skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not hard to be more productive in git than in subversion... (ok, I hate subversion). I think a better point of comparison would be mercurial, which is based on the same principles as git but with different opinions.

But I think the trouble with git is that it is very flexible, there are many ways to do things (ex: merge vs rebase) and the command line interface is not particularly intuitive. I messed up with git much more than I messed up with mercurial, but git also makes it easier to fix the mess.
Most e ink doesn't use a true backlight, but an array of lights along the inside of the bezel that light up the screen reflectively. It's still very good for battery life. Both the kindle Paperwhite and the onyx tablets have this feature. Onyx even let's you tune the warmth of the light.
AFAIK adding backlight means that the distance between the display and the pen tip needs to increase, so you end up with a small parallax effect and writing doesn't feel as natural anymore.
Why on earth do you think you can't send a packet to the device? How do you think the cloud service communicates with it?!
Hi. Article author here.

It's a fair cop! I did totally forget about that. I will grab a copy and give it a try -- thank you!
But everything is about how offended you and others feel over the French word for rooster, which happens to sound like a completely different word in another language. Got it.
Cheers for Ralph Miliband, the smart Marxist: http://on.ft.com/1hCbCiC. Pre managerialism, he predicted its rise.

Also Burnham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visible_Hand
Obligatory Rust comment: would it help reduce bugs if we replaced loads of janky C code with janky rust code?
> Even the text editor example in the GoF book just assigned each character a (shared, CoW) style object... Does anyone actually do it this way?

Emacs does. It has something called "text properties"

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TextProperties#text_property

Colorforth also works this way.

https://colorforth.github.io/parsed.html

The complication arises when you insert text: Users generally prefer to insert a letter between two bold characters and have the word processor "assume" the user meant to type boldface, rather than push a button to put the insert-function into "create bold letters" mode.
Thanks. I know the book.

That’s not a summary. To me at least.
Spider webs blanket Gippsland after Victorian floods
Do you have a link for that? Am curious to see.
In English. You forgot to point out that you comment was from a rabidly anglocentric point of view. There are, in fact, lots of other languages. Furthermore we like one- and two-syllable names for our programming languages. Being a quantitatively-minded person you will appreciate that this implies that it is likely that e.g. ruby means something rude in swahili or whatever.
> Later this month I'll take a look at Supernote which already has a enthusiastic community and promises to have a rich API for 3rd parties to explore and expand.

I tried the Remarkable 2 for a month but ended up returning it and ordering the Supernote A5X instead – I couldn't be happier! Its main advantages (IMO):

- The Supernote acts as a regular USB mass storage device, so syncing files (w/o resorting to the cloud) is not as hard as with the RM2 (which serves a really buggy web interface over USB, pretending to be an ethernet device). Sure, the RM2 gives you SSH access but that doesn't help much because it's using a shitty proprietary file system, so you can't just scp your documents but need to convert them first.

- The Supernote comes with much better PDF reading and annotation capabilities. (The RM2 has pretty much none.)

- The Supernote's soft non-glass surface is more comfortable for long writing sessions – writing on it feels like writing with a gel pen. Plus you'll never need to replace your pen tips as they're made from ceramic.

- The Supernote A5X is running Android instead of a barebones Linux system, meaning that it comes with more features out of the box and it'll be much easier to extend it in the future when Ratta opens up their platform. (Sure, you can "hack" your RM2 but the chances that the next official update will then completely brick your device are rather high – /r/RemarkableTablet/ is full of these stories.)

- The company behind the Supernote actually values the community's input, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote
Thin (and especially light) tablets are not stupid.

I have the fact that especially "pro" tablets are becoming heavier. They're not comfortable to hold.

In my opinion the "perfect" tablet should not weigh more than 250-300 grams, we just don't have the tech for a flagship tablet that can weigh that much, yet.
There is insufficient time to list every fact from every event. The distillation of facts down to what is and is not relevant itself will introduce some level of bias.

