skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say this is the product of brand dna, targeted audience and a bit of randomness. I think a good glossy screen with this special coating which makes reflections barely visible and if, then they are deep purple such as on MacBooks, is on par with matte screens. Latter try to avoid the reflection by blurring them which might work here and there better but at the end of the day it's a matter of taste since this matte blurs coming from reflections are also annoying.

Non-coated glossy screens or with a cheap coating are clearly inferior in this regard.

Coming now to other motivations, a glossy screen at the point of sale: A Macbook with a glossy screen in a shiny Apple Store is just way more impressive and will trigger more impulse buys. It's like a jewel or expensive watch sparkling in all its glory at you. Glossy screens go also seamlessly to the edges or in other words, there is no bumpy plastic edge which just looks more like a slick and polished product. In contrast, ThinkPads are more of an enterprise product and not in need to trigger impulse buys + need to signal "hey I am workhorse for professional users" => matte screen. But be aware that Lenovo puts glossy screens on very similar specced Yoga models which target consumers and are found at the point of sales. Those models have also more showy aluminium cases while the Thinkpads have also beautiful cases but their beauty is more of a subtly beauty which needs longer to lure buyers into a buy (if they aren't loyal ThinkPad users already). To drive this even further, Lenovo recently introduced alu-cased Thinkpads and a new subbrand "Thinkbooks" to target really any user out there. So, matte or glossy is more about demographics and their value system and beliefs than about functionality.

Last advantage which most forget: High-dpi screens have eg way crisper fonts on glossy than on matte, hence are overall sharper, eg code or a terminal on a 300dpi glossy screen is just incredible (check out 4K 13-14 inch notebooks or Dells 8K 32 inch).
> We must envision more public-spirited, collective futures – ones in which the market alone isn’t allowed to dictate everything from housing to environmental regulation to mining rights.

Both Plymouth Colony and Jamestown started out as communes. They starved. Plymouth Colony switched to free markets and prospered, Jamestown failed.

As for environmentalism, you cannot afford that when it's a bitter struggle just to survive. Besides, what does environmentalism even mean on Mars? There is no biosphere.
Very minimalist.
“We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” – Baquet and Kahn
I disagree. A lot of gas stations are conveniently located near the highway. You may think that not everyone drives on the highway - but people who do lots of road trips or drive continuously for work or have an hour long commute make up a disproportionate amount of the driving.

It's probably true a lot of upper-middle class people now would prefer to charge while getting some shopping in - but presumably in the future people will just want convenience. I could see a chain like Costco or Target adding EV stations to every parking lot - but I think for the most part gas stations are located where the cars are.

(Also, the scale of this seems good and a good way to make investors feel good about a hedge, but that's beside the initial point)
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You know what else isn't public spirited or democratic? The internet. The internet is a bunch of private fiefdoms. I think for the most part the internet works much better than the physical world, in large part because it is a collection of private fiefdoms with zero transaction costs for leaving. Reddit gets to run itself the way reddit wants, HN the way HN wants, etc. If you don't like it, you can start your own. There's infinite real estate, and exit is mostly costless.

I'm perfectly happy with people doing this in the physical world. I think we could use a lot more experimentation with community design and rules, and most governments simply aren't willing to do this. As long as these communities are opt-in, and not forced on anyone, I think it's great.
Is Abstraction Killing Civilization?
There are at-home screening tests you can get that are inexpensive and as accurate as colonoscopies in screening for cancer (according to some ways of measuring).

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/dreading-colonoscopy-...

Some of these can be ordered without a prescription online. So if you want to get screened and can't justify or afford a colonscopy, these are worth checking out.
Shell is an evil oil company. For example, they knew about climate change in 1986 already and kept it quiet[1]. But now they are pressured by public opinion, court, government, and even shareholders to take action. Their PR propaganda is now to reduce CO2 as much as possible for fossil fuels and to develop alternatives. They are a key player in liquidised natural gas, which produces less CO2. Next they are engineering heavily in hydrogen production, which sucks for cars but will probably be nice for ships.

[1] https://thecorrespondent.com/6285/shell-made-a-film-about-cl...
>thus morally keeping users from practicing their religion

Many religions actually predate iphone apps and thus may be able to get on without them. I think Moses himself got by with basic html though I may be wrong on that.
Why? Those with wealth have typically earned it by creating value for others and getting paid for it. That money is theirs to spend as they see fit. Why should society intervene and have a say in what they earned through voluntary transactions? That seems unjust and arbitrary to me.

