skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't an answer to that. We've already hit physical scaling limits for the old style (>40nm) of transistor manufacturing. Each successive generation since then has employed new tricks to improve performance, and each jump in performance is labeled with a smaller process node size number. This can keep going so long as there are more optimizations to be found. And since not all process optimizations involve shrinking dimensions, it's not necessarily the case that we can predict from physical principles when this will end.

For example, stacked chips are increasingly being used but are fundamentally limited by heat transport. Maybe when we get into sub-1nm "sizes" the process nodes will be defined by how well they transport heat out of volumetric chip designs? Or we'll switch to twisted graphene superconductors for certain components which increases efficiency without necessarily shrinking feature sizes. Etc.

I'm just throwing those possibilities out. The point is we can't predict when scaling will ultimately end.
China dominates rare earth metal production not because they have a monopoly on extraction technology or deposits, but because rare earth extraction is an extremely polluting process that developed countries no longer do. If China did restrict exports of rare earths, they're just providing an opportunity for mines like Mountain Pass in California to start production again.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637071/rare-earth-china...
Link to the report:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidd...
You can reduce the delay by setting ttimeoutlen, the time in milliseconds between an escape key being pressed (or jk etc. that are mapped to Esc) and exiting Insert mode. I have it set to 100.
This gets reinvented as a system matures, I think.

IBM mainframes had TCP offload in the early 90's at least. (The NIC in that case was a PC running PS/2 plus some routing software. Worked great.)
> The device is open. It's just an embedded linux device.

That's all I needed to hear. Preordered.
how is this different than any other tablet? just because the edges look like a notebook?
I've been interested in eink displays and eink readers for a long time. Kindle owner since version 1. But...

Is the ReMarkable really worth $500 ($400 + the $100 pencil which seems like a requirement)? For that amount you're getting a low end iPad which has greatly wider use cases. I understand that for the "paper on pencil" feel an iPad is no where near... but then again you can also just write using real paper and pencil.

Clearly I'm not the target demo, so what are the real target markets?
the thing doesn't even support Adobe DRM Epub... what a waste of opportunity!
How viable would that be in terms of maintenance? I presume it'd have to have a lot of failsafes or personnel that's assigned to some of the distant or at-risk grid sections, to keep things running smoothly and do repairs fast if something gets damaged.
I'd guess that this is a much better experience for left handers than right.
and they surely weren't the first to do that either, I assume now.
Yeah, I want to see the cart now also! It is like clickbait without the reward at the end :(
i spend many hours every day in an IRC channel with the "200 people, 2-4 conversations at one time" characteristics. i don't want huge blank pixel spaces between lines, because that just means i'm going t need to scroll more often to get context. i don't want to zoom the text, because then i can't read it as easily.
For meetings I use a Neo smartpen, which syncs back to Evernote. It's a regular pen and paper experience, so nobody is offended.
The only example that I know of is Norway which is kind of the holy grail of hydro, in general:

1. Small population.

2. Pretty tall mountains and sparsely populated mountains (see 1.)

3. Quite high yearly rainfall levels.

4. Very rich country.

5. Country with a very low level of corruption and from what I know, pretty efficient at building new infrastructure.

Is there an example of an "average" country having decent levels of pumped hydro storage at a level that's above 0.5% of the country's needs?
Doesn't mean, I wouldn't use it for its advertised purposes too. But I really would like an eInk display as an add-on to my computer - unfortunately, the Kindle is not so open.

Would also be great as an extra screen for e.g. man pages while you are working on your main screen.
Same here. Looks like great hardware and I even had a pre-order, but I canceled it in part over concern there wouldn't be much of a third party application ecosystem and I'd mainly be restricted to notetaking and viewing/annotating PDF's. I recognize for lots of people note-taking alone is enough to justify it; I just realized I'd personally get more utility out of an iPad or similar.

If I'd seen the "open-source" pitch it might have enticed me to stay onboard.
If your goal is to store 100% of all power produced for an entire year for use a later date, then yeah... you would need 50,000+ of those.

If your goal is something not ridiculous, for example, storing storing the difference of production-consumption when production>consumption for use later when consumption>production, you would likely need very significantly less than 50,000+ of those.
Ask HN: Why is the ratio of upvotes/downvotes on social media so consistent?
I watch a lot of YouTube videos in any given week. I've consistently seen that any video with a moderate/meaningful amount of views tend to follow a typical trend. The ratio of upvotes to downvotes seem to always follow a 10-1 pattern. I've seen this for videos with 3 million upvotes (300k downvotes) and vidoes with 1k votes. Any idea how this pattern appears so consistently.

Additional note: My company has a similar voting function that we use for important topics and I've seen the same pattern shape out consistently.

