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In another HN thread a couple of days ago, someone mentioned Ambler v Euclid, the landmark SCOTUS case that set the stage for zoning back in the 1920s. There's lots to be said about that case, industrial development, racism and more, but in reading the decision I came across the court's description of the impact of apartments on single family housing. Even if you allow for some level of racial motivation in this non-racial piece, the court's position really makes clear the core position, over a century old, that has underscored housing issues in the US:

"With particular reference to apartment houses, it is pointed out that the development of detached house sections is greatly retarded by the coming of apartment houses, which has sometimes resulted in destroying the entire section for private house purposes; that in such sections very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district. Moreover, the coming of one apartment house is followed by others, interfering by their height and bulk with the free circulation of air and monopolizing the rays of the sun which otherwise would fall upon the smaller homes, and bringing, as their necessary accompaniments, the disturbing noises incident to increased traffic and business, and the occupation, by means of moving and parked automobiles, of larger portions of the streets, thus detracting from their safety and depriving children of the privilege of quiet and open spaces for play, enjoyed by those in more favored localities-until, finally, the residential character of the neighborhood and its desirability as a place of detached residences are utterly destroyed. Under these circumstances, apartment houses, which in a different environment would be not only entirely unobjectionable but highly desirable, come very near to being nuisances."

If you're an American like me, this is your SCOTUS at work!
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Did you check what the throughput of this is?
Separate from the validity of your take, it shouldn’t surprise you.

People from the field already have the tear it down and rebuild attitude. It’s only unlearned after hard experience. But that experience is never gained on society level problems because they are not making the decisions.
IMO the actual big draw of America was that it was a nation of laws and ideals, rather than a nation of men. Those ideals are that there exists a fundamental right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every person. The problem with the idea that we can all join a community that agreed mostly with ourselves, is that some people mostly agree that some humans can be considered property based on the color of their skin. Or that women should be subservient to men. Or that the final solution to their problems is that one religion or ethnicity should be excluded from their society. These people exist today, they were not defeated in the Civil War or WWII. See: Charlottesville.

The process isn’t about forcing everyone to follow what you want. It’s to force everyone to permit everyone else the fundamental rights protected by the Constituiton. We know for a fact that when you let people organize into autonomous groups based on their own preferences, some will tend to organize into a group that is at stark odds with the idea and ideals of America. We’ve seen it before with disastrous consequences.
> I really don't understand what [the idea of an electronic book] could have meant then

Files containing text, electronically accessible, and allowing preservation through automation as files allow (transmission, duplication, versatile electronic storage).
Add a vertical on the other side and achieve enlightenment.
The only people saying China won't get Omicron are the state newspapers in China.. of course they're going to get it. Especially since they are hosting the Olympics in ~2 months and it will certainly be the dominant strain by then.
If you wake up one day and find that your society is disintegrating with that speed, you're going to need food, water, ammo - all of which are tradeable - and a good support network - not a bunch of fake computer monopoly money tokens.
Neither the author of this article nor the investor being interviewed seem to actually understand options.

You want to make a “safe bet” and decide to buy a bunch of options…whoo boy.
> Low scores can often be about factors outside the employees’ control

Sounds like every "year-end review" I've ever been involved with in my professional life. Every job I've ever had has required an annual summary of "accomplishments" which incentivized a lot of the wrong things. Fixing bugs and removing tech debt aren't measurable "accomplishments", so they're avoided or done as fast as possible to move on to a "feature" that sounds good on a year-end review.
After doing the exercise of going from 3 displays -> 11" MBA (no external), I'm maximally productive on any reasonably sized laptop monitor.

16" is great, but I'm probably 95% on my new 14". It's all about optimizing your workflow, utilizing workspaces, tiling, etc.
Cash transactions, by definition, are pretty much always in-person. Thus, the risk of fraud or "significantly not as described" goods are significantly reduced. On the contrary, the modern world depends on being able to transact remotely.

