skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the person you asked this to, but I have 20/20 recently tested. I can certainly see the difference between 1080p and 4k on a laptop screen. I just don't see how it's worth the extra cost and reduced battery life.

Either way I think 1440p is the sweet spot. Wish more laptops would go that route.
I believe # is available as a symbol and I doesn't conflict with existing operators
If you want to sell your overpriced chocolates, you're better off selling at Whole Foods rather than Walmart. Just because Whole Foods is the market that the wealthy prefer doesn't make them antitrust.
The store is working but it won't connect with my Verizon account to let me check out. If anything was going to go wrong, of course it's integrating with Verizon. Have had so many issues with their website.
No, the textbook is much more focused on rigorous security definitions and proving security of primitives against these definitions.
I am not saying global warming is great, but unless it will reduce us to something worse than an industrialized society it is worth it.

And worse than an industrialized society is 90%+ living at subsistance levels and 50%+ under 5 mortality.
Upstreamed? Why would they want to deal with that kind of crap?
I don't buy this. Trickle down economics is bullshit.

Investment happens anywhere there is a chance of positive return.

Investing in new technology either as an inventor/entrepreneur or dumb money still offers returns exponentially higher than anything else, should it work out.

There is a point where excessive taxation/regulation hurts innovation, but I don't think we're anywhere near that.
Yeah or like an arm canister of oxygen. I get that the sport is supposed to be dangerous but we've taken dangerous sports and made them less dangerous before. It's not a huge loss.
Once you get older, you want less resolution, not more, because the pixels get too small. I've got a laptop with a native resolution of 1920x1080, which makes everything too small to see (blame Windows for this), but works just find for my secondary monitor which is twice the size, 4 times the area.

I've currently got it set at 1280x720, which is a reasonable size when you drag things between monitors, or use it without the big screen.

I definitely couldn't read anything with a font that fits more than about 30 lines of text on the screen.

Enjoy those small texts, and lots of them, while you can.
These are all devils advocate answers. None of these are things I would spend a lot of time pondering if I was building a spice rack with the exception of #2 if I had kids which is solved with a single extra screw or a single piece of 3m style adhesive strip

How many people spend their free time modifying their spice racks. I'm sure you can find some webpage of someone who has this as a hobby but let's go with less than .01%
So hilarious that the author of the Tao of Pooh is embroiled in an acrimonious copyright law spat.
that’s actually a blessing in disguise. you have somebody else poisoning your personal information without you having to do anything. i haven’t logged into facebook (or instagram or gmail) in at least a couple years. i hope the same has happened to my accounts.
A colloquialism that I explain in the second paragraph.
I suspect the OOP industrial complex like "Big Pharma".
I've got an Oticon that has Bluetooth to connect to the phone for the purpose of changing settings, streaming as well as locating it. It charges using magnetic charging in a little (proprietary) charging station.
I got sweaty hands and that doesn't work with TouchID. FaceID has been great, well at least until COVID. I'd really prefer both.
Is it just me, or are American settlements against tech companies always laughably small compared to Europe and elsewhere?
I think everybody rightly assumes they reserved those spots precisely so they could underpay them.
> bind them to their private Apple ID and bricking it.

Would this actually brick them? Wouldn't a factory reset (how I've always re-imaged Macs) not wipe that out?
Software engineering is a form of process automation which by its nature is a form of productivity improvement. So if some teams are not streamlining and consistently improving business processes then asking another team to help them do so with more software is kinda nonsensical.

