skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American law enforcement would overwhelmingly "side" with the buyer here, by virtue solely of siding with the status quo.

The moment they said "contract," Deputy Notmyjob will hold up a hand and say, "Sounds like a civil matter. Mr. Smith has advised you not to trespass on his property. Small claims office is at 1234 Fuckoff Street downtown. We'll be leaving now, and you will too, unless you'd like to take a trip to the station with us for booking."
Did you run the clients in the same regions as the servers? That may impact the results.
Do you ever buy alcohol?
This isn't really true, you can definitely get a loan for undeveloped land. It's less straightforward than a house but a friend of mine did it easily enough by finding a lender who lends on land and getting a land mortgage, you don't even need construction plans or anything.
It's a shit show and plenty of people are not OK with it, including prominent content creators (for both DnD and MTG) that have a huge draw.
My first computer was a 95 Packard Bell. I loved it. Maybe I have nostalgia goggles, but I distinctly remember the UI being extremely responsive. Even the mouse was extremely fast.
This is going to sound rough, but who gives a fuck? How is it my obligation to pay money and waste my time sitting in traffic to prop up commercial real estate? Or banks? Local governments... Oh, poor local governments!

The future is now and the pandemic showed that it's feasible to do a lot of the work remotely. Companies that jump on it will thrive, the ones that do not will slowly sink.
> "highlight or otherwise manipulate text than it would on Android or a computer"

Yeah, this is a weird issue on iOS. I feel like it has regressed in the last few years too. It used to work better. Maybe Apple just feels like cut/copy/paste isn't something people should be bothering with on phones?
Google is not doing a great job with the Pixel imo. With some models they also decided to not release them in some countries for whatever reason.

I had a Pixel 3A that did not age well and went back to iPhone.
You’re downvoted but police have prolific recorded history of this vs the reverse. It’s not ideology it’s material reality
The only way out is through. One way or another, once you reach the shore on the other side, the time spent in the water doesn't seem so bad anymore.

Just another perspective to lean on when understanding others.

Once you confront it in the most absolute sense, something akin to ego-death occurs, and you make a decision about whether it is worthwhile to continue.

Everything comes from and swings back to chaos. Embrace it and you will be free.
There are any number family group chats that leave my sister out of things. She's the only Android user out of about 20 people. If she's on the threads then pictures, videos, and reactions are all broken. This is 100% deliberate by Apple, but the bias against Android users is real.
I was born in England, but we emigrated to Canada when I was 5. A few years later, we returned for a visit. My mother and I were on the Tube when I announced loudly `Ooh look, Mummy, the next stop is Lye-ces-ter Square!'. She shushed me and said she didn't want the other passengers to think we were Canadians.
Yeah, funny, they didn’t feel like they were being complacent. I remember reading interviews at the time, with some of those vendors touting their “speed of innovation.” They all felt that way until Apple showed them how it’s really done. Only a very few global organizations even have the capacity to dream about designing/building/shipping hardware on the cadence and scale that Apple does. I can’t think of a single vendor that succeeds at it for anything non-trivial.
I've got the 13-mini, which, I guess, is the last one. So, I feel like I've got a good 3-5 years before I need to worry about anything.
Homeowners significantly outnumber renters among regular voters. Until and unless that changes policy is going to be by and for incumbent homeowners.
A better idiom for your use case might be ‘carry water’. Saying Tim Cook carries water for the CCP would be to say he does the work of the CCP, equivalent to towing a load. However, I think this is a stronger phrase than what the original commenter intended.
Here you can scan what you buy with your phone and when you exit the store pay with app.
I can pack the things straight in my bike bag and just walk out of the store. So much more convenient than everything else.
> (Snapdragon 820). It was Qualcomm's first stab at a 64-bit processor and it showed.

The 820 was the second gen of 64-bit SoCs. The one with heating and efficiency issues was the Snapdragon 810 (and the slower 808).