Moreover there is no reason to believe that a democratic process will produce better outcomes than alternative (technocratic?) processes. The public is poorly informed, manipulable, and their sentiments aren’t optimal.
I just want to add a somewhat different view here. I had cancer when I was 30 (testicular cancer). Healthy today luckily. But everyone said I was taking it very well and clear headed and I think so too if I have to say so myself but some years later I had a massive panic attack and started having huge problems with anxiety and panic attacks. It got so bad all I could do for weeks were to sit in my sofa being scared I was sick and dying from cancer, not quite awake but never quite sleeping either. It came at first because I had blood in my urine (had it checked, nothing wrong, gone again) but the attacks became a returning pattern at the same time every year. The differing view is that unlike GP I already were on Escitalopram at the time I had cancer. I later found out that there is a massive problem with people getting anxiety and panic attacks while on escitalopram and a lot get cured after having stopped, including me.

Please do see a doctor and educate yourself if you have symptoms like blood in your stool, urine or if one testicle have a lump or feels slightly harder (internal tumour) but also educate yourself before taking any medication! It may save your life taking it but it may also ruin it.

Edit to add:
Also remember that cancer often doesn't hurt at all (at first) so don't be one of those that don't go to the doctor because it doesn't hurt. Not having pain is often A Bad Sign. Off you go!
On Beethoven and the Gifts of Silence
Oh oops - thanks for the correction! I somehow misread the article to be talking about 4.256.x instead of 4.x.256.
So for example land is counterexample to claim that "crypto beats other stores of value in almost every metric."?

Especially given that you can sell it for something used locally and send that? (there is no need to store value and send something using the same method).
It is sad to see that sibling answers are somewhat avoiding the question. I concur, "exploits" in MMORPG are about abusing unintended consequences in the design of the world, not in the design of the program. Like spawn locations where mobs are trapped and easier to kill, or combinations of weapons/gears/abilities that give an unforeseen advantage.

That a stronger type system "eliminates a whole class of bugs" is nice and all, but users should be wary of the false sense of security it gives (in the same way that the weak type system of C gives a false sense of security when you come from assembler programming).
You can have proven and certified bug-free crypto routines, and fail pathetically because their a giant hole in your crypto system. Just a friendly warning.
Enough with this, let's do something.

My Twitter DMs are open.
Well the 4790k is special in that regard. It is the best processor you can buy for the LGA1150 socket. Laid my eye on it too, my plan was to get the biggest performance boost for the smallest capital expenditure. The 4790k would have been a simple swap in and enjoy an at least 33% faster processor in my case.

But instead of splunking 140 for one i got a used workstation with a Xeon E3-1271 (the 2. fastest Xeon without GPU) for 180. It included other parts, which made the upgrade free (if you don't count the work i did) by selling my old CPU+Mobo+GPU. The GPU (RX570) i had was at the same price level on ebay as when i bought it.

If you badly wan't to upgrade (from a 4670k the delta is way smaller than from the CPU i had), i'd suggest looking for an E3-1281 or 1271 if you have an dGPU, if you need an iGPU replace the last digit with a 6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Haswell-based_Xe...

(edit: clarify, add last paragraph and links)
Poor people supposed to stay poor and not have too much upside, thats why accredited investor rules.

This also limits their downside.
I have a friend who is just about to start at Amazon in the UK and in her employment contract it specifically mentions that they do drug test, so I guess a lot can change in 16 years.

I think in general drug testing is pretty unusual here, and employers have to be able to demonstrate good reason for administering it. I've never worked anywhere, including a couple of household names, where employees were drug tested.
This requires greater self determination than we grant today. America for example, was meant to be an experiment in limited federalism, with power and control located as locally as possible. Over time it has flipped, with the nation and states imposing one size fits all rules. I think the lack of locality and self determination is not much different from tyranny, and we have a phrase for it even: tyranny of the majority.
The context:

“I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,” McNeil said in his note to the staff. “I should not have done that. Originally, I thought the context in which I used this ugly word could be defended. I now realize that it cannot. It is deeply offensive and hurtful. The fact that I even thought I could defend it itself showed extraordinarily bad judgment. For that I apologize.”

Can’t believe an entire career was ended over a moment requesting clarification.

So much for intent.
Losses from a 1% short position in GameStop
There are countries with prescription heroin, safe injecting rooms and addiction support not just looking at mental health, but also housing, work and relationships.

There are indications that this strategy works in decreasing harm, decreasing economic impact, and decreasing supply by drying up demand in illegal supply chains.

As always with public health and challenges to existing socio-cultural norms, there’s a lot of room to further discuss.

https://transformdrugs.org/heroin-assisted-treatment-in-swit...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala set to take historic role as WTO boss
There's always the issue of not being able to verify for oneself. We tend to trust video, but what if it's video of something tainted (or a straight up deepfake)?

