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> Cities and their existing residents have a right

Palo Alto is a charter city. As such, it has special rights only insofar as those rights are delegated to it by the state of California. California has every right, legally and morally, to change the current arrangement. As things stand today, Palo Alto enormously benefits from economic growth caused, not primarily by its residents and policies, but by the residents and policies of other portions of the state of California. As such, the residents of California have every right to tell the residents of Palo Alto that they must rezone to allow denser housing. The state has the upper hand both legally and morally.

Palo Alto is happy to see the economic benefits of increased commerce to the Bay Area, but it doesn't feel any responsibility to aid in housing the many thousands of new workers that increased commerce requires. A tiny minority of wealthy homeowners benefit at the expense of a great mass of residents. This is not a tenable situation long-term. Small municipalities in the Bay Area cannot internalize the benefits of economic growth while externalizing the costs indefinitely.
yeah, the two big changes are

* multigenerational to nuclear households

* decline in number of kids

This pattern of living is still common to a lesser degree in outer-borough immigrant neighborhoods, which is why they were so hard hit during NYC's massive COVID wave.
The cost of emission certificates in the EU is currently at 63 EUR (72 USD) per ton. The carbon tax in Switzerland is 96 CHF (104 USD) per ton, soon to be increased to 120 CHF (131 USD).
They can’t do that. They signed the Paris Accords.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29222398.
Spreads compress when rates are low, so yes, loans are less profitable per dollar when rates are low. But many more people and companies want to borrow so banks make out fine. And there are plenty of other financing sources available for companies, including issuing equity, VCs, junk bonds, which grow in popularity when investors need to chase yields.
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> Apps are a highly backend de-dup-able kind of data.

AFAIK Apple's backup systems do not de-dup data. Backup data is encrypted and that key never touches the data center.

Instead, they:

1. de-dup data at the local application layer, such as sharing a common link to an image for photo albums along with the encryption key.

2. de-dup the environment by scripting the reinstallation from their controlled sources (stable CDN links to immutable/integrity protected packages with privilege-reduced installation)
The network effects of cities increase with density. The more people move there, the more incentive there is for people to move there. The cost of housing is a function of that marginal person who is on the verge of moving there. If I’m on the edge, then all my friends and all my employers move there, then I have even more reason to move there too. When you move there, I’m willing to pay more to move there too.

In other words demand isn’t constant.

As I understand it, it’s an open question as to whether more housing means lower prices via simple supply and demand, or higher prices via network effects.
TOML can't decide if it's a super INI file or a JSON cousin. You can represent the same information using two completely different representations and you can mix both styles in the same document. Manually navigating and editing values is error prone and hard to automate.
I live in the real world, not the fantasy one they haves think exist.

I understand where you're coming from though. You wouldn't want social mobility to become the norm.
Nice excuse.

Only works if you want to make 20% down instead of 3%[0]

[0] https://www.knowyouroptions.com/buy-overview/affordable-mort...
It's the exact mechanism that keeps the market in equilibrium.
I don't think the intended customers care at all about replaceable batteries as an issue against purchase. And even as an expense it's insignificant anyway (given the lifetime until replacement)...
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They've promised up to 1000 qubits by 2023...
https://www.science.org/content/article/ibm-promises-1000-qu...
The article makes that clear in its second sentence, and it makes a better title too, so I've moved it above.
The state or regional tax money is the taxpayers’ money - including individual residents and other entities like companies or cities. It’s a rhetorical trick to pretend the money somehow belongs to the benevolent and powerful state, who forcefully collected this money in the first place. As such, I don’t think a city “owes” something back to the state. If the state had certain expectations, the time to have decided that was half a century ago, in the form of contractual obligations.
HOCON is pretty good. Probably the sanest format for config files.
At some point - it's simple. Just pass on a carbon tax on any good, regardless of which country it is created on. Taxed in the country of destination.

If India and China decide - last minute - to hold international agreements back - rather then water down agreements just agree it without them, and let them continue to repeat to the rest of the world how "unrespected" they are.

To anyone who thinks that this is due just to "fairness" and India's and China's due - go to India. Fly from Bangelore to Hydrabad - a distance of 714 kilometers.

It is pea-soup pollution the entire way. Pollution so think it seems like you could dish it up in a bowl. And it's that way at 30,000 ft, in a plane, flying between the two points.
I’ve resoldered the batteries on my generic wireless earbuds that were very much meant not to be serviceable. It really wouldn’t be hard to make them serviceable, even if they weren’t user replaceable. There’s one in each bud, and another in the case.

A battery only needs two electrical contacts on a component that is already self contained. Its a very simple device. The lithium ion ones in this size range are a few bucks each on the wholesale market. There are even standardized button cell sizes. It is very much a design choice.

