skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I will NEVER buy a samsung phone.

Then you're basically out of options for something remotely competitive to Apple in the Android world.

- HTC was great but they threw in the towel long time ago. Same with LG.

- Google makes some nice phones without bloatware but last few generation Pixels seem to constantly suffering from various SW bugs pushed by Google, have sub-par CPUs and GPUs, poor reception in challenging conditions from the Samsung modems compared to Quallcomm, and suffer high battery drain in comparison to Samsung S series with Qualcomm chips. No go for me.

- Sony also makes decent phones on the photography side, but are either overpriced or underpowered, and Sony has a poor track record for supporting their devices more than a few years. No go for me, if I spend big money on a phone I want it to be supported 5+ years at least.

- OnePlus used to be a brand I would trust in the past being very happy with the OP 3, bust I got burned with their OP 7T which saw very short SW update period and every update brough more and more bugs they would ignore. No go for me, avoid this brand today like the plague.

- The Chinese brands are great value HW wise but full of spyware, dark patterns, and offer very short SW update support, so that's a no go from the start.

- Nokia is just selling rebadged Chinese devices with various compromises. Same with Motorola and Blackberry. Nothing worthy of your Euros there.

- ASUS makes a small sized Zenfone which I like but costs more than Samsung's similarly sized and specked S23 while offering less years of SW updates. No go for me.

- Fairphone would be a good alternative on the repairability, ethical and environmental sides, but those phones are large/bulky as hell, while compromising on performance and photo quality compared to 'non-fair' competitors of the same price. No go for me sadly. Make a smaller phone please.

So, who else is left in the race? There seem to be literally no good Android manufacturers left that don't make large compromises or won't screw you in some way down the line eroding your trust post-purchase, as if they're all in a race to the bottom.

That's why so many Android users are fed up with this shit show and moved to paying the "Apple tax" over the years.
If I knew the answer to that question I'd probably have a very different job than the one I have. :)
Blogrolls could be either very freeform, or very topical, depending on the blog and the blog author, but they did the job--if you liked that blog, chances were pretty good you'd find something interesting in the blogroll.
Because land value taxation is one of the cornerstones of Georgism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Here's the full quote:

> "A warrant requirement would amount to a de facto ban, because query applications either would not meet the legal standard to win court approval; or because, when the standard could be met, it would be so only after the expenditure of scarce resources, the submission and review of a lengthy legal filing, and the passage of significant time — which, in the world of rapidly evolving threats, the government often does not have," Wray said.

That's even worse than the abbreviated statement.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ... you can't get fooled again.
When they do fuck up, what will save my life is the fact that I accounted for this ahead of time and left enough space/time to react to it and not die. Really, my original comment covers that.
> And totally insecure --- as in anyone can make a copy and share it.

Which is totally fine for the use case at hand and not a security issue at all, in this case. For other use cases, such as advertising, sharing would even be desired behaviour.

A possible security issue for the museum use case rather would be a malicious actor replacing the QR code with their own, thereby trying to have visitors download malware to their phones.
The cost of linearizable reads in distributed databases
Idk if that has to do with async working. People pull that kind of stuff in office too. "Hey I don't get this, can we schedule some time so we can /you just do this for me " then you sit at a conference table or at their desk for an hour lol
Couldn't you remove the first five words of your reply and still make a valid point?
Apple Discontinues the Last macOS Install DVDs
Great Moments in Unintended Consequences on YouTube [video]
Pop science evolution has focused on individual + gene-level selection, which are made out to be so efficient that there's no room for experiments.

I bet there's some species-level, distributed, scratch-pad-style R&D going on.

Maybe sexual selection is rigged to favor novelty, and incremental progress is cached somehow.
The article briefly mentions the definition, but not in detail. They're part of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) programs for affordable housing in big cities. SROs have fallen out of favor with no good alternative, but they've been a lifeline for friends of mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
No. A 20% swing is a 20% swing, no matter the current BTC/USD exchange rate.

If you hold 10% of your portfolio in Bitcoin and Bitcoin goes up 20%, your portfolio gained 2%. No matter what the BTC/USD exchange rate was before the 20% increase.

If you agree to pay 1 BTC for something and the BTC/USD exchange rate goes up by 20%, the price you pay in Dollar went up 20%. No matter what the BTC/USD exchange rate was before the 20% increase.
You don't call someone a nazi because you dislike them, you do it to circumvent having to address the merits of their argument. It's a brilliant tactical ploy: repurpose the atrocities of the holocaust (which thereby cheapens and lessens the event and its victims) to sling at your opponent.
This is a very long article with lots of helpful information about ADHD and memory: https://add.org/adhd-memory-loss/

The highlights of their suggestions are:

* Break down complex tasks into smaller bits.

* Avoid multitasking.

