skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just bought a Boox Nova 3 https://www.boox.com/nova3/ after having a Boox Note Air which arrived with a cracked screen. I LOVE my kindle, but wanted to be able to take notes as well, and I don't want the glare from an iPad screen.

Honestly, if somebody made an e-ink cover for an iPad that would turn off the main LCD screen, I'd have probably gone for that. I was considering making one myself, but I've got too many projects on the go already.

If I could take notes on a kindle (which I'm sure is coming soon), I'd do that in a second!
Surely every jacket, and not just the one?
Seems to invert RGB values without performing a hue rotation, that leads to colors also being changed, not just the brightness.
I'd like to see some of the stores become actual showrooms.

You go in, get to handle the actual product. Then, if you decide to buy, do it there via the stores affiliate link. If not, you pay the store $N on your way out.

That way the customer gets the price they want, and the store makes some money for letting them handle things.
It's a lot more than right place, right time, strong initial user base - myspace had these as well.

It was the understanding and (ab)use of that position to increase the user base, and to make it into a marketing machine like no other. Purchase of Onavo, that let him spy on users better and realize he needs to buy Instagram and Whatsapp, but not Skype, to maintain monopoly. Quite a few of other data deals, most considered shady by anyone aware of them (though afaik all legal).

Mark Zuckerberg was in the right place, at the right time, and extremely astute and intelligent (if ethically challenged, IMO) -- much like Bill Gates 40 years ago. There were possibly thousands of people in the right place and the right time in the 1980s, but only one Bill Gates and only one Steve Jobs. Similarly, there were thousands of people in the right place and the right time in 2004, but only one Mark Zuckerberg.

Also, I suspect in 50-100 years when things are declassified, we'll find that he also had help from 3 letter agencies in exchange for the data trove he was able to collect.
> What you're saying has nothing to do with the analogy GP was making which was that the private company had a monopoly on sidewalks in the town, but Twitter doesn't control all of the sidewalks in town, it controls about 10% of them.

They control 10% of the sidewalks in the country. That's way more than the company town ever did -- it's hundreds of towns worth of sidewalks.

And you as a speaker can't use the Facebook sidewalks instead of Twitter unless they had all the same people walking on them (e.g. were part of the same federated system), which they're not. If you want to reach your entire audience, you have to use both at once. Twitter can evict you from an audience bigger than Texas with no other way to reach them, and your argument is that a monopoly on Texas is only 10% of the country.
Using Go to wrap a Python script that is mostly just a wrapper for some macOS APIs.
Coincidentally, yesterday, I wrote a comment about looking to see if Parler would be a good alternative:

"I click on the top alternative, Parler, and the root page redirects to some advertising page about the site.

Whereas if I go to the root page of reddit, I get content.

I think that's a huge turn off for alot of people.

Show interesting content, and let the product speak for itself.

If you go to Hacker News, you see content, you don't see a page explaining why Hacker News is great.

I just closed the Parler website rather than figure out what hoops I have to jump through to see content and what it's like."
Literally every city imposes the 2%. Its defacto 8.25% statewide.
I’m surprised the article doesn’t even touch on the private equity angle. Guitar Center would appear to be another Toys-R-Us in the making, but this coverage doesn’t even hint at it.
I'm wondering if you've found it useful in practice to distinguish between total and possibly-diverging functions?

It seems like it's the sort of thing that's useful in something like Agda, where you use the existence of a function (without running it) to prove that its result exists. (The type is inhabited.) Or so I've read; I haven't used it.

But if you're going to run the program, you typically want to know if a function will return promptly, and a total function could still spin for a million years calculating something, in a way that's indistinguishable in practice from diverging.
Yeah, I've seen multiple instances of people claiming to have done this, but they always turn out to be scams. I believe a crow could he easily trained to move a bottle cap already on a table to the reward mechanism, but so far no one has ever shown birds coming with wild caught bottle caps to get more food.
What gets me about the Zero is that dev for it has some really annoying roadbumps where the right answer always seems to be "patch the image" rather than providing what seem like fairly obvious things you'd want on a Zero-form-factor device. Is there much work coming out of the foundation to improve the Zero ecosystem, or do you think we've had our lot?
I switched to hCaptcha on my home-grown blog comments. It was a drop-in replacement — they obviously have an incentive to make switching as easy as possible
Mind pointing me in the right direction? The ones I have are more like 10-20mA (maybe that's a side-effect of having USB on board? I'm not really an expert, I just want my battery powered stuff to last months instead of days)
In case it is not commonly known, Collaborative Fund is widely held to be the VC firm in question that was roasted in the now-viral note from Ryan Caldbeck of CircleUp.
I think you should look into the differences between "science", and "scientism".

The latter is what happens when scientifically illiterate people are spreading scientific news. Scientism is treating science as religion, as infallible, as the bringer of truth, while forgetting what science really is; the doubts, the uncertainties, the falsifiability, the hypotheses, the process.

