA’s property tax cap to never sell and if anything take an equity loan / rent it out.

I can’t even imagine the total financial devastation if they suddenly ratcheted up the tax rates via reassessment. It’d be a fire sale for all but the top end of the income ladder.
Followed by an economic boom as people from around the country moved there for the cheap housing?
Sorry... I like that one, but am glad it is not such a persistent ear worm.

One I cannot always shake is of all things, "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats...

Dunn Dunn Dunn de da dunn dun, de da dun dun de dun dun...

And from the club 12" mix:

S... A... F... E... T... Y...

Fortunately for me, the tune is a good mood, kind of silly reminder of good times. I don't mind it sticking around for periods of time.

Maybe reading this shakes your earworm loose!
How does the macOS runner comply with the macOS 11 license agreement?
Energy usage scales with mass and distance. To reduce the energy used, you have to do one or more of the following: develop new technology to require less energy (or more efficiently harness energy without the side effects), reduce the amount of mass being moved (fewer humans and less consumption per human), and the distance the mass is moved (denser living).
The article would've been much better if it made a coherent case against Digital ID itself. But that's not what the article argues. Instead, it makes a wildly emotional but rationally/legally incoherent complaint about some pretty bog standard contract language.

FWIW, I have no problem with Digital IDs. What do we have to fear? That the government will now have a copy of an ID that was issued by... the government? I don't get it.

My only real critique is that "Digital ID" should not be some whizz-bang virtual wallet bullshit. It should be implemented in a stupidest-simplest way: "anywhere you need to present ID card, especially in interactions with the government, you can instead present a high-res picture of the same ID card". This is already how things work in sane states with eg insurance cards.

But if, in addition that stupidest-simplest solution, state governments want to also offer inter-op with Apple Wallet / Android Pay (?), what's the harm?
First, I want to thank you for the deep dive into one of your grievances with React. I completely understand this wart in React, so much so, that I use it an interview question for frontend developers. This kind of "connecting" is where even more complexity has often reared it's head as the common "solutions" are using something like Redux. A trivial example of what you are trying to explain is like a shopping cart; where the cart exists in the header, but the button to add items to it may exist elsewhere.

That said,

>The great success of React is in enforcing a new kind of authoritarianism: it enforces doctrine by explicitly disallowing heretical code.

I don't think this is a bad thing, after all the success of Rust is also predicated on explicitly disallowing heretical code that may have been commonplace in C. Constraints lead to more maintainable code, which is ultimately what frameworks these provide. I don't think your complaint is unique to React due to the fact it's HTML that influences that hierarchal design. That said, I'm not a front-end dev, and I my exposure to UI patterns is relatively limited; so I'm looking forward to your eventual book.
I agree with this sentiment. People are currently attempting to do it at scale in a de-centralized way.

Stamp is pay-to-post, and the proceeds go back to the entire community.

https://web.stampchat.io/#/forum
js.org? That must have been a big pricetag.
I could flip that question around. Almost the entire country is low density. Why does Palo Alto need to be?
Bitcoin is burning the world to move some numbers around. People need housing. Though I'm not convinced either should be an investment vehicle.
You could do many things, but if you are focused on performance you shouldn’t do that
How would you spot that one? It would appear to them to be traffic coming from their TV, and you wouldn't see anything on your own net. Unless that's similar to how hotspotting works, where the TTL is different.

Also, isn't wifi sharing how many products work these days, such as various find my phone features and Amazon devices?
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I'm surprised he's still around.

My father worked with this guy everyone hated. Even as a kid, I heard about this guy.

This guy, and my father (who was a piece of work himself) were on the huge building in San Francisco.

They were working late. My dad said it was eery because they were so high up, it was under construction, and they where facing the bay. The quietness was the eery part. It was just the two of them.

My father. suddenly had this urge to push the guy. The guy was standing a few inches from the edge.

My father said the urge became so strong he told the guy he needed to go to the outhouse.
I agree with the thrust of your statement, but "Dems generally are not local control maximalists" is true of both parties, who are more than happy to throw their general principles re: local control out the window when a locality passes a law they disagree with.

Just ask anyone in a major city in Texas, where it seems like half the laws passed by the state legislature are there to overturn bills passed by the Austin city council.
> It's not that simple. For instance, when there's too much electricity on the European grid because, say, wind energy is particularly strong that day in Germany, producers need to pay for someone else to take that electricity. It has negative cost. This is rare for now, but it does limit the rollout of renewables.