Why would this be so consistent?
Serious question: how is this any different from airplanes and birds "photobombing" astronomy images?

Ground-based telescopes deal with objects in the sky all the time.

What makes a higher number of satellites any more problematic than those?

The sky is a noisy place. And we've had satellites up for decades. How are "megaconstellations" any different?
> Even if you want to point at lockdowns as the cause, it is an empirical fact that the decrease in public foot traffic happened prior to any lockdown and continues for a large % of the population. The pandemic didn't disappear and people getting sick will continue to drag on the economy until it's manageable.

Look at how people are behaving in states that re-opened. Given the clear evidence of human behavior it is ridiculous to assert that a recession caused by the pandemic alone would have been as bad as the recession caused by government-enforced lockdowns. People are not acting like they are afraid. Maybe they are being stupid but that's not the point -- the point is that consumers are acting like there is no virus, and it was the government lockdown, not consumer behavior, that really hurt businesses. People were living normal lives until the day the lockdowns started, and they resumed living the same way the day the lockdowns ended, despite the clear risks to their health.
Isn't the mess that is JWST caused not only by cost plus contracts but also having to put the whole thing on top of an Ariane 5 ?

Putting it into a 9 meter diameter Starship, possibly in multiple pieces that would be assembled and periodically serviced by crew flights would make it all much easier, cheaper and more performant.
Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
lol, the pinnacle of feature discoverability...
Does it matter if it was 100k or 1M??
They do? My 7 year old kindle still seems to work just fine
That's a really good question—I would love such a resource.

There are some design discussions on the emacs mailing list about the tradeoff between accessibility and power tool that might be relevant: https://lwn.net/Articles/819452/

It's a whole new ballgame in the mobile era though. People have been trained to dismiss an app if they can't figure it out in 10 seconds of use.

Mark and I talked about that on this podcast about our love of manuals, so maybe that's a start: https://museapp.com/podcast/3-read-the-fabulous-manual
Yeah this is something I think a lot of people in this thread are missing: OnlyFans is probably big enough that they can negotiate their contract with Stripe.
If curious see also

a thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10850084
Sorry I though my sarcasm was obvious there. I was more commenting about how predictable and consistent it is that any time Apple does anything that’s pro-privacy/security/consumer, the top comment in the HN thread is without fail ‘yeah but Apple doesn’t actually care about any of that, this is just part of a conspiracy to promote their business interests’.

Aside from how remarkably consistent HN is at reproducing this, the funniest part to me is the sheer volume of things it has been said about (and then voted to the top of HN threads).
The original RM (and all signs point towards the RM2 being the same) had direct root ssh access via a virtual network device on the USB port. This could be used to SCP backup the notebooks, add custom executables, etc.
I understand why they don't list it in their marketing materials - it isn't intended as a polished experience and is more of a "hacker" option. The CTO of Remarkable is a KDE dev though, so there are a lot of subtle niceties you wouldn't expect like a full toolchain and bootloader available on their github.
Interesting to compare it to this list for some perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...
If you've had multiple transactions with the same buyer with no chargebacks, you can probably put that buyer in a low risk pool.
Disturbing, but hardly surprising.
It’s so strange to me to read these kind of comments, and to even see this article.

I detest scroll bars. When I work on my windows machine I cannot stand seeing them plastered all over the screen.

It’s actually quite fascinating to read all these comments - it’s so weird to see people complaining about how they don’t know when a scroll is available. Just scroll and see!

No negative feelings toward people who prefer them - it’s actually quite interesting to see the comments, I assumed everyone agreed they were better hidden until today! (Which, as a Mac user, is obviously part of the problem being expressed!)
This is exactly what I've been thinking.

Right now you need enthusiasts and a project that can either accept or handle the risks brought on by the immature ecosystem.

Later on, Rust will most definitely be a huge thing. It's just not the right choice for everything - even if the community has a habit of pumping out "X - but with Rust" projects.
FYI, it's possible to edit comments to add further thoughts. :)
Monitor buttons are particularly awesome. Often you can't even see what you're pressing because it's behind the bezel or just an unmarked capsense location, and then whether it's up, down, increase, decrease, forward, back, reset, etc. is all different for each page of settings.

Bonus points: turn the monitor to portrait mode and do it sideways.
Hard work takes over and replaces long work when innovation, new skills and modalities are center stage and repetitive tasks take a back seat. I'd consider any form of automation hard work.
Compared to American cities? This actively fights the American propensity to always build out instead of up.
Some say that the best antidote to a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun. I guess that thinking could apply to cars too?
Ugh, slavs were quite racist against Jews in particular. Animosity against gypsies is clesr too, but treatment of Jews stands out in general. And currently, general opinions of many people in region are pretty racist ... it just does not come up until yoi discuss race.

