skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did anyone ever try the sony's digital paper ? It is super pricey but I am yet to find someone reliable to get an honest opinion of the device

link -
https://www.sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepads/dpt-...
But vanilla PG didn't get good master / slave feature until "recently" so you were running without replicas in the last 10 years?

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1235/
Do any of these tablets sync with Endnote? I am an academic and organize research using Endnote, and I would need the tablet to pull and sync with my endnote.
Corporate tax cut makes India an investment destination for foreign firms
You’re also ignoring that the FCC requires Verizon phones to come locked for 60 days. Ostensibly to cut down on theft
That is super cool! I have been printing web pages to pdf to read later and then copy of them over, but this way more seamless.
Morle tersely, it's TCP over UDP with TLS baked in.
Show HN: KYON - Annoying Puzzle Game with Flutter
Strange, getting alternative responses of 404 and 200 when doing a request, with the 200 page showing

> It's sunday, we'll try to get it up during next week.

> In the meantime a normal cross-compiling ARM toolchain should work (e. g. the one packaged in Ubuntu).

Edit: now a added "Sorry, forgot to update this..." so seems someone updated the link right now
And who programmed the system that detected the missiles? Was there ever a post-morten of this incident?
2 fundamental flaws here:
Being blackmailed is a huge problem.

Anyone can patent changes to your software regardless of the license agreement.
I may get flack for this, but that sounds ethically questionable. The sale has been made, why not just give the customer a better car for free?
Science, engineering, medicine. There are tens of millions of folks who would use this over an iPad.
The article assumes there is a problem without talking about landfills or incineration.

If you want to make sure plastic never gets into the ocean, disposing of it properly should do it. If it doesn't, something is wrong with how garbage disposal is done and that needs to be fixed.
I would say that it all depends on your environment and the politics there. Is ACID necessary? If not, try an NoSQL solution first. If you want large scale replication, setup a Cassandra cluster because that is way easier than any RDBMS scaling situation with the downside of you lose traditional SQL join and group by syntax, which isn't really a big deal once you learn the ins and outs of that. If you do use a NoSQL solution, you can still get SQL behavior using embedded rdbms like Hypersonic SQL (HSQL) or maybe Derby for niche use cases. If you just need a reliable place to store data, Cassandra has a lot of advantages. There is no free lunch. Look at what Azure offers to get an idea of what companies are doing.

For small stuff, it barely matters what technology you select it will all perform well. It's at scale where solutions tend to fall apart.

I don't know if I answered any of your questions at all. Just be aware that I work with lots of JSON and we don't bother converting any of it. If you need to query through JSON, then setup ElasticSearch. Don't monkey around with converting data in and out of SQL databases just to harness some query capabilities because you can also do all that in code with the upshot of having it be unit and integration testable there. I still love SQL, but my recent job has forced me to accept certain realities.
Cars are heavily used in Europe, too. And so are flights. Trains are great for people from America on vacation because it's a novelty and most of destinations are near each other.

I loved riding trains in the EU but often would need to rent a car or fly.
(googler, opinions are my own)

As a reminder, there is a similar free solution that tries to solve the same problem as what3words from a different angle:

https://plus.codes/

Google Maps shows these today. And you can search Google or Maps for plusCodes.
Maybe not to a particular project but I don’t know any “cloud giants” without big OSS contribution footprints- Amazon, Microsoft, Google all have lots of open source projects and contribs. I don’t care to measure OSS karma but these aren’t people always taking and never giving.

I don’t think this is against the spirit of the GPL license and that’s why there is AGPL. The companies complaining here aren’t GPL anyway. Although I think the opinion that this is against GPL is wrong, I kind of understand it. But it’s loco that it’s against MIT/BSD/ASL.
"Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch." And I said, "Great." He said, "Not great. It's on arm."

Oof.
Michel Houellebecq: Populism’s Prophet
After reading this article I was all set to look into the ReMarkable as a big e-reader. Then I read this thread and I'm glad that I don't!

