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Question to the mods- Would it be okay to make a Netflix for white people company and post it to hacker news?

Question for the founders- At least since Feb 2021, Amazon and Netflix have created and promoted black voices by creating a separate category. Is the problem you attempt to solve more visibility and is what Amazon doing insufficient?
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I'll go with Odesa because that adds more flavor to the analogy.
try getting a recent kid book focused on black culture but that isn’t also racist and try to portray white peoples as evil. I have not been able to find any.
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Original dev here. I took another look at these and I found a lot of animations that we could convert to transforms to improve performance. I just created a new issue here: https://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-css/issues/9
So the M1 has turned me off of Apple products because, quite frankly, I don't want to spend (more) of my time fixing shit a trillion dollar company broke and doesn't care to fix.

This though, this will be the nail in the coffin with my 25 year relationship to Apple. I probably wouldn't even have batted an eye at it to be honest, iff, Apple hadn't been selling me on the idea that their platform is "private and secure." But... they have... And this has made it quite clear, they will absolutely destroy that security/privacy the moment they want/need to. So I have been paying, a hefty premium, to be lied to and that makes me fucking cross. I have previously supported Apple because it seems like they typically do "the right thing" but this is so fucking insane to me I have to permanently question the judgement of those in charge.

Do not sell privacy and security if you're going to completely violate that security and privacy.

In 25 years or less this bullshit will be made illegal, because there is ZERO chance nefarious actors won't learn how to create benign images that match the hash of a heinous photo to destroy people. I can almost guarantee, right now, nation-state sponsored hackers and affiliated groups are attempting to get those hashes and do exactly that. It's just too fucking easy to manipulate once you're in and has absolutely zero chance of being detected once you're generating the hashes until too many lives are ruined.

May hell have no mercy for the souls who made this...
They left out T-Mobile Home Internet from the comparison. It's a more than viable option if you're in the right location. You'll usually see faster speeds (about double) and lower latency (closer to standard broadband) than Starlink based on my analysis of a half-dozen recent reviews. It's also much cheaper, $0 up front and $60/mo vs Starlink's $499 up front and $99 a month. Starlink, of course, covers much more remote areas than T-Mobile Home Internet will.
Not all black Americans are fans of BET, or its effect on black society and culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZchP89w2pJo
As discussed in the comments it looks like the Cisco VPN client (when I zoom in I think it's that and not Thunderbird, too): https://twitter.com/andrewheumann/status/745332192457396224
The conversation today is not really about PhotoDNA (checking image hashes against known bad list). That ship has sailed and most large tech companies already do it. Apple will do it one way or another. It’s a good way to fight the sharing of child porn, which is why it is so widely adopted.

The question is whether it is worse to do it on-device, than on the server. That’s what Apple actually announced.

I suspect Apple thought doing it on-device would be better for privacy. But it feels like a loss of control. If it’s on the server, then I can choose to not upload and avoid the technology (and its potential for political abuse). If it’s on my locked and managed mobile device, I have basically no control over when or which images are getting checked, for what.
I'm actually on the opposite side of this. I know HN is more web-focused so embedded isn't as much represented but I'm scared every time I'm trying to learn Javascript or even Rust.

Syntactic sugar complicates code for me, it may help to reveal the intent what the code is doing but I *have to* know how the code is doing it. Of course you can just learn what the compiler will do in every of those instances but that's a lot to learn and it increases exponentially. On the other hand in C you have assignments, conditionals, loops and function calls - nothing else.

In the end the code will do the same thing but I'm willing to spent few more keystrokes and maybe an added comment just for the peace of mind of knowing what is actually happening. (One may say that the assembler output is still a blackbox but the general structure of the computation will remain intact)

It may be outdated, I agree, but it's just something I can't shake off
They also make the US post home delivery trucks and other government vehicles.
A few years ago I would've agreed but WSL is so damn good now that I honestly prefer it over developing on a Mac, particularly as it solves a lot of the performance issues.
They are; not one group but many (still distinct from "non-black").
I’m American and believe me, at least half of the country thinks shit like this is utterly insane and divisive. But there is no reasoning with ideologues.
> It's pretty amusing that they assembled it with a boring old construction crane.

This crane is neither boring, nor old. It's an engineering marvel itself. It's a Liebherr LR 11350 [1], one of the most powerful mobile cranes available worldwide, modified by SpaceX for their own use case [2].

[1]: https://www.liebherr.com/en/int/products/mobile-and-crawler-...

[2]: https://starship-spacex.fandom.com/wiki/LR11350
The list of pesticides allowable in organic farming is (at least under OMRI rules) determined by naturalness, not safety. For example, pyrethrin occurs naturally in chrysanthemums, so it's allowed, even though it's highly toxic to bees. Tau-fluvalinate is a synthetic pyrethroid (pyrethrin analog), so it's forbidden, even though it's sufficiently nontoxic to bees that it's used as a miticide in commercial hives.