If you don't have any external pressure or subsidies on you, you can turn off solar/wind in seconds. Renewables never have to pay those fees, only slow to ramp plants do.
I think it's safe to say that this pandemic was relatively low key compared to the plagues that have actually decimated humanity in the past, and we've learned there isn't a coordinated political response that resolves it. Even with previously unimaginable co-ordination technology available to us to handle it via the internet, contactless payments, food and everything delivery, remote work(!), and other utterly alien concepts to any previous time in human history that might have encountered a plague, the outcomes predicted in antiquity are the same.

I said at the beginning of this that there are only three options, because there have only ever always been three options, and they were recorded in of all places, the old testament (Samuel, but would be interested in other tradition's books as well), as a way to make sure humans had the answer to pandemics ready at hand from pre-antiquity. In the event of a pandemic, humanity is given the option of a) try to resist it with our human abilities and get 7 years of economic famine which destroys the wealth of generations, b) three months of war as a result of forfeiting your leadership role to focus on pandemic response, or c) a short period of deaths and loss of people who were vulnerable to it. The western world chose option a, China and India (and oddly, Sweden) appear to have chosen option c.

Pandemic policy has nothing to do with biology at this point, if it ever did. It's just polls about what the most fearful (or worse) will accept. What we also know is that vaccine passports have nothing to do with biology either, and authorities are using this to institute a para-governmental internal passport system in their countries. If people want to hum and haw about how the real problem is the unvaccinated on a farcically authoritarian island citystate with 90%+ immunity, they are welcome to. However, if Singapore can't solve this, it's not a problem with a political solution.
They could do a lot of things really. All depends on whether they want to or have capacity for what really is a distraction.

Unfortunate does not have to be a part of their story though. That seems to be what a fair number of us see anyway.
Probably. Especially if what you say is true.
I’m wracking my brain trying to figure out how we’ll ever raise interest rates again due to this issue. Does anyone know? Any tricks I’m not aware of?

Was there way less gov debt in the early 80s when they massively raised rates?
I have not been convinced that any of that makes a sufficient impact relative to the continued need to transport water, sewage, humans, waste, and natural gas that much further.

The relationships are more than linear too because once individual vehicles are in the mix, the distances the masses above can travel can easily multiply.

On top of all that, the less efficient and higher emission energy sources will still be cheaper around the world, and there are plenty of billion people willing to up their consumption.
Cash in, cash out. Resume is a trail though.
> … and at this point doesn't care what the West thinks.

China has never cared what the west has thought of them beyond analyzing them like an opponent in a poker game. They can’t be shamed any more than you could shame a man mud wrestling with a pig.
> You keep saying this as if supply can be increased arbitrarily. It simply can’t.

True! You eventually run into physical limits of density and what we are capable of constructing. However, this naively seems likely to be far higher than we have now.

Some back of the envelope math is in order, then. SF has a surface area of about 30,000 acres. Kowloon Walled City, a very dense place that actually existed, had between 33,000 and 50,000 people in 6.5 acres. Extrapolating, that puts SF at a possible maximum population of between 152 and 230 million people. That's using construction technology from the 60s and 70s, so we could perhaps do better today.

With this in mind, it does seem likely that the density of the SF Bay specifically and California in general could be reasonably increased. There's quite a lot of room for opportunity to house people between SF's current population of 875000 and a population several times that of California.

> You can increase density for a while, but network effects will keep demand increasing as you do.

Sure! As I touched on previously, induced demand in housing is a very real effect. You're absolutely right. However "any induced demand effects are overwhelmed by the effect of increased supply". https://appam.confex.com/appam/2018/webprogram/Paper25811.ht...

I believe, and please correct me if I am mistaken, that what is described here as induced demand is what you are referring to as network effects.

> Obviously demand is not infinite, but there is no reason to suppose that currently desirable places can be made affordable.

Expensive places have been made less exorbitantly expensive before. That seems like an excellent reason to suppose that a currently desirable place can be made affordable. I understand that this is a matter of opinion on which reasonable people might differ.
Housing is not actually that special. It is true it doesn't behave according to the econ 101 model that most high schoolers learn in class, but in econ 201+ classes explain it.

The main difference is that land is the limiting factor or more accurately legally buildable land in this case with zoning.
Obviously it’s a huge company with thousands of teams, but I’ve been an engineer on 3 different product teams and certain things have been the same everywhere.

I would say purely from a coding perspective the workload is typical ~40ish hours a week. The stress comes from the biannual performance reviews that grade you explicitly across 4 axis.

If you got your projects delivered on time with high quality code that’s just 1 axis. What did you do to improve the codebase? What did you do to help drive the mission of the team? How many code reviews did you do(they count)? What did you do to improve the team culture?

