skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article starts with a shoddy overreach about group dynamics, countered by countless exceptions raised on this page where groups in fact self-correct.

Then it continues with a howler about the supposed "sustainability" of for-profit enterprise. The engine behind the success of marketplace capitalism is creative destruction! In a healthy marketplace for-profit entities must constantly compete to stay alive, and those that can't adapt die because they are not sustainable.

There's something to the idea that groups are reluctant to change course, but we aren't learning anything about it from this article, which chose to go down the path of ideological screed.
This doesn't search over comments.
Why does Android even allow third-party apps to handle 911? This isn't just a Teams bug, this is a design bug in Android. I have Teams installed and now I'm worried about this too.
I was more thinking that there should be a system for making dry run calls, such that no human actually has to be involved, and that phones should be required to exercise that system on a regular basis, so that edge cases that weren't caught in automated testing will eventually be caught.
As a sort of Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, I just listened to a recent podcast episode about this topic that goes more into the history. It's worth a listen.

https://www.omnibusproject.com/417
At least not until ~2023 or so, when Starship is ready.
What's laughable is the insinuation that any population would be willing to start an insurrection over the absence of fucking Facebook.
Nice app, but I had to uninstall it after a week due to frankly ludicrous battery usage. My phone (pixel 3) battery typically lasts for 2-3 days between full charges, but with YouTube Vanced installed I was running out of battery by 8pm. I want to like this app, but the battery drain was insane.
Property taxes in most of the United States are not land value taxes in the Georgist sense.
But Android has a list of emergency numbers you can dial without unlocking the phone, why wouldn't they use that?
The study is not even peer-reviewed yet.
That means it does depend on the value.
I have the same mindset but I don't think you appreciate the effect it has on the broader team. Yes you might have a specific individual that avoids taking responsibility but in my experience everyone picks up on this. People have a very strong intuitive smell for this kind of stuff.

So in the longterm all someone does is burn leadership capital trying to pretend they're perfect. This isn't a viable strategy for succeeding in your career.
Sounds pretty terrible to me. Public schooling ensures that the citizenry have at least some modicum of education. Private schooling, homeschooling, and religious schooling, does not offer that same level of commitment to a science and history base education, because, well, they can teach whatever they want.
The average human height is about 1.5 meters. There are about 7.5 * 10^9 people alive, so the total height of humanity is ~1.1 * 10^10 meters.

Wikipedia says that Pollux's radius is about 9 times that of the Sun, which is about 7 * 10^8 meters. So Pollux's diameter is ~2 * 9 * 7 * 10^8 = 1.3 * 10^10 meters.

Verdict: not a bug.
They do contribute a decent bit to Kubernetes per https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgId=1, but they’re still prettyyyyyyy low on the list (31 as of this writing).
How Long Is Two Weeks?
It is an intentional scarcity, however. In the physical world, you build strategies around natural scarcities. Here, you build scarcities to support your strategies.

Still thinking about how I feel about that. Right now, people mainly seem to be using it as a sort of proxy for fine art-style exclusivities people already understand.
It seems more like the problem is that it doesn't -- and there's no graceful fallback
The pro-Georgist essayist lists the three biggest challenges to Land-Value Tax as:

> 1) Land might have been a big deal in 1879, but it just doesn't matter much today

> 2) Landlords will just pass Land Value Tax (LVT) on to tenants, so it won't work

> 3) In real life you can't accurately assess land value separately from improvements, so even if LVT would work in theory, it doesn't work in practice

I personally understand and (mostly) agree with rebuttals to (1) and (2). At least in areas of constrained housing. But I fail to see how (3) would work out.

To me, I think setting the LVT higher than the value of the land would be disastrous because people wouldn't want to own that land, let alone improve it. Setting it lower than the value of the land wouldn't be as disastrous, but seems like it could still encourage similar behavior that we have today (under-develop the land, NIMBYism, hold land passively and wait for scarcity price gains). Perhaps any amount of "getting close" to the true LVT is at least helpful, as long as you don't go over.

Or maybe I'm mis-thinking this and accidentally settings taxes higher than the "true" LVT isn't disastrous?
This has to be a joke, especially the last point. I don't want to live in a society where the only subject people know is mathematics.
This is a ridiculously narrow conception of rights that ignores how your property rights interact with those around you. If you transfer your $1 to a slaver (extreme example) for his goods or services, your property rights directly undermine the rights of others. Your property rights end where the rights of others begin.
Thanks for posting this. I'm about to build a PC and you just saved me from having to buy a second usb stick just for booting an OS installer
I don't have any concrete reason to think it's evil, just vague rumors I've heard here and there that it's hard to make money on there for artists? Was curious if other people thought it was evil, bad, good, great.
> And they mentioned an Android update, but what about the millions of Android phones that aren't getting regular updates?

