skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless there are some newer Kindle models I'm unaware of, they are very different. The Kindle is a passive device, where one can read and barely interact with buttons and stuff. It's great for reading books and I use it often for that, but not much more.

The reMarkable is a device for production, where you can write, sketch, organize etc. The display is much quicker to update and the pen is really good. I also like that it's a bit bigger, so reading PDFs isn't as much hassle as on a smaller Kindle.

At least that's my take on it. Kindle for leisure, reMarkable for work.
> Microsoft... because they want more clients for Azure

Why spend 50B to buy it then? After owning them they'll be the ones paying for hosting costs.

IMO they want it for the same reason as Minecraft, a cultural phenomenon and access to its massive youth user base & their best chance to rival Facebook/IG.
I'm sorry you feel this way, I'm just saying it's gonna happen long term, as opposed to short term.
Awesome project OP!

Tangentially,

Are you interested in music identification, especially musical instrument identification? If so, You might be interested in looking at a need gap - 'Display musical instruments used in a song'[1] which was recently posted on my problem validation platform.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/151-display-musical-instruments...
SpaceX is the obviously better choice. Or even Elon just by himself! Ha, imagine the headlines that would give! Probably Boeing would jump in to compete. It's an insane world.
What's the over/under on how long before this yields a discount in Amazon's joint healthcare venture? One year? Two years? I figure it's only a matter of time. Employers can't make this mandatory without losing some face, but they can effectively make it mandatory by tying it to a few hundred dollar a month discount.
In Ramanujan's biography, there is a mention of a british guy who was very fast at calculations. He was faster than Ramanujan himself. Unlike Ramanujan, that guy had easy access to all the modern math literature of the time but still he wasn't a mathematician. And Ramanujan became first class mathematician even without any resources or formal education.

I think doing calculation is mechanical skill. But gaining insights from those calculations is wholly different skill.
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> Also I was using hjkl but switched to ijkl to match the arrow keys. I don't use vim enough anymore to justify hjkl.

Same here. ijkl is so much better!

> So now it's not modal. I hold down capslock and then use ijkl to navigate etc.

Hmm… maybe I should try that. Then again, I am afraid of getting the Emacs pinky all over again…
But they do spy on their users. There's plenty of telemetry telling them all sorts of things about you and use of "your" device. They merely spy in more acceptable ways and don't appear to sell any intimate info.
Agree, these buyers remind me of the Steve Buscemi meme where he has the backwards baseball hat and skateboard in tow, asking "How do you do fellow kids?". A really strange group that has no relation to social media at all. What is even stranger is the cost of tikTok should be exceedingly high(70B+), and would wreck the balance sheets of these companies if they do decide on a purchase.
* in some cases
Ahh that makes a lot of sense, if you're going to have a compiler insert the result of a function having conditional branching seems a bit gnarly I guess?
Obviously there are at least as many reasons to downvote you as the number of downvotes you got, but I don't think adding E would've saved you from any of them, since you'd still be the one preselecting A-D.

Maybe you thought it would be as simple as people replying "B" or "C", but nobody just picked one of the answers and you got a super long reply that must have taken a long time to type out. The effort for a quick vote vs. writing a comment is heavily skewed towards voting.

You got some high-effort replies to your question anyway, so maybe just ignore the low-effort votes.
Perhaps they aren't particularly font of you calling their OS unusable.
That would be awesome. I have ordered the Remarkable and would like to use it as a dashboard connected to my computer. Just to display time, the calendar and other information which needs to be updated only very infrequently.
Surprised (or maybe not?) by the negativity of the comments here. This is a direct competitor to Whoop[1]. Athletes and friends of mine rave about it.

Knowing physical strain, recovery levels, etc. helps you know when to train harder, when to take a day off, when to specifically rest up.

For somebody aiming for elite performance (physically and mentally), the data is invaluable.

[1]: https://www.whoop.com
They offer a companion app for mobile and desktop so you might want to move your reMarkable contents to OneNote when you are done editing. The device is also hacker friendly so you could probably just plug some APIs to export to OneNote automatically
That's not something you can have at your home though, no? The DEXA/DXA scans machine I know of are something you can't keep at the comfort of your home.

In my personal experience I have found impedance ones to be fairly accurate(~10%, BF range 10-16) and for most people the accuracy of full body ones is good to have a general idea about their body. Probably when you reach sub 10 levels, accuracy matters more.

Btw, here is the link to studies they give: https://inbodyusa.com/studies/
What I'm missing here is statistics on how many people actually followed the advice their botnet printers just spewed out. A simple check a week later to see how many printer owners managed to secure their devices would be nice.

