skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been developing apps and alternative shells for the Kobo for a long time. It's a bit more involved than the Remarkable but nothing close to jailbreaking a walled garden device.
Awesome! I wish I'd seen this last year when I was in the market. Nonetheless I'm happy with my Dygma Raise (I mostly wanted split, RGB lights, with not too few keys). I wasn't ready for an ortholinear layout but hope to venture in that direction for my next purchase.
What shape?
I installed the reMarkable android app and I have sent so many pdfs (through remarkable's cloud) onto my device and I am so happy with it, I can draw on them ad libitum
dang should offer us an easy way to delete account and anonymize comments. I don't know why there's no such option (other than of course dropping the email).
Forcing the company to comply with legal standards is often literally the job of a corporate attorney in an employment or compliance department.

And the primary concern isn't to avoid "going to jail," it's avoiding civil liability (for employment) or regulatory action (for compliance). Offering guidance on ethical behavior helps to avoid both of those issues.

Whistleblower statutes are an enforcement mechanism that provide cover (and sometimes motivation) to report or disclose ethical violations. But they are more of an escape valve for truly extraordinary situations, as opposed to the day-to-day guidance that professionals provide.
I suspect very few employees actually think that google is evil. The phrase was noteworthy at the time because it was so hyperbolic. It was only now when nuance has been thrown out the window that everything has to be black and white.
Can’t wait to see a 3D version!
It’s actually /// (3 slashes) that reserved for pseudo-documentation use.

There’s a StyleCop rule to enforce this as well:

https://github.com/DotNetAnalyzers/StyleCopAnalyzers/blob/ma...
I get interesting results if I draw a figure 8 (or a figure ∞). I wonder if it's treating one of the lobes as having negative density.
The State of California is very clear that the sequence you've outlined is a firing. An employee needs to be the sole one setting the last date for it not to be a firing.
The "noprocrast", "maxvisit", and "minaway" settings in your profile are meant to help with that.

They're for limiting your max amount of time on HN in a single stretch. :)
In line with the rest of new State- and Fed-driven parasitic economy - out of control consumer spending, ever moar gov debt, zero interest rates, nobody makes anything in the US (gov spends 2bn of taxpayer money to send a robot to Mars but needs foreign companies to set up semiconductor fab in the country).
TIL Carl Sassenrath is at Roku.
Try drawing an infinity symbol. It flips out.
This is so fun.

Thanks for putting it together.
Rover designer here. The weight at the destination is important to characterize performance but it’s not a big driver of design. For example, once you consider losses due to friction inside gearboxes, there’s no big difference to size a motor. You want to be able to test on Earth easily anyway, so you wouldn’t design without a margin to allow that. I suppose if you designed a rover for Uranus you might take a different approach.

Launch mass is important as a constraint, but the launch environment is the main design driver for mass. The rover must be much stiffer than the rocket to not “couple” it’s response. The first vibration mode (think tuning fork) of a rocket is about 20Hz so the spacecraft inside needs a first vibration mode higher than 40Hz. Something inside the spacecraft similarly needs a first vibration mode higher than 60Hz or 80Hz, although you can make exceptions based on analysis.

But that’s not all, the sustained load on components during launch can easily be 10 to 30 times gravity (30G) and the instantaneous load can be 100G. You can’t just add material for these kinds of loads, it would be an endless feedback loop because adding mass decreases stiffness. Look closely and you’ll see that every deployable or movable part of the rover is locked down by a mechanism until it has landed.
That's a long time out, maybe not in my lifetime (I'm mid thirties)

The population is not really the factor here, it's economic growth, which is connected to population.

Growth must slow eventually too. I'm not sure how long that would take or how we'll adapt.
I disagree. I think this person may not have necessarily programmed anything serious before in their life. Or if they have, probably not a defense project.

