skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they just haven't affected you.

Not OP but it's extremely pretentious to assume that.

More generally, assuming that "people against changes (that you personally think are positive towards minorities)" are not part of said minorities tends to be as incorrect as assuming that the people in favor of those changes are part of them.

Furthermore, just because the term "minority" implies that there is a minority of people in that group, there are many minorities which together form far larger groups. So "encountering a minority" isn't uncommon. And I've seen on multiple occasions horribly-arrogant people addressing some of my white male friends, claiming they're oblivious to "the plight of minorities", all because said friends didn't come forward to explain they're gay.

So all that to say, don't assume the person you're replying to hasn't been affected by those things. Even if you're correct, it's not a correct nor even safe thing to assume.

> Making other people feel as welcome in software as you've already been by default.

If you're only superficially aware of the issues involved, it's easy to think that superficial changes will suddenly improve things. It's also all too easy to ignore the fallout of those changes.

Reminds me of PETA's philosophy towards animals: If they can't be free, then they're better off dead. Ignoring that PETA:

1. Isn't objectively correct / morally right

2. Harms the greater cause with their methods (by harming public perception)

In general, not being tactful is a terrible idea. Forcing changes through is a terrible idea. Bullying people is a terrible idea. And if you think these tactics are worth it to "make people feel more welcome", I don't know you.
Well, I find it hard to compare those two. I mean, yes, if DRM works I have no issues with it either, but sadly it causes a lot of issues where none should be (e.g. Hardware DVD Players not being able to play certain DVDs, Spotify Web player having issues because it doesn't overcome its own protection, not being allowed to view 'your content' on your favorite device, not being able to save 'your music' to your old mp3 player) and one of the biggest issues is that you aren't allowed to do anything against it.

Tracking is a completely different beast. They take what they can get, but you can fight back. My biggest concern is that they (Google,Facebook) gain so much influence that they can change the political opinions via Ads. So yes, tracking and advertising can be a lot more harmful, but at least you can kinda opt-out (e.g. use curl to browser the internet ;-).
You’re not alone! I think I may replace my aging SE with a new SE.

Edit: I was wondering if an Apple Watch / iPod Touch combo could be an option but it seems they don’t play well together.
Been using Inbox for the last 4 years, sad to see it go. The bundle structure, and snoozing are both features I use religiously.

Thanks to the Inbox team for delivering a great product!
Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state
It is, just not from the Apple store.

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
"Available at authorized resellers"
Apple are already pretty good in this regard - their devices are expensive but made to last, and they directly support them for 4 or 5 years. The upcoming iOS release is supposed to be focused on getting better performance on old devices as well.
Even if they do it probably does not matter much. They are able to convince most of their customers to buy new every 1-2 years so marketing will simply state: "Well we did what we could but people want the newest shit, not our fault".
"Lease" or "License" would be less deceptive terms. The FTC should prohibit "Purchase" and "Buy".
The whole value proposition is unlike anything else. Why not use a new word. The market freely adopts new words, like freemium, hire-purchase, in-app-purchase etc.
The Watch is an accessory to the phone...
I don't mean to be too sarcastic here but what's the point? Google will just shut that down in a few weeks too.
Ask HN: Do you keep a copy of your source code when you quit your job?
Maybe it sounds unethical but once you leave your job for another one, do you keep a copy of the code you were working on?
Apple is probably accused most of doing this through software. I would be surprised to see Apple keep old devices fast and secure.
Who remembers Cappuccino and Objective-J?

I'm sad it didn't get much traction. At the time, it seemed Apple was trying similar things with SproutCore

http://www.cappuccino-project.org

http://www.cappuccino-project.org/learn/objective-j.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SproutCore
Come on. It's one of the essential, fundamental apps/services for many people with all the strong feelings attached to that. For a Googler to show up and start publicly calling users' reactions 'kneejerk' (completely independent of the accuracy of the claim) and then go on to philosophizing broadly on the nature of change amounts to trolling.
> the exact thing it was supposed to be better at.

The entire system of corporate governance is designed to be honest in emissions tests? There are many goals in corporate governance, with integrity (if that's what the parent is referring to) being only one of them, and one failure at one company on one item (emissions testing) under one of the goals tells us nothing about the system's effectiveness.

The standard isn't perfection, of course, but performance relative to alternatives. Germany is known to be relatively corruption-free with excellent corporate governance. But are there better systems you can suggest? Ways to improve it?
At the risk of sounding like a freshman libertarian.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...
I pay for Netflix but I "record" whatever content that I really like because I know that there is a good chance that it will become unavailable in the future: https://reelgood.com/blog/netflixs-us-catalog-has-shrunk-by-...
Apple wouldn't leave money on the table in an effort to save face. It came out in the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuits that they were caught flat footed.