Hacking printers just to promote your blog is kinda scummy. If you do it to help people secure their networks, then at least show how much you've managed to help by publishing the numbers. Anyone can use Shodan and submit a PDF with a script.
My pet theory is that its because these are "old guard" enterprises who have a strong presence in Washington. TikTok's blood is in the water, and all of these companies realize that they could get it at a substantial discount thanks to US Government intervention.

For a minute (or forever, whatever suits you), operate on the assumption that Trump is an idiot, who doesn't actually understand the modern business landscape, let alone the modern tech business landscape. He believes Boeing is one of the greatest companies in the world [1], the DoD has a huge contract with Microsoft, the federal government is also rife with Oracle contracts, these "traditional" companies are the ones that our government interacts with on a daily basis.

On the flip side, they just had an antitrust hearing with Big Tech (and while Microsoft was there, they didn't get nearly the heat that Apple, Google, and Facebook did; I wonder why). In fact, many of these companies, and others in SV, have publicly disavowed the administration; some had representatives on high profile advisory panels at the beginning of the administration, but many have left.

Who is left talking to Washington? The old guard companies, who have big contracts, big traditional names, personal contacts scattered around the federal government.

I don't believe this has anything to do with cohesion with these companies existing business models. Look at your confusion about who's coming forward, and then recognize that if the world doesn't make sense, something else is going on that you're missing. Oracle doesn't want to integrate TikTok with Oracle Cloud: They want to use their contacts in the government to acquire it at a serious discount, then bleed it dry to remake the investment. Microsoft feels like the only exception I've seen: While it still doesn't make sense for them, they at-least dabble in social networking, they'd probably run it into the ground, but it wouldn't be malicious.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/business/boeing-bailout-trump...
>"Transphobia" - even such things as thinking about "sex" and "gender" as different concepts are quite US specific. i.e. where I live we typically refer to people by their sex, and don't even have a term for a separate concept like gender.

Another way of saying this is that Lithuania is currently either culturally or politically suppressing trans people, whether inherently or knowingly - I promise you trans people and their alternative identification exist there, too. You just dont see it and/or they are afraid to say so.
And the reason it's hard is because of how heavily tensorflow discourages flow control and reusable general purpose constructs for efficiency and differentiability reasons. Instead you have to use the list of blessed special purpose things.
Lol, these self monitor systems can't even produce useful data in regards to heart arrhythmias, I would be surprised if they are any better at mood recognition given how complex mood is by comparison to heart function.
What you're showing here is lack of high DPI scaling and it's a completely different issue irrelevant to the GP's point - it's caused by increased pixel density, not screen space (unless your example comes from some 40" monitor or so). To make an honest comparison you would have to set the output resolution to a lower value.

When done right, increasing screen density doesn't really affect available space, just makes everything sharper (unless you manually reconfigure it to get more space, like I do on my hidpi laptop).
"The Dragon promises to keep your gold... err.. data safe."
From way back in 2013, a HN thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940624

Sadly it looks like the wayback machine does not have a copy of the original. Does anyone know how to get one?
Oh cool, I hadn't noticed that you were actually around here on HN! Thanks so much responding!

> In my case, the interval is set to 0.5

I noticed that more frequent updates of the status bar do eat away at the battery, though. :\
It's really funny and scary at the same time how companies these day choose (and convince most of us) privacy to only mean physical privacy, as if as long you are indoors at your house then your privacy is preserved, nothing to worry about. The more "ethereal" aspect of your privacy, on the other hand...
From my experience, if you want standard charting (bar, line, pie, etc...) you’re better off using either a different library like Highcharts, or something higher-level that’s built on top of D3
this is my most hated Apple "UI modernization." Its not just a problem with website, apps, even Apple apps don't deal with it well. I always turn on scroll bars all the time (I do a lot of work with very long documents or files, and just scrolling with the scroll wheels doesn't cut it for these), and every time I do a VNC connection using the built in screen sharing app, the scroll bars are placed in the remote screen area, rather than outside it. So every time I connect to a remote screen, the first thing I have to do is enlarge the window so I can see everything.
It's a factually incorrect comment: the entire Rust team was not fired from Mozilla.

Does that mean it deserves to be flagged? I didn't flag it. But to be clear, while it does have some opinions, it is also plain incorrect in the facts it asserts.

You can also find, many, many, many comments critical of Rust that are upvoted, let alone not flagged. I wouldn’t extrapolate from a single comment.
People can’t disagree with and hate hurricanes the way they do other people.
I've been holding off on buying it until handwritten text recognition works on device without sending the data to the cloud. I had hoped it would have happened by now, but it looks I'm gonna have to wait a while longer.
I got one earlier this year when they upgraded my work laptop, and found out that was a button when I pressed it accidentally while removing it - got the whatever-it-is dumped into a random terminal that happened to be in focus. Didn't hear what version it was, but it looks like a Yubikey 4.
> Guess which ones often have problems joining zoom meetings

As a linux user, I'd like to say that I've seen that happen just as often with OSX users on my team. I think that's just Zoom's shitty app. But I do agree about peripheral hardware issues plaguing Linux. Bluetooth headphones are still such a hassle on Ubuntu 20.04.
How durable is the e-Ink display on these?

