skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

> "To separate [black children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone."

> The Court supported this conclusion with citations—in a footnote, not the main text of the opinion—to a number of psychological studies that purported to show that segregating black children made them feel inferior and interfered with their learning.

I think that in general if a bunch of people say they're experiencing a problem than that's enough evidence that there is really a problem. But the Civil Rights movement did have objective factual support from the beginning.
The right speaker on my 2016 MacBook Pro blew out recently, and is the third time a speaker has blown out. Every time a speaker blew out, it was preceded by the exact same sequence of events: I open the lid of the computer, the machine starts making buzzing sounds as a notification sound starts playing, and one of the speakers blows out.

Note that Apple engineered the hardware so that the speakers are glued to the top case, so replacing either speaker entails replacing the whole top case, which includes the left and right speakers, the keyboard, the trackpad and the battery. An out-of-warranty top case replacement for the 2016 MacBook Pro costs $600.

My machine was now out of warranty, but the same exact thing happened just a little over three months prior and Apple did a repair by replacing the top case. I called to see if Apple would be willing to extend the 90-day warranty for repaired parts just a bit.

The call was transferred to a supervisor. The supervisor told me that it was the left speaker that was blown out last time, and it was the right speaker that was blown out this time, so they considered this to be a completely separate incident and there was no 90-day coverage at all for the right speaker to begin with. I would have to spend $600 to get this fixed, and the supervisor would not budge on the price, either.

I am infuriated because even though they replaced the top case, which, to emphasize, includes all of the parts glued to it - the left and right speakers, as well as the keyboard, the trackpad, and the battery, they do not consider the right speaker to be a component in the same part as the left speaker. Even more infuriating is how Apple glues parts to the case so they can charge exorbitant amounts of money for out-of-warranty repairs.

It also allows their staff to suggest braindead quick-fix solutions equivalent to "pay to replace the whole thing or go away," without actually diagnosing the real problem. I say this because the fact that a speaker blowing out was always preceded by the exact same sequence of events suggests to me that something else may be faulty, but the Apple technicians have never bothered to diagnose what the real problem was.

I am also immersed in Apple's ecosystem and I was ready to trade this computer in and buy a new 16-inch MacBook Pro this year once a new one comes out, given the myriads of issues I've had with my machine (it has also needed three display replacements and one keyboard replacement). I was also ready to buy the new iPad Air.

Now I've decided I won't buy the new iPad Air, and my next computer will likely not run macOS.
Chevy is putting together an electric conversion kit:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/chevrolet-readies-an-el...

I think solutions like this will be best for the near future for folks who want a car with an electric motor, rather than a cell phone you can rent to drive places.

It seems like every manufacturer is generally going higher and higher grade on feature set and (some) performance metrics, and saying "screw you" basically to maintenance, repairability and general comprehensibility concerns.

The cars I've owned from the 60's up through the 90's all had wiring diagrams that would fit on a few pages and could be maintained, largely, with a handful of tools in a normal suburban driveway. Newer cars seem more and more to require specialized tools or equipment and are harder to debug.
Generally the maintenance / repair process is aimed at shops and professionals, not the end user. This specialization is brittle, and unlikely to survive any significant systemic shocks. We've been locking ourselves into this model for decades, and I don't see an easy way out.

I look forward to some high quality open source EV hardware becoming available eventually. That's probably when I'll get an electric car.
A more fitting analogy would be Windows. For Performance Updates, they don't charge money. Nor did they asked for updates for previous versions too. Adobe Is Subscription based while in Case of Tesla you pay for a lifetime ownership of a product rather than buying a service.
The author presents succinct and compelling reasons to prefer functional principles.

To add, I find the strong push for purity of functions helps free up the part of my mind which seems to constantly worry about potential problems or unknown/unexpected behaviors. With that background noise out of the way, I can create more elegant (by my own judgement :) ) solutions to needs. I also sleep better.
I'm very excited about Loom. I've also been waiting 3 years for it, and am probably getting impatient. I think it worries me that there still isn't any scheduled release date. And what has happened is as a user of Java, no framework has been able to develop in that time around a fiber or coroutine model, where in other languages, like C#, the TAP model has had ample time to develop and for libraries and framework to transition to it, best practices to occur, etc. While on Java we're still waiting.

Now, I actually still believe Java is doing the right thing (hence the name). And the right thing if successful is more right, thus the name. And you make a good point in that Java is already popular and can probably afford to take a really long time to bring a better async story to its table.

But lately I've been wondering if Loom can fail? It seems to still somewhat be experimental, is there any chance it wouldn't ship? That after all the hard work, it doesn't get merged into OpenJDK? Maybe it turns out to be more hassle, break too much user code, be too difficult to bring back to Graal, or fail to be natively compiled by Substrate, etc.

