skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a little shit as a teenager and I hate that I was. Trolling was only "in good spirit" because I was a heartless asshole that completely lacked empathy for others. What comes to mind to me as the epitome of my teenage years was thinking this was funny:

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/were-all-gonna/

A writer for the SA website made fun a website of a mother who was grieving her stillborn children. Forget any opinion you might have about the mother or her presentation: this a woman who had several children die before she ever got to know them. It's potentially one of the most traumatic things that can happen to someone, and this writer decided to ridicule how this mother grieved:

>Your poison womb is making heaven too fucking crowded.

I hate myself that I thought this was funny. I hate that I used words to belittle the LGBTQ community. I hate that I was that edgelord that held to statistics about crime rates and intelligence as they related to race. I hate that I made fun of people for their sexuality. I hate that I discounted sexism, racism, and ableism.

It was never in good fun. Some people grow out of it and others don't. I am still working constantly to better myself and catch myself when I have prejudice thoughts.
We need a sky pollution tax. They owe the public not me personally.
This is the only reason I'm not buying it either.
A project can use version numbers 1 ... 9999999 or version numbers 1.0 ... 1.9999999. The amount of work that goes into it is the same.
From my experience in the adult industry, the processor cared more about the total than the percentage.
I absolutely love using Go. The logical flows for my programs are always so clean and easy to follow thanks to the language. Contrast to C++ in which spaghetti and magic is basically idiomatic. The only downside I can think of is that error/crash recovery is pretty tricky, but it's only really a concern if you're careless with your goroutines.

Whenever I work in Go, I have a lot more confidence in the efficiency of resource usage, and sense of stability that I just don't get from something like Node.js, where I'm constantly wondering... are any of these 1000s of dependencies going to suddenly do something weird like hijack my .env file? How is my program managing memory and overhead when it needs to interface with the kernel via a C++ wrapper? Are these machine resources even being capitalized on by Node.js properly? etc.

I've heard a lot of great things about Rust, and I've touched on it a bit, but Go is just awesome for its abstractions, ease-of-use, and of course insanely fast compile times.
Did you build it around OpenAPI? I'm interested to try that approach.
Short answer: ringing artefacts

sinc is perfect if you are looking only at frequency response. But in images, you also want to preserve locality, that is, processing of one part of the image should not affect the rest of the image. For example, sharpening an edge should only affect the edge in question, not its surroundings. It comes in contradiction with the idea of preserving frequency response. Frequencies are about sine waves, and sine waves are wide, infinitely wide in fact.

BTW, that's also the reason why in quantum mechanics you can't know both position and momentum (a frequency) precisely.

So we need to compromise, and like in scaling algorithms, you have 3 qualities: sharpness (the result of a good frequency response), locality and aliasing. You can't have all 3, so you need to pick the most pleasant combination.

The extreme cases are:

- Point sampling: excellent locality and sharpness, terrible aliasing

- Linear filtering: excellent locality and no aliasing, very blurry

- sinc filtering: excellent sharpness and no aliasing, terrible locality (ringing artefacts)

Using smoothstep is a good compromise, it has a bit of aliasing because it is a step function and it has a bit of smearing because it is smooth but none of the effects as so bad as to be unpleasant.

Side note: for audio, frequency response is more important than locality, that's why sinc window functions are so popular.
HAHA it is funny indeed. Last time when someone posted a similar comment about reMarkable (the original edition) here on HN, I was immediately hooked. I checked out the tablet and was impressed by it. I immediately placed the order for reMarkable 2. Just waiting to get my hands on this device. I take down a ton of notes and I think this would be perfect for me.
>The amount that cost continues to decrease is almost mind boggling. The manufacturing learning curve is truly providing exponential returns for decades now.

The problem is that in some countries - I'll mention mine, Portugal - it does not reflect on the price sold to the consumer.

So something isn't adding up, most of public entities (from government to regulators) brag and preach that we're reaching milestones, and claim prices keep decreasing, yet electricity prices keeps increasing/stays the same.

Therefore I assume someone is taking the value out of it, because the consumer is definitely not, or make it clear that the costs will only ever reflect on production, because storage/distribution is what sets the prices to consumers, and those are increasing.
Funny, Canada, even less dense, is doing exactly that. Maybe not 10, but at multiple levels of government there have been up to half the capital without many strings attached to get broadband out to rural areas. My understanding though, it's not work the time even with the fibre there for the larger companies in many cases. This is the latest program https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications...
I almost impulse per-ordered the RM2 when I first read about the SD card mod here on HN. I decided to wait after hearing about the limitations as a reader and the slow software development. If you're considering the RM2 for anything other than a sketch/note pad, I highly encourage you to watch this fantastic review from My Deep Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIAYMsugzM

Full review: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsSI9-gaSSmiXwb7Vjk5V...

