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Let me tell you: Zoning in itself is not a bad thing per se!
Quite the contrary.
I guess nearly all countries belonging to the "Global North" have them.
And they do so for a reason.

Tossing out zoning laws alltogether is just another nail in the ethically bankrupt city plannings coffin.
Instead the zoning laws have to get better by revising their underlying premises.
E.g. why the hell do you guys outlaw condos?
In Germany we have a gradient on whats allowed and what not. The "BauNVO" (Baunutzungsverordnung) regulates that on a broad level. Then you will go to a more granular level, the "B-Plan" (Bebauungsplan). There it will have more regulations which have to be followed. E.g. it is very often the case that the ground level is reserved for commercial use, but on the other levels must be condos.
I think that is not true in the EU at least. There are many credible news sources in the Northern European countries, that I follow, and they have different political leanings.
This is such a "magic wand" sort of response though. "Get rid of bad laws and replace them with smart laws" is impossible to argue against.

The real problems with zoning is often that incremental change is really hard. If you could suddenly rebuild a city or neighborhood overnight, most people may not mind, but when it's all iterative, you suddenly have a poorly sound-insulated group of houses or condos next to a popular or busy sports bar or concert venue. Or you add high-density housing to a single-lane road, now the city may need to adjust speed limits or sidewalks to accommodate the new demand.
I hope hindsight is 20/20 for everyone else. Java has delivered like crazy on a lot of promises that were widely considered hot air at the time.
There's a huge difference between maintaining absurd grass lawns (about everywhere but in rainy England) and maintaining reasonable vegetation.
I have been having so much fun doing Retro stuff. Vogons is the place to be for this area. I bought a Compaq Presario 4505. Then did lots of upgrades

* Ram to 64MB

* CPU is a 233MMX

* 512KB COAST

* Voodoo 3 3000 PCI

* IDE -> SATA with a 32GB SSD

* Audician 32 Plus

Wavetable cards are especially fun. Serdashop sells a bunch of interesting ones. X2GS, Yucatan FX, E-Wave, McFly and X2S are popular ones. Check out this[0] video. The music can be so dramatically different depending on what hardware you have. It is fun switching between cards.

Games from this era just had so much passion put into them and you can feel it while playing. I am playing System Shock 1 right now and you can see all the different experiments that went into the game (some good and some bad).

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Another cool device to check is the WeeCee [1]. If you want to play games on real hardware but don't feel like collecting (and troubleshooting) old hardware.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQQ7vvW_T4

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA
You can create GitHub projects and list relevant topics, such as "robotics", in the About section so that topic searchers will find them. Then you can write about and link to the projects on Twitter, LinkedIn, and other places.
Didn't YC literally invest in a ponzi scheme?
Because 1-based languages like Fortran, Matlab, R or Mathematica are less used in scientfic computing than elsewhere?
If movement is considered a criterion, do we consider a completely paralyzed person to be not-alive? Do we consider filter feeding animals like sponges to be not-alive? Do we consider plants to be not-alive unless they are carnivorous and capable of movement?

What I am trying to highlight is that life is very broad and it is fuzzily defined.

Both sperm (male gametes) and eggs (female gametes) are alive. Thinking one is more alive than the other due to it's ability to move may or may not reveal a bias you may or may not hold.

The same bias people who use agriculture (planting seed) as an analogy or euphemism for human reproduction may hold.
The tax benefits would be too easy to cheat, by claiming a person was pregnant while doing taxes, but then miscarried. All of this would create a ton of needless paperwork... the same goes for a SSN if there is a miscarriage... needless paperwork.

The passport wouldn't make sense, because it's not like the child can go off on their own. It would be more needless paperwork to make a padantic point.
What platforms do they target?
It’s a dumb statement. Better advice is to live a life worth reliving exactly the same way an infinite amount of times.
Deer fly trap umbrella (2012)
In my case, that happens all the time. You probably won't have to search too far, to find me apologizing, admitting error, or finding a way to make amends.

