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I want these sort of devices in my life but I don't want them connected to some unknowable blackbox.

I remember growing up and reading all of these breathless futuristic magazine articles, books or interviews that featured what technology might be like in the future (the future is now). Those dreamed of devices do a lot of what today's actual devices do. The difference is that the hypothetical devices were built and sold to service the consumer and not act as a vehicle to gather data for whatever unknown purposes the manufacture is really interested in.

I think about the movie "Her" where the AI is purchased and installed onto an owned device and seemingly works only on behalf of the person that installed it and not who built it. Until we get to that sort of mind set (if ever) i will sadly have to opt-out of using these cool inventions.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I don't trust Amazon.
I think the questions you mentioned above are what people should be asking.

I just interpreted what I read on the site.
I think you're probably just a troll, you sure sound like one. But just in case you're not, and on the tiniest, merest chance that there's any point at all to this: (a) I made no statement about all the redwoods, only "a number of the larger trees", a statement for which I provided ample photographic evidence and by which I still stand; (b) the only reports so far are from an AP photographer, who is not an arborist; (c) it will be difficult to assess the full extent of the damage until at least next Spring, so I'll be waiting until then before being convinced of anything either way; (d) you do not have the grace and skill to make suggestions that anybody would follow.

Bye now.
Unfortunately I had to buy an iPad (first apple product I buy ever) for my girlfriend since she needs an app (for work, she's a teacher) that only runs in iOS.
I say unfortunately because I would have bought a ReMarkable instead :(
There are other key things they look.

Let's say you travel 80% of the year for work.

- Where is your work located?
- Where is your employment state your primary residence is?
- Does your partner live where you're claiming to be your primary residence?
- Do you have kids that you can make the case that the place is your primary residence?
- Are you stating your primary residence in another country & can provide proof you're paying taxes there (Ok, this is different for the USA)

You get the point, they look at the factors and honestly the government doesn't pay much attention to this unless they think you're evading taxes that you should be paying.
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How does it work? I figured you'd have to somehow dispose them in a way such that it doesn't reenter the biosphere.
I’ve seen impending economic doom being pushed on HN since 2016
They just emailed yesterday about another delay too
I do love how zig's comptime naturally led to generics without extra syntax. But after using nim i'm convinced that macros make even more sense for systems programming. They can even affect performance -- nim's macros can generate types that would be difficult to write by hand.

I also take issue with your statement that zig is "more minimal" since that only applies to the user's perspective -- from the compiler's perspective, macros make a language far more minimal. But i vaguely recall already discussing this distinction with you so i don't want to rehash it.

At any rate i will definitely be paying attention to andrew's progress, he has a really clear vision.
SMTP is just a protocol to exchange information. It's no more primitive than the mechanisms that power fork-PR workflow. What makes it impossible for a client to display issue threads and patches like Github does? What makes it impossible to import patches directly from client into a git repository? What makes it impossible to design a simple utility to 'push' a git branch as a set of patches? If the evidence for that is the current state of affairs, I consider it simply as a result of no one having an incentive to invest in a non-centralized workflow - that's not a proof of it being unviable. Making it noob-friendly takes work that nobody has yet put in.
It's been that way for decades. Top two quintiles and deciles have been far outpacing the rest, who are basically flat or in decline. Last few years were a little bit better for them, but that came to an end of course.
I'm being serious. The first iPhones were years behind comparable desktop hardware of the time. It's only recently that iPhones have caught up and surpassed them.
The display is marketed as twice as fast as the 1
We aren't "stuck" in a recession. It is entirely man-made. In the past, a recession was significant because it was a market indicator. Now, however, this recession is artificial, so it does not indicate any market defects.

I believe we will have a V-shaped recovery and we will get back to normal soon. In a market-based recession, the fear is how to get back to normal. In this artificial recession, there is no fear, we just end the lockdowns. The only issue is when.

It's like growing your lawn. If your lawn starts dying, and you don't know why, that is like a market-based recession. However, if you turn off the irrigation and the lawn starts dying, all you have to do is turn the irrigation back on.
I would start using TikTok if I were greeted by a Walmart door greeter when I open the app.
Dokku doesn't have dockerfile support mostly because it hardcodes port 5000 (what heroku does). It should be possible to add that support and then we'd have full dockerfile support. Just not something that has been worked on yet as no one has complained :)

Disclosure: I am the Dokku maintainer.
I realized after I wrote the comment that I was really referring to the closure traits when I said that. And I really should have said "kind" instead of "type" because, like you said, every different function has its own type.