I have no use for writing in a tablet. Can anyone recommend a big e-reader suitable for textbooks? I'd like a 13" Kindle or something...
But maybe it had to do with them being able to use a higher level library, not worry about gc, and focus on other things
We generally have a policy of not communicating externally by default (way too many startups have failed because of loose lips and over-promising), but I'll answer with what's already known publicly. :-)

> How many people are in your company?

Around 70¹.

> Where in Norway are you located?

Oslo¹ (or you can search for reMarkable on google maps).

> Are you looking to increase the number of people working in your company? Planning to hire more software developers?

Yes, yes and yes. :-)

https://remarkable.com/careers

> [...] is everything that the community would need available in order to create a fully open source alternative “firmware” (or really, a “distro” might be a better name for it since it’s running a Linux kernel and all) that can run on your hardware?

It's just a completely standard Linux system, and as required we publish the source code for u-boot and Linux and whatnot, so yes.

I originally wanted to just run plain Debian on it (or ALARM), but it was easier to just start with a minimal system and put on as little as possible, especially when you're a single person trying to keep track of everything.

Now we've expanded the team a bit, and ideally we could upstream at least the kernel patches so we don't have to forward-port everything ourselves, but it's not a high priority unfortunately.

And we're still a relatively small team, it's a bit hard to find a lot of good kernel developers who want to switch jobs in Norway.

¹: https://www.dn.no/teknologi/teknologi/nettbrett/remarkable/r...
Clearly I am wrong, but my understanding was a fire would not be enough to initiate the nuclear reaction. Don't two unstable masses have to slam into each other at super high velocity to release enough nuetrons to start the chain reaction?
The one I've been using is Potemkin Markets.
Old D-Link DGS-1008D switches with Vitesse chipsets also have a built-in 8051 for firmware (but only 8KB SPI flash loaded into 8KB of embedded RAM, so pretty useless). I think it's mostly used for the cable test when powering on the switch.
Lack of backlight was a disappointing surprise for me. Seems like such an obvious feature, I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to turn it on. Then found on their website there's no backlight b/c they want to maintain a true paper-like experience. :unamused:
However, the Netflix DVD back catalog is effectively falling out of availability. Disks for low-volume movies are obviously not being replenished as they get lost, scratched, etc. I'm seriously thinking of just dropping my Netflix DVD-by-mail subscription at this point and "putting" the money into my disk purchase budget.
There's a really simple solution to the problem of people you don't like using stuff you give them: don't give it to them.

Use AGPL, or add a viral exclusion for any company with a $10B market cap or whatever you want.
not really

>SMI SLAVE FOR EXTERNAL CPU

your links talk about external programming of smart switches, you could do this 10 years ago with RTL3866

https://hackaday.com/2010/05/26/unlocking-the-crippled-poten...

http://spritesmods.com/?art=rtl8366sb

or 15 years ago with RTL8309sb

https://web.archive.org/web/20061118184321/http://pupa.da.ru...
I don't understand where this sentiment is coming from lately? All of a sudden there are people who seem shocked that corporations are profiting off of Open Source software, even though nobody in the community has ever had a problem with it.
Someone on HN made a github project called Monolith. It’s a command line thing. Go check it out and see if it will accomplish what you want

https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
What do you use the JSONB column for?

We've loved the flexibility of JSONB while our schema wasn't nailed down, but eventually migrated many fields to be columns for ease of reading and writing nested objects.
> and it's definitely true you can't save people from themselves.

That's too easy to dismiss if we - already today - have major industries that only exist because people act against their own interests - and we have armies of marketers and advertisers that work 40 hours a week to undermine peoples' capabilities of rational descision making.

Even if they didn't, market failures are real, the "invisible hand" a lot less so. We know that if everyone acts only in their own interest, the end result can end up bad for everyone. (Or good only for a small elite)

The market needs guiding principles and I'd very much prefer those principles being enacted by a democratic, law-bound government than some oligarch who is responsible to no one but himself.