I moved from a OnePlus 2 with the 810 to the OnePlus 3 with the 820 and it was a day/night difference.
bahah love it.
I usually upgrade every 2 years (due to mobile retention plan) and just get one from the latest line.

This year was the first year I got an older model since I really like the size of the mini. Will likely not get a bigger phone in the future unless it has a killer feature or phones the same size as the mini (hopefully it becomes the SE) is no longer supported
That's why it needs to be a crime to impersonate law enforcement.

I thought it was already, but here we are.
Not only are they still around, they're not happy that everyone knows they're the baddies.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/02/pinkerton-red-dead-...
It's the number 1 reason I will always be remote (and was well before the pandemic).

Number 2 is that I get my work & meetings done in the morning and can call it quits at lunch every day (and often do nothing Fridays).
How do you define difficulty? I’ve seen companies with vastly different opinions on difficulty based on how they’re set up. Can I edit the difficulty based on my own company’s needs?
I'd rather experience frequent uncontrolled burns in areas that do regular controlled burns than even a single uncontrolled burn in an area that doesn't.
R users in the form of statisticians should definitely come around to Julia. More high quality packages never hurt. But I agree with fragmentation and 'object systems', yet I don't think this is a huge danger for Julia.
> People work twice as much for the same wage. Most households now have two full time workers.

It's really absurd how accepted/unnoticed this regression is. And of course it also makes the isolation problem worse as now single person households will be able to afford even less.
Well I will volunteer for the selfless job of being a well paid bank CEO.

I’m ahem smart and capable. And I will volunteer to pay back my $200M/yr bonus over the previous 3 years if my bank fails.

Honestly, I don’t think you’re right. The best people go where they have the best upside and impact. The sleaziest go where they have the least accountability. That’s true in any profession- I know plenty of SWEs and managers who build a fragile system and job hop before the maintenance starts.
is it same Paul Ford as in this piece?

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
The last part is the big one - the manufacture fragmentation delivers an incoherent user experience.

Every year Apple delivers a major iOS release that makes it "feel" like a new phone (I won't even debate that the improvements are now incremental), but the product marketing is most pleasing!

When you buy an Android product, you just feel used and abused. New cool Android version came out? Fuck you, buy a new phone.
I think that should go without saying, but yes, obviously you're correct that "useful" involves arguments about advantages and disadvantage. The previous poster wasn't talking about trade-offs though.
Haha, ah, that one :) Yes, but that was just to have something (anything) really on the display after you load the program, pure coincidence ;)
To be fair to Microsoft, that's still mostly true for the Windows server editions.

The pared down version without the GUI even runs fine on 512MB of memory. Though still a far cry from the 64 MB that XP needed, which included the GUI.
Frankly having to support 3 platforms, two major ones and a minor one (Windows) was something no customer of mine was keen of. Multiplatform tools were not that great so they had to spend three times the same amount of money instead of two to do native development and testing, plus the extra complexity of the design process because of different UI patterns. Everybody was hoping that Windows Mobile would die and it did.
Even if you simplify, complexity can be gradually built-up again; lobbyists are like waves, they will keep coming and wear out the roughest of rocks. They represent the voice of the wealthy and the highest court of the land has agreed to let it be as loud as they wish.
I took a picture of a car driving away from a hit and run. The victim asked for the picture, but because I couldn't airdrop it, he'd rather just write down the license plate. I offered to text or email but he refused. A small amount of friction caused him to miss out on potential evidence.
Bay Area police union leader allegedly smuggled fentanyl into US to sell in bulk
Cool!

I’ll look at it and add it to my post. We use AMIs so might be nice to have written down. Thanks for following up!
> As for the Overton Window - telemetry has been a part of software since the internet was a thing.

Not true. As I mentioned in a separate comment, in the 90s (and even somewhat into the early part of 00s) adding any kind of phone-home functionality to code was pretty much universally seen as outrageous privacy violation.

