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Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi
Hum, sorry, think I miscommunicated. Here on our team we use our iPads with keyboard and mouse or trackpad all the time. It's not an afterthought at all.
The whole point of software is that it "soft" and thus easy to change. Upgrades are whole point and not optional.

The logical conclusion is that any and all software should follow and evergreen/rolling release model in order to take maximum advantage of the flexibility built into the medium.

Commercial software should all be subscription-based. Even software which is packaged as fixed releases has to support routing updates in order to deal with security issue.

The problem of "excessive involuntary updates" is much smaller than the problem of devices which are not kept up to date by their manufacturers. Cheap mobile phones are among the worst offenders.
SARSCoV2 findings in iPSC- heart cells and autopsy indicate it's a heart virus
Getting very close to the end now. The nearest-neighbor distance between Si atoms in a crystal is 0.235 nm, so a feature with 3nm width is 12.7 Si atoms across. It is amazing that this can be done, and the physics are increasingly weird at this level of scaling.
I responded to this argument in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295610

TLDR: the alternatives are also centralized and give you vendor lock-in since issues/PRs are tied to the instance.
Note that they're a bit behind on order processing due to covid-19. I bought one a few months ago and it's scheduled to be delivered in October. If you buy one today, it's scheduled for November delivery.
There was a post here on HN a few days ago about the loads of information that the Kindle tracks. Then there's Alexa which is supposed to "wake up" only when the wake word is used which we all know isn't true. And now there's Halo. Amazon wants to own you in a way no other company has been able to just yet.

The most important question is, are you willing to trust amazon with all the data? I sure af don't
It's worth noting that every reference in Rust has a lifetime, but the compiler is usually smart enough to infer it. What you are talking about is explicit lifetimes.
That's exactly what is needed. But we will likely just reinvent SMTP. Why not just build better interfaces (web, gui and cli) around SMTP? On the other hand, SMTP is starting to show its age - too many parts, lack of privacy and abuse. Wish there was a new protocol in the spirit of SMTP, but modern design - something like what Matrix is to IRC.
A mechanism which is provided by mailing list archives in the form of mbox downloads. If you question the reliability of this (but apparently not the proven unreliability of GitHub), as a fallback you can just ask an older subscriber to give you their mbox.
ReMarkable tablets don't have the same use case as LCD screen tablets. With an e-ink screen battery time is in another league.

If you want to watch videos and browse internet this isn't the tablet to get. If you want a notepad that can store and display every document you might want that is where "paper replacement" tablets come in.
This is broken with floating headers and footers. The scrolling goes over the whole viewport; after each pg dn-equivalent, you need to scroll back up two or three lines to see what was covered by the header/footer.
That explains why I couldn't get this demo to work for me. Sad. Guess I won't be recommending WebFlow to anyone.
… designers assuming they have my whole screen.
The fat measurement bit seems interesting. It seems entirely dependent on CV.[1] It does acknowledge that people gain fat differently but I am very apprehensive of this feature. Definition of muscles unless you go sub 10% BF looks very different among people. Also, clicking full body pictures and uploading it in a third party service even though this is Amazon feels very violating for some reason.

I think traditional home/gym scales use electrical impedance to measure this like this Inbody one. [2] They also claim to have been validated by studies. I would rather want these devices to become more portable and affordable.

[1] https://blog.aboutamazon.com/devices/a-better-measure-of-hea...

[2] https://inbodyusa.com/products/inbody770/
I got bit by infinite scrolling yesterday. I liked an article, clicked in the URL, copied and pasted it into a group chat with my team... and then noticed it was the wrong URL. The fine website had "helpfully" autoscrolled a smidge into the next article, so it updated the URL box to the next article. Lesson learned-- read before pasting...
This could be their entrance into the social media space, it is a profitable industry(in the billions of dollars), so why not? A company can have multiple strategic units.
Kindle Direct Publishing recommends format incompatible with Kindle devices
> is this spontaneous collapse quite rare in practice ?

It's extremely rare for a simple quantum system like a single electron; but it is happening basically all the time for a very large system like the detector in the double slit experiment. So basically, the electron is virtually certain to get all the way through the double slit experiment without any spontaneous collapse, but as soon as it interacts with the detector screen at the end of the experiment it will have to collapse basically immediately, because the detector screen is always having spontaneous collapse events and the electron is now entangled with the screen and has to collapse along with it.
Maybe you didn't see my initial comment for the Show HN: there is a free tier.
It depends on what stage of delivery they're scanning the packages. I used to ship a lot of small packages for a small business, and noticed:

- they don't get scanned into tracking until they get processed at the facility, which can take a day

- they sometimes get scanned "out" when they're loaded onto the truck, rather than at delivery point.