The other side of it is that lithium ion battery tech is at the point where the battery lifespans is starting to exceed the device lifespan. Certainly true for the cheap side of the earbud market
...Then these boomers suddenly start to think building more dense, affordable housing in their town makes a ton of sense?
Halon used to be the standard for data centers using gaseous fire extinguishers in the mainframe era. See:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/dinosaur-pen.html

The op's a bit outdated, but not completely wrong. Even now a lot of data centers use various halon replacements rather than Argonite, though there are a number of different gaseous fire suppressants used in data centers these days.
Because of the obvious less mental bandwidth of not having to deal with wires, tangling, the extra freedom of movement, and so on...
Dollars are for spending, not for storing. This is how the economy is built and that is fine.
> No, they are not locking down the Mac

It is quite evident now that Apple has been locking down the macs:

1. The first few Intel Mac Minis allowed you some level of customisation of both the hardware (change RAM or HDD / SSD) and software (install other full featured OS).

2. Then came the Mac Minis with soldered RAM and SSD. You could no longer customise the hardware. Software was still customisable and you could still install other OSes. (Recall that Apple even offered free drivers for another OS, i.e. Windows).

3. The current generation of M1 Minis now doesn't allow you to customise both the hardware (everything is soldered) and the software (no other viable OS except macOS). Technically you can install other OSes, but the reality is that currently only crippled versions of Linux and xBSD is available and practically the only full-featured OS available for it is macOS.

The only difference between the M1 mac platform and the iPhone / iPad platform is the unlocked bootloader on the macs. And the only reason they haven't locked it yet is because they know that as soon as they do it, many will avoid it. They are just waiting for the M1 Macs to reach a criticial level of acceptance before they do so. (And till then, the lack of an alternative full featured OS to the macOS, currently works to their advantage).

> Asahi Linux is a good example of that

Asahi Linux is a distro built on existing ARM based Linux. Apple Silicon is built with ARM chips, so it is not surprising that ARM Linux could be ported to it. But it will be never be as full featured as macOS on the M1 because no device drivers exist for it on the M1 platform. While their aim to reverse engineer the hardware is laudable, I see it as a pointless endeavor as it will take years, and Apple doesn't want any other OS to run on it. From their perspective, any other full features OS hinders with the built-in plannned obsolescence built into the M1, and also cuts into the recurring revenue model built into the services in macOS (iCloud, App Store, Apple Care etc).
Inhospitable conditions when compared to temperate climates?
Yea when we have hyper inflation and the fed is forced to raise interest rates really high.
Federated learning is neat in some ways but I’m wondering how this solves anyone’s privacy concerns? As we saw with the FLoC controversy, people aren’t going to be any happier about collecting data via an opaque algorithm that they can’t audit.

I think it does avoid collecting data. The problem is that it doesn’t help for gaining trust, so only an already-trustworthy organization could use it.
The US power plug and socket is also unchanged, and yet it's a crap design.
The apple developer program license lets Apple use this trademark anyway, they can advertise any App however they want.
> At night I put the case on my wireless charging thingy and I don't really ever "think" about charging my AirPods.

You just did. Us absent-minded people are likely to forget even putting those things back into their case, forget the case at home or some other place (since we don't need it to listen), or forget to charge it. My stuff is likely to be in the last place I stopped using it. In this case that's hopefully my jacket, but it certainly won't be some charging station.

My wired earphones I can wear under my shirt with only a small chance of losing them. I still lose those occasionally, but mostly I break them every six months. A new pair is ten bucks, so whatever.

I already have trouble keeping my phone charged. I don't need more stuff with batteries. Especially not in something that's never supposed to be more than a few centimeters from the device it's receiving signals from anyways.
It feels like the West is basically saying well we can move to cleaner energy so everybody should regardless of how developed they are. If they can't move to cleaner energy then they should just go without. It would be great if every country could move to clean energy, but some can't.
Fwiw - This is brilliant. Overlaps with my own project research in astrobotany & accelerated mycogenesis.

What are your plans for the future of this?
So instead of optimizing for efficient allocation of labor and capital, we should instead optimize for the short-term benefit of the landed gentry class?

Seems like a likely path to either economic ruin or political revolution. Probably both.

Since you don't seem like you're be sympathetic to an ethical argument, here's some real-politik: "fuck the poors" works well enough when the poor are actually poor. Less well when the people being systematically fucked over have significant social esteem, education, and economic means. See: the American Revolution.
The battery is contained in the stick coming down from the AirPod body. They could make them threaded with concentric tracks at the top making contact with springs, so the user could simply unscrew them and swap with fresh ones, so that the parts cost of replacing the battery would be the battery itself plus a piece of plastic, some wire and a small almost empty pcb, surely not the entire device.
I have Bluetooth headphones (WH-1000XM4) that I use on a PC. They work great for music, but for video content the latency is very perceptual. It is sub-second, but you can tell actor's mouths aren't in sync.

