skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about an agenda, it's about the numbers. The panel isn't big enough to help at all but it's not being billed as "extra supplemental power for the cigarette lighter", but as if it's actually going to propel the car a worthwhile distance for the e-waste it creates.

> I’ll just use my well-honed common sense to dismiss this totally impractical and stupid idea by physics and engineering grads.

Yeah, because nobody on here is a physics or engineering grad. Just us fucking uninformed hackers.

> Do they think I’m dumb? I’ll show them by shouting even louder, and don’t you dare disagree or censor me!

... Yes, I think they do. But yes, you're sure showing us.

> this is sadly the state of rational thinking today

Seemingly. You're mad when people point out scammy products being pitched at the scientifically illiterate. You aren't arguing about back about the numbers, but with an appeal to (some) authority.
Pinetab should be usable before this ships, I'd bet.
Yes because the naming was generated from a programmed ruleset, nothing was arbitrary
Thank for you explaining it better.

> When they participate, they effectively inject cash into the system, since the amount they can pay is unlimited and subject only to their mandate to get full employment and limited inflation

In the case where they buy Treasury bonds, the government itself gets money that they can use as they see fit (I.e. stimulus checks), right? Whereas in this case they just "inject cash into the system" in general.
NASA's shape memory airless tire tech makes its way onto bicycles
Ooh it's interesting you mention David Spivak's work, I got interested into it recently. Some of these ideas are being commercialized by https://conexus.com/ (he's a co-founder). You might also be interested by Project Cambria[1] for novel ideas about data and schema migrations based on lenses.

We haven't gone in the fancy direction yet, because we wanted to first have the tool our users told us they were missing - namely a migration tool similar to what other ORMs have, but playing on the strengths of the Prisma schema. But these novel ideas about migrations are definitely something we always read with a lot of interest and love to discuss — I hope we get to implement something radical like that some day.

[1]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html
They are great phrases that once learned have very specific meanings.

Orthogonal is an efficient word. Otherwise I’d have to say something like “application speed and application security are two issues that can be worked on independently in such a way that you can improve or degrade one without improving and degrading the other and thus you can focus on one issue at a time”
It doesn't have a dGPU specced, so it looks like it's just the APU graphics. That's a Vega 6 for the 4500U and Vega 7 for the 4700U. This may be useful for placing that performance in context: https://benchmarks.ul.com/hardware/gpu/AMD+Radeon+RX+Vega+7+...
Seems like computers were woven into many of the exhibits (Search a date and get what happened on that day for example). Also the picturephone was just one part of the bell exhibit which envisioned expansive high speed data networks. I think looking back, it may be easy to overlook these, but the certainly seem pretty significant.
I don't think it involves eggs, they do it in bioreactors. As for candidate vaccines, didn't end up mattering much, did it?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
Don’t worry, they‘re not going to stop making and selling cars with combustion engines in the foreseeable future for the reasons you mentioned.

This whole electric car hype exists in wealthy urban bubbles only and only because they are heavily subsidized.

These cars are still not competitive in the market after all these years and they are completely useless in cold or rural regions.
> maybe get something to show first next time.

Well, you can download and install right now[1][2] (see "Download" in the nav bar), although the download link is currently gated by an email collection form which is somewhat unfortunate. (They do send you an .iso download link, yes I verified.) So saying they don't have something to show is inaccurate and misleading. Maybe you meant something groundbreaking to show?

Edit: Oh you're probably talking about hardware.

[1] https://forum.jingos.com/t/jingos-v0-6-release-download/514

[2] https://hk.mikecrm.com/Qzliv4B
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> MeeGo, MaeMo, and the associated tablet OSes from that era shipped over a decade ago.

To be fair there was no touch OS then - it was mostly stylus driven at the time. I don't think any of them had implemented multi-touch gestures for example, but please correct me if I am wrong.
Erlang has an incredibly compelling value proposition! The problem is that the tooling and ecosystem are not really there. I tried to dip my toe into it maybe a year ago, and the error messages have not held up according to modern standards.
That's why they finally migrated away from them. But you can be certain that they had stocks of floppies and possibly floppy emulators for dealing with that issue while it was in operation, plus setting up a small scale production for 8" floppies is less problematic than many would assume.

In comparison, the new and wonderful system from Lockheed that I mentioned? It pretty sure never ran in "production environment" properly, and I shudder to think how much it and its knock-on effects cost.
I think you raise a really interesting point with this, and I want to offer a counterexample that I managed to come up with.

So, yes you can make an FGC-9 in your garage. Fair enough.

But are the barriers to manufacturing one in the garage sufficient to significantly reduce proliferation?

