skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don’t understand the ethnocentric zero-sum perspectives from some people responding in this thread. People seem to forget that knowledge is cumulative. While there is no doubt that plenty of knowledge predates the Arabic philosopher-scientists, and surely they inherited traditions from those who came before them, but it is also clear that they added to the universal body of knowledge. To pretend otherwise or to downplay those accomplishments in order to raise up others, is (to my mind) profoundly sad and anti-scientific. If we are giants, it’s because we stand on the shoulders of giants. And to paraphrase Terry Pratchet, it’s giants all the way down.
I think of that quote as being in the context of the sorts of 'music box' programs people were writing in the 1970's. This little gear also has a cam that operated the ballerina's arm. It's the sort of thing you do when you need to stuff a FORTRAN compiler in 32k of memory.

If you write your code right then refactoring it to use a different more whatever algorithm should be if not easy at least 'not hard'.
Opensuse with kde had worked ok for me on an old surface pro.

Strangely it has an on-screen keyboard to login, but not once you login. It's pretty easy to add one.
In terms of usability OSMC is in my opinion a lot better than all the smart tv UI's I've seen (and you can definitely run it from even older pi hardware)

You can also chromecast and airplay pretty smoothly as well.
LVT can levy the same amount of net revenue. It's just a different way of determining valuation. Large buildings in the desert come to pay less. Empty lots in the middle of downtown come to pay more.
I wish, but household owners are so politically powerful I doubt it will happen.
Thanks that's solid advice.

I imagine that strategy ( focus on weaker areas and be consistent) to work more reliably than making it a numbers game.

Appreciate your comments and hope you can see that training website through to a real product. Would benefit a lot of people like me.
The problem with this definition is that slave owners didn't think that there was anything morally wrong with owning slaves. If they objected to slavery then why would they keep their slaves?
Reducing labor as a goal seems rather odd. Why do you feel people should not have the freedom to work? What would you rather people do instead?
Thanks for this response. Disclaimer: I live in a city that is growing constantly and has many growing pains that are being worked through.

To me, it almost sounds like this type of tax puts more power in the hands of big developers, which is a challenge many municipalities deal with right now - striking the right balance with that. If they want to force someone to sell the remaining property in a block they’re trying to develop, wouldn’t they just need to make enough improvements that the city drives that person out with taxes?

I can’t help but think it could incentivize municipal governments seeking revenue to approve big projects without input from people living there, and incentivize people living somewhere to being actively anti-development.
If you had any amount of money to buy stocks in March you will have made a killing. To what extent is this sustainable?
It's awesome & cute & has attitude & personality & zest. Freaking sweet.
WizTree can do it for NTFS volumes by parsing the MFT directly. It's much, much faster (on NTFS) than Diskitude or any other filesystem-agnostic tools. WizTree takes seconds, not minutes, to scan hundreds of thousands of files.
I prefer the other side of that trade. Losing a grand or two a month for a year and then making 100k is lots of fun.
Been here since 2015.

Like others, I most value HN for the discussions. They‘re civil, and there are often serious domain experts participating. I like how that exposes me to quite a breadth of knowledge and opinions.

In terms of learning, it‘s very much a breadth-first approach. You‘ll hear about plenty of topics and new developments (and thankfully not just from tech), but it‘s the wrong place if you want to learn about any one topic in detail.

Also, over time you‘ll figure out the various likes and dislikes of the „HN crowd“. Like any other community, we have our preferences and biases, our little squabbles and unspoken taboos, that do quite strongly influence the topics you‘ll find here amd the way they‘re discussed.
> If I have a house

After the transition period, far fewer people can afford freestanding single-family buildings.
LVT isn't a way of determining valuation, it's a restriction of what things you need to determine the value of.
While there was certainly a great advancement in the introduction of the algebraic perspective, I believe modern mathematics are still primarily an European (or, Greek) invention.

Euclid's elements is written in the still-used Axiom-Theorem-Proof style and reveals mathematics as something beyond mere arithmetical manipulation. Is there something equivalent that predates Euclid?
I hate hate hate running. I used to work out quite a bit but could never get into running and sought other cardio exercises - literally anything that wasn't running.

Over time school, then work, then life simply got in the way and my exercise lapsed. Now in middle age I worked up a minor health issue and my doctor strongly encouraged me to start up on cardio again -- this coincided with both the start of COVID lockdowns and wasn't long after a move to an area with lots of trails nearby.

