skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. The RM1 and 2 both don't allow file transfers as a mass storage device.

In the FAQ at https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2:

> reMarkable 2 features USB-C for faster charging and data transfer.

Even if this does not mean that mass storage is or will be supported officially, maybe unofficial support could be added using the Linux Kernel's USB Gadget API g_mass_storage as a module. More info:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/mass-storage.rst
https://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_use_mass_storage_gadget
https://github.com/reMarkable/linux
https://remarkable.engineering/ -- toolchain here

> 3. While the hardware is amazing the software moves at a snail's pace. This is either management holding development back by trying to simplify the device out of existence or the team simply lacks the resources or ability to improve it

To be fair it looks like a pretty small team (7 people listed with 2-3 actively developing) so I doubt it is management. More likely not a priority right now, limited resources, or in the too hard basket.

There is this repo in their Github org:
https://github.com/reMarkable/vfatbuse

Looks like the CTO had a crack at implementing mass storage in v1
Does anyone have one of these in their hands yet? I'd love to see a good video on it before pulling the trigger.
i think u should consult a doctor not news.ycombinator
Remarkable 2 Hands on Review
That's a fair complaint, but I find that during development, I use `tsc --watch`, which makes incremental compilation very fast.

Of course, that doesn't affect the slow production build time, but I care a lot less about that (since it usually happens off in CI land somewhere and I'm not sitting waiting for it to happen.

So ultimately, this is a non-issue for me.
It is pretty clear that Apple is supposed to take money for functionality provided by an app. If you get benefit outside of it (like with Uber, physically transporing you), you may have your own processing service. It is also clear that if you can enable some functionality from outside the app, you can't link to non-Apple payment services from within the app nor you can't mention enhancements. If users somehow discover them on your website, it seems to be ok.

However, with some types of apps the lines are more vague. Say, we have an email client, which works over IMAP, and can work with any email account. And suppose we provide free accounts and 1 GB of space for free, and 10 GB for $1. Naturally, when user gets to 80% of his quota, we'll send him an email, which will be displayed within an app and will link to our website suggesting do a non-Apple payment.

Common sense says that this should be allowed, but I'd bet that apple moderators won't allow it.
Of course, I can't believe I left that out!
> There's a reason ISPs want to charge extra/differently for high bandwidth streaming video: It's the vast majority of what's loading up their networks.

Why not just charge by the byte and be done with it?
Yes I am aware. It can be confusing if you are new. I had someone ask me why it was different the other day.
The funny thing is that switching to non-Apple payment is hard (I get that that's Apple) and the support staff of Netflix was really helpful in making me switch.
That’s good enough for basics then, and nothing for Google to worry about.

Or a great way to make it so no one competes with their partner google — by offering a totally free (and ad-free) search that’s good enough for many use cases but not great.
I don’t think apps not signed by Apple themselves can mark read/write memory pages as read/execute - that’s needed for any modern JIT-based JavaScript engine to work.
We call this Bitcoin.
>Hydroxychloroquine alone was not associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients but the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin significantly increased mortality.

So many studies showing what we already knew. It really worries me how much science seems to be dictated by fashion these days...
The UK has very little hydroelectric power and the undeveloped hydro resources are in remote areas of outstanding natural beauty (which is a shame because it's by far the best option for base load renewables).

The UKs current installed pumped hydro resources amount to some 28GWh. Clearly we need a multiple of that if that is currently required to balance a grid consisting of largely dispatchable power. Given that, I don't think my estimate of needing several hours worth storage is too far out.

That was the first statistic I found. Even if we say current production is 200GWh of lithium battery storage, that isn't going to go very far if the rest of the world also need to create similar storage infrastructure.
In that case you’re purchasing something that enhances the prime video app. Just because you split the app into two parts - a viewing app and a purchasing app - doesn’t mean the criteria shouldn’t apply.
HTTP Headers Verifier
At 99 titles so far.