Whilst I could see myself wanting to own one, I've so far managed to bust the screens on three e-Ink devices I've owned. And I'm not exactly treating them rough. They seem to break with the slightest of knocks. Bad enough when it's a sub £100 e-Reader. But, if I was paying 3 or 4 times that much, I'd expect something that was a bit less fragile.
I took a "designing the user experience" class in as part of my computer science curriculum (not in the design or art school).

It was much more rigorous than other design content I watch (e.g. skillshare, youtube), which are usually based on how something looks (emotion) and not the actual efficiency or usefulness of the design.

In the industry we really should distinguish between UI Architects and Aesthetic Designers.
I'm wondering if there is an application that can be installed on a Kindle to provide a similar interface, it will be a game changer. Any thoughts?
Case in point, this thread about running Parabola as OS on the reMarkable was also on the front page today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294176
Why is very popular in the design community, like the five whys [0]. But now I'm always at odds when I speak about it after listening to Richard Dawkins and other scientists say "why is a stupid question." They advise to ask, "what led to this?" And doing that has helped me reframe situations and make discoveries.

Even still, why is a great shorthand in many contexts. :)

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
Eventually companies will realize they should spend or reimburse to upgrade "home office" equipment to "business-grade".
I don't understand why the ban on tiktok should be delayed for the acquisition talks. The ban is imposed allegedly because its sending the data of US citizen back to the CCP. Ok, that is still true today and so the ban should have been in effect immediately if that is the reason. This jerking around is not a good thing in a free capitalistic country like the US.
It's certainly hard to tell with the current US administration, since the government and moneyed interests are the same: https://www.citizen.org/article/corporatecabinet/

I do think the key here is that the government doesn't have to cave to moneyed interests, but a fascist leader does (either because they're weak, complicit or some other reason).
I see the value of remaping the esc key to cpaslock, but my hands are quite big and I can reach esc on most keyboards quite effortlessly.
Yeah, and that frequently feels very wrong :(
A couple thousand for some data collection. How much money gets spent every minute by companies to collect data they will never use?
Yeah, the top ones generally are fairly accurate even from my experience, though the full body ones fare better than just the foot ones. Even if they are off by ~5%, it still can be good to track changes.
Can you link to that?
As sibling comment indicates, someone like Dotcom will say anything at any time. He's kind of like CIA in that respect. I love the link to the M5M sock saying Trump has no chance in 2016, barely two months before he is widely believed to have won. Why is the name "Seth Rich" mostly brought up by "believe-the-dominant-narrative" cheerleaders? Are you guys feeling guilty about something? Why not just obey his parents' wishes? It's impossible to know for sure, but it's most likely that what you'd prefer to call a "hack" was actually a leak by someone other than Rich. [0]

NPR are run by John Lansing, previously responsible for external propaganda as head of "USAGM". Now he handles internal propaganda. It's funny to read that very detailed report, full of all sorts of picturesque details with no sources about those three hours in the dark. Oh wait, Deborah Sines had to go OTR to CYA her cold case. That was worth picking this scab, in 2019.

Liberal Democrats (as differentiated from actual progressives) don't have imaginations, so they assume any widely-held belief must come from somewhere specific. If it's a belief they don't like, they have to blame a nefarious source. People connected to the Clintons have been dropping like flies for decades. When Epstein died, the most commonly-searched phrase was "Clinton body count", even though Trump had "partied" with him too. (Trump can't hire assassins because they insist on being paid in full.) Nobody had to be told by Russians to blame HRC for the death of someone on her campaign. When coupled with embarrassing public leaks of DNC shenanigans, lots of people independently decided that Rich might have been connected. It's best to ignore Rich and pay attention to who says what, and how that relates to facts actually in evidence. (e.g. DKIM-verified emails.)

[0] https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-r...
I think that the earlier const evaluator was an AST interpreter? It's been a long time and I don't work on this code, so I'm not 100% sure.

I don't know constexpr well enough to comment on that claim.
It features a distraction free OS and an eInk display. That lack of distractions and specialized goal is the reason to buy it.
Bungling of highly-visible things by agencies of the executive branch reflect affect the credibility of the president. As Truman said, "The buck stops here."
That does make sense, thanks.
This has been changed in most iOS 14 Apps. (I checked Mail, Notes, Files and Reminders. The Settings-App still hides it)

It's a leftover from when iPhone screens where much smaller: https://postimg.cc/WFdqPwfd
Bullshit EULA.