From a technical standpoint, they could have released larger phones before they did. What stopped them is that UIKit and iOS apps were not designed to handle multiple screen sizes or any screen except for the 4 inch iPhone and the 9.7" iPad until iOS 7 and support improved in IOS 8.
A few months ago, I realized how important reminders had become to me. Knowing that Inbox might disappear someday, I switched to Todoist and began adding all new reminders (tasks) there. Apart from the lack of integration with Inbox (which is now a moot point), it is a straight upgrade.

* You can still sync reminders to your Google Calendar (tasks appear as events on the date they are due). Edits made in the calendar will be synced back to Todoist.

* Tasks can be assigned sub-tasks

* Tasks can be organized into projects

* You can create complex filters

Of course, if you want to keep things simple, that's an option too and for the most part, I've avoided the fancy features.
Or, as I said in a different comment, use new vocabulary.
you can't copy it and sell it on.

But you can share with others. You can even sell the book.

It is very convenient to have hundreds or even thousands of books in a tiny device, especially for someone who has very little space to keep physical books (and those who move a lot). While nothing can replace physical books, ebook readers are a fairly good compromise. Plus, it is possible to reduce the cost of books (and less dead trees). But we can't share, unless we share the ebook reader device itself :(

As with most things, humans will put commerce first, and I don't see this situation changing anytime soon. Amazon has won the ebook reader race and they are likely going to stay there for a while.
Well, radio stations don't earn a lot either, but still have to pay licence fees for the music they play. Perhaps some sort of flat fee paid based on some statistics how much content has been shared from which source would make sense. It will not be a huge money, but it's still better than no money at all. Aggregators/ search engines need the content produced at the volume, otherwise they'll be out of business too at some point, so it can be mutually benefitial.
Why would gas pumps not be gradually replaced with charging points?
I don't care if my device is 5 years old, they've often been. As long as they're not too slow to use.
Dealing with promo emails is one thing I'll miss the most, especially pinning the 1 or 2 you might want to keep and then sweeping the rest with 1 click. On desktop gmail you can reproduce this functionality by starring messages you want to keep and then bulk selecting using the "unstarred" option.

The ios gmail app does not have any good answer to this, though. You have to select each email one by one and then delete/archive.
OK, how do I get Inbox's "sweep" action in Gmail?

What "sweep" did is just in one click get rid of _everything_ that you haven't pinned. It was a massive productivity boost for someone for whom dealing with email was mostly a waste of time (my company doesn't really use email much, so my inbox mostly contained notifications from other apps).
Comments like this are extremely naive given the fact that Google/Facebook cannot do anything at whim without Board/Investors backlash. Stock price would crash, future projections would collapse and it would create a havoc for bailing out of a major market. It happens, but rarely (Google China exit).
"selling out" doesn't mean anything without an actual quantity number. It doesn't even mean apple underestimated demand, because they could have intentionally understocked to get the "iPhone SE sells out in minutes" headlines.

The best clue that the small phone market is actually a small market is to look to android: the smaller phones don't sell particularly well, especially in the premium tiers. The only company really making a go at the small phones is sony, and they're basically failing.
How so? It has sufficiently high PPI, you won't be able to see individual pixels. Going higher is pointless.
Apple Says Buying an iPhone XS Is Bad for the Planet
Massive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971516
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971516
As a European I can't help but wonder if other proposed reforms, such as Article 11 and Article 13, will do more good to the end user than not, just like what happened with GDPR.

I've seen so many enraged comments related to the new copyright laws, that my instinct says it will be a good thing.
Could someone enlight me on the EU prices ? US has the 5.8 Xs 64go model listed for $999. Eu price for the same model (french store) is 1159€ ... According to xe.com, current USD/EUR rate is 0.8599, so $999 => 859€. It seems to me that they've applied the inverse rate : 1159*0.8599 = 996. What am I missing there ?
can anyone do a brain dump on the ML part of the chip?
> They're certainly still obscenely rich, but the power they had over geopolitics via OPEC is effectively gone at this point due to tar sands, renewables, and natural gas.

You missed the other significant factor in reducing OPEC political power, horizontal drilling, IE fracking. Almost all the new oil and natural gas in the US is coming from horizontally drilled wells.
I used Brave for a while, and still like it, but ultimately this bug[0] prompted me to move back to mobile Chrome, unfortunately. Hope they fix it soon!

[0] https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/issues/459
There was an interesting article The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/the-next-financia...

arguing:

>...fracking could not have taken off so dramatically were it not for record low interest rates after the 2008 financial crisis. In other words, the Federal Reserve is responsible for the fracking boom.

>Frackers haven’t proven that they can make money. “The industry has a very bad history of money going into it and never coming out,”

and that it may not be sustainable.
Breton and Basque are not Romance languages.