I can’t complain, cost per hour of entertainment is great.
More or less, yes, after 9/11.
Microsoft working with Walmart on TikTok deal
Eighty-five megapixel photo of the Moon made by blending 24000 frames
[Disclaimer: I work on Google Assistant. I just started though; I'm much more of a user than an engineer at this point.]

I use it a lot for media stuff. "Play <song> by <band>", "Watch <TV show> on Netflix", etc. My wife is very fond of the combined alarm + YouTube functionality: "Wake me up at 7:00 AM with deep meditation music". My toddler has learned to say "Hey Google watch videos of dump trucks". I use it a bunch for basic productivity stuff too: "What's my agenda for today?" "What's my agenda for tomorrow?" "Check my e-mail".
Or, you can look at this post on Daring Fireball about how "premium streaming" apps are allowed to bypass this IAP restriction: https://daringfireball.net/2020/04/amazon_apple_prime_video

Quote:

"Apple has an established program for premium subscription video entertainment providers to offer a variety of customer benefits — including integration with the Apple TV app, AirPlay 2 support, tvOS apps, universal search, Siri support and, where applicable, single or zero sign-on. On qualifying premium video entertainment apps such as Prime Video, Altice One and Canal+, customers have the option to buy or rent movies and TV shows using the payment method tied to their existing video subscription."
Unless they also build an ad network to go with the search engine this will be a money sink and nobody good will want to work on it. Internal incentives will line up such that it will be guaranteed to languish.
> What about making the object borrow from the closure?

That doesn't actually guarantee that the closure will outlive the object. You would need linear types in order to do that, and Rust does not have linear types.

In the particular API I'm working with, you pass the closure in to an object when you create it, and you have to make sure that the closure outlives the object. The only way to do that within the Rust type system is by making the closure 'static, which is... less than ideal. So you use unsafe{} instead.

This is because any object may outlive its specified lifetime. Lifetimes are only lower bounds. So if I have lifetimes 'b and 'a, and 'b : 'a, this only means that the LIFETIME 'b must be at least as long as the LIFETIME 'a, but any particular object with lifetime 'b may live arbitrarily long, as long as it lasts at least as long as 'b. And any object which is 'a may last arbitrarily long, but at least as long as 'a.
...and I can concur on the performance. It's hilariously fast.
Duck uses Bing's index, for the most part...they should just partner with Microsoft if they were wanting to do that.
The nations of the world can't cooperate on the pandemic, and they can't cooperate on climate change. As a species, we seem to suck at cooperation. There's some problems competition can't solve.
Just wanted to say I’ve got no issue with subscriptions as long as continual improvement is happening. Have you seen how agenda does their subscriptions? You pay yearly but the features they add while you’re subscribed stay unlocked even if you don’t renew but new features would be locked. I really like this model as it helps with not feeling like your money evaporates if the devs don’t keep improving the product.
Only if you're using someone else's definition of hard instead of your own.

If by 'energizing' you mean morale-boosting, yes. But hard work is generally taxing. You are paying for long-term happiness with short term pain. Having slain a dragon on Thursday, you are likely to be in high spirits on Tuesday. But for the rest of the day and possibly tomorrow, you're may be sitting here doing menial tasks or reading documentation.
I asked Siri to turn on my lights today. I was told that I did not have any lights set up. Then I rephrased my request to turn on the lights. "Coming right up".

Of course, there's also the regular "I'm sorry, but some of your devices did not respond" response from my Watch, forcing me to issue the same command to my iPhone for it to work.
I don't think wind is a panacea, but I think you're over-simplifying things - you can't just buy more nuclear power plants either; at least in the Western world, cost overruns in multiples of the original price are inevitable, the total time from planning to operational is decades, and it's difficult to find places where their presence is accepted.
That's not the extent of our arsenal.
Meta-answer: my default when picking up a new language is usually to learn just enough to be able to start writing code, and then learn new things piecemeal as necessary to solve whatever thing I'm working on, and it sounds like you're hoping to do something like that here.