So I started walking about an hour 3 times a week as weather permitted. Health condition went away, blood pressure dropped, mood improved, sleep improved. I also started enjoying the changing of the seasons more, enjoying nature, being outdoors and all that. I started feeling like eating crap wasn't "right" and started eating better. It's like an entire cascade of wellness.

Not once have I gone for a walk and thought "I'd rather not be doing this" like with running. In fact I usually look forward to my walk and look for excuses to go on one.

Turns out I should have just gone walking all the time instead.
A TV is not a monitor. it probably has an antenna connector, and because TV signals are digital nowadays, it has to decode the radio signal and support a variety of compression algorithms. Most TVs also have all sorts of image processing algorithms. At least a scaler, but most have other, sometimes questionable features. Plus overlays, recording, picture-in-picture, or whatever the manufacturer thinks will improve sales... TVs are already "smart" to begin with. You can just thing of internet connectivity as the antenna connector of modern times.

Thankfully, I don't know of any TV that requires internet access yet. AFAIK, they all can be used as dumb monitors. If you really want a dumb monitor, you can either buy a PC monitor or a commercial one, like those used in shops to display ads and stuff like that. Some are even as dumb as a monitor can be (like the one I am using right now), with only a single input, a single resolution, no OSD, and only an on-off switch and two buttons to control brightness (which is just a dimmer for the backlight).

But dumb monitor tend do be more expensive. First, they tend to be of higher quality, and second, "smart" features are often a profit for the manufacturer. For example, if your TV supports Netflix, Netflix most likely paid for it, and the amount is most likely more than what it cost the manufacturer to implement that feature. It results in a lower purchase price for the end user, the idea being that whatever partner will make up in subscriptions.
Working, by Studs Terkel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_(Terkel_book)
> 3. I always hope something will change and Firefox will become really really great again or someone will fork it.

Abrowser (from trisquel) is what firefox should have been. Best fork out there imo.
1. How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling, Bettger

A good intro to sales, and a very good book on self-development.

2. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Lowenstein

A story about LTCM, one of the early and most notorious "quant" hedge funds. A cheeky nod to intellectualism.

3. Liar's Poker, Lewis

Investment banking through a trader's eyes. Yes, the absurdity is only partly dramatized.

4. Pimp: The Story of My Life, Iceberg Slim

No pithy blurb can summarize this; read it if you want a look into human nature.

5. The Six-Month Fix: Adventures in Rescuing Failing Companies, Sutton

Written by a friend and a mentor; may he rest. Gives you a sobering account of what really goes behind the scenes of many companies, along with their management.

Apologies; I know this list isn't focused on more humbling professions like the examples you gave.
Historical but Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse on old-style political journalism. (Although I imagine a lot is still true.) There's a lot about journalism, photojournalism, and so forth (perhaps unsurprisingly) although so much has changed in the past 10-20 years it probably isn't that relevant to those professions today.
I look at it this way: a contrarian opinion is a high risk high benefit thing. A contrarian is more likely to be wrong and it takes more effort to arrive at a correct contrarian opinion than to pick a correct conforming one, but if you are right it’s possible that you can obtain some large payoff such as investing early in a winner or selling near the top of a bubble.
Debian's policy stands in direct contrast to Google's so you're fighting an uphill battle against $number developers.

Debian prefers dynamic linking:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#...

Whereas Google wants everything vendored:
https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/chromium/
I know you're not attacking Islam, just prefacing that I am not.

Mecca was never important. It was symbolic but that's where it ends. Ignore the Ottomans, even the first few Caliphs, the minute they left Arabia, no one cared about Mecca beyond symbolism.

That you see espoused as "religious" is almost always BS. Its all politics and economics. You cannot develop anything in a desert. Why would you focus on a desert when you can focus on much richer areas by the Mediterranean with already a lot of culture and resources and wealth?
I don't get it. Are they compressing the range of SDR display for SDR content so that HDR content can now use the full SDR range of SDR display?
As in "we crippled your SDR display so that you can more enjoy the HDR content and buy an expensive HDR display to be back at the normal SDR range for SDR content"?
Another alternative to DRY is WET: Write Everything Twice. Only make an abstraction on the third code repetition.

