skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a classic problem with power; it’s not uncommon for people in power to confuse what’s good for the country with their own self interest

This is a nonsense statement. Power is an inherently valuable resource. It is axiomatic. If you're a leaf in the wind you dont do anyone any good, or do anything at all by definition. Everything ever done in any capacity was done by someone with power.

The problem is also not self-interest, although its closer - the problem is alignment of incentives. Public agencies like FEMA do not receive feedback from the systems they manage (apartments dont tweet when they are saved from hurricanes) and they do not get rewarded for doing a good job. Public agencies result in a lowest-common-denominator of everyone doing what they can to not get yelled at and fired. A natural thought for such an agency would be to ignore/minimize the public's power so the employees are free to do good, but this obviously frees them to do not-good as well.

I have been ruminating on this paradox of democracy. How do we stop ourselves from ruining ourselves if thats what we want? (Representative) democracy is clearly not universally appropriate, but it is pretty good. Free markets dont serve well where people arent actively involved to properly create the market need, so thats probably out.

Can i interest anyone in a politics as a service think tank?
> They do create money effectively by loaning out deposits

That's what we're taught in school but it's really backwards. They make loans that they think will be profitable and then figure out how to get the reserves needed to cover the balance sheet (either through issuing equity, drumming up more deposits, or borrowing in the overnight repo market).

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...

A good phrase to search for to learn more is "loans create deposits"
With enough plugins, Vim can do everything VSCode can. But using a Vim-emulator in a different editor will always be an "uncanny valley" experience. Also on my system VSCodeVim is so slow it frequently lags behind me while typing.
I'm betting that Verizon is going to be next in line. They've been acquiring content companies for quite a while now- the remnants of AOL and Yahoo. They seem to be a good choice as far as strange buyers go.
Electrical impedance has been shown to be absolutely trash in accurately predicting bf%. I've used both Garmin's and Fitbit's smart scales, which are supposed to be top-of-the-line, and compared to DXA... the numbers aren't even close. Most people report similar experiences.
>And as many Google people are probably being reminded this week: Assume all of your work emails may some day be public, and used against you or your employer in a court of law.

They don't need to be reminded because Google has been coaching staff to basically adopt some sort of Google newspeak:

"One part of the presentation, subtitled “Communicating Safely,” advises employees on which terms are “Bad” and “Good.” Instead of “market,” employees may say “industry,” “space,” “area,” or simply cite the region, according to the presentation. Instead of “network effects,” the presentation suggests “valuable to users.”

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/08/07/google-doc...
I don't think anybody was arguing otherwise.

The point is that hurricanes are arguably a less difficult emergency to manage – they are predictable, understood and come with plenty of notice, to the point that individual preparation is both possible and effective.

This doesn't mean that centrally-coordinated emergency response isn't still useful – merely that it's not unreasonable for it to cost more to prepare for a rare and unpredictable emergency than a more frequent but predictable one.
That was a restriction from before 1.46 stabilized control flow in const functions. Now that we have worked out the details around `if`, we can also stabilize `&&` and `||`.

(I'm a little surprised they weren't stabilized at the same time! Edit: they were! I just didn't look closely enough.)
Touchless and Always-On Cloud Analytics as a Service [pdf]
Short circuiting introduces conditional branching. If you call a function on the right hand side of a || or && it might or might not be executed depending on the value of the left hand side.

Until this version of rust, all conditional branches were banned from const functions.

I guess to keep things simple they just banned any feature that might cause branching.
Isn't all this a sign that TikTok is dead?
It’s worth pointing out that these node names are only mildly related to feature size at this point.
FAQ on Tone component: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/devices/a-new-tool-to-help-you-...

"Once you’ve opted-in by creating your voice profile, Tone will run passively and intermittently in the background so you don’t have to think about it. Throughout the day, it will take short samples of your speech and analyze the acoustic characteristics that represent how you sound to the people you interact with. This gives you a simple way to reflect on your interaction and communication throughout the day."

Aka "Look, Amazon found a reason it needs to record your voice all the time. For science."

Facebook must be fuming.
Sometimes I leave my door open at night. Does that give you the right to walk into my house? Morons.
Everybody wants to get their hands on the data ("Data is the new oil").
Ah yes, because apparently no one besides GitHub is qualified to run reliable services.

https://status.sr.ht/

https://www.githubstatus.com/

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-07-03-how-we-monitor-our-ser...

https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/13/Backups-and-redundancy-at...

When your mail server goes down, nothing happens, the internet continues to function normally and then when it comes back up you will receive all of the emails that were sent to you when it was offline. If the mailing list goes down, you can still send emails and you're collagues probably won't even notice the outage because they were CC'd. When the mailing list comes back up, it'll receive all of those emails in the same way and get caught back up.

