skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link. Looks like an excellent resource and one that is not too far out of reach for most of us.
You make a great point. I actually do all this after waking up earlyish to get my daughter ready for daycare and walk her there and back. I'm also very lucky in that I work from home, so skipping the commute helps a lot.

Perhaps a better title would have been a "day-kickstarting" routine...
As suggested, it's an excellent but difficult read. But like many such books (say The Beginning of Infinity), they reverberate in my mind for years afterwards, with interesting inferences and callbacks.

That said, you might skip the digression on silver (ugh).
It's hard for the market to process demand for something that doesn't exist yet.

For use in their main computing device, people would like an e-ink display that could reliably pull 30+ FPS while not costing a fortune, and preferably with some color capacity. They don't want a display from Kindle. Until the gap between that and what we have today is closed, the demand signal won't register.

FWIW, there was a huge initial demand back in the Kindle era; the e-reader use case was absolutely perfect for these screens. Nowadays, from what I can tell, the main demand for e-ink is in retail, for cheap electronic price displays. But that doesn't drive the progress of e-ink much, if in any way at all.
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Neither will I. Ring, Alexa & friends, "smart" devices made by mega corps, etc will never be welcome in my home. Any home automation will only be done with open-source or home-brew solutions.
> It's fascinating because most government tourism boards rarely achieve success.

I don't agree with this. There are many examples of Tourism boards successfully selling a country really well. 100% Pure New Zealand, Incredible India, etc
I would second this, its pricey at $600 (on sale for $500) but it does read well. My first 'ereader' type device was the iRex Iliad and it had similar features. I had really hoped that Plastic Logic would meet the need for an affordable and durable e-ink screen but they augured into the ground[1] based on their own hubris.

[1] Yes, there is a shell out there that owns the rights but the original effort/team was killed by shooting too high and flaming out.
It's as if the Paris Climate Accord was a bullshit piece of paper that didn't really do anything and cost the US money that could be better deployed right here in the US. The only way to address emissions is by making alternatives not only economically viable, but economically _advantageous_. I think we're at the point in the curve where you won't really even need carbon taxes or additional regulation for the "greener" alternatives to hockey stick. As the prices drop it eventually won't make any sense to use anything else. I'd like nuclear to be a prominent part of this solution in the interest of reducing CO2 emissions faster though.
Whoops, right. I forgot to subtract what they had already emitted. So it puts it more like ~20 years away.
An open source macOS window management app
While it's very cool that this is now possible, I think this has almost no use case. A business that is able to afford e-ink's high prices could also buy an LCD/OLED, which could also show motion and much better colors.
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Well, yes, it will keep your Firefox profile and its related settings. It's only the about:config settings that will be reset, which I think is a sane default.
You can't really do this because the contrast becomes way too low for comfort. It could become feasible with OLED, but that comes with a preference for dark mode anyway (due to the well-known issues with OLED endurance) which inherently addresses eyestrain.
The OP archive link is broken for me "Page doesn't exist"
Thanks for doing the legwork here!
Manual double buffering :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering
You're totally misunderstanding this whole thing, unfortunately. I don't really know how to do a point by point rebuttal of every line here since each one is building on top of that misunderstanding.

This article calls into question whether or not the expansion of the universe is accelerating - it does not call into question whether or not it is expanding. There is basically zero scientific debate on whether or not the universe is expanding - the evidence that it is huge.

We know that light redshifts. We can observe it. It is experimentally verified. That means that we have verified that energy is not conserved.

Dark energy is not required for the universe to expand and we knew that the universe was expanding long before we had any idea that it (might/might not) be expanding at dynamic rate.

It is possible that our key indicator about the expansion accelerating was in error. It is not at all remotely an indicator that expansion is not happening.

We have known the universe was expanding since 1929. Mountains of evidence have been piling up further confirming it ever since then. It wasn't until the 90s that we found evidence that that expansion was accelerating, and that is what ultimately lead to the hypothesis of dark energy.

In fact, this new research wouldn't even be usable without taking into account expansion, and uses Cepheid variable stars as the control to figure out where we might have gotten things wrong when measuring supernova in distant parts of the universe. The Cepheid variable stars are exactly how we figured out the universe was expanding in the first place.

And, to be clear, there's other evidence for dark energy, including the CMB and how galaxies cluster when we look at things on very very large scales. This is hardly a case of nailing up the coffin for dark energy, but if it pans out this is all accurate, it does call things into question. But it does not cast any doubt on if the universe is expanding, on light redshifting, or the idea that energy isn't always conserved - without those things being accepted as true this research couldn't even exist.
Those are two largely unrelated problems. Reconstructing geometry from multiple views is a separate (very well understood) problem from analysis to understand what the shapes mean.
Are there many downsides to just lifting weights/pumping water up hills? What if you connected a lot of very large weights and electric motors to the grid and intelligently wound them up/let them down based on demand?