Synthetic pesticides are designed and screened in the same way as small molecule drugs, a long and uncertain process that's still far easier than discovering a new natural product. At least in theory, these synthetic compounds can be optimized for whatever we want. It's just that absent regulation, the commercial incentive is for better short-term yield regardless of the ecological cost.

One could imagine a certification similar to organic that forbids the most ecologically damaging practices--even if they're using natural products--and permits safer use of synthetic products. Probably a hard sell to consumers, though. I've occasionally seen produce marketed as "IPM" (integrated pest management), which isn't quite that but goes in that general direction.
this sounds like the typical scam where they already have someone in their circle working on exactly this, and they’re just announcing a competition to get media attention before they end up picking that team as the “natural” winners.
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If it were in the soil, the sprinkler system would suppress itself in a feedback loop unless you had an intentional brown spot for the sensor.
Doesn't the textual representation not matter for using them in DB columns? The DB just uses the actual bytes, no?
>They would keep their eyes on the price per Cocoa Puff and not fall for gimmicks in how companies package those Cocoa Puffs.

In the EU there is a problem where even this is subject to shrinkflation.

e.g. a jar in Nutella bought in Germany will taste better than a jar of Nutella bought in Poland. Even though the grams of Nutella per Euro is the same.

https://www.dw.com/en/is-eastern-european-nutella-worse/a-39...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073586
Also knowing a ring is about 1.8m or 6 "someones extremities" high should help, but somehow it still doesn't give a "feel" for the height
What does "LGBT training" mean? What I gather is that what they are teaching kids is, in essence, "be kind to each other". Do these families that are protesting not have the same biases against gay people that the person I originally responded to has?
Sometimes I have seen the opposite problem, where people look like they do not have enough engagement in customer cases, because most of the bugs are ironed out before the new release is announced.
> the FTC supports efforts to shed light on opaque business practices, especially around surveillance-based advertising

A glimmer of hope seems on the horizon for the open web and end-user freedoms in the face of corporate encroachment on civil liberties. 'bout time!
There was something unique about cameras made in the US. Not as elegant as their German or Japanese counterparts. Very robust and industrial.
My formula is usually to listen to the project idea, talk to a few people, take my first feeling how long it could take and then multiply by 5. This usually is pretty accurate.
> Should stop eventually.

That doesn't sound very good from a potential user's perspective. It reads like "meh, time will tell".

"Investigating right now", even when dishonest, sounds more like you're actively trying to fix the situation, which draws a much more positive picture.

Of course, in this situation, it will stop eventually, but are cold facts always the best way to communicate a situation and convey a message? Of course not.
Investment visas are nothing unprecedented. Many people "buy in" to Europe this way too. Even the US has such a program.

The more important question in my mind is "Why does Larry Page want to buy residence to New Zealand?". Usually those leveraging such programs are the wealthy from traditionally more unstable countries than the US, like Russian oligarchs.

Is this a sign of rats leaving a sinking ship?
I’m also in industrial automation and know the challenges of being “last” in years long projects.

We are very deliberate about setting deliverable dates in time after the required inputs by others are available, and when inevitably they are not, we have a spreadsheet sent to the customer every 2 weeks which shows what information we are missing and the delay that is causing to our progress. As we are liable for damages if we delay the project it is necessary for us to have the proof that we did not cause the project to be behind schedule. This often means having these difficult conversations only a month in to a year long project when vendor drawings we were promised are not delivered.
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Robert McNamara speaks about this in the documentary "The fog of war" - they identified the problem (people were dying in crashes), implemented a solution (seatbelts + signs reminding people they were there), but couldn't get people to use them. Thus is the human condition, I suppose.
While HN is a bubble it will not result in burning the country to the ground.
The problem is when polarization create war between 2 camp.
The Apple feature discussed here is for photos being synched to iCloud Photos. It does not scan arbitrary local content.
How are we selling and marketing ourselves as something we're not? No, we're not Netflix today--I think that's somewhat inherent in the fact that we're a startup here on HN. But we say that we're working with indie filmmakers and content, not high-budget Hollywood productions, so I think we admit where we're at.
I think richer control of lighting, including color and brightness, is useful, even if 99% of the time you interact with it via the wall switch. I had Philips Hue lights at my last house and enjoyed the level of control the app gave me. I used the simple scheduling capability it had and would have used more power if they offered it. (I did wish I had more control at the wall; I only had on/off switches and would have liked to have a dimmer and a button to toggle different programs.)