That's my concern as well. My phone stopped getting updates from the manufacturer after getting Android 10, which is affected by this bug according to the linked comment. How are they going to get this update out to phones that the manufacturers has abandoned after the usual two years of updates?
We used to regulate a lot more of consumer electronics ability to operate overseas, those restrictions have eased, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't come back if companies start to act irresponsibly.

Also, yes, Lockheed Martin does operate in different countries (Ireland included) and most likely does negotiate quite heavily with factories around the world.
Why do you think they keep crying about "critical race theory" while simultaneously being unable/unwilling to define it?

That's their manufactured opposing force right there.
You can become far healthier by yourself by exercising basic self-control and using a little bit of open-minded health research than by paying lots of money to some profit-minded doctors. No insurance company needed!
For the most part, they aren't.
I assume GP envisioned some magic where it doesn't actually go to a human operator, it just somehow does a handshake with the 911 department's equipment instead.

Still not a good idea, since you don't want a bunch of phones DDoSing 911.
It reminds me a bit of academic papers whereby an author chooses a specific corner-case of a topic and then beats it up in a rather contrived manner.
I don't deliberately engineer it this way, but I follow my current mania until it gets too challenging, then switch to something else. It may seem like giving up at first, but things will inevitably circle back to that original obsession, which is then less daunting thanks to all the peripheral knowledge picked up along the way. All this shit coils and compounds if you let it.

Don't draw up an obnoxious schedule that devotes n hours to x a week. Don't set a hard limit on the number of interests either. Just do something until it stops being fun.
I think experiences should be weighted by their perceived importance -- and a large number of psychedelic users have reported a trip as being one of the most important events of their lives. However, I can't find the citation for this right now.
I've been kicking around the Ethereum community since the early days, and what people were calling "web3" back then is not what we have now. The original idea was for everything to be hosted on IPFS or Swarm[1]. The latter was to be an Ethereum-native protocol similar to IPFS; it turned out to be harder than expected and hasn't gotten traction so far but it's still an active project. One of its goals was to enable payments for keeping files available.

Still, decentralized naming and digital signatures go a long way towards turning p2p filesharing into something more. I think it'll all come together eventually.

[1] https://www.ethswarm.org/
This is ultimately why WebKit was forked again into Blink. Because Apple is such a poor steward of open source and WebKit is absolutely riddled with bugs and incomplete implementations of web tech that are pretty much table stakes at this point (WebRTC, among other things). At this point I think most people agree that Safari is the worst mainstream browser in existence.

This is why Apple is met with groans instead of praise when their open source contributions come up.
> In real life you can't accurately assess land value separately from improvements

Hmm, is this true? It seems to me like the value of owning that 'space' wouldn't be that hard to evaluate separately from the stuff on it.

When you say improvements here, do you mean improvements to land itself, like removing poison from the soil or reshaping it to be more flat, or 'improvements' meaning properties built on the land?
Computers only do what they're told to, I don't think it was them that did the letting down.
One of the most accurate depictions of working as a developer I have ever seen in media.
This is such an ignorant perspective, it really makes me mad. Literally a google search will provide hosts of examples of groups admitting they were wrong and ironically many for-profit companies not admitting they were wrong. It's amazing how someone can be ignorant of history, make a pronouncement that justifies their priors and think they have reached some sort of enlightenment. There is this whole constellation of hustler mindset puff pieces like this that often spout "insight" without really having an actual critical perspective, but don the air of "criticizing most people think" as if that makes them critical.

Ironically it's often due to a lack of seeing feedback, a mechanism of the same kind the author criticizes groups of! Or perhaps cognitive biases.
The intriguing implications of SFC vs. Vizio
112 is the international mobile emergency number.
It doesn’t matter if the simulation is kind of sketchy. Because we can find holes in it, and exploit those to move around. To us simple simulated beings, we achieved FTL and we can conquer the simulated universe. The aliens on the next level, probably will find out that the simulation broke. Or a dilemma, maybe we can’t find FTL, because the simulation was already patched from previous iterations.
> uninstall and reinstall the app

No matter how much things change, the solutions remain the same.
How does an app developer test 911 functionality without actually placing a 911 call? I'm sure 911 operators would not be amused by such test calls; do companies have special testing cell networks that don't connect 911 calls through?
Yea you're right, it would require some kind of centralized intelligence agency to exist in order to pull off such a feat. That simply doesn't exist as we all know as that is absurd to have such a thing doing that exact thing professionally for over 50 years in the name of national security.
Not sure on the original, but I spent about a year working on it on weekends here and there. Hard to find time with full time work and other projects mixed in. I would say it was around 100 hours of work in total. The majority of the was done within a couple weeks but there were a lot of performance tweaks and bugs to fix.
Well, it's not for lack of ambition. Their roadmap has them back on top with 18A in 2024. They also have plans to make a zettascale (yes zetta) supercomputer by 2027 +- 1 year. As much as intel is known for stifling progress, so have all (most/many?) encumbant monopolies. I hope they stay close enough to AMD, and vice versa, for healthy competition.
Well there's a bunch of problems. Could be high energy particles flipping bits, but that's very rare. Could be a row hammer attack flipping bits. Could be a flaw in the memory chip, dimm, dimm socket, motherboard traces, CPU socket, or inside the CPU.

