skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One amusing but insightful suggestion I read recently is: use the opportunity of your boss becoming sick and taking extended leave to gain experience operating at the next level up while acting in your boss' role.

(This popped up in a discussion relating to the influence that luck has on people's success.)
Nice to see Muse launch! I've been using the beta for a few months now after stumbling on the Ink & Switch design essay when researching tools for thought.

It's awesome, I can recommend it wholeheartedly - the modeless interaction and spatial organisation might seem subtle, however they really enable a very smooth workflow that allows to think about something without being distracted by the tool.
The best example is probably erasing something in Muse with the 'left finger on screen mode' in contrast to tapping an eraser symbol as in the standard design of note-taking apps. This gets internalized pretty quickly and then erasing doesn't distract ones line of thought anymore. I actually find myself doing this 'second finger erasing' by accident in other note-taking apps all the time.

Like others in the comments, as a student I also found the price tag a bit hefty - however Adam Wiggins mentioned in an email that they are planning a ~30$/yr educational discount. I personally found that a lot more reasonable, maybe that's interesting to other students as well.
For a better PDF experience, you might want to try 'koreader'. The native PDF support on my Kobo Forma was so bad I was ready to return it, before finding this. It's an open source PDF/epub reader that you can install on Remarkable and other eInk readers. It's just an app - it doesn't replace or degrade any existing functionality.

https://github.com/koreader/koreader
> Is it because we're currently maxing out the hydro-electric potential of the earth so there's no more gains to be had?

We are very far from the max. But the concentrated opportunities are mostly taken already. What remains is geographically dispersed, and consequently expensive.
Is this written by a lobbyist?

Blue light causes cataracts if nothing else. It also affects sleep cycles which can cause fatigue and all sorts of strain on the eye and body.

But “ Does this blue-light pose any hazard to our eyes?

Nope, not to my knowledge”

Animations are not perfectly smooth causing strain on scrolling (I can see the unevenness even on my 11 pro with every scroll). Colors are constructed - ever look at a phone on acid? This also can cause subconscious strain.

The article also fails to recognize that most eink displayed are in fact illuminated.

The bottom line is reading on eink is relaxing in ways a tablet is not.
Maybe people could just live with having to search: "<query> near <nearby major town>" if they want to get geographically relevant results. It doesn't seem that terrible to me.
Highly doubt it. Literally all of the Verizon execs who were deeply involved in those acquisitions are long gone. The integration of Yahoo was pretty horrendous in execution, even by large corp M&A standards, which is a low bar.
Because Trump has ordered them to shut down if they aren't sold.

In the absence of any buyers that actually add value, and the fact that TikTok has no BATNA, this means it will almost certainly be sold below value.

Therefore, unlike most corporate acquisitions, this can be viewed as a pure "profit play", rather than relying on complicated synergies, economies of scale, fending off competition, etc. to justify the purchase.

In this light, the parent company doesn't really have to have anything in common with TikTok. It mostly comes down to which companies have a) the cash to purchase it, b) management that is smart enough not to mess it up, and c) the best use of the company's cash if the price is low enough.

In the end it will probably be purely a financial play, rather than the product/strategy play most acquisitions are. So the acquiring company just needs to be good at the basics of tech management. They just hire or keep on TikTok management that is good at the social media stuff.
That doesn’t change the fact that neither wind nor solar can produce electricity on demand.

Unlike many other products, customers buy electricity when they need it, not when it’s cheap. It doesn’t really matter whether a wind farm in the German North Sea can produce a lot of electricity cheaply during a windy day when that electricity is needed three days later in Munich.

This complete lack of matching supply and demand is what drives electricity prices with a large share of renewables in the market so high.

In Germany, lots of electricity is produced from renewables at times when it’s not needed. This causes market prices to be negative at times and Germany is paying neighboring countries money to buy that excess electricity.

At the same time, producers of renewables have guaranteed sales by German law, i.e. their electricity is always bought by the market whether it’s needed or not.

It’s this gap between supply and demand that customers are paying for which drives German electricity prices.

Currently, we’re paying 31 Euro cents in Germany per kWh while French customers whose grid has a large share of nuclear pay just 17 Euro cents per kWh on average.

At the same time, the average CO2 emissions in Germany per kWh are at 400 grams in Germany while they’re only at 50 grams in France. That’s because whenever solar and wind aren’t delivering any electricity we’re starting up coal and gas plants.

I wish proponents renewables were honest enough to not withhold these problems.

I mean, absolutely no one argues that it’s not that expensive to build a wind or solar farm. What makes wind ans solar expensive is keeping the necessary backup plants in standby for when they’re not delivering and paying for getting rid of excess electricity from renewables when they’re not needed.