Also, I would really like to kmow where slavic you are that there ia no sexism against women in tech or girls.

Amd i dont know slavic programmer ashamed of that, the job is pretty well paid.
Not just you. I tried hard to adapt to ebooks; spent the better part of a year trying to find an arrangement for reading on the train that worked as well as a paperback, and failed.

If I'm reading more than maybe 10 pages, or if it is material that I'm flipping back and forth in a lot, I print.
Does it run vim?
A Message to TikTok Parents Who Use My Face to Make Their Kids Cry
Definitely. It would need a lot of custom software though. I’d be happy with maps, podcasts, email, browser plus the usual dumb phone features but I think everyone has a different set of essentials and you just need brand new UX and UI to make things legible in 2 colors and the slow refresh rate.
Really nice to see high end hardware that is completely open.
I agree completely. It's so pragmatic. It's not sexy. It just does the damn job, and that's why I love it.
Yes - but my interest is in the UX responsiveness, the whole point of the bigger screen size is to fit them on without stuff like Briss (which I've used before); the issue is not screen fit, but performance when browsing back and forth - tech manuals are not linear reads like novels, for which kindles etc are ideal.
If you try to imagine the amount of real things Bezos can buy, and even more, the amazing mass of 200B$ in 10 dollars bills, you then realize his fortune is more a symbolic attribute than the transposition of productible stuffs in real economy. This absurd level of fortune shows us that we don't live in a pure rational world/economy, but rather that we still follow and believe in fictive or conventional representations of wealth. The question is : how long people will still believe in theses social conventions, because as a last resort our actual world stand on social beliefs.
Renewables are weird in that most of the cost is up front. So a developer goes into debt and then uses an agreed price to pay off that debt over the lifetime of the site. But the marginal cost of the power generated is very low. So effectively the public are paying the developers mortgage, but never get to own the asset they are funding.
This source is not very trustworthy. No one usually uses 24-hour format in a few places not noted here, such as Holland, a decent-sized European country that many people have heard of. But they are not shaded in this chart. So I wonder how many others are also not shaded.
Pandemics Upend Classic Measures of Inflation
Yep it still helps in his workflow. Although this was a bit of a joke.

I do hope there’s gonna be more of dev focused content on youtube. Right now it’s all about gaming or video rendering.
These dark patterns around location tracking was what finally made me give up on Android. I knew Google tracked location even when the location setting was turned off, so I had App & Web activity disabled.

As Google bricked more and more functionality to dis-incentivize disabling that setting, they dis-incentivized me right off the Android platform and off of the rest of their services.

They did me a favor, really. I was far too naive about them prior to that wake-up call.
Look into phytoremediation. It's already being used.
Some of those that work forces...
I can confirm that the Withings Body+ scale body fat measurement is also total garbage. For me it reads several percent lower than a DXA scan, basically just a vanity number for people who want to believe they aren't fat. The readings also fluctuate a lot based on how well hydrated I am.
[Edit to Add: I found it joined 2019, left recently. Leaving comment here. Will delete once posted. Link announcing here departure: https://blog.okfn.org/2020/07/09/catherine-stihler-to-leave-... ]

Ok, who can help me out here. A Ms Catherine Stihler is listed as CEO of Open Knowledge Foundation [1] [2] but I can't find any mention of her on the OKFN 'Peoples Page' and using their UK registered company number of 05133759 Companies House can't spot any mention of the name [3] nor date of appointment to role of CEO. If someone could find out when they joined, would be interested to see where I missed it in the Companies House filings.

To be clear: I Was/Am curious about the post and the org behind it so I 'Ducked' as the name Catherine Stihler showed up in links 1 & 2.

[1] https://www.nps.edu/web/nsa/-/ceo-of-open-knowledge-foundati...

[2] https://blog.okfn.org/2020/03/13/open-knowledge-ai-and-algor...

[3] https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05133759
Some of those among forces?...
It also doubles as the name of a popular Eurobeat group ;)
Wind peaks at night, and is cheaper.
I wonder how well it would do as a replacement for the abandoned Kindle DX?
As mentioned the dpi reasons you described are somewhat unrelated. But there is one factor, the move from 4:3 to 16:9 ratio monitors, which is less efficient in terms of usable area.

Given that most scrollbars are vertical however, it isn't a big deal. I've gotten more vertical space from putting my taskbar on the left (when 16:9 became ubiquitous) than anything other change.
That's correct, but it's a far cry from the claim most economists were "unwilling to entertain the idea that the housing market could collapse."

Also 2008 surprised almost everyone, so saying economists couldn't predict it is not much of a slander. Neither could banks, governments, hedge funds, or multiple other groups whose business it was to watch out for events like that.
...and now I, too, have reason to consider ordering one. Looking like it was dependent on the cloud was what turned me off before.
Do you have any data that says it did not?