* Create your own reminders, like setting alarms and reminders. Leave Post-It notes on areas you frequently look at.

* Habit stacking. If you constantly forget chores, you can stack them on top of something you regularly do. For example, you may put a load of laundry in while brewing your usual cup of coffee.
People can't see it. I've had someone chastise my son for missing an appointment due to his calendar app not working while standing right in front of a wheelchair bound person, then proceed to a discussion of accommodations with the latter :|
Who remembers delicious?

That was a good social bookmarking site. I wonder if anything similar exists now?
One great way to learn Lisp is to write your own:

> The goal of the Make-A-Lisp project is to make it easy to write your own Lisp interpreter without sacrificing those many "Aha!" moments that come from ascending the McCarthy mountain. When you reach the peak of this particular mountain, you will have an interpreter for the mal Lisp language that is powerful enough to be self-hosting, meaning it will be able to run a mal interpreter written in mal itself.

~ https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md

https://github.com/kanaka/mal
Hanging it prior to gutting sounds gross...organs go bad much quicker I would think.
I built https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random and https://explore.marginalia.nu to try to capture the old stumbleupon vibe.

It's manually curated though so not the most scalable thing I've put together. Wish I had more time to expand on this, seems on the cusp of being pretty cool.
Inferring someone's demographic attributes by observing their behaviors isn't very new or specific to LLMs. Basic stats can do the job well enough, and ML classification models have been trained on this for a while. What's new here I guess is that LLMs already have such inference capability built in, even though they are very general-purpose?
This is a perfect example of an ad-hominem argument.
They want some of that sweet Apple tax. Er, I mean, marketing faff and charging extra for it. Just look at their website.

Some people will pay, just for the illusion.
You sound like a compassionate and thoughtful person! I think I have just had the misfortune of being exposed to a lot of people with less consideration.
I have no other LinkedIn account, so no.
With shifting from Google to AI all websites will have a discoverability crisis. If I ask an AI "Where to buy XYZ" - how as a website do I get in there?
There may be a little bit of birds of a feather flocking together on this one. Similarly my closest circle have all got a diagnosis of something or other. Most are in the IT field too.

For me personally I mostly attribute this to how the circle initially formed - a bunch of outcasts to varying degrees new to college glomping on to any familiar faces from highschool (despite not really interacting during high school)

Any additions since college were adopted into the group through a mutual "we're the weirdos in this world, aren't we?" initial bond.
The strongest incentive to develop land exists for land which has a high value owing to its location.

Land out in the countryside would not be hugely taxed under this system.
https://archive.ph/srYUH
The indirect effect of that is subsidising (richer) homeowners at the expense of (poorer) renters. I really don't think that's a good thing.
Can we all just agree though that coffee and sugar are dopamine not serotonin obviously? Like you don't get less depressed from drinking coffee.
Thank you, I didn't know!
I'd love to, but I'd need another 24 hours in a day to also process the data - I'm glad I can build on a work of others and use the friendly APIs :).
I would love a search engine that only catalogs pages without ads.
Sounds like a time timer. The ventromedial pfc is the culprit here. Time blindness.
> The point of the book is that religious fanatics can take over even in the USA

That's her point. My point are the gymnastics done to substitute Islam with Christianity. If her work was the exception, with lots of other made-into-Netflix-miniseries works warning of Sharia, I would share your opinion.

It gets even more skewed than Handmaid's Tale: The Woman King was perfectly fine depicting things that happened "far away", to "other people", "a long time ago". What the films was not fine with was accurately depicting the African kingdom of Dahomey as slavers, and the French as (belatedly) fighting against slavery. So the film simply reversed their roles [1].

For a more topical example, look at how the Apollo affair [2] made it into popular media: Israel stole plutonium from the US for their weapons program. It inspired the book Sum of All Fears, in which the plutonium was instead stolen by Palestinians. By the time it was made into a star-studded movie, the villains became Neo-Nazis.

There is always some artistic excuse to justify these politically useful alterations.

[1] https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/woman-king/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair
I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken
Something I used to do way back in the day was answer related questions on forums and have my website in my signature. It worked pretty well.
I think the best solution to that is to create an appointment in you calendar or a reminder in your todo-app with that ad hoc script in a comment.
I do love Google Maps more than any other product they have lol
Agreed. That seemed a non-sequitur to me, too.
ASUS?
i'm going to start calling the process of converting my prototype to beta "metamorphosis"
There's a few other openly religious institutes doing a Great Books curriculum in the style of St John's.
They key is that it is a tax on the value of the land not the size, so large plots of land would face a much smaller tax per acre compared to prime real estate in a city.