For a while I worked on build tools and CI pipelines and I can honestly say that I never improved anyone's productivity. Most of my work was figuring out how to remove performance bottlenecks that unwitting software engineers would invariably add to the build and test process because a manager was breathing down their neck about delivering some feature yesterday. If business processes are dysfunctional then that's not a software productivity problem and can not be fixed by adding more software.
Yeah... plus, I don't know why, but the guy in the video immediately made my skin crawl, which continued throughout the whole video to the point where it was hard to pay attention to anything but how viscerally my body wanted to reject anything this guy said.
Not just smartphone cameras. This issue goes back to the days of film. Color film was historically designed to capture white skin tones while darker skin tones were compressed in to "brown/black."
> MacOS only scales widgets, images and fonts will always be rendered at native resolution

MacOS scales entire framebuffer. You can verify it by doing a screenshot and examining it.
Great news. I've been learning about and implementing real-time DSP algorithms for audio enhancement. (Cortex-M7) I started this hoping to make scifi headphone that enhance hearing for normal people with different presets, but realized what I'm essentially building is more like a hearing aid. Didn't even realize the regularly issue. (Although using the article's terminology, could probably already market this as a PSAP and be fine. (?)).
I wear hearing aides every day. SMALLER would be better and mine have BT5 and rechargeable. they are NOT cheap about $6k pair with 3 year complete warranty included. Again having options is the best thing, making them larger for me would mean they are more easily dislodged when I bend over to pick something up or are wearing them when working in shop. Having some that have better weather or fully waterproof would be great. I normal take them off when working outside or in the shop. The sweat makes them mostly useless because of the "noise" the sweat makes against the mics. Then the sweat also makes them slick and they will not stay in place. Having options is ideal and affordable options would be great. I don't know why these things are $6k pair when they share a lot of tech with modern in ear options from bose/apple/ect.
I don't know Chamath, but his presence online makes me think he is shady af. His whole TSLA "selling my shares while telling everyone else not to sell" scheme alone gets him a black mark in my book. Then all the SPAC stuff he did makes it even more unwholesome.
> why not hold some other stuff? maybe add something to hold fruits later?

What?? No. I have a fruit bowl and a fridge drawer to hold fruit. Why would I want to glue them together? So I can use precious refrigerator space to hold my cayenne powder? Maybe I can add a cell phone to my vacuum cleaner next, attach a paintbrush to my broom, or combine a lawn mower with a trowel.

These things do not belong together. I appreciate the vendor would like more of our kitchen storage spending, but that’s his problem, not his customers’.
Of course cutting costs beyond of point means cutting corners. But that's a different issue and what I highlighted.

I also disagree with your assessment of our "affordable products", they have enabled hundreds of millions of people to be lifted out of poverty.

I feel a big part of your reply highlights the point I made about the stance being political, which is fine up to a point but, IMHO, realism and pragmatism should prevail.
No, this one is Sno[w] Cone!
A Linux based M1 Max with ECC memory (and no GPU) would be a phenomenal server that could run the vast majority of hosting workloads.

Hosting providers would also love it because it's super small form factor and extremely low on power usage.
It is a product of prohibition, just like alcohol prohibition led (and leads) to the sale of methanol and other spirits as alcohol.
Haha, cool, I think we're actually in agreement. I think JS works best if you embrace its multi-paradigm nature, and attempts to make it either Java or Haskell would be horribly misguided, even if those were both better languages, because the language doesn't really support the things that make going purely into either of those paradigms attractive—with or without TypeScript doing a little compile-time type checking on top.
And you assume it wrong, having a car is a luxury in my native country and I was only able to afford one after I got into a comfortable 9-19 work schedule.

Don't assume that everyone is American or that American culture for commuting is widespread across the globe.
Thanks Google. Think I’ll be buying this.

I want as little to do with Google’s services as possible in my life, but they really deserve credits for making a modern usable smartphone that is reasonably open. There is just one single feature I will be buying this for - the 5 years of software updates. While good image processing is definitely a pro, all of these software you’re presenting features I really don’t give a damn about. Just give me a phone that is meant to last a little while - and allow me to run what I damn please. This looks to be like a continuation of the Pixel 5, which allows you run your own software like /e/OS and CalyxOS aside to just being a lot less of a walled garden on the stock ROM.

