skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correction: unlit OLED black IS perfect black. If I open a 000 black image in a dark room and hide the UI, I don’t see my iPhone 11 Pro anymore.

That’s the whole point of OLED: each pixel can be completely off. There’s zero difference between a black screen and an off screen (at least visually)
Please watch or rewatch The Godfather. It is a very good movie.
A writer is having a mid-life crisis?
What strikes me is an API for you brain. Such a crazy concept.

This company will hit US medical/insurance mafia a lot long term. If they succeed thats billions of dollars of regular income for clinics will go away to this company.
I made it two paragraphs before I remembered the preface of Google's code of conduct was stripped of the line "Don't be evil." It's now the last line, which to me reads as doing the ethical thing is an afterthought. The much more ambiguous "Do the right thing," is in Alphabet's corporate code.

We need the ethics of AI to be an offshoot of open source. It's tough to suggest that in an environment where enough people can pressure a group to adopt objectively unethical policies, but at the very least open source communities do not have the trigger of financial risk.

Google is going to need to make money from this "Ethics as a Service" eventually. And that is an obvious, all too obvious conflict of interest for what Google envisions.

Maybe they can do this. I'm not 100% objecting to the idea. But I'd like to suggest they start with YouTube. Ads on the platform have quadrupled since November 2019. Creators are playing a lottery with monetization every other upload, and they're making as little as 1-5% compared to YouTube's ad-share program 10 years ago. Start there.
I wonder if Cloudflare is still protecting ISIS sites from DDoSses and the like.
This actually might be a sign of improvement... I think increasingly we are putting restrictions on recycling so that we actually do recycle them.

Until recently, I think quite a bit of recycling is a sham. I've spent a bit of time as a hobby tracking down recycling (in my high school growing up, etc) and effectively none of it made it to actually being recycled.
I don't know what result they were referring to, but I've often heard it said that AI of current types so never be capable of the same types of cognition that we can do. That's not to say we can't create a different type of AI, but at the moment that's just science fiction and will need some major advances in technology.
Such rule bending didn't end well for Wirecard.
It's great to introduce change like this. But micro-routines - drills - can be life-savers. They stop me from locking myself out of the house, losing my lens cap, mis-starting my chain saw, etc.
“Monopolistic Stranglehold”?

Mr Kettle we have a collect call from a Mr Pot.

Facebook is the company that tries to disable copy and paste in their web app to stop you copying events to your native calendar or sharing them with anyone outside of their walled garden.

They actually spent time and effort breaking that, the petty bastards.
So you're getting at 'wealth<->narcissism' which I'm not sure is necessarily correlated. I don't know.

I was getting at 'nature vs. nurture' - and there is definitely a 'learned' aspect to narcissism etc..
Last time I had to wire a large amount of money I used paypal's verification trick - first sent a small amount of money and then phoned the person on the other side of the transaction and asked them to tell me how much money I'd sent them, and only once they'd confirmed that trusted the information to send the balance.
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You won't have to use hot air if you go with a phone with replaceable battery.

They are fewer these days, but they still exist:

https://www.productchart.com/smartphones/sets/3
I've looked at Rust a few times, and every time I installed the stable release, but as soon as I wanted to actually do something, I realise that the library or feature I wanted to use was not actually available in stable.

At least at the time (a year or so ago perhaps) it was not possible to actually use stable for regular development. Has this changed now?
Zebra is on there. Giraffe may be in there.
How does “truth seeker” help, say, with Teacher Unions supporting guillotines for Jeff Bezos?[0]

I think our epistemic agreements are gone, yes, but it feels like we’d be polarized today even with epistemic agreement.

It is true that Amazon has caused some bad things in the world, which has some factual basis, and we all might agree. But our ethics of eradication of obstacles to personal happiness has turned toxic.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/ctulocal1/status/1299101069163859...
You call out that they’re valuable learning tools and call them useless software.

I have a hard time accepting entirely cognitive items, even word processors are entirely cognitive objects, being seen as useless, full stop.

This smacks of a kind of cognitive functional fixedness. A thing without commonly accepted type of utility is valueless. Our minds must remain fixed on the concrete functionality.

Word processors are used to generate a lot of useless content too. Not every invention of high utility is limited to the cognitive use in that realm of utility.

Same with things commonly perceived to be of little utility.

In fact the willingness to spend money on them appears to be of immense utility.

The value of objects need not be left up to popular opinion.
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The history of the company town is not all negative. Many company model towns were truly built to provide a better quality of life for workers, albeit with some very paternalistic overtones and often a desire to make them better workers as well.

Interestingly, the modern US military base still often resembles a company town. While not perfect, my impression is that life isn't worse then off base.
Multistage and passive cooling process driven by salinity difference
Paradoxically, when I had all the time in the world I frittered it away on video games and the internet.