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000028275...

https://github.com/reMarkable
It's definitely pie-in-the-sky. I wouldn't argue otherwise.

But I do think this is a problem our industry will have to solve eventually. The volume of data we have to move between servers in order to ask questions is exploding. We move petabytes of image data between filesystems in order to train machine learning models. If the problems in this thread can be solved (admittedly a big if), moving the code to the data would be fundamentally better.
"Developers who register for the contest will get a $200 voucher for Huawei Cloud, and a $4,000 voucher after app submissions."

That's pretty impressive.
Apples and oranges. If you are writing/drawing a lot on paper, you might find this very useful.
Users flagged it. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

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It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News.

Moderators sometimes add [flagged] for the same reasons, and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair.
The Lounge is the first app to make me really use IRC. The ability to have it running on my home server and be easily accessible from all the devices in my house through a nice, mobile optimized web interface is an absolute delight.
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Pity it doesn't include blood oxygen monitoring. That would be a hot seller right now.

On a side note, the first smartwatch to include blood glucose monitoring is going to make an incredible amount of money.

I'm aware there are largely dedicated glucose monitoring devices in the watch form factor, but they aren't good smartwatches for other uses, super-thick, lacking heartrate monitoring and phone notifications, etc.
> That's quite arguably false.

Arguably indeed. It's an opinion.

> Most people are in fact not actually in sci-fi videos, and are often in situations where they would not want their device to start beeping and clicking.

If my device started beeping and clicking when I don't want to, then I would mute the sounds. Browsers have a mute feature which allows me to mute the browser separately from other apps.

My device even has a physical mute button. If I don't want my device to start beeping and clicking then I would either not browse some random location I found on the internet (because random locations on the internet are well known for starting sounds) or I would use the device's physical mute button.
Modern touchpads are significantly improved compared to the old generations (even from 5 years ago). It's not that touchpads are bad input devices (like they used to be), it's that I'm bad at touchpads.

I could probably get used to them if I had any reason to, but I have no idea where I would even put my laptop to use it comfortably with an external monitor. I like my mouse and I have no problems with it, so no sense in buying an external touchpad.

If I did a lot of work like scrubbing through audio/video or something that benefited from multitouch gestures like pinch-to-zoom, then maybe I'd consider it.
Amazon already more or less tracks these things, I think. About 3 years ago, I needed new jeans, so ordered some on Amazon. They were a little tight, and didn't loosen up, so I purchased the next size up (a couple months later). I immediately started seeing belt extenders and pants waistline extenders as suggested items. I assume their algorithm assumed I had gained weight. There is a ton of things they can do with that information.
They did already lie to congress about using sales data to screw other brands and favor their own ones. And they will use your data how ever they can, legal or illegal, for whatever they feel like gives them the edge over someone else.
So how does their size quarantines honesty? Quite the opposite apparently.
Strongly related: viewport units (vw, vh, vmin, vmax) are fundamentally and irreconcilably broken if your document has scrollbars, because they include the size of document scrollbars, so that 100vw is equal to 100% + 17px if you have a 17px wide scrollbar there (the most likely value on Windows), so now all of a sudden you have a horizontal scrollbar too. Or your nicely calculated layout that thought that 33vw + 33vw + 33vw < 100% is now wrong and wrapping the third block on screens less than 1700px wide. There used to be a weird way of opting out of scrollbar inclusion (I think it involved `overflow: scroll` and something else on the root element, I think, but I don’t remember the exact incantation), but Firefox was the only browser that implemented it, and no one else wanted to (they said “no one wants this”—untrue, I say—“and it’s weird and inconsistent”—which was true).

We need a new set of units that excludes document scrollbars. Or a constant like env(scrollbar-width) that represents the scrollbar width so that you can subtract it yourself, which would be useful in a few other places as well (instead I’ve done the likes of `var(--scrollbar-width, 20px)` and calculate and define --scrollbar-width on the root element in JavaScript).
Remarkable haven't yet delivered the 2.0 device. Let's first see when it appears on the market. I has been delayed twice so far. So far it's in "pre-order" mode.
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Any other option worth considering?
And even those things need to be assessed in the context of a specific design.
Of course, macOS doesn't do this.
I guess that's a good argument for corruption at any scale: there are always bigger cases of wasted money somewhere.
Thanks for the link, that's some really groundbreaking analysis. It even reminds me of this book 1984 by George Orwell
See also resent thread about Zappo where there was lots of talk about customer service.
I think a solution would be that designers and engineers should have as part of their job to sit in customer service to support their products. Preferably for weeks on end to learn from their customers. Otherwise they will continue to produce bad solutions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24268522
Yes exactly, the price is astronomical, makes my intestines bleed just hearing it. Makes it all the more relevant to ask what's in it for these buyers.