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Dimming and color tone are not the same thing.

Yes, using paint color to control room light is easier. It’s just less flexible. If you just want to throw a bunch of furniture and lights in, paint color is simpler.

If you want the flexibility for the room to present as daylight white sometimes and cozy amber evenings at other times, it takes more work in lighting and for furniture choices, and neutral white walls increase flexibility.

Neither answer is “better” in some objective sense. It’s just a simplicity vs power choice.
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As a Hispanic American, I very regularly tell people I am Latino and that Latinx is incredibly offensive to my heritage. I'm in my 30s and the younger people I know also find it offensive.
Why would I care? US is bloody expensive already, some small fee is not going to save it. And I only visit US on business trips, that are covered by company.

If you do not like it, get out.
I don't think 0n0e would count- too coded.

But "Burj Tip" is great, it might have won the contest (judging involved lots of arguing)! Alas, we already ate the prize though, so you're out of luck.
Did almost the same...

spacemacs > custom config with evil, trying to create a slimmed down spacemacs > vanilla with god mode.

Generally use vanilla bindings most of the time (w/ God mode) but sometimes load up evil for the fun of it. Now, however, it's no big deal when I pop into a mode that doesn't play nice with evil bindings.. I just turn off evil and am good to go
Including it would distract from the main point (though IIRC there was no point at which it wasn't a slur; replacing non-slurs with novel non-slurs is a different category).

That said, I think it supports my point. How effective has tabooing that slur been at eliminating racism in the USA?
Agreed. WFH allows me more time for gardening and getting out in nature.
> This is overstated and easily disproved. ChatGPT produces accurate facts as a matter of course. test it right now

"the idea that this stopped clock is broken is overstated and easily disproved. the clock produces accurate time as a matter of course. go ahead and ask what time is it, just make sure it is 3:45am or 3:45pm"
But surely everyone knows that companies will absolutely comply in the most minimal way possible to any regulation and will actively seek loopholes. Their incentive is profit, not egalitarian utopia. We may wish the universe were different, but it’s not. It’s like wishing the sun won’t expand and consume the planet some day out of respect for life.
The term latinx didn't come out of "rich educated people" - certainly a lot of educated folk have been pushing it in the last decade (self-identifying grad students and recent college grads, for instance) - but there's a weird sort of prejudice going on in assuming everything can only come out of "rich educated [non-latino, based on your use of "their" there] people"

Some discussion here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-01-27/op-ed-latin...
The epistemic crisis mirrors the proliferation of electronic media. It really ramped up with the common adoption of the smartphone and social media.
I own several apps that I wouldn't be able to maintain by myself without good end to end tests. The nice thing about cucumber is I can come back to a test a year later and instantly understand what it's testing for at a requirements level vs. having to reason through the gnarly details of what it actually does, then work backwards to the original requirement.

It shines the most in gnarly login/sign up flows that always evolve into all kinds of weird edge cases over time.
The law isn't specific to Apple, it also affects WhatsApp. Indeed in the EU that's probably much more important. Personally I don't know anybody who consciously uses iMessage, but the extreme network effects of WhatsApp make it socially impossible to move away from.
It's both HTML and CSS, though. HTML is also bleeding over the boundary between layout and document.

HTML was mean to _be_ the document. CSS was meant to be a language for styling and re-styling those documents. That makes sense in the logic of decades past. You might have a bunch of documents, and go re-style them all when you move. Or a company might do this when they change their logo or get acquired.

But for a long time now almost every HTML document served on the web has long been a mix of design elements and one or more things that a human would call distinct documents, and CSS has kept up with styling those.

With a true "document", it's pretty sane to expect that you can readily style and re-style the same document with different stylesheets for different contexts without needing to go fiddle content. With full complex designs implemented in HTML, the HTML and CSS for at least those parts tend to be very tightly coupled and very likely to get rewritten together.

The fuzzy boundary between the content and the layout are a problem for both HTML and CSS.

I picked at this problem in a post this fall: https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_color_is_your_markup/
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Artificial Intelligence Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues
The association of using linux/bsd and spending time debugging system is getting old. Like very very old and outdated.

The parent article show a small number of config files to set and a package to install. It is not more complicated than installing ASIO4ALL driver and setting it up on a windows box.

And I can show you countless of threads in music forums about people asking how to solve their midi connections / sync / latency / clipping problems on macOS and windows.
I don't think so. I haven't read the EU documents and the article doesn't say, but you can do this without forcing a company to adopt anything.

Let's say I propose this rule: Apple must publish the iMessage spec and allow other services to send/receive iMessages.

That doesn't force Apple or anyone else to implement any specific feature, beyond allowing others to send/receive messages. WhatsApp or Signal could decide they don't want to implement the iMessage protocol and they're free to do so. WhatsApp might support voice calling, but that doesn't force iMessage to implement voice calling. It's simply saying that third parties can choose to implement the iMessage protocol if they want.