I can't say I found the ability to control my lights and thermostat from beyond the local network to be compelling. I changed the Nest thermostat for my mother once while she was staying there since she couldn't figure out how to do it, and I think that was the only time I found it useful. I never set up remote access for the lights and never missed it.

Remote security will be a useful application, though. Being able to buzz people in for repairs and deliveries and other services, and know that they know they can't steal anything without being seen, is an attractive possibility.

Fine-grained control of sound is another feature I would use. I often wish I could play audio in the whole house, just one room, or certain rooms, depending on the circumstances.

Also, something I find myself wishing for (less often since Covid, but still occasionally): cameras inside my refrigerator and pantry, so if I have a dinner idea while I'm out, I know what I need to pick up on the way home.
> The US is somewhat unique in having a large population that was ripped from their respective home countries and forced to create their own shared culture under the thumb of slavery.

Unique?

"Between 1502 and 1866, of the 11.2 million Africans taken, only 388,000 arrived in North America, while the rest went to Brazil, the European colonies in the Caribbean and Spanish territories in Central and South America, in that order"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Latin_America
Oh how I love the 4k thing they put on my p17...
common in the US as well
> 23. While rare, sometimes it's a problem with the compiler. Otherwise, it's always DNS.

Is DNS here just referring to Domain Name System, as in to reference problems with systems out of our control?
define horrible? i have a 8x18tb raid-6 array and it rebuilds in 2-3 days.
In the above comment, an American continuing to think that everything and anything is centered around USA and it's history.

Many of us are from countries where segregationary nonsense like this is rightly found to be disgusting.

But hey, it's HN, let's drive fractures deeper as there's a buck to be made.
The problems with code are only compounded manyfold with no code, no code as a concept is still not as superfluous as something like gpt3 for ex, but beyond solving simple problems, I have little confidence in anything built with no-code YMMV
OK. Not my use case. I have never really listened that intensely.

But totally understand when the milage varies.
Strangely Telemundo/Univision's American arms don't have to deal with this type of criticism. The "for" is clearly indicating a target audience, not that you can't sign-up if you're not Black with photo identification, which is the courts' criteria for illegal discrimination and segregation.
> based on someone’s skin colour you are determining their culture/heritage.

People can have more than one cultural background, and American "black culture" is the common cultural heritage around the experience of being black in America, which has a lot of broad commonalities regardless of where in the country you are, and also locale-specific subcultures (e.g. west coast vs east coast vs deep south).

Like the whole point of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was that Will Smith and his uncle's family had very different subcultural contexts (although their divide was less "Nigeria vs Jamaica" and more a class divide), but also shared the broader experience of being black in America.
I'm confused. If iCloud backups are not encrypted [1], and this only scans iCloud photos, why can't they just do this server side? I'm not saying server-side is OK, but its at least not device side (which is obviously a slippery slope).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
> We've gone from "don't label me, I'm not a soup can" in the 90s to literal label worship nowadays.

No, we haven't. “Don’t label me, I’m not a soup can” was a reaction by certain people against what they saw the current dominant culture to be at the time in exactly the same way that pointing to that as an ideal today is. Except that the latter adds in the construction of an idealized view of the recent past on top of it.

EDIT: But, it is true that the 90s—basically the last period of sustained, strong, broad economic expansion (subsequent expansions have been much worse distributionally)—was also a local high point in subjective perceived quality of race conditions, though not particularly in objective measures. People are a lot more prone to be concerned with fairness issues when their experience falls short of expectations than when they don't.
Death per infection does not correctly state the risk.

A better look would be dead/recovered. Death per infection assumes nobody else infected will die, which makes that risk assessment the absolute best case.
I avoid interview podcasts because they wander across so many topics. If one were to stick strictly to a well defined topic or question, then I would personally be more open to them
Okay, so with a half-life of five years, whatever you spray at year zero, you get about 87.0551% left by next year.

So, let's imagine we spray just one unit per year. Year zero, one unit. Farmer Brown shows up to do his usual one-unit blast, recommended by Monsanto, but 87% of the stuff is still there.

Year two, 1.870551 units are present. Year three, 2.628408673 units. Year four, 3.288162485. By year ten, you have 5.79376654 units present.

If the half-life is really five years, you should do an initial one-unit dump, then just thirteen percent of that every subsequent year.
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But I don't have 2 or 3 hours to listen in to conversations of strangers and then decide if they are worthwhile or not.
Having to build out-of-tree drivers to get that Realtek WLAN card to work sounds like a real pain, it's good that Lenovo ditched that stupid PCI ID whitelist. (I think? I haven't had a ThinkPad in quite a while.)
This is Safeway. Prices of eggs at least in the SF Bay Area are insane. I will try to take a pic for non-believers.
Yes. Im sure they charter 4200 kilometer medevac flights for anybody, while country is on total lock down, and the emergency is so urgent whole thing takes >24 hours before the flight even takes off.