The Android market is completely dire, and no vendor can be trusted to provide openness, reasonable taste or security updates. They sell you a phone, and once you’ve clicked buy they’ve already stopped caring. So last year I switched to an iPhone 12. I needed to vote with my wallet to get a phone that lasts. But although I get what’s appealing about iPhones and the walled garden, I started feeling claustrophobic. Feeling claustrophobic about what I can tailor about my browser, how easily I can run Game Boy games, what ads I can block, and Apple’s stated intents to actively incriminate you by scanning your photos on a personal device. I will continue to recommend those phones for most people (pending what they’re going to do with trying to incriminate you), but it’s not for me.

Finally here’s a seemingly good Android phone with 5 years of support - from the only phone vendor outside of Apple who appears to give a damn about that aspect. Don’t get me wrong: 5 years is still too short in my view, and not as long as Apple provides support for on their stuff [1]. But the market needs change, and I’ll put money towards that.

[1]: The iPhone 5S has just hit 8 years of _kernel_ security updates last month with iOS 12.5.5. One can dream on the Android side, but I’ll take 5 years in the current market.
An improperly tuned hearing aid can make your hearing worse though...actively causing further damage.
H1B visas aren't "preferred", it's the only visa available for skilled immigration for most people.
Then the doctor leaves their signature off the prescription so that it is effectively useless.
Bill Murray has something of a reputation for drawing a clear line when he's becoming too much of a center of attention in public life (an instance I'm thinking of is him asking to be left alone while watching White Sox games from the stands), and that's probably helped his career, if not also his state of mind.
BUT WHAT IF PEOPLE ABUSE HEARING AID??????

To be serious: amount of things that are "prescription only", even if they can cause only minimal harm, is astounding.
If you have a specific library or platform requirement then this advice is obviously not applicable, but for learning programming and software engineering principles, I honestly can't think of a better introductory language than Go.

I love Python, and the ecosystem is vast, you're right, but it has a serious issue with packaging, delivery, and dependency management. I have almost a decade of software engineering under my belt, and Python environment issues give me a hard time _regularly_. For beginners, it is a major demotivating factor that can be a death sentence for learning.
The original Lisp definitions by McCarthy
> At least render fonts at native resolution and only up/downscale the rest of the widgets. Scaling fonts can NOT be done by post-processing or it WILL be wrong.

They are fine, but just cannot downscale to arbitrary sizes. Note that macOS doesn't do 125%, for example, because that's one of the worst cases - you have 5 pixels to do job of 8.
Fasting is required to see the full benefit of calorie restriction in mice
see also, Harlan Ellison's Gopher Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_hekYXWiw
Also recently went through a bunch of tech interviews, and had a similar experience. Felt the exact same as doing consulting case interviews in college. I have my script, I recite the relevant variation for the problem, and I pass the interview.

It’s great for me that I can almost always pass, but I do feel bad for people who never had a chance to just learn the magic words.
> Why should it be JavaScript?

Because that is a design requirement.
As some with a mild APD this would be fantastic! It has never been worth the cost and effort to get "real" hearing aids but I would probably live in the oct version.
We are, I totally agree with you!
My bad.

"Are they still denying us basic functionality that's been part of smartphone USB ports since MHL in 2011 for the express purpose of making us buy crap we don't want?"
What a lost opportunity to have an Android Quindim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindim
Here's the current rules. They seem pretty reasonable

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/freight-trucking-dot-hours-136...

For example, drivers who transport property in the same state are subject to state regulations but not federal regulations. Whereas drivers who deliver materials from state to state must comply with federal regulations. Among the regulations:

A reset occurs when a driver has had marked 34 consecutive hours off duty. The workweek starts after the last legal reset. For example, if you begin at 1 a.m. on Monday, then the workweek continues until 1 a.m. the following Monday.

Each duty period must begin with at least 10 hours off-duty.

Drivers may work no more than 60 hours on-duty over seven consecutive days or 70 hours over eight days. And they need to maintain a driver's log for seven days and eight days after, respectively.

