skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hurts my heart how conflicted I am about this device. The hardware _is_ there. I love using the original reMarkable tablet _when it works_. But damn there are some stupid software decisions, alongside some absolutely genius ones. (Disclaimer: I've had the original reMarkable tablet for 3 months now) Here's a summary of my experience with it:

- It's sometimes unstable, and crashes while I draw. Not super often but maybe 4 or 5 times a week. I don't lose any data other than the last ~5-10 strokes.

- There is a notebook called Quick Sheets that is permanently there, even if I try to remove it's metadata over SSH. It gets generated on boot. No idea why this is here.

- You can SSH in, and there's a good hacker community around the tablet. A lot of cool open source software is written for it.

- Putting a file on the device for the first time, after doing the same on a kindle for years, is an adventure to say the least. There is no calibre plugin for it that I've found.

- I have never been able to use EPUBs properly on this tablet, a lot of my books just crash it. I have to convert them to PDF first on calibre. So highlighting is just markup on the PDF and not really selecting any text, but you can write directly on the book with notes.

- The first time I opened an EPUB, it took a while (10s) to load. When I tried to change the font of the EPUB on the reMarkable, it just stayed on the loading icon for hours, and I gave up on EPUBs then, and resorted to PDFs.

- There is no dictionary on the EPUB reader. I miss this feature a lot. And even if there were, I wouldn't be able to use it because I have to convert my EPUBs to PDF.

- Metadata for EPUBs or PDFs isn't visible, only the raw filenames. So no sorting by author, genre, etc.

- drawing and marking up is phenomenal, as is reading on such a huge screen. I absolutely love reading and journaling on this tablet.

- I have never succeeded in exporting my notebooks or marked up PDFs using the built in software after marking up or writing in 100+ pages, I have to use some community written software instead.

- It's $500 total after pen and cover.

- There is no backlight.

- OCR is done in the cloud, and not on the device.

- The iOS companion app is goofy, a lot of the navigation within the app seems to be done in a hacky way, instead of using the usual iOS SDK components. (They segment screen portions for scrolling on pages and for navigating the app, and it leads to just the most bizarre behavior).

I want to love this tablet. And all we need is a software update. The hardware was almost perfect, and now with USB-C, a magnet on the pen, and an eraser, the hardware is even closer to being perfect (I think the only thing left is a backlight).
In what way? You do realize that taking dramatic measures “just to be safe” has severe consequences of its own right? Our supply chain will break down. People will kill them selves from this lockdown. Addicts will relapse. People will fall into depression. Nothing good.

It is a very tight space to thread the needle—- overreact and do massive damage to our economy and physical and mental health. Too little and we overwhelm our medical system and more people die from the virus needlessly.

It is very delicate balance. Add in 27/7 media of all forms plus intense political pressure to “do something!!!! “ and here we are.

I don’t envy anybody in my regional government having to make this call.

Ps: people downvoting this and other comments like it make my point. It is currently not okay to question our current actions. There is massive social and political pressure to move toward heavy handed measures... we should be allowed to be critical or question things. Groupthink is not a good thing.
The government pulled more money than this out of thin air to throw at the stock market just the other day, only to watch it vanish just as quickly. Money is a fiction that we have invented to grease the wheels of commerce.

Why bother creating a bunch of rules that people have to apply in the middle of a crisis? You are living human who has not received this month's stimulus yet, great, here you go, good luck and blessings upon your health. Bureaucracies take time to spin up, more complex rules take longer to apply, and there are a huge number of people whose jobs are destroyed by "don't go outside until the virus dies off".

If you are way too rich for a thousand bucks to mean anything, then give it to someone who needs it more. Maybe a super-broke friend, maybe just withdraw a few hundreds and hand them out to homeless folks, whatever.
>panic buying of everything

It's not panic buying when you are basically told to stay in your home for weeks on end. You say two weeks- but in Washington here our schools are closed for SIX WEEKS. People want to be prepared. I have kids, they eat like adults. Do you realize how big of food shopping trips people normally do every 1-2 weeks anyway with full families? And we simply don't know if production is going to slow down, how fast stores with be able to resupply various items. Might be no big deal or might be a problem.

So I think you really confuse panic buying with being prepared.. having to go to the store every few days because you don't stock up pretty much defeats the purpose of what we are doing.

>markets down in historic marker

And why should it not be? The markets were already pushing themselves to the limits.. you add a simple normal reversal on top of this mess and you get exactly what we are seeing. Plus, there is no modern equivalent for the economic impact this will have. It's going to spiral and seep into every aspect of the economy. Why shouldn't the market plummet? The uncertainty is almost unfathomable.