Ideally, the goal would be to minimize bias, however I see the opposite many times, and I see it actually as a result of reduced revenue for people that make news.

We, the public at large, responded to information that evokes emotion (especially outrage). We rewarded it with clicks, translating into money for the people that collect and curate it for us. And that is what we get now. We get information, that has been compressed, and while factual many times, it is without the necessary context to come to an appropriate conclusion.

I think the antidote to this might be consumers rewarding publishers and journalists that wait before publishing. They wait so that there is time for the relevant facts to be gathered, there is time for the editors and journalists to write and edit properly. And, to still keep in mind, that it is still insanely difficult to provide all of the context needed about a situation to have an inexperienced person come to a proper conclusion. As one should know if they have ever read an article about a field they are intimately familiar with and have spent thousands of hours in.
My inner teenager is nodding approvingly
I think A is fundamentally impossible. A backlit display is always going to look different to a reflective surface.

My money's on C: a new display tech which works similarly to color E-ink, but isn't actually E-ink. Qualcomm's Mirasol technology looked amazing for this, but sadly it never made it into any mainstream products and they've basically shut it down at this point.
It seems to me like it would be prudent anyway just to keep track of the news everyone else is still consuming, if you don't know what other people base their views and decisions on it becomes pretty hard to predict their behaviour.
How is it that you're the only one mentioning Bayh-Dole? That was the original sin of all this. The rest is inevitable.
After 8 years of using DayOne I am a bit worried. Automattic may try to squeeze out profits by introducing new, more expensive tears or by limiting the existing ones. On the other side, the development of DayOne is not that fast anymore, though I consider it mostly being feature-complete. However, a client for Windows/Android would make sense.

I export my diaries on a regular basis as a plain-text and I am often thinking that it would be better to build such a system in emacs journal, where it would be platform-agnostic and where I would not have to be worried after another 10 years. The problem is always how to journal on the phone and how to insert videos and photos in the phone.
I Began Accepting Bitcoin Cash for My Business
Every time I think of this I am enraged. What he did to those parents was a special kind of darkness. So abhorrent.
Very excited to see someone doing this! Right now, Grafana is [planned to] relying on an anemic CUE->Typescript translator for getting its schema to the frontend - https://github.com/sdboyer/cuetsy. (Somebody also pointed me to Project Cambria recently, which could be an interesting compilation target for what we have https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html)

Being able to work with CUE natively in TS, though, would be a huge gamechanger for what we can do with CUE in Grafana
The other way would be amazing. Making any gui to be command line
Thanks for your comment, I just looked at AirTable and StackerHQ. A quick question: is there a way to export your data to standard file formats, just in case you wanted to move off the platform to other vendors or write everything yourself?

I think that getting started quickly on a system that you will likely never have to leave makes a lot of sense, but it is good to have an exit strategy. Like with Heroku: keep running small projects there, but being able to move to alternatives.
Being published independently doesn't guarantee honesty or the lack of an agenda or bias, it only guarantees any agenda or bias isn't being dictated by a third party, rather than the company itself.

Also, The Juice Media appear to be satirists, not journalists. While this and other satirical sources like the Daily Show may seem more truthful than mainstream news because they provide an emotional catharsis, they can actually be far more distorted than the mainstream media in terms of fact. Because while satire can express the truth, being honest isn't its purpose, so much as being funny.
IMO lighting on an E-Ink display does not increase the strain any more than illuminating a paper with reading lamp does.
beginning of "Reaganomics": 1983
beginning of compensation/productivity divergence: 1973

maybe there are other factors involved ?
Interesting that the term "Paradigm Shift" (a mainstream term that Thomas Kuhn established with this book) first appears in Chapter 8, then in Ch. 10 and 11 of the summary.

