skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you’re making a reasonable initial point and then veering into an unsupported conclusion. it’s reasonable to say that static analysis (upzoning reducing prices ‘overnight’) can’t capture real-world dynamics (prices will change more gradually at a macro scale, since development isn’t instant or uniform). but the idea that sub-market rate housing only comes through incentivizing/mandating developers is a wholly unsupported conclusion.

consider the thought experiment where most existing regulation, especially zoning limits on number/type of units, are removed in LA. you’d eventually reach a steady state where developers would make cost plus a small risk premium while prices generally go down as supply equilibrates with demand (housing starts equal net immigration). you’d get affordable housing without directly incentivizing developers at all. that’s because the market would be freed of distortionary burdens specifically designed to backstop housing prices.

that’s done by a number of regulatory mechanisms including zoning, ceqa, building codes, federal housing loans, distortionary incentive programs, etc. changing just one piece of that complex regulatory environment (developer incentives) guarantees nothing other than tilting the current market towards developers, not fixing the housing problem.
Boston-area is loaded with them. Within 10 miles of Boston’s Downtown Crossing (which includes many, very dense adjacent cities) it’s unquestionably the most dominant type of building for residences.

Duplexes, triplexes and tenements dominate any decent sized city (100K+) in Massachusetts. It’s just what tends to happen when cities were founded 350-400+ years ago.
David Quammen's book Spillover is informative about the role of animal infections and the pandemic.
Agree with you and I think of this problem similar to that of slavery (not nearly the same ethically though).

It does concern me however what it took to make people give up their advantages, the grossly more obvious inequities in that case (and solution), and how long it took.
Then you could see empty shelves in EU, Brexit is absolutely nothing in comparison.
You don't need a web browser to sandbox a program.
Anecdotal but I’ve never had any issue with Linux. Aside from installing Nvidia proprietary drivers when secureboot is enabled. In which case DKMS is broken so I had to enroll a new signing key in MOK and use that to sign the nvidia kernel driver.

If I need to run Windows, I will either use WINE or single GPU pass through to a Windows VM on KVM. Never needed to dual boot. Edge on Linux is great actually, I just don’t like that I can’t disable the listening on avahi ports even though I have disabled avahi. Apparently Edge uses it to mask IP when using WebRTC.
Probably a vaccinated human with a breakthrough case, you know, exactly like MRSA.
For retail, true. I would be surprised if amazon actually pays that much
that's half true.

every actor in the system has its own ledger and they reconcile transactions at a given point in time.

you don't need to know what others are doing or who they are.

your bank authorize your transactions and then some other bank receives the order to deposit the money on another account they control.

in this sense banking is more decentralized than "one true ledger to rule them all"
More accurate title: "Some Apple employee have a bad experience in perfectly safe and OK paying jobs due to harsh managers".
One of the most powerful NIMBY arguments against more density is traffic. And unfortunately they're right. We see it again and again in the cities and suburbs that grew since the car became mainstream. The roads can only take so much volume before the residents become really unhappy. And so of course they don't want more density, they're tired of waiting on red lights, looking for parking, and all the other problems of a car dependent society that has too many cars.

Buses have failed for a variety of reasons. Rail and BRT (bus with dedicated lane) are good and should be greatly expanded, but they only help with connecting major areas. We need to stop looking at Asian mega cities as an example. It just won't work here. Those super dense cities are designed for walking + public transit. The "last mile" problem in those cities are solved by walking because they're super dense enough that you can get to public transit easily by walking less than a mile. And also don't look at NYC or any old east coast city as an example. Those were designed before the car. Most people in the US live in places that were designed for the car.

Rail + BRT along major routes is part of the solution. But in the past, it hasn't worked well because of the "last mile" issue, which is more like the "last few miles" issue in the typical American suburban design. If someone has to still have a car to drive the few miles from their home to the park-and-ride, that doesn't do anything to fix the local road congestion issue. When they get on the train, it helps with freeway traffic, but does nothing for the local traffic. And the "last few miles" is too far to walk. And again, buses/shuttles have failed to fix this for a lot of reasons.

When ride-share was introduced, some thought that this was the solution. If someone depends on ride-share to get to places, that certainly helps reduce parking requirements. But, the traffic on the roads doesn't change, and may even increase due to idling ride-share cars waiting for rides. Uber Pool tries to help with this, but it's just not enough.

With the rise of electric micromobility (e-scooters and e-bikes), we finally have something that can fix this "last few miles" issue. But it will require a big step from the government and society as well. We have to be willing to sacrifice a lane in all the local roads. The current bike lanes are simply not extensive enough, not wide enough, and not safe enough. The only way to achieve true effectiveness for e-micromobility is to dedicate an entire lane of roads to them. It's a radical idea that would get a lot of opposition. People already upset with traffic don't want to lose a lane to make it worse. That can only be countered with a critical mass of people who own an e-microbility solution (e-scooter or e-bike).

