skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One huge distraction-enabler is the fingerprint sensor. It makes things too easy for me - I put my hand in my pocket, put my finger on the sensor, and by the time it's in front of my face I can be mindlessly browsing reddit.

So I would add the following tip: disable the fingerprint sensor if you have one (also face recognition, etc), and replace it with an inconveniently long password. This way you really need to think about whether it's worth the time to open your phone.
I really wish there was a little more effort put into this "article", the 970 PRO and EVO spec tables aren't very useful. They would be a lot more helpful if they included the 960 versions for direct comparison or even if they were side by side so the EVO and PRO could be directly compared.
that is absurd. I got around it by blocking the overlay in uBlock.
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But if you borrowed against your house you are liable for the debt. With most startups failing you are going to be on the hook.
So the risk is losing your house vs making $1M more on $20M that only has a 1% chance of succeeding.
I watched at first thinking DIY? and then saw all of the custom equipment involved - Not for me.

It does make me reconsider the value of several boxes of older vacuum tubes I have upstairs in storage, thanks to my father-in-law - I would probably best be served by going through first them before discarding...
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We are also now coming to understand the extent to which text-based forums prevent participants from witnessing the human reactions to their communications, both positive and negative.

Nearly everyone is worse online than in person.
> As somebody who had an always on internet connected PDA back it times when most PDAs were black and white, I can say it will eventually pass.

I don't think the software and cultural environment was that same for those devices as it is for smartphones now. An old internet-connected PDA chiefly had utility apps like this guide advocates. There was nothing from giant companies whose business is to capture and sell your attention, no attention slot machines, no games built to drive in-app purchases. Things now are qualitatively different, even though the hardware might be in some ways comparable.
I set my Android device to grayscale for a while. I liked it but for the video player and one photo app I would like to have colors.

Does anyone know how to do this? I have tried to do something with Tasker but couldn't figure it out.
No they didn't, they upheld it
I really like the Lite Phone idea; browsers and the vast majority of apps are distractions. But an integrated camera is not a distraction; it's a tremendously convenient feature!
They do, but it caters to commercial customers that would otherwise have to deal with the package volume generated by Amazon.

This wouldn't work for an individual that just wants a secure private box at their home for Amazon to deliver packages.
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
Is that page supposed to impress me with superior typesetting? I'm no expert, I can admit that. But I find that page much less easy to read than a typical Google site, or Twitter, or Wikipedia.

For example, on the landing page the navigation links are on the bottom right, which requires a large eye/mouse movement from the "origin" (top left) where the title is.
I don't agree with this line of thinking. Helping the user at hand means you help at least one person, and probably others which might have the same problem. This is the purpose of the site! The OP is supposed to select one of the answers as "accepted", if the answer solved their problem.

You suggest answering "the wrong question" would help more users in the future. I don't see why that would be likely.

N could be less than 1
While %s/drug/phone/g makes for an easy rhetorical trick, it also destroys a lot of essential context. It's also a bit on the offensive side if you or someone you know has dealt with actual drug addiction; as in, it cheapens it.

Picking some offenders from their list..

* You keep using your phone after it’s no longer needed to solve a problem. (Because nobody uses smartphones for fun?)

* You feel strange when you don’t have your phone. (I also feel strange when I don't have my watch, lighter, and multitool on me. This applies to all every day carry items.)

* You’ve begun having trouble doing normal daily things without your phone. (Normal daily things include responding to alerts, taking phone calls, and sending messages. I could not do my job without a smartphone, let alone a great deal of plain old human socializing. Further, IMs and SMSes are more respectful of my friends' time than phone calls which demand everybody drops what they're doing)

* You borrow money to pay for your phone. (Given the industry move to carrier financing rather than contract lock-in, I think most people now borrow money to pay for their phone)

* You drive or do other dangerous things (like use heavy machines) while you are on your phone. (People yammering on their phones in traffic has a lot more to do with a poor understanding of attention than it does this increasingly tenuous drug analogy. Besides, phone use while driving was a safety issue long before smartphones proliferated.)

* You hide some phone use or the effect it is having on you from others. (Only when the specter of Ludditism creeps through and I'd rather not be moralized to about my use of technology.)

----

Let's not even talk about the bare equation of all games to addiction (seriously?).

If you feel you're addicted to your smartphone, by all means, do whatever works for you, but if you intend on presenting that to the world, please keep the crappy logic to a minimum.
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Is it actually possible for any system to have 100% uptime? Or do they just use that as a marketing gimmick and give out credit whenever there is downtime.
Was that really necessary?
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Whatever it is that gives the customer an impression of value received is most important.
When the people complain about the European union taking too much autonomy, this seems like a pretty good example.