Hopefully not, and I'm sure you're more aware then anyone of the risks here. And I trust you and the team working on Loom. But sometimes seeing what's happening and being done in C# and other languages, I do stop and wonder if worse is better, but when Loom does arrive (if ever?), I'll probably be happy that this was the route Java took.
So pg_cron is a useful job scheduler and it's true that so many Postgres people use it & appreciate it... But the part I like best about this new 1.3 version of pg_cron is the bit about the open source collaboration between Microsoft and the RDS team and Zalando.

This is how open source should be done.
The "Last Clear Chance" doctrine is relevant:

The “last clear chance” doctrine is a legal rule that says:

1. in personal injury cases, in which both the plaintiff and defendant were responsible for causing an injury/accident,

2. the plaintiff can still recover damages from the defendant, if the defendant had a chance to avoid injuring the plaintiff in the final moments before the accident."

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/personal-injury/what-is-th...
If 12H is considered IF, then I have been intermittently fasting for the last 4-5 years.
... and every few years it changes.

Not to belittle the whole PC thing -- I get it: repeat to someone that they are at a disadvantage their whole life and they'll grow up believing it. My girl understands that her hearing makes her different but doesn't believe that it has hindered her life in any way. Having four kids pretty close in age, it's hard not to compare. My hard-of-hearing daughter is the one out of the four that will surprise us every few months with some new thing she decided to learn how to do from YouTube[0].

She's the most self-directed learner of all of my kids. I think she knows the right terminology. I know she doesn't care at all, though, and we've raised all of our kids to assume that people aren't out to offend you.

[0] She sings incredibly well -- something we didn't expect -- so a few years back she wanted to sing for the talent show but she wanted to do so with a puppet. We thought the puppet idea was a distraction and like the good parents we were, we let her demo it for us and didn't pay a whole lot of attention and tried to discourage her from using the puppet. She was super-discouraged and, thankfully, we asked her to do it again. It was at that point that we realized she was singing beautifully and ... not moving her lips at all. I think she was 8.
Isn’t universal = for everyone?
I love the look of horror I get from folks when I say that my emacs starts with a random theme. Half are dark.
Ask HN: Which Programming Editor/IDE do you use?
I just wanted to know which Editor/IDE you people use. One can also use multiple editors for different scenarios.

What are the PROs and CONs of your Editor/IDE ?
If you have multiple colors per layer, you have to switch filaments at each layer. A typical 3D print has hundreds of layers. Manually switching is only an alternative if you print a continuous part in one color, and then switch to another continuous part in a uniform different color.

In this method you have to only switch to each color once (if the filament length you can print is enough for your object).
It's actually really common for ships to have small machine shops to be able to fix things while at sea. Here is a particularly nice example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Machinists/comments/dht45m/i_work_o...

A lathe and some tools isn't that expensive. As a rough guess, that one is probably something like $20k worth of tools. Maybe double that including the cost of the floor space? Changing course and getting deliveries at sea is really expensive, so easy to imagine it'd pay for itself if you need it just once.

https://federatedtool.com/king-kc-1440ml-2-14-x-40-gearhead-... <- $7k for a quite capable lathe and some tooling.
Did Perl or C protect you against this when PHP came out?
What does backwards compatibility mean in this context?
It would be pretty easy to know that someone else is driving the car with all the data that they are gathering.
“I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That’s a Bad Strategy”
Also with just caffeine you dont have any longer the usual problems of intestinal discomfort that coffee causes.
Facebook's been using Hack for close to a decade now. Hack still strongly resembles PHP, but it's taken a different direction from PHP 7 and HHVM is no longer intending to be an alternative PHP runtime (https://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html).
I'm also an upper caste male in Silicon Valley. While I largely agree with you in that most people state-side haven't heard of it happening here, that doesn't mean it doesn't subconsciously exist.

The main thing I think the article got wrong is this:

> they're often clever attempts to find out something very specific

I don't think they are "clever" attempts. People aren't that clever, in general. It's very possible that people are just used to asking these very normal questions out of habit (e.g. "are you vegetarian" is a perfectly normal question to ask before going to lunch with someone, to factor that in your suggestions of places to eat). It's just that they may be subconsciously deriving further biases based on the answers instead of taking the answers at face value. If, for example, someone not being vegetarian was originally just a benign question to go out to lunch together, but later subconsciously causes the manager to not give them that promotion, that would be discrimination, and I can't say for sure that that doesn't happen.
Ask HN: How did you get your startup off ground?
I am specifically interested in learning where did you meet initial users, what channels did you use for reaching out, what messaging did you use.
I am curious to see whether your strategy to find product market fit. People often say that interview users quickly, what do you do when people don’t respond at all?
The dark portions of the screen block the backlight, so the darker it is, the less light gets to your eyes.