Is it ever going to happen? Maybe if there's a city brave enough to try it and show it can work. But true support and infrastructure for e-bikes and e-scooters is the only way to get real density in the typical suburban sprawl layout without a disastrous increase in traffic and parking shortage.
I doubt many companies are writing their internal apps to be macOS specific. Likely it's browser based.
I'm a biochemist, and I approve of this comment.
For that angle:

> Just before breakfast on the morning of March 4, Private Albert Gitchell of the U.S. Army reports to the hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas, complaining of the cold-like symptoms of sore throat, fever and headache. Soon after, over 100 of his fellow soldiers had reported similar symptoms, marking what are believed to be the first cases in the historic influenza pandemic of 1918, later known as Spanish flu. The flu would eventually kill 675,000 Americans and an estimated 20 million to 50 million people around the world, proving to be a far deadlier force than even the First World War.

> A REPORT ON ANTIMENINGITIS VACCINATION AND OBSERVATIONS ON AGGLUTININS IN THE BLOOD OF CHRONIC MENINGOCOCCUS CARRIERS. By FREDERICK L. GATES, M.D. First Lieutenant, Medical Corps, U. S. Army. (From the Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, and The Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, New York.) (Received for publication, July 20, 1918.) ... An officer in Group II had reacted severely to the typhoid and paratyphoid vaccinations developed a severe local and general reaction, with headache and malaise, after the first injection of 750 million cocci ... From this time on, a small number of the men in each group reported some local or general discomfort following the vaccination. The symptom most frequently mentioned was a "feverish sensation" often accompanied by headache, which was sometimes severe enough to cause loss of sleep.

> When the United States entered WWI in April 1917, the fledgling pharmaceutical industry had something they had never had before: a large supply of human test subjects. During the war years of 1918 to 1919, the U.S. Army ballooned to 6 million men, of which 2 million were sent overseas. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research took advantage of this new pool of human guinea pigs to conduct vaccine experiments. ... According to a 2008 National Institute of Health paper, bacterial pneumonia was the killer in a minimum of 92.7% of the autopsies of those who died of so-called “Spanish flu” between 1918 and 1919.

> Vaccination is one of the most successful immunology applications that has considerably improved human health. The DNA vaccine is a new vaccine being developed since the early 1990s. Although the DNA vaccine is promising, no human DNA vaccine has been approved to date. ... Briefly, as a DNA vaccine carrier, bacteria are divided into two major groups: non-pathogenic bacteria and attenuated pathogen bacteria. The attenuated bacteria that have been studied as the DNA vaccine carrier include Salmonella spp., Yersinia enterocolitica, Shigella spp., and Listeria monocytogenes. Pathogen bacteria target the mucous membranes as their infection route and as a result, they are suitable for mucosal administration. However, the main disadvantage includes the likelihood of causing infection, particularly in infants and immunocompromised patients.
Quite a few people have done it already, when allowed. Prop 13?

I’m guessing it does over the long run, but haven’t tried it myself.
These guys [0] have built something really close to 2005-Google, and possibly slightly better.

The parent company, Tiscali, was a huge hit in the 1990s, as it provided internet access to millions of Italians. It went through some struggle for several years, but lately the original founder, Renato Soru, came back to run the company.

The company is based in Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, Italy.

[0]: https://www.istella.it/en/
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You were sending the entire database (all times from all users) to each individual end user to compute histograms client-side after they finished? Ah, yeah, that could get expensive on Firebase.
My insurance company. And NICE! they are offering me free credit monitoring. Only I still have free credit monitoring from the OPM breach where the federal government lost all my personal information to what is probably nation-state level hackers.

No consequences, the trend will continue. Consider all of your information compromised, always.
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Are you just reacting to that headline?

Sweden's numbers are really good all things considered [1]

This defies intuition, we would expect a "no restrictions" policy to result in significantly worse outcomes. Maybe the take away is that a healthier population and a better healthcare system is a more significant factor than restrictions and mandates?

[1] https://ncov2019.live/data/europe
Tinfoil hat on - has anyone considered how suspicious that only the commercial products worked, maybe the post is just a very clever shill for those products?
What if that new variant is also engineered?
Leaky vaccines can make viruses more virulent, though. See Marek's disease:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15757475/
I used to have 2 pcs, connected over synergy, for the same reason.
The best part is that your cmd-tab / application switcher is local to that screen.
Still looking for a similar solution on 1 laptop with 2 screens.
I see discussions of this all the time around Omicron, the problem is we have no idea how virulent Omicron is. The attributes we care about are immune evasion, transmissibility, severity. We know the most about immune evasion, we have a little data on transmissibility, but we know didly squat about severity.