Now that I have multiple kids and my time is extremely constrained, I am very efficient with my time usage. I listen to audiobooks while doing the dishes. I plan in my mind exactly which programming tasks I want to accomplish as soon as the kids are in bed so that I can do them quickly and still have time to spend with my wife.
One really interesting aspect of empathy is that it seems to have evolved as a pain avoidance tool - you see someone else burn their hand, see them react by saying "Ouch!", and you feel a shadow of the pain they're in, and don't make the same mistake. When we feel too much empathy for people - e.g. someone we're close to is in pain - often people give advice that is selfish - you're in pain, and it's hurting me, so while I want to help, what I'm really doing is trying to minimize my own suffering by (often inadvertently) minimizing yours. Helping other people is hard, both because we often don't know what to do, and because even our best intentions can get distorted by our ape brains.

And to be clear, the advice in the comic is bad advice when it's given in those contexts. For good advice that's shaped kind of the same way, I'd suggest reading "Peace is Every Step" by Thich Naht Hanh - lmk and I can send you a copy (It's on libgen). Alternatively, reading the stoics (as someone else suggested in this thread) would be a good place to start.
ctrl-o/ctrl-i to move between buffers

list buffers w/ vim-buftabline

`nnoremap ; :Buffers<cr>`
Are there any tradeoffs with easily replaceable batteries? Maybe water resistance, thinness, compactness, etc?
Investors don't mind, users don't seem to care. Can we pinpoint why it is 'bad'? People are making money, signs that the product brings 'value' to society. I am young, how much of the world has Murdoch influenced? Has it all been bad? Sounds like a player that made it. Do we change the game in this case?
Get out there and write your ideas down. It's never too late to start. Edit. You have good ideas if you cultivate that skill of having ideas.

Someday you'll find an idea you like that hasn't been done before and you'll kill it.

At least that's what I tell myself :-)
Even without the real part I showed 44% is illegal activity, which is ore than 16%.
America already has a welfare state (of sorts), it's not like they're talking about abolishing private property in order get more people on to buses.
Yesterday Chadwick Bozeman, the actor who played Black Panther in the Marvel movies among other notable movies, died of colon cancer at age 43. He was diagnosed in 2016 and it progressed from stage 3 to stage 4 in that time. Obviously anecdata but perhaps his death will call some attention to this because of his relative youth and fame and not be in vain.

https://ew.com/movies/chadwick-boseman-dead-black-panther-42...
I have not tried Lifesize.
I agree.

I think Epic doesn't care much about losing iOS and MacOS. Epic wants to bring public attention to the issue and reiterate the idea that Apple is against the gamer community but Epic is fighting for them.

In either case Epic wins. They wouldn't have gotten into this otherwise.
Exhibit A:

https://i1.wp.com/blog.trailofbits.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
If you make too much below the median salary in the US, you either qualify for Medicaid (at best) or direct ACA subsidies (at worst).
> Is this your opinion or is this widely accepted as fact?

Well, in either case, perhaps nobody should hard-code the darkness of text in their CSS but instead allow the user to set it in their browser?
I don’t buy the efficiency argument.

Either they are publicly exaggerating the scope of the projects they are working on (eg the “million mile” battery and “full rewrite of FSD”), severely underpaying engineers and understaffed, or something else.
What if that setting were tied to your risk threshold? Eg, you could set the car to drive very conservatively (respect speed limits, slow in dangerous conditions or areas) and it would prioritize your safety over all else, or to be a bit more reckless, but prioritize your safety less. That way you're making an explicit choice that you accept the personal risk in order to get to your destination faster, but you can't offload that risk on other people.
This is exactly what I do, now that I've climbed out of the hole, I extend my hand to help others come out.

I'm very open about things that I went through, and it validates people's feelings, and hopefully gives them some optimism when they see it's possible to overcome this.

I've got a few of my friends to actually seek professional help (and it helped all of them, at least a bit). And the way I go about this is first telling of the issues I had, and then saying that every single person (even the most normal person) would have a lot to benefit from occasionally going to a therapist. I also compliment my friends when I notice change in their behaviour.

I'd love to be able to help them financially as well, but as a student that is not an option.
California already has an ewaste fee added to devices, no? Or maybe that doesn’t cover phones.
japan has, i understand it, a bunch of competing private railways.
Alternatively, it could be used a state of charge tracking mechanism that conceals battery degradation. Say the battery has 100KWh, but the remaining energy gauge reads zero after 80KWh are expended. You could be degraded to 90KWh but you wouldn't perceive any reduced usable energy until it degrades below 80KWh.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Wish-cycling is a thing, and it's very wasteful. People consume more when they think it'll be recycled. Then it goes in the wrong bin, often shipped to a recycling center where it takes up resources to get sorted out. Ultimately just taking a longer path to landfill.
Not many technical engineering leaders have a passion for leaving the world better than they found it, especially in an area where they consumed a lot of raw materials to make their life's greatest work.