Maybe a two tiered approach combined with capacitors for fine tuning?
> we're at least a generation away from any new installations much less meaningful adoption within the grid.

That's just not the case, if sanity prevails at all. We could have much safer Gen IV plants online within 10 years easily. It just takes the will to do it.
Completely agree, I don't even try it anymore after many many failures. That's why I meditate and do some journaling first. I intersperse pushups at the beginning of the routine, but the core workout happens at the end, and for good reason.
Whatever you say, the hard inconvenient facts remain and as I write this around midnight CET, coal is the #1 source of electricity in Germany, and their CO2 emissions per kWh are 5.71 times those of France.

You simply cannot solve this problem (the most urgent in our times) today by getting out of both nuclear and coal, because battery storage technology isn't ready, the sun doesn't shine at night, the wind isn't always blowing, and Germany doesn't have the geography for hydro like Sweden or geothermal sources like Iceland. It really is as simple as that, in the current state of technology.
Anyone have the actual content?

Just curious.
I'm talking about the potential gradient without bringing up new terminology.

> It can either be created by a lightning strike or by voltage induced into the ground as mentioned here.

If 'it' is lethal levels, then I don't think that 'or' is correct.
And the counterpoint is that he'd obviously got a new computer and any further surveillance would benefit from access to that one.
Y Combinator Requests for Startups:
https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
BestBuy already uses eink for their price tags. Something like this: https://www.eink.com/electronic-shelf-label.html?type=applic...
I can highly recommend James Clear's Atomic Habits book. A lot of what has worked for me in terms of habits comes from there.
We have run out of time for intermediate solutions. A reduction of 2% (globally!) would have maybe been sufficient pre-2000. Today we need a reduction of 15% PER YEAR if we have any hope of keeping temperature increase within 1.5 degrees Celsius -- which is already a Very Bad Thing to happen as is.

https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1209025851343413248

We need extreme radical measures now. This tiny effect that happens to have occurred despite not changing anything about the fundamental logic of our economy and our relationship to energy is nothing to pat ourselves on the back about.
Another way to visualize it is to view each decade as a chapter. Say that you live to 80, so you have 8 chapters. So if you are 40, half of your book is done.
This is something that emacs users do naturally every time they update a elisp function at runtime.
Nice, but I fear that this will go the same way as Eink corp's monochrome displays. They have been a terrible steward of the technology, limiting themselves to a tiny fraction of the addressable market (ebook readers) while shutting out a vast potential low power display market by pricing their panels far too high. They have also either refused to license their technology to others or made the licensing fee uneconomical.

A competent company would have pursued the signage market aggressively many years ago and would have had a massive revenue stream from that by now.

E Ink displays have recently started showing up as price tags on grocery shelves, which is promising for the future of low cost, low power displays. I am not sure if these are supplied by Eink or if patents are expiring and competitors are moving into the market.
I appreciate the sentiment, but at the same time, most ideas are worthless. Even if you had knowledge of some successful system of today, went to an alternate universe that lacked it, and described it to them in detail, the team would still screw it up. It's not their baby. They need a leader who gets it, not just an idea dump.

Recall the story of Bezos and his challenge to let customers order from Amazon "with a single click". His team's first prototype required twelve clicks. He sent them back to work, and the second prototype required two clicks. It's not a question of complexity, because ideas don't get any simpler than that.
Beefalos?

Keeping with the animal theme here
I'm sure that this is just archive.org playing nice.

Edit: I'm assuming that there was actually content at that URL when it was submitted. But maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps jashkenas could clarify that.
Thanks for the answer.

Since you are working on debug-specific backend, have you considered Cranelift [1]? In case you never heard of it, it was especially intended for fast codegen (because it's being used to compile WASM in Firefox), and Rust wants to be able to use it for their own debug build. If you were aware of it and decided not to use it, I'd love to know what are your rationals.

[1]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/cranelift
I'm guessing it's faster if it's only rendering a small photo within a page (like a textbook). If the area of the image is roughly 1/10 the page, with the rest being basic b&w text. It should take a few seconds only.
Siberian Discovery Suggests Almost All Dinosaurs Were Feathered
It really isn't that insightful an article. They have one source - a PR flak for a crypto company - and his solutions all boil down to "rebuild some form of Internet." An Iridium phone connected to a mesh network is just inconvenient Internet access.
The gene drive dilemma: we can alter entire species, but should we?
There are other options, sure. The tax assessors could simply guess, or outright dictate whatever "unimproved value" they choose (i.e. the highest tax they think they can get away with). If the the point is to establish the "unimproved" value of the land through an auction, however, you can't do that when the land and its improvements are inseparable. These are not two distinct economic goods with independent values. The improved land is one good, with one combined value.
I covered this in more depth in my other comment, but quite simply, your entire premise here is wrong.