If poll workers hand off ballots to separate counters, but publicly hired counters are diverted and provided with plausible decoys while poll workers actually hand off to secret actors who just capture and release video of the public counters... back to the Swiss cheese we go.
I panicked a bit there... I thought Carol Kaye just died, hence this post in HN. whew

For those who don't know, Carol is a legendary session bassist and played on an estimated 10,000 records mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. I personally think of her like a female James Jamerson, the legendary Motown bassist.
> You will likely receive more than you initially deposited into MtGox through the bankruptcy, but I do not know what you call "significant recompense."

I was one of those claimants who sold approximately the account value north of 1000 Bitcoins to bring myself in what I thought was a better position when all of your withdrawal methods were blocked. I attempted to withdraw BTC into BitcoinBuilder, but you guys had my account flagged for additional review from a previous TX I had made weeks ago. I had literally zero other options and you guys locked up all of my balance.

Some recompense could be given to now fiat claimants who sold all of their BTC holdings into USD _the day_ that Mt.Gox shut down. There were quite a handful of individuals who did with the same rationale this in the hours leading up to the website shutdown. I'm pretty sure they are the minority of claimant cases looking at /r/MtgoxInsolvency posts.

Today, the difference in market value those few hours for me would have been approximately been $7.9 MM vs. ~500k USD + penalties. There were zero guidance the days that you had your withdrawals blocked off, and any communication of what was going on especially in those few hours would have made such a difference in the 7 years that we/I had our money locked up.

Please look into these accounts that had this sort of activity _in the hours_ leading up to Mt. Gox's shutdown. If any group would be significantly impacted by any recompense, it would be us.
So much for freedom. If another person isn’t hurting you by building a colony, why should you have a say? Sounds like a society based on jealousy and envy.

If you want a colony, go advocate for more funding for NASA. The US government’s budget is in the trillions and up till now it deficit spends like crazy. That is far larger than the entire net worth of any of these billionaires.

The real issue is that government and society now is too fractured and inefficient to actually execute on such a project and people just want to commandeer things instead.
That was my view of it too. It really creeps me out that there are all these articles with "Should you take investing advice from reddit?" when WSB has never, as far as I know, been anything but high-risk fucking around for fun and profit (or loss.)
Wow. That looks like you photoshopped 2 screens together and put an Ad on it.
Indeed there was a confusion, it was ProseMirror. To be more specific about my use-case, I wanted to build a text editor for a forum which allows to embed images and videos directly in the editing zone, in between paragraphs of the text. It’s a rather advanced thing to do for a text editor, and the solution took me several hundred of line of code with draftjs, but it was quite easy to achieve because draftjs api is very solid. Initially with ProseMirror it was a lot of struggling, and couldn’t find a way to do it . I also tried Quilljs, but wasn’t satisfied with it either.
If you want to get rich quick, you need to understand what you're doing, and put in honest work. Everything else is somewhere between fraud, gambling and a distraction (at best).

Hyping up meme stocks is just the newest addition to tactics like wire fraud, MLMs, etc. It too will in time be thoroughly discredited, yet never eradicated completely.

You can certainly get lucky gambling on crypto, TSLA, etc. You can also trade those profitably by knowing your shit. You will occasionally make poor decisions either way, so make sure you can handle the consequences.
The man's talking about prophecies, comets and reptilians.
Flagged because HN is not the right place for this, but Sarah Jeong is still employed by the New York Times.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/03/sarah-jeo...
$50-$100k judging by Glassdoor, very location dependent, but at a high level comes the ability to partner in new restaurants and ventures.

Also it’s a high ceiling relative to other jobs that require zero education.
Have we just decided that there's no such thing as a path to redemption now?

While people on the left spend their energy taking down people who are most likely their allies for the smallest missteps instead of trying to work with them to correct things, people on the right can offer "apologies" and continue on because their base doesn't care about such transgression [0].

Who do you think comes out on top at the end if we continue down this path?

[0] https://www.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2021/02/04/morgan-w...
Google admits failing to wipe X-Mode SDKs from its Play Store
MIPS is no longer relevant on Android, it is even no longer supported on recent NDKs.
> Only crazy people think vaccines cause autism.

This is simply not true. I've talked to a psychologist who treated kids with autism about this. Autism is usually diagnosed at a young age when children develop and also get vaccinated. This leads to bias in some of their parents who are looking for someone or something to blame for their misfortune. Combine this with the fact that in the last two decades diagnostic for autism was extended to other less severe disorders such as Asperger's. If adults would develop autism after getting vaccinated, then it would support this crackpot theory, but they don't.
It's now lifted [0]. I'd not like any ban on freedom – however the ban was on the geographic area and anyone living in there had been effected of course. Hopefully things will only improve from here.