I ultimately passed on the device for a few reasons:

1. The RM1 and 2 both don't allow file transfers as a mass storage device. If you want local, non cloud based transfer, you need to use a flaky local web UI that hasn't been improved in years

2. The internal storage still hasn't been updated from 8 (6 usable) GB. This is an obvious attempt to sell cloud storage in the future

3. While the hardware is amazing the software moves at a snail's pace. This is either management holding development back by trying to simplify the device out of existence or the team simply lacks the resources or ability to improve it

4. There has been almost no attempt to improve reader functionality in years. Things as simple as font resizing are 30x slower than on a Kindle

5. It seems obvious to me that management doesn't understand the target audience for the device
You can't write a printed manual about how to use the product unless you're pretty sure that's how it works.

Although, you probably still need to print a leaflet with updates between when you sent the manual out and when you finalized the software.
> I don't think WFH is endemic to SF, for example

Certainly not. I don't think it's bad either, but some people (owners of expensive offices) do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53925917 -- Warnings of 'ghost towns' if staff do not return to the office

As to shareholders of chain coffee/lunch stores -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53939526
I think it's not as good as you think. There is a difference between "it happens to be open" and "manufacturer cares", and here it's more like the former. The experience here is in fact identical to e.g. using any device whose bootloader has been cracked. You are locked to very old kernel versions, or attempts to run a mainline kernel in various degrees of stability (or lack of). You cannot really modify the existing user interface to your liking, as it is even more closed than Android; it's either take it or replace it entirely. And if you stay on the official firmware then there is a non-negligible risk that they will lock it down. I've been through that route...

It's in no way comparable to a some other devices (mentioned on HN too) where e.g. manufacturer actually cares about it. I agree it's technically better than "locked down bootloader with few chances of ever being unlocked" like some newer devices are, just not "miles better".

Plus the fact that it does run GNU/Linux rather than Android makes it more hacker-friendly out of box, at least for some types of hackers.
I would buy a Light Phone[1] if it came with a camera. A few other features like voice memos, google translate, and wikipedia previews would be nice.

https://www.thelightphone.com/
One downside to phages is that they replicate. Once you stop taking antibiotics, there is no risk that the treatment will replicate and potentially mutate inside of you. Otherwise, I agree.

With regards to creatinine, I'm sure you'd want to generally suppress your bacterial load if you don't have symptoms or an active infection. That could leave the door open for a worst bacteria or fungus to come along and fill the niche.
Whatever your opinion of the user-facing features of Google, it is true that you would not have access to most of them if Google didn't have deep skills in large-scale systems programming which allows them to whip up products that nobody else could afford to offer. How do you think they are able to offer infinite jpeg storage to every human, for free?
> How often do governments follow economists predictions?

Central banking and monetary policy lowering interest rates? The relief package earlier this year? Seriously?

> the people that make macroeconomics theories really dislike verifiable stuff, with very few exceptions

What are you even talking about?
It does.

My point was that for me disabling history disabled _good_ recommendations based on my activity (and some other features), which is different from anecdotes in parent and sibling comments.
I came to Go because some Kotlin CLI tools used too much memory and were clumsy to deploy.

I'm staying for the standard lib, tooling and stability.

Nothing gets out of the way better than Go.
I purchased the original one during the crowdfunding campaing, and paid a really low price (iirc less than $300). It’s a great device, I used it for a few years. Pen latency was really good, paper feeling is true, battery was awesome. The handwriting->text conversion was poor, but my handwriting is horrible. I changed to an iPad Pro 6 months ago and have not looked back, but mostly because I went back to orgmode as my main note taking and using a keyboard is much easier.

Having said that, I’m actually considering getting this upgrade just to focus on taking notes and brainstorming.
It's a persistent client that runs remote from the interface, but it doesn't speak IRC protocol to another client that acts as the interface.

I use it exactly the same way I used screen+irssi, just instead of using ssh to hit it, I use Firefox to hit it. In either case, the client runs remotely and only the displayed portion is coming to my local machine.
You are making correct point. Most case studies are kind of lobbying effort to change opinion of decision makers. Sometimes it is done via developers instead of reaching to CIOs directly which Gartner quadrant does.

And I think this is all fine as long as people understand it is just opinion sometime of people who are more accomplished. Arguments occur when someone comes in and tell, how they language/Framework/technology is "objectively" superior other people's working solutions.
Wouldn’t the decrypted stream still have to go through the actual OS’s main memory?
You might like some of their other themes, like this one: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lounge-theme-mininapse

I personally find most "slack-ified" IRC clients to be much more legible and easy on the eyes than weechat/irssi although I do like the terminal clients for their keyboard nav and even deeper theme options.