I found that approach for Rust in particular to not work well at all, and have colleagues who've reported the same. There are some fairly complicated, fundamental concepts that are unique to Rust that I think need to be tackled before you can really do much of anything (mostly borrowing and lifetimes), and that's not immediately obvious from starter programs -- because of lifetime elision, some early programs can look deceptively familiar, but there's a bunch of barely-hidden complexity there, and as soon as you start to stray from the tutorial path, you'll run headfirst into a wall of compiler errors that you're not yet equipped to understand. For Rust I'd highly recommend just reading a book cover to cover first (either TRPL or the O'Reilly one), and then starting to write code.
There's a reason none of the game streaming services are currently on iOS: https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/25/app-store-game-streaming-rule... & https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/5/21356274/microsoft-xcloud-...

The policy as is exists to allow Apple Arcade to fit the rules, and basically nobody else.
Yep, that's exactly what I meant - and peripherals too. I'm sure a big reason Apple products don't have problems video calling or connecting to projectors is high-end hardware, and I don't think the difference between MacOS and Ubuntu on comparable hardware is anywhere near as striking as their reputations would have you believe.
Trying to compete with the most highly valued company in history and with the company that owns one of the most ubiquitous aspects of people's lives (Google the search engine), what could go wrong?
Use Third-Party Sign-On (OAuth) for Your Web App
This is about the Sea Shadow, right? Lockheed later got a contract for the Freedom class of litoral combat ships, with 10 of the planned 16 currently active and five more fitting out or under construction. Those are being built by a shipbuilding firm, not Lockheed directly.
Oh god I hope not. I use DDG as my full time search engine. I don't need Apple coming in, limiting it to their walled garden and ruining it.

You might be onto something though since DDG and Apple signed a deal on the default maps for DDG.
In international politics nobody cares too much as long as you are only killing your own people. No country wants to go to war to save some other country's citizens. Hitler could have finished the Holocaust with little more than an international slap on the wrist if he hadn't also invaded France and Russia.
You are wrong, IEEE 802.3bt type 4 is good for 100W.
Apple doesn't allow Game Streaming apps on their platform for some odd reason so things like GeForce Now, xCloud, Stadia, are all barred because...no real reason that's not hypocritical.
That's odd. I use Siri with CarPlay in my car and a very low-quality mic from an aftermarket headunit, and it's able to capture probably 80%, if not more, of my voice-to-texts when I'm trying to text people hands-free.

The only real issue Siri has there more often is when I ask it a more complicated query for playing music a certain non-trivial way, like "Play music by X from their latest album" or similar.
Is your chart a detective story or a police report?
That’s purchasing a service (advertisement on other people’a computers and phones) not a digital good / enhancement for your own use.
Users can download a "reader app" (arbitrary definition), but users can't find out how to sign up for them?

This UX is bad for customers.
Our jobs revolve around convincing machines to do the long work for us.

I don't think I'll ever understand why so many of us are perfectly content doing the same long work over and over again. Do you know what computers are for?
I'm confused by one thing, are the guys in the [2] video publishers in the Floatplane app or the creators of the app itself?
1st one: Kobo Mini. Was inside a case and between two books in my rucksack and broke just carrying it home from work

2nd one: Another Kobo Mini. Broke inside the thigh pocket of my combat trousers. It was also in a case and had the screen facing inwards, towards my leg, specifically to avoid the risk of me bumping it against something.

3rd one: Kobo Aura. I had high hopes of this one as, unlike the previous two, where the screen seemingly had no form of overlaid protection, this one's outer screen was actually made of hard plastic. However, after a drop of a mere two or three feet onto carpet, the e-Ink screen in that somehow managed to break inside, leaving the hard plastic outer unmarked.

Maybe I've just had really bad luck [or maybe I should try a different brand than Kobo next time!] but e-Ink screens just seem ridiculously fragile to me. I was especially annoyed with the last one [the Kobo Aura] where the vibration of it hitting the carpetted floor was enough to break the screen, even behind a layer of hard plastic.