It's a fundamental tenet of my way of life. I promptly admit when I'm wrong.

I've found the best way to avoid having to make amends, is to not cause the offense, in the first place. I tend to be fairly careful about keeping it in the "I," all the time (but no good deed goes unpunished -I am often told that "I'm making it all about me").

I do find that I get attacked, sometimes, right out of the blue, for stating personal philosophies and/or experiences. My fave is when I am told that something that happened to me "didn't actually happen." I assume that is because it is an inconvenient truth, for others. My experience, dealing with tech industry ageism, is a common fulcrum for that kind of response.
I don't think people 'chasing legacies' are generally concerned with whether 'most people' are remembered, that's exactly the point isn't it? Standing out?

A better 'problem' to point out might be the timespan over which few legacies that are remembered originate. 'I want to be the Tutankhamen of my time' is all very well, but there's no reason to think there will even be one.
I thought that the researcher that 'discovered' ADHD admitted oh his death bed that it was just a scam he invented to make money on the drugs to cure it.
Interesting. I was very into PC gaming in my teens and look back on that time quite fondly. Certainly not with any regret or a feeling that I wasted my time.
Most of these points apply to a lot of languages en vogue today. I'm not quite sure what to make of that in light of these points, but thought I'd point that out.
they're closer to a (namespace) global enum imo
I agree Disney’s handling of the Star Wars was a dumpster fire from a story standpoint.

However, the Star Wars acquisition has been extremely profitable financially and the IP is still quite valuable. 2.1% of the company + 2.21 Billion was easily worth it. Theme park attractions, toys, etc just let them leverage IP in ways few companies can match in the short term.
Looking at all the parking lots, I can't help but wonder if there isn't a more appropriate form for this particular area?

In lots of places asphalt at least has the advantages of suppressing plants, making it easier to plow snow, avoiding any car fluids from seeping into the groundwater, keeping it from getting muddy in the rain, and so on. There's still issues with washboarding, and there is at least a little rain, but it feels like you could skip a lot of this built landscape.

I wonder how much the asphalt is, ultimately, aesthetic. It says "this is a built area" as opposed to "this is an empty lot".
Though to be fair the economy would adapt to 100 million people RVing. Services would pop up, new taxes would be created I'm sure for driving x number of kilometres per year, etc, etc.

I agree with your first point though. Perhaps the OP doesn't think playing COD is a great way to pass the time -- but video games are certainly not a waste of your life if you really enjoy them. This applies to any hobby.

Ultimately we have a short time here and it's up to us personally to decide what is a waste of our time and then act accordingly. Judgement on these efforts is hardly effective. RVing with my wife sounds like an incredibly suffocating experience -- trapped with another person in such a small space -- akin to buying a boat and spending 3 years "sailing", without seeing land for many days on end -- just figuring out what to do with the day when you wake up. But some people yearn for it, and that's great.
Sure, but that only happened because the US had enough capital to put to work all the farmers gainfully.
Take this with a bit of salt, as I can not seem to find it anymore, but....
I recall having read something in relation to the GDPR passing, that not even an individual is allowed to hold personal information on someone else, even if it is just through "contacts" on your phone (With permission, you can of course).
Thanks for the compliment, but I still don't see how this relates to your first point. Do you believe that the same people that are (justly) upset at the Copilot debacle are going to forget the issue because of a PR move?

Moreover, why would be so hard for people to separate judgement between specific issues and the company as a whole? As in, Microsoft is still a corporation that is not going to get my sympathy, but we can still acknowledge that giving some money to FOSS developers is better than not giving anything.
Sorry, I was probably not clear, I have some that are on the Twilio blog but I'm wondering where to publish the projects/write ups that are not Twilio related. Currently they are in google docs but they have pics so don't think HN would be the right way to do it.
I guess you don't know anybody whose families are in Cuba, Iran, or Venezuela.
Personal spiritual beliefs are bad in both cases (and generally when not kept strictly private) because they are not rational, therefore the worst possible start to base an argument for any cause.