If you read the follow-up emails - and apologies for the armchair psychiatry - I think this person is very likely in a psychotic state. Their messages sound very similar to what you find in the "BadBIOS" and other "gangstalking" communities. It's not really tethered to reality.

I think it's extremely likely the author is not a troll and possesses a sincere and high-confidence belief that powerful entities are tracking and persecuting him and that backdoors in lots of software, including curl, were placed by sinister organizations and used to facilitate spying on and attacking him. The software is perceived as a WMD or pathogen partly responsible for this incursion into his life and the damage he thinks has resulted. He's mad because he thinks Daniel is like the mayor of Flint, MI: the water is poisoning people and he's doing absolutely nothing about it. Of course you'd be angry!

This is why it's generally best to not reply to messages as extreme as these. Daniel will never be able to convince him he isn't actually the metaphorical Flint mayor. You just get sucked into a world that's very real to them and not real to you or almost anyone else. It's not possible and not a good idea to try to reason with someone like that.
Yes and no. I get a bit of that from wayland overall, but I use sway, and wlroots is actually really good about making protocols for missing functionality (and proposing them as standards).
I always wonder whether it is the spikes that are used to deter birds from sitting on ledges. At least that's what comes to my mind whenever I see birds with mutilated feet. :/
This would actually be ideal for a 1-person business. If you pay $25/year, then the guy only needs to find 10,000 people, to make $250,000/year. Not a bad salary.

Now, the question is, what type of SaaS service can you make, to find 10,000 people paying $25/year. One that hasn’t already been consumed by the big players.
Can you list some examples of where this is used in engineering (software or otherwise)?
Dearest ones,

we have only just begun. See you next summer.
Where ya at in Thailand?
HN,
Slashdot,
news.google.com,
finance.yahoo.com,
earth.nullschool.net,
and secret ones too.
> TUI remotely that you can use in the console like midnight commander

This was it :)) Even mouse works in Terminal!
Now make them melt & capsize, add some units, and you have a genuinely useful research tool
The twitter thread that spawned this

https://twitter.com/GlacialMeg/status/1362557149147058178
I think we got there also by desperation of lacking good cross-platform GUI toolkits.

The current state is, you either use something that looks like Windows 95 in all platforms, or web app.

What the web made possible is to anyone to create a decent custom UI with little effort. I still remember how messed up was to create a custom component for Java Swing, which I believe is still one of the easiest to do. How would you do that for QT? GTK? WxWidgets? etc
Apple now rejecting apps for “irrationally high pricing”
"Cards Against Containers" - if they're geeky enough to get all the cloud references.

https://cardsagainst.io/
Great page! Was this inspired by https://twitter.com/GlacialMeg/status/1362557149147058178 ?

Try drawing the infinity symbol under water - mine jumped out of the water! It even jumped off screen, and ended up like an 8, half submerged, half above water.

My other attempt hit the water/air boundary from below, and bounced back towards the bottom, off screen again, and reappeared in a bit.
Or this group was a thorn in their side and thousands of employees are disgusted by their actions and they want to bury this as effectively as possibly.

They don’t need an iron clad case they have millions of dollar to throw at lawyers.

Once again, why should we give them the benefit of the doubt? Why should we ever give multi billion dollar companies the benefit of the doubt?
Is this some TB12 shit?
Thank you. It's always nice to hear that my projects are educational and motivational to others.
I have knowledge of some pretty sophisticated phishing tests run at a large organization.

The click rate for links in those emails is shockingly high.

If you have a sophisticated attacker using spear fishing using company information then it's even more effective.

"Hey, [coworker X] told me I should send you our latest policy document for [project Y], here's the link"
Indeed, I stand corrected! While the Ogallala is still in trouble from over pumping, you’ve shown corn is mostly rain fed.
If you value stocks based on book value + dividends and discounted cash flow, this bubble's been going on for almost a hundred years by now. We've just gotten used to the new multiples.
Not to throw shade on Sequoia, but the statement "We recently experienced a cybersecurity incident" reminds me of Euphemisms by George Carlin (https://youtu.be/vuEQixrBKCc)
I am not a lawyer but copyrights are automatic rights. Patents follow a process similar to what you're talking about.
I think it makes mistakes whenever your line crosses itself.
Pretty cool!