Even if I could afford it, there's no way I would risk £300 or £400 on an e-Ink device. Not until the technology toughens up a hell of a lot.
It's still useless if the data is garbage, which it really is. I had DXA scans done every half year for the last few years, and I've owned a few smart scales in that time (first Fitbit, then Garmin). DXA has shown me consistently dropping bf% (17.8%, 15.0%, 13.1%, 11.2%) while the scales (taking monthly averages) are all over the place (10.1%, 11.1%, 11.6%, 10.0% for the same months the scans were taken in). Impedance can show you a ballpark (and we're talking a wide, 10%ish ballpark) of where you are, but honestly you're probably better off just looking in the mirror and comparing to images online.

I only mentioned calipers because they'd at least show you trends, which is where impedance seems to fail. Impedance is simply a poor way to measure bf%. Hydration might be a different story though.

I'd recommend you do yourself a favor and just spend the $100 annually to see where you're at.
Hello! I'm one of the editors of Distill. I'm certainly open to the possibility that we could have helped the authors differentiate their contribution more.

It seems like it's important to you to call Distill out on what you see as an institutional failure. I think you could actually do that more effectively and credibly if you wrote your comment differently.

Putting myself in the author's shoes, it feels pretty hard to engage with your comment. When you swear, it gives the sense you don't wish for people to engage with you. When you say "who the fuck reviewed this paper, a 25 year old fresh professor", it feels like you're implying that people who are young are intrinsically not knowledgable. When you don't leave open space for more charitable interpretations, it makes productive conversation a lot harder.

I appreciate your dedication to improving scientific discourse. I'd love to see if we can turn this into a productive conversation.
Lounge is very conservative in screen space usage. You have your channels, content and users.
But they’re specifically talking about a server component here. Using Electron on the client doesn’t magically make their need for a high performance backend disappear. They’re still having to make all those clients work and deliver voice chat to millions of simultaneous users.
These people are economic migrants, not refugees. They are all men, for starters, and they have paid people smugglers thousands of dollars in attempts to get into Europe.

When inside Europe, they will absorb all the Government welfare they can, and work menial cash jobs that could be done by working-class Europeans or robots. The proceeds of this will be sent back to their home village to pay off the loans that enabled them to get there.

Along the way they will create a huge amount of social conflict and crime, which wealthy Europeans like Banksy live separated from.

If Banksy truly wishes to reduce human suffering in MENA, he should donate money to the provision of education and family planning to women in that region, in order to reduce overpopulation which is the fundamental driver of these migration outflows.
Would this be a news story if autopilot were not engaged and he was simply texting? People drive while distracted all of the time.
Battery EVs are being deployed by the millions per year and pretty soon tens of millions. If you assume an average capacity of 50kwh, 1 million cars is about the equivalent of 0.5 TWH of battery capacity. In comparison, fossil fuel (coal, gas, oil) based electical capacity world wide was around 4 TW in 2017. So, 8M cars could supply that for 1 hour, world wide. https://www.statista.com/statistics/267358/world-installed-p....

So, hydrogen might help but by the time it comes online, most countries will already have plenty of EVs on the road and plugged into the grid with more TWH of battery then they'll ever need to absorb fluctuations in supply & demand. And that's just cars that most countries currently haven't even started to take into account to use for this.

Also a lot of domestic rooftop solar are usually excluded from energy statistics. Apparently, in the Netherlands about 1 million households now have solar on the roof (on a population of 17 million). That's quite a lot of energy even though most setups are in the order of only a few KW. That's a couple of TWH/day of supply that is just being "overlooked". I bet the UK is not far behind on that front either. The cheaper that gets, the better it gets.
This kind of decentralized supply of energy and battery capacity can provide a lot of resilience.
Hi there! Diego from DFINITY here...

Good question. It is not public yet. We have started opening more in summer 2020 (this post is an example) as things start to line up. Some of the folks in the Languages do give talks Motoko and Wasm... and expect us to open up further.