Go back to, say, year 2000 and post on a technical newsgroup about having noticed some code phoning home and watch the outrage fly. This was seen as a line that must absolutely never be crossed.

So yes, the overton window has done a massive shift.
Simply by posting it you'll get someone's attention (like myself!)

However you may get downvoted because you asked how to get upvoted, which can be counterintuitive if you're Neurodivergent (like many of us). It's ok, that's not how you intended it, but that is most likely not a helpful part of the message here.
And that assumes comparably-priced house are of the same quality (neighborhood, size, etc...)
If I had actually had the power to make necessary changes, I would. I hold governments, legacy industries and an “establishment” shareholder class responsible for not being able to make sacrifices. My discussion isn’t going to change anything, increasing extreme weather events might, but so far it seems mostly business as usual.
The US Census defines 80% of the US population as being urban. As you say, you can draw the line anywhere and I assume the US Census is defining it as being something along the lines of being somewhat accessible to a city of not completely trivial size. Which is fine as long as people don't read that as 80% of the population living somewhere that looks anything like a sizable city.
For decades UK governments have insisted they want to build enough homes, have publicly pledged to build those homes, and then of course ensured that the homes don't get built, ensuring they have a promise to give next time.

The Tories are on net worse, but even past Labour governments did not meet their own targets. "We will build 100 000 homes" sounds great. But a week later, "Not these 60 on a nice old farm in a part of the country where our local MP is at risk" and then "OK, instead of 120 starter home what about 80 larger houses on that ex-industrial estate, so that the developer can make a bit more cash on luxury properties?" - hundreds of these local policy tweaks and before you know it your 100 000 homes are less than half that, but the need for housing didn't change. Demand rises, supply doesn't keep pace, effects predictable.
Be the Roomba
I was hoping you were going to link to a DIY tms, so i will: https://www.instructables.com/Transcranial-Magnetic-Stimulat...

Note the disclaimers, especially "TOUCHING THE DEVICE WRONG DURING ASSEMBLY CAN INSTANTLY KILL YOU. THIS DEVICE COULD KILL YOU OR MAIM YOU OR BREAK YOUR MIND."

However the other things you're posting are alternative chemical treatments. People with resistant depression have already tried the approved chemical remedies. While I broadly agree that there's evidence in favor of both psilocybin and ketamine being potent chemical anti-depressants, I also think there's a number of valid reasons for someone to reach a point where they don't want to try any other chemical remedies, and ECT / TMS become more compelling options.
Typically the direct reporting relationship is about managing someone’s career and not necessarily their work. The leadership described here is more about the work to be done rather than the person’s fulfillment and suitability with that work. This separation is more pronounced with large (1000+) engineering organizations. Often people don’t experience this difference because it doesn’t exist at the smaller scales.

Engineering management is more on the management of people and engineer leadership is more on the management of products/projects/systems.
Make no mistake about just how much money is involved here.

I got to work on a helicopter used for fire. It was a 1980s French something or another. It took an RPG in Afganistan and was refurbed to live in the pacific northwest.

The crew makes an insane amount of money. They are tickled with how many fires there are a year and how they "have" to be put out. I'm talking areas so far away from houses that it takes an hour to get there by helo, dump a few buckets, then an hour back. MAYBE in a 9 hour shift you get 12 buckets dumped.

This vehicle has only one turbine engine and goes through about 300 gallons an hour. There were two blackhawks in the same area that burn twice that, two engines.

Think of the money to make it not only profitable, but exceptionally so, to run vehicles that burn 300 gallons an hour for 8-12 hours a day, per helo, per engine, with crew, and the millions it costs to upkeep, cert, logistics, insurance, etc.

This is business now. And that's just one annecdote about helos. When you see people and machinery it takes to run firecrews, it's a wonder there aren't even more firecrew arsonists than there already are.
Sure, and some of which are bad.

