skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So which devices actually support LineageOS, though? The one that wipes its proprietary firmware for the camera, leaving you with one that is orders of magnitude worse than the day you bought it?

This may not matter as much for a tablet, but let’s not give the impression as if the android side of things were better. Especially that that ipad will have insane lifetime. That android tablet may not in the first place.
Well, I am a US expat in Europe, I lived in a house in San Francisco with a very nice home office slash man-cave, then moved to London where it's a 9'x6' (3x2m) fish bowl with eaves and no air conditioning. But it's really the isolation that got to me, most of my colleagues were remote in Tel Aviv.

It also helps that my commute is 30 minutes by bus + Tube vs 45 to 90 minutes in SF due to Muni's abysmal unreliability.
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I feel like more it’s more interesting to discuss why everything got bad. These companies all grew up and reality hit

- Goodreads: Never was going to be massive social network. Hard to monetize so little investment.

- Google Search: SEO + ads obscures what people are looking for

- Reddit: Too much investment for the companies current size and lack of growth. Poor new products offerings

- YouTube: Taken over by engagement bate and need to monetize

- Yelp: business model provides bad incentives

- Gmail: promised everyone free stuff and doesn’t charge. Needs to cover costs

- Netflix: doesn’t actually own most of the content users used to watch. Has no more subscriber growth

- Instagram: Losing ground to new social network and must adapt to be more video+algorithmic

- Twitter: makes no money. Had too many employees. Run by Elon who is controversial. Moderation is expensive

- Facebook: for my generation at least, a combination of things led people to migrate to other places

- Wikipedia: people who moderate for free have agendas

- LinkedIn: business model makes for bad incentives

- DuckDuckGo: hard to be the third place social network

- Amazon: moderation is hard, too much seo and ads, direct from china allows for more cheap goods but introduces more fakes

- Medium: nobody wants to pay for pretend news
TIL about Swadesh lists.

It's not just a matter of complexity, either. Especially with English, you can say pretty much anything using any words - if you use the right combination of euphemism, analogy, poetic structure, context, etc.

As always, attempts at censorship produce awkward to hilarious to depressing results.
ChatGPT: Ruined TV by causing a writers strike...
Some of what your saying makes sense, but it sounds like you're carrying experience in metal working too far into cooking.

> though it is non stick in the same sense that things are harder to stick to burned things :)

The usual way I've heard this explained, which seems reasonable, is that steel and iron are porous, and what causes sticking is the contraction of those pores when heated. A smooth covering prevents that sticking, and polymerized cooking oil provides that.

> I don't season anything though - if i want to protect something from rust i dry it. If seasoning was a super good rust protectant we'd use it as one in other cases.

Funnily enough, I have. I built a bookshelf that uses raw steel beams, and I seasoned it to protect it from rust. 3 years in, it's still rust free (amusingly, except for the inside of the pipes).

But I don't think anyone really argues that it's the best way to do things in non-cooking applications, just that it's food safe (again, the point of what we're discussing) and works. Seasoning does demonstrably prevent rust... For furniture you'd more often spray it with a protective coating, but I don't think anyone's recommending spraying pans with polyurethane. ;-)
Votes and fake engagement keeps your post on front page longer, which spurs more organic interaction.

This has been marketing 101 for at least a decade. Reddit, hacker news, any site with user content is bought and paid for.
Ya people want their cake and eat it too. Or we want a free and open internet and that means ads or we really don’t want ads and that means to the app/platform/creator/website to go private and with a paywall. It will never be sustainable to have something free out there without ads and quality. Quality in anything won’t just come out of nowhere when it require investment, sweat and tears.
I shack you for noticing :o)
Well, if you also want to use it in your spare time and you like iOS apps, it could theoretically work.
They’re not subject to banking regulations. Their privacy policy is a dumpster fire. They offer me no benefits.

Why would I use them?
Do you need a receipt for tax purposes?
Again NO.

The money used for the bond is Taken Out Of Circulation and then new cash is printed.

The money already exists.

The value already exists.

It simply doesn't exist as Cash.

Theres a difference.

Really, do the effing flow chart.
I remember that cringe commercial Apple made where the girl asks "what's a computer?".
I see this play out every year with the kids in wrestling. A strong kid comes in and hits a particular move to beat all the other new wrestlers. It's the most obvious move in the world and is easily countered by anyone with experience. Some never get past it and never get better. It's maddening when it's the kid on your team, because they are often the best athlete as well, and they're now losing to much weaker kids who have paid attention in practice for a year.
Is buying upvotes really effective in the long run? It might give you some short-term gains sure, but it could even backfire as people start to notice that your posts are getting artificially high ratings and lose trust in your content.