Very few companies are doing more than lip service on the very difficult (sometimes impossible) task of dirty work to get recycled materials into the supply chain as a viable (and someday better) alternative than new raw materials from the earth.

This has so many implications if successful – you can compete with mining 1:1. It allows a company to handle disruptions in the traditional supply chain, etc. But, today this is hard to do and you often only see post-consumer recycled materials used behind-the-scenes (e.g. a plastic frame holding a non-essential chamber) or in packaging (e.g. bamboo ink, cardboard boxes without white paint), but it's rarely used in what the consumer sees (notable exception: The Google Nest Mini "fabric" is made from plastic bottles).

As more devices rely on batteries, we need to think about how we can start harvesting those materials for re-use ourselves and not just shipping overseas and closing our eyes. It's much more expensive to intentionally source recycled materials today and that is, unfortunately, a losing proposition for most manufacturers.

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https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/google-newest-nest...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/04/18/apples-2019-envir...
Technical debt is not just limited to programming, either.

Consider the cabling in a data center: It's very easy to create a new connection by dragging a cable down the aisle from one device to the other. But do this over and over and you'll be left with a tangled mess that's impossible to maintain, understand, and document.

Short quick fixes can be appropriate under the right circumstances, but it's important to go back and clean them up at the earliest opportunity.
> Billions of iPhone sales show that people clearly want the same.

It could as well be showing that they are only willing to endure the same. The truth is - we cannot know, since an iPhone cannot be bought without the App Store and vice versa.
LOL ok.

Let’s get serious: more people still follow Buddha or Jesus today than follow Paul Graham or Steve Jobs ...
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I've met 3 year-old boys and girls who display these traits. Why are you focused on what women find attractive? Under that line of reasoning, if men didn't find these traits attractive, (a) women wouldn't display these traits, and/or (b) these traits wouldn't be common in male-dominated C-levels of organizations around the world. On an evolutionary timescale, I hardly think it's fair to characterize this as a result of women's sexual preferences, as pregnancy/marriage following rape (a consequence of entitlement, callousness, sadism, shortcutting, etc) was bracingly common until quite recently (not that it isn't still happening) and abortion of such offspring is still nowhere near 100%.

As a thought experiment, I propose a dark corollary to Popper's paradox: should we eradicate people who display these traits? Well, that's a catch-22; the only people liable to agree with that are the very ones bound for the chopping block.
>"So the end result is that Windows users can’t adjust the brightness of their non-laptop monitors without third-party software"

Not sure what are you talking about. I can adjust brightness (and lots of other things) of my monitors just fine using their own buttons.What on Earth does that have to do with the Windows OS?
>Zuckerberg also criticized a change in Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 operating system for iPhones and iPads that would make it much harder for companies like Facebook to target people using those devices with ads. Zuckerberg estimated that Facebook’s ad targeting on iPhones and iPads would lose about 50% of its effectiveness once iOS 14 was released and suggested that if Facebook could distribute its apps outside the App Store, it could avoid that kind of scenario.

It's scenarios like the above from a powerful company like Facebook that would make them financially incentivized to put their own Facebook App Store on iPhones. That way, they can program their iOS app with any invasive techniques that hurts the user. To counteract that, I prefer that Apple be the only approved app store.

Although I don't use Facebook, my family in other countries are dependent on Whatsapp to communicate and I'd rather have Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp all get vetted by Apple's approval process than Zuckerberg's self-serving team.

As for the common counterpoint of "giving iPhone customers the _option_ of alternative app stores does not affect me at all because I can choose to only use Apple App Store" ... that's not true. The part missing in that argument is that some companies (e.g. Facebook) with essential apps are very powerful in relation to the individual smartphone customer. To counterbalance that force, Apple is one of the few corporations big and powerful enough to push back against Zuckerberg. (E.g. previous examples: [1][2])

Yes, I know the majority of HN developers want control of the "device I they own" and I understand that. However, they don't speak for everyone and the iPhone is also something I own and it works better for me if influential (and sometimes shady) apps are not purposely pulled off of Apple's App Store and put into a Facebook App Store, Uber App Store, Buzzfeed App Store, etc.

For my home desktop pc, I can load any software I want and I prefer that control. However, I don't think it's a contradiction that I prefer my iPhone to be locked down.

EDIT to reply: I don't work for Apple and can't control what they do. Apple may open up the iPhone to other app stores or they may not -- without my permission. Therefore, stating my preference for iPhone policy does not restrict others' freedom. Also, my family depends on Whatsapp to earn money so alternatives such as Telegram, Signal, etc are irrelevant because their business relationships already use Whatsapp.