Drivers may be on duty for up to 14 hours following 10 hours off duty, but they are limited to 11 hours of driving time.

Drivers must take a mandatory 30-minute break by their eighth hour of coming on duty.

The 14-hour duty period may not be extended with off-duty time for breaks, meals, fuel stops, etc.

I would say the only issue is on your required break time, you sit around doing nothing and not get paid for it. If you are at home that is fine, if you are a long haul trucker, you're stuck at a truck stop waiting for time to complete.

As a side note, as others have mentioned, truck drivers have been getting paid less and less over the years, and that's not accounting for inflation; plus it's rough on relationships, so it's no wonder there is a shortage.
The problem with Metal is that it's not Vulkan. People don't care that Metal came first, especially not game developers who are transitioning deeper into the Vulkan pipeline year-after-year. Apple used to have pretty good gaming support on MacOS back when OpenGL and 32-bit apps were in vogue, but upon pulling the plug for those technologies and not offering a suitable cross-platform replacement, many developers just walked away from the platform entirely. Valve in particular completely dropped Proton support for MacOS, wiping out a lot of user's game libraries come Catalina.

Now, Apple knows this. There are technologies (MoltenVK) that are actively being developed to fill this gap. A lot of this tooling is in it's infancy though, and requires an insane amount of overhead to run (doubly so on ARM). The current consensus is that Apple's graphics APIs are too unstable for most cross-platform titles to target, and most game studios would rather not divide their dev teams into "the Mac people" and "the every-other-platform people".
How Should Tech Companies Pay Their Remote Workers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28755257

People generally think these companies get punished too much in other threads.
I used to walk across SF on a daily basis and I would usually go out of my way to avoid certain streets. Some because of homeless people/blocked sidewalks, others because of hyper-aggressive traffic. I'd happily add 10 minute to my walking commute just to start my day on slightly more pleasant streets.
Samples are mostly from men that already have problems with fertility. Helthy mens probably wont give samples for studies etc. So those general conclusions are not valid so much.
> he noted that one-third of respondents described a jump from 750 to 770 on the math portion of the SAT as having a significant effect on a student’s chances of admissions

But did the SAT prep really help people go from 750 to 770? I'd guess that most of that 20 point jump would be for people who start out at 500 or so, and going from 500 to 520 isn't terribly significant. Fixing the last points is much much harder than the middle, so I really doubt that people at that level would see the same absolute gain as people in the middle.
Sorry, but GoDaddy is a disgrace, and your comment makes no sense at all, you are comparing WP with Django. And instead of recommending VPS as a solution, you recommend the worst party offering these services?

GoDaddy should burn in hell for their shady shit.
As if the total amount of wealth in the Western world does not account for a living wage for every person healthy enough to work.

This isn't a zero sum game.
If you find out, let me know! I'd love to know this, too.
https://docs.libretro.com/guides/install-libnx/
Do you think Google doesn't scan photos uploaded to its cloud services for CSAM?
But suddenly you need to keep up with a ton of different tools and if they break you either dig into the topic or you're f**ed. This is such a productivity killer it's crazy.
K8s manifest are yamls that translated to tens of K8s actions that change production environment .Misconfigurtions that can be prevented by integrating datree cli into CI/CD cycle can save hours of production unreliability. For me it's must have phase in K8s release flow.
Link doesn’t seem to work. Could be geo-fenced?

(Location: Norway/Europe)
Writing on the subject of exploring how to live doesn’t preclude setting and enforcing healthy boundaries. If anything, it seems to me he’s responding appropriately without being excessively inflammatory.
I don't get it, the Times made an error when it came to a figure in one article and that is, according to the title, a continuing bizarre decline in science reporting?

We could talk about science reporting at the times if we knew how many errors they make in say a thousand science articles compared to a decade ago, or if they're slower to correct them, or correct them less frequently or whatever else.

