skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own a neo2. They are nice for first drafts or noodling with words. There really is something in the idea of dumbing down tech to get things done. I have written quite a bit on it but three things have held me back from being a power user:

1. It uses a dated, proprietary cable to transfer your writing to a computer. Worst part of this is that the AlphaSmart re-types your writing so if you’ve written the 50000 word max then it will take some time to save it. The process is just annoying enough to trigger procrastination.

2. If the battery comes out then you’ve lost everything. This isn’t such a dealbreaker since I want a dumber word processor to get out of my way but I think it makes the keyboard a little too dumb.

3. Honestly, it’s not sexy. It’s huge, too. And people with no interest in writing just don’t get it at all. The looks people give me when I’ve used it in the public are like “what insane Jesus cult stuff is this guy writing on that??” Nothing crazy here, just hunting bugs on TempleOS.

I see a market for a machine like this but done better. The just write or whatever branding they are using checks a lot of boxes but the price is insane.

I think I’ll just rig up Atom to work a little bit more like Scrivener.
Google's main liability is that they can never, under any circumstances, prioritize user privacy.

The reason the products listed by the author have rough corners is that those products don't contribute much to the bottom line.

Google is an advertising company that happens to use technology. The problem is that too many people view it as a technology company that happens to be into advertising.

As browsers adopt ad-blockers by default, Chrome will be the lone holdout. As smaller companies and startups realize that you can "monetize" products by charging a price and adopting stringent privacy policies, Google will be stuck with its "free" business model.

Nothing Google will try to do in the years ahead will change the basic equation.
The visually easier part also relates to how Google "innovated".

At some point Google seems to have realised that all they needed to do to grow, was just stuff more ads above the fold, and remove all non-Google content (i.e. when you search for travel, you get Google's OTA...when you search for finance news, you get Google's clickjacked articles, etc.). It is far easier to hit earnings that way (and btw, this was the intention...they rolled this out slowly so could they could control the numbers they reported).

In my personal opinion, Google also optimises for hiring bureaucrats. Something has gone wrong with hiring when you are hiring a bunch of "smart" people and your strategy is this weak. Either you are hiring a bunch of people you don't need or you are hiring a bunch of people with the wrong skills (in this case, it is probably both). Google jobs seem like a sinecure...lots of people busily doing nothing...just imo.

It is classic Innovator's Dilemma though (that book is amazing).
Interestingly I just bought a second hand DM30 and am looking into how I can get it to run a code editor (or just accept different file types). If anyone has any idea on how to accomplish such a feat please share.
There's something to be said about the mental health of employees in the industry. In my personal experience, gamers are not always the healthiest people. Sitting at a desk working all day then going home and sitting at a desk gaming all night. On top of that, these people are put through high stress, cut-throat, deadline driven environments, and you get a recipe for disaster. Now add the fact that people attracted to video games tend to edge on the anti-social.
> In case...

When it happens, deal with it - odds are it won't. Expend the energy making the code base testable not pretending to be an insurance company ("In case sh..").
In the early 1990s I got to shoot some NCAA Div 1 basketball. Some reporters that showed up and worked from the press room often had these old TRS80 "Slab portables". They're hard to describe, but a 2 inch thick open-face notebook coputer, with a real keyboard and a small black and white screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

Our students reporters had to take notes on paper.

In the early 90s dedicated word processing machines seemed to be pretty popular and writing papers with small lcd screens was common.
Yes but Linux will run on these same specs, while actually being usable (including for web browsing) and even snappy at times. In fact, you could even halve the amount of RAM and still be quite fine. (And 2000 is definitely pushing it. Mid-2000s seems more likely.)
Oh I see, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope things will improve for you soon.

It's understandable you would be focused on more important things. Lately I have been wondering if more people would get into open source if they didn't have bigger things to worry about like poverty and climate change.

I suppose I am privileged enough to do OSM contributions in my spare time. I'm not sure how to feel about that...
In my experience, a lot of shops with Java in their tech stack usually get devs from Infosys or other consulting companies. So you are competing with super cheap labor.
btw, my favorite FP-hack: let-in expressions with lambdas OR list comprehensions:

let x = foo in expr

can be

[expr for x in (foo,)][0]

(kinda reads like a Haskell `where` clause!) or:

(lambda x = foo: expr)()

useful in a pre-walrus-operator REPL :)
I don't know ... gawker pissed off the whole world and got away with it.

It needed just one tiny Peter Thiel to bring them down burning ...

If some billionaire gets pissed off at woke organizations and outlets they could inflict substantial damage.
But there's a large exception. You won't be taxed on that amount. You presently get the first $23 million tax-free before any inheritance tax kicks in... and then only for the amount above $23 mil.
> Letting a follower forward request to leader on client's behalf is not easy to implement correctly, that's why most popular raft based software (hashicorp stack) doesn't do that. Not worth it.