It seems crazy to me that Ireland is "not allowed" to set taxes as low as it would like to attract foreign investment. Even states in the US can freely do that!
Just realized that Cloudflare also provides IP Geolocation, even for free plan.[1] However it only provides ISO country code of the visitors.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168236-W...
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I disagree. Caring for "your" people is very much part of human nature. Where you draw the line can change (examples are blood, race, hometown, city, region, nation, continent, family etc), but "us vs them" it is an overwhelmingly common pattern.
Are you also creeped out by your cellphone?
Several previous threads on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=light%20phone&sort=byPopularit...
Extensively, if now your phone is only filled w/ tools and you are more prone to roaming around the internet through a browser, you may restrict and hide the Safari application on iPhone: Settings > General > Restrictions.
Also good: Practical Typography (https://practicaltypography.com/) by Matthew Butterick
Brings in a whole can of worms: how do you measure engagement? Is it gameable? What happens if someone games the system and gets by far the largest weight in the system?
You saved my day!!! Tired of 60kb+ moment.js, especially in mobile site.
Also, for any apps that have group chats, I like to disable notifications for them. If someone really needs to contact me, they can send a direct message, or @ me, otherwise I will only check the group chat when I have the time or patience to do so. Or maybe I'm just getting old and stressed.
I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago, but with one "A" -- I guess Apple doesn't always count, maybe due to the much lower PE ratio?

Funny, it seems to have been coined in the US but I think I have seen it more in UK news sites.
I thought it was pretty typical for a dissent or concurring opinion to omit background facts since it's expected that they will be covered in the opinion of the court. IANAL though.
Reads like a newspaper editorial? Maybe the first paragraph but he quickly goes into the relevant case law and Constitutional support.

I've read enough Supreme Court opinions to see that his is a very different style but I'm not sure that that's a bad thing. It is remarkably clear, gets to the core constitutional issue, and sticks to principles. (In a footnote, he even chides the concurring opinion for its utilitarianism.)

I'm quite impressed.
I think parent meant that a SIM phone can just be used by any carrier, regardless of support for it... I wouldn't need an "iPhone carrier", just "whatever any-phone carrier" for my iPhone... Some features like vvm would not work, but f it.

An eSIM might need that now I can only pick carriers with explicit support for my particular phone.
Personally, I find my smartphone addiction gets worse when I turn off all notifications. Because then FOMO takes over and I spend tons of time digging into apps to make sure I didn't "miss anything". For me, it works much better to intentionally choose the notifications I get to be the things I really want to be interrupted by. I wish there were an AI or human secretary who could make those judgements on a per-notification basis with my best interests in mind, but that doesn't seem to be a realistic option at my income level.

Another thing I do to limit my phone's dopamine rush is to delete all of the social media apps from my phone and only access them via a browser. mbasic.facebook.com is significantly less addictive that the app, while still being useful. Sometimes when I really need a break, I'll create a block list in the "Restrictions" settings on my iPhone and block Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and HN completely. I wish that there was a way for someone else to be able to remotely manage those restrictions for me, so I could uninstall all of the time-suck apps from my phone and only re-install them by getting permission from a friend who could help me honor my intentions.
> "We asked"

Not "just" asked for by Apple, but fairly close.

The relevant bit: 'we renumbered the entire company from "picked out of the air" IP Addresses to net 17, assigned to us upon request by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) (R.I.P., Jon Postel).'

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-reasons-Apple-employees-...
...extortion, sociopaths, bad senior hires, funding gone weird, and sheer embezzlement/misspending.

I've been contracting at a startup for a year, and seen all this happen during my tenure. We've managed to strip most of the deadwood now, but I'm unsure whether it was done in time. It'll be a pity if the company folds, because they have some quite cool tech.

Everytime I see something like this, I'm glad I chose the life of a contractor.
I've talked to a couple of editors and the 2. is the correct answer. It is really annoying when the article is about something that happens in the web, like a web site, and they don't link it.

I believe they think their value is to "explain" things to the mindless reader, but it also perverse that they use it to impose their point of view.
real benchmarks are here:
https://hothardware.com/reviews/samsung-ssd-970-evo-and-pro-...
A subnet is simply a range of addresses assigned for a particular layer 2 network. Not having a subnet is equivalent to not having addresses ... that does not really make sense.
Guarantee someone is gonna nit-pick and find a fault somewhere on that website that "violates" the style they're talking about.
That's sort of what Java-supporting feature phones are meant to do, but I don't think there are many apps available and supported (WhatsApp probably still is). I got by with Opera Mini on a feature phone for years, it was painful to use but still handy.
wow, 1000 star in one day, Github trending #1. Really cool js library
Does anyone with an Apple watch (or other smartwatch) feel it helps them leave their smartphone behind and/or reduce their smartphone usage?
I frequent Super User, another Stack Exchange site. The problem with "unfriendly" or "uncomfortably direct" responses does exist. It cannot be helped though: They're mostly from non-native speakers. They simply don't know better.