Even then, there is still recourse if you pay for something with cash and the thing you buy ends up being non-functional (e.g. small claims court). And since the transaction was in person it's less likely you have no idea who the seller is.
Is it possible to refactor it to use AWS Lambda so it's only using the compute power it needs, rather than maintaining infra? Aka, "serverless"
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We don't know, and probably never can know where it came from. If it was a lab leak they have covered their tracks enough that we cannot be sure. If it wasn't - then it is even harder to figure out where it came from.
In brand new developments, that might be true. But, the state eventually ends up paying for maintenance of those spaces. In older urban areas, that parking has costs in terms of re-developing the roadway for alternative transit. And in both cases, that land could be better allocated to economically productive use.

And that's just on-street parking. There are also per-unit or per-sqft requirements for off-street parking that generally over-allocate space for cars.

Either way, we've created a market failure, in the sense that we over-allocate space (regardless of who pays for maintenance of that space) for parking.
Nice idea. Sounds pretty easy to implement, just filter the subtitles with an NER function.
I used to have multiple 4K monitors hooked up. No more. Ended up with single large 4K monitor in landscape mode. Portrait mode makes for way too much head moving. Unless on the move never use laptop screen. My laptops are closed and hooked up to the same large 4K monitors.
> "watching Microsoft do things like making Notepad use Unix EOL characters"

A system which still pretends you're talking through a teletype, a system where it would make sense to use both CR and LF together and individually to move the cursor accross or down or both, shuns it.

Windows never did mandate it, applications can use any line ending they like, but used it as a convention for backwards compatability with DOS which was backwards compatible with CP/M. CRLF is the standard in SMTP, POP, IMAP and HTTP.

To watch Linux fanatics:

1) identify Linux with Unix, for "superiority by association".

2) personally identify with the use of LF as a newline indicator in text(!)

3) fantasise that Microsoft's use of CRLF is inexplicable, inferior, dictatorial and in some way objectively wrong, while Linux's parroting of Unix is superior, amazing and in some way objectively correct.

4) Ignore that the American Standards Institute draft of control characters from 1963 had only CRLF newlines, and Multics from 1964 didn't go with the standard when it could have.

5) personally feel superior and vindicated that Microsoft's basic text editor changed newline terminators...

6) ... a program they don't even use ...

7) ... while in the same breath complaining about how everything should be like Linux and they've said so for years, but now it is that way it's also bad; "fuck you fuck everyone I was here before it was cool, I was angry that you didn't do it my way and now I'm angry that you are doing it my way".

8) while ignoring the elephant in the room that the "everything as text" OS with tools that "do one thing well" is completely incapable of handling both styles of line endings.

Is just a ridiculous situation.

> "doing everything they can to make using GIT on windows, an easy experience, and so forth and so on.."

What a terrible company, doing things to make users lives easier. Imagine if all the standard Linux tools could just handle common line endings. Python does, which demonstrates it's totally possible and mostly a non-issue. It could have been made to completely go away, but instead has become a source of Ego and Pride for the Linux fanatic, thinking people who use tools that deal with complexity and present it simply are inferior, instead of thinking that those tools are desirable and superior.
I have tried starting the expanse twice. Both times the dialogue compared with the overall darkness of the scenes made me stop watching. I think I’d like the show, but I want to be able to see and hear what’s happening!
Yes. You build the ADU, rent it out and then when you are ready to move on or out you can move into it and rent the main house or sell or whatever. I would do this in a heartbeat. It gives people transitional options. It may not though stop inter-generational property transfer though but that could be taxed fairly.
Although in reality enforcement can be selective and vary by jurisdiction so it’s also decentralised in implementation.
Not just cats, all felines.[0]

[0]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/tiger-cor...
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That’s not how it works.

We basically guess what the US flu will be by what is “popular” in Asia or Southern Hemisphere, we figure in about 6 months or so it’ll be in the US. I have no idea how Europe or Rest Of World makes flu vaccine guesses.

Guess what though? They do the same. What is “popular” in the west MAY be popular in Asia in a few months.

The flu game is constantly a best guess of what others saw months ago.
Regarding 1., scientists already did this. This is how we know which mutations in Omicron are concerning, and which are not.