It is true that a LVT will have a larger percentage impact on the market value of undeveloped land who bought land for speculation without any investments in making the land more valuable. This will especially affect people who bought up lots of land speculating on the value going up. This includes people who bought up lots of land for farm/lumber/mining, but also people who buy up urban plots and keep them as a flat land parking lot while waiting for the value to go up.

Any change in taxes will have some winners and some losers. For example an increase in traditional property taxes hurts anyone who bought expensive houses. An sales tax/consumption taxes hurts anyone who saved up financial assets. An increase in income taxes hurts people who invested in education to increase their labor value.

The question is which is the least unfair way to tax to meet the needs of society. Most of those other taxes will actively discourage valuable investments that make society as a whole more prosperous. Property taxes discourage building. Wealth taxes discourage saving. Income taxes discourage earning and investment towards future earning. In contrast a tax on land value, doesn't cause there to be any less land. It does discourage speculation in future increases in land value, but that speculation is mostly zero sum (it might make the individual speculator richer, but doesn't increase the wealth of society as a whole).
If you're in the US, talk to your GP, family Dr or w/e. They can prescribe but they cannot diagnose. They'll refer you to someone. You probably want to be referred to a counselor rather than a psychologist.

You should _really_ consider therapy in addition to any medication. The meds will be amazing for a month and then useful for a year. After that you're going to have to make a decision about how you want to continue treatment. Keep bumping the dose and adjust to the side effects or 'typical therapy'. By then, that therapy is going to be much harder to apply to your life than it would have been in the first few months when you started the meds.
Sourced from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162133

>Self diagnoses (and diagnoses over the internet) are pretty harmful

Self-diagnoses can be legitimate or not - depends on the person doing them. They are often a necessity, in an environment where a professional diagnosis takes thousands of dollars or years in waiting (and is often done badly, by ill-informed professionals, like the many-decades prevailing myth that women/girls "can't be autistic", or that "ADD and autism can't coincide").

As (in this case) they are also based not on bloodwork or some physical indicators, but on a subjective assessment of a person's way of thinking, the person having the actual experience is often more qualified than the professional. Same to how you don't really need a doctor to tell you you're gay.

>One might even argue that the labeling aspect of a certain disorder (particularly a mental one) by a "professional" to not be particularly helpful too in addressing ones problems

One might argue that the false dichotomy between professionals and laymen, where the former is supposed to hold all the keys to knowledge and the latter to passively consult and follow the advice of the former, is a problem in itself.

And a little outdated in modern societies where the "laymen" are not some mud dwelling peasants who never went to school and only know farm work, but univercity-educated (even over-educated) in their own right, and libraries are not confined to the rich or the scholars, but every book ever written is a click away.

In any case, a self-diagnosis doesn't give you the required paperwork to get drugs, or to get benefits, or specific accomondations, or anything like that. So it's not like it hurts society by taking resources from "legitimate" diagnoses.

Last, but not least, pointing that X symptoms is "quite common to ADD/ADHD" is not self-diagnosis, it's not even diagnosing. It's a suggestion hinting to a possible condition. It could very well be used for seeking a professional diagnosis.

Or do you think people with ADD/ADHD just go to the doctor to get diagnosed out of the blue, and not because of some similar suspicion, spotting some unexplained symptoms or themselves, or identification with some symptoms they've read about?
Samsung consumer electronics are a real shame (TVs and phones come to mind). The hardware is generally pretty good. But the software is crap at best, abusive at worst.
Re non-distorionary: It distorts along a completely new axis - whether or not economic activity uses land.

It's unclear (at least to me) why Google, say, whose business activity is very non-land-intensive, should be in a favorable tax position compared to, say, farming. You say "because the farmers use more land!" And it's true; they do. But if you don't already believe that land should be the determinant of tax, that explanation doesn't give you any reason to start believing.

Re wealth inequality: No, this tax will make the wealthy hold less of their wealth in the form of land. They'll just hold it in some other form, and that other form will be taxed less or none. That might redistribute land more evenly across society, and that might be a net win, but it won't redistribute wealth very much.
CBRS in USA is a good example of a new band that allows new things to be done.

I'm rather jealous of the ease of it for standing up a proper private 5G network for experimentation and learning.

Unlike GSM almost none of the modern cellular standards can be configured to run without encryption, so hambands are out of the queation sadly.
Can't you install stock Android on one? I'm an iPhone user and too lazy to switch now (plus I like iPhones) but Android is the more open platform so I'm assuming it's possible.

Or is it just to avoid supporting them?
GithubNext: AI-Powered Auto-Fix Pull Requests for Issues
Having worked in consulting & travelled for 95% of the time, I would not wish living in a hotel on anyone. I think my friends thought my life was glamorous flying all the time & going to different places.

Nope.
StumbleUpon was free, your product is $2.99/mo.