Once you realize that, you'll feel offended or put off less frequently.
A cell phone is one of the highest utility-per-unit-cost items in existence.

They are so useful that a person could conceivably choose to keep a cell phone and phone service in preference to a permanent housing arrangement. You can sleep in a lot of different places, if you can respond to your e-mail, or pick up the call extending the job offer, wherever you happen to be.
> With Rust I've been on the other side of that exchange, too. That is really the only region of Stack Overflow where I've seen the pedantry and unhelpfulness that others complain about---mostly from one person actually. And I wonder how many people have given up on Rust because of bad experiences there.

You're not wrong! I almost gave up on learning Rust when I saw all the belittling answers on Stack Overflow. It particularly seemed common to see SO pages of the form:

- Q: How do I do [thing X that Rust doesn't do well yet] in Rust?

- A: You're doing it wrong! Write better code! You're only trying to do X because you're sloppy.

And then thing X would actually become possible in Rust, because the language keeps getting better, but the SO page would remain, implying that only bad programmers do this thing that works in Rust and that you want to do.

Fortunately, I've realized that this guy on SO doesn't represent the Rust community. The community on Reddit is pretty good, and on the Gitter, there are people who are happy to answer even simple questions that have been asked before.
Is it a criminal offense though? How can it be disproven that you haven't been sleeping as well as you normally do, or that you've been having anxiety because an externally loaded PNG served a cookie that wasn't disclosed (because the website operator didn't know about it)? They'd have to disprove that to jail you for making a false claim.
Yeah, that’s lower than the Lizardman’s Constant*

* http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-...
I've had a year of productive work thrown away by a clueless and arrogant founder that didn't understand the product he was trying to build and the market and was blaming everyone but himself. So you can have the crazy overtime and the bad management that waste it all.

It's not really a question of big and small. Most companies are badly managed (or I am very unlucky). I found in big companies they at least know that making basic efforts to keep employees happy is profitable long-term.
That statistic in skewed because most of the murders happen in the favelas within drug gangs. City areas are ripe with petty crime but murder is perhaps as widely seen as London.

Plus... it's not infested with security cameras.
You are describing new Nokia 8110 4G (aka "the matrix phone" reincarnated)

* 25 days on standby, 8.5 hours LTE voice calls

* removable battery

* WiFi hotspot functionality

* 4G network connectivity

* KaiOS will have basic apps (Google maps, FB, Google assistant and reportetly WhatsApp in near future)

https://www.nokia.com/en_in/phones/nokia-8110-4g
That’s crazy — I’ve been out of this world for a log time, basically since graduating college. Back in the 90s, I had friends who spent multiples of that on AR-15 type rifles!

Personally, I’m not someone who will survive long in a combat situation, so I don’t spend much time thinking about guns.
If I understand you correctly. Nobody had run a 4 minute mile before Roger Bannister.

Now lots of people have so standards must have dropped.
It’s a great thing. Legal tradition creates stability and predictability. There aren’t too many people investing in companies in countries where legal precedent has a short shelf life. You won’t make investments if your investment is threatened by whims or interpretations of the fashions of the day.

However laws can be easily changed assuming you have a majority of representatives that agree they should be changed.

The genius of the American system is precisely because it can’t move fast and it doesn’t generally change at the whims of the latest political fad. If a bill is written, a president can sign it. If people think the law unconstitutional, they can sue and then the courts review. If a bill is passed and the president vetos it, the veto can be overridden. If the wrong laws are getting passed or ignored, don’t worry, an election is every two years for the House, 6 years for the Senate and 4 years for the President.

It’s a genius system because, unlike Communism, it accounts for human nature. It provides for a balance of power. However, I feel that the direct election of senators was a huge mistake as an amendment. The Senate was designed to represent the sovereign states and the House designed to represent the people in those states. By allowing for direct election, the Senate is no different than the House. Basically a House representative with a much bigger district — leaving the state governments with no actual representation. But, that’s another discussion!
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No operating-system specific bar on the top of the window is kind of nice for screen casting.
Facebook is making public the rules it uses to police content
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Like, extreme performance, or just parallelism? One example of parallelism: xargs -a urls.txt -n 5 -P 20 wget -nv --spider -T 10 -e robots=off. This will run up to 20 processes with 5 URLs each. It's not "efficient" but it's faster than nothing, and you get the whole feature set of Wget.