I started adopting this a few years ago and it’s surprising how seldom I hit three identical, non-trivial code repeats. Saved a lot of hours over the years not making a seemingly prudent generic layer.
Ah, the accursed eurocentricism. Some people have to indulge in it even when they are writing a fluff piece about another culture they are trying to extol.
Those are all good recommendations, but if anything tech/SV is resembling every day more and more to 1980s WS.
That's not the reason, Ubuntu still build deb chromium updates for 18.04, this is just a Debian policy or something else Debian specific
Because of its use of a compressed backing store, requiring decompression before launch (IIRC).
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keyw...

buster (misc): 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u3

bullseye (misc): 83.0.4103.116-3.1

sid (misc): 83.0.4103.116-3.1

experimental (misc): 84.0.4147.105-1
You're describing a scenario starting with extreme zoning restrictions and then immediately lifting those restrictions. I don't think your predictions relate to a LVT at all — similar drastic development with varying height would happen in any desirable area with sudden change in zoning restriction.

Imagine instead that zoning restrictions were relaxed gradually.
I think Apple is on the hook for $100M+ for degrading performance of their phones over time intentionally.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...

I understand there are arguments about why this is a good idea, but Apple is settling, which tells me a fair amount about how Apple thinks those arguments would land in court.
good list - added these all to my growing list here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#int... hope that helps
>They abandon their properties, which have already declined in value, because the tax is more than the newly lowered cost of buying space in one of the tall buildings.

If we hit the saturation point for tall apartment buildings, the land is less valuable (since you can't extract as much value from it), decreasing the land value taxes (and thus, incentive to leave homes). Lower land value taxes incentivize constructing more modest apartment buildings, as those will now be profitable. This process continues until housing supply meets demand.

Also many people prefer living in single-family houses. The bay area is full of people who won't sell their single-family house even though the value has gone up 20x. They wouldn't abandon their properties unless they had to. And if they have to it means they can sell them for a lot to a developer who will profitably build an apartment.
I recently started my journey with "Crash Course Philosophy" [0] by PBS. They give you a very accessible, high level overview on many topics with practical examples and thought experiments.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYJQaZUDrI&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...
READMEs as Code
Woah, I hadn't known that!

And given that I'm currently staring at Isabelle code most of the day for my Master's thesis at the chair of Prof. Nipkow, it's sightly surreal to learn about this here, heh.
Monkey Business was a pretty funny read too--for certain definitions of funny.
> Do you have an example of where LVT was tried at scale anywhere at all ever?

Pennsylvania[1].

> The number of vacant structures in Harrisburg declined from over 4200 in 1982 to under 500 by 2001. The downtown—previously a ghost town—is alive, even at night. The number of businesses on the tax roll has grown from 1,908 to 8,864.

> After LVT was adopted by voters in 1996, 70% of residential parcels saw a tax decrease; importantly, in the most at-risk neighborhoods (older pre-war housing and factory blocks) upwards of 90% of homes had their tax liability reduced. Local business taxes were frozen by law at 1996 levels. Construction returned to the city: the number of taxable building permits surged past neighboring Bethlehem, market investment returned, and capital improvement reappeared in city budgets. Tax burdens on productive work and business declined. The losers in this trade were absentee owners of vacant lots, who had to shoulder much more of the burden.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g...
All of these still require a Display.
More on this subject from Tyler Cowen: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/ho....

Apparently the FDA could review clinical data and make a call on the vaccine in 24-48 hours, without cutting any corners.
The website says Devuan let's you "reclaim control over their system by avoiding unnecessary entanglements", what's wrong with systemd?
The fundamental problem is that the value of land is inexorably tied up in the things people do with the land to actually earn money. Vacant land has little value in that sense until it's improved. You can't separate the land value from the investment in the improvements made that actually generate income. It's not quite that simple because a vacant lot in a trendy area has more potential value than a lot in a run-down area. But only because of the improvements on other nearby properties. That's what makes the land valuable -- not anything intrinsic about the land itself.
I would say that slavery absolutely fits into this broad generalized definition of leverage that I am using. Here is another example:

In the case of the founder, as I have mentioned, hiring someone gives them leverage. But conversely, a person taking a job with a large company gives the employee leverage. For instance, as a Google software engineer, you have the ability to command huge amounts of computing hardware that Google has at its disposal. Different roles may have varying degrees of ability to leverage the corporation's scale to their purposes but it's certainly a very real thing for many roles.
If you like books on finance and history, “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefèvre is also an excellent book, and an interesting view into early Wall Street.
America and, AFAICT, all other 'democracies' are no such thing. They are 'oligarchies' run by the rich elites and corporations.

If you doubt that, ask yourself whether you have as much political clout as (say) Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Boeing.
I think this is it exactly. It's not the content, it's the sociopathic drive for engagement that promotes it.
true but put yourself in the shoes of the SEC. The big losers are the investors in Cheesecake Factory stock. A larger fine would affect these people even more. Maybe (a big maybe) the responsible parties should be forced to quit?
Fairly certain it's usually ethnic groups, not wider religious groups. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the OED on hand.

