skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know if this is what OP meant but glossy screens can still be glare resistant (like smartphones screens or new macbooks).

I think what OP is asking is why aren’t monitors adopting the glossy finish of modern laptop screens?
We could have a for-humans version number and a for-dependency-resolution version number at practically zero extra cost.
> On average, it cost about $75,000 a year to house a prisoner in a state like California

Damn, that's, um, a lot. And here I am, with a degree in CS and over 2 years of experience, earning less than one-third of it in my third world country.
None of those space companies are doing anything like SpaceX. You might as well just buy $GOOGL which had a 5-10% stake (probably some dilution now) in SpaceX. Although that value is probably only 1% of $GOOGL so you better hope SpaceX 100x’s for a 2x $GOOGL gain.
IIRC from the days when glossy became popular, matte screens scatter incoming and outgoing light, but glossy screens reflect incoming light and transmit outgoing without scattering. So in a showroom the glossy screen looks better - blacks are blacker and colours are brighter. It's the same effect as TVs having a showroom mode that jacks up the brightness and contrast.

Why this didn't happen to monitors I'm not sure. Perhaps monitors are more often purchased online based on comparing specs, but laptops are more of a fashion item since we managed to make computers pervasive in society.
Services like Uber protects the road from drunk drivers. We want it to be easy to use while drunk.
It is ironic that you can be a multi-millionaire and still live in a shoddy building
The person you're responding to was making a joke- the unemployment spike came from covid.
Ramanujan Machine
Screen Coatings section of this reddit post may be related although it does not directly answer why it is the case.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/gyii6k/gaming_mon...
I have set it to my first language which is non-English (Kannada, a South Indian language). And I can use Uber just because of my muscle memory. The UX is supremely fragile and confusing!
I know very little about this but shouldn’t customer deposits be handled separately from other creditors? Why should CoinLab get anything?
Idaho is going the other way, the Senate just passed a bill that will constitutionally prohibit cannabis and any other illicit psychoactive drugs if voters pass it with simple majority in 2022.
They've been rebranding themselves as energy companies for a while. There's nothing sinister, they're just reading the room
The author is testing for the presence of antibodies, not the disease itself.
Sorry for nitpicking, the problem from the article is about the patch number.

Your reasoning is still holds though:

0x00050801 (5.8.1 8b for patch) < 0x04090100 (4.9.256 16b for patch)
Plenty of states never legalized gay marriage until the Supreme Court forced them to. (And I seriously doubt the Court will ever rule that the states aren’t allowed to ban cannabis.)
Platform ecosystems as meta‐organizations: Implications for platform strategies
> But let's say someone steals $10 of food from a grocery store

If you allow that, you will soon enough be without grocery stores!!!
Electronic fast counting on deposit for in-person voting? Sure, but I like mail in a lot better.

I am OK with electronic printing of human legible votes; if you want to get fancy. (Fill the bubbles in fully)
As demand for ICE will decrease so will demand for gas and that would drive the price down wouldn’t it? It may be in fact based on generators, especially in remote areas. IDK, I may be completely off here as gas is not the most efficiently converted into electricity but rather than give up the industry will find ways to valorize their assets. Ideally Id like the whole fossil indy to go away but am not sure how that’s going to pan out
The problem with that argument is that at some point acting insane to keep up pretenses and actually being insane becomes indistinguishable and you end up with the situation that only a young Russian nuclear officer disobeying orders is saving the world from nuclear Armageddon [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
It's not in the constitution until voters approve it in 2022.
Glossy screens look better in ideal conditions. The matte screen diffuses the light (that's how matte works) a bit and reduces the contrast and it looks a bit blurry.

On phones, capacitive screens use a glass layer. Apple extended the glass layer to the laptops because it looked better (probably because matte screens looked worse than phones). Before them the screens were matte. Of course, everybody copied Apple and introduced glossy screens, because when looking at a glossy and a matte screen next to one another (in a shop) the glossy will win. And of course, everybody introduced glossy screens without the anti-reflection coating that Apple uses (cargo cult), so it made everything worse.

There was a time period when you had to really search for a non-glossy screen. Now it's a bit better, you can find them, but the touchscreen ones will always be glossy, and I did not yet see an OLED without glossy screen (could be because they are more fragile, although folding OLEDs do exist, so it's not clear).
They have a non-interference requirement for geostationary satellites using the same frequencies for uplink. That means they need fancy antennas to make sure there is a null all along the eqaitorial geostationary orbit line...
So now you need Python + pipenv + the actual program? Versus just the binary with go/rust (or any compiled language for that matter)?

I think that's exactly the kind of complexity arusahni was referring to. Being able to deploy a single binary with `go get` or `cargo build` without worrying about anything else is really convenient.