There may be features that will only work within one platform, but that won't give anyone a lock-in advantage since others can implement those features if they're popular. For example, let's say Apple implements CoolNewFeature. They have to publish the spec for CoolNewFeature. Sure, maybe it will take 6 months for Google and WhatsApp to implement CoolNewFeature, but there's nothing preventing them from doing so. Likewise, WhatsApp already has voice calling, but you won't be able to do that with iMessage folks because Apple hasn't implemented that. That seems ok to me. If Apple starts to lose users to WhatsApp, they'll want to implement that interoperability. If it isn't an important feature, it isn't important whether they implement it or not.

To me, it seems like this is about preventing companies from creating walled gardens. It's not about forcing companies to adopt certain standards or features. Apple doesn't need to adopt RCS. If others could send/receive iMessage-protocol messages, it would provide an interoperable system. Some might complain that X protocol is better than Y protocol, but that's the history of everything. Ultimately, those types of things haven't prevented third parties from creating interoperability with less perfect protocols.
The premise of a side-hustle is you are doing it on the side, not at work.

My side hustle doesn't take away from my work the same way going to the gym in my free time doesn't take away from work.
Sounds like the real villains are the credit card companies who have the market power to enforce fees on cancelled payments. They are so entrenched no one is even questioning their position anymore.

Visa and Mastercard are massive drains on our economy - it's ridiculous how unquestioningly their 3% tax on commerce is accepted.
Can we just all start operating from the perspective that we're not trying to offend each other?

Do away with all these rules that serve no purpose other than to slot each other into buckets of enlightened and evil.

It's a sign that we have things way too good.
Obligatory plug for the Light Phone 2. I have had one for two years now and I love it. I still keep a smart phone around for some things but it is generally in a drawer powered down. I have had a significant improvement in my mental health since I've gotten it.
I guess this will get back to the consumer, either by having to shell out these fees, or by merchants refusing to refund altogether.

The one thing I am wondering is whether PayPal and stripe will follow
I worked with someone who painted and mailed a bunch of bagels. As in the bagels you toast and eat. As in a stamp stuck onto a painted bagel with the address written with marker. They all got to their destinations.
Embracing “Old” Tech
> Improved safety regulations, which is a common reason employees decide to unionize in the first place

I'm sure you're right but you didn't mention wages, health plans, or retirement, at all.

Apart from establishing a minimum wage, how is government regulation to address any of these also common reason employees decide to unionize?
> methods are procedures with an implicit param.

Eh, not really? In single-dispatch, one of the arguments is often syntactically distinct from the others and is treated specially, but I wouldn't say that it's implicit. And with multiple dispatch object systems, all arguments are treated the same.
> the lack of agency in being enslaved

I don't get this, at all. It makes at least one fallacy, namely assuming that people are born free. They are not. Every newborn is restricted by parents, society, environment, etc. We must accept that: we can't think, act or sustain ourselves until much older. Thus, we loose our restrictions slowly, and we don't loose them all. Some people were actually born as slaves. That's the horror of it: to be born as property.

Agency has nothing to do with it: suggesting that it does implies the possibility to avoid it, and ipso facto that staying enslaved is the slave's problem. The appeal to a made-up brain process doesn't improve your case.
I definitely agree surveillance is happening and I don't mean to do a whataboutism, but why such emphasis on Western internet? Are you implying this does not happen elsewhere? If we take a counterpoint to West, India and China both have significant surveillance of their citizen and they account for the other third of the world population.

Let's just agree it's a problem everywhere?
oh! good tip. I haven't examined the market in years and years, but the kobo looks pretty nice.
> Imagine being an immigrant and having to learn both English and then a made up filter created by well paid academics on top of it.

Latine and LatinX both originate in (different geographical parts of) the spanish-first-language non-binary community, originally for use in Spanish, neither (AFAIK) by “well-paid academics”.

Latinu and Latin@ I’m less sure about, but wouldn’t be surprised if they are the same. While there’s legitimate debates about their use, the “created by white English-speaking academics and imposed on the people labelled by them” narrative is itself White-centering myth.