If you want to credibly argue for something, I would recommend not professing that your life is structured by magical thinking.
Yep. The reason that a lot of things are found in caves is because they are more likely to be preserved there. Things/settlements in the open field are more likely to be destroyed over time.

In nearby Albania they found a similar ancient settlements after they drained a swamp back in the 50s-60s. Things were preserved on the bottom of the swamp.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/336925615852463054/

The other major source of findings are tombs and burial sites.
In the town I am from a developer bought land to put up a tower. The zoning law was set in the 80s and allowed for added density in this particular area. The proposed development complied with that zoning and so the application process was straightforward and didn’t require a long drawn out combative process, and still there have been numerous articles and handwringing by politicians that it was unconscionable that this development could be approved by city staff without having to go through public commentary and consultation and a shakedown by politicians demanding a tithe for parks or public art.

This world is insane. It never ceases to amazing me.
Thanks. The main motivation was to develop a programming language for beginners. The code runner, the web apps, and the various tutorials were created kind of on the side.
"Abolish zoning", like "end car ownership" and "ban sprawl" are the result of the extremism treadmill of the modern media environment applied to the United States's ossified real estate market. Regardless of whether they'd be possible, these ideas just aren't necessary — a much milder package of reforms, broadly applied, would do plenty to address the supra-inflationary housing price trend.
There are many (always) free alternatives out there which you can find in a fairly comprehensive list at awesome-tunneling [0]. I'd caution anyone as there's always risk with downloading a no sources available binary as well, but this looks like it could be another good option!

My favorite two projects currently in the tunneling space are sish [1] and bore [2]. sish is more full featured and utilizes ssh for handling proxies (disclaimer: I wrote sish) while bore maintains a client/server but all sources are available for both. They're written in Go and Rust respectively. There's even a publicly accessible instance of bore running. You should submit a PR to include CRProxy in the awesome-tunneling list, I know Anders might do that as well as he's normally around these parts :)

[0] https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1] https://github.com/antoniomika/sish

[2] https://github.com/ekzhang/bore
I worked at a company where it was used. I was on the front-end team, so I didn't really get to understand the perks really well, but overall, it was frustrating how difficult it was for us to work on that codebase. It felt like to even get started I had switch my editor from VS Code to emacs.

It was impossible to hire Clojure devs directly. They had to go through this training period.

And honestly, it never felt like the choice of language had reduced the number of problems we encountered. That's my personal take though.
Like land locked Manhattan? Or land locked SF?
Fundamentally I think you missed the point of Ecclesiastes.
Except it's a massive issue. Millions of shares and billions of dollars in stuff fails to deliver. For something that shouldn't be an issue this should be impossible, but it happens routinely.

https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm

and download and total up the value of all the fails - it's eye opening.

Fail-to-Deliver Shares Value
PIMCO DIOF Jan. 29 $422M
iShares Core Bond ETF Jan. 20 379M
iShares U.S. FA Bond ETF Jan. 19 361M
GameStop Jan. 28 359M
GameStop Jan. 27 292M

These are fails on just one day. It's pathetic this is allowed. You should not be able to sell something you can't deliver.
That's easy, one. But you also have to pay for the scrum master, product owner, bti engineer, test engineer, architect, and 7 other roles that keep the software engineer from rolling out the update ;).
This is not the case. We have mixed zoning in most communities.

Industrial zones are usually reserved for industry. There are good reasons for that, primarily to keep noise, dust, and heavy traffic separated from residential areas. It's best not to allow residential use in an industrial zone, because it tends to promote very low quality housing.

