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> I find it odd that you almost never hear about the car's role in the housing crisis.

This trope is repeated on HN almost every time any article resembling city planning comes up. It’s discussed here ad nauseam. Anyway, let’s do it again.

First, if you think cars are the problem, why is the housing crisis still persistent in NYC and Chicago?

Second, this is not a US-specific issue. Rent is just as bad in Europe and people just get by on much less space there that would be unacceptable to most people in the US who aren’t accustomed to paying $2k for an old 1-2br apartment in a transit friendly location in a city.

Finally, the reason car usage exploded was because it enabled people to have cheap housing and work in the city. All of the cheapest housing in the US is in small towns and exurbs where you can have a 3 bedroom house to yourself for $1300/mo. Houses with access to good public transit (not an hourly bus) cost significantly more.

On a square footage basis, the US has some of the cheapest housing for a developed nation.
Science has a long history of giving things arbitrary or whimsical names, and regretting it. Consider "real" and "imaginary" numbers. Or names that have different technical and popular definitions, such as "introversion."
That's not true though. They have the same rules, they just call them ordinances.
Cultural fit is a thing. Its important you can get along with everyone. Especially in a PM role.
Do they really? You can just build a factory in your back yard and pursue the American Dream? Or do they still effectively have zoning laws?
They no need VPNs...

> Listen to these average Russian citizens, zombified by their state media's relentless propaganda. It's chilling.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/151032913601484390...
Today's low income housing was yesterday's market rate housing. Single family homes do not have affordability requirements and never have any issues with zoning. Multi family housing does but then it has all these fees and affordable requirements placed on it, making it more expensive than it should be and reducing the potential output in # of units.
That would be many orders of magnitude more units produced - and I was being extremely conservative with the estimate. If there was demand, the price could be brought down much further, but a better comp is going to be something like https://www.gpd.hk/
All of modern cryptographic development is in the hands of just one political talking head and one enabler of a serial rapist? Man, we are doomed.
You might find the article OP posted interesting, it completely contradicts your version of events. One example being that most gamer gaters were apparently Obama-voting liberals.
I didn't see any context that would support that, given that the only mention of people it these sorts of concerns were labeled as racists. Did I miss something?
I’m happier without mine. It was causing me no end of digestion issues culminating with an attempt on my life.
> The only way to change the mind of most Russians is to find people they trust (for any reason), send those to Ukraine with cameras and have them do their independent reporting. Showing the atrocious results of Putin's invasion, eg massive civilian casualties, destruction of whole cities, war crimes, ..., will create the emotion that humans need to reconsider what their rationality led them to think.

Interestingly anyone who finds anything less than this is accused of being a Russian propaganda agent.
It’s not nearly as surprising as the Algonquian-Basque pidgin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian–Basque_pidgin
StarCraft 2 has a pretty active version of this! I've always wanted to play around with it but I lost a lot of steam when I wanted to upstream some changes to the various libraries involved and my employer vetoed the idea.

https://sc2ai.net/
Your post only makes sense if you click any of the GP's provided links. The GP's post only shows sciplus.com and Science Surplus. You have to actually view the site to see that it is American Science & Surplus for your post of "I love ASS" to make sense. In other corners of the interweb, that comment might get you different responses ;-)
It reminds me of the multiplayer section from CodinGame website: https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/bot-programming

Although there is no specific implementation for Battleship, but I believe that some users sometimes have the possibility to create and submit their own games.
Then why can't you build a perfectly fine cabin on your own rural property without government inspectors coming around and micromanaging.

US/Canadian automobiles are also needlessly expensive, there are many awesome vehicles sold in Mexico etc., like the Hilux, and I don't see it as a conspiracy to keep poor people down, but an overabundance of caution from bureaucrats covering their ass and regulatory capture.

It's really hard to argue the libertarian point of view because you're always trying to point out the "unseen costs".
The atmospheric transmission's dependence on frequency is complicated. There are water vapor resonances above 100 GHz which one would want to avoid. There is frequency-dependent scattering from droplets, and there is a continuum background from water vapor dimers that rises with frequency. It is a very non-trivial situation. Having said that... the 2008 Olympics demonstration had a broadcast range of about 1 km, and people have demonstrated ranges up to several km at higher frequencies, even close to 300 GHz. So although it will never be as good as the range one can obtain at lower frequencies, there's a lot one can do.
Jumping through hurdles to build confidence is exactly what con artists are good at doing though. They are more likely to invest and thrive in bureaucratic processes because they have a much higher expected return than competitors.

The more arduous you make it, the more likely you price out people who actually do work.
How about building a pyramid with carvings on the inside? I bet that would last. You could even encode data by the presence or absence of a pyramid
Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
> There's an argument to be made that it's in the public interest to allow for at least some units to be made available that are affordable to someone on a teacher's salary.