Occitan and Catalan are more similar to each other than Catalan to Castillian or Occitan to French.
I already couldn't do that on a 6 without a grip change from my regular hold.
Hard agree here. Better to make "git my-stash working-on-foo" alias which makes a separate branch. Stashes have become an anti-pattern for me after having too many fail to reapply or drift out of date.
Emails relating to a trip would get categorized into it automatically. You still had to pay attention. If an email wasn't detected as part of a trip, you dragged it over to the trip and then it was associated correctly.

Maybe it felt mundane to you but I found it extremely handy when landing in a new place, trying to rent a car, and get to my hotel. Just referencing the same little spot in the app was super helpful.
Is there any good todo manager with reminders and saved link with a snooze function like Inbox? or is there any way to see those in Gmail?
>>...And tank their own profits? Cheap oil is good for literally everyone but the Saudis, that's the entire reason they've cut supplies since the glut of 2014-15.

Like you yourself said, Saudis are obscenely rich. They can tolerate losses in profits. In contrast, fracking companies in the US can't, at least not without massive government subsidies.
Does technology really enhance our decision-making ability?
In all of the positions I have been in this is considered Corporate Theft. The code I was paid to write is fully owned by my employers.

I have heard of some less restrictive contracts, but I have never seen one myself that grants me the right to take the source code with me, even if it is only the code I wrote.

This answer explains it very well: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1541...
Whether your reasons are ideological or economical, I support your work and project. I have µblock, privacy badger and container on firefox, but Shield enabled on Brave and I opt-ed in for Brave payments and Brave ads.
There is a thumb extension sold in Japan for such iphones.
Clearly, they haven't gotten the message.
That's not how GDPR is enforced. A relatively minor, harmless infraction will get at most a letter from the regulator asking for it to be fixed. More likely is that fuck all will happen, which is what currently happens in the UK.
And a _lot_ larger. 'Reachability' is pretty much required for one-handed use, so it makes using the phone more annoying.
I saw this coming when it took Google months to update the Inbox app for the iPhoneX. The regular gmail app was updated almost instantly. I started weaning myself off of Inbox then, even though it finally was updated.
Yet, sadly, accidental sarcasm occurs alarmingly often... :-)

In all honesty, feel free to use something like Tripit — see my response to the parent.
As a medical student I sat through assessments of liver failure patients to assess their suitability for transport. There were some particularly heartbreaking moments there, such as when a patients wife seperately said to us that she didn’t believe he was suitable because he would just waste it.

Another horrible example was a patient with fulminant liver failure secondary to Hep C. Most people in Australia contract Hep C through IV Drugs or sexual activity, but during the 80s people contracted it through contaminated blood. This patient had been at the top of the transplant list 3 times but because he developed spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis each time he was ineligible and dropped back to the bottom. I believe he died not long after I took his history.
I’m so pleased we have free treatment for Hep C patients in Australia now.

Organ donation is a heartbreaking issue and the sample conversations of the God Committee allocating access to the first dialysis treatment is revealing (even though they’re discussing access to treatment and not transplant)

For those wondering, as I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, dialysis treatment costs approx $20-30k AUD a year (at least in Australia).
Average survival is 10 years from initiation of treatment.

A kidney transplant costs $30-40k.
In Australia there are access schemes whereby patients who may not otherwise qualify (ie obesity) have been given gastric sleeve procedures by the healthcare system in order to be eligible for a transplant, on the economic basis that $200k in dialysis is more than the $50k of an elective surgery and then transplant. Usually in these situations the donor is a family member.

The use of matching algorithms as described in this article is so valuable in terms of lives saved, but ultimately no substitute for what we need: the ability to grow new organs.
I looked for an explanation of "exclusionary zoning" in the article, but I guess it just means "zoning."

It's always great when an administration can repurpose unimplemented legislation designed to reduce segregation, and use it to enrich property speculators.
We do this by using local machine-learning to understand the user better, and making local decisions as to which ads should or should not be shown

