skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they should suspend access (with right to appeal) to all of their employer's repos until they address their employee problem.
I think it helps to have a little charity when it comes to other fields, even if you're not completely on board, because you can end up accidentally limiting your understanding of the world.

I'm also sure a lot of people here can identify with feeling frustrated at hot takes about tech that lump all tech workers together as predators eager to violate your privacy.
I'm not a web developer but I always assumed that happened on the backend, so it wouldn't be visible. I guess not?
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Given that you can "write Fortran in any language", I find this analysis unlikely.

I much prefer writing Python or Lisp code than C++, but I can't do my job in Python or Lisp code, so I write C++.
In terms of latency, I have trouble believing it's better than the newer iPad Pros (120Hz screen, 240Hz pencil scan).
I'm more interested in reviews from other HN users and programmers and the volume of activity in the awesome-reMarkable lists.

I have no desire for any of the built in cloud features or even doing much writing through the tablet. I however have many use cases for the hacking and modding abilities of the software that can run on this device.

I'm pretty sure major news outlets won't be sshing into the device and installing custom daemon services and measuring the impact they have on battery life.
I have no interest in that.
Maybe the quality of the software makes that point fairly moot.
I tried making an e-ink phone a few years back with some friends. E-ink was tough, refresh rate didn't quite work for a phone with text messaging etc. Decided to use Sharp's memory LCD, that was better but it was cost-prohibitive for a mass market phone and difficult to develop on.

E-ink has become cheaper and more responsive since we gave it a shot, glad to see companies like Mudita trying to bring something like this to life. https://mudita.com/
Sure, but that's miles ahead of almost any other consumer device you can buy today. I'll take it.
Will the USD100 subscription include a much needed mac app? Or is the plan to make (good?) decisions on a 10" ipad?
Is iPad Pro an e-ink device?
I've been burned by this. In Quebec my name is pronounced the same, but there is an obvious spelling difference between the Anglo and French spellings, e.g. Henry vs Henri.

They know you're Anglo before you show up. Which is a problem because they wanted a native French speaker for the role.
loading across multiple providers won't alter the chargeback ratio so what is the point?
I'd love to see a multi-currency valuation of the S&P 500 over the next few years.

Part of the issue of saying the Market is "up" is that we keep changing the size of the unit.

Is the market worth more now in Yen, Indian Rupees etc? Or are people just willing to part with more USD (that asset specifically) for the underlying asset (the stock)?
Yes, 5 nm and below uses EUV.
Of course not. That wouldn't be an apple-to-apple comparison.
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The original Apple Pencil and first generation of iPad Pro boasted of a 20ms lag. That was considered impressive, but perceptible if you look at your writing carefully.

I found it fine for note-taking, but lots of people would still notice the latency, especially those using creative tools where there is a strong feedback loop between what you see and what you draw.

They are now claiming 9ms lag. I suspect this is imperceptible for the use case of note-taking and marking up PDF documents (e.g. highlighting, making notes in the margin).

But then again, 20ms is going to be more than fine for that use case as well.
I have Sony's Digital Paper. It is beyond awesome. I notice no lag while writing, and yes it does feel like writing on paper. Is there some way maybe you can measure the difference in what you are observing, lag-wise? Lag has never been an issue I even perceive with Digital Paper. It 'just works'.
Once upon a time (the "Dennard Scaling Era") VLSI circuit design used the same relative geometry at different "feature sizes" - all dimensions of the design(wire width, wire spacing, gate length, gate pitch, ..., etc.) scaled by the same amount from generation to generation, so it was possible to completely specify the transistor layout with a single dimension (generally called 'L'), and derive all other measurements from that as a multiple of 'L'. Transistor density was proportional to 1/L^2.

The measurement that was used originally for 'L' was the gate length.

As designs shrunk below 40nm, it became impossible to shrink _every_ dimension proportionally. In particular, for planar silicon, gate length stops shrinking around ~30nm, but other things could still shrink. This meant that transistor density could still increase, but the relative geometry of wires/gates/spacing/etc. had to change, so it was no longer possible to specify the full geometry with a single number.

But people liked the single number as a handy way of comparing processes, so marketing kept using it as a way to compare processes. The way they decided to do that was mostly to try and keep the proportionality between the transistor density of a process and 1/L^2.

To the extent a "feature size" number of a process means anything, it means "the relative transistor density of this process is equivalent to what you would get if you had used the old (>40nm) geometry, and shrunk 'L' to the specified feature size". Even that relationship has degraded in recent years - now it's more like "we calculate the new feature size as the size of the previous process divided by sqrt(2)".

Regardless, as stated in the parent, there is no single dimension of any recent process that corresponds to the '3nm' number.