> Look at the world we actually live in, this is the way it works, the only thing which actually restrains wielders of political authority is the things they can't do. Not the things they're "restricted by law" from doing.

And yet if leaders of private companies had the same powers, they'd magically restrict themselves. Why?

By the way, that isn't even true: Take Trump: You have a political leader with openly authoritarian views at the most popular position on earth, a party ready to follow wherever he wants to go and democratic institutions weakened by regulatory capture - and he still has to frequently backpedal because people defend the laws and don't just bend to his will.

In a private company, where the only law is "the boss is right", who should do that?
This varies by state, but:

Minnesota does: https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/railroad-property-tax#

New Jersey does: https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/railroadtax.shtml

Missouri does: https://apps1.mo.gov/stcoriginalassessment/report/CompanyRep...

The problem was so bad at one point that one of the steps taken to arrest the rail industry's decline was to ban property tax discrimination against railroads: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2014/dec/tax-clinic-10....

You never see this in Amtrak discussions, because Amtrak does not own the vast majority of the rails it runs on, and people couldn't care less about private companies. For highways and airports, they're pretty much all on publicly owned land, so they don't pay property tax because that would be silly.
That’s exactly how many people believe today “I believe in free speech, but not if you say something I disagree with.”
I'm not quite a millennial, but typically don't enjoy chatting with random people on public transit like buses, trains, or airplanes.

Nothing against them personally, but particularly with airports or Amtrak stations, all the things that happen before the point I'm in my seat are often a little stressful and draining. As an introvert that means I need alone time to recharge.

Further, there's guidelines or social norms that may make one feel "trapped" in a conversation they don't want to be in. On an airline if it's bad enough to ask an attendant for a new seat because other ways of getting someone to stop have failed, that's an incredibly embarrassing and stressful situation to be in.

This isn't a scenario I encounter often, but I imagine there's also instances where someone is uncomfortably being hit on that would likewise upset them. And particularly traveling alone on an Amtrak at night, depending on circumstances, that could be a pretty scary situation for some.

So ultimately there's quite a few reasons I barely scratched the surface of why some may not enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with not wanting to engage in conversation. As much as you may long for days when people would chat more openly, many may long for a day when that is no longer the default expectation.
Don't buy it on credit (finance) and you can have it unlocked immediately.
That's not Free Software.
I have a lot of replies to this, but the back-and-forth format that HN has isn't the best for collaborative discussion. Imagine us sitting in a room with a whiteboard, rather than bickering at each other at loud volume. If you're ever in south bay area and want to meet up at a coffee shop, let's :)

> Basically, my question is whether anybody is working on a solution for the hardware we have today, where there are hardware overlays, the GPU throughput is orders of magnitude higher than what's needed to composite a desktop

Hardware overlays are... not that popular on desktop devices? You just stomp on the gas pedal with bandwidth and power consumption on consumer desktop gaming GPUs. Besides a couple YUV planes and a cursor overlay, you don't see that much in the way of CRTC capabilities on desktop. All of that's happening in the mobile space, because of power consumption reasons, where you basically have an SNES PPU in your CRTC with multi-plane compositing.

I remain unconvinced that compositors need to add a frame and a half of latency. 16ms is a lot of time to render a frame, and composition isn't too difficult of a task. It just comes down to buffer handoff, which can be smoothed out over time. Similarly, the new flip-model isn't the thing that makes smooth resizing difficult, buffer allocation and resizing has always been a pain and racy on Windows/X11. This is one of the things that Wayland fixes -- it was actually the thing that caused Kristian to start Wayland forever ago.

Presentation and timing is something I think should be possible, but I don't think it makes sense for every app to have to handle it. Multi-monitor scenarios are what make global timing difficult, and having per-monitor surfaces is just a pain to deal with from an API standpoint; if we did the work to have per-monitor timing information and split surface rendering, nobody wants to go through the work to set up two devices and present different ones at the right time.