>everybody acts like they can't make the next payment

Well.. you have tons of people who simply cannot work right now. Enough people in the country/world live essentially paycheck to paycheck anyway- now suddenly we take away potentially weeks/months of income? What do you expect?

>We are so under-prepared for anything really serious.

Yes and no. This situation just shows how utterly fragile all parts of the economy depend on each other, how much supply chains are linked, and how much we take it for granted that everything is always working as usual.
Logistic, not logarithmic. Exponential and logarithmic are the same thing seen from different angles.
>The government needs to call on the big players here

Call on them to do what, stand behind the President in a press conference and give short speeches? They manufacture ventilators for hospitals, and it's the hospitals who pay for them.
Here is an article from Wired with quotes from the Google Product Manager that did the due diligence when they considered buying Skype:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/05/why-googl...

Key points:

He did not think Skypes p2p communication was a good fit for Google, going so far as to say it ate up bandwidth and was like an old technology.

The PM's remarks could be summarized as saying the basic p2p communication architecture was overly and only used in order to avoid a cloud/server based architecture.

Basically, the PM thought Skypes architecture and code base couldn't effectively scale or meet real world business requirements that people would pay for.
That sounds reasonable to reasonable people, yes. But remember that US presidents have considered us in a state of emergency over a drug pandemic for decades. In the US, power like this will always find a way to be used for racist and nepotistic reasons. We're going from 0 to 100 here real quick, and we need to think through the long-term repercussions a little bit.
It really needn't be about money. Neither how much, nor how distributed. A pandemic is mostly about human behaviour, which is social.

No need to keep imagining that there is a strong causal link with money in the short term. At least not so much as it might matter.
Does anyone know if they quit updating or if it just takes until later in the day to post? I see up to and including March-15 but as of now, 11:07a CDT, there is nothing for 3/16. What do you all know / think?
You sound like one of the reasons the Epic Background Launcher takes up 293 MB of ram when idling in the background..
I was recently trying to figure out why my nephew's 16gig machine was running so slowly. It turned out, it was because he had just installed loads of crap like that. I can now see, what he really needed, was 32gig of RAM and 128 cores instead, to run your electron apps.
I am not a huge fan of this (or the WaPo) simulator, since I they seem to have chosen their models for the nice look (regular grid, bouncing balls) instead of for their accuracy.

While you can give people a rough idea of how different containment efforts will work, the models are so far removed from reality that I don't think that it really helps very much. Especially the WaPos'comparison' between different containment measures is IMHO borderline negligent without putting huge caveats in front of them.
Reflecting on SARS, 17 years and two flu-like epidemics later
But was this different to the US? I don't follow the US news that closely, but my impression was that testing capacity is only significantly growing since yesterday.
I am hopeful that this pandemic will take the wind out of the sails of the antivax cult for at least a few generations.
Yup. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... has lots of explanation if anyone wants it.
The wrinkle being that, in Roosevelt's era, the car factories were right here in the United States. It's much harder for the U.S. government to commandeer a factory in China.

It'd be interesting to see how much of the actual production of Medtronic, GE Healthcare, Allied Healthcare, etc. takes place within the United States.
Is it worth it to buy just for reading purposes? I have a Kindle but a want bigger screen to read PDFs and web pages.

Also, any integration with the Android app store?
You can still get a decent 1.85% 12 month CD with Marcus.
mdbook (https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) is open source, and I think it's very similar to gitbook in functionality
> It's hard to be an Austrian and a decent human being. Moral hazard is real, but it's hard to stand by and watch humans suffer in a world full of abundance.

Pardon the negativity, but this is a childish way to disagree with someone. Very few people think "I don't care what happens to people", mostly simply think there are better ways to do the most good. A person's inability to understand someone else's morality doesn't make that person superior, it makes them arrogant and ignorant.

It's much better to "steel man" a point of view, find the strengths in its arguments and understand it, then argue against those rather than just dismissing it out of hand because it doesn't align with your presuppositions.
Bear in mind that "essential" in these contexts is a very fluid definition, and is likely to be highly dependent on the popularity and connectedness of the sellers/partners.

For example, Elon Musk managed to convince Alameda County that manufacturing luxury vehicles is an "essential" service subject to exemption from their industrial shutdown order.
> A yuppie like me would just park it in my savings account until I feel we hit bottom, then invest it.

I would personally feel obligated to spend it, and I normally save 75% of my income.
What does the data say? What products are people buying as of now on Amazon?
Do you think it's fair, that the government issues you a Dollar one year, and the next year, they devalue it by 2% or more? then they devalue it some more every year 2% or more?