People aren't talking about it much because we don't even have a bad guess about severity, much less a good guess.

It'll takes a while to figure out severity. Deaths happen 2-8 weeks after symptoms. Which means we're still probably several weeks before we have any good data on severity. And this data is still really hard to parse out especially with immune evasion which makes the average case more mild, even if the disease is more virulent.
Over 700,000 (edit it’s now 800,000) dead Americans is about 20x as bad as the flu even with all of these measures, that’s huge. But even that understates the difference when you measure years of life lost.

The flu typically kills the extreme elderly or people with extremely compromised immune systems. Aka they might die at 94 vs 95. COVID on the other kills people who are relatively much healthier, someone that dies at 75 vs 95 lost 20 years not 1.

This is also why people 70+ are almost fully vaccinated in the US. For that age range it’s an extremely serious disease with a high chance of killing them after infection.
I opened the issue because when I spun up a macOS runner, it was not requiring me to "review and agree to be bound by the terms applicable to any software preinstalled on the Apple Software [...]" per the terms. Was I somehow implicitly bound by them? I was not comfortable with that legal risk and figured I'd ask the awkward question.
That makes no sense. Apple doesn't rent hardware.
> proton glorious eggroll

what?
> The Soviet Union sucked, but it lasted an extremely long time.

Less than a century is not "an extremely long time," and its citizens majorly suffered under the central planning. There was nothing successful about the Soviet Union.
During my wfh phase of the pandemic, I used a laptop exclusively without major issue. The one problem that I had was working with large pdf engineering drawings and other page based layouts. In those cases switching virtual desktops didn’t come close to being able to glance back and forth between different applications. As a workaround for this, I found myself using a printer much more than in the office. Once I took the time to print the documents, having the traditional physical copy was sometimes better than a second monitor, as I was able to more easily markup and add comments on documents.

For strict programming this is less of an issue and I’ve found that I can keep the documentation in a split screen without issue. Most sites are responsive nowadays which really benefits having smaller windows.
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It wasn't killed, the feature just never got the kind of marketing and traction that we felt it could/should have. IAM went off and built their own blessed version later, I think.
In my experience excel has gotten significantly better in the last 2-3 years.

Though yes, that accounting sheet that has 2 million blank rows, and some macro trying to access a file in c:\windows\system32 is likely still causing problems... (not kidding)
No, not exactly like MRSA at all.

Be careful, methicillin (and generally speaking, antibiotic) resistance are very different, both mechanistically as well as evolutionarily, from vaccine immunity evasion.
I would say the goal of vaccinations is to minimize death and to prevent medical systems from being overwhelmed.

I don't think COVID-19 is a disease that can be eradicated.

The fewer hosts out there though, the fewer opportunities it has to mutate.
Is there an API to get the compiled and bundled sources into one output/result?
> why don't we just accept it as part of our lives like we did with the flu?

Because several areas are very near 100% hospital capacity with COVID patients still, and a COVID ICU visit is much more demanding from a timespan and resource perspective in terms of staff and equipment. We can't risk relaxing restrictions when hospitals are unable to bear an increase in patients.

From a cynical point of view, COVID policy is about protecting infrastructure - and only save lives as a side effect.

This is why many places had specific policy for essential services and essential workers, daycare and schooling, transportation, - as well as putting restrictions on private industry which in some countries has become significantly more centralized like meat processing.
>If nothing else, the variants occurring in real time right before our very eyes should make the idea of evolution a lot easier for some in various communities to finally grasp.

I don't think the issue of evolution has ever been a question of people grasping the science. The issue has and continues to be the resolution of its conflict with their faith. Some have found a way through that mental obstacle course, but most have not.
Parking garages cost over $500k per space to build. Probably more in California. No one is building one with as part of a short term plan with the intent to tear it down in less than 30-40+ years.
I'd argue that all the things you are listing are also on the inside of the system. There's certainly an element of rebellion to protests for example, but it's also a consolation price. Elon Musk doesn't have to protest, neither does Jeff Bozos. They just call up their preferred politician and the system dances for them. Protests are an opium fed to the disenfranchised masses to keep them from fundamentally changing the system. It's the last pressure valve. Kept just out of reach so that people won't use it, but highlighted to make sure that you aren't allowed to change the system without first doing it.