But anyway, I don't really disagree with your point about categorizing languages as OOP, Procedural, or Functional.

But honestly, in this case, I think it's pretty damn clear than Rust is procedural WAY more than it's either OOP or FP. (Note: By OOP, I mean Java-style with tall ownership hierarchies and object-managed mutable state, not necessarily caring about inheritance. And definitely not referring to Alan-Kay-Style-OOP a la Lisp and Smalltalk).

Scala can be looked at as FP and/or OOP. C++ can be looked at as Proc and/or OOP. Python, IIRC, can kind of do all of them, but I don't remember it being easy to make copies/clones in Python, so FP is questionable.

Have you ever tried to write two versions of a complex async function in Rust? One with async and one with Futures combinators? Due to ownership, the Futures combinators approach very quickly devolves into a nightmare. The language doesn't "want" you to do that.

What about function composition? Very awkward to do with matching up the different Fn traits.

And deeply nested object hierarchies are a no-go, too, because of the inability to do "partial borrows" of just a single field of a struct.

I mean, yes, it's not C because it has a real type system and generics. But... it's pretty much C in that you just write functions and procedures that operate on structs.

EDIT: Perhaps my "hardline" approach on calling Rust procedural is in response to people who have come to Rust from non-FP languages, see `map`, `filter`, and `Option` and start calling Rust functional. That's not functional programming! Ask someone who does OCaml to try out Rust and see if they call Rust functional afterwards.
I played around with this and love it. Setting up to work with a locally running ircd was a breeze (in contrast to setting up the ircd itself). It even allows you upload pictures which are stored and accessed via the embedded web server. You do need an optional database installed if you want conversation history to persist, and this is needed to really make it useful on mobile.
Yes you can log in and run code. There is a proprietary driver for the fast screen refresh but everything else is open.
There's a quote that I sadly can't find the origin of but goes a little like:

>Carlyle called economics the "dismal science". He was half-correct; it is indeed dismal.
Can these findings be used to put some bounds on the number of prisoners?
I don't know what the privacy and anti-Amazon sentiment in these commens is all about. I'm not a fan of Amazon for privacy, but has anyone even checked out their prviacy policy for Halo?

They literally have a cartoon video explaining privacy, such as how you can turn off the microphones, how all health data is anonimized, etc.

Making a cartoon video explaining privacy policy is genius (so long as its not deceitful, which I doubt it is).

Would others agree that anonimizing health data is potentially super useful for society? I also know that Amazon is one of the premier security infrastructure providers, so the data would probably be quite safe, yes?
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I don't think this would be for building homes, it would just be a potentially cheap way to build large capacitor banks for homes.
Is Tiktok's userbase so loyal that they want to spend $50B on it, the app effectively has no moat.

Why not just launch a competitor and pay content creators to post there, all of these companies(including other FAANG group as well) have deep pockets and engineering talent.
I agree, the fact that we can observe so much order in the universe through math, physics, and chemistry leaves me with a feeling that there must be some reason such order exists. I don't know if that necessarily translates to the existence of a builder, a creator, or a god, but I do believe it means something. And it's interesting to wonder if that something is internal or external to our universe.

You mention the old testament and the Torah. What draws you to the scripts of religions that are monotheistic?

What do you think about older religions that are not monotheistic? For instance, Greek mythology and the Greek pantheon is an interesting case in which there are many deities, in particular because those deities, among others, are all very human in their nature. They experience love, hubris, envy, and hatred. The full spectrum of human emotion and behavior. Much of religion is human-centric, and I think what that truly reveals is the hubris of humankind. I think that's the main reason I tend to look toward philosophy and religion more for the values they espouse and the interesting contemplation they inspire, and less for worship. In relation to our universe and any possible god or gods, I believe that humans are dust in the wind.
The stock market gains are because TINA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative ).

It doesn't really matter that it is big tech, if the ROI would have been highest in Agri, it would be those stocks.
Honestly at that price point, I would not try it because I would fear liking it more than fear not liking it, because liking it means I have to fork over $100 every year to keep it. I'm not against subscription pricing, but this is my mentality, illogical as it may be.
The beauty of it is that even as the metals become concentrated in the plants they're removed from the biosphere, so all you have to do is process the plants, extract the metals the same way you would from an ore, and dispose of the remains. A valuable ore may only contain a few percent of the precious metal with the rest being silicon, carbon, or other base elements.
How do you convert kindle books into PDFs?
I do. In many areas people are already doing those things.
Just because it is valid does not mean you should do it.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2016/01/09/a...