When GitHub goes down, everything stops. And GitHub goes down often!
For me a big problem is that a lot of the things I want to save, mark up, and revisit (archive or search or share) are articles from webpages or PDFs - neither of which this eInk display is practical for.
It also appears that society as a whole is over-optimizing using clustering in a low dimensional space. It is quite ironic to me that I will say this, as I love animation as an art form, it can convey abstract ideas that are almost impossible in any other medium. But, the world is becoming more cartoonish and flat as PCA and k-means amplify the dimensions that optimize the outcomes. Equivalence is skin deep, we wrap things in a veneer of chrome, carbon fiber and hardwoods. The message is 100% medium.
What's baffling to me is how scott's comment is [flagged] and [dead].

You trully can't have unconfortable opinions about Rust here. That's blatant censorship.

Replying to you since I don't see a reply button to his comment.
That seems like a really good design, as opposed to having an AST interpreter like I might do otherwise. But would this indeed support a "much larger set of features" than constexpr as was claimed?
If the framework is open-source, then I'd think it could be forked even if it gets killed.

The problem then would be if there are some changes in Android that are incompatible with the framework, rendering it no-longer-usable.
Being incompetent and not knowing how overflow in CSS works is definetly something anyone should be able to change.
Threat model again: what if you're concerned that they themselves are unaware their hardware's been compromised?
She mentioned giving talks, and those are floating around online, as well as a decent twitter following. Chances are they just stumbled upon her randomly and decided that pure vitriol was the natural response, as is the way with certain communities.
I used this a few years back. My only grips with it are the usual NodeJS application gripes (too many dependencies etc.), the UI is clean, the interface is responsive and configuration is easy.

I'd personally switch to a Matrix bridge + Riot if I were to need to access IRC these days, but for anyone seeking a nice self-hosted method of accessing IRC from the browser without intermediate software, I can strongly recommend this.
Beyond the obvious differences to a tablet like the iPad, an interesting fact about the reMarkable is, that you can just ssh into the device to do your data exchange. Syncing documents should be as easy as writing some scripts on your PC. Which should appeal especially to Linux users.
> Assume all of your work emails may some day be public, and used against you or your employer in a court of law.

True, but not necessarily bad.

There's always a gotcha document when there is an investigation -- it's the nature of the beast. There's always a tension between attorneys who want to keep everything and attorneys that would put a paper shredder in the output tray of every printer.

Without context, a quote is a quote. I saw one scenario where someone using a cliche "pets vs. cattle" analogy in context of servers was manipulated to sound like some sort of crazy person in a complaint. If it's response to a request to obfuscate or manipulate options for a specific purpose, that's one thing. If it a person asked to provide feedback from the perspective of a user, it's another.
Right, gotcha.

> Why is my parent post downvoted? There's really no disagreement here.

I appreciate it, but even if I'd disagreed, that's no reason to downvote.
The downside in capitalism: Some company has your data if you are dumb enough to buy the thing.

The downside in not-capitalism: You're forced to wear it. It doesn't work. Your family is brought in for questioning when you try to take it off.
Perhaps not unintentional?
Sounds like work.
> The potential attack surface for terrorism is huge, and there is a lot of potential for damage (both loss of life and economic damage).

I have heard quite a few strong arguments for how different pieces of vital infrastructure require extra protection from terrorism and also for military defence (power, hospitals, water treatment, banking, data centres, etc.). However, from my albeit limited experience, I feel like the vast majority of terrorism is very low tech and unambitious.

A quick look at Wikipedia shows that in US in the last 20 years, the vast majority of terrorist attacks are shootings, followed by starting fires and bombs. What can you realistically do with a grant to prevent these from happening?

> $14 million has been sought for law enforcement communication, SWAT training, and bomb detection [in Florida 2019-2020].

This is just one example from the article, but my gut instinct is that you could save many more lives and much more infrastructure spending that on preparing for natural disasters rather than terrorism - especially in a state that had tens of billions of damage a year earlier. Both are important, but I think public budgets should be carefully scruntinised - this smells of corruption and/or "defence theatre".
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"The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture..."

According to Veblen, “saying, ‘I have time to dream … meet friends, put up my feet – I have time to do nothing?’” has been and is the way to gain social prestige.

