skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> RM2 doesn't offer proper PDFs annotations

This is true and I don't really mind that personally although having read up a bit more on the Supernote, the annotations it generates do seem much nicer.

> it's actually a pretty good deal

Pricing seems about the same really. Especially when you consider the bundle of table, folio, and pen together for each. I was disappointed to see that the standard Supernote pen does not include an eraser and the LAMY pen which does lacks the ceramic tip and instead requires replacing nibs just like the reMarkable pen.
China Using National Security Law to Censor Art Displayed in Hong Kong
Hahaha as are breathing and requiring water to stay alive I think
Because we no longer even pretend success is merit based. In fact, we've allowed literal communists to convince everyone it would be evil if it were.
I'm using Win 10 LTSC, and that is clearly better than 7, even if I have to work really hard to disable a ton of stupid crap, as well as a lot of telemetry.

I think it says a lot about Microsoft that they constantly move around the 'search with Bing from the start menu' setting, and make it harder to find every time. They know we turn it off, and they don't want us to.
Yeah maybe. I use my Nova 2 as an everything eReader. Run the Kindle app for Kindle books, Kobo for kobo stuff, etc. Plus it will do things like Marvel Unlimited, Tachiyomi that readers from Amazon and Kobo won't.
The difference is that in many cases, universities are a business that's also subsidized by the government, which makes it even easier for them to engage in monopolistic behavior.
Well on Apple platforms it’s easy to turn off with a single checkbox, which they explicitly ask you about at setup.
Why do we believe the Googs will actually honor this flag? If it's just an HTTP header, the browser can be made to just act like it's not there. All of these "flags" are essentially honor policy level things (just like robots.txt), but if the thing is not even told to look for the flag, there's nothing stopping from doing exaclty what is being asked not to do.
> The US is so far behind in banking and actual useful technology it's quite funny.

I see this said, and it was true two decades ago, but I’m not aware of any way it’s true now. What banking can you do in Europe that you can’t do in the US?
The commenter said equivalent. They were not saying the EU should fund Baidu or Yandex. They were saying to either find or create an equivalent in the EU and fund that.

Curious as to how one expects to will such a company into existence, but whatever I guess.
Be wary of the possible dry mouth side-effect. As far as my experiences go the feeling of dry mouth is due to reduced saliva production, and just drinking water will not solve the issue. Too little saliva lowers your oral health and as a result can accelerate tooth decay (among other things).
hard to know where each individual draws the crap line
They still have to use phones, fax machines, computers, software, and the internet, right?
SAP - I'm not making a statement re the quality of their software, but they seem to be doing pretty well for themselves.

Siemens SiMatic - again, I won't say anything about the quality of their software, but they seem to be successful.
Chaos Toolkit and Reliably: Your Proactive Reliability Toolkit
As far as I understand the explicit call to FLOC will only be a requirement once it has gained traction. Right now Google is still using whatever they can to make it viable, so explicitly opting out is necessary for anyone who wants to be on the safe side.
What if it counts as a bug fix?
But also learn when to give up
Always reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKdKcGJ4tM
I wrote down my experience in this post about a year and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929194.

It is still very relevant. As a follow-up, I find myself using the phone less and less. For instance, today I found out that I missed a message from a friend which he sent four days ago. When I go out, there is a solid chance that I will forget or intentionally leave the phone on my desk. Also, it's easier to get into the flow having less distractions around you.
The last author on this, Kip Thorne, was a scientific consultant for Interstellar. He is one of the most well-known experts in gravitation, one of the co-authors of the famous classic general relativity textbook Gravitation often lovingly denoted as MTW for the authors (Meisner, Thorne, and Wheeler)[0].

EDIT: forgot to mention he shared the 2017 Nobel prize after LIGO detected gravity waves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_(book)
Harvard is the richest university in the country. Yale and Princeton are also in the top few.
Exactly. If there were a 1-ton stone in my backyard, and you peered over my fence to see me making the greatest personal effort to move it, you wouldn't say I "manipulated" it.
> My college US history course ~20 years ago very much drove home the fact that (at least at the time) social mobility in the US was the same as in India.

This is flatly false, and to be honest it's a little embarrassing that you would parrot it without Googling it (which you were happy to do to pull up a tangential stat that didn't contradict the dishonest narrative you're pushing). The US is ranked 27th out of the 82 countries the World Economic Forum studied in 2020, and India is ranked _76th_.[1]

On top of that, note that Denmark is ranked #1 for social mobility in the WEF study. The relevant topic to this thread is pre-transfer social mobility (ie before taxes/welfare), where the US and Denmark look almost identical![2]

That doesn't suggest that Denmark's policies are useless: transfers are an effective poverty-fighting tool, and I have no doubt that the economic floor in Denmark is a much more comfortable one. I'm all for a stronger welfare state due to the human costs of poverty.