>“The day after the application was received, a New Zealand air ambulance staffed by a New Zealand ICU nurse-escort medevaced the child and an adult family member from Fiji to New Zealand,”

https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-travel-new-z...

Reminder, Sydney is merely 1 hour extra flight time away and borders were wide open in January.
Good to know. Will watch for it. Currently not an issue.
It is a double standard, not only would the mods not allow a post of a company that says its mission is to create the Netflix for white ppl, but YC would never dream of funding it.

I am all for discrimination, but you have to let everyone discriminate and currently whites can't.
Philips makes a range of "Warm Glow" LED dumb bulbs that change from ~2700k to 2200k as they dim.

Not nearly the color range (or control ability) you can achieve with something like Hue bulbs, but I've been happy with them for bed side lamps and the like.

You can also put Hue bulbs in and use something like HomeAssistant with the F.lux plugin to control the brightness + color temperature automatically throughout the day. No wall switch-based dimming, but dimmable with a phone.
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> but they had become too annoying and keeping an old machine around to use them was much more complicated than just buying a spanking new network printer.

To be fair the problem of unreliable USB to LPT adapters was caused by this. It was more economical to just replace printers so there wasn't enough demand for a quality converter.

If replacing legacy smart home devices is costly then it would provide a market for reliable adapter devices.
The chief just said should take 2 weeks for the next 4 major steps: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423670139615014917

I suppose hot-phase testing after that
Insteon is pretty good (Wall switches, lamp dimmers and appliance modules). No central hub required. They form relationships with one another without a middle man. There's also a USB module if you like programming your own stuff.
The toppings can slide around during shipping. If someone turns a box of pizzas on its side, the pepperoni slices will tend to slide to the low spot. When I make a frozen or take-and-bake pizza I almost always have to redistribute the toppings before I put it in the oven.
I see speeds of up to 415Mbps down, 65Mbps up, and latency as low as ~16ms. I regularly see 200Mbps down, and I cap the upstream to 20Mbps to help with bufferbloat. Latency is usually around 20-40ms.
>I'm sorry, but this is 100% incorrect. In fact the opposite is true.

>Hash collisions are 100% impossible to avoid. You are mapping an infinite set (the set of all possible images) to a finite set (a fixed length number).

If you want to be needlessly pedantic I guess. But for 99.999999% of usage hash collisions don't exist in practice.

>Cryptographic hashes are designed so that collisions are hard to construct at will. But this is not a cryptographic hash at all and I wouldn't be surprised that constructing an image that matches a given hash is easy.

You got a cite to back this up? Because they claim otherwise.
> It’s not the “melting pot” idea of America that I was raised with

I remember that song from Schoolhouse Rock too. But if as an adult you sincerely believe the US has actually been a "melting pot" at any point in history, you are deeply misinformed. What about Native American genocide, slavery, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Jim Crow, internment of Japanese-Americans, redlining, or mass incarceration sounds like a "melting pot" to you?
I think we're already well past the point of return on that. It's not the 90s anymore where everyone watches the same 2 sitcoms or whatever. There's YouTube, Twitch, and like a dozen different streaming services out there. People don't all watch the same stuff anymore.

I assume you are just as critical of things like Crunchyroll?
What I've seen is that people question things if it serves them, but have lots of other priorities more important than critically thinking about everything they encounter
Which is made worse and worse by this type of tech which explicitly says such content is for black people.
The background section gives reasons derived from looking at existing implementations.

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Due to the shortcomings of UUIDv1 and UUIDv4 details so far, many
widely distributed database applications and large application
vendors have sought to solve the problem of creating a better time-
based, sortable unique identifier for use as a database key. This
has lead to numerous implementations over the past 10+ years solving
the same problem in slightly different ways.

- Timestamps MUST be k-sortable. That is, values within or close
to the same timestamp are ordered properly by sorting algorithms.

- Timestamps SHOULD be big-endian with the most-significant bits
of the time embedded as-is without reordering.

- Timestamps SHOULD utilize millisecond precision and Unix Epoch
as timestamp source. Although, there is some variation to this
among implementations depending on the application requirements.

- The ID format SHOULD be Lexicographically sortable while in the
textual representation.

- IDs MUST ensure proper embedded sequencing to facilitate sorting
when multiple UUIDs are created during a given timestamp.

- IDs MUST NOT require unique network identifiers as part of
achieving uniqueness.

- Distributed nodes MUST be able to create collision resistant
Unique IDs without a consulting a centralized resource.
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Stickers is what I ordered and put on all those keyboards. Why lenovo, why?