The intermittency and low energy density are inherent physical properties of solar and wind farms which is why 100% renewables is newer feasible (unless for countries like Norway who have the possibility to build lots of hydro plants).
You should read that statement in context of what Microsoft's Linux Foundation member said about LKML. They want a community who is fine with emails to adopt PR workflow too. We don't see Github doing the same for federated workflows.
I've had lounge for a while, running on the home server. its great that I can keep it open at work on the browser, or on the phone.

its got all the features I need, and its as fast as pigeon, more or less.
Asking Mac users to think about the existence of other OSes?

Grab your ptichfors brothers and sisters, we have another heretic to burn at the stake!
As a left handed person that's the first thing I've noticed.
I think it's fair to say both statements are true:

> Kubernetes was built on ideas that had been proven out at Google over the previous ten years with Borg. And Borg, itself, owed its existence to even earlier efforts at Google and beyond.

> Concretely, Kubernetes started as some prototypes from Brendan Burns combined with ongoing work from me and Craig McLuckie to better align the internal Google experience with the Google Cloud experience. Brendan, Craig, and I really wanted people to use this, so we made the case to build out this prototype as an open source project that would bring the best ideas from Borg out into the open.

> After we got the nod, it was time to actually build the system. We took Brendan’s prototype (in Java), rewrote it in Go, and built just enough to get the core ideas across. By this time the team had grown to include Ville Aikas, Tim Hockin, Brian Grant, Dawn Chen and Daniel Smith. Once we had something working, someone had to sign up to clean things up to get it ready for public launch. That ended up being me. Not knowing the significance at the time, I created a new repo, moved things over, and checked it in. So while I have the first public commit to the repo, there was work underway well before that.

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/06/06/4-years-of-k8s/
They have had two delays so far, and both of them were announced literally days before the "expected" shipping deadline. They are checking many checkboxes on my "likely vaporware" checklist.

The only thing they have in their favor is that they shipped v1 succesfully.
Absolutely. Here is a chart illustrating this [1] (and its source [2]). I've seen a better version of this somewhere, but it's all I could find quickly.

My interpretation of the chart is that the IEA's predictions for solar power growth have been very consistently delusional.

[1] http://guensberg.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/weo2017_pv_EN...

[2] http://guensberg.at/how-the-transformative-trend-in-energy-s...
Good feedback! We used to include the trial terms (unlimited time, up to 100 cards) in the signup email but now that it's direct download from the App Store we need to find another place.

And good point about monthly vs yearly perception.
Clearly you meant zig++
As of 2013, the top 1% of households owned 38% of stock market wealth. The top 10% own 81% of stock wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
I can buy 399 notebooks for 399
>Lesson #1: Data copy between user and kernel space costs around
50% of total CPU usage. This can be avoided by using kernel-bypass
techniques as adopted in Quant.

>Lesson #2: In the presence of a kernel-bypass optimization, crypto
operations become the new most expensive operation, requiring
up to 40% of CPU resources per connection.

I suppose they did an equivalent optimization ? I have no experience with io_uring, but I assume the gains are similar to kernel bypass optimizations.
Yes, it does feel more like paper then an ipad, but it's a single use device and I use other apps on my ipad, so the extra cost and adding another device to the mix wasn't worth it for me. Maybe the remarkable 2 will be enough of an improvement to make it worthwhile, but we'll see when that actually ships.
Every gun law or restriction on self defense is just a letter to Santa without police willing to enforce it.
Reminded me of this great piece by Don Norman on Apple's undoing of design as of recent:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-desi...

"Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are possible, clearly see how to select that action, receive unambiguous feedback as to the results of that action, and have the power to reverse that action–to undo it–if the result is not what was intended.

No more. Now, although the products are indeed even more beautiful than before, that beauty has come at a great price. Gone are the fundamental principles of good design: discoverability, feedback, recovery, and so on. Instead, Apple has, in striving for beauty, created fonts that are so small or thin, coupled with low contrast, that they are difficult or impossible for many people with normal vision to read. We have obscure gestures that are beyond even the developer’s ability to remember. We have great features that most people don’t realize exist.

The products, especially those built on iOS, Apple’s operating system for mobile devices, no longer follow the well-known, well-established principles of design that Apple developed several decades ago. These principles, based on experimental science as well as common sense, opened up the power of computing to several generations, establishing Apple’s well-deserved reputation for understandability and ease of use. Alas, Apple has abandoned many of these principles. True, Apple’s design guidelines for developers for both iOS and the Mac OS X still pay token homage to the principles, but, inside Apple, many of the principles are no longer practiced at all. Apple has lost its way, driven by concern for style and appearance at the expense of understandability and usage."
Hey, sorry for the tangent, but while I have you here - would you ever consider adding a hosted option for The Longue? I might be interested in collaborating on that on behalf of sourcehut.
Maybe weighing daily IS productive, but looking at the result daily is not :)
One thing I would like to know though, is if I pay for this, do I get access to the raw data to download and analyze myself? That's one of the things I really like about the Oura, I can download the data into a python notebook and do all sorts of analysis on it. It would be cool to combine both data streams and see what insight I can get from it.
Like the sibling comment says, Show HN is for your own work. Take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
So you used irssi without both channel list and user list?

