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I'm reading this on an X1 Carbon with the OLED screen. The pure black is sometimes unsetting. Sometimes I'm adding brightness but the black stays black, on the IPS screen the black would've become gray which gives you visual feedback, but on OLED there is no such feedback and you think it doesn't work.

I switched everything to the dark mode, not because I like it, or want to save the battery, but because I afraid that the pixels will burn out.

When the laptop is booting it uses the full brightness, also some bootable Linux distros use the full brightness, as they lacking OLED-aware display drivers.

I also enabled auto hide for Ubuntu 22.04's taskbar, not sure for to do it for the topbar.

I use a very low brightness levels ~ 15%, otherwise the colors are too vivid for my taste.

I think dark mode on OLED somewhat saves the batery, but I'm not sure how much. I didn't measured it.
huh. i’m fairly well flabbergasted at the HN crowds’ reaction. this is satire of the highest order.
Just mixing in salads with some protein I love doing. We grow lettuce- you can dress it and then spend time chatting and crunching lettuce. It passes the time. No idea if it’s actually low calorie but a lot of roughage may help you move stuff out too?
https://hn.algolia.com/ is a great way to find discussion on articles. You can usually just paste the URL and they show up.
Businesses close... Local operators are at a disadvantage compared to owners in safer areas, thus they close or just don't expand as fast.
Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for?
It's driving me nuts.

All over the web, search functions don't actually return the word you searched for.

They seem to all do some sort of creative interpretation of what you searched for in the name of "relevance", thereby returning irrelevant results.

And in many cases, there is simply no way to do a literal word search. You'd expect maybe if you put your term in quotes that you would then get back precisely what you search for, but no..... again, the search function comes up with its own creative interpretation somehow.

Ugh why can't search...... search?
You can take out the engine from a car and tape it on the top, but that construction won’t be any less complex.
This was a $5 WiFi antenna I bought off Amazon for an ESP32-WROOM-32UE bolted through an enclosure, I'll stick with my crescent wrenches.
That's true. I think the other places where it happens often have similar dynamics to schools. For example, in a workplace you might not get to choose who you work with, or be able to leave easily. That's less true of other cases like bullying in teams or clubs though.

I just know that, personally, most of the times I experienced bullying in school happened when I was separated from my friends. I think that the natural tendency people have to look out for each other is stronger than any tendency towards bullying, but that schools disrupt the balance.
They are literally sum types, with records being the corresponding product types.
As another child of an overworked single mom, allow me to cheer for your comment.

The amount of paternalistic "just make better choices!" nonsense in this thread is giving me a headache.
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"tool" is historically and currently also slang for penis. Can't have that.
Depending on your use case/business model; geo IP blocking. Blocking non-USA IPs wholesale cuts down on it significantly in my experience
Thank you for this comment. I read the article and it really resonated with my experiences while growing up. Unfortunately, reading the comments here makes it clear how ignorant and uninformed lots of the HN crowd is regarding socio-economic issues. These are not new problems. There are fields of study dedicated to understanding poverty and its effects on people. There is no excuse for the ignorance and callousness of some of these comments.
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Should this be on the page?

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I think you need to look at history more. The world is not driven by rational moral actors...We could have been farming sustainably, but haven't been. It's even cheaper to rotate crops in the right way, that preserves soil, but it wasn't done. There are engine designs that are more efficient, use less gas, but gas companies held them back. There are treatments that are better, save more lives, but pharma companies would lose out if there were less chronically sick people. "Can't afford" is a dirty word. Depends on perspective, encodes morals/values. Who can't afford? The greater good? Or the greedy? Who can't afford? The present generation? Or 3 clicks down the line when everything's dead because of choices made now?

The blocker to a better world is not some engineering impossibility, or market-rational overprice...not always. Often it's because someone with some power would lose out if we changed the way we did stuff, and they don't want that.

Human fucking nature. Can't cure that. Small bore example: Your engineering org would be better without the power-mad meeting-coordinator kahuna middle manager who holds hours long meetings for no purpose than to lord over proceedings and justify their own pretense of importance. The greater good would be served by demolishing said meetings, and removing kahuna from org. Does it happen? Often, no. Why? Because the world is not driven my moral, rational actors.
Switched this year to VSCode and the quality of most LSPs for VSCode is surprisingly good. Regarding your example: Just rename again. I can tell countless examples of Webstorm failing hard compared to VSCode.

So, from the technical point of view I would say VSCode is equally good.

What I miss most is the UX. Once you get used to the Jetbrains IDEs, their usability is really awesome.
I like this essay. It reminds me of the way mountaineers think about risk. The common factor is that they all accept that the joy of ascent is worth some level of risk but at the same time you must apply discipline to keep that risk within within reasonable bounds.

