skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they really should also use this ability to be able to ssh and develop etc in their marketing material. It might get even more users.
I honestly don't like my search results mingled with the advertising industry: there is bias in all results, you can't trust in information if it is not impartial. People used to create content to advance knowledge, but the amount of crap nowadays motivated my money (even if it is good quality) concerns me about the education of the human civilization as a whole. "The love of money (greed) is the root of all evil": Google, Amazon, Facebook all are already deep down this hole. Apple might be the only company that still has some decency left.
Technically and legally no since Flotplane doesn't make videos. Floatplane 'rents' office space from Linus Tech Tips, so many employees were previously at LTT and thus they work closely together, but they're different companies and LTT is just a creator on the app.
> We do have the technology. It's called nuclear energy.

No, we do not. Nuclear energy is by no means emission-free.

> There is no such thing as a zero- or close-to-zero emission nuclear power plant. Even existing plants emit due to the continuous mining and refining of uranium needed for the plant. Emissions from new nuclear are 78 to 178 g-CO2/kWh, not close to 0.

-- Mark Z. Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University

https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/the-7-reasons-why-nuclear-e...
Because I've been to the Sahara desert and it's the most remote place I've ever been. I experienced the gaps in coverage first hand.

There are equivalent places in central Australia, but even though I grew up here I haven't been more than a few hours drive away from the coasts.

I haven't been to North America. Russia didn't cross my mind, but I haven't been there either.

This isn't to say I don't have warped perspectives or prejudices about Africa. I didn't realize the population density is that high in the south, where I haven't been.

Western media only discusses African countries when things go wrong. The only people I know from there are three white families who left South Africa. If you asked me to draw a map of the countries it would be my worst continent.

The original post though really was just based on my personal experience with remoteness.
Could be that contract is up for renewal? Google seemed like it was going to stop paying Mozilla this year, then changed their mind. Threat of building a search engine competitor could just be part of contract negotiation (a BATNA).
The claim is really easy to look up. 802.3bt adds 60 and 100 watt modes.

And one ethernet cable per two bulbs would work fine for lots of lighting situations anyway.
I had looked at the Discord GC blog issue [1] fairly carefully, and it certainly seemed that specific GC latency issue they hit and blogged about would have been solved by upgrading to a modern Go version....

Also, after publishing that blog, they also said they had wanted to try Rust for other reasons:

wanted to try out rust as well for services like this, due to adoption elsewhere in the company. Also, after upgrading between 4 golang versions on this service and noticing it didn't materially change performance, we decided to just spend our time on the rewrite (for fun, and latency) and to get a head start into the asynchronous rust ecosystem. [2]

And nothing wrong with that decision from my point of view (Rust is great!), but I believe they could have solved it without dropping Go for that particular service that they blogged about, at least as far as I was able to understand.

[1] https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22239707
Because users like Apple's policies.

Most us of don't want a recreation of the web where companies try to "optimize" the subscription cancellation experience. Or to have multiple app stores each with exclusive apps being sold at a premium and having to manage payments separately.

Apple's rules do have a lot of real benefits for users and so you have to weigh that up against the interests of developers.
Does FB let you buy Instagram ads from in the app?
"C is also simple, for instance it has no concept of [...] arrays (only pointers)"

That is a confusing part with C. C do have a concept of arrays, but not as function arguments. You notice it first with multidimensional arrays.
Node Scripts the Right Way
I think this was from an episode of The IT Crowd.
But Apple's model is selling premium products and a search is a massive expense for apparently zero benefit to them (they wouldn't launch ads would they?). Plus their web results will probably be strictly censored and say goodbye to open web. It would be a nice dream though, google having some serious competition.
This is strange, can anyone shed any light on why the ratings would drop so much?

My assumption was their choice to use Android components was to provide a better experience to users.
The ads you buy on the Facebook app aren’t ads that you then get to see in your Facebook feed. You’re paying to have your own products/services advertised to other people.
I wish I knew how that floating window thing worked, cause like you I can manage to open it when I don't want it and can't get it to go away.