Plus, if you're trying to build a genuine community around your product or idea, you need their honest feedback and support to truly understand what they want and how to improve. So, I'd say that buying upvotes is not a sustainable strategy and could actually harm your chances of success on the road to PMF.
I now use Apple Maps for navigation because of this “feature”.

Google Maps is still much better for searching, but the gap seems to be closing.
The M-series Macs also have similarly open, but secure bootloaders.
Don't know yet, maybe none but it'll probably take a few years to find out.
One more thing about iPad: I think it has the best on the market form factor, see pictures how magic keyboard elevates the iPad device which makes it's floating in the air a bit. I want to have the same for other laptops, because when you type on normal laptop in LAPTOP position, your fingers stand in your eyesight covering bottom part of the screen which is atrocious. AND: computer is in the screen which makes keyboard always cool. The same as in Surface Pro.
I live in the suburbs so no one comes by lawn, ergo this is where I shout at the kids to get off my website
When my newsletter hits the front page I usually get a handful of signups. When our product page hits the front page it's usually good for a few dozen signups (of a fairly niche product).

A lot of link aggregators / newsletters source from HN as well, so making the front page usually means a trickling of other mentions over the following ~week. Anecdotally these tend to produce less traffic, but have a higher conversion rate.
> flying cars,

Helicopters. Also a bajillion startups that charge 100k, currently iterations are basically human sized quadcopters.

Not sure how relevant any of that is though, as I was specifically writing about AI…

> self driving cars,

I tagged #4 already

> brain interfaces, 3D printed organs, fusion power, humanoid robots.

All #2, IMO, with a few that might count as a #3 technically but not being good enough to deserve it.

Although, again, not sure it's relevant, as they're not AI.

(Have any of those been dismissed as absolutely impossible rather than just hard? I'm not a student of mass media, so I don't know where to look. But brain interfaces seem to me to be what the very first use of galvanic cells on frog's legs were pointing towards, and artificial fusion has been obviously possible in principle since the 50s because of the fusion bomb…)
Everything is sandboxed that’s for starters, so your flow of files would have to take extra detour to get around that.
Sure, and I said as much in my comment. Housing prices need to fall. But policy makers concerned with the "net good" would make a bare minimum effort to account for the millions of people they would harm with their policy.

Something like allowing people to deduct their home's depreciation on their taxes would go a long way in actually getting policy support and passed.

Try to allow for a little nuance sometimes.
> all of these places i'd be besides myself to be living in

I think that’s the problem. All these places look purpose built to project wealth and abundance, but they don’t look nice to actually use. None of those rooms feel very welcoming or even remotely practical.

And somehow even the largest rooms manage to feel cramped because there’s too much going on. You just can’t feel at ease in a place like that. Or at least I can’t.

If you ever visit Hearst Castle it’s got a very similar vibe. Some of those rooms take 5min to walk across, but when you’re just standing there looking around, it feels cramped and tiny because the walls and floors are so full of … stuff … that it feels almost oppressive.
And Timothy Leary said "turn on, tune in, drop out" back in the 1960s.

None of the social phenomena presented here are new, all this has happened before.

And honestly, placing more emphasis on personal well-being and self-interest and less on being a slave to the grind is a good thing. To hell with the Protestant work ethic.
Yes, somehow Brits have been brainwashed by their feudal masters into thinking 80m2 is an adequate size for a 3BR apartment. British homes are some of the smallest and lowest-quality amongst Europe's richer countries, e.g. compared to France.
Rise of pill-popping tech execs
There might be some nuance here between the US and Canada - would love to chat over frosty beverages and learn more and the system up there as eventually I’d like to expand into BC. The MLS fees (I belong to two and will likely join a third and possibly fourth) aren’t terrible and I would say listing services are generally a good thing for both the consumer public and agents. But - as you note - the public has a very limited view of all the ways brokerages and various third-parties try to scam and fleece agents. The overall system is exploitative of agents and that has a role in the cost to consumers for real estate services. And, name brand online services are just another third party looking to make money off agents.
I opened up Game.cpp and read about half of it.

Code formatting is nonstandard, but consistent. It's readable as text.

It's not very comprehensible as code. Lots of magic constants. Class game extends menu button? There isnt a whole lot of design here.

I've seen and written worse code, but I would not call this beautiful code, just well formatted.
Here you have to sign a contract (so competitors or the owner don't sell it cheaper to you) and they take a copy of your passport and proof of residency. So not exactly strangers. And in this cases where I asked for the keys, they were local realestate agents I went to school with. Not that anybody locks their door over here; it's just often not clear what the location is to prevent personal negotiations.
I'm going to use this as an excuse to springboard off on a tangent I've been thinking a lot about.