A lot of densely-written stuff to read through before coming to the heart of the matter.
>A) classic displays (LCD/OLED/Mini-LED/Micro-LEDs) reaching a point where the quality and power consumption as so low as to be indistinguishable from paper

I thought in relation to eye strain and ability to read in sunlight the quality would be theoretically impossible to ever be indistinguishable?
But why is it immoral to eat another animal? Whether or not someone can "reason about morality", the question is what is moral and what is immoral. So why is it immoral to eat another animal?

You say you hold humans to a certain standard (of morality). But why does this standard entail an avoidance of eating meat? What is immoral about eating meat and what is moral about avoiding it?
Hypodermic needles go straight through gatorskins.
Did you mean Wiener?
Hi. Article author here.

This is true. There are a lot of "abandonware" versions of all sorts of apps out there. It is almost trivially easy to find a copy of WordPerfect for DOS and install it on DR DOS or PC DOS in a VirtualBox VM, or run it under DOSemu on Linux. I link to instructions on how to do it in that article.

But it's not legal. Abandonware is a nebulous term with no legal meaning.

WordPerfect Corp is gone but the product is alive and well under Corel Corp. This still counts as piracy.

But the MacOS and Linux versions were given away, for free, by WordPerfect Corp and so they are legit.

That's why I wrote the blog post. :-)
I bought the Onyx Boox Note Air some months ago, and I must say that I'm really happy with it. Screen refresh is good, there's almost no ghosting in default mode, and refresh rates are acceptable.

There are only two downsides about it: The vendor does not respect FOSS and does not publish the sources for their modified Linux kernel, and the device constantly phones home to China. However, the device can be rooted easily [1], and you can install a firewall to stop the preloaded apps from phoning home (verified it with Wireshark).

[1]: https://blog.tho.ms/hacks/2021/03/27/hacking-onyx-boox-note-...
Help me out. 8 Trillion = 8,000,000,000,000 in the short form.

8T divided by the population of the USA 328M = $304 per person?
Sadly, I don't know of any way to do so, no. :-(
A single data point does not an argument make
They don't, if you read the article. The $3,000 is not tuition, it's just a requirement to show this much cash from work or borrowing for non-tuition expenses, in order for Harvard to pay their tuition.
>What is it with the British Isles

It's not a British Isle -- it's an Irish one. Great Britain refers to the main island composing England, Scotland and Wales. The Irish isle of Ireland is composed of the two Irelands (Ireland and Northern Ireland). The 'British Isles' term is disputed by many Irish people. The reason it's not a geographic term is because it's not a river -- Britain is a geopolitical entity not a purely geographic one.

The fact the Ireland was head of the GDPR for the EU was merely an odd coincidence and has been rectified. You won't many upset Irish people over this.
I once worked at a campus disability resource center and was encouraging the use of open source software. It was not comfortable pitching the GIMP as a Photoshop alternative. Luckily I don't think anyone felt personally attacked and it was understood to be an unfortunate coincidence. One person said, "I guess that's what people call me." which brought to the fore how even coincidental naming issues can remind people of something unpleasant.

When it comes to Coq, I have a colleague that likes to emphasize the pun. It does turn some people off when they hear him going on about it. On the other hand, there is a lot of puritanical thinking in the US and maybe we should just become more comfortable with the notion that sexual organs, like mouths and elbows are part of the body. Then maybe my friend's "joke" wouldn't even make sense. It would be like "haha nose!" and people would shrug. But that isn't the world we live in and maybe the one we live in, where people find penises funny or offensive, is more fun. I don't know.

I'm not really advocating renaming stuff or not. I see it as more of a dialog between the namers and the people who are bothered, at least with borderline cases like these. There are instances where names should be changed. Like there are ISO-639 codes that essentially use the equivalent of the N-word to refer to languages. That's really hurtful to minority communities that speak those languages. Names do have consequences. I guess it is just a question of whether people are ok with the consequences or not. And of course, you can't make everyone happy all the time.
>"Patents aren’t needed to share knowledge [...]" //

Obviously, but are they needed to reward/stimulate innovation?