The zone I live in is residential-agricultural with a manufactured home overlay district. Permitted uses include farms, home businesses, and professional offices in homes. The major limitations are density, height, and setback restrictions. There's a moderate amount of conservation land due to wetlands and streams, and the local residents are pretty active about protecting the watersheds and quality of life. You can't open a restaurant, grocery store, or auto repair business, but there are a few grandfathered uses like that near me.

As population in an area increases, the normal course is for zoning to change to permit increased density. I think most communities are best served by having areas of higher density surrounded by lower density, rather than making a uniform sprawl. Around here, the higher density, low setback zones are about three miles apart. That's where the stores are.

Speaking as someone who served on a planning board for a decade: you shouldn't try to stop development - you should ease it in. If you don't it, it tends to catch up with you all at once, which is very disruptive.
I've you're a parent, and notice this in your child, like I did a few years ago, there's a simple game to play with them, when you're out and about.

Stop at random times... and ask.... which way is our house? Or... let them decide to go left/right/straight at the next turn.... eventually they'll start to catch on. 8)

For the original poster - I'd suggest giving yourself 5 minutes before turning to google maps, to try to figure out where you are.

You should turn off "auto-rotate" and always have North as Up.

Also, you could just use google maps with location turned OFF, as a big zoomable paper map replacement.
Maybe you need to be Gen X or early Millennial. How do you feel about (just inventing an example) the background noise of LPs vs 8-tracks (vs cassettes)? This has to do with what was around when were that specific age, I think. Particularly if it's tied to a game we love.
Reverse hype in a nutshell: "I don't know it, but I don't like it because it's overhyped by people I don't respect"
I learned from the book "How to Hide an Empire" that an initial motivation for US imperialism in the Caribbean was to harvest bird droppings for fertilizer, even to the point of conflicts with Britain and Venezuela: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/31/5951731/bird-shit-imperialism

There was a 1856 law that encouraged US citizens to claim land for the country if there was bird poo on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act

This law is how the US originally got possession of Midway, which became very well-known during WWII (I always wondered how the US got it originally):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Atoll
That would be baad, because it would not be valid UTF-8.

Surrogates are a mess. Blame UTF-16. It was a terrible idea that never should have been implemented.
Tunisia's natural resources and trade position on the global stage is not very clear and also matters because countries that also focus upon education that have whatever natural resources also include Iceland where many people emigrate from and it's a big local issue there. I'm certainly ignorant to Tunisia' problems nor strengths and am interested in understanding how to best tap into educated persons wherever they are in the world given they're such a valuable resource regardless of country of origin. Countries like Korea and Japan have partly benefited from the West's fears of communism with extra resources and diplomatic attention to serve as a set of buffer countries against the USSR while it didn't do as well in former Soviet countries for reasons I have zero understanding of. To deny that the US and NATO countries have tried to manipulate these buffer countries is pretty much a denial of reality BTW and something worth analyzing compared to other countries with similar socioeconomic conditions during the Cold War period.
Cool screen name. Eddings fan?

Definitely agree. I have my approach to life, the universe, and everything, and it is unreasonable to project my values and whatnot onto others.

Many times, the favor is not returned, though.
Japan Is Getting Real on Security After Ukraine
I had to explain to someone younger than me why my bookshelf has a bunch of signed first editions of like Jay McInerny and Brett Easton Ellis and Tama Janawitz. It’s not because it’s landmark writing (I have a soft spot for it but I’m honest enough to admit that’s just quirk, not literary analysis).

But I can read those things on the Kidle app mostly. I own the books, which were not expensive in money but we’re in effort, because they remind me that in living memory you could be a rockstar celebrity from writing books. I’m not making a moral judgement, maybe I’m just dating myself, but that’s just important to me.
Yeah, unless your kidneys or liver are damaged permanently. Less of a long-term problem than unexploded ordnance or sulfur mustard, for sure.
Ever flip a coin and get heads 2 or more times in a row? $500m is way too high of a cut off. Even if you win, you could end up $500m (or more) in the hole.
https://archive.ph/Qa9tU
> Shanghai factory will reach a run rate where that single factory builds more vehicles annually than Mercedes does.

