skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better term may be those trying to “justify” their school choice. After their home one of the next largest choices, both financially and as a parent, is where to educate your children. Paying 50,000 a year and people will definitely justify it after the fact. Just because you have the disposable income doesn’t mean you should only like at private schools because that’s the expected thing to do.
Shout out to the good folks of Delta, Utah, some of whom work in the Beryllium mines nearby. My car broke down there once and I learned that Beryllium is a vital component in the JWST because it doesn't expand or contract as the sun warms it.

Digging Beryllium for James Webb

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148574/digging-bery...

I also learned that I actually broke down inside another telescope:

The Telescope Array project is a collaboration between universities and institutions in the United States, Japan, Korea, Russia, and Belgium. The experiment is designed to observe air showers induced by cosmic rays with extremely high energy. It does this using a combination of ground array and air-fluorescence techniques...The Telescope Array observes cosmic rays with energies greater than 1018eV. The surface array samples events over 300 square miles of desert.

http://www.telescopearray.org/
Yes, but it’s worthless to the owner on the market, as the entire point of Georgism is to drive said land value to zero. Yes, people would pay for it, but those payments would not go to the owner, as they would be diverted to the government via tax, functionally the same as if a tax made your retirement account worthless.
Agricultural land is of low value compared to urban land. And this policy would remove or at least offset the income and sales taxes that fall directly upon farmers' labor.
Isn't that what the OS package manager is for?
I really liked this article. I had a question about it.

Could there be a case where existing unpleasant rental properties in highly dense urban cities suddenly have negative rental value?

For example, imagine there was a run-down house that is livable, but is one of the most undesirable in SF. Adjacent to it, let's say there's a shiny desirable house with the same land characteristics. If I understand correctly, these 2 apartments would have the same land value tax right?

What kind of effect will this have on the rental price of the bad house? What will dictate the floor of it?

- Would it be the cost of the LVT?
- Would it be the lowest rent transaction that occured in the market?
- Would it be zero?

If it is one of the last two, I can't imagine the land-owner renting it out except for speculation on the desirability of living in SF right?
Yes! I love y-position of mouse for volume, further away is louder, and wiggle sideways for vibrato. Maybe mouse x-change since current note started can be added to pitch, then player could simulate vibrato and lip pitch-bending, max mouse movement left and right should be about a semitone (maybe 2) up or down. Sounding good :-)

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>I didn't know brass instruments were so... logical!

Not so logical is that trumpet players call a Bb a C. When they read a C in their music, they play a "C".. but it's a Bb. (Eb instruments like alto sax call Eb "C"! French horns call F "C", etc. Crazy.) I have perfect pitch so no way I will or could call a Bb a C. So reading trumpet music I'd have to transpose everything down a tone - see a C, play a Bb. Kind of irritating.

I started on trombone as a kid, played in a marching band where some of the charts (usually in bass clef) called a Bb a Bb, other charts (usually treble clef + transpose down an octave) called a Bb a C! and some was in tenor or even alto clef. Tenor clef uh.. you pretend it's treble clef, transpose down an octave and play a written C as Bb. Alto clef you pretend it's bass clef, transpose up an octave and play a C as Bb. Luckily the other trombonists explained all this to me! So after that, merely transposing treble clef down a tone for trumpet was relatively no problem hehe. Pretty crazy mess though.
If you want to try an alternative way, please search Dr. Andy Lee. Good Luck!
I think the issue is that Teams even tries to do this in the first place. If I want to call someone via Teams, I'll fire up Teams. Or maybe add a button in the address book when I search for someone (I've got this on iOS, don't know if it's a thing on Android).

But on the dialler? When I'm there, I expect to be using the phone app to actually call the number I'm dialling.

So yes, this does seem to me like legitimate MS bashing. Even if the platform allows for this, they shouldn't be using it. Especially if the app is signed-out or otherwise out of order. Of course "it's for the customer experience" somehow, but come on.
I don't think they called it a return, they said it did return. They don't mean it in the sense that there was a profit made in terms of benefit, the benefit they are describing comes via the money changing hands and allowing all the people it exchanges through being able to get something.

You give it to the hungry, they buy food, the people who run places that sell food do things like buy new clothes and tvs, the people who make clothes and tvs invest in things, etc.