I mean, HexChat use roughly the same space (the username part is configurable), so this is hardly a problem of 'modern UI'. (XChat, which HexChat fork from, was initially released in 1999)
I also wish that Rust had linear types, it would make a lot of FFI easier without resorting to unsafe{}.

With linear types you can guarantee that a destructor is run, so you can create objects with lifetimes that are not only bounded from below, but bounded by above. There are some common patterns in e.g. C libraries that rely on this--for example, you might register a callback on an object, and you want to assert that the object's lifetime is shorter than the callback's (so the callback is never called outside its lifetime).

Since Rust doesn't have linear types, you have to use unsafe{}.
Recent Decision to Compress Census Timeframes Poses Additional Risks [pdf]
Even the best batteries in the world have absolutely ridiculously small energy densities compared to Uranium (about a factor of 10^6).
Just to confirm, when you say, "better than anything else out there," that includes the latest generation of iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 2, correct?
Okay nice. IRC finally makes sense. Seems kind of like Discord. Sounds pretty nice actually.
I absolutely love Vue, but i would think twice or thrice about using any client side framework. If you can, just use e.g. ASP.Net with Razor to create your website. Depends on what you need it to be able to do ofcourse.
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Does northern Europe have enough reliable sunlight to make a dent in their energy needs?
Is that true even for IPv6?
Solar and wind are highly subsidized as well.

Just look at German electricity prices.
I didn't know about this before I bought an iPad. I recently added a paper-textured screen protector (similar to Paperlike) and now I can't stop using it. I really recommend it for those who have an Apple Pencil - its great
What I don't understand is that that this isn't even illegal, so how could the government possibly argue that those accounts should be closed?
Use a freight forwarder?
Speaking of HEB, I’m in the hunt for some black market mixla tortillas up in Virginia. (Recently relocated from Houston)
If it helps, you just have to refresh the (very small number of) pixels under pressure, and only at such a high right for a brief moment while they are being pressed.

I wonder if you could have a separate layer which physically (chemically) responded to the pressure to make it look like the screen was drawing your line, but which only lasted for about 50ms after the pressure is removed.

This chemical layer would be visible for just enough time for the real eInk pixels to actually refresh underneath the "pressure mask".
It seems not, unless the server code is hiding somewhere publically.

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000266143...

> Wi-Fi connection and log-in is required

> You need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and logged in to a reMarkable account (my.remarkable.com) in order to use the handwriting conversion feature.
Syndicate is an Actor-based programming language built on Racket
I've been meaning to check these out for a while as I'm totally useless (although, in security terms my chaos probably means I'm securer... just not conveniently-so) with password organisation.

I more mean all the second tier shit I could barely care less about, but have to manage across multiple machines.

I also remembered that if I subscribe to ArsTechnica, they give you a 'free' key for your $50 subscription. Not bad when the keys cost $45!

Anyway, thanks for the prod!

(I'm not in any way affiliated with Ars or CondéNast - I don't benefit from mentioning their offer here - I'm just a reader and your prompt made everything fall into place!)
Hydro has some great characteristics that contribute to carbon-free generation. MISO, which covers a huge portion of the US upper Midwest starts most of its morning ramp-up on hydro.

Aside from its environmental concerns, it will be of limited use in decarbonizing the economy because pretty much all of the useful locations have already been developed.
Whatever works for you, just don't generalize it.
That's not too hard to work around. Simply wait until there's a legitimate request from the user and piggy back off that instead
Current nuclear is so expensive and has so many drawbacks that new nuclear plants can't compete with solar / wind and storage combination.

However, that's not an innate property of nuclear, and there are relatively unproven designs that may be sufficiently cost effective and safe to be a desirable part of the mix.

I think the free market will solve this problem better than is speculating about it on HN. If its cost effective, it will happen, if it's not, it won't.
Thanks for weighing in, I really appreciate the comments people are leaving. One thing I've struggled for clarity on: in examples like that one, is "agree" meant to apply at the instant either observes their event (ie. some omnipresent referee not subject to relatavistic limitations) or later on when they get together to compare notes?
I've been using Muse for a while and it's a lovely, beautifully designed product. Feels like the rare tool that really gets the most out of my iPad Pro hardware. I use it for most of my deep brainstorming sessions.

I'm a PhD student so I have a limited budget, but I don't mind the $100/year price point. It's become a key tool in my research workflow so it's totally worth it. I find it a bit odd that people think Netflix is worth more money than a tool that might transform your creative output.
This image from the order page implies 'yes': https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0e4kwcjv/production/6b0df7dbf80...