Since the directive is now to leave on time, rather than wait for all the packages to make it onto the truck, I bet they're getting scanned out and then waiting on the floor for the next day's truck to actually get delivered.

UPS/FedEx etc use handheld scanners at the delivery point, so they have to deal with employees faking delivery and making up for it later.
I think some clarification is warranted here, because Miri is intended to be used for more than just constant evaluation. In particular, Miri wants to be able to dynamically verify `unsafe` code in order to detect undefined behavior, which means that it will eventually want to support the entire Rust language. However, just because Miri supports any given Rust feature does not necessarily mean that that feature will be made available for constant evaluation; consider features that are non-deterministic (like RNG) or architecture-dependent/nonportable (like floating-point operations), and how const-evaluating such things could potentially cause memory-unsafety to occur when runtime output and const output differ.
I really wish sites would stop using scribd to host primary documents, which requires an account to be able to download them. Use something like DocumentCloud instead - which is both leaner, and does not require account to download files.
The feel on Remarkable 1 vs a tablet was quite drastic when it comes to writing, tablets were not even close. Without having tried iPad Pro 2020 or reMarkable 2, my guess is that the gap will still be considerable.

And this is a single-use-case device, with pro's and cons based on that. Battery time, for instance. And like less than half the price of the cheapest iPad pro configuration without even getting a pen for your iPad at that price.
DEXA scans are pretty cheap. A truck comes around to our gym a few times a year and I can get one for $40. (I'm at 12%)
Seems like kind of a jerk move.

"I went around and scratched the paint on 28,000 ICE cars to raise awareness on climate change issues"
I get the value if you assume the host is not compromised and you are worried about encrypt-at-rest or for transmit, but how does a user securely provide a PIN to the device if the host itself is rooted?
Giving an advertiser the somewhat opaque output of a totally opaque black box transfer function conveys less reusable information than giving the advertiser all the personalized inputs to that black box.

In my view, it’s in no way the same information.
I would say Remarkable is superior when taking notes. Mostly because it feels like regular paper without any bells and whistle. And you still do some advanced organization and editing.
The Chinese version of TikTok is very integrated with their own eCommerce platform. A video creator can link in the video the cloth they are wearing, the product they are using, or the hotel they are staying at. Also the live stream part in the Chinese version is hugely successful with selling products (think of it as QVC + Amazon). So I'm sure Walmart saw the potential as part of of their eCommerce strategy for the younger generation.
Very creepy to know people are voluntarily going to purchase a device that tracks your emotions and have that be used to inform Amazon's ad or product recommendation targeting.
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It’s one data point.
I have the first version, and I really like it. The experience of writing on a textured e-Ink display is completely different than trying to do the same thing on smooth glass. (iPad Pro/Apple Pencil)
Yeah, the correct question is probably how it competes with something like Kindle.

The presentation made me fairly intrigued.
They're clearly using British English (check the top-right corner), plus you can change the language to whatever you like.
Small Signs of Hope That Lockdowns Could Soon End – AIER
I have little respect for a people and society that thinks we all need/want the Borg’s hive mind guiding us our entire lives.

Talk about a failure to launch; a culture all about freedom tethering themselves to 5-6 companies product offerings.

It’s sycophantic addiction to slightly nuanced proclamations of being visited with special instruction from Sky Wizard, who said old guy is wrong, follow new guys idea of holiness

What a sad society when we’re so guilted it becomes too mean for family and friends to tell the unhealthy people in their lives just go for a 20 minute jog a few times a week.

Instead we all look away from being humans to such folks, and wait for someone like Apple or Bezos to engineer fancy gadgets those unhealthy people can use to have a robot voice to tell them how to behave instead.

Really standing on your own two legs by pushing away real people for rich daddy.

What a bizarre psychological story this society has created. “Screw you if I can’t make a dime off you.”
> When I set up The Tiny MBA in Amazon, I used an official Amazon tool called “Kindle Create.” It’s promoted prominently right on the dashboard of the KDP portal.

> Further, I noticed an option in KDP to convert my beautifully designed PDF book files into a KPF file, one of the options that prepped the book for sale on the Kindle store.

> I found out that the KPF file that was created by Amazon’s own Kindle Create software will only be available on Kindle Fire devices and the Kindle App.
Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches. Let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them.
I find the body fat measurement tech interesting: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/devices/a-better-measure-of-hea...

Basically you take some pictures of yourself and they build a 3D model, then use a neural network to analyze and predict bf%.