At least as I read their argument they are suggesting a "trickle up" effect, whereby cash in the hands of people who aren't in a position to just park it in real estate or something gets spread around and improves the overall flow of cash in an economy, not the overall amount of cash
There is a fallback call flow for emergency calls in cases where the phone cannot register properly but it would be nice to be able to overlook missing bureaucratic elements and just save lives, and that’s what “Emergency Calls Only” signifies, but it probably only activates when normal flow fails.
I got a second or two of warning once (also a fairly nearby quake). It's really odd to know in advance. Also used MyShake for a DYFI report just last night.
No. DRM is meant to protect copyrights, but Telegram's intend was to protect private messages from being forwarded to the public, which has nothing to do with copyrights.
That's a tough one..

I'm not sure you will find a design article on many specific type of websites, some of them are pretty small markets.

For me, when I start to design a new style website, I usually browse through various similar sites and take screenshots or take notes of the features/design elements that I see that work.

Also Design vary and styles change over time, if you are trying to be competitive start with checking out the competition ,and note what you can improve on such designs.
Amazon is going to buy the domain for sure. :-)
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Is there a way to tell if my phone is affected? Some sort of "test dial 911"?
> "The lead epidemic is the longest-running epidemic in our country"

This is probably one of the most depressing lines I read in this article. I've watched some of John Oliver's videos on PFAs and Lead (regardless of what you think about his other political views, I would say his videos on subject matter like this is quite informative). It's astonishing to think that organizations like the EPA were formed in the latter half of the twentieth century to remedy the negligence in making chemically and biologically safe products for human beings to use.

Seriously, up until the 50s we were making "radioactive toothpaste" and advertising it to the general population as being safe and effective: https://awesci.com/radioactive-toothpaste-shocking-ad-50s/
Can you imagine a more cancerous, dysfunctional software stack than a Microsoft app on a Google platform?

I cannot stress how insane it is that these megacorps suck up some the best talent on earth and then saddles them with a corporate culture that throttles their abilities to the point that they might as well be actual retards.
Fwiw my galaxy note 8 runs it perfectly. I think my iPhone xr is also more than 2 years and no issues.

I'm not saying I love the tool, but phone performance itself is not the reason for me. YMMV.
I've been using video conferencing software, and hardware in a few cases, for about 20 years, and I don't remember the last time it failed to connect first time. It definitely used to but that hasn't been a problem for a very long time.
I take it you haven't used an old Macintosh or Amiga recently.
> people who have recovered from the illness

I'm not sure the guy on the street is actually interested in properly understanding the risks associated with Covid.

My neighbour is in his 70s, he had Covid in November 2020 and (in his words) he wasn't particularly poorly with it. He subsequently had his vaccinations.

He and a couple of friends have been having blood tests to check on antibody titres. His antibodies are still really high, his friends (who haven't had Covid) have antibodies which have dropped significantly since they were vaccinated. He told me he wasn't sure why.

We were talking out on the street, my kids were out and around on their bikes, he told me he thought it was really important that children (like mine) should get vaccinated in order to keep people like him "safe".

What do you say at that point? I'm honestly not sure where we go from here.
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It's not dumb, it is a strategy.
No. The faction that opposed Gorbachev tried to halt and reverse his reforms, and the support of the coup was so extensive inside the party that the subsequent purge after the coup seriously weakened the party so that breakup was just a matter of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat...
> Humans also generally agree that progressive taxation is a good idea.

Fairly bold assertion. I'd say most humans don't even really know what progressive taxation means.

> Rich people should pay more to fund the government.

A static tax regime (i.e., taxes calculated by a simple fixed percentage of wealth or income) leads to the same outcome. E.g., in a 10% fixed tax regime, someone making $10k/a pays $1k in tax and another person making $1mm pays $100k in tax, meeting your desire to have the rich pay more--no progressive taxation required.
The data is based on asking people things. It’s not scientific. Repeatedly pointing out this as an easy gotcha against FB is not helping. It makes attacks on FB appear to lack real merit and authenticity.
So you're basically describing the slumlord situation. Let me grab a figure from the book review:

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q...

So imagine that the return from land was taken away. The only thing a landlord can charge rent on now is providing a nice building (capital) and good service & maintenance (labor).

The first property, "a nice house" would be able to charge rent -- because it now has value above the value of an empty field.

The second property, an empty lot, would be able to charge approximately nothing (the government collects the land rents, and this is capitalized into the price such that you can't charge any additional rent above that).

And yes, the third property (teardown property) you'd have to actively pay people to occupy, because you can't charge for access to the land, and the place sucks and is hazardous to your health.

What's the incentive in this situation for a landowner who wants to make money? Build something good (capital) and provide good service (labor), both are things we want to encourage.

Of course, the above assumes that land value taxes are fully capitalized into land prices and thus can't be passed on to tenants. This isn't discussed in this article (Part I) but will be discussed tomorrow in Part II.
I found "Good software is always written in an idempotent way" sort of hilarious.