In a low luminosity environment, you will get better contrast with less emission if you have most of your screen dark and slightly more backlight than with most of it lit and less backlight. You will want to adjust the light anyway, but the dark mode is theoretically a gain.

But all of that is moot anyway, because the web doesn't work in dark mode. So if you try to go with it you will keep being exposed to high brightness at random, what is much worse than any alternative.
This needs to happen consistently with paper titles. There's a Twitter account is dedicated to it:

https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
No, it has several negative effects on the digestive system that have nothing to do with caffeine. Some positive too, though.

I'm not trying to imply that coffee and cigarettes are equivalent in terms of harm, of course. That would be silly.
Legally yes, but there is some judgement involved in changing the surname.
> ... using its customers as QA when they sell products that can kill people

They aren't just using their own customers, they are using all of us.

The cars won't be just crashing into inanimate objects, but school buses and ambulances. The QA is being done to all of us and our loved ones near their cars.
Would be good if they were able to provide DKIM verification for all the emails they have been shopping around. Compared to how wikileaks handled the DNC emails NYPost and friends seem to have performed quite poorly.

It wouldn't surprise me that they were getting the DKIM error and thought the emails might be fraudulent so didn't try and get an outside person to validate them.
How long until a however-motivated hacker permanently bricks the whole fleet? Or at least makes it stand still and mine bitcoin until repaired at a licensed garage?
On the other hand I am okay with that requirement but it becomes as diluted as the term smartphone / smarttv / smart cars.... Dont call it self driving call it smart cruise control or something?
APIs may also present the data differently, not have all the data, require payment, or have much lower rate limits than a browser solution.

(Disclosure: work at a SAAS that does both and have done some for personal projects.)
That looks like a grossly over engineered version of what I would like.

Sidenote: I've been a linux/Mac user for a few years now and recently had to work on stuff for the Windows side of things. All I can say is: wow. what a disaster. documentation is a complete nightmare and there seem to be 14 different versions of anything all fighting to do similar things. dead ends everywhere.
yes - it will lead to eyestrain.

Less light means your pupils will dilate.

When your pupils dilate you must flex the physical lens of your eyes to focus on the screen. Less of what you see is in focus, especially up close.

Constantly focusing and refocusing can lead to eyestrain and headaches.

Meanwhile a brighter screen allows your pupils to contract, and with small pupils more of what you see is naturally and optically in focus.

This is depth of field and is most familiar to folks who have set the aperture and focus in a DSLR (or SLR in the old days)

This is less noticeable to younger folks because their lenses are much more flexible. But as people age, their lenses become less flexible and it is harder to focus up close. It might be like squeezing a tennis ball for an hour. This is why people buy reading glasses - to set the natural focus of their eyes closer to them.

If you buy reading glasses it's quite common to get a higher correction for very close like an ipad ~ 18" and a different lower correction for a computer ~ 24-30".
It could be that they had multiple tabs open, were drafting their comment in an external text editor, and hit Ctrl-Tab one too many times before pasting their comment into the textarea.
The ethics of this are heavily influenced by how much you believe a) this rollout will result in a net decrease in automobile accidents and b) how much we should assume drivers will both be informed and intervene if the system missteps. If you believe both are unlikely, or you believe engineers should have a "do no harm" based ethics similar to medicine, this would be unacceptable. But if you believe both are highly and/or think engineering ethics should focus on harm minimization, this makes sense to do and under certain assumptions it becomes unethical to not roll it out.

As a concrete example: if you assume that 99% of accidents that would be caused by the system will be prevented by driver interventions, and you think overall the system will reduce the likelihood of an accident by 20%, the question you have to ask yourself is: if 1 in 5 people harmed over the next 6 months we could have saved, should we avoid doing so and wait until only 1 in 200 will not be harmed, in part due to their own negligence? As you can see, the assumed probabilities matter a lot, so I'd be curious how one can come up with good projections. The only case where these probabilities don't matter is if you believe that engineers ought to never create harm where none would have existed otherwise, but when it comes to self driving cars, this is an impossibility since it assumes perfect autonomy.

In general, if you buy into the theory that "human + AI" is always going to be smarter than just AI, then arguably even in a world with great autonomous driving, the best system will be one that has both an AI and a human. And that is what we have here, so it's more a question of if AI quality is sufficient or if this is just a bad idea in general given the natural tendencies of humans to be poor co-pilots.
Perhaps not, but a world without computers would be markedly different from the world we live in, whereas a world without Javascript and the ability to update a webpage without reloading it would be... pretty much just like the world we're living in now, except perhaps less annoying.
Five years is extremely optimistic.