I'm honestly surprised by this comment! I've written multiple Raft implementations, and request proxying was one of the easiest things to get right--it doesn't have to touch the Raft subsystem at all. Could you talk a little more about this?
Sure.

The other device I often use is a Thinkpad A20m running Linux. The only web browser on it is lynx (which I mostly use or Wikipedia).
I picked up a bluetooth keyboard that folds to a size that fits easily in my pocket and paired with my phone that turned out to be a really good writing experience. Writing apps on the phone still default to taking over the full screen and using the phone's "Do Not Disturb" mode was enough to get a good distraction free environment. (On the phone at least, one day in November I was writing in an Irish pub. There was a football game on I was half interested in. A bagpipe band showed up to play a set. The power went out for an hour or so and I was writing under candle light. Plenty of interesting, weird distractions outside of my phone were had.)
Sigh .... as an Android user this really hurts.
Because of this it has english language support
What a nasty little article. Reeks of petty malice. And from someone who claims he's interested in "being a good person".
It isn't about "deserving" anything. The societal problems behind inter-generational wealth are wide and deep. This was recognized by the founders of the US, in particular Thomas Jefferson.

Adam Smith: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."

This is taxation for policy reasons, not income.
Used to be normal to pay for things like that, and so people didn't update for security, and the world of devices/machines was less secure.
But that isn't the argument being presented because if the parents don't will it to the children, then no one thinks the children should get it (well, a few such children might and may legally challenge the will, but that is a very small minority opinion). The actual argument is that, having paid the taxes, the ones who own the business should be able to do with it as they wish including giving it away on death. At the core is a basic question of how should taxes work. Should you pay them up front when you get money, at the end of your life when you die, all throughout depending upon your wealth (such as property tax)? Each of these has positives and negatives associated with them, which is part of a larger discussion on how taxes should work.
In general we have to look much closer at viruses causing chronic illnesses or autoimmune disorders.

Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is another one where lots of ailments seem to follow - I speak from personal experience combined with many reports both online and acquiantances.

Ever since having mono/kissing disease/EBV my body hasn't been remotely the same.
iPhone SE (1st gen) will get iOS 14, too. “Be still, my heart.”
I wonder how you could modify one of these to be more suited for writing code.
Your old phone is slower because its battery can no longer hold as much charge.
Good to see more people calling out the sensationalism and manipulation tactics that publishers deploy...not just the Times either.

I've gotten to a point where if my spidey sense is tingling, I won't even click on link or read the content, the time to reward that behavior has passed.
My first thought when looking at this thing was neck pain.

Personally, I would be in rough shape if I used this thing for more than 15 minutes.
> Having worked in the industry I'd believe basically anything anyone told me about the horrors they've seen.

Can you (safely) provide any anecdotes? Genuinely curious - not doubting you.
Here's a free idea for Google that would make my life better... you know these voice assistant thingys? I would love if they could tell me when things happen instead of having to ask them if something is currently happening. For example, "Hey Google, tell me when XXX announces a concert in town." or "tell me when YYY is on sale" etc.

Having to look these things up all the time really sucks.
> An even better approach would be to replace the estate tax with an inheritance tax. Under an inheritance tax, heirs would simply pay income and payroll taxes on their inheritance above a large exemption, just as others do on their wages.

> If an inheritance tax exempted the first $1 million received over one’s lifetime and applied the highest income and payroll tax rates to amounts above that threshold, it would raise $790 billion over the next decade.
This makes no sense. There is also no point in starting a (for profit) business except to make profit. Neither inheritance nor profit are eliminated by taxes - they are reduced.
The fact that Hey can on day one offer so much over a Gmail experience which hasn’t improved since the Bush administration is less an ad than underscoring how bad Google’s management are.
Agreed. Having more than $23 million in inheritance definitely puts one above "middle class".
> Today, the first $23 million that a couple transfers is entirely exempt from the estate tax.

I think the middle class will be just fine.
SaaS, the big winner of the future economy
Yeah, my experience across their device lines is that, for build quality reasons alone, their products outlive any competitors: I have a ‘08 MacBook Pro that still basically works, except it can’t connect to my WiFi network and 2GB of memory is basically useless today.
> so an inheritance tax would be

Is it not possible to imagine effective laws?

Near me is a Gilded Age estate, a magnificent place. My understanding is that with the introduction of income tax, the family was eventually forced to turn it over to be a nonprofit in the 1970's. So, if my understanding is right, even folks who were staggeringly wealthy were not able to completely defeat the cross-generational effect of the law.
You cited a study that showed no effect from adjuvants in vaccines in an unrelated discussion about covid and diabetes, in an attempt to start an argument where, at best, your position amounts to "we need more investigation". That's why you're being dismissed.
Which equality will you use if it's not numbers, but something more complicated.