I think this XKCD illustrates it nicely: https://xkcd.com/882/
MAP agreements are illegal in EU. They were specifically banned, and for good reason. Which is why calling Shimano's stance a "refusal" to deal with some problem gets you a negative response.

Still, feel you on the retail apocalypse, and how every other new internet darling can somehow skirt taxes or... and the problem is unfixable until right after it doesn't matter anymore. It took something like twenty years for Amazon to start paying US sales taxes most of the time, in many cities Uber's business model was price dumping etc.
Show HN: Tool for calculating unique stargazers on GitHub
I think something not mentioned here is competion.

It seems to me like over the last ~20 years the world has become increasingly more competitive.

So it seems likely that many people choose the path of optimization not out of want for wealth, but out of necessity to continue advancing somewhat.

In a highly competitive environment I doubt both players will ever choose to relax, unless they are already comfortable.
He took it over in 1999, so that's not much prior.

You're conflating SF Gov with SF culture.

Mayor London Breed didn't support Prop C, eh?
> a company that was out of users in 2012 managed to find a wellspring of nearly infinite and sustained growth

facebook's aggressive expansion into developing-nation markets is no accident:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-f...
Yes, you can make different arguments. The point I'm making is that it's ultimately upon them to decide what to believe in. They may or may not accept your alternative argument as convincing. Everyone ultimately chooses what they believe and trust in as evidence. There is no way around this, so you cannot force anyone to accept something. But yes, you can keep trying by presenting different arguments/evidence...
What daily rates do you see?
The hostPath provisioner has just RWO access mode, which means only single node. For RWX (read-write in multi-node), Goofys could be used via CSI though.
Whatever you think of Mark Zuckerberg, you can't accuse him of being stupid or lazy
A DNS based blocker like pi-hole, nextdns, etc, can't block YouTube ads. Or at least it's very hard to it without breaking something as YouTube often uses the same subdomain(s) to load ads and videos.
Macro hygiene is a solution to the problem of functions being in the same namespace as variables, together with standard, oft-needed library functions having short names that are easily chosen as variable names.
Maybe if it was the 51st state instead of a colony, the political will would magically appear?
If the workplace did not have its own issues I would agree. But, since, to take one example, sexism is a known problem in tech - and throughout corporate America and society, to be fair - in order to not have a sexist workplace, one would need to be proactive.

Broadly speaking. Point being, it's easy to not want "politics" in the workplace when the workplace works well for you. If you're someone whom the workplace doesn't work well for, like a person of color, a pregnant woman, new mother, or new father, for that matter, well, then it's a different story.

If you yourself believe that sexism/systemic racism aren't issues that show up (even inadvertently or despite the best intentions of individuals) in the workplace, well, then that's a different conversation entirely.

I think this is different from someone in a position of power promoting a particular candidate in the workplace. That is more complex and problematic. The 2020 election was obviously an extreme example, and, tbh, with things like global warming, I think we'll be seeing more politics like that in the workplace, not less.

Which, to me, means it's not an easy or one-size-fits all solution, but rather, a challenge which requires each of us to exercise care and our own judgement.

For example, personally, I would have liked to see Hacker News take even a small explicit step of endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement (such as putting 'Black lives matter' on the top of the homepage), seeing as how it's one of the major civil rights issues of our present moment. I can also understand their concerns around doing so, even though I disagree with them.

IMHO it's too easy for those of us doing well and making money to forget that the institutions we work for have a social impact and are a part of society.
This should open by stating the fact of death of Christian Brink, and the author's nominal relationship to him (cofounder). The piece refects on the author's sense of loss, as expressed through the experience of their relationship. I sympathize. But, editorially, the first thing we should know is that Christian Brink, his cofounder at Audm, died on day X.
Which part of the butt would poison them? They're not smoking it.
I've never met an LBS that could service a bicycle on the time estimate they quote. And most people don't realize that quality bikes are worth their price, vs. the Huffy at Walmart, but that's all they can afford.

So yeah, why manage one business destined to fail on its own when you can try to be a social hub? Look at Capital One with their "bank coffee shops". Look at how breweries have differentiated themselves. Bike shops are niche, like book shops are now, and will have to really offer a top-notch service and pricing experience to compete.
> even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too

Yes. In Fred Brooks Mythical Man-Month terms, the RPi is a software system product (with awful hardware), whereas OEM would-be competitors like this are just software (i.e. hobby projects). They might work for the authors most of the time, but they probably won't work for your use case without a large investment of time. Not even if you work in the same company.

Partial exception made for Armbian supported boards here. They are getting part of the way to RPi in terms of system quality on much more limited resources. (Of course both RPi and Armbian depend on the huge amount of work embodied in Debian.)