I think the system is whack, and that's the reason people don't want to fight it. They've given up.
There are a few ways this is dealt with in government. First is a requirement to provide engineering diagrams sufficient to rebuild a chip from scratch if necessary. When purchasing a few hundred thousand servers at a time from Dell or leasing space in Amazon's data centers, nobody is physically auditing that every chip actually matches the diagram, but they will randomly audit at least a few. If someone is shipping a bunch of motherboards that have undocumented backdoors on them, it will get noticed.

Second is network disconnection of the systems. Most exploits rely on remote access. If there is no network path from a C&C server to the infected host due to it not being exposed to the Internet and not having any kind of commodity radio capability, there isn't much an attacker can do short of something like Stuxnet, that is, just frying machinery instead of trying to exfil data or take over control. Something like that needs to be pretty tightly targeted, though. The factory line in China likely doesn't have any reliable way to identify exactly which chips are going to end up in US critical systems and only sabotage those.

Third is extremely thorough sandbox testing. Observe something for a long time in a controlled environment and see what it does. That is also something that is not feasible to do for every part, but it is feasible and is done for randomly selected equipment samples.

Obviously, different levels of scrutiny, testing, and security will be applied to, say, the public homepage of the Department of Labor versus the servers running blue force tracking for operational military units. In some ways, it is actually a lot easier to secure critical defense and IC systems than something like banking or email. Not having to expose an information system to external networks or allow arbitrary users signup access is already a huge first step that simplifies the problem space a ton.
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What brand/model of treadmill do you have?
Hold my beer. Now were is that OpenCL programming book when I need it?
A much better alternative for #1: simply improve tenant protections so much that renting out a property becomes a bad investment (to risky).
Which is pretty much how we end up w/new flu variants out of China ever year, correct?
My understanding is you are already allowed to build an ADU (additional dwelling unit) due to state laws.

What I've seen in my city (LA adjacent) is the city can find really creative ways of making adding an ADU very expensive. On my block the same contractor built 2 different ~500 sq ft units on two different lots. They both were a garage tear down replaced by a 1 bedroom unit above a garage.

The first unit was done right after the law change allowing ADUs, and cost ~140k. The second, started 18 months later was ~270k and the owner had to pay for things like repaving the ally and upgrading the sewers.

So even the small steps are being impeded.
Currently in The Netherlands the hospitals are bracing for "code black" which means there are not enough beds and staff in the hospitals to treat everyone who needs it. Doctors will have to decide who gets treated and who doesn't - they will have to choose who lives and who dies.

What's more, regular care and non-urgent surgeries are put on hold, increasing the risk that patients experience more severe symptoms. Nurses and doctors are burned out and consider leaving their jobs.

That's why we can't "just accept it".
> Yes, covid is a little bit more deadly, but other than, why don't we just accept it as part of our lives like we did with the flu?

Primarily because our health infrastructure has no capacity as is. Most places are really struggling, both with space and staff. Add to that the PTSD a lot of healthcare workers will be dealing with for decades to come.

And losing 1-3% of our total population isn't great.

But to your point: we will end up living with COVID as an endemic, so long as more people get vaccinated. We need to look at global vaccination rates beyond just local ones, too, as variants will continue to mutate throughout the world. With the vast, vast majority of folks winding up in the hospital being unvaccinated--taking up space, time and money--we're going to be struggling for a while.

And COVID patients are impacting the capacity for people to get routine check ups, and in some locations emergency work, done. It's bad for everyone. Until the numbers are low enough that our doctors and nurses aren't being pushed beyond their limit, we can't consider it sustainable.
Yup, sorry I was assuming 40 hours of utilization a week, forgot to state that.
Yeah, it's always immediately frustrating when you realize it's "one of those movies" where I'm going to have to ride the volume the entire time.

The nice side-effect from that constant volume changing is that the volume display covers the subtitles, which means I can neither hear nor even read the subtitles the dialogue >:(
What if new variants inevitably emerge given global mutations and lackluster vaccinations?
Great, great article.

A long time ago, I took a tour of some recording studios. Many of them had some car radio speakers in the booth, so they could hear what the record sounded like in the car with shitty sound. Now, of course, cars have much better sound.

It does seem like a movie sound guy would need the equivalent, with some home theater setups that simulate how people are actually hearing it.
I think you are wrong. I think there is a lot we can do with regard to privacy. We should not give up privacy protections because they could hypothetically be abused by people in power. Especially when the privacy protections have explicit exceptions for the cases you worry about.
I've seen this argument in many places yet I'm not sure the math holds up.

For example a house that costs 1000$ goes up in value by 20% = 1200$. Over the same period a 2000$ bigger house goes up by the same amount = 2400$. If you wanted to buy the bigger house before the increase you would have loaned 1000$, but now since the increase you'll have to pay 1200$.

Is there a catch I'm missing somewhere or what ?