They claim "is as accurate as methods a doctor would use" and "we tested accuracy using Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA)" but they're not saying exactly how accurate it is compared to DXA, so I suspect the number isn't great.
Asana S-1 Analysis – Comparing One Productivity Powerhouse to Another
crossing fingers that when amzn rolls out their social credit product, activity, body fat + emotions are the main inputs
I also think people get stuck in optimising their process because it’s easy to see, easy to change and makes you feel productive. Versus most creativity which is very woolly and hard to make tangible. Both can be approached by doing and empirically evaluated though. For me at least it’s more about biasing towards tackling the actual problem or challenge in front of you rather than polishing tools. Note taking in particular should be pragmatic and straightforward and I’m amazed at the complexity people can put into it.
They don’t go into details; but they claim it’s “as accurate as methods a doctor would use” and that they tested accuracy against DXA.

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/devices/a-better-measure-of-hea...
It is inaccurate.

You say "slightly slower". The metrics behind the delays are much longer and your numbers only seem to include time in transit.

Second reason your summary is inaccurate: DeJoy's changes are rolled out in small pockets of the country thus far. The article seems to be indiscriminate from where those changes took place. The averages here are hence better than from those places where the changes have done the most damage.
Cue promos with smiling Amazon warehouse workers attesting to Halo's success and helpfulness.

On deeper inspection one of them is determined to have a near undetectable facial tic that could be seen to signal SOS in Morse code. She fails to appear in later promos.

The dystopia deepens.
The new Microsoft Surface Duo device is outstanding but polarizing
Rules for Successful Test Automation
> the reality is that this is what's sustainable for a small team

No this is rent seeking imho : this software is already built there's no need to work on it full time for the next 10 years just to bloat it with mostly useless features.

Sell it, make a profit, work on version 2.0 (1.0 is probably missing crucial things that will become apparent once it's battle tested), sell it again then put it in maintenance mode and go work on something else.

Please apologize for the tone I'm not a native speaker so I don't know how to say it nicer. I don't intend to hurt your feelings, actually I hope you will succeed even if I won't subscribe.
Unlike many commenters (I perceive), I read the whole article.

Monkhouse isn't disproving Sinek, but rather reinforced that WHY is important but the WHO should be the BullsEye within.
Not a bad move. It can shorten the number hops to buying an item. If a Walmart buy button is in a popular social media app thats not a bad thing. The influencer crowd is after all trying to sell stuff.

Plus they constantly have to deal with Zuckerberg, Google, Bezos, Apple etc trying to get between them and the customer.
This is also the root of the overnight repo market that everyone was up in arms about awhile ago.

The bank originates a new loan that they think will be profitable. Then they need to come up with the assets to offset that loan on their balance sheet (or at least a small percentage of it).

From a macro perspective you'd expect some banks to have more assets than they need and some to have less (because if I loan Joe money then eventually it will end up back in a bank somewhere, or at least a percentage of it). Each night the banks that need assets borrow from the banks that have assets and pay a small fee.
"the government controls..."
"A central planning authority directs..."

But sometimes isn't it the other way around with Fascism? ie corporate or money interests have great influence over the government and influence it so as to increase the power of the corporate influencer? It seems more like with fascism it's hard to tell the difference between the government and the moneyed interests (be they corporations, companies, extremely wealthy individuals, etc.) because they're so intertwined.
I have been very happy with my ReMarkable 1, and have ordered the ReMarkable 2.0.

Hacker News might be interested in the active development community around the device: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

The device is open. It's just an embedded linux device. You can ssh into it, and run arbitrary code. The SDK is based on Qt. You can also connect a keyboard to it over a USB-on-the-go port.

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.
It's really just my own observation and discussion with family and friends. We can see it happening.
> the very existence of the Geiger counter or computer may depend on which branch occurred (perhaps there was a bomb on one path?)

At the quantum level, the quantum degrees of freedom in the Geiger counter or the computer still exist even if a bomb goes off. They just have a different relationship in terms of interactions than they would if the bomb didn't go off.
The touchpad is related to mobile too though; trying to close the gap between computer interface and mobile touch interfaces. I don't think we'd have a touchpad if we didn't have mobile touchscreens first. And recall how Apple switched the "scroll direction" on the touchpad so you move your fingers in the same manner as you would directly on a screen to produce a given scroll direction.
I have noticed this too. This page itself immediately distressed me with its deliberate overdone use of `overflow: scroll`, so much so that I honestly almost left it without reading, which seems a little weird when I reflect on it, but… ugh, multiple useless scrollbars. I think this must be what people mean when they describe something “triggering” them.