But this is all irrelevant to the topic at hand, and the false claim all over this thread that the US is uniquely bad at providing opportunity and mobility to those without it. We're better than the majority of the developed world at this, partially due to the productivity incentives created by how much more precarious poverty here is compared to OECD countries with the strongest safety nets. I should be clear: I don't think we're at an optimal point on the spectrum, and I think sacrificing some economic dynamism to palliate the human costs of poverty is worthwhile. But the claim that we're uniquely socially immobile by global or even OECD standards is a flat lie, propagated by people too simple-minded to understand the concept of a trade-off.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index...

[2] When looking exclusively at wages (before taxes and transfers), Danish and American social mobility are very similar. It is only after taxes and transfers are taken into account that Danish social mobility improves, indicating that Danish economic redistribution policies are the key drivers of greater mobility. Additionally, Denmark's greater investment in public education did not improve educational mobility significantly, meaning children of non-college educated parents are still unlikely to receive college education, although this public investment did result in improved cognitive skills amongst poor Danish children compared to their American peers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
Have you ever tried to use it on a project? It's been a while for me as I moved to PouchDB or SQLite in WASM and never looked back.

Let's say you need to search for age > 19 and less than 30 for a person with the name of Jane or John.

That's nothing complicated, but indexedDB CANNOT DO THIS. I suppose you could do it by iterating every single data entry, but that's a performance no-go for even relatively trivial databases.

Likewise, joins on different stores simply don't exist. Iterating every entry in this case is O(N^2).

Might as well just store a giant JSON blob instead.

Quite literally, my only use of indexedDB these days is storing a SQLite file and whatever interactions PouchDB has (I think they are mostly limited to linking an ID with a JSON blob). Adding insult to injury, despite being a simple key/val store, it's SLOWER than SQLite too.
I don't care about Chrome. Firefox on Android supports extensions.

>As to WebM, zero users are missing the lack of WebM.

Let's just say pretty major platform I'm using daily uses webms extensively and the lack of support on iOS is a huge pain for me.
> I have even rediscovered the visceral pleasantness of writing by hand.

A bit unrelated, but I’ve often wondered if I’m in the minority that hates writing by hand. Compared to typing, I’m much slower, and it looks terrible — I print in caps just so that it’s remotely legible.

I avoid handwriting at all costs, and loath the few times it’s required.
I believe LinkedIn started providing some services similar to HiQ, which is one of their arguments.

How can your profile be public but not vaccumed up? Google vacuums it to index of course. Or perhaps you mean only public on Linkedin?

What the Russians or any other bad actor you care to think about already has done with your public profile is probably way way sleazier.
That's a shame. So we don't have it for bureaucratic reasons? What was the rationale behind that rule?
> "I really appreciate how this reduces notifications for engineers not involved in the review."

But it definitely increases notifications for people involved in the review. "A war room for each pull request" you'll exhaust your reviewers very quickly with this mindset.

What about cases where any one random reviewer (or several) is needed from a larger group of people? Does everyone get paged in?

Or cases where a single reviewer is assigned to multiple different reviews? This becomes a DDOS attack on the human attention span and has the potential to create disorientation more than anything.
The question needs to be asked here is: Why there is a shortage of developers in Germany, while people having access to free education?

One reason is that I can be paid three times more in the US, and with the extra disposable income, I can live a better life, even without the legal protections.

Second reason is that, why should the kids even bother studying computer science for 4-6 years to earn 3k per month? A plumber here can charge 100 per hour and does not require any formal educational training.
The problem is not the software the artists use. I'm sure that Google designers use Mac too even though Google is a Linux shop. The problem is the extremely tiny market that Linux users represent. Plus issues with drivers, binary compatibility between releases, etc.
Comparing software development with
cabinetmaking is quite cocky. Totally different material and scope.
Interview with John Deere CTO
> Many people live paycheck to paycheck

Roughly half of US salary earners, per BLS:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-biggest-lie-in-personal-fin...

(Though that includes students with summer jobs; still a lot though.)
It was probably Clintons idea to elevate the conspiracy. There is actually evidence of that from a statement of Brennan. The Steele dosier hints that it is true. We don't know that. But there isn't any large scale Russian influence on the election either.
well with the mail, lysander spooner tried to (and succeeded at) setting up a private alternative and was beaten the fuck back by the government. It wasn't until the late 20th C that private mail services came back, and they are specifically abjured against delivering 1st class mail.
Post-graduate education is kind of a raw deal for people with undergrad degrees in computational fields. It might actually be worse than "free labor", if you consider the alternative of going to work after your first degree.

In the US, you're looking at paying $20-50k/year, and while most students will get tuition waivers and small stipends, those often disappear if you do any contracting or work on the side to supplement your meager income.