I keep meaning to look for a good iPad tutorial, to see how to do all this stuff.
In my country, I pay $35 per month for health insurance, and get much more coverage. Reading about American realities is like reading a horror novel :)
It’s only an exception because of how large/egregious it is.
Collapse of insect populations may foreshadow the earthly ecosystems collapse
Can't purchase in-app.
Huh... I'll try that next time. I had no idea it would do that. Again, this is a discoverability problem.
Not sure, but at least for me street view is the least useful part of a map application. Battery usage is much better in Apple Maps, the turn by turn directions are on average better now (Google maps used to lead by a longshot maybe a year or so ago), and it's less invasive to my privacy.
To an extent, users care. Android users use Android because either it's cheaper, it allows side loading or front loading apps the apple bans, or for reasons unrelated to the software experience (tv commercial, carrier forced, etc)
> But the way Siri has stagnated

Well, maybe most people just don't find it that useful, as an idea, rather than as an implementation? I don't personally find myself wanting to talk to my phone, and I certainly don't want smart speakers listening to everything I say and giving it to intelligence agencies or whatever.
You explain in detail what it would take to compete with Apple, but you’re trying to make the point that this is impossible to do, when in fact many smartphone manufacturers have done precisely that. Apple has a very small global market share on smartphones and only around 50% in the US.
> entire rust team was recently fired from Mozilla

This is completely incorrect, verging on FUD. Mozilla had very few people working full-time on Rust; of the people who were laid off in the recent wave, the ones working on projects adjacent to Rust were working on Servo or WASM-related codebases. In particular, the person at Mozilla who was most central to Rust development, Niko Matsakis, is still employed there and still working full-time on Rust.
Ok, old POE standard in my head, but 100W is still only a handful of fixtures on a circuit.
Am I reading this right? It’s a Linux OS but it doesn’t work with Linux?
Something I personally would find helpful is if someone with the appropriate background could talk through these results and some of the acronyms.

This passage is quite dense, and I think I and - hopefully I'm underestimating the audience on HN - others would have difficulty parsing it:

> After exclusion of studies with critical bias, the pooled RR for COVID-19 mortality was 1.27 (95%CI: 1.04-1.54, n=7) indicating an increased mortality linked to the use of hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin. With a baseline hospital mortality of 26%, we identified a significant absolute risk difference of +7%. We found an increased risk of mortality in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin compared to standard of care (RR: 1.29 (95%CI: 1.06-1.58, n=6)) among non-randomized studies but this relationship was not found in the single Brazilian RCT, with no heterogeneity observed across the study design (Pheterogeneity between = 0.28) (Figure 3). There was a low heterogeneity across the included studies (I2 =38%, p=0.14). Egger's test (p= 0.70) and Begg's test (p=0.65) were not significant but the asymmetry in the funnel plot indicates that a publication bias could be present (Figure S7). However, the number of included studies was small. Subgroup analyses are described in supplementary material (Table S4, Figure S8). The Bayesian meta-analysis led to similar results with a pooled RR for mortality of 1.32 (95%CI: 0.97-1.68, n=7 studies) (Table S5, Figure S9). The increase in mortality was also significant with influence analysis (Figure S10).

RR is relative risk, HR is hazard ratio, OR is odds ratio. Are there any red flags in reading this, and how relevant is it that studies were excluded for critical bias, that the single randomized controlled trial did not show this relationship.

The number of studies of HCQ with AZI was also quite small - is that a problem, and how likely is it that we could expect further studies to point in the opposite direction? 5% likely? More or less?

Lastly, many HCQ proponents advocate zinc in this mixture. That wasn't included in this meta-analysis. Is there a clinical basis for believing zinc changes the therapeutic effect of HCQ and AZI?
I've been using the RM1 for a few months. The screen and UI responsiveness are both fine. What is astonishingly slow is their ereader implementation. Basically, the model is something like this:

• The ReMarkable is primarily like a sheet of paper you can write on (or a paper notepad).

• This "sheet of paper" can also have a background template (like dots, a grid, or an arbitrary image), different for every page. (You can add your own images/templates onto the device with scp and editing a JSON config file.)

• When you read PDFs on it, each page (at your specified zoom level / crop region) is rasterized (reasonably quickly) into such a background image, with the result that you can write on the PDF page if you want. (These won't be "PDF annotations" in the PDF-standard's sense AFAIK, which some people complain about: it's just like writing/drawing on some image. But you can export your annotated PDF as PDF/PNG/SVG.)

• When you read EPUBs on it, the whole epub gets converted by some incredibly slow process into the equivalent of what it does for PDF (my understanding is that it's basically rasterizing each page). This means that if you're reading an EPUB (that you downloaded from the internet or transferred from your Kindle or whatever), and you do something as simple as changing the font size, you can expect it to take tens of seconds(!) even for a small 200-page book, as it's "regenerating" an image for each (resulting) page of the book. Once that is done, though (i.e. you don't change/resize font again), it's reasonably quick and straightforward to use.