I think my social media story might be pretty common. Early on, all my social graphs across various platforms were well managed mappings of my real life friends. Today, all my social graphs are a mess. Platforms seem to push to make it easier to discover and find new friends. I want the opposite of this.

I want to have to go through a series of steps in real life in order to add someone to my contact list. I want to classify this friend in some way that acknowledges what the level of trust is. Is this person a casual acquaintance or a trusted family member?

When content is "shared" and I'm receiving it in my news feed, I don't just want to see how many "likes" it has. I want to heuristics on how my personal network responded to that piece of content. And, of course, I want to own that data and I want my hardware to crunch the data. So this could be built in a decentralized way.

This paradigm is far less susceptible to Sybil attacks, such as paid upvotes on a sites like Hacker News. It would isolate us, in a way, from the zeitgeist. But it would connect us more closely with our real world social network.
Half of these just look like really terrible British homes people have died in.

IE bought 40 years ago, never changed, the children just want a quick cash out now.

I've viewed a dozen that would make it on to this blog this year alone.
Fredkin’s Paradox is a powerful idea that I find myself referencing often:

"The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them—no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin%27s_paradox

RIP. I loved Three Scientists and Their Gods and had the privilege of seeing him speak at CMU in 2001. He was hysterical and brilliant.
Convenient? How about "necessary to keep your head sane"?

Because the alternative is to be forever stuck on all possible grudges of yesteryear, never moving on.

Personally, I am not going to start hating random contemporary Germans only because Nazis killed three of my relatives 80 years ago and, well, burnt and pillaged their way across Central and Eastern Europe.

I just refuse to be a mindless slave to the past, whipped up by nationalist politicians, no matter how horrible that past was.
That's interesting, I always wanted to try something similar but put it off. I'll try it with my phone & see if I can get it working in small space but with ulta-wide camera.
Except most people don't need a full-feature general purpose computer.

"I want to code on a tablet" is a pretty niche market.

The M1+ iPad Pros are pretty good digital creation devices. Lots of photographers use them in their workflows now. Doing a quick (but still high quality) edit at an event, so the customer has something to share immediately is a huge value add.
I think it's great as a large format ebook, especially if you want to read graphic novels.

Also it's great for a musicians to display sheet music.
China is already hiring everyone they can from TSMC they have no need to ransomware them.

What remains to be seen if the response (if any) to this. You tread a fine line when you threaten the worlds chip supply.
No, it just gives users the illusion that they are performing better. The Dunning-Kruger of psychoactive substances.
My main problem with Moto is I've had really bad luck with their charging ports. I had a G4 and a G6, and both had ports that were loose from day 1 (so much so that car charging was impossible because it would instantly fall out) and both become unusable towards the end. I have several family members who had the same experience.
Yes? Have you ever touched any code or wtf are you talking about? Literally every component’s driver has to be rewritten for a different operating system.
Like I said, I don't think it counts as "pure" functional because it is heavily monadic. Many Haskell users still think non-monadic code is "more pure" than say anything that uses the IO Monad and Hooks are "worse" than the IO Monad. (Especially some of the "Suspense" project Hooks which combine IO and Futures and State and more from a Haskell standpoint into one super weird monad.)

You can certainly replace most hooks with static return values. Many hooks are heavily memoizable and in turn heavily memoized which is how they find their performance in practice.

Multi-hook interactions generally follow a lot of the laws of monadic binding and a lot of the "hooks rules" aren't that strange in terms of monads: monadic binds have sequencing that matters (and dependencies you might track). The order of hooks matter in the same way that the order of IO binds or the order of Futures/Promises awaits.

Again, it is certainly hard to call it "pure" functional in most ways, it has a lot of impurity, but it is certainly "deeply" functional. There's not really a better paradigm to call what is React is doing with Hooks than "functional programming". The language of monads is somewhat helpful in reasoning about how Hooks work and where they sit in the paradigm. They definitely make everything a bit more "impure", especially from the strict mathematical sense of "pure functions are entirely dependent on their parameters". Especially with Hooks not being represented parametrically (which I did mention I think can be something of a problem and I wish wasn't the case).
Creating something good requires a lot of effort and it's not just 1 thing you have to be good at but 1000 things.

Any business has thousands of moving parts which all need to work properly or the website or operation shall fail.
The enshittification continues.
We call it playing golf, but it's just Kickbacks or money being thrown around.
There is a guy who has done some great videos on youtube. Search for "banned techniques in track and field", that should get you there. Among them are the forward flip in the long jump (possibly better), the shotput cartwheel (better at some levels), and others.
ActivityPub, despite using JSON rather than XML, is a much more complex protocol with a lot more moving parts. You can technically write an RSS feed by hand, drop it on a virtual hosting provider via FTP, and you have a feed. On the server side, all you need is static file hosting, which is ubiquitous, available for free and amenable to things like CDNs. On the client side, all you need is a single device, which may be behind NAT, and is capable of occasional network connections to pull the updated feeds.