I guess it depends on the use case though, I use Python extensively at work and have little complaints.
> What's the catch? Is it significantly riskier than the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines? Is it easy to make a mistake while producing this and end up with something ineffective or harmful? Is it just not particularly effective?

Yes, yes and yes. This is all good fun, but isn't a super novel vaccine. The vaccines that are currently being delivered were mostly developed within weeks of Chinese researchers sharing the genome sequences in January 2020. The bits that took the time were the safety and efficacy trials, which is what this is skipping. And it's not like $1000 for a household is cheap: the Oxford/AZ vaccine costs about $3.
So you're saying that you'd build a tuple (or some other structure) of tuples of references to construction arguments. You'd still be constructing a series of successively larger objects from smaller ones, but those objects are made up of a bunch of references, and references are trivially copyable from the implementation's perspective (though not from the standard's). So those constructions would likely be optimized away via memcpy elimination, or, even if they weren't, they'd be relatively cheap. Am I understanding correctly?

I suppose that works, as long as you can determine all the construction arguments in advance. It wouldn't work if, e.g., later elements of the tuple are constructed with pointers into earlier elements, so that you'd need the earlier elements to already be constructed before computing the construction arguments for the later elements.
Glossy screens have better contrast and matte screens cause less eye strain.
Biden does not have the ability to legalize weed. That would require an act of Congress, which would require both parties to agree to it (or at least agree not to filibuster it).
Awesome! I also suffer from this -- the public terminals at my university always start from a fresh install and these sort of nags are everywhere.

I really wish more software companies would re-think the startup nags all together. It is easy to say that 'oh we only show it once' but honestly who only installs a piece of software once in their life? I have probably clicked through the onboarding for microsofts browsers literally a thousand times now and I don't even work in IT. A typical user probably at least a dozen if not more, per piece of software...
According to the first hits on google, roughly half of Portugal's hospitals are private.
Just my experience with these people, there seem to be a few categories.

1. They also oppose alcohol being legal. I used to work with one guy who told me he wished prohibition was still in place. Gotta admit, I can at least respect this person for some logical consistency (although he was in support of medical marijuana)

2. Similar to the first camp, but tend bring up how making alcohol illegal isn’t possible because of how embedded it is culturally already.

3. People who buy into the old propaganda that marijuana is some super dangerous drug on par with meth or heroin, best just to ignore these types. I have a family member who swear up and down that marijuana “destroyed his family” yet fails to see that alcohol actually did that years decades later.
Yep, but it's inbox already!
Although with winget it will require UAC permissions.
The federal employee count isn't ballooning. Most of the DMV growth is hanger-ons (lobbyists, non-profits, contractors).
I agree with the author's philosophy, but the approach described only gives you confidence at the time the code is written/tested. If someone changes adjacent code, you can no longer assume that your manual mutation testing is still valid. At some point (either in age or size or complexity of the codebase) manual mutation testing is going to decrease in effectiveness until the ROI of doing it is hard to justify. Automation is really key.

There's lots of great tools that help with mutation testing, though they can be expensive to run (depending on how they work and how many tests you have). In a past life, I wrote my own mutation testing library which run the tests after each mutation and generated a "reverse code coverage" report: essentially a report of which lines/functions/statements/etc. did not cause the tests to fail when mutated. Where code coverage is ideally approaching 100%, the reverse code coverage should have been near 0%. If you take the intersection of a coverage report with a reverse coverage report, you can easily find code that is executed, but whose behavior is not checked.
From experience playing Veloren, it’s one of the least buggy alphas I’ve ever played, and it runs incredibly smoothly. Not sure if that can be attributed to language choice, but I thought it was pretty remarkable when trying it out.
There’s plenty of other charging station companies they could buy and corner Tesla.
DeansList (YC IK12) Is Hiring a React Native Eng to Build Apps for Schools
Wow, this scenario is basically copied from the old PalmPilot ad:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6bcTc8e2-6U
To give a bit more context to what the others wrote. AHK is the only reason I use Windows and not macOS nor Linux on a desktop because they don't offer anything remotely powerful as AHK and AHK makes my life 1,000x easier/faster. I always wonder how others can use a computer without something like AHK. I dislike its language design and all its quirks a lot but all the alternatives I checked come not close in terms of features and have an even worse UX.