(OTOH, the anglicized, instead of mixed, pronunciation of LatinX is probably a White anglophone invention, the original is like latino/a with the final vowel removed, and with the english name of the letter “X” in its place.)
Yesterday I asked it to describe the improvements between the 4th and 5th generation Xeon Scalable Processor and it just made some shit up.
And when there is no evidence, it's to soon. It cuts both ways: you can't predict market movement, and after it's moved you can't do anything about it... As J.P. Morgan put it (when asked what the market would do that day): "It will fluctuate".
Or you could have turned off cookies entirely or per site in your browser since 1996, and not depend on the goodwill and compliance of an advertising company. But as has been demonstrated there are a bazillion ways to track you even with cookies blocked that you have no control over nor are covered by this spam pop up inducing bit of transnational bureaucracy.
Regulation is a useful tool when there is quantifiable harm to an involuntary third party. That is not the case here. People have an infinite amount of electronic communication tools and services from which to choose. These are all voluntary without negative externalities causing harm on individuals outside the conversation (or outside the site when relating to the cookie policy).
The US has two minimum wages (there's also a "youth" one, but that's a separate issue): the minimum wage for non-tipped employees, and a much lower one for tipped employees, which essentially boils down to whether you're service staff or not.

Now, while individual state may have their own laws around minimum wages above the federal minimum, I find the idea that there two in the first place abhorrent. The current rates are US$7.25 and US$2.13. Neither are remotely livable, but the one for tipped staff is essentially peonage.

So no, this isn't a matter for enforcement. The law is set up to encourage this behaviour.
Texas state code requires machine rooms for ammonia systems to get 30 air exchanges per hour, same state building code requires houses to be under 1/3 air exchanges per hour.

I'm a little fuzzy about the later, pretty sure about the former, and most people don't have the privilege of living in Texas (not sure if I'm kidding or not?), but it demonstrates the safety issue that ammonia cooling needs about a hundred times as much ventilation as a normal kitchen. And insert the usual quotes about building codes being written in blood so they aren't demanding a hundred times the ventilation just for fun.
"Bare Minimum Mondays" sounds exactly like the kind of thing a "gospel of productivity" would promote.

If the article had to be boiled down to one thing, it would be the fact that housing is too expensive. Which is frankly a derivative of the fact that for decades the US has promoted wealth building on the backs of real estate, which is unsustainable for obvious reasons.

Also, replacing work, which even if it doesn't pay as well as it did earlier, is shown to largely have a positive impact on the mental health of people, with TikTok is a horrible trade-off.

Building wealth through housing means the cost of your house goes up relative to inflation and for it to be an actual good it has to go up relative to alternative safe investments like investing in an index fund, which obviously means that for people who don't already own homes, housing is now relatively more expensive than it was for people before them...run these obvious choices for half a century and housing will naturally get prohibitively more expensive, especially when you throw in the fact that available land will only get more scarce and therefore more expensive, and zoning, and NIMBYism).
Ask HN: How do you get companies to talk to you about their problems?
I do product development for a team that's creating solutions for life sciences & pharmaceutical companies that work with real-world data. This is a new industry vertical for us, so we don't have a bunch of existing customers we can go interview to understand what to build.

It's already a reasonably crowded space, but the few pharma teams we've talked to express frustration with the speed and price of existing offerings. That said, I need much, much more information from users of existing offerings in our space to be able to form a product strategy that I have strong conviction in.

I was reading Airbyte's company handbook[1] the other day, and it mentioned the co-founders did 45 discovery calls with customers using existing ELT tools in 3 months! I would kill for that kind of access to teams in our target market.

How did they do that? Is that just the power of the YC network, or is there something I'm overlooking? My background is not in sales or BizDev, but I can pick up that skillset (or hire for it) to get these calls. Should I just start finding people in the pharma space, add them on LinkedIn, and request an informational interview? Are healthcare conferences good for getting these kinds of calls?

Open to any advice or guidance - thank you!

[1] https://handbook.airbyte.com/company/our-story (Fantastic doc, BTW)
Detroit isn't all ruins, they rebuilt it. And it didn't get that way because of automation, which increases employment in manufacturing.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/american-workers-need-lots...
I have a link in my bio of the book I wrote about it all. It doesn't contain much of these details. More of the driving philosophy.

How much did I remove?

- Stopped using my smartphone on a daily basis. Maybe 1-2 pickups a day. Down from ~60.

- Don't play video games for recreation, replaced with working out & basketball.

- Only allow my work devices in my office. Sets boundaries for personal/work life.

- Each device has a job-to-be-done. I can only write on my laptop. I can only communicate with my phone. I can only read on my iPad. I can only work on my work machine. etc

- Got rid of most streaming services and televisions. Watch maybe a 30-60 minute show every other night.

- Turned my bedroom into a cave, no artificial light.

- When bored, I pickup a book and place them all around my house so I'm not reaching for a device.

- etc.
Kinder Eggs and/or lower legal drinking age?

I was about to just make that joke, then realized that actually social media might be worse than alcohol…
I would be shocked if there wasn't a monotonic increase in group chat/private chat during all those years to now. AIM just never made the transition to phones successfully.
The nice thing about it is that it scales to whatever level you need it to. We've had junior candidates with no real Ops experience diagram synthesizers that they've created. Then we ask questions to gauge their level of understanding. We have a general idea of what it means to be at each of the clearly delineated levels on the team and we ask questions to what seems like the appropriate level. We've had candidates come in to interview for senior positions and during the interview the team drilled down to what we felt like were lead candidate levels and we offered the candidate a lead role instead of a senior.