They aren't nihilists, just determined to drink life to the lees. [0]

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
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Ceramic cookware is also PFA free, and while it isn’t 100% as good as Teflon for nonstick purposes, it’s about 95% as good for roughly the same price.

It’s not all that much convenience you give up anyway. My home is PFA free for cookware (indoors, at least) simply by virtue of owning birds because PFA is toxic to birds. I have to use the pressure cooker and air fryer outside but the ceramic pans I use indoors do just fine and aren’t too much harder to clean vs Teflon pans.

I think the only noticeable pain where my ceramic pans clearly lose to Teflon is eggs - eggs want to cling to basically anything and Teflon is just really good at not having things cling to it. Otherwise it’s almost always just as easy to clean the ceramic pans as it is to clean the Teflon ones.
Funny that you mention engagement. I've been witnessing many people in the fedi who say they have much less followers now but the engagement has been so much better than in Twitter since many years.

And the comments have been good and constructive...
Believe it or not, people exist who don't want to own a home and would rather rent. There are also plenty of times where it is a better idea to rent than buy a home- plenty of people who bought right before a housing market crash then needed to move for a job can attest to that.
Generally, if you aren't sure that you're going to stay in a home for several years, you're not getting any equity back out if you need to sell... Especially if you had to do any big repairs or maintenance.

Landlords are a necessary part of a functioning society.
> Incidents like this make it easier for me to understand "protest voting" against the system politically.

Hell, it makes me understand arson and kidnapping.
Yeah there’s always instances of toxicity on anything large, even group chats like slack for instance. I am talking about overall trends on a large scale, which is hard to measure and subjective – but think of healthy as “producing more oxygen than it consumes” and vice versa for unhealthy. It’s just the least wrong but still general model I’ve been able to come up with. YMMV.
I would change the ssh port to nonstandard, maybe implement a knocking protocol.

Maybe leave a honeypot/tarpit server on the original ssh port to distract the bots.

8gb of bandwidth a month seems not worth sweating about.
Their point is that you don’t have to sacrifice in order to get where you need to be. I’ll let you and anyone else reading this comment decide how much sense that makes.
It actually did not. I agree that it's useful for certain niche quasi-legal cases, but it poses absolutely no competition to both traditional payment media like credit cards and debit cards or modern options like Venmo and MPesa. It was accepted for a brief period by something like 1% of top internet retailers but it's down to at best a handful.
The downvotes are literally because you built an absurd strawman argument, hung it around my neck, and then tore it down. That’s bad HN etiquette.

A) please point where in my post I even came close to suggesting bitcoin should be banned.

B) even if I had said bitcoin should be banned, did I suggest anywhere that distribution of the software be banned?

For example, let’s accept the extremely problematic premise that I somehow said bitcoin should be banned. What that could mean is that I think the US (and other governments) should regulate any marketplaces that are currency on and off ramps for customers. Stable coins claiming to be backed by US dollars can be banned outright (easy) or that you have to register and the US government establishes an audit process to verify the claimed reserves / the software you’re using to control the stable coins (eg Tether is a highly suspect stable coin that’s likely another huge fraud). The US controls a lot of the world’s banking (not all) but they can also say that those banks aren’t allowed to support such systems and it’s citizens aren’t allowed to engage with unregulated stable coins. Correct me if I’m wrong but that’s an example of something the US could do to regulate / ban the coins without touching the software. That also doesn’t touch distribution of FOSS but places a significantly regulatory burden on the networks themselves. Additionally, by placing sanctions on these coins, the US currency is so ingrained they could theoretically ban coins from most of the western world. Finally, if they wanted to (and there may be national security reasons to not do it), they could also deploy meaningful compute resources to do a nation level attack to further undermine such networks by raising the transaction costs too high or doing 51% attacks (there’s no evidence that these networks are immune to 51% attacks from a nation state like the US). I think you’re really underestimating the power the US could wield to take down the running network (production instance) vs needing to ban the source code (much harder and not worth anyone’s time since I imagine the government learned their lesson with the war in the 90s about cryptography + the free speech implications it has).

So, in summary. You put words in my mouth I never said and then used that to draw the most absurd and weakest possible position from there. That’s the reason for the downvotes. My suggestion is figure out what got in your way of reflecting and figuring out what was wrong with your post (eg maybe in the future before reread the post you’re replying to to make sure they actually said what you think they said and if it’s ambiguous asking questions rather than making an assumption).