They basically tried a wide range of possible mutations and tested the effect on vaccine/infection antibodies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676316/
I mean, we sorta went right to "lock down the entire economy" so I figure that's the next logical step. I personally feel both measures are a bit of a overeaction. Preparing for a endemic seasonal disease like the flu is more sensible to me, with a focus on early detection and treatment.
That is by far the best science article I have read on SARS-COV-2 yet. The summary is concise and relevent and the linked graphics are incredible and tell the story well:

https://covariants.org/variants/21K.Omicron
https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/21K.Omicron
This is my perception as well. Not knocking either of those countries, just curious if they were thought to be bastions of enlightenment values.
Your data ends up "locked" (as you mentioned, expensive to migrate/replicate) on the cloud platform that your Snowflake instances are running on; AWS, Google or Azure. I'd say it's in ALL of the cloud providers' interests to help Snowflake grow and prosper on their cloud platform.

At the moment it really seems that AWS is most successful here since all of the new and more advanced SF features are coming to AWS-based SF first. Then again, SF started on AWS so probably has most of their roots settled there.

While data replication across clouds in SF is expensive, I'm sure SF could/might absorb this one-time cost for you if you needed to migrate, esp if there was any sort of threaten from a particular cloud provider (assuming we're talking about internal stages and tables, not external stages/tables).

It's really in SF interest to lower this cost (or liability as you might see it) since they're really pushing for a multi-cloud data ecosystem. Just look at their data exchange product and how they're trying to make the underlying cloud platform irrelevant. The only thing really stopping this from taking off is the cost of setting up replicas in an of the regions or clouds that you want to share to or consume from.
Not just any options, but Chinese ADRs during a time of incredible volatility in Chinese markets.

... during a pandemic.
... with all your life savings.
Parks is a quack who lies a lot in public. I particularly like the end of your video where she goes all in on vaccines causing autism.
My 45 year old back is just fine after using only laptop displays for 9 years now. That said, I am pretty physically active and have led a healthy lifestyle since forever. Maybe the latter part is key.
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From the PhD dissertation [0] by Page and Brin:

> we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

[0] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
There's one line in there which is very important.

Markets work well as long as they're in, as we call it in engineering, the "continuous control region," that is, the part far away from any weird outliers. You need no participant in the market to have too much power. You need downside protection (bankruptcy, social safety net, insurance). You need fair enforcement of contracts (which is different from literal enforcement of contracts).

Right there is what's needed to make capitalism work. I've mentioned previously that a European Union study (I need to find the reference for that) indicated that it takes about four substantial players in a market before price competition works. Three or less becomes oligopoly. The US has three big banks, three big cell phone services, and three big pharmacy chains. All act like oligopolies.

There's an over-regulated edge case, too. The US used to regulate who could be a trucker, or where airlines could land. That ended in the 1980s.

We need criteria for when things are getting out of the stable region. This is a quantitative thing, and law doesn't do quantitative very well. So we have a philosophical problem in how to regulate into the continuous control region region, where price signals work.

This is at least a PhD sized problem and possibly a Nobel Prize in Economics sized problem.
Could it just be that testing was so bad in Africa that we never identified this strain as it was spreading in those communities until it had some breakthrough mutation that made it much more easy to spread?

I think it is telling that it was South Africa, probably one of the few SSA nations with the infrastructure to do this testing of a representative sample of their population, where this was found first.
Especially in a drought. (Northern CA here)
* https://braintool.org

This looks great, btw.

I have been looking for an open-source replacement for Tabs Outliner[0], which helps me effectively manage tabs when there are hundreds, even over a thousand tabs open. There are surprisingly few options that are as powerful. Tabs Fern[1] is a close approximation, but it's tab trees aren't multi-level, and it can only restore entire windows instead of single-tabs. On Firefox, the most powerful tab manager I've found so far is Session Sync[2]. It doesn't seem to scale as much as Tabs Outliner and has a different mode of interaction, but I've been happy with it thus far.

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[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-sync/
The worst one ever for me was "Public Enemies". I had to walk out of the theater because I couldn't hear the dialogue. I did end up watching at home, even there it was a challenge so I turned on the subtitles. I recall someone saying it was typical for films directed by Michael Mann.
> It's strange to me that a lot of pragmatically-minded developers I know would point to the immediate problems with that kind of approach, but are nevertheless quick to embrace the equivalent approach when faced with society-scaled problems.