If we can't even rely on a stable currency, what is the point of government? we might as well go back to bartering. In fact, this is what is happening. As people can't rely on money to hold it's value anymore, they're going back to hard assets like stocks, and real estate.
The wolf is not leaving anytime soon. In fact, there will always be a wolf. There are wolves roaming your neighborhood now. And if you take care of 1, it will be replaced. The page has turned and what we need is daily neighborhood wolf suppression now.
Can't they just ship the browser with js webcomponents polyfills?
I’m in the exact same boat. I’ve never done so much reading and research to do nothing before.
Which one disappeared first? An audience willing to pay for quality journalism or quality journalism? I suspect quality journalism declined first, and it declined to the point where it made customers skeptical of journalism in general. That then shrunk the audience, and it circled back around again in a continuing cycle.
Not suggesting they won't be! I'm just curious about historical cases.
>why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing.

Are you accusing the people who posted these links of being employees of Remarkable? If so, you could just look at their comment histories to see if it seems likely before posting a general accusation.

I am fascinated by this product. It is far more interesting to me than much of what Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, or Amazon have done in a tablet form factor in many years. I'm not surprised that others may have a similar level of interest.
No decency whatsoever, those dirty whataboutists!
Article I, Section 8, clause 8 :

“The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries….”

Can't Congress , on an emergency basis, simply define "limited Times" to a very short duration for critical therapies.
The system was changed a few years ago to first to file, not first to invent. There's no reason to believe that anything has actually been invented behind that patent.
Effective workout you can do if you're stuck in a room with no equipment
I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlord.
You can make a CD ladder so some money is available more often if its an emergency fund.
>Most people who celebrate how much of a "hard worker" and wear 50-60 regular work weeks like badges of honor that aren't being compensated extra drank the corporate culture koolaid their HR/HR management offered them, from my experience.

That completely contradicts my experience. I work in biotech and we proudly put in long hours when required because we believe in the products we're working on and their benefit to society.
Anyone working on anything that Labrador claims is covered should ignore them, and if necessary, tell the courts to go f themselves too if by some bizarre mischance the suit gets any traction at all.

If Labrador is a public company, I've got a stockholder recommendation - sell. If not, time to buy nothing from them that isn't medically necessary, and that for only as long as specific items are critical, then zip.

Cut them off and let these jackasses starve.
This has been my “excuse-buster” workout for years. No equipment required. You just need a room with a tiny bit of space. I’ve done this in small hotels room before, no problem. If you’re stuck somewhere right now and unable to access a gym, this is a great way to keep your conditioning up until the situation improves. I have no association with the publisher of this video, I just think it's a great workout.

These days, people are having a lot of anxiety about the sate of the word. And staying indoors and sedentary is going to make that anxiety 10 times worse. Make sure you’re able to get some exercise to keep your mind healthy during all this.
No, it's worse. The Chinese government has apparently actively been censoring scientists and anyone else who points out the really obvious, glaring evidence that this virus originated in China, probably Wuhan. Their diplomats have been spreading the theory on social media too. This is basically a government-sanctioned conspiracy theory spread using the full power of a totalitarian state-run censorship apparatus.
i was just missing a small note akin to "which becomes all the more powerful by combining these commands" and then make a totally readable example such as this one

some_file=example.sh; tail -n +$(( $(wc -l $some_file | grep -o "[0-9]\+") - 5 )) $some_file
That's not high. We've been desperately trying to get inflation up and have taken extraordinary measures to try and raise inflation, but we're actually in a historic low inflation regime that's quite concerning - the fed would be thrilled if we'd be at 2-3 percent inflation consistently and easily. It's the reason we haven't been able to raise rates as high as they used to be, making government borrowing cheap, and why we've kept printing money. We're trying to get inflation up, its just not working that well.
Why do you care if some people just save it instead of spending on the necessities?

What about people for whom this is pretty close to their rent/food/entertainment budget anyway? You want them to sit in their houses staring at each other with no way to pay their bills for [insert streaming entertainment service here]?
Yup, the pioneering dataflow language (along with Ed Ashcroft) much praised by Alan Kay.

Wadge has been blogging for a few years now, some about Lucid and more recently telling stories from his academic career.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Freeman Dyson: His Advice to Me as a Freshman in College
My thoughts on this virus. I am NOT an expert (no where close. But if people respond it will shed some light for everyone):

* Since the federal government has be slow to respond, I am beginning to wonder how much of our emergency supply chain is NOT located within the US. In a pandemic situation, every country is going to be looking after their population first. We may have lost the capacity.