I think there’s a good argument to be made that we shouldn’t do that: as it amounts to a government subsidy for that particular family or individual without solving the overall problem.

I think it makes much more sense for the government to build high quality housing, not sell it at all but rent it out, and use the income stream to fund further house building.
This is tautological; it's a slight rewording of "Nature favors symmetry when nature favors symmetry." This can be seen to be true without knowing anything about nature or symmetry, so it's a singularly unilluminating proposition about either. From my point of view, the interesting question is this: when are those times, and what are the particular properties of nature, or of symmetry, that causes nature to favor symmetry at those times but not others?
You mean like Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s? Or for that matter Italians or Irish or Eastern European immigrants?
You can't "affordable housing" your way to cheaper housing or rent. It can help with reducing displacement, but it increases the cost of the market rate units. The overall problem is a lack of supply. Portland recently passed an IZ ordinance and it had devastating effects on new housing construction.
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story (1985)
I think also it becomes an issue where you have to preclude a source file with ~10+ copies of the same license for each dependencies. It's the way you have to satisfy the attribution requirement (eg "must include this text," rather than "must include a link to this text somewhere in the source tree") that presents the issue.

It's part of why, as I said in the original comment, lots of big shops do _everything_ in house, even when there's a higher quality open source alternative. They simply don't use projects with attribution requirements that are too strict.
I dont feel called out, just trying to understand your position?
>Information gain can be combined with the Naive Strategy in order to calculate both the probability of a hit, along with the value that hit would provide (how many possible positions it would eliminate).

Isn't this missing the other half? It seems to me that the information you expect to gain depends on both the information you would gain from a hit AND the information you would gain from a miss, weighted by the likelihood of those outcomes.
Here in the UK old houses (and we’re often taking 100+ years old are typically considered more desirable than new builds.
Great. Cars are a significant contributor to the housing crisis. Would have been much better if that hadn’t happened.

Unfortunately, we need to build affordable housing in the cities we have, not in the cities in some magical world where the car didn’t take over.

Unless, of course, you want to wait a couple of decades for good public transportation to show up before housing the underserved.

Talking about how society should have done something different and casting blame moves the ball forward exactly zero steps, and talking about it in this article is an utter waste of time.

The public transpiration problem needs to be solved, but won’t be solved in the even the medium term and is a distraction from solving other problems we have today.
That’s an interesting metric, price per sqft. Where’d you come across that in light of this context? I always heard of price per sqft on the context of building and as one of the metrics on Trulia and the like but as a high level metric to compare countries with and what that number rolls up to I find it fascinating and am curious how it would render as a heat map overlaid over counties and cities etc across the globe. Do you know of any such visualization/analysis? Even a table would be a good start.
You're right if supply was corrected all over the region, prices would drop and it would be more affordable.
Metamask 101: Protect your users and community from common crypto scams
-start with some rough seed data

-make matches based on our initial hypotheses of data vs action vs outcome

-learn from success/failure of matches

-adjust matching strategy & request more or different data as needed

-search for best predictors by babble and prune [1] with extremely prolific babblers and extremely discerning pruners.

GANs & transformers & hashtables, we'll grow em quickly out of the right SUBSTRATE; I think representation efficacy makes for the biggest performance jumps in machine learning training and inference speed. Constant and well-directed experimentation is key in innovation, let's get all the best people spazzing out constructively on a constant basis

Let a thousand distributed "Bell Labs" type bloom. (If you don't know, Bell Labs is known for many innovations and was ran with a spirit of collaboration, tinkering, and interdisciplinary work. And also it had all the right people in the same spot!)

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/s/pC6DYFLPMTCbEwH8W "Babble creates a constant stream of coarse material, while Prune cuts these ideas harshly without the slightest hint of remorse."
That doesn’t make sense, if there is a supply hole you need to fill it to give houses to the people that want them. Anything else is leaving homeless people.
Korea was sent into the Stone Age in the 50s when the US and Chinese armies plus the Korean ones chased each other South to North and back and back again. And it's the Korea that sells us smartphones and many other stuff now, at least the southern part of it.
I'm so sorry, I've been doing some digging and I think there's a bug in the way the libraries for this particular board implement a WiFi server! It seems to crash quickly with even minimal code. I'm going to go back to the drawing board and see if I can set up an Ethernet-based server on an Raspberry Pi Pico - they're a bit more battle-tested. I'll let you know in a week or two when Solar Witch is back online!
6. Today, automobiles are housing a lot more people than any "homeless" numbers give.

7. While there is enough room on every street to build a row of houses.
So a much smaller land area island nation has citizen living in much closer spaces and using public transport and suddenly a huge continent sized nation with hugely diverse population can live like that.