Can someone summarize how this works?

Is this simply a numerical integration of volume and then some assumptions to compute the buoyant force?
> So being excited about science makes you a bro?

blindly treating science as dogmatic religion, science supporters
tend to use arguments like:

the science is settled
its proven by science
listen to science

if you look at it, they're just using authority of established doctrines and theories to present themselves as defending some unassailable truth with their opponents being primitive troglodytes who should "believe in science"(treating science as belief system/ideology)
Very cool! I love when HN feels like a hands-on museum.
I don't disagree with your frustrations. It is hard for anyone to be accused, including the Google management, of being insensitive when you are acting out of good intentions yet getting lumped with blatant racists. Perhaps there was security violations as well with these documents leaking.

But can't there be an ombudsman mechanism within Google to settle such acrimony before it spills over into the larger public domain? Perhaps there is such a mechanism, I don't know about it. An outright firing seems very high-handed, and this is what dismays people.
Attacks from cats and rats, most likely.
They even decided to keep the game logic at 25 frames per second but allow rendering at unlimited frames.

This is important to keep all the old game mechanics the same (e.g., for builds aimed at hitting a specific number of frames per attack/cast/recovery). But I wonder how jarring it would be if you're running on a 144hz monitor.
I have never even doubted this so never even considered browsing onion sites outside the Tor Browser.
On what day would you do it? If anything, I'd rather be fired on a Friday than any other day.
Prices go up because money flows in.

In a bubble (up to you to decide if this is a bubble) a lot of people end up very wealthy on paper, but they only keep what they manage to sell before the retraction. Sadly, a lot of people can't resist the urge to double down as prices get higher and higher, meaning they lose more on the way down than they thought they were risking on the way up.

> Like somebody who put in 50% of their net worth today, and maybe it drops?

YOLOing your net worth into stocks isn't something that happens in the real world very often, contrary to what you see on WSB. The only people doing that either have severe gambling problems, or small enough net worth that they feel like they don't really care if they lose it all because they can start over.

The weird thing about this bubble is everyone he gets rich on extreme gambles seems to want to post it for internet cred. Makes it look like everyone's doing it.
But he isn’t complaining...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_the_Dolphin
Isn't inflation the economic equivalent of gravity?

If an asset isn't growing faster than inflation, it's losing money. If there are other assets offering better risk/reward then money will flow to them and out of the inflated assets.
Post author here. I'd still recommend going over to the MobilRead forums; and picking up an older Kobo device (like the Aura HD ^_^). They don't even need any user registration (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=223155). There are full firmware dumps, and its super easy to modify. There are even some examples of running full blown Linux on them (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220350). Plus you can bypass Nickel and stick to something really nice like Koreader for reading; or Plato or CoolReader.
Arguably, US military has been successful so far in keeping the world's oil priced in USD. But yes, the world is changing.
The shuttle requires waiting outside in Boston weather for howsoever long it takes to pick you up, then hauling your luggage onto the shuttle, getting it stowed, taking a ride etc. etc. third-world experience w/o the charm. The Silver Line is great, but once again, assuming you’re not downtown already, you need to fight your way across/up and down South Station, usually during a busy time, and hoist all of your luggage onto a bus.

How is any of the above superior to a cab, assuming that you’re willing to pay?