You might protest that all monitor timing is roughly the same these days, but someone hooking up their laptop to a projector, you get radically different timing.

In many respects, I think graphics is in a local minima right now: it works well enough and we understand it well enough that nobody's really interested in pushing us to the next thing. VR/AR research might, but that's been relatively unimportant as a target platform, commercially.
An IDE/code editor for E-ink displays.
It is also about whitelisting, which is the relevant section for this review ("an early review of an Apple product"). I never mentioned the term "blacklisting" until you brought it up.

Now that we have that out of the way, do you agree that early reviews of Apple products can only be done by reviewers that Apple considers favorable?
Why I Pick Heroku over AWS Lambda but Not Always
I'm not here to help you with your pay research. Just telling you my experience. There are many threads on Reddit and stats on levels.fyi to compare your offer with others. You clearly like being on-call and seem to be happy with your offer as well. Best of luck !
GitHub Acquires Semmle, Vitalik's Time Machine Visit, and Condolences
UVB-76 the Buzzer according to Russian ex servicemen
Why do you think it's to avoid interacting with a stranger? I have fast, accurate information at my fingertips (and it literally only takes a few seconds to take out my phone, unlock with my finger, squeeze to activate Google Assistant and say "directions to Westminster Abbey").

My phone will tell me which train to take (and which destination sign to look for), how many stops to travel, the names of the stops, as well as how long until the next train.
I've ridden trains throughout Europe and in the USA. I live in Europe but when I come to the USA I try and take trains when I can. Yesterday I took the Amtrak from LA to San Diego. I just love taking trains over other modes of transit.

I agree with all the criticisms of Amtrak that I'm hearing in this thread and that are common for Americans. But I want to tone down the love of European trains a bit. Amtrak is much much cheaper than trains in Europe and in general you get more legroom. European trains have shitty food, as does Amtrak. Actually the best food I had on a train was in the early 1990's on a trip from Warsaw to Prague on a soviet era train. It was actually cooked in a fancy dining car.

The UK has wrecked their train network. Delays are terrible and the network doesn't receive any real new investment. I blame Thatcher. A few weeks ago there were no trains between London and Leeds over a bank holiday weekend. For 3 days there were no trains between London and Leeds. This affected me and I had to change my plans. I suspect that this affect all travel north out of London for 3 days. How can you rely on a network like this? Sure they give you advance notices, but where is the redundancy in the network?

Dutch trains are better, but they're mostly just for commuting. Distances are short so the Dutch rail network is basically what Americans would consider a suburban light rail network. Like privatization everywhere else, the private elements of the Dutch rail network play games with timings and commitments to 'juke the stats'. For example, a late train may be cancelled because the penalties for cancelling trains are less than for a train being late. Yes, this actually happens.

I have less experience with German, French, and Italian trains. But at different times in my life I have been screwed over by them as well. Delays, cancellations, confusing rules that only the locals understand. Trains in these countries are still considered a second rate service compared to airline travel. And how exactly am I supposed to take a train through Paris exactly? Let's say I am in Belgium and I want to go to Lyon. How can I do that without taking the Paris metro or taking some stupid long route? Answer, you can't. Because trains don't go through Paris.

So in short I don't want Americans to think that European trains are all that great. They're much more expensive and come with their own problems. They lack redundancy and delays in one part of the network can cause problems in other parts of the network.
Got any sources for this? Would be very interested to read further.
$100 is the largest federal reserve note today. And even that is under pressure, mostly from the anti physical currency crowd.