Obviously idempotency is a powerful tool, but the confidence with which tfa demands it of all software was silly.
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mastodon needs like 4gb ram to properly work while pleroma can work on a 1gb ram vps/pi without any trouble. it is also easier to manage because there are less moving parts
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Children who can succeed with the material generally seek it out and learn it independently. Lots of examples here on this site of people who self-taught as children by tinkering on their own and grew up to be groundbreaking software engineers.
I used to run a "for friends only" social network on ning.com a decade ago. Was fun till Ning changed direction.
That isn’t what happened or is happening here. It’s not like the guy couldn’t make regular phone calls, if Teams had taken over as the phone service then he would have noticed the issue long ago. This is 100% an Android bug.
I'm a private school teacher; my kids attend the school I teach at. Some random thoughts:

* First, there's enormous variation in private schools. A whole lot of sectarian schools are utter crap and worse than public schools when you control for the neighborhoods they're in.

* But there are also a lot of private schools with significant structural advantages: students who want to be there with systemic support from all families and faculty who just want to see how far they can run in a supportive environment.

* I teach in a crazily idyllic environment. There's been no fights in literally decades. It's cool to be a nerd or a jock. It's happy and green. I am sad that this is such an exception and not the rule.

* I have the utmost respect for public school teachers. I'm well aware, in many ways, that my job is "easy mode" for education. I think it's great that we have a diverse system, and having the public system exist and able to provide a quality education to people of all backgrounds is an essential public good.

* My children are mathy, somewhat introverted kids. Being able to pick an educational environment where they're expected to present often, do drama and the arts, etc, has made them grow into much broader individuals than they would in other places. This kind of choice doesn't often exist in the public school system.
> FWIW, western media often suggests stuff is 'secret' in china, because they can't read chinese, and all those orientals are awfully mysterious.

What English speaking media should one read to see this for themselves?
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Android has the concept of an Intent[0] which are basically a category of apps that can fulfill a functionality like sending an email, browsing the internet, or dialing a number, etc.

So a developper can create contacts/caller app so that for example, when you click on a call button from say a google search, the OS asks the user to pick one app that was declared to be able to ACTION_CALL.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's something having to do with Teams being given priority on calls followed by failure to having priority for emergency calls and no way to gracefully recover.

Quickly browsing the documentation I see comments like

Note: there will be restrictions on which applications can initiate a call; most applications should use the ACTION_DIAL.

Note: this Intent cannot be used to call emergency numbers. Applications can dial emergency numbers using ACTION_DIAL, however.[1]

[0] https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-commo...

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Inte...
>Smoking or not smoking is one of the simplest expressions of individual liberty

In a vacuum, maybe, but what about the individual liberty of others who are damaged by your secondhand smoke?

What about the individual liberty of others who have to pay for your health care when you become one of the 2/3 of smokers who die from it?

I'm Australian and way more likely to move there to live with this law.

When I was there last, I was horrified that they still allow this disgusting antisocial behavior at outside eating areas.

It was like stepping back in time, and not in a good way.

I honestly could not care less what anybody puts in their body, as long as they keep it to themselves. Unfortunately smokers rarely keep it to themselves.
If one made this assumption with respect to this example, then one would have made an incorrect assumption. No doubt we could make a long list of examples where this assumption would have been incorrect, but we would likely need better visibility into the decisions Apple is making behind-the-scenes. Apple is a very secretive company.
Great, I can't even uninstall Teams on my Galaxy S9.
Sure, autodidacts exist. I was one, too. Again, that doesn't mean to abandon everyone else. Autodidacts are rare and most people learn through education.

It doesn't seem wise to stare at a community of unusual, self-selected people (Hacker News) and try to draw conclusions about the population at large from it.
In areas of housing shortages, the rent with LVT would be whatever it currently is without LVT. Theoretically, landlords are already extracting the maximum rent price possible in housing-constrained markets like NYC/SF/etc.

What would change is that the land-owner would make less profit. Potentially, a unit which is currently renting for $1100/mo in Manhattan might be assigned an LVT of $1500/mo. In that case, the landowner will lose $400/mo. However, if they stop renting it out, they will lose $1500/mo.