With ActivityPub, you're supposed to have an account at an instance and receive content through that instance. This means that the server needs to keep track of followers and automatically broadcast all new content to all of them, which requires a database, some kind of content-publishing API, and probably a job queue and Redis to boot. On the client side, you need a box that is online 24/7 and can be connected to, so that you can receive your content. You get much faster delivery, but at a much higher operational costs and with many more scalability issues. Hosting static content at scale is a solved problem, and you can reuse all that existing knowledge for RSS. Sending AP activities at scale is technically solvable, but the infrastructure just isn't there yet.
If that was that easy why did the 3rd party apps shutdown rather then raise prices to cover the API fees?

Reddit's model was kind of novel in that they did it in directly by expecting the 3rd party apps to collect the payment from their users but they did essentially just ask people to pay for 3rd party app access.

I cant recall any instance where a social media company successfully extracted actual cash directly from their users that ended well.

if you look at what reddit was asking it kind of evened out to less then $5,- a month pr user which seems to have been so much more then what the 3rd party apps was able/willing to charge that they had to fold.
The opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf
/e/OS is currently 7 months behind security updates for the browser/webview for the second time in a row and has a PDF viewer not updated since 2016 yet considers itself the "state of the art" in security. See my full list of issues with it here: https://divestos.org/misc/e.txt
I would really like to see some research around PEX piping. How does it handle hot water? Does it release microplastics as well?
I think they lost their way when they made the foray into operating multiple TV channels. Suddenly, they went from slow, deep, content to having to have lots of content quickly all the time. I'd still be a subscriber, but the quality dropped significantly in the 00's.
Or about a full day of profit with an operating margin about 50%.
I believe the new material isn’t less food safe, it just trades some thermal shock resistance for impact resistance.
You aren’t wrong, but it means you have to do your own research and generally only have access to public information. A realtor who knows their market has done that research for you (saving you time) and generally has information beyond what you can get off Zillow et al.
"However, spacetime is incredibly stiff, and I think all the known real-world sources produce pretty smooth waves."

In English, why does stiffness correlate to smooth waves? What does stiff spacetime mean? I'd have thought a square wave would be "stiff" as it's quite the opposite of smooth.
Meanwhile, Librarything continues quietly being awesome, with deep tools for cataloging and a genuinely quirky vibe that feels like it's from a better era of the web.
For when you have money but no taste. Or modesty perhaps
Not a list but a search engine among such websites: https://wiby.me
> So Russian media is now reliable when what they say fits your own purpose?

When Putin is telling us Putin wants to capture all of Ukraine.

I would say they are reliable yes.

Just like when Russian media says they should destroy more dams in Ukraine I believe them.

No amount of evidence would satisfy you, you literally have a primary source (the government) telling you their intentions and you are trying to reject it.
But you don't just track books you've read, you also track books you want to read, which is much harder to remember.

I also tag them to indicate if I already own them and in what format (physical, epub, audio).

Saves me from purchasing duplicates when I'm at the used book store.
Stuff of varying quality lands here and sometimes more than once but does not take off. I have a soft spot for show HN stuff mostly because it reminds me how little I do outside of my work.

I think I give people here a lot more of the benefit of doubt than most other places.
McMansion is more than square footage, they are also a hodgepodge of impractical design features. Counterstops made of a material that stains, so many glass fixtures that keeping them dusted is somebody's entire job, weird roof shapes with so many seams that water ingress is a certainty, seemingly zero optimization for the sun since the owner can surely afford to brute force their hvac, etc.

American Farmhouse and Ranch House will never be out of style and are wonderfully practical to own and maintain.
"Limes Against Humanity." ;)
More context about this WikiPedia excerpt:

→ https://www.chinafile.com/extensive-surveillance-china

→ https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/student-01272020075256.ht...

It looks like 周月明 (Vera Yueming Zhou) was sent to a Chinese concentration camp mostly because she was part of a religious minority and not necessarily for using a VPN to access the University of Washington’s website.

> Vera was living in her hometown of Kuytun (Kuitun) in Ili Prefecture, an area directly north of the Tian Shan mountains that borders Kazakhstan. She had been trapped there since 2017, when—in the middle of her junior year at the University of Washington, where I was an instructor—she had taken a spur-of-the-moment trip back home to see her boyfriend, a former elementary school classmate. Using digital surveillance tools, the Kuytun police had noticed that Vera had used a Virtual Private Network in order to access websites such as her university Gmail account. Given her status as a member of a Muslim minority group, this could be deemed a “sign of religious extremism.”