So, my example is the widespread absence of fully-automatic weapons in U.S. crime. Any schmuck with a lathe and a milling machine in the garage can crank out fully-automatic sub guns like it's Christmas in Sarajevo in 1993. But nobody does. You only very rarely hear about full-auto being used in the commission of crimes. Why? Perhaps the illegality, expense, and manufacturing hurdles (however small they might be) are just good enough to prevent meaningful proliferation in the way we see with semi-autos today.

The ammo thing is an interesting point too. I would think one of the biggest hurdles would be to homebrew ammo that was clean-burning enough not to immediately jam something like an FGC-9 in small calibers. I looked into cartridge case manufacturing and I guess there's a brass drawing process or something. I wonder how difficult it would be to base a design around CNC machined cartridge cases instead?
I am building a simple Wordpress site for Bitcoin in Australia with affiliate links, price comparisons, articles and hardware wallets for sale.

There will be little coding beyond some vanilla JS and that’s what I like about it as I code all day.
I get the sarcasm but really its a duopoly game like a Stackleberg. The best move is to match and not try to undercut.
I'm now working on serverl3ss. a platform that allows u to run any container in a severless fashion
I did elicit laughter from very young people who saw me single-finger punching into a flip-top. I do recall when "portable" phones were carried in a suitcase. I'm not sure what order of magnitude change we have now with our phones, but certainly more than 10x. And since I also recall, with distaste, updating some dumb Banyan Vines email map on a daily basis, Gmail seems to me rather brilliantly > 10x.
It varies at different stages of your company. You should measure where time is wasted and optimize.

If you're doing A) and you get a ton of clearly unqualified candidates, you want your dev team leads to do the initial assessment and the recruiter(s) to learn from that.

If, viceversa, you're doing B) and your dev team leads are spending most of their time recruiting, then you need to smooth into A).

As a good rule of thumb, during hiring season, the dev team leads should spend around 30% of their time on recruiting, not more than that. Less is always good, of course, but it shouldn't come at the price of wasting more time during longer interview cycles.
Also very lightweight and pleasant to use are Javalin and SparkJava. I've used them for all kinds of projects with great results. Basically a Java version of Python's Flask - small and concise but stable and performant enough for many (or even most) web projects.

https://javalin.io/

http://sparkjava.com/
It’s a hotel. Humidifiers aren’t a common amenity and he took a train there.
A team of six or eight should have a dedicated scribe to link everything that is going on in one coherent whole. That role functions as the interface to the team and onboards new team member when people move on. A team without a scribe creates a new opening for that role for a noob to learn by doing.
Lucky, Seagate external drives integrate USB bridge on hdd pcb, there is no sata, you would have to desolder bga chip and tap pcb traces.
That means you haven't practiced controlling the lucid dream. For me I can stay on dreams for quite a while with lucidity.
I've been predicting something like this since about 2005, long before recent events. It just it felt like it was far off in the future, not something happening right now.

The other major factor is a demographic crisis: worldwide, we have a large bulge in the number of people who are just about hitting 30 in 2020. Historically, when a lot of people reach reproductive years and there aren't the resources needed to support all of them having families, violence and social instability tends to result. This has been predictable since all these kids were born in the 90s, but obviously I'd hoped it'd go differently and technology would find some way to alleviate resource limits. Now we're here and seeing all the discontent from peoples' lives not turning out quite how they envisioned as kids.
I don't think "black-box" algorithms are the problem per se. In this case the system was doomed from the get-go by using biased and flawed input attributes.

What I find very problematic in the use of automated systems for fraud detection is taking the system decision as final and not offering an easy and clear way of appealing decisions.
Looks cool, but –

> JingPad A1 will be available for a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo before June.

I'll believe it when I see it.
I've seen similar type errors when our ingress proxy switched from nginx to envoy. My golang http(s) rest requests were randomly getting unexpected EOF/transport closed errors. Ended up solving it, by simply putting .Close = true into all the requests to force no pipelining (or at least as I understand it).
I wouldn't call an e-ink device a tablet. You can run a browser, maybe even videos somehow but it won't fit the most normal use cases for a tablet.
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I know what you mean, but at the same time that’s just how tacit knowledge works. How many times have you looked back at software you wrote 4+ years ago. There are lines of code in there that you can’t remember the reason for that look strange or out of place, but you have a vague sense that they do something important. The actual knowledge is gone and the only way to rediscover it is via re-working the problem.

If we stop making ICE cars then a lot of the tech around them will be lost, but chances are we won’t care a whole lot because electric cars will be better for most people in most ways, and ICE cars will live on as a historical curiosity.
Using the Palm Tx.

It was one of the first small devises that connected to the Internet. I was in Goodguys when it was closing down. They had a highly crooked third party liquidator selling off the merchandise.

I’m not into games, buy saw Halo 3 Collector’s edition for 5 bucks each. There was 500 games for sale.