So, now, I don't bother with trying to read EPUBs on the device; I convert to PDF first on my computer (where I can more quickly and interactively tweak font size, page size, etc), then read the PDF on the device. That works very well.
Just to let you know the memoization technique you used is called dynamic programming.
No, gotta put your credit card info into the wallet app before use as it needs to verify it's your account. Also, Apple Pay doesn't accept all cards. My main card isn't accepted, which is sad.
FWIW, I completely agree. Nuclear power in much of the west became a "toxic" issue after Chernobyl in particular. Here in the UK, I don't think we've had a new reactor built since the mid 90's - if we'd been more rational, we could potentially have saved the environment a lot of damage while solar and wind matured and became viable.
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1) It's Drew DeVault, not Drev Devault (as listed multiple times throughout your site)

2) Would love if you made a link out of "Homelab" in your About Me sidebar, which linked to a post explaining what it is. I just read about a "homelab" on HN yesterday, and would like to know more!
I noticed this myself on Baidu maps a couple of years ago. Browsing around Xinjiang with a friend, we discovered a weird conical structure constructed of tiles. Also found lots of roadblocks in the region (those weren't hidden).
Yes, you make a very strong point. It seems the highest bidders in the city were able to work with city planners to lay their cable lines... while in the rural areas (where I grew up) there were not enough customers to justify modernizing old telephone wire.

The response to COVID-19 has been an expectancy on equal access to Internet and either the telco gets to capitalize on their geographic monopoly or the rural folks get short changed with 1980s dial-up or GEO satellite link.
ddg is 99% bing.
XPrivacyLua for Android supports this. (Requires root and Xposed framework, though.)
Just on the front page of their site: "optimized", "colors", "color", "organization", "awesome"

And someone complaining on their support forum that, even though he's set the phone language to UK English, various apps keep displaying the date in MM/DD/YYYY format.

I've heard before European companies make the argument that they use American English on their sites and products because that is the most used version [not true, but hey ho!]. But Fairphone don't even sell their phones in the US, yet still use American English on their website and in their software.

Sorry. It might seem a minor issue but it really winds me up how so many companies claiming to be "Proudly European" nonetheless present this sycophantic 'pretendy American' public image.
yes but Apple being in the game would be another instance of a competitor - One that is the most valuable company in the world.
> because it’s sex toys looking like human genitalia

Well, I think it might be the opposite of that:

> I understand that your products were designed to depict the body parts of mythological and fantastical creatures
Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice
There is a fascinating 16 minute documentary about an Australian ghost town that once was a thriving asbestos mining town:

Australia's Ghost Town: The contaminated city Wittenoom
https://youtu.be/PaHw_bGI2ME

SPOILER ALERT: it turns out the town is not uninhabited.
They are transitioning as iPhone sales stabilize.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-services-busine...

It’s not all about the hardware anymore.
I would contest that if the industry wasn't demonized it wouldn't have a dark side.
I'm curious, are e-books charged 30% cut? What if you buy a book, but it also comes with a free ebook? There's just so many edge cases and weird exceptions. I really don't see how this models of theirs can scale.
Using SQL Server HierarchyId with Entity Framework Core
A lot of it comes down to your accent. It seems like Siri is trained well for a very particular voice, and if you fall in that range it works great.

If you fall outside that range... It might get one in three words correct.
It accomplishes both objectives quite well.
Lots of people don't think Starlink is important enough to be barely visible over the whole earth. Lots of people think it is. I don't care one way or the other, but I'm glad that the precedent is being set. Someday humanity will have a reason to put something big into orbit, and at that time those who favor progress won't want to have to fight the NotInMySky fanatics. As we can see ITT, they're worse than the New England wind farm opponents.
Dutch masterpiece stolen for third time
Apple's MO is vertical integration. So this only makes sense in the context of a vertical integration play. The article talks about some of ways a search engine could integrate with existing products, but they don't seem very compelling.

On that score, this doesn't look like it will happen, despite appearances.

On the other hand, if Apple is also working on another, secret, project that would integrate well with search, that would be a different matter.
Maybe they should build their own indexing backend and buy up DuckDuckGo for the frontend/user base/etc.
Automatically producing mediocre results is amazing.

So: Google Translate IS amazing. The result of Google Translate is definitely not amazing, but that wasn't the claim.
Pearl clutching over adult men driving cars, then smoking weed and hanging out. It’s west coast trap music, that’s a fairly tame music video.
This is interesting to me. As someone who works at Google, and is a huge Android fan (and Apple hater), I am constantly astounded at how bad Assistant seems to be for me, and how good Siri seems to be for my friends.

Maybe I just speak really unclearly? Unfortunately, basically all of my friends have iPhones (even at Google), so it's hard to know if it's just me.
I was thinking about this as I recently started playing "Ultimate NES Remix" They are quick mini-games made from old nes games. These quick little mini-games really make good tutorials on how to actually play the real game they are taken.
> Yeah but you wouldn't be happy that your incubator or AC didn't work when it needed to.

You can spend some of the money you'd otherwise save on electricity in those cases.

> You wouldn't be happy either if factories can't produce enough food because they would have to wait for wind or sun.