I think these things are all important, but everywhere else I have worked a lot of these are more implicit. At FB you need to have bullet points and evidence of these contributions every 6 months to get a satisfactory rating. Couple this typical giant corporation red tape (legal, marketing sign off, metrics reviews) to getting anything released.

Some people seem to not have trouble keeping up with it, but I find it exhausting. I’ve gotten good reviews during my employment here but it’s been grueling.
Depends on (1) what country/region you live in and (2) what brand you're talking about. For example: Yes, Safeway may be huge, but so is Procter and Gamble. Is there an asymmetry there? I'm not sure.

Anyways, large chains don't deal exclusively in consignment either.
I would argue actual bills paid (as shown in the camstar data) is important to the average voter vs wholesale price as you have quoted.
>Could you give a piece of usable code that highlights the problem

A shopping cart. The cart state exists in the header of the web page, but the "add to cart" button exists on the product description, far away from the cart. Ultimately, I think, it ends up being a question about state management which is always the hardest part of UI frameworks IMO
Which is a good thing. Encouraging density makes everything more efficient
> You say "free choice" like companies are just throwing out job offers for free.

Not for free, you still have to honestly work there. You get salary for value you provide.

In general companies set up hiring processes with intention to hire people. (I know this sounds like a heresy to some ears here on HN). They interviews are set up with intention to hire people while but also filter out people who will not be productive. That these processes are frequently badly designed is another matter.

If you are genuinely good -- they want to hire you. Trust me on that.

The issue is that, sadly, unfortunately, a lot of candidates simply can't do the job. And, tragically, they don't even understand how bad they are and they apply to tens if not hundreds of places making them overrepresented in the candidates' pool. Then they come back to HN and complain how badly these processes are designed, completely missing the point.

Somebody will finally hire them, but why does it have to be me? Could I do something to prevent these people from even applying? Could I do something that, if these people apply, they have no hopes of getting the job?

Sure, some good people who would be able to do the job will be collateral damage but guess what, it usually costs much more to hire a bad apple than accidentally not hire a perfectly acceptable candidate.

The length of the process is supposed to discourage these people from even trying. If you only apply to one or two places, couple of hours of interviews is nothing compared to years of work you will spend there, but if your plan is to shotgun the interviews you can't attend ones that require some preparation, multiple rounds of interviews, maybe a trip onsite, etc.

Believe or not, I just changed jobs and I only "applied" to one company and I spent over 24 hours total talking to representatives of the company over multiple sessions.

If you are good at what you are doing, longer interview just gives you more occasions to prove that. And also learn more about the company.

In my experience even with badly designed processes, good developers will still be better at navigating them than bad ones.

Think about it: you attend an entrance exam where you know only 2% candidates will be accepted. Does it matter how difficult the exam is? No it does not, it only matters if you are better than 98% of applicants.
Solutions for this problem that I've used in my own S-expression config files:

1. Use only alists for maps because they prevent off-by-one errors.

2. Allow plists because they're less verbose than alists and use reader macros to distinguish them, and allow the reader macro definitions to be in the same file.

Most of the time I use option 1 because it's simpler.
Cut some purchasers out of the market. For eg disincentivise or ban using properties for investment, especially for corporate investors, hedge funds etc.
"California" isn't going to do anything about NIMBY cities.

The California state govt is going to hose politically disfavored communities.

Atherton and Pacific Heights will NOT see any substantive changes.
Anyone know how this compares to Andrew Ng's course on coursera? (set of multiple courses really)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning
It’s true…the market always seems to turn when you start seeing widespread sentiment that it will never turn.
I was just asking for a simple code example not a philosophical debate about assumptions, orthodoxy and doctrine.

Isn't it possible to connect your abstract ideas to a real world example? And why create en extremely obfuscated react class implementation of something that can be done in 3 lines of functional react code?
> If you add enough housing+residents it will lower the values as the places become overcrowded metropolises less people want to live in.

Maybe at some extremely high level it becomes untenable but both Manhattan and Paris are very desirable places to live and they have 3-4x the population density of sf.
2020-2021 was a very weird period. The fact that a given predictive model failed during these years is not really a strong indictment against the model. It makes sense to suspend the algorithmic trading during that time until the situation goes back to normal.
Neither will I. The number of people who think you can build an infinite number of homes in a finite space of land, or who are unaware of network effects, is surprising.
Because I can personally buy several kilos of coal for cheap and burn it to produce heat without requiring anything but a pile of it and a ignition source. It can be the middle of the night in a blizzard and I can keep warm without anything special required.

Are you really so sheltered to not be able to conceptualize this?
I agree. I believe zoning is a big impediment.

People wouldn't be priced out of their communities if there was more supply of housing at varying prices.