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Examples of Facebook abusing its internal testing account:

[1] Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps (theverge.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834

[2] Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions (theguardian.com):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19044728
thank you, appreciate some positivity :)
Design tip: There is no such thing in the real world of materials and displays as pure black or pure white.

Even if we had pure black and white, the real environment of the user would tweak the white balance.

The same design or page, taken from a dark bedroom to an office to bright sunlight will range from unusable through fine (and maybe back again).

So a designer can say #000 against #fff is too high-contrast for some environment, but some users will be in environments where it is not.
Let me guess: liberal arts degree with tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) in loans. Living in an extremely expensive city. Dating other unserious romantic people with no plans for a family, who could afford one anyway?

I wish we (and people in similar situations) were more honest about these bad decisions. We need to warn our young people against falling into similar traps. It’s not victim blaming, it’s just honesty about what’s happening.
I still see the comment, are you sure you didn't just get confused because it wasn't on the first page of the discussion?
It doesn't; they're an anti-tesla shitposter[1] who tries to foment FUD at any opportunity. The company's not perfect and possibly over-valued, but they take any chance to attempt to sow negativity about them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23921487
This is very common on Craigslist. Scammers offer arbitrary vacant properties for rent and disappear after collecting deposit and first month's rent.
A mentor once told me “if you want something done quickly, give it to a busy person”
No, YC is absolutely not trying to carry narcissistic behaviour into the corporate world.

I'll be that on the whole, YC companies probably have better, more self aware leaders.

That you can name 2 presidents of many with more legit humility than ego actually makes my point for me: the rest are mostly egoists to a greater or lesser degree.

Also - those leaders worked in the field of public service wherein the ostensible motivation is inherently public oriented, it's a little easier there to be 'clean' because the opportunity for fraud and graft doesn't really present itself very often while wearing an Army uniform, for example.
Nobody made that claim. The article covers Facebook's repeated failure to promptly remove hate speech against Muslims in India, and that's why this topic is being discussed.
That's cool, but could you tell me how to use it?

When I try

ghc -B hello.hs

I get an error

Missing file: ./settings

.

If I then

touch settings platformConstants

the error changes to

Can't parse "./settings"

.

What am I supposed to put in this settings file? I'm but a Haskell noob, and this is the first time I've heard of it.

EDIT:

I found it! The correct command is

ghc hello.hs +RTS -B

.

I can't seem to get it to beep on macOS, though.
Knowing that a city has a high hotel tax has driven me immediately to Airbnb in the past. Knowing the amount that I am overpaying for a service is a valuable capitalist function.
It seems really bad that I relate to parts of this even though I am still not 25.
I mean things are good with me, I am grateful for everything I have. But once in a while I just feel really empty and that I could be doing way more that I am doing right now rather than lazing around. We are a weird generation for sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Why is this good? Because dev will go back to using browser apps to provide services and the browser itself is a nice sandbox to keep the riffraff out.

Just so you know, a lot of us would like to develop our software as browser apps, but Apple has deliberately and intentionally limited the capabilities of browser on iOS devices to ensure that developers continue to develop native apps.
But do we claim to be the experts, authorities, and judges of UI design?

Well, ok, sometimes we do, but...yeah.
Don’t own a car in Manhattan? One can always rent an EV for road trips.
>Also, think of how deleterious the abolition of local time would have on communication. Right now I can say something like "I received an urgent call at 3am" and you know immediately what that means. But if I said "I received an urgent call at 17:00Z", a lot of the meaning is lost. You'd have to know where I live, i.e. what my local time zone is, and then do some quick mental math to determine what actual time of day 17:00Z means for me. With local time, that calculation is already done for you! Local time is just too damn useful of a concept. It really truly is better than global time for most uses. Global time is really only useful for scheduling global meetings and computer stuff.

[Well], think of how deleterious the abolition of [global] time would have on communication. Right now I can say something like "I received an urgent call at [17:00Z]" and you know immediately what that means [in reference to everything else happening in the world]. But if I said "I received an urgent call at [3am]", a lot of the meaning is lost. You'd have to know where I live, i.e. what my local time zone is, [where the caller is] and then do some [potentially complicated] math to determine what actual time 3am means. With [global] time, that calculation is already done for you! [Global] time is just too damn useful of a concept. It really truly is better than [local] time for most uses. [Local] time is really only useful for scheduling [local] meetings and [in-person] stuff.
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If you have twenty minutes now, and don’t know when you’ll get another twenty minutes, why not do it now?

When you have hours and hours available for the rest of the week, why fret about it? You have so many other opportunities ahead.
You mean this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24316299
Fair. I should have put "zen" in quotes. I'm involved with a Plum Village inspired sangha, and have experienced my share of well intentioned, unhelpful and unsolicited advice from buddhists (who are genuinely lovely people).