Your second edit makes it clear you failed to do that because you kept claiming that any down voters were supporting a position no one claimed around banning distribution of the bitcoin source code (or even binaries) and demanding that they provide support for an absurd position that was only voiced by you in the first place.
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> It either makes more money than it cost or it doesn’t.

You moved your own goal post, you were talking about when it makes it’s money, not whether. Your claim was that it reaches that point in a few weeks, which is 1) not generally true, and 2) irrelevant to most creative works. Copyrights aren’t only serving movies, they’re serving artists and musicians and magazines and websites and many other industries too. The amount of time it takes for a movie to recoup it’s costs has no bearing on what copyright terms should be.

> this trillion dollar copyright industry has already coopted this so called “system”

There’s no question terms are a bit too long and that big business is profiting, there’s no question whether things are messed up. They are, I’m not arguing with you there. I’m just not sure that tossing out the baby with the bath water and raging against the machine is going to be fruitful. Copyrights do protect many independent artists somewhat, despite your anecdote.
"Forever chemicals" is clearly a scary term devoid of context. Please help me ground it. Is this a health or environmental risk? Is it potential or realized? What's the nearest comparison?
Isn't this such a sad and ultimately negative worldview though? Instead of an Earth of humans, you have an array of static types. Instead of a history where there is change, where people can overcome things and vie for better world, you seem to say there is only an illusion of change, and really its all just scaling an infrastructure set in stone a long time ago. You look at people far away, and first and foremost comprehend them as a kind different than yourself. Just an entire country of millions, thought at once as a particular!

It makes me sad just knowing people hold these beliefs. It's like internalizing the world as a bad fantasy novel.
Not giving management of a company shares is a very bad idea. A company's soul purpose is to serve its shareholders and to keep management and the shareholders on the same page, management should be given shares in the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
My wife (German) and I (British) were in Prague, and every time we came across a loud, antisocial stag party, it ended up as a competition to see which of our countries was to blame. Beautiful city, depressing tourists...
Would you use this instead of Hotwire?
Indeed; from my perspective, from the people I know who regularly use enough subscription services that they're close to or saturated, they will drop something they're not using as much if they need e.g. Photoshop for just one month, or the like, so even that mixed subscription revenue of only getting a month every so often is a win for them in that case...
I'm not sure of any time I've heard of a house sitting empty for a year. Even in 2009. Until a few months ago, you had houses selling in hours/days, and even now it seems like they still move quickly.
Had no idea, time travel debugging existed until now. TYSM
> Have you ever bought or sold a home?

Yes, I have. Several times. You can always negotiate. You're leaving money on the table if you don't invest some time learning how to do it.
Just to check. Since the error came from two different video sources in the exact same way. Is it an issue instead with your audio setup?
An engineer being left alone for months just sounds like a great way for a user to ask for one thing and get something completely different. I think most engineers would love to just be left alone for days or even hours at a time, and that sounds a lot more reasonable.
It's one of my favorite reads, That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen [1].

Bastiat was stunningly brilliant.

[1]http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Exactly, these are all great things that we should be happy to have. Why would you prefer some clunky, old-fashioned mechanical controls on your motorbike instead of a slick, modern touchscreen that sometimes freezes up while it does a forced OTA update, even though you're driving in heavy traffic?
In Belgium there is a huge issue with pfas caused by 3M [1], having contaminated things like drinking water etc, so it's not even safe to eat vegetables from your garden or eggs from your chickens.

It's a massacre TBH, mostly exposing the head-in-the-sand, umbrella using fingerpointing mentality of Belgian politics. I can imagine 3M has sites like these all over the world, so I would assume this only scratches the surface...

Edit: typos, it's early in the morning here ...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-3m-pfas-toxic-foreve...
Where I live, a kWh is 0.27$ on average. I tend to watch my power usage closely :/
Reproducing is biologically hardwired into us. That doesn’t make it alright to judge people who either can’t or choose not to but I also don’t think we are going to change something so core to our biology any time soon, and yes a part of that is the judgement that may come along with it. Doesn’t hurt to try though.
Sugary beverages have been correlated with obesity and weight gain in multiple other studies, however. One thing that’s interesting having read a few of these is that there are often contradictory results when doing meta-analysis of multiple studies.

Having empathy on a subject is definitely important. But it’s also important not to take an argument personally and not let personal anecdotes influence you more than they warrant. We’re not really talking about every poor person here and we’re not talking about your childhood friends. We’re mostly talking in generalizations about broad demographic trends.

Random study on obesity’s correlation with sugary drinks: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862465/
You're confusing "automating programmers" and "automating super-human programmers". Automating programming in this context means replacing 99% of the normal types of programmers. We don't know how to program driving trucks with humans yet, so there's no driving-truck-programmers to automate.