Compare with Zurich. Or Denver, even. Places where the train goes right. to. the. airport.
Feedbin, youtube, gmail.
I got very strange behavior like that with figure 8s.
I am afraid that we might be on the verge of another dot com level bubble. It's interesting to see how one inflated asset is propping up another. Tesla - which rose by 1000% in 2020, bought bitcoin. Ark Invest Etfs - some of the biggest actively managed etfs, hold significant amount of Tesla, and with the profit generated from Tesla's phenomenal rise, they are investing more on bitcoin.
I believe in the future of cryptocurrencies, but the current state of bitcoin is abysmal. It's slow, expensive and the hacky patches on top (lightning network) either haven't been widely adopted or are still buggy. This all seems so much like the pets.com of the dot com bubble era. Great idea but terrible implementation.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/07/09/bitco...
I take the opposite route, my name is everywhere. (See username)
The wisdom of that choice however may be questioned freely.
All the small dams or whatever power generator they are using are state owned property, hell even all the available internet access, and since they are the biggest supplier of money laundering vehicles and aids the capital outflow that the party hates to the bone, you better assume that they all have tabs being kept on already.
> “After conducting a review of this manager’s conduct, we confirmed that there were multiple violations of our code of conduct, as well as of our security policies, which included the exfiltration of confidential business-sensitive documents and private data of other employees.”

I assume this was to release to the press to shame/pressure Google, and wasn't corporate espionage. But what reason do you think she was doing it for?
not sure if you understand this or not, but google is a massive global company dealing with sensitive personal data which makes its work inherently political. They are not manufacturing bolts...
I've used gdb just fine on Rust code. Pretty printing isn't always as good, but if Rust is crashing, I'm probably down towards the syscall level anyways (or blowing the stack size as my last observed crashes were triggering).
That joke wrote itself hahahahahah
Take my upvote you madman
I linked to a paper published and written by several psychiatrists and psychologists that explains the history of the monoamine hypothesis, and why it's not a good theory. Why would they spend so much time debunking a theory nobody believes?

Quoting directly from the article

> Despite decades of research, the role serotonin plays in depressive phenotypes has not been conclusively determined. The original clue that monoamines (serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine) were involved in depression came from two serendipitous discoveries (Baumeister et al., 2003; Valenstein, 1998). First, during the investigations of iproniazid as a treatment for tuberculosis and imipramine as a treatment for schizophrenia, clinicians reported that these drugs could reduce depressive symptoms. An effort was then made to find a common pharmacological property that could explain their antidepressant effect. Eventually, researchers found that iproniazid inhibits the enzymes that break down the monoamines, while imipramine blocks the serotonin transporter (SERT) and the norepinephrine transporter (NET). Second, clinical observations suggested that reserpine, a drug known to deplete monoamines, increased depressive symptoms. These findings appeared to solve the puzzle. By preventing the breakdown of norepinephrine and serotonin, or preventing their clearance from the synapse, iproniazid and imipramine appeared to increase forebrain monoamine levels.

> The monoamine-enhancing effect of antidepressant medications (ADMs), coupled with the depression-inducing effects of reserpine, suggested that depression was caused by reduced monoamine neurotransmission (Everett and Toman, 1959; Jacobsen, 1964; Schildkraut, 1965)

https://sci-hub.st/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

Additionaly, this is something that lots of undergraduate psychology textbooks still mention as a potential explanation (one of mine did ~6 or 7 years ago, although at least they said that it was an implausible theory).
I wasn't trying to grandstand, sorry if it sounded like it, and cheers. Really respect this post.
I would very much like to know how much testing Google did on the “Black-owned businesses near you” feature. I know they extensively test algorithm changes to their search engine before rolling them out to everyone. It would be really disturbing if they didn’t do due diligence on this feature, to make sure it has a positive impact for businesses using it.
"Coinbase generated $141 million of net income on $691 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2020, according to documents shared with investors."

Though 2021 will be higher, will it be 20x higher?
The scars of solitary: freedom after 44 years in a concrete cell
Depends how much helium is inside.
I want to learn more about your peer set, this is really curious.
I was thinking about writing that it gets better, but its too presumptuous when you dont know someone’s life circumstance.