One can view this, the situation of the OP, as Universities going after commercial enterprise who are exploring the universities inventive output but are not putting funding into that community. Licensing fees would ensure that those companies using a universities innovations help to pay for future innovations.

Patents do what non-commercial and share-alike aspects of free-libre copyright licensing does; provides a way for financial profit to flow back to innovation centres.

It strikes me the _main_ issue in USA with trolls is a poor patent-legal system, not the existence of patents themselves. Though the USC's liberal acceptance of business method and software patents probably isn't helping.
With regards to the US, there was a probably a high risk rich people were involved, and they constitute one of those minorities that America has had some degree of success in protecting the rights of.
If social media platforms are the content “watchmen”, who watches the watchmen?
You're right, but that's not the scenario the comment I responded to was implying.

There's a difference between "oh look, there's a baby panda, this is an easy one" and participating in a months-long coordinated campaign designed to make money.
You can turn off the backlight
No! Maybe. Argh.
How is it better than the remarkable?
> Yeah, those basic computers were fun, but having an entry level computer you could write basic programs on wasn't going to help you automate business processes

Yes, it was, and lots of people with those computers and small businesses used them to do exactly that. (And others used them to do the same thing with household “business processes”.)
You'd have to be an absolute git to give your software project a funny/offensive name like that!
> 8T divided by the population of the USA 328M = $304 per person?

No. 8 trillion divided by 328 million is $24,390 per person.
The original idea was that it rewards sharing innovation. You're supposed to publish in detail the way your invention works and in return get legally protected exclusive rights to it for a decade or so.

I'm surprised software patents don't require source code to be published, that would fit with the spirit of the thing.
> How about actually supporting the European Tech industry instead of just adding endless bureaucracy?

Their power is to make rules, so they will make rules because it is all they know how to do. Leaving things alone is often the most difficult (and important) thing to do.
Mark Felton produces fantastic work, anyone interested in WW2 history should take a look at the channel in the parents link.
Inevitably, a major version release would be described as “New Coke” by its detractors.
I would probably buy it if it had one, but I want to read in the dark often without turning the lights on and bothering others.
Not sure I follow. How is this a sponsor's headache? It's entirely up to the sponsored devs to allocate received funds as they prefer.
> instead of just adding endless bureaucracy?

What do you mean by "endless bureaucracy"? Making sure that people's personal data is not sold right and left?
For something more recent, the Russian annexation of Crimea. Or rejoining depending on how you interpret history (or get your news) - but western media leaves the important historical bits out because they have a specific political agenda.
> This has been particularly evident in volunteer-based open source communities, where the need to formalize governance through codes of conduct has met with frequent resistance among people who resent the imposition of rules on a sphere where they previously acted without constraint.

No, I resist it because it is not necessary: we can rely on human decency in open source without policing people with formal documents.
I haven't - thank you that works!
You won't have to deal with it. Whomever is using that old API has to deal with it. Their choice.

We are talking about an API, not a shared service.
I am a security professional and use all kinds of fancy security products in a 100+k IP deployment. They do not do any magical stuff but the alternative is to write your own product.

In a home setting, I do not see how manually analyzing the network logs can help (not to mention that most of the traffic is encrypted). You then have integrity checks on files, IOCs you need to check your files against etc.

Basically this means you have to rewrite an EDR from scratch.

Fancy security products are not always a way to check a box in an audit it also means using a product that you otherwise would need to either write, or put together from many pieces.

Just look at wazuh (open source EDR+) and when you go past the intro you ht some hard walls (especially with updating IOCs from external sources).

Security is really hard, but doing it yourself is really, really hardest.
I did my first online delivery grocery purchase in 2006 in America. It’s a huge place. Can’t lump us all together.