> "But the whole of the life of the gentleman of leisure is not spent before the eyes of the spectators who are to be impressed with that spectacle of honorific leisure which in the ideal scheme makes up his life. For some part of the time his life is perforce withdrawn from the public eye, and of this portion which is spent in private the gentleman of leisure should, for the sake of his good name, be able to give a convincing account. He should find some means of putting in evidence the leisure that is not spent in the sight of the spectators."

is no longer a problem in the age of the cell phone.
That's why in another comment I mentioned that the confirmation button / touch-sensor (and LED) on the Yubikeys is important. If a malware tries to use the key with the compromised PIN or while the credentials are cached, the Yubikey will still ask for confirmation. If it's asking for confirmation when you did nothing to trigger it, then that's a sign that the host might be compromised. Simply don't confirm, fix the malware issue, and change the PIN.
Hopefully Google is forced to follow Apple's lead and implement consent dialogs into Android to allow/deny tracking or usage of any form of identifier/fingerprint.

I am surprised the EU haven't investigated Android and found it breaches GDPR requirements, simply due to the fact it's too easy to collect information that can later be used for analytical purposes without the users consent.

I imagine you can find instances of GDPR breaches in all modern OS' if you looked hard enough - something as simple as a HTTP POST request may be illegal depending on the payload.

Sadly, progress is often slow, but Apple's progress in this area will hopefully inspire Googlers like the one in this article to make statements and drive progress forward.
The opt-in label for it in seettings should be.

I Don't Fucking Agree
It claims to support PDFs, does that not work well for some reason?
I'm very intrigued by this because I have a bioelectrical impedance scale, one of the top of the market. I've generally found it to be extremely accurate. Amazon is saying this beats even those, which if it can do from just photos (with our without depth map?), that's impressive.
[2] shows the prompt for third party tracking. It isn't off by default.
They are more like minimum possible feature size, not average feature size. The real metrics you want to look at are things like transistor density, power density, power use, etc.
When this device has an e-ink colour display then I would purchase it.

Until then: No Thanks and No deal.

EDIT: Not only that, Remarkable 2.0 and 1.0 are not even 64 bit and still use 32 bit processors in 2020. Completely pointless to use beyond 2038.

Like I said, wait for e-ink colour and 64 bit or don't bother.
Well, almost every woman of their generation in Ireland was called Mary, so it's not that surprising :)
It looks like the document printed was a single page doc.
This seems like a perfect device for the single use of note taking. But something like https://www.boox.com would probably make more sense for a lot of people since it can run other Android note taking and e-reader apps.
What makes you "think" that? A hunch? Blind trust in ~90-year-old regulatory structures?

How many people reviewed the Enron disclosures? How many amateur daytraders & Robinhood investors read all the disclosures of the "public" securities they hop into and out of?

Aren't all levels of investors leveraging the greater attention of a smaller group of experts? Couldn't some non-millionaires – there are a lot of them, with many diverse skills! – be the kind of highly-attentive 'leads' who help vet firms for larger networks?

Is an inherited-funds millionaire, no matter how dumb or lazy, more immune from the risks of non-disclosure than a young & ambitious non-millionaire? How about a non-millionaire with graduate degrees in business, finance, law? Why not test competence, not net worth?

Would you also only allow the high-net-worth to do other risky activities, like drive private cars, play contact sports, camp on public lands, visit the beaches?

How about raise children? There, a life is at stake. Do we dare let these gullible, barely-adult non-millionaires, the kind of rubes who would throw all their money away on unwise private investments if the SEC didn't save them, have children?

And if slick founders can easily fleece these childlike non-millionaires through deceptive promises, what chance do these wisdom-constrained individuals have against slick politicians? Is it really prudent to let non-millionaires vote?
Anybody know how to do MS OneNote integration?
I have many years' worth of content there and use on multiple OS's, so I'd rather stay there than use their internal note-taking app, or at least be able to do import/export.
Indeed. I know there was a working 1nm node transistor out of Berkeley a couple years ago, but as far as I know that's pretty close to the limit. I'm really curious what will come after we hit that in production in ~10? years.
Even better, you get to pay them for it:)
How does that work? Does the US people give a monolithic credibility rating to the government? Whose credibility exactly is that?

I bet FEMA's credibility suffers more from a badly handled natural disaster.
I like the thermometer idea, might help w COVID monitoring, no blood oxygen sensor though...

My Fitbit heart rate monitor is pretty inaccurate, compared to my treadmill's chest monitor. Fitbit's walking calorie estimates are off by +1.5x. Maybe Halo is better
How does it compare to writing on paper?
Not sure about normal ebooks, but it's been a fantastic tool for getting through IETF RFCs.

No distractions, easy on the eyes. Would be nice if the contrast were even better for low light environments. Maybe this 2.0 would do it.

I seem to have lost my pen though, so I'm not sure what I'll do for any annotation now.
It’s harder to convince people that your suppressing imaginary hurricanes
Chromecast Breached Play Store / Google Account Privacy
Hi,

So this is what happened to my Android 10 phone. I always had opted out of ad recommendation from Google. Also changed necessary account settings to disable any history collection. I don't even use this account to do anything else except to download few apps. Not my primary device.