So, there's definitely a market opportunity but I'd go more low-level in order to have OS-wide coverage and preferably beyond one OS but this would be impossible when doing three implementations. Maybe a macOS version is a good start. There you have few options which bring you far but yeah, not as far as AHK.
Latest Lenovo Legion laptop series, for example, have matte screen. There are also anti-glare screen sticker, but it blocks some of the light and makes colors look dull. Just look for laptops with matte screen.
Purchased! Side note: new books on Amazon always seemed to be perfectly priced so that I buy new instead of used. Is this just a market at equilibrium plus my personal bias? It makes me feel like Amazon is driving used book sellers into the ground in some nefarious way, but I don't know enough about economics to come to any conclusions myself.
The limits of the proposed 'behavioral immune system'
Shell has branded itself back in the early 00 years that they're basically a solar company now. So have other oil companies ("Beyond Petroleum").

The "but the oil industry is investing in other energy including renewables!" was all a big lie, the numbers never supported that. It'll take more than some token investments to convince people that it's different this time.
Because it's like staring into a mirror all day.
Interesting concept. I'm curious why you decided to make this — a scratch-your-own-itch thing, or some other motivation?
Then why not just use curl?
That's true. It uses Markdown.
I recall being asked on a job application whether I was ever arrested, regardless of conviction. In some places, mere involvement with law enforcement is taboo.
Tech barons like Jeff Bezos want to colonize space and the oceans
Cool. Thanks. That all makes a ton of sense.

It also explains some of what we would see on various systems too.

If, say target frame buffer was some multiple of the color clock, it would be 320, 640, maybe as low as 160 pixels. (We had a couple of those and it was crappy obvious)

That ramp seems like it needs to align with that clock too, or there would be color fringing. Avoiding it entirely is gonna be soft, or strict limits on color combos.

(How many TV newscasts went with blue and white?)

Going sharper would mean a potential color artifact amd or different ones, depending on the alignment between the color clock and the ramp pixel start?

Say it was a blue fringe. Placing the glyph on an even pixel start might generate a bluish artifact, and a reddish one on an odd pixel. (Assuming 320 pixels for illustration)

Good placement against say a blue background, maybe gradient to also mask even odd line effects...

Were there placement limits per glyph to keep these things consistent? Did you guys get down to that detail?

Some of the graphics seen near the end of SD were sweet! Like almost every issue woven into a nice looking, very clever package.
Nice work!

These days I try to avoid interpreted CLI tools, you never know when they’re going to stop working.

Rust/Go CLI tools basically work on Linux, Max, Windows without too much fuss.

Wish someone would rewrite Homebrew in Rust!
It is, but then you come to places like HN and everyone is bashing against App Stores.
I read that the reason Intel switched to LGA pins from standard sockets is the chip is more expensive and less likely to die than the motherboard, so it makes more sense to put the fragile part of the interface on the motherboard.
Dislike for Pull Requests
Although GitHub supports the commit-based review the author is arguing for (they found it too after writing the article), I don't think it completely solves the problem - we need to be able review, test, and merge each commit individually without needing to merge the entire PR. Since GitHub doesn't have first-class support for dependent PRs, we are still "stuck" with a broken workflow. An example workaround: https://wchargin.github.io/posts/managing-dependent-pull-req.... Are there any better solutions?
This automated approach reminds me of fuzzing.
I assume RAM is the same in this regard. If it passes memtest86, it's golden.
Capitalism can't work its magic because healthcare is not a free market. It has a unique set of constraints that capitalism is particularly weak at dealing with: lack of choice (you don't get to choose which hospital you go to in a lot of circumstances), high barrier to entry, constantly changing regulatory environment, etc...

The reason single payer systems work is because they're at a specific advantage for all of the constraints that healthcare systems face, including a better overall incentive alignment.
A coat check ticket, a magic spell
That we did not have a world war does not imply that MAD works.

Moreover the world came incredibly close to total destruction a number of times, and in part it is just look that we are still alive. For example, imagine a different president than Kennedy in power during the Cuban missile crisis.
The truly rational (and ethical) way to get a vaccine early would have been to volunteer in an early-stage trial. You'd even get paid! The risk would be lower, and the likely efficacy would be higher, because even an unproven candidate is more likely to work than something you cooked up in your kitchen. In some early stages there isn't even the risk that you would be in the placebo arm. And of course there's the extra benefit that you would be helping the wider community, though I'm not sure how important that is to true Rationalists.
It's not so black and white. There are many varieties of "not great" boss, and not all of them are toxic. A narcissist is not always a toxic boss. But it will be really frustrating until you get their perspective, and t he at situation can certainly get toxic. Get a working partnership going with someone like this and they are a benefit.