Mercedes sells about 2 million non-commercial cars a year [1], a bit more than Tesla has produced since 2009 [2].

[1] https://group.mercedes-benz.com/unternehmen/ueberblick.html
[2] https://fortunly.com/statistics/tesla-car-sales-statistics/
How is that different in a monorepo? Would you be tasked in implementing the changes for those teams yourself? If so, why not just do that as PRs in their repos?
Got a lockpicking set from a friend, and was ... hooked ... ever since. Apparently it's pretty normal among tech / IT types.
> I never understood this.

You're definitely understanding it correctly. It's atrociously dangerous advice for any manner of long-term well-being. Humans can reasonably live to 80-100 years of age. Trying to live even 18,000 days as your last is psychotic and impossible, it's both not worth attempting that and harmful to attempt it. Being healthy requires thinking and acting longer term; building savings over a lifetime requires long-term thinking; raising children successfully requires long-term thinking.

Try raising children one day to the next with the guiding parental premise being: this is our last day on earth, what shall we do? It's a recipe for disaster to try to live in short-term thinking day to day.

One of our greatest attributes is the capacity to think, plan and act for the long-term, as many of the things we want require such. Notice I didn't say everyone thinks long-term consistently; notice I didn't pretend all of our institutions think long-term all the time; both are standard issue sarcastic criticisms against long-term thinking, neither of which invalidate the value of long-term thinking.

The correct answer is that some things benefit from (and or require) short-term thinking (particularly immediate focus), some things benefit from (and or require) medium-term thinking, some things benefit from (and or require) long-term thinking. Where thinking implies the comprehensive (thinking, planning, acting, etc).
There is also that aspect where doing the same thing everyday makes time seem short. Versus doing something new, which yeah do you have the money to take a vacation.

Everytime I finish a project I ask myself was it worth it. It's like buying a new device, you want it until you have it.
If you have 'always wanted to' try a bunch of drugs.. yes probably you should (according to that advice).

The thing to realise is that many people don't have any desire to try (the things that we call) drugs, so your comment isn't exposing some flaw in the advice.

If an oracle told me it actually is my last day, I'm not suddenly going to smoke some weed, snort some cocaine, and shoot up some heroin. I wouldn't want to any more than knowing (or assuming, as I do) that I'll live until (at least!) tomorrow.
I agree that punishment != punishment, and there seem to be many cases where evidence of intentional harm appears to be substantial enough that the majority would support if something was done about it legally, yet unfortunately nothing is done. That aside, I still doubt it would be a fundamental deterrent (it’ll deter some from doing this particular thing, but they’ll find another workaround).
One thing that is actually obvious in hindsight is that austerity and balanced budgets result in both lower inflation and lower interest rates, that even applies if the interest rate is already at or below zero percent. The inability to conduct austerity and a balanced budget is tied to the inability to cut interest below zero.

We can't have the "nice" things because our money system doesn't support it, we are running an outdated version. So instead we expand the money supply in the hope that inflation results in real negative interest rates.

In my opinion raising interest rates isn't the best answer. If inflation has to be unrolled then according to MMT the government should run a budget surplus and as unintuitive that may sound, it actually requires an interest rate cut while simultaneously reducing the quantity of central bank reserves available to commercial banks i.e. quantitative tightening.

It is almost as if Friedman was right with his monetarism, but he never even once considered that negative interest rates are necessary to maintain a constant velocity of money.

Always remember that quantitative easing is an attempt to emulate negative interest rates with inflation. If you can cut the interest rate you don't need QE.
Look into it. It's fascinating.
Life is short because of senescence

If only as a society we could put some effort into that instead of pretty much everything else for a little while. If we solved anti-senescence we'd have all the time in the world to fix everything else