Up next, the bizarre decline in the quality of blogposting, one guy on substack made a mistake they didn't correct
Why are we getting our science news from the liberal arts majors on the other side of campus? The problem is they really do not understand science. They believe everything is concrete and don’t understand the nuances.
Not often but an aspect I respect about Apple is how they get the details right even when you don't see them. A profile of Ive mentions how they've thought about stuff like the color of the internal chips:

> One afternoon, Ive and Bart André removed the bottom panel of a MacBook laptop, revealing black and silver components arranged, with unnecessary orderliness, on a matte black circuit board. Ive looked down happily. “This is such an extraordinarily beautiful thing,” he said. André noted that, in a competitor’s computer, the board would be green. He sounded embarrassed on behalf of that other machine. On the same table was a plastic model of an existing Apple headphone—an EarPod—the size of a golf driver.

Having ugly feet on a laptop does betray a slight change in values. And yes, it's minor but it's like the extraneous requests on a rock star's rider. If they're not getting this right, what else are they missing?
I didn't say the community at large believes in it. I did say that it's a repackaged idea that originated from their community, and that's 100% true.

Maybe you're interpreting when I said they could "get behind" the idea as to mean I was implying that the entire community endorsed it, but that's not what I had intended to convey. What I meant to say was that some members of that community came up with this idea and then engaged with it in a way they would not engage with God or Jesus and Hell solely because of the framing of the deity as a technology instead of a spirit, and Hell as a simulation instead of another dimension.
As a web developer in the open source, PHP (YUCK) environment, the single time DCOM has been useful for me was an insurance company who had a government-mandated PDF document they had to send to customers.

Could we just generate a document in plaintext? No. It had to be pixel perfect dummy. And PDF!

Could we just recreate a pixel-perfect HTML to PDF template? No. That would take weeks and the client only budgeted a few hours.

So I asked, how do they do it currently. And they sent over a mail-merge MS Word template. We said, hey, so, we use PHP, open source, Linux. TOO MANY WORDS WE'RE PAYING YOU TO MAKE IT WORK.

Could we use the template in an open source framework compatible with the PHP solution we'd built? Yeahhhhhhhh... but no. The open source framework mangled the fonts, layout, and the PDF rendering was bodgy to say the least.

And yes, we went back and asked really, trully, honestly, does the government really give a shit if this document is not formatted exactly the same as whatever law they apparently passed said it had to look like.

No dice.

So we could have used any language I guess, but we were familiar with PHP. PHP has a DCOM extension that only works on Windows. So I spooled up a Windows Server instance (firewalled within the DC of course) and installed XAMPP and did a bunch of config to ensure it stayed updated automatically and rebooted every night at 1am. A small PHP script on the Windows server provided an API the website could call at any time. The Windows PHP endpoint had an unzipped DOCX, the script would copy the folder, search-and-replace based on API inputs, zip it up as a new DOCX file, opened in Word with DCOM to save as a PDF which was then streamed back into the website's logic all in the same POST request that a client submitted.

It was a kludge, I could think of other ways to do it today, but at the arse-end of a project with an apparent doomsday requirement suddenly dropped in the mix, in the end it took about three days to implement when at the time we were facing a crisis.

So yeah, give DCOM some flak I guess because it failed to launch but it saved one small project for one small insurance company.

Edit to add: That solution ran for years without issue until the company merged with a larger healthcare provider.
What Is Decision Science: Brief Interview with a PhD
Agreed, it seems like $6k/pair is an astonishing cost for what is not unreasonable tech in 2021 for an over-the-counter product at much less.
It depends on the fine points of if the company is managing procurement or selling 3rd party services to fit a need. If the latter, it is a markup, not a kickback
The product works and the usual line of thought is ”if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it or we’ll be broke”.
Right, but I can also buy an improperly tuned chainsaw and cut my arm off.

I’d argue that there should be a giant warning on the box about proper tuning, and leave it at that.
As someone famous on YouTube says -

"Glass is glass. And glass breaks"