For more customizeable spidering, Scrapy allows you to customize a spider, and even deploy spider daemons to run in production (https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/deploy.html). For an out-of-the-box version, try Spidy (https://github.com/rivermont/spidy). For super serious spidering, try Heritrix (https://webarchive.jira.com/wiki/spaces/Heritrix/overview) or Nutch (https://nutch.apache.org/).

Here's an interesting read on crawling a quarter billion pages in 40 hours: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-bil... From my own experience crawling massive dynamic state-driven websites, even if you're trying to just grab a single page, you will eventually want the extra features.
For the curious, here's what dtruss is:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dtruss&sektion=1&m...

The dtruss	utility	traces system calls and	(optionally) userland stack
traces for	the specified programs.
In some contexts there may be valuable tests that take long enough to run they should be run out-of-band. That said, I don't see where the parent says they don't run the whole test suite.
What a cool way to learn. I've been doing this 20 years and it never occurred to me to just unravel some of the basic tools I use every day and see if it matches my expectations.
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The issue is that people have differing opinions as to what those essential apps should be... I'd imagine that it's hard to get consensus around what you need.

For what it's worth I've been trying to have a more "dumb phone" experience recently, but not by having an extremely small amount of apps. I simply removed all of the ones that are sources of distractions on a daily basis. The biggest culprit for me is Chrome. I'm realizing that I really don't have any need to have access to the entirety of the internet at all times. A couple dozen apps will give me what I actually need, and no distractions or aimlessly browsing [HN, Reddit, Facebook Instagram, etc.]
Julia is FOrtran-indexed, and thus anathema to my religion.
I think it's a valid point of discussion given the circumstances surrounding his nomination and subsequent appointment.
In some cars, you can yank the OnStar module without ill effects. If you're not a subscriber, it may be something to look into.

I did this on my father's 2008 GMC Sierra and we replaced it with a BlueStar[1] bluetooth adapter. It works flawlessly and mimics OnStar functionality down to muting the radio and stopping A/C fans for voice control. It's far nicer than most aftermarket Bluetooth mods.

[1] http://www.costartech.com/pb/products/bluestar.html
The problem with portable routers is that it requires a different plan and you always have the phone with you, so you're not in danger of forgetting it home.
> Can anyone explain why it is free to use if you link with dynamically, but not statically? (I've seen this point come up a few times in discussions about Qt here on HN.)

long story short: it's actually false, you can entirely ship your app linked statically with Qt under LGPL and still comply with the license. However, you have to ship your .o files: basically, what the LGPL requires is for people getting your app to be able to relink your app with their custom version of the LGPL libs (so Qt).
A website has an editorial perspective and voice of its own. Their biases are known and can be accounted for when you read them.

News aggregators are having editorial decisions made by the vagaries of some opaque voting algorithm and get gamed by motivated actors and bots. If manipulative bias is your concern, aggregators are way worse.
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> All feed readers are centralized, even one you run on your laptop.

Care to justify that statement?
Anybody know why 240.0.0.0/4 is not used? It currently blocked by many routers/firewalls but it was possible to start "unreserving" process long time ago and use this net by now.
As ride hailing booms in D.C. it's increasing vehicle trips
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I do. I have an Apple Watch with a SIM chip in it and I leave my phone at home all the time. I still get text messages and emails, so I know if something urgent is going on, but it is also a bit of a pain to reply, so I find, more often than not, I don't. It helps me to plan my responses to specific times during the day.
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Anything like this for AWS?
They're probably angling to cut delivery costs by delivering to people's cars while they're at work.

A parking lot is a much denser cluster of delivery points than a neighborhood of three family houses and packages get stolen from locked cars less than from doorsteps (well maybe not in SF).

Edit: I'm not disagreeing about the creepy factor. This could be abused fairly easily. I expect that it's a matter of time before they sell access to the data set (which will probably include a picture of the license plate and the package sitting inside the car) to some authoritarian state (I'm betting PA, MA or TX) who will then mail a citation for every equipment violation they see. Building your own data set to do this wouldn't be worth it and wouldn't pass public scrutiny but when you can just buy someone's data set it's easy.

There's plenty of other legally white but ethically gray when done at scale things you could do with a data set that will likely include a smartphone-res picture of the interior of somone's car.

On the other hand. This opens up an option for people who live in one state but work in another to exploit differing laws to their advantage (tax, shipping restrictions)
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