If you want to do something unambiguously good, do it, don't start a business.
Wired does seem to have a syndication agreement with Ars if you wait a few days for their articles:

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/05/this-is-catfishing-o...
What’s the iMessage effect?

Is it the color of the bubbles? That seems to be a US only issue. Most of the other countries barely use SMS and use WhatsApp/Telegram/whatever instead.
Psilocybin’s addictive potential is limited to at least 1 week intervals since it would have no effect if taken more often.

Most people “addicted” wait much longer than that — sometimes months to make sure they have a strong trip and offset receptor down-regulation to the point where it can hardly be called an addiction.
Could you give examples? I don't use a lot of Pandas.
we actually tuned `m` (e.g. 32), `ef_construct` and `ef_search` (e.g. 128-256) to be fairly large values for best performance, but not able to obtain better results. Overall HNSW consumes a lot of resources, so it's not as cost effective.
I have the Logitech G403. I've had it for about 7 years and it's still working great. I don't know how long ago you had your Logitech, but it's possible they've improved since then.
Can you share what the logs suggest to change the policy to?
Seeking Advice and Insights: SaaS Pricing Strategies and Experiments
I've been diving into SaaS pricing strategies lately and recently came across the book "Monetizing Innovation" by Madhavan Ramanujam. It is probably the best content I have come across on the topic to date. I wanted to share a few key takeaways I got from it but I'm eager to hear your thoughts and experiences, especially if you're actively considering your SaaS pricing or have experience with regular testing.

Top takeaways

Price early in the product development process: Emphasizes the importance of integrating pricing into the early stages of product development. This ensures that the product is built around the value it provides to customers, leading to a more effective pricing strategy.

Focus on customer value: Understand what aspects of your product provide the most value to your customers and use that as a basis for your pricing. This aligns your pricing with the perceived value, helping to maximize revenue. Your pricing should be about 20-30% of the value you create for the users.

Willingness to pay (WTP): Determine your customers' WTP by conducting research, surveys, and interviews. This helps you identify the price points at which customers are most likely to make a purchase, ensuring you're not leaving money on the table or overpricing your product. Van Westerndorp's approach is called and I have personally found this to be effective.

Tiered pricing: Offering multiple pricing tiers can help cater to a wider range of customers with varying needs and budgets. It's essential to carefully design the tiers, so each level is appealing and encourages users to upgrade as their needs grow.

Regularly test pricing: Actively testing and iterating on your pricing strategy can help optimize your revenue. Consider running A/B tests or conducting customer surveys to find the sweet spot.

Monitor competitors: Keep an eye on your competitors' pricing models and changes to understand how the market is evolving and ensure your pricing remains competitive.

I'm looking to connect with anyone who is actively considering their SaaS pricing strategies or has experience with regular testing. What have been the most effective approaches or tools you have used?
> We're not building the F-35 here.

That's true -- one potential upside of the IRS plan is that an online tax submission site cannot constantly crash into the ocean.
This illustrates a more generic problem with our legal system.

When the option for positive action to mitigate a problem exists, we often don't do it because the action creates legal liability for any and all negative externalities of the action, even if the negative externalities as a whole are drastically less than what would happen doing nothing.

We resist permitting prescribed burns because when they cause unintended damage and harm, there's a person to institution to blame, so no one wants to take on that liability. So instead, we let brush grow out of control and eventually a mega fire hits that creates orders of magnitude more destruction and health hazard than the sum of all prescribed burns ever would have.

Another example is medical treatment. If you develop cancer and die because you get no treatment, there's no person to blame and no one to sue. It's just an "act of god" so people accept the outcome and move on. But if you get treatment and the doctors make a mistake and their actions cause some unintended harm, then there's someone to blame and sue, even if your statistical outcome was drastically improved by their intervention.

The same problem is going to exist trying to mitigate climate change. Positive actions to reverse the problem will create negative externalities that hurt some people, but doing nothing will be drastically worse.