In general, it's important to figure out this question because

A) People who believe there should be a higher minimum wage tend to believe it has zero impact on businesses' likelihood of cutting jobs

WHEREAS

B) People who believe there should be a free market tend to believe that having a minimum wage reduces jobs

I've never seen either party show Good Data and Stats to prove their point

*

So if you're asking him for data (a good question), you should also be willing to show data
Ive posted this before but it’s been a while, I like to add it to the conversation when talking about energy storage. https://energyvault.com/
(The following is not satire or a joke)

In the US there has been significant opposition to things like pedestrian bridges, bike paths, parks, and the like for the last decade or so, from people who think those things are part of a plot to take away our rights and freedoms.

How? By making cities more pedestrian and bike friendly, and more pleasant places in general for people to live, it will encourage more and more of the population to concentrate in cities. It will then be easier for the globalists backed by UN troops to confiscate our guns, and then take over the country.

A lot of this ties back to "Agenda 21". That was a document produced in 1992 by the United Nations Conference on Environment & Development, signed by George H.W. Bush and the leaders of 177 other countries. It's a nonbinding statement of intent to improve and promote sustainability.

The John Birch Society decided that it was actually a plan to form a socialist one-world government, a "New World Order", that would usher in a "new Dark Ages of pain and misery yet unknown to mankind", and make the US a vassal of the UN, result in the forced relocation of rural populations to cities, and so on.

And it is not just fringe groups like the John Birch Society. According to Senator Ted Cruz, "Agenda 21 attempts to abolish “unsustainable” environments, including golf courses, grazing pastures, and paved roads. It hopes to leave mother earth’s surface unscratched by mankind. . . . Agenda 21 subverts liberty, our property rights, and our sovereignty".

Here's a good article about it [1].

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/20140331/agenda-21-un-sustainabili...
Sure, but the whole point of using ereaders compared to tablets (like iPad) is the screen which tablets can't compare with for pure reading.

But eReaders don't traditionally have remotely comparable UX performance so are only suitable for linear reads like novels.

My question is whether Remarkable have solved that. It's far more important to me and similar potential users than the writing/whatever stuff they are selling on the webpage linked.
> But if you have generics and procedural macros, it turns out that you can do the work of both with a feature that's simpler than either.

Here I think we just have a different subjective perception of what simplicity is. I much prefer have two orthogonal systems which do their own business than having a single more powerful tool than do both (like having slices + references instead of the all powerful pointer)

Anecdotal note: more than 10 years ago, the Go team pitched why they didn't need generics nor macros, because code generation would solve both problems (+ others), and now they're on their way back to add generics to Go (with a lot of hassle).
s/among/who work/
Thank you for clarifying the point.

I agree. The externalities should be accounted for. Petroleum should be taxed and not subsidized.
So 5.7 cents per kWh for offshore wind by 2025. Compare that to the Hinkley Point C nuclear project which will be 11.3 cents per kilowatt-hour (indexed against inflation). I'd prefer the former and use the savings to build out international HVDC connections to deal with intermittancy.
In a perfect world, surplus energy production gets consumed by optional workloads. If you run a big enough internet presence you have at least a few services that can engage in load shedding, or deferring tasks (eg, work queues with priorities). Maybe luxury goods go into this category as well.

Manufacturing and Cloud Providers both have to contend with the fact that idle equipment may cost them more than expensive power. Battery storage is predominantly about peak shaving of load variability, elective loads could help with trough filling. That doesn't get us to renewable power, but it does help get us away from the worst of the fossil fuel power plants.
Abused? China is actively allowed to spread its all hearing and seeing app in the US while US social media companies are banned from operating in China.
a < $10 matte screen protector completely changes the experience on an iPad, it is a necessity if you have the Pencil
The CTO is a KDE developer and they use and contribue some KDE libraries (like the KArchirve). They have a github with some projects: https://github.com/reMarkable/ but sadly the software is not open.
>When things go sideways, members of the community need to be prepared. The justification for community preparedness goes up as the frequency of the concern goes up, such as with hurricanes.

That's a government: a community that pools resources, creates plans, and executes those plans to benefit the community members. I agree it would help for individuals to have emergency kits and some training. Why can't FEMA help with that?
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18406684

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12063689
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> are they considering moving to HTTP/3

I would call this technical small talk. Frankly quite useless as a way to judge candidates.
Nice explanation. One can see an example of the scalable CMOS design rules on slides 10 and 11 of this deck.

https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs250/fa09/lectures/lec01.pd...

(To the casual reader: Note how the dimensions all have no unit. There are measured in L as indicated by the parent.)
... are the same that burn crosses.
Thanks, that makes sense. It's <iframe>, not <script>. (They're embedding more than JS.)