I took my beloved Palm Tx to the library across town. It had free Wífi up to 9 pm. (No password—just connect.) I got a rough idea what the retail on the game was going for.

I went back and bought all the units. Sold all for $30-50 on eBay, and it felt great. So many mothers emailing me, “I have no idea what you sold my son, but he hasn’t left his room, and loves the game.

I remember thinking I will make a fortune with this devise.

This was just when the internet was getting reliable, most people just had a dumb cell phone.

I blinked, and it seemed like everyone had smart phone.

Anyway, I really liked Palm products. The quality of the hardware was outstanding. The software was just ok, but for the time, I thought great. I once tied a gps to a Palm tx, and took a river trip down the Rogue River. I could tell when the class 4-5 rapids were coming up.

It’s to bad what the company has turned into.
Every time I read about new Swift features, I'm reminded of this paragraph from Aaron Hillegass's book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X". I don't know why.

Once upon a time, there was a company called Taligent, which was created by IBM and Apple to develop a set of
tools and libraries like Cocoa. About the time Taligent reached the peak of its mindshare, I met one of its
engineers at a trade show. I asked him to create a simple application for me: A window would appear with a
button, and when the button was clicked, the words "Hello, World!" would appear in a text field. The engineer
created a project and started subclassing madly: subclassing the window and the button and the event handler.
Then he started generating code: dozens of lines to get the button and the text field onto the window. After 45
minutes, I had to leave. The app still did not work. That day, I knew that the company was doomed. A couple of years
later,Taligent quietly closed its doors forever.
If somebody zoomed everything out on a 15 inch screen, would you be able to tell the difference? Have you done the test?
> - Perl

For me, Python. I knew Perl was the "leet" language and was determined to add its power to my toolkit. I made several (three, I think) weeks-long intensive efforts to master it. Every time, I read the book, read PerlMonks every day, did exercises, and got to the point of writing useful scripts using pretty powerful features. I'd think "I've finally got it!" and would be a Perl programmer for a while, but eventually a few weeks would go by without any need to use Perl, and it would turn to mush in my mind, and I'd have to start over again at the beginning.

One day in 2000 I was yet again failing to do things in Perl that had felt easy six weeks ago, and I thought, "Huh, I think I remember how to do this in that language Python I fiddled with for a few minutes once after reading some blog post." I started typing Python and was very quickly able to get it working.

I didn't really want to write such easy, bland, straightforward code. I wanted to be a wizard who could do amazing things with a few cryptic characters. Writing Python was like doing a magic trick while simultaneously explaining exactly how the trick was done. It reduced my style points to zero. But I liked how easy it was, and Perl kept brutally showing me that I wasn't cut out to be a wizard.

Twenty years later, and Python is still an important part of my toolkit.
I believe this is right, but gas is still the main reason people stop there. If people aren't stopping to buy gas then they will not be making their impulse/convenience purchases and the gas station still loses their profits.

It's somewhat more complicated because many also function as convenience stores, but most convenience stores near me have already died so I doubt that would save them.
> capitalist oriented structures running those operations cannot justify their profit share

They don't have to justify anything, they're profitable. Out compete them, with your 80% workers, if you think it's a better way.

> Personally I'm more optimistic about improved methods and machinery.

The companies are optimistic about machinery too, as it'll help them achieve the elusive 0% worker. It feels like you're trying to devalue humans out of any possibility of employment, not help them.
You know that Android is open source and you can just sideload apps, install a 3rd party app store or replace entire OS with your own ROM right? What, your app/game is not valuable enough to the user to bother with unless it's a single click install without having to enter credit card? Well...

Basically
- Situation is not at all the same as with iOS
- There is too much emphasis on friction-less low value installs and less on highly valuable things that users are willing to invest time and money on. Those apps would not survive without vendor-included single click app stores anyway.
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This isn’t a replacement for email, because as you say it’s not meant to be a public service that accepts messages from anyone.
I recall my dad requiring overnight sessions to have Photoshop render a particular filter on his Pentium 166MHz. That could easily take upwards of an hour, and a factor 10 more for the final edit. He'd be working on one photo for a week.
His interactions with James have done nothing to convince me that he’s become a decent human being.
Last year I bought a 4800H Tongfang PF5NU1G (sold as the Tuxedo Pulse 15, KDE Slimbook, and by Laptop with Linux, among other places) that has a centered keyboard and a 91Wh battery that's a better option than this Pangolin, but availability has been pretty scarce.
It is amazing how quickly "industry standard" prices can change after just one company deviates from them.

It's almost like the standard wasn't ever set in stone or based on careful cost-benefit analysis to begin with.
I just paid a blacksmith to teach me to forge weld. Someday maybe bored middle-class folks will pay to learn to change oil on a v8 between marathons.
There's a very good reason why Spring is used so widely.