I think there are two parts to the problem: ① a popular developer platform using overlay scrollbars; and ② the fact that `overflow: scroll` sounds like what people want, when it’s actually not (as you say, they wanted `overflow: auto`). If I could rewrite the history of just this one property, I’d rename `scroll` to `always-show-scrollbar` or `show-scrollbar-even-if-insufficient-content-to-scroll` or similar. Or maybe split `overflow` in two and use `scrollbar-show: always;`.

Hmm. I wonder if we could convince browser makers to kill off `overflow: scroll`, making it equivalent to `overflow: auto` due to rampant abuse (there’s precedent for this sort of thing), and replace it with a new, more clearly-named property `scrollbar-show: always`. (And `scrollbar-{x,y,inline,block}-show` to go with it.) Maybe `always` wouldn’t be quite the right keyword, given that it wouldn’t be affecting the behaviour of platforms with overlay scrollbars. But this actually sounds both reasonable and feasible to me, given that `overflow: scroll` is subject to rampant abuse due to misunderstanding and was basically only a tiny quality of life thing for certain corner cases in layouts anyway.
Apple decided that /anaconda was an illegal place to store files during an update, so not only did I have a mysterious upgrade who took a very long time (hours) even on SSD, I also lost half a day when I needed to run some calculations for my client, as my Anaconda (python data science etc) was broken. The latter happened just the other week.

A few years ago, Windows mistook my root/system partition for the boot partition, which it helpfully "cleaned" by removing ALL executable files. Don't remember the trigger for that one.

Another Mac OS X update broke my Samsung color laser + scanner. A few years ago, still broken. Recently the scanner was broken by another update. At first it was only the printer.

I'm sure there are more, but thos were the first I could recall.
Was really hoping to get periodic pulse oximetry on this. Otherwise, only the Tone feature seems interesting. I think I’ll pass on this. Monthly subscription doesn’t seem worth it for that.
Has anyone had an experience with this? It looks pretty cool, although I'm probably never going to use it since I write mostly with my keyboard.
The body fat tracking is based on 4 smartphone selfies that you take, and neural nets. Maybe they got good looking accuracy numbers on their in house test set, but I am extremely skeptical that this will be at all accurate in practice.

Also, they had a hardware device designed to take pictures of your body called the "Echo Look" which they canceled not too long ago. Seems strange to introduce new body scanning features soon after that failure.
> If anything, the current climate has emboldened my peers' belief that it's important and effective.

This feels true to me now as well.

In 2014 there was a report[1] released that concluded that the US was an Oligarchy and that our vote did not count. Personally that seemed to align with how my friends and I felt, where corporate campaign donations and lobbying influenced our politicians decisions more than the every-person voter. Back then I had a more bleak view on the effectiveness of our democracy and I'm sure others felt that way as well. I still voted though, I have always voted since I turned 18.

But ever since the 2016 election (and the 2018 mid-term elections) we've seen just how important voting is. If every eligible voter in the US got out and was able to vote, we'd have a much different government right now.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Open Source Angular Payment Card Component
I made one of my side projects open-source, it is the above referred Angular component. If you are interested in my journey with this open source project, you can read about it here: https://dev.to/milantenk/the-story-behind-ngx-interactive-pa...
Wow so more than 25% of NYC got their hearts damaged? Someone should let them know.

* https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-antibodi...
I wasn't having the easiest time getting it to do things like shrink/grow (think about stretching the cards) and yeah, hover states suck, plainly. I also think you could do alot to improve the drag and drop support of the touchpad.

You can do some pretty neat things with gestures here too, like swiping 'between' things, that didn't translate to the app either.

I'm doing both, frankly. This is a pro tool for pros, and as such, you're more likely to encounter people like me than not.
Sorry, that might be an explanation but it’s not an excuse. Privacy controls in a global organisation are a legal requirement for your software, and you don’t get to just haphazardly throw it together.
I don't think that, but sometimes people want to build their own houses, and they will immediately start butting up against this.
In war time patents are suspended or the government forces everyone to cross license. Along with the hard focused work, I think this is a big reason why tech advanced so much during WWI and WWII.
It's not an e-reader but a tablet computer. The founder of ReMarkable is (or was?) a KDE developer, so they supposedly do a lot of things right when it comes to developer experience, openness, and documentation.
> using only super expensive launch systems.

And _yet_, despite launch cost supposedly being suuuuper large, weight played no clear role in total cost. Not sure how that is a counter argument?
How good is a ReMarkable as an ebook reader? I don't care that much about the writing, but having a large size ebook reader that can display A4 pdfs in acceptable quality would be a game changer for me...