This research was about whether or not the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and it casts some doubt on our belief that it is. It does not invalidate all of the evidence, potentially just that of measuring supernovas.

Not only does this research not cast doubt on whether or not expansion is occurring, it would be nonsensical and couldn't exist in a meaningful way without taking expansion as a fact.
That's a good point - when I think of big, difficult books, I think of Knuth, or SICP (or the bible)... the author's examples are more along the lines of philosophy.
https://youtu.be/jOYqXlsgo78

Seems like a similar dynamic to what these displays offered.

I got to work on one in the mid 80's

No scrolling, and multi-column output made sense.
Had only the version that didn’t account for turning a corner used, would things have worked out ? I don’t follow
Fellow dev here, I think you're wrong on this part:

> The issue of how to interact with the hardware itself and how to participate in the toolchain provided by the console vendor is much more difficult and is outside the scope of the language/compiler.

I've been looking for a language that would allow gradual transition from C++ for example. If you have a C++ SDK, you could still write your whole engine or just some modules in Beef.
I think this list could be written as "after finishing book one, I have the important words; after finishing book two, I have a grasp on how these words are used", etc.

I.e. the process is additive, each book lets you tease out another layer of understanding, and it's best if these are different books, because then there are more things for your brain to diff, making the understanding process faster.
Before you’re a parent you kinda have these conceived notions of how you will parent that are all based on a self-centered view. Which i say in the sense of the word, they are views on how you are going to parent because you think _____ (a you-you combo). Then you have a kid and the reality hits — this is a young person with their own ideas. You have ways that you want to parent that are going to conflict with what they want, so you have to navigate and negotiate.

You used something they wanted as a carrot stick (couldn’t not) to get mutually beneficial behavior, you’re still gonna feel guilt but this seems well done to me.
I'm an emacs user to this day solely because it told me how to use it when I first opened it.
Wordpress can be like that.
Canadian here and certainly have heard of the Avro Arrow. The thing that isn't often discussed is how it was designed and built as an interceptor for long range bombers. With the advent of ICBMs, it's strategic purpose was called in to question.
That was my reaction too. Maybe this is an argument in favor or reading slower?
The only way I'd accept one of these hanging on my wall was if it had computer vision to check & verify that there's nobody in the room before it starts that god-awful flickery 25 second update process. Eurgh.
I have had peripherals present on initial plugin as a USB flash drive with autorun.inf, autorun.exe. Then, after the drivers install (or you unplug and re-plug), it presents itself as a HID or other device you were xpecting again.

This is extremely prevalent with a lot of smaller things, particularly noname Chinese brands. I have ordered and received things like wifi USB adapters and BT4 adapters that came preloaded with autorun malware (I don't enable autorun). Presumably because the master at the factory was already infected or something, if it isn't intentional.

Razer's might just be WU getting "official drivers", but this is 100% not part of WU, extremely common, and often available on Amazon through thousands of brand names (fake) originating from the same factory.
I believe this is a misconception, and I'm not sure where it comes from.

Blacks on LCD screens really are quite black -- and if you dim your screen to ambient brightness, they obviously become even blacker.

This is why I said it takes a few minutes to get used to -- it "seems" dim or low-contrast, but only because you're comparing it with the ultra-mega-high contrast your monitor has when turned up to high brightness. When compared to paper (where "black" ink often isn't that dark anyways, particularly with matte finish like most books), the contrast is certainly just as good.
> Newest in teenvoguegate: Facebook sponcon was supposed to be sponcon: “We had a paid partnership with Teen Vogue related to their women’s summit, which included sponsored content. Our team understood this story was purely editorial, but there was a misunderstanding.” - FB spox

https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1215034900375433216
I am in the same camp but we're assuming that the capabilities already present in our phones/laptops/TVs are turned off and stay that way.
I agree that the comparison deserves merit, but it's a lengthy discussion. I'd presented a simple dichotomy.

> ...use to grow just fine on their own. We've cultivated them to be dependent. It doesn't seem unreasonable to think we can cut carbon emissions beyond 100% (eventually)

There are a couple of constraints there. We have a limited amount of arable land to feed the world's population and a significant amount of the carbon emissions in modern farming practices comes from harvesting and transport.