I pitched almost this same idea to Netscape in 1997. I managed to get a physical meeting with a fairly high level person, but was essentially laughed out the door. It’s interesting that you have a pool of users that have embraced this idea. Netscape - at the time the world’s dominant browser company - thought users would see this as too invasive. The quote I remember was “we just went through a shit storm over the rising use of cookies...this would be that x10”.
I don't understand your logic. A crash is still a crash. Consider all the people didn't buy 1.5 years ago, and bought recently. They have lost money. And judging by historical volume, a lot of people are losing money.
This will probably be my next phone. I have a Pixel v1 right now and unless the Pixel 3 impresses me a lot I will be moving over to a Sony Compact. All the features I want (including a headphone jack and large battery) in something that isn't a mini tablet.
IIRC some article claimed OpenSUSE would now use clang with lto. That must have been about a month or two ago.
Through, that one is more advanced and about how to be skilled manipulator and sleezy.
Note that this is not about Apple taking content back. It's about Apple not allowing content to be re-downloaded after it has been deleted locally, if it has been pulled from the iTunes Store in the meantime. We're an all-iTunes household, as are my parents and in-laws, and the fact that iTunes "purchases" are subject to this condition has never elicited a comment from anyone I know.
Very disappointing. I feel like this is retrograde -- my impression is that Gmail is a very advanced tool for people who care (by choice or professional obligation) about their email, whereas Inbox was a huge leap forwards for people who just want to avoid wasting time on email. And I kind of thought the latter was more forward-looking.
Well, you're talking about product strategy in context of google..
If we are talking strictly about the economic measures going into a business decision, using (cheap QE) debt to finance capital expenditures was a good idea. The profit being made off of the capex justifies it well. It is not unsustainable in the sense of a business decision.
Most people are going to charge at home (garage, parking lot, street charging point) or at work (garage, parking lot, street charging point.) That's not where gas stations are.
> stuck with huge deposits nobody wants in 30 years.

isn't them running out of reserves a much bigger risk for them than them running out of customers?
no, because that's theft; would anyone hire you if they knew you had a history of stealing IP?
Houses are generally built for/by the richer class. Then in a few tens of years the rich build a new house and sell the old one to someone poor.
will work; it’s in-progress, but not ready for the big times yet, as far as I know https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/49879
Anyone interested in starting a modern webring?

I've wanted to move my blog content off Medium, but then no one would ever see it.
10 cm are already a problem? did I miss some news / tides?
Sorry, not even close. Categories is just automatic folders, every email client has had folders for decades.
https://github.com/titan-lang
It occurs to me today how sad it is that we only have two viable mobile ecosystems these days. I have an iPhone SE, which Apple has opted not to update. That's their decision to make, I suppose, but no-one else can make iOS devices and I really don't want to switch to Android (it isn't ignorance, I've used it since the Nexus One, I've just grown to dislike it for privacy and UI performance reasons over time, and it doesn't have great hardware in the size I want either)... and there aren't really any other choices.

Sigh. It's enough to make me nostalgic for Windows Phone.
Because if you are driving a PHV all-electric, you are probably charging at home, gas is a long-term range extender. Sure, as all-electric displace PHVs, that rane extender role shifts to charging points, but the big drop in demand for out-of-network fueling/charging comes from basic commuting being met by in-home charging.
So everybody seems to be getting a bit skiddish because of Elon's recent behavior. The question to me is, are these people departing because Tesla is a house of cards and Elon is shaking the table? Or are they leaving because they believe Elon threatens even a stable company what with the SEC investigation and everything?

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the after drinks conversations between finance people in TSLA.
I don't mean to throw out the same old "you can't get attached to Google products because they kill them at any time" thing, but holy shit, this one feels like a real kick in the balls. Email is one of my most important workflows and I've spent a great deal of time over the past few years attaching myself to the zero inbox mindset through the bundles feature and having my reminders as first class citizens in the inbox. Going back to Gmail without these features is a serious regression in my life.
Ha, you may need to read more about him. Jack has been doing hand-overs for a long period (longer than 5 years actually). The personality of him is more close to Larry Page rather than Elon Musk. He seems to like doing less ground-crunching management, focusing on long-term visionary things. And for the last few years he even not spoke often publicly for Alibaba and his social media account is full of NGO activities. Maybe it's just time for a new journey.

Also Jack IS the god in Alibaba forever, no one can really change that.
yea. I usually buy them a phone when they head to middle school because communicating with them becomes more important for pickups after school etc. Even the 7 seems a little too big for them, and they are definitely more breakable even with a case (aside from the mechanical button as you mention), more surface area I guess.

I'd love an SE sized super-budget iPhone (for kids).
If going higher is pointless, why does the iPhone XS has a PPI density of 458? They should have stayed at 326 in that case as well.
> What am I missing there ?

It's usually something like the worst exchange rate in the last x months plus VAT.
There's been some revisionist history out there, but Inbox was intended to be "the next version of Gmail" at the time, until a near revolt internally about how the Gmail team "ruined Gmail" led them to launch it as a "separate product" instead.

Now that there's a new new version of Gmail, which was rolled out a couple of months ago that hasn't upset everyone, it's unsurprising the unloved stepchild of the family is going away.

Old Gmail was version 1, Inbox was version 2, and the new Gmail is version 3.
> Cheap oil is good for literally everyone but the Saudis, that's the entire reason they've cut supplies since the glut of 2014-15.

Everyone but the Saudis, and the Iranians, and the Russians, and the Venezuelans.
A neural network to extract knowledgeable snippets and documents