The rational thing to do would be to improve the accommodations so that someone would be willing to pay $2000/mo to rent it. Then the landlord would profit on the improvements they made (rather than profit on merely owning high-value land). They would be rewarded for the value they added on top of the land.
You have a very lax definition of evil compared to most people.
Really? Do you personally, or any layman you know of, benefit from knowing the Krebs cycle, or whether schist is igneous or metamorphic?
You would have thought app sandboxing on android would simply not allow this at all. 911 is just too critical to allow any app to interfere with it. The code path should be simple and uninterruptible.
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If Google are concerned they could fix it more easily that a software update for older, unsupported phones - they could just mark every app that registers itself as a third party dialer as incompatible with older Pixel devices in the Play Store, and remotely remove them from Pixel phones presumably. It'd be a bit "user hostile" but you have to remember that you don't really control the code on your phone if you use Google services, so it's entirely possible for them to act this way.
I don't understand this common sentiment people express online. You (and others who echo you) are absolutely entitled to your opinion. The source of the emotion is mysterious to me though.

Modern SUVs seem to be hatchbacks with very subtle styling differences and (checking the first example that comes to mind) something like 3.6 inches more ground clearance and 250 lbs additional weight. That is the difference between a Subaru CrossTrek and a Subaru Impreza.

Of course there are much bigger SUVs, but I'd think they're substituting for minivans which also are massive.

When I read something expressing visceral anger over huge SUVs, I imagine maybe they are a time traveler from decades ago, when an SUV was invariably a body-on-frame "light truck" that could be used for snowplowing.

For many years, I would see people sneering at Americans for not buying hatchbacks. Then Americans switched to crossovers that are really hatchbacks that are styled slightly differently. And apparently Europeans have followed suit. It's uncharitable of me, but I wonder if the real source of bile for some people is an instinctive hatred for any trend that follows the US, rather than Europe leading the way.

I have been hit by an SUV while driving a regular car, by the way, and indeed they sustained a lot less damage than I did. However, nobody was injured, so "being ok" is not necessarily about "hurting people".
Thanks! I had been considering Mastodon for a private (non-federated) little community. But from a quick look it seems Pleroma doesn't have any mobile apps? That's a dealbreaker for many people.
While I want to believe this is true, I think the above response was more a lack of Gopher's ability to analyze mathematical equations properly than an attempt to display a sense of humour. Many NLP approaches work by creating word embeddings, which don't always help the model to understand "first-order logic" language mixed with spoken language.

Though who knows, maybe it does have a sense of humour.
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The internal project name of Google's web storage system was called Alexandria too. It since has been rewritten and renamed though
Buses can be rerouted at the stroke of a pen, so it's difficult for people to build their lives around them. Trams are often overrated (and don't get me started on tram-trains), but they're a good fit for small towns or corridors that don't have the traffic to justify a subway.
I don't use teams because it stays on my laptop and it is over when I close the lid at 6pm. They don't pay me for after hours consulting.
Because it was only reported for a Pixel phone so far.
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you can mount the users home directory, if file system changes are limited to the current user.
Well, chrome is based on webkit, so all of those alternate browsers are based on webkit.
Sure, but the US constitution also prevents "taking" without compensation. That "taking" can also include you keeping the property but the government imposing new rules that lower it's value.
i don’t care about vulnerabilities. it is very annoying that everyone assumes that linux is only used for applications where security matters. plenty of devices using linux do not need to be secure and forcing rust onto the entire linux kernel community because of a vulnerability argument is stupid and will only make it harder for people to use linux in a project.
Most people don't learn, and, as adults, earn a living in professions that don't rely on school learning, such as retail, picking/packing, home health aides, trucking, technical project management, etc.
This is allowed. Read the FAQs: https://www.911.gov/frequently_asked_questions.html
As a hiring manager there are a lot of shitty employees. It’s hard to screen someone, and firing someone is a pain. Better to avoid a crappy hire.
i have a staffer, like 30 who is having back trouble. sciatic nerve compression. he is today made to do physiotherapy or surgery if that doesn't work out.

i am "scared" because this guy stands most of the time, walks to work and back, does most of his work standing. i on the other hand either sit on my chair slouching for 12 hours at a time and if not there, i sit lounging on the floor and do a reclined L with the most pressure on the small of my back.

i am concerned because i have had back trouble for the last decade, usually it was kidney stones but later because of my posture. i hope my back is right but i wouldn't want to subject myself to surgeries. shit.
Unsafe things are frequently cheaper to insure. Ever insured a motorcycle or an older car? The size of the typical claim might have something to do with it.
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i need to be able to read and understand any driver’s source code without having to learn rust.
What's really terrible here is that Google are saying they won't fix this until their regularly scheduled January release.
SERIOUSLY..... They won't rush a fix out for this? Not even for this??? Unbelievable.
oh. pleroma does. there is tusky and fedilab. they are all intercompatible so it works wonderfully. just login.
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