The fact is given the state of AI development today, all our jobs could be in risk in a couple years. I'm not betting on that for now since I personally think the chances are still low (due to other reasons). But being in denial through creative wordplay doesn't change the fact a single bit.
If things cost more, people generally buy less of them.
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Yep episode 2 of season 3 is wildly out of sync.
Paying for pollution makes the customer consider the full cost of the product, reducing demand to cases when the benefits of using the chemical are actually bigger than the external costs.

It's not about using the money to solve the problems. It's about making the economy more efficient.
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Try running a store in a poor neighborhood and it will soon be obvious why they are the way they are.
No. Its out of sync for me too.
Syncthing works well on Android for photos, music, movies, and downloads. Not so much for notes. You'll end up with conflicts, and there aren't many great ways to merge changes on mobile.
Great, yes. I do that too. Also, I live somewhere that falls well below my salary (COL wise) and I live beneath my means. I don’t live poor or poorly, but I don’t live like a hundred-thousandaire like we all used to see around 2008.

There is happiness and fulfillment to be found in a very reasonable dedication range. I work, like WORK work barely 5 hours a week from home and make $300k a year. My company is over the moon with my contributions.

I didn’t graduate last year. I put in the work, learned the craft and I have valuable contributions to give from my experiences. You will too someday. But right now you need to learn.
Show HN: FeatureProbe – an open-source featureflag management
Yeah this is why competitive eaters such as Matt Stonie stay lean while eating 20,000+ calories. His body will waste most of that, and he'll spend the rest of the week exercising and eating healthy.
Yeah, DataGrip is extremely awesome. From all the Jetbrains Tools I miss this most. (I'm an unhappy Ex-Jetbrains user ...)
It would be nice if everyone were totally honest, but that's not realistic I think. It's pretty well-known these days how lousy Qatar is with immigrant labor, and among the well-educated Indian populace that would be interested in high-paid tech jobs in the US, it should be well-known by now how bad the system there is for them and how there's no real path to PR for them. They should, therefore, act accordingly. If they keep coming to the US with the current bad policies, the US won't have much incentive to change those policies.
Would easily pay USPS money to:

1. Throw all standard mail to the trash (std mail is almost 100% ads/junk)
2. An option to decide online if I want certain first class mail delivered or shredded before it even arrives.
3. Option to scan documents and send to me electronically, saving me the hassle to deal with physical mail
Why? .NET also runs on iOS and Android
And it’s the same with markets this isn’t a gotcha. Unless you define whatever the market does to be good and correct in which case well, not much to argue there then. But there are examples far and wide where the the natural incentives markets lay out misalign the interests of buyer and seller and corruption abound that has no involvement at all with government. Like it would be insulting to you to even list examples, I’m sure you could name 20 off the top of your head just from your daily life.
In the UK you invariably rent through an agent who has access to credit reporting, the cost of which is passed on to both you and the landlord. If you're self employed or a company director then there are a few other things you have to pay for, £45 to look at your balance sheet, for example, which is freely available to anyone else.

I know a few landlords and despite the efforts they take to find the perfect tenant, they all have tales to tell of people who passed all the tests with flying colours but soon turned out to be a costly disaster.
I don't know.

But roughly, stability in our own habitable-zone planetary system is determined by interaction between the Sun and Jupiter, further modulated by Saturn-Jupiter interaction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis

My intuition is that lower-mass star systems may have more gradual tidal effects that would make possible more paths to stable planet formation.
I agree most recommendation engines simply suck. (I can't imagine how they spent millions hiring Machine Learning PhDs and end up with that crap)

That said, youtube recommendation algorithms are usually sane. I suspect the depth and breadth of available videos (which are actually potentially interesting) helps, whereas for ads, the platform's primary goal is to shove unwanted stuff down viewer's throats, and if 99.9% of the people don't actually want to see the ads, they still need to pick the ones "most likely" wanting to see them, even if that probability is like 1%.
I think what they mean is that people who live in nice neighborhoods and never have to deal with the practical effects of high crime, are often the ones calling for defunding the police, building low barrier homeless shelters in less well-off neighborhoods, etc. Their Teslas parked in their garages in their gated communities will never get broken into or have their catalytic converters sawed off. They earn social virtue points by espousing these views.

But the middle class households living in a blue collar neighborhood are constantly getting their packages stolen, mailboxes and cars broken into, even occasional gunfire once in a while. Unfortunately, they don't have the disposable income to handle these mishaps easily.
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