There's lots of resources online that describe this, but for an overview, you could start here (describes pre- and post-Dennard scaling):
http://www.eng.biu.ac.il/temanad/files/2017/02/Lecture-4-Sca...
Looks like we have some terminology confusion. I read mijamo's question as being about the theoretical ability to evaluate at compile time (the value is knowable) not whether the compiler does do it, and that's what I meant in my comment too.

If you say that 'pure' functions are not compile-time-evaluatable because they may be given parameters that are not known at compile time, then you must also say that const fns are not compile-time-evaluatable. I think it's also clear that we mean for const fns to count, so the assumption that the parameters are known at compile time was implicit in the question.

Under those two assumptions: are pure functions evaluatable (in theory) at compile-time (on values known at compile time)? As far as I can think, the answer is yes? In which case, I'm not entirely sure what the distinction between 'pure' and 'cosnt fn' is supposed to be except to separate out the part of 'pure' functions that can are evaluated in practice. Is there anything more to it?
> Currently you MUST install Messenger (or use Facebook's retro mobile site for old Windows Mobile phones) to send/receive messages.

Are you sure? Their light website works just fine for me [1]

[1] https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages/
If a department is doing well, or even just fair, it will do everything it possibly can to prevent any sort of innovation. When innovation happens, new rules and safeguards are put into place to make sure it doesn't happen again. Of course they'll keep talking about how innovation is very important and rewarded all the while they're stamping it out.

Innovation is a rebellious act which is why it typically only happens in small startup environments. Occasionally a larger company will set up a "skunkworks" where it can be temporarily tolerated by hiding it from the view of the rest of the organization.
C has many advantages over Zig, mostly because it's standardized and extant.

Don't think Zig is worth it when it doesn't have linear or affine types.
I'm inclined to believe the upcoming economic doom simply because anecdotally, I hardly know anyone who is against continuous lockdowns for as long as needed.

In fact, people even seem to believe that the dead economy brings positive change: no more pollution from aircraft, no more racist tourism to other countries, and so on.
If curious see also

a thread from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978384
A lot of developers I worked with only using their MacBook & iPhone to do tests. Many sites do not fully responsive also. For example, the github.com only support 1280px width and above. Below that, padding & buttons rendered incorrectly.

And I think this is a trend in the open-source that developers reject Windows patches, or never really try to fix the bugs.

Now a lot of tools are only designed for MacOS first. Linux is extra because it's easy to migrate. For example, Facebook Watchman. It's about 5 years but still unstable for Windows I think.

And many web tools, even Android development, I found it's no errors in MacOS but have to fix the config or do extra yourself to get it to work properly.
The problem I have with economics after reading Debt: The 5000 years by David Graeber[0] (solid read, btw) is that the field was founded on some fundamentally flawed assumptions about its own history. The biggest one being that there's no evidence that a barter economy preceded a cash economy. We've all been taught that this was the case when there's no evidence it was true and there are a lot of unexplained problems with the idea of barter economies (i.e. how were people able to trade items of equitable value regularly, mutual goods exchange mismatch, etc.)

In our lifetimes, economists largely balked at the idea that the housing market could collapse, and then boom, 2008 happens.

I don't necessarily think that the entire field of study is bunk, but our capitalist society tends to prop them up like oracles without much scrutiny because they're the experts, and it's hard to provide a counterweight against that expertise, especially when their philosophy is used to create the vast wealth inequality we see today.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
There may still be a way to reap benefits from this device without sharing any data with Amazon.

If I were to use this, I would use an older phone that would:

1. Only download the app necessary for using this device

2. Only provide Bluetooth connectivity. I would not use a SIM or connect to any wifi networks
and then you live in London, ON - Canada, and search for Best places to eat in London...
Or you live in the US city of Vancouver instead of Canada and try the same thing...
3x population density is a lot, no? That means for every person that can access, say, a fiber line in the US, 3 people could access it in Europe. That would seriously change the economics.

Further, the US's population density is very varied. About a third of the country (the non-coastal West) is very, very sparsely populated, punctuated by only a few semi-large cities like Denver and Phoenix. If you live on the coasts or the Great Lakes, density is a lot like Europe and the services are similar. In between, it's really, really sparsely populated.

https://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/512popdn.pdf
How to Scrape Yelp Reviews?
I believe they are talking about "user space networking", like Intel's DPDK. Skipping the kernel and context switches, etc.
Seems like it's a function of the free market and politics—there is a spectrum of regulations we can have that ranges between "enough to keep nuclear energy safe" to "enough to make even the best nuclear technology non-viable", and where we fall along that line is primarily a political question.
> does not exist.

Oh really? Lets have a look at the market shall we?

What is this then? [0]

Or this? [1]

Maybe this? [2]

Finally, an actual colour e-ink e-reader product. [3]

64 Bit e-reader bonus review: [4]

I have high hopes for reMarkable to do better than what is on the market right now which is why I would rather wait for a color e-ink version with a 64 bit CPU, which the technologies DO exist today. But unfortunately, what they are offering for a competitive e-reader tablet tells me that they are not even trying, even when they are selling a product with outdated technology. That isn't really a good deal is it?