Another example. I don’t believe I’ve seen a gun in my life (at most one time) except in the holster of cops. I will sometimes come across conversations where people call out others as frauds etc if they don’t know or understands guns. As if that’s something all Americans are familiar with.
> the media is a counter-power

Is it? Is it not the main power? What politician could rise whose profile wasn’t vetted by the media? Can any politician decide something different than what is broadcasted by the media, for example if all media say we should lock down for Covid, despite population disapproval, can any politician resist?

Media is probably the power, and the 3 other heads (executive, legislative, judiciary) are basically following, at our current point, in 2021. At least, if they want to stay relevant.

Corollary: The definition of democracy should include the 4 powers. Media should be free, and due to Loi Avia in France, and due to the state of emergency, media is not currently free to say what it deems correct.
> As if to emphasize the cultural differences between America and Romania, Bitdefender’s website reportedly prevents people from canceling auto-renew. To quote one user’s reaction,

!?

A great many US products and services have similar approachs. Think ISPs, gyms, the NYT, etc.

I agree the behaviour is scummy, but no need single out Romania for it.
You are right of course. I was primarily thinking of phones, where the battery life is sacrificed for half a millimeter and laptops, where ports are eliminated for a millimeter or two.
Depends on the market position you're targeting.

If a shopper wants milk, bread and scented candles, and you don't sell scented candles when your competitor does, they'll go to your competitor for candles and pick up their milk and bread at the same time.

So if you want to get a customer's main weekly shop, you can't cut your range too far.

Of course, there's a space in the market for gas station convenience stores with a smaller range, higher prices, great convenience and no aspiration to get the customer's main weekly shop.
It’s called inflation. A nominal increase of $22,415 (1984) to $68,703 (2019), looks great, even though it’s stopping right before 2020.

Except $22,415.00 in 1984 is worth $55,154.49 in 2019. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

So the actual increase was 24.6% over 35 years assuming 2019 wasn’t some outlying peak and 1984 wasn’t an unusually bad year. We can check 1984 by going another 20 years to 1964 and the median household income was 6,600 which is $54,430.20 in 2019 or an increase of 26.2% in 55 years. Can’t prove 2019 is also an outlier, but that “40%” increase in 10 years suggests it likely is.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1965/demo/p60-04...

PS: And yes end years matter. Inflation adjusted median household income increased form 1964 to 2009 by 6.6% in 45 years. Perhaps things have fundamentally changed in the last 10 years, but it’s not likely.
Hi. Article author here.

Well, yes, this is somewhat true. I went through the pain of that learning curve in about 1989.

But WordPerfect got a lot better after v5 when they introduced CUA-style drop-down menus. After that you could explore and slowly learn the program and just use the F-key combinations you most needed as accelerators.

The Linux, Mac and Windows versions are perfectly standard GUI apps and are no harder to learn or use than any other GUI apps. They're also very fast on modern kit.
You would have to decrypt part of your data to tell the host what memory locations to fetch. Is that still FHE? And how would you do it safely?
std::vector would mostly benefit from an improved allocator interface, where it requests N bytes, but the allocator can give more than that and report the actual value.
Thank you for pointing this out. I've been vaccinated for many things, they're vaccines that we've had years of experience administering to people. I'm not anti-vax in any way. I'm not even anti-mRNA vaccines. What I am is cautious of new and rushed medicine rolled out at large scale. The chances of it going wrong don't have to be big, I just don't believe the risk is worth taking without more conclusive research. I'd have the same worries if WHO recommended everyone start taking IVM weekly for the duration of the pandemic (if I'm not mistaken almost all research on IVM has focused on short-term usage).

Politicians talking about "getting everyone medicated (or vaccinated) as soon as possible" with anything that doesn't have long-term studies should be worrying to all. And the fact that some SV companies will not allow this discourse to happen should be even more so.
Hi. Article author here.

Oh yes indeed. MS forced them to change course. I should add a paragraph about that.
Kip Kinkel and the aftermath of juvenile sentencing