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable," John Kenneth Galbraith, an irreverent economist, once said. ... Over the period [1999-2014] there were 220 instances in which an economy grew in one year before shrinking in the next. In its April forecasts the IMF never once foresaw the contraction looming in the next year. Even in October of the year in question, the IMF predicted that a recession had begun only half the time. To be fair, an average-growth prediction also misses 100% of recessions. One model does better, though. Our random-number generator correctly forecast the start of a recession 18% of the time."
I'm hoping to wait for reviews for this. I've been watching this for months. While waiting I've been thinking about how I'm going to use a combination of RSS reads, web archiving tools, pandoc, and some custom daemons on the device to setup syncing of hackernews + articals + news sites to the device to read during my commute (assuming we still have commutes in 4 months from now).

Very excited to see a polished device that is linux based that isn't hostile to developers trying to do cool stuff.
Don’t learn this or web assembly, learn TypeScript and then Rust. TS will teach you a lot about type systems, classes, modules, interfaces, async/await, etc. Rust will teach you about memory management, filter expressions, futures, (im)mutability, etc. They are both mature languages that are usable in your web dev context and that you’ll be able to find resources to learn. No one is writing WebAssembly manually, it’s even lower level than regular assembly. It would be super painful to write directly, it’s meant as a virtual architecture that can be efficiently executed.
But a const fn can also do that: if given non-constant parameters it will be evaluated at run-time. So I (having never used Rust before) still haven't see the distinction between pure and const. What's an example of a function that is pure but cannot be evaluated at compile time with constant parameters?
Imagine if this messaging wasn't from Amazon, but instead from your friend Bob down the street. Bob is pretty gregarious, but he's also creepy, what's he doing with all that data? Trying to take over the world?

Narf!
When I bought an iPad pro, I asked friends what are their favorite apps. One person religiously vouched for how much Muse has affected the way they work on a day to day. Like me, they are a artist and in the software space, and felt Muse gave them the ability to both organize things spatially, while making use of the iPad's drawing features in everything they do.

I was able to get on the beta and found it quite satisfying as an application. Its basically the missing OS for iPad to let you do everything that you imagine the iPad is supposed to let you do.
This problem is so endemic for so many years now, I wonder why the browser devtools have options to turn off caching but not option to turn on the scroll bar during dev mode.
No evidence that I could see, but they do mention it, claiming that this version 2 is 2x more respondent ( ”Speed at which digital ink appears on reMarkable“ ) than version 1.
yup, our meetup recordings end up on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/observablehq
Quassel isn't a traditional bouncer though. It doesn't proxy the IRC protocol but uses a custom one between core and client, so you can properly run multiple clients connected to one core, and it will synchronize the read/unread state, highlights etc. between clients.

I prefer it over the lounge because it's not web based. I'm old and hate everything web based.
Where did it let you down that made you want to return it?
Their website suggests yes:

> The reMarkable paper tablet supports the open ebook format EPUB without DRM, a format available with many ebook retailers.

> Some ebooks are DRM-protected (Digital Rights Management), which the reMarkable does not support at this time.

> The Amazon Kindle ecosystem is not open to third parties, so you can't read Kindle books directly on the reMarkable.

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000265873...
An iPad with a paper-like screen protector is very close.
What's an email?
21ms sounds really low, which is good of course.

But as humans, would we notice 21ms lag while writing even if we paid close attention?
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Even though the technical skills I see explained are often quite basic, done well it's valid proof of whether they can explain something in writing, which comes up at my work a lot.
Thank you, this sort of thoughtful opinion is what I’m looking for.
apparently yes, as long as there's no DRM

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000265873...
As an American, I think it is just decades of seeing the problems caused by unions. In the worst case look at our police unions, it is now pretty well accepted that they are a large part of the problem with police brutality and killings here. It's now a growing mainstream belief that they should be disbanded, and after seeing time and time again how they protect murderers and abusers it's hard not to agree.

In other industries the stakes are not life and death in the same way, but it seems like the same principles hold. If a small percentage of employees in an industry are corrupt or negligent, and the unions defend them and prevent them from ever being fired or facing any negative consequences, they can do a lot of damage.

Also, in the US a lot of benefits that unions provide for their members go against the interests of broader society. Unions are some of the biggest opponents of nationalized healthcare, for example.