[0] https://www.eink.com/color-technology.html

[1] https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/07/this-could-finally-be-the-...

[2] https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2019/12/18/e-ink-releasing...

[3] https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/pocketbook-color-e-read...

[4] https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/remarkable-1-vs-fujitsu...
I guess some marketing guys lurking in this forum. Remarkable2 is very strong on Instagram and there must be a catch whenever marketing is heavily used.
Rich Hickey on Pattern Matching (2008)
This helped to realize that our lens is a bit skewed.

Oil and gas - _when compared with solar, wind, etc._ - aren't energy per se, they are batteries. The energy is stored and all we do is release it.

On the other hand, wind and solar need to be created from scratch - and until we get better batteries - are released immediately.

We're not usually comparing apples to apples but batteries (tradional energy sources) to from-scratch energy (solar and wind).
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8GB for text formats is quite a lot. The primary reason Kindle e-readers have larger storage is to support Audible.
Maybe in Europe that is reasonable, where leaders were responsible and actually did their jobs. Around here (US), some people still even refuse to wear masks. I saw a guy in line in a store just the other day, totally ignoring the signs. There is an executive order in this state requiring it.

Things will return to normal, absolutely. I just think it won't happen in 2021.
I think we've reached the point where politicians shouldn't pretend that they want to prevent recessions.

It's like with day trading: once you realize that volatility is all that matters, it explains why key players are in favor of recessions and even actively work to cause them.

Some of the biggest fortunes in history started when someone had a little extra money to buy undervalued revenue streams when the economy was down.

So yes, there will be a recession, but it won't be triggered by fundamentals. It will be due to things like politicians politicizing mask wearing. And killing the financial regulations that smooth out economic highs and lows. And removing the social safety nets that help people get back on their feet again by avoiding long-term unemployment.

This basically all comes down to spite. The powers that be can't stand that FDR instituted the New Deal, starting with the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933, resulting in almost 70 years of relatively stable economic growth. So they repealed it in 1999 with the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act. That along with telecom deregulation and countless other things put us back on 10 year boom-bust cycles so that the elite could amass fortunes again.

We've already had the dot bomb, housing bubble pop and now the looming COVID-19 recession (caused by the Trump administration's hands-off approach to governing) in just the 20 years since I graduated college. This is so not the future I signed up for. My finance friends think it's great. But it's pretty much the worst possible outcome for makers. Which is why I consider the 2000s and 2010s to be lost decades, with another one looming.
If I might ask, what are you using for vertical tabs? I haven't found a good add-on that shows the tabs on the side and also hides the tabs on the top.
And yet you used Africa as an example, instead of North America and Australia. Why?

EDIT: Wow, you guys are really bad at admitting your own blatantly obvious biases, aren't you?
I can absolutely tell the difference between an early iPad Pro (20ms) and later (9ms), when using a pencil. With the lower, it feels more like paper, like color is coming out of the pencil.
> Looking back from 2020, Go has succeeded in both ways: it is widely used both inside and outside Google, and its approaches to network concurrency and software engineering have had a noticeable effect on other languages and their tools.

Don’t know much about go myself, but I’m interested in examples of this.
The numbers are already there, Yelp says 50% of restaurants have closed down permanently
https://www.eater.com/2020/6/26/21304219/over-50-percent-of-...
It's not some far fetched doomsday scenario, the stimulus has helped the US economy from completely crashing.
Frankly I find HN more of an impediment to rapid development than C++ compile times.
Pity. I think the Lounge has a great and easy to use interface for new IRC users, and a hosted option would be the cherry on top for making it easy to get into IRC.
Are you planning on offering some kind of API/integration ability? I'm thinking it would be great to have structured content, such as rendered org mode or Markdown, in a widget I can put on a board. Especially if I could link widgets and link to boards, which would allow for creating really interesting mind mapping abilities.
d) Limit immigration, thus reducing the population (and, according to some, economic growth) of the globally wealthy, that are almost without exception at sub-replacement fertility. No eugenics required.
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remarkable is nice, but it definitely needs someone to replace the main proprietary note taking application with an open source equivalent.
IRS Update: 800k Taxpayers May Have Tossed Stimulus Payments in the Trash
One thing I'd be wary of is Googling error messages and taking answers from Stack Exchange. Rust has mutated (heh) a fair bit over the years and many SE answers to noob problems are obsolete and sometimes incorrect. At the very least check the datestamp on any answer and be wary of anything more than a year or two old. This goes double if the answer has some extremely awkward looking syntax with lots of modifiers and underscores sprinkled throughout. There's probably a better way to do it now, or an alternative solution that works better. Or maybe you're just trying to do something that Rust makes hard, like concurrent processing on a shared data structure.