I don't know how we solve this problem. To me, the root of the problem seems to be a weakness of the constitution of our society and/or leaders.

Collectively, we need to figure out how to balance diffuse statistical risk against acute, dramatic risk, or else we all risk being the frog slowly boiled alive.
I really liked Windows Phone 8, it is sad that MS couldn't make that work (disclaimer: I worked for MS back when WP was a thing, and work for Google now). They had a nice UI, tiles really work on phones vs. full size laptops.
ChargeX: Exploring state switching attack on electric vehicle charging systems
SF's subway system is still using floppy disks. Being on HN might feel like everyone is on Rust or Rails or something else but sadly in the real world under the hood there's lots and lots of legacy - yes important 1s too.
I loved Hugo. We built massive web properties with it. My only critique is that over time it has morphed into more of a site builder rather than a page builder. I'm sure that is what most users wanted anyway though. We did not need a lot of the newer features like resource complication or a live server and we ultimately switched to go templating directly.
If you’re interested in doing this, but find it hard to sit it the feelings, consider trying Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which involves investigating the root of your feelings within your mind.

It’s best to do DBT with a professional, but there’s a large community of DIY DBT practitioners out there. [1]

If your unable to investigate the source of some feelings (e.g. because your brain shuts down when you interrogate them) there is a new-ish practice for detangling your thoughts without all the interpersonal unpleasantness of Talk Therapy (that doesn’t mean it won’t be unpleasant in it’s own way).

It’s called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Again, working with a professional is best, but it’s possible to be successful with a DIY approach. [2]

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional in any form of health, mental or otherwise. I’m just a happy self-administered DBT & EMDR patient :)

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/dbtselfhelp

[2]: https://anxietyreleaseapp.com/
If you know that, then surely the politicians also know who want to save the world.

What have they done about going Nuclear ?
https://environmentalprogress.org/the-war-on-nuclear
converting these buildings to homes would solve a lot these issues. Local business can’t survive from locals? What about the inverse of the increased economic activity in the community these workers live in instead of commute to? There has to be solutions that work for everyone besides forcing everyone back to office.
> Where are the docker/redis/next.js/linux kernel/qt/roller-coaster tycoon creators?

They create their own thing from scratch, and turn it into a job.

The first 5 from that list were open source creations that became big because they met a need at the time and lots of people adopted them. Which is one route into creating your own thing.

I've seen senior engineers who have leveraged lots of domain knowledge to build a prototype of something super useful internally within a company that then grows in adoption and size as people recognise it's value. Projects then start to organically cluster around the core that was built solo.
Staff engineers aren't "rockstar 10x IC."
I don't hate pandas but after using R and Dplyr, I didn't want to touch pandas ever again. Now with Polars, I'm enjoying EDAs and replacing pandas on our ML stack has been fun. I could see a case being made for Pandas if they emulate Dplyr.
My brother told my mother there were riots in the small city I live in.

It was like twelve people laying on the road in front of the police station, as a "protest".
The regulations have nothing to do with it. Landlords need to make enough income to pay for the property. Any increase in expenses will need to be generated through the rent of the property.

I know very little about UK property issues, but would speculate that any housing shortages are caused by regulations.
I think my first mortgage in the mid 1990s was around 7%. I remember double-digit rates in the late 70s/early 80s though I was too young to really care about it then. Home prices didn't inflate so crazily then either.

Rates are still low, historically. But as they are moving up from very low, the increases are huge, percentage-wise. Most of the reason home prices have inflated so much in the last decade or two is that borrowing has been very cheap.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tracking-mortgage-rates-1970s...

If rates return to their historical averages, we may see home prices deflating or at least not increasing for a while.
Hum. 5 minutes of searching shows that malicious tenant damage cover is available, often as an extra, in the UK.

Of course that's an additional cost. As a landlord you can decide whether to take the risk yourself, pass the cost to the tenant at the risk of being less competitive, or eat the cost.