That being said, luckily this still isn't racist, because there is no prejudice here. My problems with Islam are entirely rational.
yep. i'm merely one of many finance bros that escaped to tech. if you work in martech, then you absolutely outpaced wallstreet haha.
> at least not in code that is intended to be remotely portable across time, space and architecture.

intmax_t exists probably because most integer types in C are not portable. You can't write C code that uses int64_t and expect it to compile, the type doesn't have to exist, neither do int32_t or int16_t. Say you have a generic int lowestBitSet(intmax_t) function and want to make it available, you don't care how large the input integer is as long as you do not truncate the largest type available to whoever ends up using it. Without intmax_t you end up with library developers having to either setting their own upper limit, limiting the portability of their library or checking for the availability of each type themselves.
It's not self-aggrandizing, I've just overgeneralized all people and used self-projection on them :P

Indeed, common research on this topic is in psychology.
But I consider this as software flaws, that can be patched by increased awareness.

Psychology is speculative sometimes, in my opinion. For example, my view of self-projection is different from a conventional psychological projection. I think we are projecting just for prediction (everything else is a consequence). I don't consider it as a self-defense mechanism of bullies, like explained here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Life in SF
Indeed, the biggest problem with LVT is who exactly gets to value the land and how. It's an extraordinarily difficult issue which would require a very precise implementation.

Once you start assessing peoples property in such a wholesale fashion, you almost end up in a classic "managed economy" situation. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" failed due to the combined difficulty of assessment + corruption of the assessors. LVT is the same principle applied to land.

I think that LVT will end up as one of those ideas that is great in theory but doesn't work in practice.
Who's spending their weekends in Monterey? I never said there wasn't any reason for conflict. I can see how feces and needles in the street might engender momentary disgust. But a brief comparative examination of one's lot in life should be enough to turn that disgust toward pity and gratitude rather than contempt.

But the persistent pattern has been to use prisons and jails for the homeless until there is an outcry. Then there is a cessation of incarceration and a turning into the streets. This is followed by conflict from homeless and homes cohabitating. Once frustration builds to a fever we return to authoritarian treatment of the homeless.

All the while it remains unacceptable to try any other remedy because they might engender moral hazard or encourage immoral behavior.

Our society is like the man who repeatedly trips over his shoe laces because he cannot learn to tie his shoes but who refuses velcro on the principle that he ought to be able to learn to tie them.
Don't woman get tired of being infantilized by depicting them as Mary Sues?
pastebin has a spam filter, and HN wouldn't let me post more than 2k words, so here's the text:

They all come to this place to succeed, or look for the next big move in their career. It's there, they think, and they might think so rightly. But is it worth it? And never do they stop and ponder, in their never-ending fall. One day they realize that they've been spending the last five years, maybe decade, maybe more, in a non-sense lifestyle. Spending most of their time sitting in front of a computer, or pretending to change the world with their peers in rooms without windows. The bay is truly a prison. One where you are endlessly given what you want, in exchange of your time. So you give your time, and in return you buy the latest technological birth of the valley. In exchange you shop for the most comfortable and the most pricey sweatpants that you can wear at work. In exchange you subscribe for flavored bottles of water. Because you can, because you have the money, because you fucking deserve it you're working hard and playing hard for fuck sake. And so once in a while, when you have some free time, you drop in wine country. They have subscription there too, they sell you the bullshit and you empty your wallet. It's not worth it, but you don't care, this is monopoly money. You cross the low souls of the San Francisco street, the heroin heads, the garbage of society. You don't even see them anymore. You get your cheese matcha boba dairy-free latte for $10 and you wonder why all these cashiers have the same square point of sale that asks you for a tip. Should you tip? You don't really want to tip. But someone dressed in a Patagonia sweater behind you is looking at the screen. So you tip the minimum. It's fuck you money anyway.

Comes the night, you're so lonely. All the streets are empty because tomorrow they need to wake up at CEO time. You still ask some friends on Telegram but they all live in south bay or the east. They probably have a worse life than you, that makes you smile. So you medicate yourself to sleep with some of that legal drug, then next day you wake yourself up with a few cup of another legal one. It's a cycle, you know it, everything is a cycle. You either dream big, or you dream of leaving. But you're vesting, and you're going to make it, and if this one is not the one, maybe the next one will be. The people in LA sounds like they're having fun, but we're changing the world here. We're fucking changing the world.