Unfortunately there isn't a lot of solutions on PC, since the platform has no control of browser based video playback and even if it did, finding the exact audio offset would be impractical.
> 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.

How did it come to this? You don't see this in other engineering industries. There's not a ton of incapable civil engineers bouncing from interview to interview. You don't hear about how bad aerospace hiring processes are.

Are these candidates truly incapable of doing the job, or are the understanding of what the job entails misunderstood by everyone involved? On the other hand, is something wrong in how software engineers are educated to cause this surplus of incompetents? Does there need to be better training in this industry?

Saying "a lot of people are just bad" without investigation the situation seems rather unscientific.

> The length of the process is supposed to discourage these people from even trying.

The amount of effort invested into the Leetcode prep industry would suggest otherwise. A lot of people are playing the game even if they are under-qualified. Maybe that process will make them better coders. Or maybe, they will just appear to be better coders to you the interviewer.

> 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.

Sounds like an extreme outlier. Even companies like Google who are notorious for having long drawn out interview processes mostly just have long wait times in between rounds and recruiter calls. They don't involve 24 hours of talking to Googlers.
I think it would go without saying that for most crops, having more sun and better machinery access would be superior. But the farmer couldn't make it viable without the solar. Once they had solar, the produce was another positive factor.
Here's a couple repos of different hexagonal Cellular Automata I made that can support 16 million+ cells using SSBOs for storage.

C:
https://github.com/churchofthought/HexagonalComplexAutomata

https://github.com/churchofthought/ScatterLife

JS (WebGL):

https://github.com/churchofthought/Grautamaton
Agreed, I tried to use it and its just too slow compared to sway
There needs to be some sort of balance I think. There are limits to either extreme. Imagine if we forced, say, Hawaii to accommodate everyone who wanted to live there? There are limits on the carrying capacity of an area. I would love to let the market sort it out(sans all subsidies, property tax schemes(ahem, prop 13), etc), but I'm afraid the market will push things just to the south of being livable, and we'll build cities with poor quality of life.

That said, ecological concerns will drive more and more of us to the cities, and we need to accommodate those folks. I hope we figure out a way to do it while maximizing quality of life for everyone.
Will FFMPEG exist in 30 years? Will it still have all the same capabilities it has today? Will it run on modern hardware?
I appreciate that you edited it down from something that might have been worse, but these things are too simple to finesse. What you posted was (a) a sharp critique that (b) named a person and referenced him repeatedly and (c) made it about the person ("Eric decided to"). That definitely clears the bar for what counts as a personal attack. Why not just make your substantive points without making it be about the person?

I'm not asking you to stop commenting on anything controversial! This was a more specific point than that. However, I do think some calibration to local conventions would be helpful (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214019 is another flamewar comment of the kind that we're trying to avoid here. If you find yourself beginning with "So you lied when you said...", that's a bad sign!

(Btw, since "lie" implies intent to deceive, and it's pretty much impossible to gauge intent over the internet, that word is pretty much always out of bounds in arguments here. It's also unnecessary.)
> * The 23 special wards of Tokyo, 8.9M people, built 110,000 new homes that year.

Since housing is refreshed in Japan on a 20-30 year basis, you can't quote the number of housing built without comparing it to the number of housing torn down (since, as mentioned before, housing depreciates).

> * The metropolitan area of NY, population 20.3M, approved 27,000 units in 2012, but approvals != actual construction.

Do you mean no housing was built in 2012?
CUE is based on Typed Feature Structures, which predate Deep NLP, and for which there is limited literature. We do need a good writeup on the theory. I've written a bit here: https://cuetorials.com/cueology/theory/

Think of a graph with lots of attributes within which paths are searched for.
Don't mean to blow too much smoke but I really liked this response. I don't know if I could be that reasonable if a piece of tech I liked was attacked.
The article directly addresses this:

“The last time U.S. housing saw such rampant price growth was in 2005, and the market corrected itself, infamously, in 2008. But the underlying reality today is different. Back then, a geyser of subprime adjustable-rate mortgages sputtered out as borrowers defaulted. (According to Bloomberg News, 60 percent of mortgages during the bubble years were adjustable rate; fewer than 0.1 percent of mortgages are now.) The current boom is better compared to a river, one fed by streams that have long been visible on the horizon: high demand, low supply and a dysfunctional economy in which wages are stagnant while restrictive zoning and poor public policy have turned housing into an artificially scarce commodity. Historically low 30-year fixed mortgage interest rates, hovering between 2.68 and 3.08 for the last year, are narrowing the riverbed, quickening the current.”
iPhone with USB-C mod sells for $86,000 on eBay
Build full-stack serverless apps
Those are now mostly E-bikes, though (as far as I can tell in Chaoyang, at least).
Article is a bit light on details, I'd wait until we see more results published and how they measure against other quantum computers like D-Wave's processors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_processors
Thanks for sharing this. It's great writing and personally relevant as I'm currently en route to starting my own parenting journey. I didn't go to Harvard (and didn't even want to), but did enjoy much of the environment described by the author from my parents. Everyday my dad would drop me off for school and say to me: "be careful out there, it's an institution". And he is a teacher himself!
The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy with Edward Luttwak [2013 video]
And yet I doubt that we’ll see high density mixed use developments along the coast in Malibu.
I tried to sign up. I haven't get the code to my email since about 45 mins.
Also, the color palette in app (in android) can be better. I can't see anything as I type :(
I might be in the minority here, but wired headphones have always been a disaster for me.

I only buy wireless ones now, even though they're fraught with their own issues. It seems like there's always a tradeoff to be made, specifically regarding quality.

My biggest complaint has been the damage that I've always seem to have done to the headphone jacks of devices that I use. I'm not harsh on my devices, but I do tend to put my phone in my pocket and walk around with headphones on. And if it's not the headphone jack that gets destroyed, it's the cable; I went through ~5 different cables/earbuds when I was using the Shure SE215s.

Bluetooth headphones aren't great either. I have not lost a pair of headphones in years, but I've gone no more than 12 months without purchasing a new pair. This gets expensive when I also want my headphones to have active noise cancelling and sound reasonably good (I don't care about audiophile cans, because I wear my headphones primarily when I'm active). And don't even get me started on a pair that has a good (not even great) mic... I'd love to be able to have a phone conversation when walking through midtown Manhattan.
Or build sufficient back pressure mechanisms so that the cargo doesn’t get loaded in the first place or better still the goods doesn’t get manufactured and so on.

Send the feedback as far up the source as possible.
Can only speak for my city (Seattle), but no one’s building Camrys and building is constant. It’s not because any zoning prevents building affordable units. It’s because there’s limited land to develop at all and demand for property of any kind is extraordinarily high. All of the development in residential neighborhoods is already zoned for everything that could accommodate 4-10 times as many tenants. But they’re building luxury units anyway.

Doesn’t surprise me but this zoning explanation ain’t it.
I used to feel that way, but then I've got a drawer full of old gear with replaceable batteries that I can't get the batteries for anymore. Would be much more useful if rechargeable lithium batteries were standardized. Also I probably wouldn't really want to use any of these devices even if I could get a battery for them as the technology has moved so much since I originally got them.
React has 'useReducer' now, which can replace redux for most use cases.

But I also think 'react' means two different things. One the one hand, it's "just a library". In industry, it tends to mean... react + JSX + react-router + redux + react-this + react-that + react-redux-this-and-that all tied together with create-react-app. Plus its own command line tools, and browser plugins. It starts to feel very much like a framework then, if not a platform of its own.
When will PKI be broken?
Do you have AirPods or AirPods Pro?

I was a fan of the originals, but bought the Pros shortly after they came out. I'm on my second pair now - the first pair came down with the dreaded "crackling" and Apple replaced them.

I find that they stay in my ears well enough that I regularly use them when driving my Jeep without doors, even when I'm not listening to music. They provide some level of reduction of the wind noise that I'm certain has been damaging my hearing in my left ear in particular.
The Battle of Tora Bora, taking place in December 2001, has been subject to US Senate debate and discussion.

Bin Laden wrote his last will and testament on December 14, 2001, coinciding with the battle. The commandos who stormed Tora Bora were met with fierce resistance... not by Taliban, but by US Troops who refused to drop bigger bombs or deploy sufficient forces to attack the mountainous terrain.

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Donald Rumsfeld himself was worried that too many troops in Afghanistan at this time would fuel anti-American sentiment. Our problem was half-assing it in the early days of the war, when it mattered.

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/S%20Prt%20111-3...

When the Afghan forces complied with the Taliban / Al Qaeda cease fire, there was nothing for US troops to do anymore but let Bin Laden go. There wasn't sufficient strength to attack.

Perhaps intelligence on the ground was insufficient to allow a bigger military footprint at the time. But given the next 20 years of fighting and insurrection, a bit more force used in December 2001 could have prevented a lot of the force we used later.
> Pollution so think it seems like you could dish it up in a bowl. And it's that way at 30,000 ft, in a plane, flying between the two points.

What a load of bullc$ap. Even greta thunberg wouldn't make up things like this.