> It is time to move on to the 21st century and design our solutions to fit our current capabilities

I am not sure single opinion would have clear idea of what is 21st century capabilities.
> Hire fast fire fast is by far the best one, should you really need it.

I can only say that: Oh my gosh do I not want to work for a company that "hires fast and fires fast". For many different reasons.
It does not seem to have helped non-Jewish whites any, compared to Blacks and Hispanics.

I guess it's a very special kind of studiousness whites have - one that helps with SAT scores, but not Ivy League admissions: https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-h...
> 2,100 unproductive hours to avoid a subpar employee

You also need to factor in the odds of this whole process working.

There’s not a whole lot of empirical research that measures the correlation between the interview process and employee performance.

And of course, employee performance measurement is as dubiously effective as ever.
"It’s something that completely breaks my intuition of the macroscopic world"

I think the physics world is similar to quantum physics where the smaller things get, the more strange things become.
Public tax funds academia through the govt grants that funds the research.
emailed, plus see reply to skywal_l
> it is simply the largest cost for every single American across all classes.

I don't think that's quite correct. It's the largest expense for almost everyone, but it's a huge source of income and wealth for a much smaller non-overlapping group. Also totally coincidentally I'm sure that same group is disproportionally represented in all seats of power.
Which protocols and pools would you recommend? I always worry the gravy train will end before you achieve anything close to a years worth of stated returns.
American market-centric approach to social policy is a mess. It's self defeating. Another way is possible, tried and tested in many countries.
When I was in grad school back in the '80s, 9 track magtapes were the standard for lots of things: backups and long term storage being some of them. (I still have one or two tapes in a box somewhere.)

About 10-15 years ago, it dawned on me that I hadn't seen a working tape drive in quite a while. Any tapes, even if the media were intact (highly doubtful, and the point of the parent article) would not be readable.

Much the same comment for boxes of punch cards. (My late colleague used to tear off pieces of the cards and use them for "filters" in his roll-your-own cigarettes.)

I guess my point is, even if the media are reliable (holes in cardboard? pretty foolproof from an ink-on-vellum viewpoint) the entire surrounding ecosystem needs to survive for archival purposes.
Is it okay that the O.K. Corral is not in OK?
If we want to fix teacher's salaries, we need to reform prop 13. The OUSD funding issues could have been solved if prop 15 was passed.
Disservice to ER or WoW? Why?
They could also just charge for a service fee.
But the key is the new stuff has to not take up more land than needed and not have features that make it cost more than needed.

700 square foot condos in a fourplex or 2 story cottages in a cottage cluster or row houses could be built for a fraction of the cost at 4x the density. But in many areas they are prevented by setbacks, minimum lot sizes, coverage rules, parking requirements, and so on.

Internal material and design regulations similarly don't optimize for things that are safe/functional and affordable.
ok, so TIL the Basque were a widespread seafaring nation waaay ahead of the Portuguese, with whom my education seems to have started. Terrific!
> can I ask you an honest question. Is there a reason you don't want to have that happen?

Of course: it's just a question of consent and respect.

I respect your faith, I would hope mine would be respected too, which is why I do object to being engaged in a baptism even 1) after having very clearly expressed when I'm alive that I do not consent to that but 2) under the assumption that when I'm dead, if a descendant consents, my own consent is void and no longer matters!

> if the religion isn't true and it doesn't mean anything

My point is the exact opposite: if it's true and it means everything, then surely you can understand my rejection!

Let's look at that differently: imagine I belong to a different religious movement, and that we have an "antibaptism" that can retrospectively negate baptism, snatch your soul from wherever it may be, and send it on its way to our deity - or to oblivion, or to damnation, or to whatever feels uneasy and disturbing.

Would you not want to object to have that done do you, instead of saying it wouldn't matter when you're dead?

Even "if the religion isn't true and it doesn't mean anything", it may disturb you.

> I just am curious about the line of reasoning

I tried to explain in good faith my uneasiness with the practice.

I hope this answered your question.
I’m dubious that companies can accurately measure ability or performance, either in the interview process or on the job.
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I've been approached by a couple of FAANG and told them to stuff it because of the recruitment processes. I'm in London, and here at least they're extreme outliers.

If you're early in your career, they probably matter and it might be worth it, but for me it's not.

Maybe it'd be different in Silicon Valley, but in London they just aren't willing to offer enough over and above the kind of jobs I've had elsewhere to be worth the misery (with the big caveat that I'm at the high end of non-FAANG London market rates; for someone who is not, FAANG may be worth it here too)
My favorite Basque fact:

> Linguistically, Basque is a language isolate (unrelated to any other existing languages)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language
I always just assumed that it can be expressed with very little information so it's simpler. Simpler things are more likely to happen via random processes.
This URL actually works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pya_U9gMsUE
Not the first time maybe. But if you play with the same people they obviously learn it and it’s probably not a great location for a variety of other reasons.
> So perhaps charging much more for food over 2,000 kCal/day per person makes a lot of sense.