The Finnish Olkiluoto plant might go on line in 2022 and then it would have had a 22-year development time. Starting such a project today this would mean it finishes around 2040. And this was planned with "conventional" nuclear technology and knowing well all the difficulties such a construction entails. That would perhaps be in time to power a kind of cold house museum to show our children how Earth has been looking before runaway climate change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...

Proposing new technology which is sure to run longer smells to me a lot like to suggest doing nothing in order to avoid change that is both absolutely urgent, and totally possible now.
Actually, there are quite a few things you can't do with crypto that are trivial with fiat, like entering into transactions without power or internet, or paying your taxes.
This also isn’t necessarily rhetorical. The reason you won’t see it is because people pick up on just enough social cues that if you are likely to react badly to it, they probably won’t do it in front of you.
The Tesla Tyranny. The Musk Mafia. The Enslaving Elon.
From what I can see some of the material is legit and mildly scandalous, but it’s being used as a horse upon which a huge body of arbitrary accusations and insinuations can ride in.

Same with the real possibility of porn (gasp!) on the laptop being used to insinuate child porn to trigger the Q cult.

Using a mild to moderate scandal to insinuate major scandal is pretty standard political smear technique.

Trump is immune to this because he just admits to everything or does all his shady stuff in the open and his supporters don’t care. Pretty hard to scandalize him.
It doesn't actually block that much light, all told? Especially if you then keep the brightness up, you just have smaller things that are super bright. Probably compounded, as your eyes are adjusted for less light. At least in light themes, your eyes completely adjust to block more light.

Though, again, the point is more that even with dark mode, turn down the brightness. (I think. Not original poster.)
Disagree with a few points in the article, but I’m here to evangelize anyway.

Background: I’m a huge fan of dark mode, I use it all the time, I even have plugins to make things that aren’t dark dark.

But I do want to point out something slightly unfair now that things have become so nice for dark mode users: many apps are hard coded to _only_ support dark mode, like Spotify.

The dark mode process that happened over the last few years (I came to love it in Windows Phone 7 Series, so over a decade ago by now) has revealed that some users do in fact prefer light mode.

I argue that just as developers give users the option to choose dark mode, if your design is currently dark only, you should consider a light option.

Perhaps even more important, you should consider a high contrast option. At least Windows has good support, even if many apps don’t. Sadly the web support (outside of olde IE) really doesn’t seem to be there for high contrast. High contrast is an accessibility feature; I don’t need it now, but I know of people who do and that may be me in the future.
Also Tamil. Your cousin's brother in law's sister's mother in law will attest to your caste whatever that caste is.

They check for who you are related to and know knows you who belongs to X caste.
Excelente point. What is Russia nowadays? And how can we compare those 40 years with these 40 years unfolding.
I think maybe they are referrring to Belgium's role in Rwanda.

And FTR Uganda was a 'Protectorate' not a colony, though I'm not sure what difference it makes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Protectorate
> unverified

This term doesn't mean anything. It's just a meme. How does one actually "verify" anything? When people use this term they mean "someone I trust (e.g. mainstream media) concurs with this statement".

Even if this email has a legitimate DKIM signature it doesn't mean that someone didn't hack these accounts and send these emails or that v.pozharskyi.ukraine@gmail.com actually belongs to the person it is purported to belong to. It could be that some nation state forged the DKIM signature or that they have operatives within Google that did this on their behalf. We could go on.
I agree to a great extent with the article, except for the dislike for mutability. I used to be like this (dislike it), then I found Rust.

Now I prefer imperative, eager computation with (safe) mutability and even some lightweight OOP (the way Rust does it with Traits/Type-classes). It seems that it much better reflects the real world. Rust makes the mutability concerns obsolete, as you can have safety in the imperative/mutable world.

Otherwise Rust is very much functional in all the great ways explained in the article.
I recently re-watched most of his films as I created a programming language that emits error messages based on his accent[0]. I was unable to find a single film that he was involved in that I did not enjoy. Some actors not only practice their craft well but also only seem to put their stamp on films that are worth the audiences time.

[0]Example: "shtirred: filter requiresh a function and a lisht ash input!" - http://connerylang.org/
The model training time using Lobe is comparable to similar transfer learning tasks using other machine learning frameworks. I did a comparison between Lobe and Turi Create using transfer learning with ResNet and the time were similar. Training using a complete convnet would take much long, unless the Lobe team has made some serious advances.
The reason is that I use NordVPN to connect to the internet.

I can tell you that using a VPN wasn't why your account was blocked. Most corporate employees connect to Outlook.com through corporate VPNs (both of my last employers required it).