If they aren’t of a mind stable enough to stay on this plane of existence, don’t not not stay.
The point is anyone can create an NFT platform and upload their own nyan cat to it.
If you do the same shape without "crossing" over the lines, it does as you might expect. So, yeah, amusing bug. :D
HN crowd doesn't typically promote racist and sexist remarks like yours. That - among other things - is why most of us are here instead of any other social network.

With this kind of input you will find your comments much more appreciated on Twitter.
why does anyone think this "koo" will be free speech? what security does its puny team provide that your words will not be censored, that your credentials will not be auto forwarded to police who will label you a terrorist acting against the interests of india govt which draws no sympathies today.Your life is done over a tweet or whatever they call it so how?
I worked with a guy in Hawaii who decided to give himself the nickname “Red”
It was silly, but it worked for him I guess.
(I believe it was from a movie He liked)
That headline should really be, "how one building tried to fight back."

Because it ends with the package thefts still ongoing, and the author of the article resigned to their continuing.
What does ‘monitoring the dark web’ mean?
The ICE man is going to pump this so hard. Too bad his wife isn't still on the Senate oversight committee, but it wont matter
I drew a four leaf clover and it shot out of the page
TD Ameritrade's 24/5 is the closest we have to this at this time. The volume is quite limiting.
Sidenote: Good demonstration that even in 2021 jQuery has its place as the right tool for the job: quickly hacking together a small project.
To paint the poles, this reasoning is radically different if you're talking about a 10-employee shop or a global corporation.

She should have talked to her lawyer first.
There’s an automobile analogy for everything in computing (but woe to those who use the wrong one).
> Right now, Wine doesn't work on Wayland compositors (this was news to me!)

No, it doesn't work natively on wayland. It does work using Xwayland, as do many other applications that haven't been ported to wayland. There are some cases where Xwayland doesn't work, though, and those will likely be the toughest things to deal with when adding wayland support as well. It's quite possible this will result in changes to wayland protocols.
Actually it doesn’t work that way (solely based on mass). Radiation doesn’t just get stopped by lead, it generates secondary particles. Lead happens to be effective against x-rays, which is why we tend to think of “lead shielding” but it’s not effective against all types of radiation. So it would help but you couldn’t just call it a day, and other materials are more mass efficient.
That would be more reasonable, but it's not what they asked for.
Keyword search on 4chan.
This is the icing in the cake

>> In truth, jumping in Ultima VIII wasn’t “kind of busted” at all; it was completely, comprehensively busted. Figuring out where any given jump would land you was a black art, thanks to the sloppy mouse cursor and the impossibility of accurately judging depths in the game’s canted isometric view. The only way to get anywhere was to save before each jump and give it a try, then reload and adjust until you got it right. After four or five attempts, you might just manage it if you were lucky. Then you got to rinse and repeat for the next jump, out of what might be a dozen or more in all to get across a single obstacle. In order to fully appreciate the horror of all this, you have to remember that every single save or restore would have taken on the order of 30 seconds back in 1994.
As one example, FP is prone to a huge loss of precision from subtraction. Let X be huge and E be tiny, then (X+E)-X could be nowhere near E.

Linear algebra routines usually have a severe trade-off between speed and accounting for those sorts of errors (such accounting is usually implemented as some kind of search for the best order to do a set of operations), when they can even be handled.

If your inputs are nice enough (which is often the case) then it could very well be that none of the above matters and you can go full speed ahead with the fastest and most error prone solutions, but feasibly I could see something like this allowing you to detect early on which snippets might need extra attention due to the nature of typical inputs in those locations.
I use Pocket with my Kobo. Works great for public web pages, but not really suitable if you want to throw bank statements or doctor's reports or whatever onto a reader.
Could credit cards not be considered a "hacky patch" or really a layer 2 solution to the slowness of adoption and traditional banking policies?

And they eat up 2%+ fee even for people that wish to pay in cash?