I can't see any way to harvest and transport agriculture products without carbon emissions today.
panic is not an idea worth spreading, nothing constructive and plenty destructive comes from it
A World Without Pain
Please explain the problem with my comment on slavery. The first part is factually accurate, the second is a valid opinion to express.

I was downvoted, why?

You know what whatever. I know better than to ask HN moderation for any sort of transparency or any dedication to actually fostering discussion vs just reinforcing the particularly awful groupthink that dominates this place.
A Court Said Au Pairs Deserve Minimum Wage. Some Families Are Protesting
Disgusting business practices to cover pedophiles. This is despicable.
Reminder that only something like 10% of Teen Vogue’s leadership is under 20 years old
Millennium Run
What do you do if you need more entropy? Open vim and ask a graphic designer to exit.
I think that's his point. The jerk can be him. It can be you. It can be me. We are all of us able to be like this, able to be controlled by the "primitive mind", able to engage in power games.

And I differ a bit with your reasoning. Follow the rules because most passengers believe they must be important? Not because, say, the airline thinks they must be important?
No, the elucidation of the structure of the DNA isn't just merely a discovery of an ancient biological system. It was the recognition that the structure was formed by antiparallel strands encoding information in a reversible molecular form, that represents a real level-up in human understanding of the universe. That's the whole point of that throwaway sentence at the end "It has not escaped our notice (12) that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material."

Also, we can simulate protein folding well enough from classical physics and quantum approximations such that "rapid two-state folders" are considered solved. That was a major outcome in the course of my career, to which I contributed significantly :)
Why a browser add-on? That's a really bizarre way to do that and it only fixes interactive web browsing. There is a lot more to networking than web browsers!
slashdotted!
Sure, Johnny can't read a map (or a book), but he can sure shoot a gun (and kill middle easterners for oil profits)
> the typing latency was on the order of ~120 ms

You'd just need to adjust to typing "by feel", without needing that instant feedback from the screen. A typewriter or teletype also has inherently high "latency", so this fits quite well with that whole "e-paper" approach.
https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/reports/2012-1.pdf

> If an individual entity endures a fixed probability
μ < 1 of disappearing (”dying”) in a given fixed time period, then, as time approaches infinity, the probability of death approaches certainty. One approach to avoid this
fate is for individuals to copy themselves into different locations; if the copies each have an independent probability of dying, then the total risk
is much reduced. However, to avoid the same ultimate fate, the entity must continue copying itself to continually reduce the risk of death. In this paper, we show that to get a non-zero probability of ultimate survival, it suffices that the number of copies grows logarithmically with time. Accounting for expected copy casualties, the required rate of copying is hence bounded.
The article linked to from this one from 1999 quite rightly points out the probable cause of this “lazy” fix:

“In certain cases, corporate executives and government bureaucrats approved using the method knowing that problems won’t resurface until after they retire or change jobs.”

https://www.hpcwire.com/1999/03/19/common-y2k-quick-fix-last...
Not a word. They can't make you talk.
In the realm of e-ink, I've been loving my Onyx tablet lately. It runs full Android, has an ePaper display, and has a Wacom stylus for note taking.

Two things I think it's done really well- it has the ability to easily disable the touch screen so you can pass it around and work with it like it's a real piece of paper. Additionally, you can change the refresh rate to your preference, and set it per-app. Higher refresh rates lead to ghosting, but if I turn the refresh rate high enough, I can watch a YouTube video on ePaper (!!!) which is crazy to me.
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The main downside is that you need a place to store the water at the top. Favorable geography is most likely already in use. And building new lakes on hill tops alters the ecosystem quite a bit.
> (he was on a 10/20/30/40% schedule).

That's a terrible vesting schedule, but he still made millions on the 60% he vested?
signs: https://eink.com/signage.html

price tags:
https://eink.com/electronic-shelf-label.html

more: https://eink.com/application.html

Are you sure you know EInk/PVI's business better than they do?
> Methane emissions have a much shorter residency time in the atmosphere than carbon.

But even with a shorter residency time (I believe it is on the order of 5-7 years) the data that we have shows that methane concentration in the atmosphere [1] is still increasing at a similar rate as that of C02 [2]. Based on this it doesn't seem appropriate to ignore methane. Without better measures to track and prevent methane escaping in to the atmosphere we might not see that trend level off or start to decrease for a significant period of time.

[1] https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends_ch4/

[2] https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
I'm I missing something or is that an incredibly tiny amount of money compared to how big the Church is?
Any performance benchmarks vs. competitors?
I agree, nice comment.

Recently stayed in a recently modernized hotel room. Lots of beeps...
Ha. I miss the days when you didn't have to worry about your Unix box blowing away in a hurricane.