I do not expect that answer will truly sate your curiosity, and I am very humbled you are even interested to read the code and go deep. That means a lot, thank you.
The T&C's are interesting [i]. I wonder why Canada and USA are even listed under "Governing Law and Jurisdiction" since they're not invited to the party?

Finally, I find it quite ironic that Huawei - who stole a great deal of tech from Canada's Nortel [ii] - will disqualify entrants if: You plagiarize the work of others.

[i] https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/devservice/hmsterm

[ii] https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-dow...
It's sadly ironic that a fireproofing material meant to save lives has killed so many (a great deal more than it plausibly ever saved.)
Maybe you’re weird but most people don’t buy ads to be shown specifically to themselves.
This makes me irrationally upset. First, because it exists. Second, because it blows my mind when people do things like this for fun & bubbles while I struggle to find simple bugs in my code.

bravo.
Appreciate the civil discussion, so let me just say that I suspect you never typed in the numbers and tried to quantify the danger of nuclear waste. Let's try a quick and rough estimate.

The energy density of uranium is roughly 80,620,000 MJ/kg [1]. Existing nuclear power plants have thermal efficiency between 30-40%, roughly speaking [2], so let's be pessimistic and choose 30%. That means actual usable energy density of uranium is 24,186,000 MJ/kg, or 6,718,333 kWh/kg.

The world produced 27,644,800 GWh = 27,644,800,000,000 kWh of electricy on 2019 [3]. If we used nuclear to generate all of this, we'd need 4,114,830 kg of uranium, or 4,115 ton per year. Let's round up to 5,000 ton.

Spent nuclear fuel contains about 0.8% plutonium 239 [4], so our 5,000 ton of uranium will generate about 40 ton of plutonium 239, with half-life 24,000 years and radioactivity of 2.3 GBq/g [5]. So our hypothetical nuclear waste will have radioactivity of 2.3 GBq/g * 40 t = 92 PBq. Which is a lot.

...or is it?

Potassium, naturally occurring and essential for life, is naturally radioactive (31 Bq/g), because it contains 0.012% K40 [6]. Seawater is about 0.04% potassium [7], which contributes to a natural radioactivity of 12.4 Bq/kg, or 12.4 kBq/t from potassium alone.

Actually, let's forget the earth. Let's spread the nuclear waste evenly on the Mediterranean - volume 3,750,000 km^3 [8] - who needs Italy anyway?

It contains 3,750,000,000,000,000 ton of seawater, or 46,500,000,000,000,000 kBq of natural radioactivity, which is 46,500 PBq. So our hypothetical dump of plutonium 239 will increase the Mediterranean sea's natural radiation level by about 92/46500 = 0.2% per year [9].

A far cry from extinction of all known life, I have to say.

* By the way, you may want to re-consider before saying stuff like "Pu239 has half-life of 24,000 years - it's not safe!" Coal, for example, contains tons of mercury, which is not radiactive (i.e., it has a half-life of infinity). After 24,000 years, there will be 50% of Pu239, but 100% of mercury left from coal ashes. Which is worse?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

[2] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-an...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239#In_nuclear_power...

[5] https://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Plutonium_Proper...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea

[9] Of course the actual effect will be higher because there will be other isotopes, shorter-lived and more radioactive. That's why I proposed keeping the waste in a fridge for 200 years first. I'm not a monster.
IMHO you should look for the therapy that works better and is more extensively tested. If is more or less invasive, shouldn't be the main factor of choice.

I assume that removing a clot in the aortic by ultrasounds could have consequences when the debris accumulate in another part of the blood stream. This technology should be used with great care (probably, I'm not an expert in aortic plumbing) and probably in combination with anticoagulants. Ask a professional about by-pass and valve replacement instead.

Just an opinion. This is not medical advice and your mileage may vary. Think that if something goes wrong you will want a real physician close and the blood resources that only an hospital can provide ready to use.