A factory shifting hours wouldn't be noticeable at all by the time the product reaches the consumer weeks later.

If the factory isn't running enough hours at all, that's not a problem caused by renewables being unpredictable. That's just bad management.
> But sentences like these in the documentation [2] would make me prefer Rust for most low level domains

While such use-after-free issues are not prevented at compile time, the plan is to ultimately have safe Zig catch them (and panic) at runtime, i.e. safe Zig shouldn't have undefined behaviour. Because this is done with runtime checks, the expectation is that those checks will be turned off (selectively, perhaps) in production, after testing has satisfied you. In that case, the guarantees aren't as strong as Rusts, but those guarantees come at a significant cost -- to language complexity and compilation time -- that can also have a negative effect on correctness. So while Zig's approach to safety/correctness is certainly very different from Rust's, I don't think it is necessarily weaker (perhaps it could even be stronger, but the question is hard to settle).
AFAIK, none of those support ECC RAM, making them eminently unsuitable for serious storage.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Here’s the interesting and tech angle:

.." an art detective specialising in recovering stolen works, said a theft of this sort had been expected. Criminals had been buying stolen works of art and exchanging them for shorter jail terms, he said.

The art detective also linked the latest theft to a recent breakthrough by Dutch and French police, who cracked a top-secret communications system used by criminals. That has enabled police to make progress on a number of criminal cases."
While this article is specifically about a .NET Core ORM, I thought it was interesting because of the SQL Server `hierarchyid` data type[0], which has existed since SQL Server 2008, yet as someone who has worked with SQL Server for decades, I somehow didn't know about it!

[0] https://www.meziantou.net/sql-server-discovering-the-hierarc...
Text of post embedded deep into unusable interface:

The youngsters may not even know it, but any older person remembers very well that up to about 20 years ago any car trip meant a windshield covered in insects crushed by impact. Today, that doesn't happen the same way anymore.

It may look great to travel with a clean windshield. But doesn't that tell you anything? Where did the bugs go anyway?

Scientists associate the dramatic decline of insect populations with agribusiness due to the destruction of natural habitats and pesticide application. The decline of insects, besides being a tragedy in itself, affects all earthly ecosystems, such as the diet of birds, reptiles and amphibians, and pollination of plants, etc. The collapse of insect populations may be the foreshadowing of earthly ecosystems collapse.
I could have sworn it would only do it for triple press, but no, it seems to work now with only two. Thanks for the info.
"I have no skin in this game"

<golf clap>
> The founder of ReMarkable is (or was?) a KDE developer

The CTO is a KDE Developer and a long-time member of the Arch community.
GP mentioned 10% drop from the _March_ highs, not from the January. S&P 500 grew 50%+ since March lows.
Agreed totally

there are parts of Microsoft that are also very honest

For that matter there are even divisions within Google that want to do good stuff

However, Amazon, Facebook and 90% of Google are basically just the precursors of The Matrix now

Their ideal is that all people are mindless zombies, living on universal basic income, like vegatbles/animals, and spending all their money on AmazooogleBook
The issue is that it mostly makes sense for them to recoup the cost of running the store and also make money from this massive service they run. The issue is that apps come in all shapes and sizes, and with different monetization models, but Apple's way of coming up with a fair cut for everyone just doesn't work or make any sense.

And then they need to keep adding these strange restrictions and rules to try and contort every app so that their rules kinda work, but it's just such a mess.
That doesn't clarify anything. What's a "premium" streaming app? Why doesn't (or didn't) Spotify, who publicly opposes the 30% cut, qualify?

No official source qualifies and the article you linked just guesses based on screenshots. It also tells you that Apple does take the 30% cut if you trick the user into not realizing there's an Apple tax.

The video I linked (I know, it's long) discusses limitations as decreed by Apple itself. There's another video on that channel with even more in-depth information from Apple. There's no offer to make a deal and become a "premium service". I'm sure these guys would love to get their app available on more platforms, providing more value than they already can with just smartphone apps.
Android does not even have an app for Apple Maps. I certainly don't wish the success of Apple search if they are going to follow the model of Apple Maps and many of their other attempts with the closed ecosystem.
Web performance analysis of top supermarket websites in Denmark
> It seems obvious to me that management doesn't understand the target audience for the device

> If you're considering the RM2 for anything other than a sketch/note pad

It is marketed as a sketch/note pad and that's about it. The e-reader feature is like the youtube functionality on a Switch. It's there because "lolwhynot" and little more.

I have one and I really love mine. But all I wanted was a digital notebook. If I wanted more than that I would have gotten a Surface tablet or an Ipad Pro. It's definitely expensive for what it is, but it's not really marketed as a mass market device either.
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