But obviously the best part about The Lounge being browser-based and overall more modern is that I can easily use it from my phone, too. SSHing into an irssi session is far more tedious and annoying when I'm not sitting in front of my desktop.
After reading this article, I signed into my account. I found that even though I turned off tracking in Google years ago, it still kept my old history.

The article says that Google turned on auto-delete for new accounts by default as the result of a lawsuit. However, if your Google account is older than x years, then they still keep all of your location history unless you go in and manually choose to delete it. Even then, I no longer trust that Google will actually delete it.
I constantly need to add a couple of exceptions to the defaults though. And only because it's pretty weird syntax to let you get the block level meaning become obvious for a small part of the otherwise current standards we are using. (Whenever the indentation fights settle down...) Couple of constants look good together if you look at their semantics, but the rest turns into a mess!
Very happy to have seen this! I like that Alisdair uses a sticky header on the page to verify that it works.
Haha I guess if your credit card failed they just billed the line. His brother most likely got blamed for it.
Why didn't they use non-porn for such activities and money launder? What is the substantial difference between porn and any other expensive subscription? E.g. you build a garage, name it notaws (or whatever service was expensive back then) and launder an ocean of fraud through it. Why must somebody get banged in the process?
I've seen this "One Weird Trick" done pretty well: sell the old version and the new version in a bundle and price the bundle "completion price" accordingly.

Super Cool App v4 - $9.99

Super Cool App v5 - $12.99

Total Bundle Price - $22.98

Bundle Upgrade Price if you have v4 - $8.99
Oh, "police say!" Of course, we should have known!
Vanadium redox batteries are looking pretty good as an alternative to lithium for large-scale energy storage.
I used to think totally automated flight was possible before I started getting my pilot's license. Now I doubt we'll even see it in the next 50 years. The national airspsace system relies on interactions with other pilots and unless all planes became automated it would be really hard to pull it off.

For starters, flying is the easy part. It's the fuel management, dealing with communications to ensure aircraft are safe, and reacting to constantly changing weather that gets tricky. When there's an emergency things get even more complicated since electrical malfunctions are definitely a not so uncommon possibility. For anything safety critical you're going to need 2-3 way redundancy.

Plus you'd need some kind of standardized aircraft to aircraft data link on all aircraft.
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Oracle would strangle it to death. Walmart would ignore it to death.
> 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.

32-bit isn't an issue. You reference Y2038, but this is only an issue when you care about binary compatibility, which you do not. Wikipedia says:

"Linux originally used a 64-bit time_t for 64-bit architectures only; the pure 32-bit ABI was not changed due to backward compatibility.[15] Starting with version 5.6, 64-bit time_t is supported on 32-bit architectures, too. This was done primarily for the sake of embedded Linux systems."

There is absolutely no need for a 64-bit processor in a device with less than 4GB RAM.
Software - eg the Linux kernel - can also contain vulnerability only NSA knows about.

In any case, security track record of crypto offload NICs is pretty good.
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I have an iPad Pro and the deal breaker is using the pencil over glass.

I wouldn't mind a little latency if they get the paper feel right.
Same here! I had a little hiccup because the prebuilt Docker container wasn't built for ARM and I was running it on a raspberry pi, but I got that sorted and it's been stable for months. I guess I should learn how to upgrade the thing, as I understand there've been some nice features added!
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Do you honestly think that the lockdowns saved lives, rather than simply delaying deaths for several months? Keep in mind that the lockdowns are merely a rate limit, not a cure.

We are already in an uncontrolled situation re: covid. We are not seeing millions of deaths. In most parts of the country literally nothing is being done, yet we are not seeing bodies piled up in the streets.
As an ex-Googler it makes me sad that an internal discussion leaked like this.
I wonder if they do do that. In Germany there's a credit rating agency that more or less has a monopoly, and everyone has more or less a profile with data supplied by companies who've dealt with them commercially (e.g. if you signed a phone contract or opened a bank account). But sometimes their algorithm would also try to predict the chances of people not paying bills by things like the ZIP code where they live...
Given that I know people will suffer and die if I don't, yes.

It's a dumb hypothetical though, as my point has repeatedly been that doctors have far too many areas to be concerned about to selectively decide that this one pain killer needs more investigation before I prescribe it regularly.
But creators can always be enticed with money, after all isn't that why most of them are there.

The way he is going about this is definitely thuggish, he would have probably earned more fans by not forcing a sale and instead using alternatives to stifle it.
Governments have long known how to hide their sensitive activities from satellites, and to even provide misleading information.
Same as we do every year? It's not an economic problem for a few million people to die. Even if tens of millions die, we can make up the labor market shortage with immigration.