Considering inflation a $100 note today is comparable to a $10 note from just a few decades ago. Thus currency denomination should shift in the opposite direction eliminating the cent and nickel, and adding larger notes.
Blind engineer builds SMART cane with Google Maps, Bluetooth, and sensory device
Well. the only legal way. Piracy has by far the best selection and (with modern automated piracy tools) the best convenience. Price? A Saturday afternoon to setup the Piracy Trinity (sonarr, radarr, plex) and maybe 1 hour a month for maintenance and a $5 VPN subscription.
Raspberry Pi CCTV with Netcat and Mplayer
Casually throwing around accusations like that doesn't do anything to improve discussion. We all know that Facebook is unpopular already.
What if God were part of the system itself though? Wouldn't that be a case worth considering? From my perspective: if you were to ask God what created him/her/it, I would think that there would be some sort of answer. Or sorry, when I say 'create' - I really mean having a casual mechanism without having to invoke an ever lasting presence.

Your take on having parallel universes is also interesting: I believe that there definitely are parallel worlds (this is where we extend into the 5th dimension) - so we may have a very deep call stack!

'I got the idea while building some procedural plot generators. The characters have their free will and diverging paths, but it only picks the paths that were predestined for a reason.'

Wow - interesting! Now we're diving into 'free will.' So, the characters which you programmed - would you say that they have a will? Or did you program them to pick those paths? You can almost say that it's self emergent system?
Sounds like a result of increasingly drab and formalised work environments.
An excerpt about another explorer from a book i'm reading -
In July 1497 when Vasco da Gama set sail for India, King Manuel of Portugal assorted a distinctly expendable crew of convicts and criminals to go with him. After all, the prospects of this voyage succeeding were rather slender considering that no European had ever advanced beyond Africa’s Cape of Good Hope before, let alone reached the fabled spice gardens of India. Da Gama’s mirthless quest was essentially to navigate uncharted, perilous waters, and so it seemed wiser to invest in men whose chances in life were not especially more inspiring than in death. Driven by formidable ambition and undaunted spirit, it took da Gama ten whole months, full of dangerous adventures and gripping episodes, to finally hit India’s shores. It was the dawn of a great new epoch in human history and this pioneer knew he was standing at the very brink of greatness. Prudence and experience, however, dictated that in an unknown land it was probably wiser not to enter all at once. So one of his motley crew was selected to swim ashore and sense the mood of the ‘natives’ there before the captain could make his triumphant, choreographed entrance. And thus, ironically, the first modern European to sail all the way from the West and to set foot on Indian soil was a petty criminal from the gutters of Lisbon
Solving the Generalized Streaming Iterator Problem Without GATs (2018)
For chips, it’s possible for a chip to go through the production process, but have a defect in part of it. When that happens, the manufacturer disabled access to that part, and sells it as a lower-capability product.

On the other hand, if everything came out good, then the manufacturer sells the part as the high-end product.
That's covered in the article:

> If this had happened in the 1980 accident, the rocket motors in the SRAMs, as well as the conventional explosives inside their W69 warheads, used to initiate the thermonuclear reaction, would very likely have exploded. While this may not have triggered a nuclear explosion, it would have thrown a plume of highly radioactive plutonium into the air, easily covering a 60 square mile area, which would have included parts of North Dakota and Minnesota.
I've worked with both MIT and NC State grads and in all 3 cases MIT was far ahead. Now whether it was the CS program that was better or the raw smarts of the grads or both, I don't know.
> Trump is dismantling black op sites in countries like Afghanistan.

Is he now? Last time I read anything about that, it was actually kinda the opposite:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-...

After all, he also thinks "going after their families" to be a sensible tactic, why would he care about black sites being "too evil"?
When I need to use mine with confidential work documents, I just put it into airplane mode and upload documents to it over USB. I confirmed (a few software versions back) that deleting while in offline mode resulted in a full delete, and that nothing was synced after coming back online.

I’d really really like a means to maintain a direct-sync-only folder, or some sort of robust encryption story, but to date, the team has said that corporate compliance use cases aren’t a priority for them. I see that some of the team is participating here; perhaps we can all convince them to prioritize some sort of solution?