But the minute words like "toxic" or "abusive" come into play, absolutely the options are "validate the abuser's hold". or "get out"
Still, worth saying that it's given as an exception that proves the rule that snappier UIs lead to more transactions in ecommerce. The exception was that users couldn't believe that live search in different airlines could be as fast as they made it.
To the extent you are posting this as a warning to rationally inclined young people to not be seduced by the discourse on LessWrong, your warning is likely to be perceived as cranky by that audience and therefore ineffective. You may want to revisit your style, if that’s indeed your goal.
I bet it's still cheaper to roll the dice at a 1 in 50 chance capacity is down 20% for a year than overbuild fabs. They're semiconductors, not staple foods.
All non-touchscreen XPS models I've seen were matte.
It is a way to catch trolls.
Yep, that's the idea. It's done in several parts of the standard library to in-place construct objects, usually via std::piecewise_construct.

>It wouldn't work if, e.g., later elements of the tuple are constructed with pointers into earlier elements...

That's right but there's no way to construct a tuple in this manner. You can construct a tuple with some default values and then after construction have elements of the tuple point to others, but you couldn't possibly construct a tuple where elements of the tuple are pointing to one another.
Here's a counterpoint:

https://www.curbed.com/2021/01/elon-musk-miami-tunnel-boring...
I have a pair of HP Elite monitors which are glossy in my home. As far as I know they don't make these any more, but I've been using them for over ten years and I've resisted upgrading to bigger because I enjoy the gloss so much.
Thanks for the feedback and the link :).
Indian Farmers Protests
I don't consider it an understandable or excusable mistake.

Not that they failed to specially protect Asians when they made their content filter, that they even made a content filter in the first place.

Because this kind of error is not only predictable and inevitable, it's not even fixable.

Even now, even if someone at Apple directs this to be fixed, the fix can only possibly be stupid, and the same error will still happen to countless other benign searches and content. Even actual humans get this wrong.

Since 2018 when they introduced the filter, it was known for blocking searches for "safe sex" or anything with sex in the string, while allowing searches to join terrorist organizations.

The fundamental problem is that words are not deeds nor intents. Words, any words, are just words and have no good or bad value. Even good people doing good things still have to use words that refer to bad things. In order to say "War is Hell", you have to say both war and hell. It's patently insane to think there is some way around such a basic thing.

If you wanted to respond to my arguement and say yeah but what about "Japanese school girl"? You had to say "Japanese school girl" and the discussion would be impossible or a farce if both our comments kept getting blocked, or even if just the "bad" parts were.
So guys I've been blocked.
See: https://web.archive.org/web/20210206065553/https://community...
That is why when IBM made the IBM PC based on the Intel 8088 they made Intel license the chip design to AMD and NEC in case Intel could not make chips quick enough to meet demand.
Straight facts, it was all about the racism. And pandering for votes from white nationalists. Some things don't ever change in America. Politicians gave up the tax revenue in order to get racist votes so they could be in power.

We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/12/big-lie-war-agains...

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...
And people thought Intel's fab problems were going to doom it. Maybe in 5 years, but right now, they've got a product 80% as good as competitors when there's a shortage. It's a compromise a lot of people are willing to make right now.
Another thought comes to mind (which I mention just for novelty's sake): even if a full rational analysis says that taking, say, heroin is a bad idea (for pretty much anyone who plans to live for more than a year, or whatever), it seems legalization should open the door to people tweaking the formula to come up with something with similar positive effects and fewer drawbacks. It seems to me that a great way to get people to stop taking dangerous drugs is to make something that's just better and is also less dangerous.

I've read a few things over the years saying that medical and psychiatric researchers (all but the bravest) have absolutely avoided doing anything remotely connected to the illegal drugs because of fear; given marijuana's use in pain management, and more recent results about psychedelics being possibly useful to treat depression and PTSD, this has probably set back research by years, possibly decades.
I put more weight on the politicians elected by the Right as opposed to a poll of the constituency. The elected officials are going to be more representative of how people actually feel, and what ideas they hold as taboo.
Yes, there are legitimate reasons to test for the use of particular drugs - and in the case of marijuana, operating heavy plant, or flying aircraft, or driving trains etc, would qualify; anything where alertness and reaction time is crucial.

I'd quibble, though, with your statement: "... because drug users can and will steal you blind if they are addicted enough."

It is important not to lump all drug use together. There is a huge difference between marijuana use and use of heroin, or other opiates, which are extremely physically addictive and which do cause users in withdrawal to turn to crime to rob you blind for the next fix.

Alcohol addiction is also physical, and the need for alcohol by addicts craving a drink creates lots of petty crime.

Marijuana is not physically addictive, and users do not suffer from withdrawal symptoms/effects. Burglary and violent crime are just not fuelled by marijuana use in that way.
I love the project but consider integrating oopspam (https://oopspam.com) instead of Akismet. Akismet is basically adding a tracking. People from the EU cannot use it with Akismet.