The software and documentation ecosystem is more important than the hardware, in the end.
That does not work with the Chrome PDF viewer for me. (Chrome 87, Mac)
Magpies are amazing. They are one of the very few that can recognize their own mirror images.

I will never forget how one morning, on my regular run, i saw a group of magpies on the ground, right beside the road. There were 4 magpies forming a line, they were looking at two other magpies just in front of them. One of the two magpies appeared to be dead - was laying flat on the ground, while the other one was on top of it, sort of like in a triumphant fashion. Victor and defeated. The victorious magpie was the only one "talking", appearing to be giving a speech, while the rest were listening. What it was proclaiming, it's anyone's guess. Never seen anything more glorious with my own eyes.
Every single time I get an ad in YouTube (this is on Apple TV) I just hit menu and open the video again. They never serve me ads on the followup request.

Perhaps as a result, I get very few ads when I use YouTube. Maybe 2-3 ads per week. I go to a friend's house (also Apple TV) and every video they open they have to wait through 2 ads to watch it. Even with the same videos as the ones I watch.

Maybe I've found a loophole in the system?
Came to say the same. Sheesh. Guess this is just yet another disingenuous piece on breaking off from the rat race.
>However my point is that science appears to be fairly poor at building universal belief, which is something religion excelled at with scientific precision.

I don't think so. Science has far less variance between cultures than religion. Math, physics, chemistry, etc are largely the same across cultures. Meanwhile diversity and antagonism between religions is extremely high.

The biggest difference is that with science only experts get to truly participate in science. With religions every believer is participating either through prayers, religious gatherings, religious holidays, etc.
When I think about the cultural impact of youtube, 168 billion seems cheap. For my kids youtube is TV. I got Disney+ for my kids, but they'd much rather watch youtube.

It also makes a company like Zoom seem overvalued considering they had a similar valuation a few weeks ago.
Classic BASIC is memory safe, if you don't use POKE to alter a memory location or CALL to invoke machine code.
The English prevailed then, but the New Englanders also
prevailed in the wake of the American Civil War, when
the public school education model was introduced by
people from Massachusetts, and textbooks tended to reflect
a Northern view of American history, presenting an unbroken
sequence from the Mayflower to the Emancipation Proclamation, eliding many things that did not fit their preferred narrative, such as Jamestown in Virginia,
France in Quebec and the Maritimes,
the Dutch in New York, Catholics in Maryland,
St. Augustine, anything to do with New Spain, etc.
> left leaning

I’m always reminded of Colbert’s famous quote about reality having a liberal bias. It seems to ring consistently true
Help me out here, because I'm really trying to understand. Are you saying that dangling pointers that blow up if you double-free them is an "automatic check"? If not, what kind of automatic check are you talking about?

If the extra code is really that bothersome, just use a macro or wrapper function.
Most their costs are not cdn or video delivery. Its paying content creators.
Please show me a randomly colored image of the PSY curve
In a similar vein, pyp: https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp
> True black tends to look pretty unnatural, so start with a really dark grey

I wish this myth would die. #000 is already dark gray on any normal real-life screen anyone uses because of ambient light, halos, etc. It's nowhere near "true black".

There is a good reason to avoid pure black or pure white in an interface, but it's nothing to do with "naturalness" or even legibility.

It's simply so that images or content which do include the full brightness gamut from #000 to #FFF "pop" in comparison. You want the darkest shadows and brightest highlights to catch your attention, and not have them compete with browser or interface chrome.

An interface is generally intended to "recede" next to actual content. But if your interface is star of the show? Use pure black and pure white. Go crazy. It's been used to great effect before.
It always puts a smile on my face when people see a feature released in 2012 (as an option) and go, like, "wow, you finally did it!" :)
It's crazy how much pizza costs in USA

In Italy pizza costs a third of that
Taliban can afford Rolex, at least.

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/839e131...?
Seems like a good way to open myself up to the nightmarish thought avenues of the inherent existential dread involved in debugging endlessly complex garbage code bases.
If the issue directly hinders the company’s goals as determined by the leadership then it should be addressed, that could include sexism. Main point is that the issue has to be relevant to the company’s goals as determined by the leadership.
Starting out no, but there is plenty of demand for experienced people. If you don't have experience then build up a portfolio.
Only when I already know pretty well what to do - write something simple but lots of it. Not when I actually need to reason about something - because your memory is low it’s pretty hard to do.
Is there a posture component to this? I've found my headaches are not the screen in so much as having poor posture, with the resulting muscular stress reaching up from back to neck to headache.