Complex enterprise apps are often complex because the use case and the environment is complex.

E.g.:
- integration testing and unit testing is required
- transparently pluggable backends for message queues so that locally you can use SQLite as your pub/sub storage but in production it's Google P/S
- standardized health check endpoints for all your apps

... The list is infinite. You can make a decision for each point or you can agree with the team that you're using whatever Spring provides.

In a team with 100 devs, simplifying and unifying decisions is extremely important. And Spring _works_. I don't like it either, but it works.

The alternative is: solving all the problem that Spring solves with different tooling. And no, you can't avoid dependency injection in a 700 kLOC medical application, because you need to test the hell out of it.
+ Ruby

I never thought programming could be so enjoyable and eloquent.

+ Ruby on Rails

I never thought building web app from scratch could be so quick and fun.
I'm personally pretty excited about far-UVC [1], thought it seems pretty hard (read: expensive) to achieve in practice. Compared to regular UVC, far-UVC is safe for human exposure.

I have a prototype lamp at my place and when it's on, you can clearly tell that the air gets better. It's like an air purifier but it can also kill viruses and bacterias on surfaces.

I doubt it'll get massive adoption due to covid but who knows, maybe by the next pandemic we'll be ready. :)

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/david_brenner_a_new_weapon_in_the_...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26477802
> It's harder to imagine them being allowed to vote (how would that even work?)

They don't have to actually vote, anymore than corporations or wealthy humans do, in order to exert their will on the political process.

That's what campaign contributions, PACs, lobbyists, astroturfing, think-tanks, etc. are for.
LeCun is quoted twice in this article and the quotes are logically inconsistent with each other. So he can't be right, unless you just pick one.

And since they're positive claims we can't know either of them are right without evidence, which is not provided.
AMOLED! Consistent with recent reports of a new 7" AMOLED Switch, and AMOLED becoming cheap.

Linux is not as tuned for battery life as android, but they claim 10 hours from their 8Ah. Believable.

11", 6.7mm, 500g, 8 core ARM (model not specified; should be the 7x line).

Bet it will cost far more than a comparable Android tablet (which can run termux).
Thanks for reminding me about this! I've just experienced a huge nostalgia rush! Oh, I wish I could go back 15-20 years back just for a day!
Joke's on you for trying to read code in a write-only language!
The Aquaris M10 tablet came preinstalled with Ubuntu Touch back in... 2016.
I am getting old, but I fail to see what the usage of RAM/ROM means in advertising devices; I see many devices, including this one, stating '6G RAM, 128G ROM' => I assume 128GB is not Read-Only Memory. So why is it stated like that? I see it all over the place; phones, laptops, tablets. I understand if it's just a retailer selling, but these guys are supposed to know something about the hardware? Or am I missing something?
I think it is also likely that >1M$ developers can start negotiating custom agreements. Hard to say how much exactly is their negotiating power in that case, but it is probably non-zero.
My frustrating experience with J2EE and Spring is what led me to choose https://sparkjava.com/ as the Java framework for my SaaS.

The Spark framework is so light and refreshingly comprehensible. I can actually tell what's going on when a problem occurs.
Initially everything was OSS. Then Gates and Jobs came along and started doing closed source software. But in 50's and a good chunk of 60's people programming those frameworks would freely exchange software.
It's a lot more than a fancy book reader - it's open to modification, so you can SSH and run anything on it. It has a fast enough processor and wifi, so your only limitation is anything that doesn't work well with a slow refresh rate. I wouldn't say that the display technology (the only real difference) is the defining factor for whether something is a Linux tablet or not.
I think this needs a demo page/account showing how it looks. Looks interesting, but I don't want to create account just to see how it works.
If you're running Linux, I'd recommend avoiding the Envy (and maybe all HP laptops) as they typically don't have S3 support: https://www.linux.org/threads/acpi-bios-error-and-suspend-do...

A Legion 5 will have an Nvidia dGPU, so you have to decide if you want to run PRIME or something else and see how the external monitor outputs are muxed if that's important to you.
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Agreed but it's partially due to EV manufacturer/fan's advertisement. They should say that what you need is just plug in at home for most days, rather than supercharging.
I think this speak to market demand? There's just not a lot of use of this thing.

I've thought about using an iPad as dev machine (obviously it's not linux, but ssh+termux is basically the same) because of the form factor and battery life. But M1 chip solved that problem to me.

I just don't see why you want to run linux on a tablet, what else other than the command line draw you to linux? It's certainly not windows X. Tablets are just not very friendly to interact when the subject is a terminal.
I have winter tires on because it’s the law 4-5 months per year but this isn’t the US. People in the north here use studded tires.
Driving with summer tires in winter is extremely slippery, tires makes much more difference than road prep!