So few days back I got it connected to my Chromecast and next when I opened my Play Store, I got apps, games recommendation of games made for kids.

I didn't notice this before but then I realized that my other Android phone of my friend who has a kid and also are on same Chromecast might be the reason for this.

So I took a closer look at these changes. The games and apps were just the same as they were in my friends phone! Like literally Google Chromecast bypassed any privacy I had in seconds by throwing such recommendations in seconds.

And there is no way to reset the Play Store as this is a permanent change and you can't do any tricks such as clear data or play service reinstall or stuff like that as this all got saved to my account.

WTF, Google!
You might resent the autoscroll on the website, but did you consider that the group chat program also has an infinite scroll, for chat history? Imagine what a hypothetical scrollbar for the group-chat program would look like if it had one, and if that scrollbar actually represented your relative position in a complete timeline going back to when the chat-group was created. :)
> The ecosystem feels very sane [] compared to npm

Now that's damning with faint praise.
Is it me or does the whole thing feel a little... sluggish (on firefox), even on the main menu? I get it's supposed to be no-code so it's not optimized, but the whole thing feels significantly more sluggish compared to the feature set it offers.

There's also some differences from the original

* there's a weird parallax effect if you move the mouse around

* the cursor rotates when you hover over an element, so it ends up pointing straight up

* the menu opening/closing transitions

* when you're creating a new SP game, the leader/civilization information that you get when hovering over a civilization is missing

* none of the sliders work (they "work" when you hover over them, but they don't stick after your release your mouse or leave the hover area)
I think you've already gotten lots of feedback on pricing -- One thing I didn't see mentioned is that your website lacks a pricing page. Yes, you indicate the subscription price, and you hide a little note that says you can try it for free first... but here in the comments you said you have a "generous free tier" -- it would be useful to see information about that tier on your website.

All that said, I'll join the chorus of skeptics over the $100/yr price. Apparently you have people willing to pay that, which is great, and hopefully a sign that you have built a good product -- maybe we on HN are just a bunch of cheap, cynical bastards.
For someone with the current ReMarkable or with the 2.0, is it possible to use it as a drawing pad for remote meetings?

I pre-ordered mine, but I want to know if this is even feasible.
preprint is available here. its a better view of the particulars

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.25.265561v1

bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.25.265561 . this version posted August 25, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint
(which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. It is made available under a CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license .

also:: Competing Interest Statement

>> B.R.C. is a founder of Tenaya Therapeutics (https://www.tenayatherapeutics.com/), a company focused on finding treatments for heart failure, including genetic cardiomyopathies. B.R.C. and T.C.M. hold equity in Tenaya. <<
> You wouldn't fly in a Wright Flyer, so why would you run ZFS?

Because it has literally zero competitors that can even approach its feature set? Btrfs is a trash fire, bcachefs is years out, nilfs2 doesn't actually verify its checksums, ceph/gluster run largely in userspace (so you can't run them as your root fs). What fs would you like to propose that lets us do snapshots, data integrity, and compression?
I didn't buy any of the competitor's products .. and I'm not going to buy this.

While I buy stuff from Amazon I don't want them inside my house.
> In the US our voting is on a work day, which is not given off by law. State politicians also control where polling locations are placed and how they are staffed, which leads to significant waiting times for people at polling places (hours and hours in many situations).

I know. I know. I just wonder why if we in Argentina (that is not the most organized country in the world) can make a reasonable election, it is so difficult there. [The elections are not perfect here anyway If you have some popcorn I can add a few anecdotes.]

> The introduction of electronic voting machines has created additional bottlenecks, as you can’t scale out those machines horizontally the same way with paper ballots.

It is weird because we once tried here with mixed voting machines. (You choose whom to vote in the machine, the machine gives you a paper version, and you put it in the urn.) And it was faster than the manual version. You just need more machines.
Woah, Thanks for bringing it up. These are the things that remind web developers to test the cross-browser compatibility, chrome is not the universe.
Be aware that a couple of mains-rated capacitors in the power supply don't age very well and it's almost a given that they should be replaced ASAP and before any further use of the computer.

https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/BBC-Micro-PSU-X...

I'd love to have a beeb to play with (I just missed the wave first time around - went from PET at school to PC at work), but they are going for silly prices on ebay. Maybe a garage or junk sale will turn up something!
My understanding is that the monoculture being discussed is macOS rather than Safari. I would be surprised if most developers tested UI primarily on Safari considering, like you said, most people are Chrome users.

Anecdotally, most engineers I know use Chrome on a MacBook. The only people I know who use Safari are my parents.