Without ECC any of the above will crash an app, or even the entire machine. With ECC you'll get a log message, and if it's a single bit error it will be automatically repaired. If it's not fixable and it's in userspace that application is killed (and the kernel logs the error), if it's in kernel space the kernel will panic.

So generally it makes your machine more reliable, and easier to debug. Generally repeated errors are a fault of some kind and you can easily tell which dimm it is. Without ECC you end up troubleshooting all causes of crashes, and even if you know it's memory, you can't be sure which dimm it is.

So I think it's well worth the minimal premium to make your machine more reliable, and if it's unreliable it's much easier to track and fix the problem.

Amusingly without ECC heavy CPU use with parallel gcc compiles causes a particular error. Not sure if it's in the FAQ, but it's well know that the particular error means you have a CPU/RAM problem, common with memory errors, CPUs that are too hot, or overclocked CPUs.
Now, list down the features that shall be in a MVP. Once listed down, priories the list. If possible estimate the time and money required. If not, talk to the freelancers or engineering friends, and then estimate. Chalk down when and what needs to be completed.

This way, a MVP can be rolled out quickly and focus will shift to acquire early customers.

The alternate way to build the MVP is to use no code tool to build as much as possible and do the rest manually. Then over the time, replace the manual work with code.
The name service is a smart contract. Even if one entity is hosting UI for it, anyone else can do the same. It's probably a good idea to build direct support for it into clients.
I get the point, but STEM has been my route (so far, hopefully not ending any time soon) my ticket to leapfrogging those rich kids you mention, so don't judge too quickly.
TIC-80 is also libre, though precompiled "Pro" binaries aren't gratis.

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki#pro-version

Edit: actually, reading https://github.com/morgan3d/quadplay/blob/main/LICENSE.md it looks like it's only partially free (not unlike markdeep, another of the author's projects).
There was a recent story about the Air Force trying to kill off one of their most cost effective aircraft, whether that's evidence of a "fighter mafia" or not is debatable, but it does show the USAF's proclivity for expensive high-tech over cost effective platforms.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-reaper-drone-retir...
Private school was expensive, but my daughter learned a lot. As opposed to public schools which were overcrowded enough before the pandemic and didn't handle home learning well. Public school teachers were simply sending homework they found from Google every day, the private school ones put a lot of effort into things like activities and fun online quizzes.

My daughter (2nd grade) managed to memorize literally every capital city and flag. When I asked her who her geography teacher was, she said "We didn't have geography this year. I learned it from YouTube." Ironically, no classes made her more interested in the topic.

But you have to have class to have no classes. The kids were begging to go to school by the end of 2021, but didn't want to go early on. The absence of school made them want to learn even more. So I'm not sure if full home schooling is effective.
I can't stand anything about a "Web3" that is not inclusive of existing ecosystems using actual, working, standardized protocols like those adopted by the IndieWeb and Fediverse communities.

"A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory" as the adage goes coined by Elinor Ostrom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Ostrom's_law).

You don't need blockchains to be decentralized. Continuing to dunk on "web3" over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Web3Skepticism/
I was excited to read this article, but by the end it felt like a jumble of unrelated conjectures examined in isolation from each other that all seem to be presented in a way that deliberately ignores any downsides:

For example:

> Also, keep in mind that LVT would see the elimination of the portion of property tax that falls on buildings. I just checked my own property tax records (I live in the suburbs of a medium-sized town far from any major urban cores). If the assessed land share more than doubled to 40%, under a 100% LVT regime I'd actually save $545.05 on my property taxes every year–and that's without a Citizen's Dividend.

Picking the author’s house, applying arbitrary land value tax numbers to it, and declaring a net tax savings for the author as a victory for LVT is not really a useful data point. It seems that actually analyzing the winners and losers of a LVT would require a more thorough simulation, but that’s outside the scope of the article.

The article also had an unsettlingly high number of “If we assume that X is true, then Y is a reasonable conclusion” while completely sidestepping an examination of whether or not “X” was true or even reasonable.

The second part looks to be more interesting: I’d like to see some arguments for why a LVT wouldn’t just be passed along to the renters like every other expense is currently.
How would an import tax be disallowed? Every country has weird tariffs and whatnot.
An Interview with Hundred Rabbits
If we're talking about no political restriction, I would go even further. Get rid of the mass market cars and implement trams as the basic suburban and urban feature. It could even carry some light freight for last mile logistics.