* The expected death count is 1-2 million. Our country is full of people with preexisting conditions.

* Heart Disease: 22,000,000. Death rate due to Coronavirus: 10%

* Diabetes: 34,200,200. Death rate due to Coronavirus: 7.3%

* Chronic Respiratory Disorder: 16,000,000. Death rate due to Coronavirus: 6.3%

* High Blood Pressure: 108,000,000. Death rate due to Coronavirus: 6.0%

* Cancer: 1,735,000. Death rate due to Coronavirus: 5.6%

Granted, there is a lot of overlap, but even if we just use High Blood Prease, that's 6,000,000 deaths alone (multiplied by expected spread of virus e.g. 70%). This excludes death rates for all healthy people over 60.

All sources are from coronavirus related wikipedia articles and .gov sites dedicated to American health statistics.
>The only incentive for innovation on this planet is monetary. That's it. No monies, no solutions.

sure, if you're a moneygrubbing piece of shit with no morals.

Which, unfortunately, under capitalism, is encouraged.
Reflective displays have the advantage of perfectly adapting their brightness to their surroundings. This is especially useful for portable devices. Emissive displays can have light-sensor-controlled brightness, but they don't adapt pixel by pixel like reflective displays.

However, if you are using an emissive display in an environment with constant and even lighting, you can set the brightness correctly and it will be just as good. Many people in such lightning conditions configure their displays wrong and mistake the misconfiguration for an inherent disadvantage of emissive displays.
The pricing should also play a significant role in its adoption. Especially if unbundled with other phones. At almost $42 and $70 (for the larger display) we should wait to see which subset of customers could justify it's use-case in daily life.
Thanks, but the point is that there is a horizontal asymptote and people are acting like there isn't.

Two weeks ago I was constantly being told to just wait a couple of weeks, and I would see overflowing ICUs in the United States.

But here we are, and the only places that are overflowing in the States (and most other nations) are the newsrooms.
No, it is worse. Some idiot on Facebook with a conspiracy theory isn't in the same league as the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party.
There are super smart people I respect but they accept bad behavior as a form of pragmatism. Like they’ll excuse patent trolls because they’re just working a legal angle and trying to make money like everyone else.

This idea that unethical things are just a consequence of circumstance and survival is flawed. We shouldn’t excuse those aggressively working to increase the surveillance state or corporate profits just because that’s their job —- we can be better than that.
That sounds overly simplistic. There are many savers who currently rent, and through sacrifice/discipline scrape an extra thousand or two per month in an effort to save for a down payment on a house. That is not "hoarding", that is capital that will be deployed in the "real" economy, just not right this instant.
Modern views of ancient metabolic networks
There is legitimate evidence of Canadian researchers working on coronaviruses in bats smuggling something to the Wuhan lab. Arrests were made a month before people across the world were taking the virus seriously.

Also the lab in Wuhan has leaked at least one SARS strain in the past.

>They're no more responsible for the virus

Do you understand the conditions of the ubiquitous meat markets in China? Do you realize how easy it is for pathogens to spread when you stack wild animals in cages on top of each other, torture and butcher literally everything, wild animals off the street, in open air and on the literal ground?

The reality is that most of China is third world. Sorry, sometimes specific cultural practices are harmful to people and societies.
Paper is just better than glowing screens for lots of perceptual tasks. No-flicker is better than flicker, too. Keep in mind that lots of our new mediums can be thought of as chaff in the way of reading the right good book.
It's not racist to call it the Chinese coronavirus.
Except... it's not. It's still bundled, just differently.

A la carte would be what Amazon Prime Video does with all of the stuff that isn't free--you just pay for the thing you actually watch.
I am totally in your camp on this...I'm very interested in crypto from a technology standpoint, but I don't see any viable applications (other than those you mention) on the horizon.

Also, I don't really believe "trustless" is possible, as close as blockchain may get. I'm not an expert here, but don't you still have to trust DNS, certificate issuers, code maintainers, etc.? Can't any of these be compromised with a big enough profit motive?
It gets really frustrating when one service has seasons 1-3 of a show but I need to subscribe to another service to get seasons 4 and 5. I've even seen the case where season 1 and 3 are on a service but season 2 is somewhere else.

Add in the fact that these deals change all the time so season 3 might be somewhere else by the time I'm caught up and ready to watch it and the whole system is madness.
Tell HN: I Miss What.cd
Not a week goes by that I don't miss what.cd terribly. It was one of the greatest collections of digital resources ever put together. The library was wonderfully vast and the community was unbelievably kind. When it went away it really symbolized the end of an era for me.