What about that is more modern?
Progressive property taxation could also be a thing, start at effectively zero and move up from there.
Exactly. I came to the conclusion that for me it was an environment/discipline issue because (among other things) my severe-ADHD friends would try the same tactics with 0 effect. If I can manage attention issues with lifestyle changes alone, it’s probably not a brain chemistry problem.

I do think it’s a testament though to how brain-rotting the always-on socials/apps/notifications can be. They messed me up so bad I literally thought I had a medical condition! Yikes.
Well, puto in Spanish is the male form of puta, meaning hooker. There might still be an etymological connection with putto in Italian, but more likely via "putta" also meaning prostitute in Latin (putana in Italian).
https://cursor.sh has some recently added functionality for applying code changing to files throughout your code base. I have yet to try it because I am using their a la carte (bring your own keys) option.
Hmm, that does sound like a good idea!
Why is solar 3x more expensive in the US then, say, Australia? Because it is indeed regulated out of and into existence. Will the utility let you even connect solar to power your house, will the utility charge excessive fixed per-month fees for the privilege, how many hoops will your local municipality make you jump through for permitting, how many weeks or months of delay will there be, how many pointless and useless diagrams will they make you submit, how will a large installer every gain efficiency while dealing with every single city's pointless differences in . Or even, will you silly HOA allow panels, and if so, where and at what visibility?
Great guide to getting started. I wonder if one day WASM will replace Javascript in the browser.
They likely didn't metamorph at all - it would've started as "since you're just going to moving as fast as you can so you can find a mate, burning through fat stores faster is good...also thinking about it, you're not going to miss that mouth you're not using anymore either?"

There would've been some sort of weight/reproductive efficiency trade off going on (and it would've been heavily environment dependent).
I like when it's clear when a commenter has not the slightest idea what they are talking about.
Improving Software Metadata Classification with Generated Code-Comment Pairs
It's exactly because it's such easy humour I'm curious if there are any older expected uses... It seems pretty clear it gained prominence with the YouTube video someone has referenced, and it may indeed be the first, but we may never really know.
For clarity, does the lease term renew every time the home changes hands?
> I did find this wiki page on rent regulation in NY, it mentions something about rent control and living continuously in a place since a certain cutoff date:

That's rent control, not rent stabilization. There is no cutoff date for rent stabilization. Different units became stabilized for a variety of different reasons over the years.
I guess, you might be right on this. But we also check the smell. Normally there is nothing special with dishwasher we got new and are taking care of. Used washing machine on other hand has ugly smell again days after chlorine cleaning.
Meh, I walked rather assertively around NYC and never had any issues.
I think you missed my point. I'm mostly talking about the litany of people on social media that believe they have ADHD without brain scans or any formal diagnosis.

Almost everyone suffers from some lack of discipline and some mistake it for being neurodivergent. People with ADHD can also lack it. Your point of taking a holistic approach is correct and I wasn't trying to single out medication. People with ADHD don't get a free pass on building discipline. In fact, to your point they require more of it to overcome their struggles. Medication, mindfulness, exercise, diet, and structure all take a lot of effort and consistency. It requires you to be more disciplined.
Good god, all is well but can we please all stop posting this xkcd :p
Depends on where you are, but you can often get by, ignoring directives from management, if you are an active communicator and you’re completing assigned tasks.

It’s still better to state your problem. I like to use the “non-violent communication” as a template. Something like, “When we have the standup, I have a hard time refocusing on work afterwards. I’m concerned about the impact this has on my productivity. Can I send status updates via Slack?”

I’m not gonna pretend that this is a solution to your problem; I just want to sympathize and have a conversation about some of the strategies that we can use to fix problems with management that interfere with technical work.
We specifically had to sell the third generation farm due to 10x increase in taxes one year.

We were under utilizing it and now its a hospital among other things.
They're just as pricy as Samsung's flagships, or even more, while offering fewer years of SW updates. Also no go.
I imagine it's a high risk high reward strategy.

You cannot get outsized returns from following the orthodox strategy everyone else is following.

But being unorthodox also risks ostracism from main stream society and all the consequences that entails.
A new 99 year lease is probably about the same value as buying the land.

Does a new tenant always get a new 99 year lease, or is it the remainder of the previous lease? I would not consider a lease expiring next year, for example, to be of equivalent value.
Do you have a customer focus? Are you trying to unblock people as fast as possible to solve their legitimate business need?
Or are you using these as excuses to effectively say no to anything anyone proposes?

If yes to the first, you’re a unicorn in an ocean of IT departments that do nothing but block.
> UNIX time, GPS time, and TAI are a fixed offset from one another.

Wrong again. UNIX time definitely is not fixed offset from GPS time. Here is handy dandy conversion tool between the two: https://bag-of-tools.com/gps-time-converter/

1700000000 UNIX = 1384035218 GPS

700000000 UNIX = 384035207 GPS