What if `(x, y, x)` is matched against some `(a, b, c)` where `a == c`, but not `a is c`? If yes, and you mutate `x` in the body, does it mutate `a` or does it mutate `c`?

I think at least making it an error now can leave it open to defining it later.
The Playstation Bug Bounty Program
This post is about sweden. Off the bat, they don't seem especially comparable because they note that spouses needing to pay inheritance tax was one of the primary problems. Spouses don't do that in the United States (for good reason).
I had an early Chromebook (from I/O) and was never very impressed. I always felt the lackluster support for local storage would hold it back from ever seriously competing with my PC.

I saw its value as more of a dedicated device for people who do limited things on their laptop (e.g. sales team using only a handful of web apps), and even in that niche it had to compete with iPads, etc.
If you remember the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, you'll realize their "neutrality" has been suspect for quite some time.

NYT still has some real quality writing, but you should understand the motivation.
Although it won't be as concise, you can use guards to emulate this feature with

match data:
case [x1, x2] if x1 == x2:
...

I agree on this being a fantastic addition to the language. I've sorely missed not having pattern matching in Python after using Rust.
Are you sure you understand the estate tax?

Even before Bush-era increases to the estate tax exemption, estate taxes only cut in on $1 million and larger estates.

These days, the exemption is $5 million.

Putting the exemption back down to $1 million doesn’t sound like it would heavily impact you unless your grandfather had a lot of beneficiaries.
`The pretrained large BERT model has 340M parameters and is 1.35GB. Even if it can fit on a consumer device (e.g. your phone), the time it takes for BERT to run inference on a new sample makes it useless for many real world applications. `

This is true, but a fine-tuned Distilbert model will give close to that accuracy with a ~260MB file size.
Guess $700 million (1) is simply too cheap a price for directly marketing your product to 1 billion (2) users

1 https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fined-731m-by-eu-in-...

2 https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/16/windows-10-now-runs-on-1-...
Apple to use Intel microprocessors beginning in 2006 (2005)
I wanted to try out making gemini pages. I got some of the example servers, but no where in the official gemini spec, both via http and via gemini, could I find examples of the actual freakin gmi/gml formats!

I started up Wireshark and then remembered that the traffic is encrypted by default ... so yea, that's not going to help.

Are there any gemini tutorial on how to make a gemini site?
In south east Asia it's mostly Line and WeChat.
To save you other's time:

ME = Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

CFE = Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
I have mixed feelings about Facebook. I was one of the first people in my friend group to boycott Facebook back when it really wasn't cool to do so: back in 2008 or so. I did so for reasons of privacy. As someone who works with data for a living, I know full well the risks people are taking by using Facebook and I also see how little the general public understand about this. So I boycotted them.

But nobody talks about privacy any more.

The current backlash against Facebook seems to be due to them not wanting to censor the platform in quite the way that users want them to censor the platform. It seems everyone is happy with the censorship---because like anyone who has ever been happy with censorship they don't believe the readership is intelligent enough to read certain words---but they are unhappy that the censorship isn't being conducted in a way that benefits them.

Back in 2008 I thought it was simple: just don't use Facebook. Maybe it was that simple back then. But not now. This internet thing really seems to be turning into the great problem of our time and I fully expect it to cause several major crises before we figure it out.
A major issue with biology is the compensation. Biology compensation is notoriously bad outside of accredited medicine.
What amazed me most from the FBI affidavit[0] was the sheer arrogance of these people. Baugh seriously thought he could make up some story on the spot to explain eBay employees being on the opposite side of the country and the police would just drop it.

[0] https://www.scribd.com/document/465728291/FBI-Affidavit-agai...
I like that the updates are offered. I wonder how usable these older devices are after updates.

I have an iPhone 8 which hasn't been usable since the last update. Most functions work but the performance has taken a nose dive. Some apps crash randomly.

I would not use that device as my daily phone.
Yeah dude, police militarization is a huge problem in the US, I agree.

Cheering on indiscriminate hacking/doxxing of any/all police as an attempt to solve the problem is infantile, though, and demonstrates a naive ignorance of the root causes.
cloud computing is one of them /s
Then I should be allowed to replace my battery.
I have a Chromebook and I'm really found of it, but the Android and Linux parts seem half-baked and a depart from the Chromebook's initial proposition.

I really like this setup where my computer is just a thin client to my infrastructure. In the case of ChromeOS, this is all a closed/proprietary environment managed by Google, but nothing prevents challengers from implementing this setup based on open standards and user freedom.
wow who designed that page such that closing the fullscreen image goes to the prior page. There is no way to get to the wiki article from that image lol
"why didn't you tell us?!"

Do you actually think anyone would notice if the Times did not publish this article? Couldn't the same thing then be said about any MSM publisher relating to all topics/content?