The manual is safer even though it's harder to find your exact problem and solution, especially when you're just starting out.
> There's no credit given to economists for the recessions or depressions avoided.

I don't think we have avoided any recessions, ever, based on the advice of economists. They just aren't that good at forecasting. They don't even agree on the policy that is appropriate to fight recessions when we know there is one.

The "grandstanding" against economists in this thread is entirely justified.
Is the plain-text the problem? Because Gitlab/hub use them too - as markdown. Their UI layer is built on top of it. Why not do the same thing for emails? Plain-text in SMTP as a communication layer, but a rich UI layer on top of that at client level? Make a combined mail + list + git client?
I wish people would stop calling the CARES Act a ‘stimulus package’. It was a relief package. Stimulus refers to creating a secular demand in an economy that is not operating at full employment to prime the virtuous cycle of employment and demand. Relief on the other hand means to replace lost income due to the natural disaster of the pandemic and the necessary public policy response. I think conflating the two could end us down a bad path.
Thanks a lot for the reply here. So Stripe manually checks the websites and sees exactly what they are being used for, as long as Stripe itself is not being used for the adult stuff, it's fine, and you can use other providers for the adult content? Still sounds like OnlyFans has some custom agreement with Stripe and a small player would get banned from using Stripe as soon as they see nudity on the site.
Imagine if we could control the weather. Weatherman forecasts a hurricane, so weather control does what they can to get rid of it.

Economics is like that. Economists predict horrible downturn. Economic policy makers do what they can to avoid or lessen its impact.

For example, economists predicted that Boeing (among others) was going to need a massive bailout to survive. The Fed purchased a ton of corporate bonds with printed money to juice the bond market and allow Boeing and others to refinance their debt. Do we blame the weatherman for being wrong when steps were taken to change the forecast?
I think that Rust is often assumed to be functional because it has ADTs and nice pattern matching, both of which have historically been a feature specific to FP. Just goes to show how fuzzy our definition of FP really is...
I like to implement something I have already done before. In my case, the ID3 algorithm has a nice balance of challenge, experience and documentation available. You could try to write it for a specific case, where you structure your data, and then apply it to a generic case.
They're using sway/i3. I don't understand why they're doing it like that when sway/i3 already has support for modes.

They could have just done something like this in the sway/i3 config:

mode "normal" {
bindsym i mode "default"

bindsym q kill
bindsym y exec volchange -5
bindsym u exec volchange +5
bindsym o exec brightness -200
bindsym p exec brightness +200
bindsym w exec mpc prev
bindsym e exec mpc toggle
bindsym r exec mpc next
...
}

bindsym $mod+c mode "normal"

EDIT: I've realized their method has the benefit of working with other window managers that don't support modes or on-the-fly reconfiguration.
> But I have issue with you saying “that which is reported widely”, as if the other side is entirely honest and truthful. In reality, both sides are distributing propaganda. I fear that, although you are skeptical of Chinese propaganda, you fail to recognize or be skeptical of Western propaganda at the same time.

You're making a false equivalence by oversimplifying things into symmetrical "sides." The Chinese state-owned media and propaganda apparatus have an established history of frequently spreading false or misleading claims for propaganda purposes. While Western media sometimes does get a story wrong or sometimes gets misled by their sources, they make a far greater effort to ensure objective accuracy, and are thus far more trustworthy.
Anecdotal, but in my area (Eastern Europe) restaurants are still half empty, even after accounting for the reduced number of tables to allow for social distancing and after accounting for the indoor areas being closed. So at best, they are probably doing a quarter (probably less for most) of the business they were doing before. This is in the largest city in my country.

Gyms are also almost empty. Tourism is surprisingly less affected, and I would imagine that restaurants in tourist places are much more full. But outside of those, it is definitely NOT business as usual.
A12Z has hardware support for accelerating Rosetta 2 that is unused on iOS, so its use as the core of a developer transition kit was clearly decided well in advance.
All economists can do is project current trends into the future.

Economists do not have -- to use your analogy -- a good theory for predicting when there will be a rock in the road. When economists act like they have such a theory is when people start rolling their eyes.
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You could (in theory) do some risk analysis and put the ones with the highest risk into the providers where you had the lowest chargeback. Wouldn't be 100% solution, but could get you there.
Yes, I really like how easy it is to view the definition (which might be written in Emacs Lisp or C) of any function callable from Emacs Lisp.

(But I never edit any Emacs Lisp files that come with Emacs: sometimes though I will make sure such a file has been loaded, then override a function definition with one I wrote myself.)
This thread has come full circle. An undiscoverable registry key to disable an undesirable feature.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/g0y2j2/ov...

Check https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable for more open source projects.