Being running a purely internet business I can completely understand the pain and frustration it would have caused. However, if I see the bigger picture, Lack of ban would have caused hundred of lives in the aftermath of change in constitutional status of the J&K.
It's like lockdown that we all had to endure to save lives.

You have the right to your opinion but this is how I see it.

Take Care

0: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kashmir-internet-4g-...
Ahh so now what about banning child pedophilia in holy books? How do you feel about religions texts the promote that particular viewpoint?
While I agree Disqus solves a lot problem as a comment system.

They certainly harvest visitor's data. There are many privacy-friendly comment systems as well as a 3rd party anti-spam service like OOPSpam that do not collect user data. It all boils down to the fact what is your local law says about privacy, and how much you care about your vistiors' privacy.
is there a practically possible better way than what Musk is designing as humanity's future ? Unfortunately for one Musk we get a bunch of Zucks and Thiels...
It's a fair point. One thought that comes to mind is Mark Zuckerberg. No doubt Mark has grit, work ethic, and level of intelligence greater than most people. Even if he never founded Facebook, these are some of the key ingredients for above-average success and he still had a high likelihood to become very wealthy.

Where things get weird is that he is one of the wealthiest people in the world by a large margin. It's weird because it's due to the most potent ingredient: luck. This doesn't invalidate how extraordinary he is, it's just an important factor. Right place, right time, right family, etc.

So that has made him one of the wealthiest people in the world, meaning he can shape society and move governments. Do you think it makes sense for that kind of power to come down to a roll of the dice?
They don't seem to do it automatically and on mobile devices. So there is also a way to improve
Saying HTML5 is ready to replace Flash was one of Steve Jobs' justifications for sentencing Flash to death.
Take a look at draftjs, it’s an alternative built by facebook (I’m not affiliated with Facebook in any way)
It’s obvious that racism has deeply scarred the US and it’s a damaged and defective country because of that in many ways. It’s so corrosive and trust has been completely eroded every which way. I understand that action mostly in that context and the good thing is that the harm of all of this (to the involved reporter) will definitely be minimal. He can trust on receiving tons of support and sympathy and he is in a privileged position where he certainly doesn’t have to worry about material concerns.

Still, I’m so happy to live in a country where this would be illegal.

Unless it’s an egregious and obvious breach of trust (the classic example being stealing from your employer or anything else that would also be a crime) employees have to be warned about any infractions (and this is an official process with a paper trail) and can only be fired on repeat offences that are similar in kind.

That, to me, seems like the obvious way to approach this problem and if you treat everyone the same you don’t get into complex discussions about what’s fair or not.
>”I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,” McNeil said in his note to the staff. “I should not have done that. Originally, I thought the context in which I used this ugly word could be defended. I now realize that it cannot. It is deeply offensive and hurtful. The fact that I even thought I could defend it itself showed extraordinarily bad judgment. For that I apologize.”

Is this now the new normal? This kind of arbitrary and capricious punishment? For this?
I use this!
one simply lacks even the most basic experience

Considering pg's background I don't think it's that.
That’s exactly right, but doing so makes the process much more illiquid.
Any other predictions?

Surprisingly, there still are very few people who are away of this ticking time bomb.
The costs of leaving a big social network to start your own are huge -- you can't interact with anybody.
Sure, because everything in the US is about racism these days.

The world is very simple and easy to deal with when every problem is explained by one reason.

Some people believe the reason for everything bad is racism. Others believe it is Jews secretly holding power. Thirds blame secret Martian masters directly controlling president heads. All of them have reasonable and consistent explanations of the world with their model. These people are called conspiracy theorists.

Also, people reducing the world to such a simple model are always wrong. We have seen it many times throughout history. Often their mistakes led to grave consequences.
Hi Nkharrl! I'm an undergraduate student who is deeply interesting in roles involving cybersecurity and making an impact in cybercrime. I would love to gain insight into how trust platforms work for online applications, as well as tools security engineers use in their day to day. Does SpecTrust offer any summer internships?
Yes, why not?

It is time to accept we need to manage these things differently.
The US is huge so finding something somewhere that is best or top of class is quite easy. That the best treatment might be on the other coast than you and only for the 1% that can both afford it and who happen to know about that specific treatment doesn't seem to count when looking at "Best in the world".
Biden Bars Trump from Receiving Intelligence Briefings Citing ‘Erratic Behavior’