Instead current regulations restrict the supply of housing and seem to prioritizing uniformity and property values.
Looks confusing to who? Another coder? Then they have issues.

I get the original was talking about client facing config files. I'd rather see INI style config files personally.

If you're writing ugly code, braces or spaces won't save you. Just don't write ugly code.* Write it like the next person to view your code is an axe murder that knows where you live, so don't make them mad. You can minify later.

*I'm ignoring Perl, as it's always ugly
> I do wonder if I'd actually notice just watching it

Almost certainly not; that's the point.
The problem as I see, at least in the medium term, is that pattern matching, no matter how advanced is still just a simulation of intelligence, not 'real' intelligence. What is missing is the ability to reason, when the facts (data) are inconclusive, missing or wrong. Also any AGI will need a very complete abductive reasoning system, I just don't think we have the tools and understanding yet to build AGI, and certainly not if the next generation of AI practitioners continue to think Python is the way to build an 'intelligence'
But a shopping cart is just a piece of state which you modify through an event listener to a button which in turn updates the UI again.

These days you can do it with a useState or useReducer hook but there are countless ways to implement it, react or not.
I can’t recall too many threads where I have left inspired rather than despondent, but maybe that is atypical. In general though, are these topical news-focused submissions in the spirit of the guidelines? They don’t satisfy too much intellectual curiosity, and are well-covered by the news, so it seems like “no”
So the solution to unaffordable housing is to make it less affordable? Like so you price boomers out of their homes with taxes. Then what?
I'm not sure our economy could handle that. Industry depends on the products coming from those farms. It's always more nuanced than "stop that crazy thing we're doing!"
I mean it doesn’t NEED to be expensive it just is. The folks living there don’t want to change their local zoning laws. I don’t really feel like I should have a say if I don’t live there.

The burden of proof for an argument should come from the side which is trying to make a change.
I worked at a place that is discriminatory and has hostile attitudes against men -

1) a team I was previously on had two open headcount. I knew a friend of mine that would have been a perfect fit for the role. I suggested my friend and was told that they weren't considering men or non-diverse candidates. I'm a mixed Latino and was told this from a white man

2) a government grant was given to businesses impacted by covid, and our business assisted with this. Preference was given to women and minorities. White men were held in a queue. Eventually a lawsuit was filed by white men claiming discrimination and the court stopped the program. Dozens of people in my company Slack were furious that the white men held up money disbursement because of their "racism". This was the narrative for weeks

3) there have been official mandates to interview minorities (non-white, non-Asian men) before anyone else (is this even legal?)

4) in an effort to combat wage discrimination against men, women are paid more on average than men in respective wage bands. This is announced quarterly and celebrated

5) women get special groups, off sites, and classes paid for by the company. woman and minorities get special coverage, special interest stories, community highlights, and praise. white and Asian males do not unless they are LGBT

6) a female colleague of mine (who I like as a friend) is an extremely low performer. We've all had to pick up the slack from her, and at times I've had to explain things repeatedly that I'd fail candidates in interviews for. she's never been given a negative performance eval, yet a collage who went through a bad quarter got fired

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edit: flagged, which is disappointing. I'm not anti-women or anti-minority. I am a minority on the race and sexuality dimensions. why isn't my experience valid?
Poisoning data collection is one of the many small positive actions a front-line employee can make without too much risk to their livelihood.
When I lived in Seattle a decade ago, I went to some kind of Amazon-sponsored event and multiple programmers who were working for Amazon at the time quietly told me the place was hell and not to apply.
Opting for low density make no sense if you are worried about forest fires or insufficient groundwater. Suburban houses use more water per person not less compared to urban dwellers.

The forest fires near houses are caused by the low density zoning forcing home builders to build closer and closer to forest fire prone areas.

> At some point high prices are a signal that a city is full.
It can also be a sign of low supply
Did anybody ever claim we know everything about the vaccine’s long term efficacy? Viruses mutate.

Also, myocarditis risk is way overblown, and I haven’t seen any claim it’s higher for the vaccinated than the non-vaccinated, when (and that’s as good as certain to happen) they get infected.
Second org-mode - I used to have Firefox setup similarly to your Chrome setup, but that extension broke, and I've missed it ever since. It's not perfect, but C-l followed by C-c will get me the URI for pasting in org buffers. Or I can browse in 'M-x w3m' and capture links and text from there.

As for Emacs learning curve, it's small when compared to the amount of time I would have had to spend learning other systems (over and over and over . . . ) over the past two decades. Emacs lasts, and so does the learning you spend on it.
Sure, but that increases value, and hence demand. There are good things about building housing, but reducing prices in desirable areas is not one.