"You should worry more about the media that philosophically rejects the notion of objective reality. "

And...there is no such thing as objectivity in media, never was or will be. The act of deciding what stories to publish or not is a subjective decision in and of itself.
Medium has a very weird paywall where you are rewarded for clearing your tracking cookies after every visit. They strongly encourage you to sign in, and if you do, it will say "you're out of free articles". But if you sign out and clear cookies, you get to read the article for free.

I guess this is better than "you don't have an account, no article for you!" but it still strikes me as odd.
> but I really don't find "Hey" a suitable alternatives to Gmail

I don't get why people need an alternative to Gmail. Email is already decentralized. Just buy a custom domain for a few dollars per year, and then use any email provider you want. You'll own your email address forever.

I currently host my email on Protonmail, but if I ever decide to switch providers, I can do it without having to give people a new email address. I could even go back to Gmail. Worst-case scenario is that I lose the old messages in my inbox that I failed to back up, but that's no big deal.
The worst part of Android which Apple said screw you to was that each Samsung phone and others has to released with a firmware bundle specific to a carrier for each country (Orange/Vodacom etc ...).
9 BRL is what? 2 USD?

Compare with https://answers.usbank.com/answers/s/article/How-much-does-a... (spoiler alert: 10x more - for both senders and receivers)

Whatsapp transfers would be ~ 5% of the cost which would make it more expensive for anything over 200BRL

Meanwhile inside the SEPA Area (EU), National and International payments have the same cost (which is usually 0)
To Quote SJ: "The only problem with Microsoft is, they just have no taste"

Repeat that for Google.
Inside a bizarre social media cult built on memes
Auteur Theory of Design
OP: I would love to talk to you. I’m building something exactly to help talented folks find their next opportunity and I’m thinking about all of the things that you are. It would be interesting to chat about why this is so hard.

Do you mind sending me a note? My email is in my bio.
Lots of the money hasn't been taxed. If you owned stock for decades but never sold it, it wouldn't have been taxed.
Everyone knows Apple, I have never heard about HEY.

The article doesn't really say anything, so I can see how it being at the top would be suspicious.
Lightning Safety
Indeed. This enhances generational affluence and generational poverty.

It's understandable that (grand)parents want to do right by their (grand)kids, and leaving them a pretty penny is a pretty thoughtful thing to do. But when this then has huge negative effects on society, it stops being a nice thing to do. Inherit for free up to a certain amount. Redistribute the rest.
Rather it's because it can't supply the same voltage it could when it was new necessitating down-clocking of the CPU and thus the performance slowdown.
I think that's fair. Big Sur support is limited to 2014 iMacs and later, which is a shame because my late 2012 iMac is absolutely fine for home and business use still.
The same article will fit well for Waymo as well.
I worry more about media that tries to create a reality that fits their ideology. A bunch of companies whose brand identity is tied closely with politics jump ship and NYT tries to paint that into a movement. Pardon me when I’m skeptical, especially when these companies are comparably tiny and when Facebook’s only crime is daring to defend free speech on its own platform.

Give it a year or so and companies like Patagonia will quietly come back to FB.
Adding Types to a Logic Program
If the package contained printed documents explicitly prepared in order to communicate with his attorney: privileged.

If the package contained existing documents that would be subject to discovery anyways, htat you're happening to ship to your lawyer: not privileged.
I'm also an early gsuite user and have the same complaints about assistant integration - but I am 85% sure that I tried to create a new google for business account to verify that it would at least work if I was paying, and it didn't.

Which led me to experimenting with migrating off my legacy gsuite, and with the API rate limiting, it seems it would take upwards of 30 days. I can download that data in 10 minutes if it's unhindered.
Well, if anyone were going to do it, you'd think no one would be surprised about it being the "National Public Radio"
Yes, Grin has its own custom motor designs.
The argument seems to be that those files contains lots of personal data of innocent people so it falls outside any sort of free-speech debate.
And you're 100% sure that this is not just currency controls because the Brazilian Real is getting killed? From what I can tell - Brazil is going to Argentina, quickly :(
Has anyone done a comparison to see when iOS 14 features were introduced into Android? I believe picture in picture works on the S7 (which was introduced 4 months after the 6S).

Normally I'd feel a bit bummed about missing features and long term support is a problem but there wasn't much that was new to Android.
> Yes, especially for the top 1% and 0.1%. However, they're the ones who have enough money to pay for ways to hide their wealth from taxation

So because the ultra-rich have found ways to skirt the laws, are you suggesting we just don't bother making the laws?

Surely this is a game of whack-a-mole, and it's in society's best interest to keep going after them.
Sounds like it would share solutions with the “two generals problem”.
In fact I think the government has all the rights to take all belongings after someone dies. After all the person earned it from society, not its descendants.