Why financially penalize exercise? Even physical activity aside, why do you think everybody needs exactly 2,000 kCal/day to maintain their weight?

What about tall people or people with abnormal metabolisms? I require more than 2,000 kCal/day to maintain a normal weight, even when completely sedentary. Why should I suddenly have to start paying more per calorie past 2,000 kCal?
one big problem is that elected officials are involved.

these rules should be set and the application validated somewhere around state level. if the city wants to do their own thing, sure, they can set up their own separate system (to provide more funds for example in exchange for more/stricter rules), but that should be optional for the developer.
Email hn@ycombinator.com and ask for a second chance when you're ready. If it actually is a bug in the Arduino wifi stack and you can prove it, then I'd love to read a blog post about it. Especially if you manage to patch it upstream. It'd be a great story. Very newsworthy.
For the reasons listed I got myself three Yubikey 5 NFC dongles and removed SMS wherever possible. Unfortunately the authentication landscape is still very fragmented. AWS root accounts for instance cannot be secured with multiple hardware keys, only one. So no backup. The only solution is to use virtual OTP and register the same OTP setup key on multiple hardware keys. Only Google seems to have the ability to register as many keys as you want.
not exactly the same because it's not playing an established human vs. human game such as Battleship, but Core War [0] from 1984 is the earliest example of this idea that I'm aware of.

> At the beginning of a game, each battle program is loaded into memory at a random location, after which each program executes one instruction in turn. The goal of the game is to cause the processes of opposing programs to terminate (which happens if they execute an invalid instruction), leaving the victorious program in sole possession of the machine.

Battlecode [1] from MIT seems to be along similar lines as well

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

1: https://battlecode.org/
Well yes, but that's not quite the point: some externalities that might be priced into cars (or anything) might actually exist anyway.

The truck thing is easy: treat them as commercial vehicles and see if people still think they're cool with a speed limiter, tachograph, mandatory maximum driving times and a more rigorous driving test[1]!

And, yes, I do know about that thing with the seats in Ford vans, but there might be a billion in fines for that.

[1] Which begs the question: would doing that for all vehicles reduce externalities with less usage, lower speeds and safer driving?
Beauty is of course necessarily in the eye of the beholder, but Rust doesn't look ugly to me. One of the first things that jumps out is how little boiler plate Rust's canonical Hello World program has, Go doesn't do badly here either (certainly compared to C, C++ or Java), but it does introduce a bunch of ancillary stuff like packages and importing that are peripheral to our purpose in writing Hello, World!
In-between
adjusted for cost-benefit to taxpayers and profitability for developers the stadium suddenly doesn't look so good, or, um, looks amazing for those special interests.
> It's not that hard to find a "sick" day, even if you don't have unlimited PTO.

Yah, no. That's a ridiculous proposal for many people, particularly parents and anyone with any sort of disability.
And to be clear a perfect record was born.
My just-so guess is that it’s way easier to keep one’s balance when symmetrical, especially while locomoting.
Infrastructure, scaffold, or interface DNA then, would be a better term.
Given Nazí occultism, I think he was not the only one, and that they didn't have it entirely under control too. I think the occultists got themselves stimulant psychosis.
Ask HN: Why do public libraries still have physical books?
Anyone know?
On an unclad, sanely sized house that's still like two days for the apprentice to install and pull cable, tops. $200 for the poor sod doing the work, $80p for his boss, and $2k for the company is still nowhere near 2 electrician months of labour.
Just did this myself. Today, definitely buy the industrial camera 'zoom tube' type.

Upsides: HMDI out, straight to your TV. Should include an adjustable ring LED with the scope. Real time images (ie. video of moving things), smooth zoom (so you don't lose the subject), >100-200x magnification, and at very low cost. Inherently social.

Better models allow saving of stills or images, but I'd say avoid that and go cheap, just take images of the screen with a mobile phone or buy an HDMI capture device if your really want to add that later. The actual microscope places hate this product category, because it undercuts their out of date lowball analog optical microscopes.

The downsides are that you can't use conventional objectives, you don't know precise magnification at midpoint positions if you want to do subject measurement, and you can't do some of the fancier stuff ... but then again lowball analog optical microscopes can't either.

See https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/reviews-of-digital-microscop... for examples and discussion.
Those who lie on their resume in a harmful way are immediately apparent upon hiring, and so are quick to fire. Those who do not, are not, and aren't fired.

It's really not the risk folks seem to think it is.