As far as the upsides, I think unions were more useful when governments were much smaller and weaker than they are today. In that world, the upsides outweighed the downsides because people had no other protections. With how incredibly wealthy the US is now, a functioning government should be able to provide the benefits for every citizen that unions provide for their members, while avoiding the downsides of the fierce "us vs them" dynamic that unions can create which has ended up dividing society in many instances.

(Obviously there's a big asterisk there on "functioning" government, but many unions don't seem to be functioning very well either as I mentioned earlier, so it's a tie on that front. If we can't get our large bodies to function better than they are these days, we're screwed no matter what).
> Slums are usually the result of government restricting or failing to build enough housing (of the right kind) which forces people to build their own permanent housing without any permits at all.

Your conspiracy theory makes no sense at all. The role of a government, if any, is to stop people from building shanty towns. That's what building regulation does: stop anyone from building sub-par housing. It makes absolutely no sense to claim that slums pop up because a government stops people from building slums.
The Federal Reserve is not "employers".
There's an easy explanation for that. The stock that is driving the stock market boom is stuff that can replace "inefficiencies" in old school companies with massive scale and lots of cheap staff - Amazon being the best example. They, unlike classic retailers, are not bound by long term expensive rents and high amounts of (relatively) expensive staff, they can sell, even including delivery costs, much cheaper product - and for perishable goods they have the advantage that they can exactly steer demand with supply which means that unlike a traditional supermarket where people expect fresh groceries at 8 in the evening which leads to a LOT of waste due to reserves held across different locations in a city, they have one fulfillment center outside of the city that needs way less buffer.
On the other hand, they are predicting the Fed's actions, that's always a significant part of the models, and the Fed and the government etc aren't random actors, they are somewhat predictable (and stability is their goal which helps in that regard). But they aren't really the market makers by themselves, so even if you get those predictions right, you might still be far away from being correct.
This is a bizarre take. Would you expect that same length of life from a tablet or phone?

If not, why would you apply it to this device?
So, in the end, we wish gopher would have won the hypertext formats war(just made that up)?

I can't live without firefox's reader mode, which is pretty much Gopher-for-html.
Could I connect this thing to my computer and use it as a whiteboard in a Zoom meeting, or something like that?
Oh wow, that is pretty cool. It is a different approach from what I was envisioning, which was taking an existing lightweight terminal codebase written in Qt[0], and porting it to the ReMarkable's Qt SDK. The Parabola approach is actually running X Windows, which is pretty amazing!

[0] https://github.com/lxqt/qterminal
This already exists on the JVM or the .NET CLR. The concept of an intermediate language is also old. It’s easy to call between languages as well. The “innovation” is really the true OO nature of everything being message passing, and no real persistence mechanism.
The last snippet looks Rust-y.
The true energy solution to climate change will need to be a mix of wind, solar, nuclear, storage, and more. No one generation method will solve all of our issues. We need to start being more technology agnostic

(small plug for the https://collective.energy community)
I've been looking for a note taking / chart app that worked spatially like this and that would allow you to zoom indefinitely from high level concepts into low level details. Specifically something that worked collaboratively like lucidchart, google docs, etc.

Is there anything similar to this that works in the browser? I'm tempted to buy an iPad just to try this out. Looks great!
I don't like surveillance capitalism at all, and I hope we can stop it once and for all.

I'm also terrified about other kind of developments like https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-a...

So yeah maybe a not so lame cyberpunk future.
Being tech savvy can be a burden when it comes to discovering new features because you're afraid of making a "stupid" mistake. Accidentally posting to Facebook is something the tech illiterate do, not us, so why would we click a random icon when we're not sure if it will do something embarrassing?

I know my willingness to explore UIs went down a lot when

1) All the buttons became icons instead of text that clearly explained what was going to happen and

2) My phone became the place where all of my social media accounts were always logged in and all my internet activity was centralized. It became easy to accidentally share between different worlds.
> Economists are as effective as astrologists at predicting the future.

That's unfair to astrologists, economists are not going to be that good. :-)

To be fair, the better economists work by creating models based on reality. But we don't have a rich dataset about modern economies responding to pandemics. It's not that they are stupid, it's that economies are difficult to predict in general, and we don't have the data sets to give any confidence for this case.
Ah but then another company can send telescope satellites to a higher orbit and charge out the ass for NSaaS (night sky as a service)
Hey, thanks for telling about this. This sounds interesting, I hope someone who uses iOS gives it a try and can give feedback.
What about pressure on the pen while writing as compared to regular styluses with small tips?