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by yonran 1y ago
> why is it that higher local wealth/economic productivity increases homelessness (especially if you control for public services to counteract the effect)? May I suggest the book Progress and Poverty by Henry George https:&#x2F
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by yonran 1y ago
What a disappointment that this “Silicon Valley Pain Index”—where the pain consists of things like high rents and homelessness—is headlined with an irrelevant scapegoat of 9 billionaires. The 9 billionaires named in another comment ( https:
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by yonran 1y ago
Putting a few important metrics in the logs every 10s is something that the Aerospike datastore also does ( https://aerospike.com/docs/database/observe/latency ). This is useful because when you contact support
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by yonran 1y ago
Why do AI agents need to scrape so often, vs. aggressively caching or using archive.org or their own crawls of the internet?
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by yonran 1y ago
What would it take for an individual or small business to run a version of this locally? To file, you need an MeF account with IRS; does the IRS grant those freely? And to import W2s and 1099s, it seems that there is a DataImportService int
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by yonran 1y ago
Proposition 13 was 1978 (99 years after the publication of Progress and Poverty ).
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by yonran 1y ago
The vehicle code not only permits cars to enter the bike lane prior to a turn, it requires them to do so ( https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio... .). My brother failed his first driving test
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by yonran 1y ago
Yes, perhaps the government should subsidize (or allow states to subsidize) the fixed costs of mail, just as we subsidize the fixed costs of roads, so that our business can be competitive. Is this what China does domestically, or what the U
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by yonran 1y ago
> The temu/shein loophole should been closed ages ago. Or the US should figure out how to get domestic shipping rates to be as cheap as the rates that Chinese shippers pay to ship to the US.
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by yonran 1y ago
I ran into this issue too since I implemented an --rsh wrapper script (based on https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/13776 ) and the options passed to ssh are different (samba rsync passes in -l use
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by yonran 2y ago
I think the parable of Squanderville and Thriftville is interesting and it reminds me of the chapter of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty that also warns that renters can be a slave to the landowner ( https://www.gutenberg.org&#
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by yonran 2y ago
See also Dwarkesh Patel’s interview with two of the authors of this post (Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo) that was also released today: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/scott-daniel https://www.youtube.com
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by yonran 2y ago
That’s a good idea to automatically upzone to double the sqft and units of neighbors (and height too). The previous BoS president, Aaron Peskin, had the opposite idea: he proposed an ordinance that apartments should be capped at the 1× th
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by yonran 2y ago
Yes, Kevin Erdmann’s writings were what I was thinking of when I said that lending has been restricted since the Great Recession. He does identify “Closed Access” supply restrictions as the original sin that the Fed misinterpreted as a spec
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by yonran 2y ago
It’s surprising that they took measurements at 2000 and 2020 and did not mention the Great Recession at all, which severely reduced ability of households to get a mortgage and disrupted both demand and supply. I don’t think their attempt to
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by yonran 2y ago
Is this optical phased array beam steering hardware supposed to be affordable for ISPs such as Monkeybrains to use for end users, or is this just for backhaul connections?
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by yonran 2y ago
Thank you. I am disappointed that almost none of the comments here discuss the OpenAI proposals on the merits. I do hope that the federal government heeds most of these ideas, particularly recognizing that training a model should be fair us
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by yonran 2y ago
To respond to a question in the blog post: >> The motivation is that the <form> element from HTML 4.0 (which predates cross-site fetch() and XMLHttpRequest) can submit simple requests to any origin,… > Question to readers: Ho
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by yonran 2y ago
> I think Google moved it from AOSP to the Google Play Services several years ago, but the old source is still available. For the curious, here is the source of ExactCalculator from the commit before all files were deleted: https:/
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by yonran 2y ago
No, according to this article by Chris Elmendorf and Darien Shanske https://www.spur.org/news/2020-12-18/how-solve-transit-budge... , Proposition 218, 26, and the California Vehicle Code probably do not prohibit ma
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by yonran 2y ago
It seems that the bulk of the savings for making an urban municipal utility come from not having to pay for upgrades in fire-prone regions. And the end game is that cities will have their own utilities with lower rates, whereas rural people
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by yonran 2y ago
I think a better analogy than railroads (which own the land that the track sits on and often valuable land around the station) is airlines, which don’t own land. I recall a relevant Warren Buffett letter that warned about investing hundreds
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by yonran 2y ago
Google could take their scans from the library (which they did not pay publishers for) and train an AI model on that, right? They won the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit because snippet view is transformative fair use, and I think teaching
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by yonran 2y ago
Legally, would it be any worse for Meta to download works that someone illegally copied and repurpose it for a transformative fair use than if Google had taken their scans of snippet-view Google Books borrowed from the library to train thei
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by yonran 2y ago
Places with a higher vacancy rate are correlated with lower rents and less homelessness e.g. Indiana and Texas have a higher rental vacancy rate than California and New York ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1CuFs )
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by yonran 2y ago
The parser for tsconfig.json (typscript.parseConfigFileTextToJson(fileName, jsonText) or parseJsonText) seems to be what you want; I wonder if there is a name for that format.
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by yonran 2y ago
Here’s one example: In 2015 Planning Commissioner Christine Johnson was swayed by popular opinion to vote for a provision requiring registration numbers on short-term rental listings (which was later ruled to violate the Communications Dece
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by yonran 2y ago
It’s not only corruption that can get you into trouble with an adversary who is fishing for trouble, but also mistakes, imprecise language that can be taken out of context, speaking out of ignorance or partial information, unprofessionalism
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by yonran 2y ago
Governments have similar problems too: activists/journalists can make sunshine requests of day-to-day communication on a daily basis to find any written mistakes to turn into PR nightmares. This incentivizes politicians to delete their
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by yonran 2y ago
> It now makes the right location prediction 90% of the time. I’m curious about the failure cases. Are they caused by exceptional circumstances, such as the train moving more slowly than normal or skipping a station? Or when you unexpect

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