They are doing it for the same reason that the junior developers are doing what you describe.

It is difficult to understand why a full rewrite of a system isn't going to work, when you don't understand the simplest things about that system.
This is a great reply. Thank you for engaging instead of just dismissing me or downvoting.

I want to say I agree somewhat: regulatory environments, complex zoning and permissioning, leads to development overhead and ultimately higher prices for everyone. (Ironically I seem to be getting pushback from fiscal conservatives in these threads even though I think we mostly agree there.)

Where I disagree is from this point right here:

> you’d get affordable housing without directly incentivizing developers at all.

You'd get it somewhere. Not necessarily in the cities themselves, because the law of supply and demand is still going to outstrip however much you liberate the ability to build. Cities naturally become unaffordable. They concentrate wealth and economic output and then grow in value because there are not unlimited lots that are equally central to this concentration.

This means that affordability, particularly in the case of cities (like LA), which is the thrust of the upzoning argument, is not actually addressed merely by the removal of impediments to building or changing zoning. The economic regime cities build guarantees the displacement of middleclass dwellings over time. Eventually you reach a point at which all the hairdressers and school teachers no longer have a reasonable commute. The city eats itself in its ever-spiraling productivity.

When you have a large, high-traffic, high-output geographic area (like LA), you have to think more creatively about how to usurp market dynamics inside of that area. That requires below market-rate mandates, as far as I can see. The invisible handle of the market will not settle this because the affordable regions are naturally pushed outward over time.

In otherwords, I disagree with the premise of most of these comments: upzoning is not the final word, not even, in the majority, the most important word for affordability inside of cities. California as a whole will benefit from upzoning. The actual city of LA will not see pricing regress because, as you noted, there are actually many more barriers to building in terms of building codes, etc. and because of the realities I mention in my reply.
As opposed to them rotting naturally?
If you're a user with low experience and all you want is to browse the web Linux actually works quite nicely.
I think his description of what a call option is missed the "...and over 50% of them expire worthless" part. I trade options a fair amount and have done so for many years, and I make good money doing it, but I don't have the balls to go all-in on a contract that stands a 50/50 chance of going poof come expiration day. I don't think anyone that has working knowledge of what they're doing with options has that kind of testicular fortitude, at least not without feeding a gambling problem.

Options are supposed to be a hedge, by my understanding (even though I personally don't use them that way); but call them what you like, just don't call them a "safe bet" no matter the underlying stock.
I'm well aware of the BBC shift in practice myself, understand many of the arguments for it, and yet ... if the end result is incomprehensible mush, well, They're Doing It Wrong.

I've cut back tremendously on my listening in part on this basis. (Overall quality of coverage also seems to have flagged, also often with an eye toward popularity over significance. I'm aware that there's been a war against the BBC by political elements within the UK, I disagree strongly with it, and feel that also has a large role in these trends.)

But as with online content: if your design and/or presentation are getting in the way of your message and ability to communicate ... please stop doing that.
Now, I don't like to judge the moral character of display positioning, but after carefully considering the .png of the preferred solution of this article's author, I am forced to question the nature of my reality.

Excellent work. :)
I hate it how volume is maxed out in movie theaters way too often these days. I can't remember the last time I was able to watch a movie without putting my fingers in my ears for some parts of it. I've even Sat through whole movies with ear plugs in like I was at a concert (same problem there). I guess they pander to the physical sensation of loud music and/or people with damaged hearing? I'd be happy to find a theater where they lower the volume and even happier to find one where they would reasonably normalize it.
What were the effects of the Bangladesh mask intervention?
In terms of funding those services, and specifically in the case of California, newcomers to a city bear an outsized share of the burden, because Prop 13 locked in low tax rates for long term owners. So if anything, new development would facilitate providing and improving those services. You can see that, in practice, cities suffering municipal bankruptcies are those who fail to grow steadily.
All of the sudden HN seems to be getting a ton of articles and Wikipedia links to all things DOS these days. Just a fervor of nostalgia?