I now have a theracain, foam roller, and heat pad. Stretches and any regular physical activity will help to prevent / alleviate.
Corporate welfare. But as Romney says, "corporations are people, my friend".
You might be surprised. There are a lot of traditional liberals who are beginning to take exception to this sort of thing. Megyn Kelly had Matt Taibbi on her show recently to talk about this and it was quite odd to see them agreeing on something.
The “discipline” in this case (see the whole thread) is “have programmers remember to insert checks”, which has historically been a good way to have security holes crop up. So I’m not sure what was dishonest about it?
I say this everytime SBC's come up: ODroid H2's (1)
They're not cheap - about $250 kitted out with 16G RAM
and a cheap 250G SSD/M2. But you get full 64 bit linux/windows, dual ethernet, a nice selection of IO ports. And all the low power/small form factor goodness.
Bonus - fanless and totally silent when used with SSD.

1: https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h2
I have the W-800H-1AV hanging on the wall in my shower with full date and day of week. Absolutely indispensable and has held up with battery and water resistance for 5 years now.
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I love mine! This is one of the few goods I chose to buy "disposable," since I can't repair a broken watch of any kind on my own. I work outdoors a lot and I'm always scratching the face and banging it on things. Usually the failure point is water getting in through those cracks, but I've had one wristband snap. I think I buy one a year roughly, and have for over 6 years.
When a company files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, they acknowledge that they are unable to pay their debts under their current structure. They propose a plan to pay off their debts which the courts (and possibly their creditors?) must approve.

Usually the company is more valuable as an operating business and has a better chance of paying off its debts that way, so it's in everyone's interest for the company to keep operating. The creditors get some say in how the company is run at this point, though, and they may demand that the company sell off some assets to help pay the debt.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chapter11.asp
Right! On one hand going deeper and back out of a though feels so much more natural, just like our brain branches off and returns back. But we are so used to paragraph based text due to its history and it feels more familiar. I like how in Notion you can indent and deindent normal paragraphs but that still doesn’t feel totally fluid, I’m not sure what it is. Maybe different modes or views for each is closer to the ideal?
Hackers try to steal Covid vaccine secrets
Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller (2018)
This is almost certainly not the case any more. It was at one time, but it isn't. Princeton's recent incoming class was more than 60% what they called "persons of color", a term that included all Asians. Among the people who might be called whites, Jews were easily 20-30%. If you start to filter out Catholics, there just aren't that many WASPs at these places anymore. For extra credit, go look up how many WASPs are on the Supreme Court. How many years has it been this way?

The stereotypes just don't fit and haven't for some time.
The difference being there aren’t conferences for people that don’t play baseball :)
I think of bike shops as mechanics that happen to sell other stuff.

They should simply sell parts at competitive costs, but price labor for repairs, adjustments, etc. at a fair rate.

Alternatively, charge a transparent markup in exchange for “free” service on the item should something go wrong.
Well, that's precisely what Stallman was trying to address, wasn't he? Trying to separate out the Linux kernel from the GNU userland.
wow that is cool, do you have any pointers (no pun intended) for usage of this technique in practical terms?
For sure. But right now we're in an era of change. Should addressing the existential threat of climate change be a goal for every company, or not? That's one example.

The Expensify CEO believed that democracy itself was on the line in the 2020 election, and that supporting democracy was relevant to the company's goal.

We can disagree with him but I respect him for exercising his judgement about the situation.

EDIT: I'd like to add, IMHO, workers should have more control over their own labor and see more of the profits of their labor, so, actually I'd like to see companies evolve to become less hierarchial institutions and thus decide priorities in a more democratic / consensus-based fashion.

I don't know how we'd do this. But I know we collectively are smart enough to figure out how to get closer than we are now : ).
> Mayor London Breed didn't support Prop C, eh?

I guess Benioff represents SF culture, while Breed doesn't?

It's perhaps worth remembering that Benioff - who also bought his name on a hospital - got a pass well before Prop C came along.
It is 100% true for all CIPA members. Mirrorless sales are down. Unit price is up, but the market is contracting: https://www.dpreview.com/news/7282900211/cipa-s-latest-numbe...

What I just said may not be true for Red or Arri, but you don’t walk into Joe’s Camera to buy an Arri, and for their high-end models they’re literally only available to rent for production anyway.

Long lead times on new cameras is not indicative of high sales in a vacuum, just high sales relative to projected demand, which again is absurdly low.
"IMHO first you become rich, then once you have time in your hands to actually think about improving things, you do just that."

'rich' -> 'improving things' are the same thing.

Individuals can 'get rich' just by being corrupt.

But a nation generally cannot.

Yes, natural resources will help, but they are never the true basis for progress, because without civility, the wealth generated from the resources will be fleeting.

Domestic consumption is generally the only long-term 'stay rich' strategy and it depends to a high degree on civility.

Saudi Arabia can do as they please and remain rich for a while, but it's not sustainable.

Canada, Australia can get a 'jumpstart' and have a 'cushion' due to natural resources but even then it's not obvious.

Most of Africa is rich in natural resources and they are poor, it's mostly a systematic issue.