The issue is that we shouldn't cause millions of people to die for rich people to make more money.
The double standard against nuclear always amuses me. If we truly want it to be similar to fossil fuels, we can just wait a couple hundred years for nuclear waste to cool down, take it out, grind it into a fine powder, and literally spew over the globe, and it will barely register on anything other than Geiger counters.

Meanwhile, fossil fuels generate so much waste per kWh that it's impossible to contain it, so we just spew it over the globe at day one, changing the Earth's climate and driving mass extinction (and killing a million per year), but it's OK, because if stop using fossil fuels today and wait a few hundred years then things will be back to normal. Maybe.
Yes. Just because someone is irresponsible and votes for governments that actively work to let these awful things happen doesn't mean they deserve to die from the effects of climate change.
"There's food in my refrigerator. Ergo, world hunger is pretty much a solved problem."

If we are just going to completely ignore costs, then I can say that getting great astronomical observations is solved as well, since we can just launch satellites to take the observations instead of doing ground-based observations. So it's not clear what the big deal about these satellites is anyway.
Facebook sues developers who violated terms to collect user data
Some will see this with outrage, but I'm just thinking that it's an ad. I feel like I should get into Amazon stock while it's on the upswing!
People who don't want it connecting their area with a "bad" area. I have no idea if that applies in this situation. But some people who live on the "right" side of the tracks would prefer those on the "wrong" side to stay on their side. (I'd bet people oppose certain public transit routes for similar reasons.)

Also people who just don't want any foot traffic in their residential area. Some people are adamant about their neighborhood having as few outsiders as possible and by invite only.
I've been writing Rust code since before the 1.0 days, and I still can't understand lifetimes in practice.

When the compiler starts complaining about lifetimes issues, I tend to make everything clone()able (either using Rc, or Arc, or Arc+Mutex, or full clones).

Because if you start introducing explicit lifetimes somewhere, these changes are going to cascade, and tons of annotations will need to be added to everything using these types, and their dependent types.
The notes file format itself, I believe is proprietary, but it's been reverse engineered. The general storage I don't believe is actually folder based, but have a look at the unofficial wiki, it should answer most of your questions.
I have the Remarkable 1. It's the kind of jank hardware whose flaws you come to find endearing because the device as a whole is so good to you. I immediately ordered a Remarkable 2 when I caught wind of it. I'm going to give my Remarkable 1 to a friend or relative and hope it brings them as much joy as it did me.
Oh yeah that's right! Found the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
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That sounds pretty reasonable; Stripe must be in a trusting arrangement with OnlyFans to do the right thing there.
Bluetooth in general isn't a hassle. Bluetooth audio is a little bit of a hassle in the sense that there's a workaround that you have to do.
In other words, they open sourced just what they're legally obliged to. The fact that this is surprising nowadays is heavily depressing.
Seems like a trade-off based on my experiences. On Macs you'll get a less bugs in proprietary, user-oriented apps (like Zoom). On Linux you'll get a less bugs on free software apps, developer tooling and server side apps. Though I think it mostly comes down to where you spend most of your time and what you are working on.
Thanks for the link.

> I have been imagining porting a lightweight Qt-based virtual terminal to the device and using it as an e-ink unix terminal. Alas, I have not yet had the cycles to complete this project.

That would be really cool! I pre-ordered a RM2 (my 1st such device) and am in the November cohort... if you make time for said terminal, I'd love to know about it.
Well Chrome does have an installation identifier that was/is transmitted only to google properties.

That would explain the behavior you describe. Google says it is only for tracking experiments and tests, but I doubt even they know what everybody is doing with it, and perhaps you were a member of an experiment where they used it to track you.

"Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID" [0]

An article about it was here [1]

Discussion on hackernews was here [2]

[0] https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/467#issuecom...

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/05/google_chrome_id_numb...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22239641
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It is getting worse for Flash. There are consumer M.2 SSDs that have huge heatsinks and some even with fans!

Mark Cerny says this is a concern for PS5 which will have user expandable SSD storage. Unlike SATA drives, the M.2 standard doesn't define z-height, and the drives that meet the PS5 min spec are too thick right now.
> “I don’t know of anyone who has come close to causing more material harm than Ngo did to the average American,” O’Neill said.

> Throughout the court proceedings, Ngo sat through story after dreadful story of how his work had ruined the financial lives of people harmed by his services.

He made it easier for people to steal money from banks and credit card companies. Its a pretty stupid system that forces the "average American" to be on the hook for that. We shouldn't even be calling it "Identify Theft", this is just bank fraud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E