We call out in the pre-interview handout exactly what we are going to do and what we expect and we let the candidates bring what they think is best. For senior, lead, and staff candidates we call out that bringing something that the team is familiar with as well, will be beneficial to the candidate and to the team.

It's really allowed us to do our best evaluation of candidates in a reasonable amount of time. We have two technical exercises and they take ~1 hour total. We may still be getting false negatives, but we're not getting false positives. Hire hard, manage easy, right?
I've been a huge fan of nearlyfreespeech.net over the years. Hosting some static pages there costs me about $20/year.
How is Costa Rica any different than Panama, Nicaragua, or neighboring South American countries with elevation? The roads are terrible all around, nothing special to Costa Rica.

San Jose is completely different than the pacific cities. For the most part the main roads are decent but the dirt roads into the jungle are just that, jungle dirt roads.

Why would you drive at lot at night?

Did you go to any costal cities or stay in the mountains?

What kind of expectations did you have for developing world jungle roads?
Arm co-founder: Britain's chip strat 'couldn’t be any worse'
I suspect it's pressure from investors to increase profit that's going to backfire and lead to more layoffs and migration to GitHub.
No, it almost certainly has to do with the local postal workers not wanting to put out the effort. If the zip code is there, it will usually be sent to that particular post office first.
> We ask people to [discuss] something technical they understand well and the team digs in and asks questions to understand depth and breadth of the candidates understanding.

This is how I conduct all of my interviews. I can't stand the gotcha-centric, pitfall-laden Jeopardy contest format of interview interrogations.
> First, conservatism lost its way. Then liberalism lost its way.

It's almost as if the underlying issue is independent of political leanings.
I didn't hear this news. Sad indeed.

I don't have a lot of hope reserved for these kinds of experiences anymore.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/pricing
It's the difference between growing up blind and growing up with a sister who is blind. Only one of those is 'lived' experience with blindness.
You mean child abuse.

To reduce pedophilia they would need therapists not chat control.
Exactly. It's the capacity of a country to do things that matters, not the number of pieces of paper it has that nominally count that capacity.

Luckily there are still lots of people willing to move to America to clean bedpans.
Why Open Source Should Be Exempt from Standard-Essential Patents
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/109cswl/inv...

The inverse Cramer analyses on WSB are some of my favorite posts there (although it's a cesspool today so that's not much praise). But yeah, there are actual data-driven strategies to make money by inversing Cramer.
I think it's funny how they say you don't need experience to pass one of the interviews. Last time I went in to one of these as an experienced engineer I probably said all sorts of things they didn't want to hear like there's no point building a scalable system until you're sure your product has traction. That and I kept trying to extract imaginary requirements. I still have no idea what they wanted to hear so I just name-dropped architecture paradigms. Didn't get the job.
And I’m also guessing that you don’t do anything that has 1 in a billion odds of death because it’s not worth the risk, right?

Edit: woooooosh...
It's only natural that "Promoters just want to advertise $25, not $32.50", so I think the only way how change is going to happen is by truth-in-advertising regulation that requires advertising the fees-included price, where it must be possible to actually get the thing by paying the advertised amount.
This is true. As others have pointed out, all PO Boxes can be appended to a 5 digit zip to get to the box (e.g. ZIP-BOX#) No city or state should be needed (zip covers that), nor name (not needed for mail in general, but might cause other issues).

The US Postal System actually uses a full 11 digit number to identify a "Delivery Point". The "+4" after a zip code is basically a subroute within that zip code, but there are two numbers after that you don't really see that will identify the full delivery point, which is basically a mailbox. The USPS tracks a number of things at this delivery point level, including whether a secondary address is needed, if they are currently delivering to that address, or if service is temporarily suspended (potentially due to a natural disaster or road outage in the case of a more remote rural address).

I'd really love to see if just a full 11 digit number is enough to get mail delivered to my house. I guess I could try, as it's easier than you'd think to find out your code
Good thing you can just block styles and get exactly the style you prefer.
Gitea on SQLite for the ultimate ease of setup and maintenance.

Version 19 is killer- Trello style image previews on issue cards / kanban board!

Also import/export to github / gitlab at any time.
Donations and sponsors such as Stability AI, based on the announcement in their Discord server
Fascinating. I've only been in the Bay Area for 10 years or so, but I recall this would very rarely happen to me on East Midlands trains before that. Certainly never on the Tube. But I've also changed in that time and it is possible some aspect of my demeanour invites this. All for the best, I suppose, that people treat us both as we wish to be treated.