Although $12 ($17 inc shipping to US) for 8 tips doesn't seem too expensive to me.
I do like and use multi-touch gestures a lot, though I think 'hot corners' and additional mouse buttons could probably fill the same roll for me. My intellimouse (P/N X08-70385) has five buttons and in the past I've mapped those two extras to forward/backward browser commands and it worked pretty well. If you can get your hands on an intellimouse, I highly recommend it; mine is somewhere around 15-20 years old with yellowed plastic but it's still going strong. Best product ever sold by Microsoft imho.
I'll also add that one thing I like doing is highlighting and adding notes in different colors on top of docs, which a black and white e-ink display doesn't allow for, but the ipad does.
Microsoft Flight Simulator players are chasing Hurricane Laura
We did something surprisingly similar once as stupid kids/teens and it was in the days before CVV. Just touch tone to enter a card number (although we did this little experiment from a payphone using a 1-800 (toll free) sex line). Typically, you entered a card number after some initial "pitch".

AFAIK, 1-900 numbers only worked by billing you on your phone bill.
The format doesn’t support the Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon’s flagship ereader...
> - no USB disk mode to download your notes

The website is very unclear about the I/O options of the device, which I don't get at all, that's clearly one of the most important things about it; I'm not writing stuff down for the bin after all.

How do I get stuff off it? Is OCR done on the device? What formats does it support? etc. etc.

It says it has USB-C "for file transfers", but then also "Sync notes and documents via Wi-Fi only", wayyyy down below it says "PDF and ePUB", but obviously when I'm taking notes I'm not generally interested in a PDF, because that works with _zero_ of my workflows.

Their opener is strong; it's an obviously interesting product. Yet everything else is unspecific fluff that wastes my time and only irks me by being vague or silent about core functional aspects of the product.
You can buy a $1000 laptop and still run into issues where your computer won't connect to a projector or a major application refuses to support your platform.
New reactors were considered for Ontario, but the plans were withdrawn because it didn’t make economic sense.

It would have been great if we had built enough nuclear plants in the 20th century, but at this point it’s pretty clear that most countries would better off going straight to cheaper renewables.

http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nucle...
Ask HN: Can someone do a write up on how to properly use a VPN
Can someone, like ryan lackey, please do a write up on how to secure yourself across all devices and social media?
I'd love to see an eInk display on the exterior of a clamshell like the Razr or Samsung Z-Flip/Fold. It'd be perfect for always-on notifications.
Can’t click on the pre-order link on mobile Safari (iOS 13.6.1), no bueno. Trying hold the button down gives me the text options pop up (instead of the link preview) which makes me think there’s an element over it
But that is by far the most common modern usage of the term. I would almost say the neutral usage is deprecated.
That's Arkady Pussy-slut, thank you very much
Google is a trillion dollar company that employs some of the best software developers on earth. I have zero sympathy.

Sort your shit out or prepare to have hostile regulators take a bat to your business model.
Las Vegas, a town where the majority people are employed in the hospitality/leisure industry (casinos, restaurants, convention prep, etc.)

SF where a huge amount of the residents have left the city since a majority of the white collar employees are WFH for the foreseeable future.

Not sure how you can take these places and extrapolate for the economic health of the entire country...
Theory of Computing
the thing with wind and solar is that you can build it fast. If you have a boom and you misplanned your energy requirements, or your governments wants to do green projects before the end of his term, solar and wind is the way to go.
That's not on par with linear or affine types.
There is a domestic political side to this. The president has stated that he wants TikTok sold. Even if these companies never buy anything, the fact that they are participating in the negotiation, or at least making public statements in support of an eventual sale, wins them favor with the president.
Running a Hackathon During a Pandemic
> It's oppressive enough of minorities just in the relatively peaceful areas I've visited.

What first-hand things (that you saw for yourself) can you use to corroborate this?
Maybe part of this is a branding and messaging problem.

I think of FEMA as a response-oriented agency: They aren't there to prevent disasters from occurring, they're intended to pick up the pieces afterwards.

If you approach it with that perspective, then you'd surely expect them to be devoted predominantly to hurricanes and similar natural disasters, as they can be anticipated and planned for.

If their true role is to be proactive about some specific disaster functions, maybe this needs to be better communicated to the public. Otherwise you end up with the poor guy who gets a job with the Secret Service and his family is "OMG do you jump in front of a bullet for the President" when he's going to spend his career squinting at bogus $5 notes.
I tried very hard to bring go into my previous employers environment, but it was all for naught. They are too bought into the JavaScript stack. Case studies like this would have been super helpful in trying to make my claims.
Eyestrain also stems from trying to use an LCD outside.
There is a link to Google+ there... ;-)