As for the rest, it's bicycles, even velomobiles.
Which other subjects would you want children to waste years in a cramped classroom being lectured about? Basically anything worth learning is worth discovering for yourself. Math is the only important exception, as it is uniquely important in modern life, and it doesn't come to most people naturally.
With a standardized report format the data can complement modelling of ground motion intensity caused by an earthquake, such as https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/shakemap/
Congratulations to the team. 5.0'er here.

FBSD is like Arch for grownups, or Alpine if it was more complete.

Modern tech, minimal packaging. If we could get a NixOS style declarative model in here (beyond rc.conf) I'd be in heaven.
People moved between computer companies all the time in Massachusetts--albeit at a time when engineers job-hopped much less than today. I never had a non-compete until EMC bought the company I worked for and that non-compete was pretty reasonable and didn't keep me from getting a job elsewhere.

I don't like non-competes and MA has fairly recently made some worthwhile (although insufficient) changes. But the differences between CA and MA (which still has some of the highest VC investments in the country, albeit less than CA) are hard to square with being primarily about non-competes.
Why does Gab suddenly hate freedom of speech? Have they been taken over by radical Marxists? I wonder...
Irony:

JWST has been estimated to be 800% - 2000% over budget.

James Webb was also director for the Office of Management and Budget, 1946 – 1949.
You smoking infringes on my right to clean air in a restaurant.
Indeed! Thank you. Too many people don't see the constitution as the living document it was intended to be. It's so weird to me to keep hearing "that would be unconstitutional" as if it's some ultimate argument-ender for these thought experiments.

Also, in real life, I'd be happy to see a constitutional convention to resolve quite a few things - 2A, 4th amendment, abortions, 100-mile constitution-free-zone, etc. Seems like having a well-defined constitution that we can actually follow would be much better than our current situation where we largely seem to ignore the constitution text in favor of byzantine court precedence/interpretations.

I mean, on the face of it, people should see it's strange that alcohol prohibition required a constitutional amendment in 1920 but marijuana/drug prohibition in 1970 did not (Controlled Substances Act).
This seems a lot like glamping and I wouldn't really call it a "home" but more power to them. I'd love any alternative to an overpriced house in the current market.
Appreciate the bug report. I’ll take a look.
Just the thing for us that live inside dormant volcanoes with several rockets ready to launch at any time.
NFTs only do that if people buy into the weird idea that just because there's an NFT, you can't just download the file anyway. If people just see it as a collectible with its own special legitimacy and provenance, they don't do any harm.
Somehow in Star Trek the video conferencing always works on the first try which is definitely not how things work in our reality.
Integration is not desirable though for most of the authorities involved. It threatens the existing power structures of such gated communities. It also risks creating a sense of universal worker solidarity that could lead to the resurgence of unions with actual teeth.

The whole white washing of their own cultural identity has little to do with secularism and has more to do with the ongoing war against community. The more atomised the individual is, the easier they are to sell product to and the less power they have to endanger the system.
Generally improvements would mean "housing/commercial/industrial structures built on the land". The tricky part is that the land value can change quite a bit year-to-year, and the structures built on it can also both decrease or increase in value.
Is systems engineering just generalist engineering?
Its just a matter of who volunteers to translate.
People are jumping all over Microsoft Teams, but the problem is really that any arbitrary app can interfere with emergency calls. That’s fundamentally an OS problem.
That pretty much covers the bases on what I was curious about. Very few of the musicians I know bother trying to get their stuff on there and those that do don't seem to feel super opinionated or positive about it.

Should have put this out there too but my situation is just that in Spotify's infancy the musicians I liked weren't on there yet and the musicians I knew were all just using bandcamp.

I've always been able to find excellent new music on bandcamp, especially with a couple of browser extensions to make their feed autoplay like a playlist and give much needed volume controls.

I guess I was just wondering if they had made a big shift in how they paid artists and / or what the current public perception of them was.
> If you aren't willing to run your own geth instance and understand Solidity/EVM, it's not really decentralized for you.

That's just overly reductive. You certainly benefit from all kinds of vectors of decentralisation regardless of you using MetaMask, or possibly having connectively problems if a popular nodes goes down.

You can test this very simply, because regardless of the common node you are using, are still exposed to all the downsides and responsibilities that decentralisation brings, such as the possibility of losing your private key and being unable to recover your funds. So the decentralisation is still clearly there.
Valve relentlessly rent-seeks the secondary market, making it impossible to trade the skins for anything useful. They have gone out of their way to end any way to exchange them with any real world currency, because it then ends up being akin to gambling. Valve is almost a despot, exchanging skins as NFT would take these powers out of the game dev's hands, that's the whole point.