Meanwhile, $100-150k is a reasonable starting total comp right out of school, especially after the recent rash of inflation. And a good worker can realistically double that in the 4-6 years that it would take to get a PhD.

So the opportunity cost is staggering, but wait - there's more. The job market for tech positions has been very hot for the past decade, and the global economy is on the verge of a rebound. If you want to learn about a specific field like ML or aerospace, you can just get a job in that field. Kids graduating today have the option of learning from talented and driven people while earning a reasonable salary.

Research certainly has its place; most of the work that we do is based off of concepts that were pioneered decades ago. But from the perspective of a prospective student in the 2020s, it's a hard sell.

Especially since the current advisor/advisee relationship is rife with perverse incentives. This whole wall of text assumes the best case scenario, where you don't end up in a toxic lab.
How do you know it's gone?
What are some of the best marketing tools for businesses under 3 years old?
You could try Gravelking slicks which are fast and still grippy or Conti GP5000s which are very fast.
Define a better life, define success.

I know that for 99% of people its about money. This sort of discussion isn't even up for debate. Morality (doing the right thing, even if it means a personal loss) is a secondary consideration.

We're on the road to hell, and most of us are working very hard to make it a reality.
Maybe, but I might need actual evidence as to that being the case.
>Being comfortable makes you less risk-averse, even lazy

Do you mean more risk-averse? Anyway, to comment on this point. Non-Europeans, get quite a few things mixed up.

>We all joke on here about Europe with its 6-8 weeks of vacation, 35 hour work weeks, universal health care and a year of maternity of leave to some extent.

The bigger problem is two-fold and has to do with your second point:

1. Europeans have very set schedules, which has only started to erode with younger generations. Summer for vacation. Evening and weekend for relaxation. Weekdays for work. This encompasses almost every hour of a person's life, each year. If you have an idea you can execute alone and deviate from this pattern, great. If you don't and need someone else, good luck finding like-minded people, as you're already a very unique individual. If you can somehow accumulate enough wealth or get an investment, you could hire people instead. Yet, that's tough for younger people to do, and older people will slowly settle in their ways. Also, related to point 1, Europeans typically don't venture very far away from their childhood friends and family unlike Americans having no qualms uprooting their past lives.

2. Europeans don't universally have 6-8 weeks of vacation and 35 hour work weeks. Most of the younger middle class or upper middle class is likely to work 40h weeks and has 3-4 weeks of vacation, as well as some loose mandatory holidays. Loose mandatory holidays kinda suck to work with for bigger projects, at best you can weave them together with your PTO. Even working 32h weeks, which a lot of Europeans started doing, still leaves your head with the job 4 out of 7 days and mentally complex things require pretty big context shifts. The structure of this free time is more positioned as "regular bigger breaks from work" rather than "now I can take time off from my job for a long time and focus on my own stuff". Either way, nothing beats just taking a year off to work on yourself or your own ideas.
For ARM it was already deeply ambiguous because their CPU design teams are these days in Austin, Texas. Obviously a lot of staff are still in the UK but AFAIK the actual CPU design no longer is.
IBM APL2: Software withdrawal and support discontinuance
They are just trying to help you out. They know there are "if you find it cheaper in the next 30 days, we'll refund the difference" policies out there. So those ads are actually much more helpful than you are giving credit. They can't help it you chose poorly and used a site that did not have that policy. /s
It's still so incredible to me that someone thought "oh, yeah, let's make people change their SSID explicitly to opt-out of being used by our services, such that it forces them to re-add all of their Wi-Fi devices", and that passed any sort of muster at Google.

Presumably the only reason they picked this strategy is that they know it is such an absolutely ridiculous step that nobody does it.
Sounds like you have an intuitive read on the situation and maybe needed a bit of backup? My ADHD is bad enough that I barely graduated high school, and I'm totally sold on medication as a tool, but in this case it sounds like a hammer looking for nails.
I expect that varies greatly based on location.

I don't routinely tip, but we do give a gift card at Christmas. Since our garbage guys never get out of the truck, the only way to give it to them is to run out there when I hear the truck and hand it to them directly.
What I don't get about the reporting on this topic: Isn't all this opt-out stuff just necessary while Google is testing FLoC and it'll be opt-in(!) after it leaves Origin Trial phase? Or is this Google employee straight up lying* here? https://twitter.com/Log3overLog2/status/1384337637763387394?...

* I don't suspect he his.
I think the term he's looking for is Embezzlement of Public Funds indeed.

It's not just "poor use of public funds", but illegal use of public funds. For example when a public institution picks a supplier in an illegal manner (i.e. picking a friend instead of respecting the process for a public contract, or using public funds for personal benefits).
Software demand isn’t driven by the number of copies that can be duplicated across servers.

It is driven by distinct use-cases.
New glial cells discovered in the brain: Implications for brain repair
The derogatory term "conspiracy theory" is just a form of ideological warfare.

Ideas should be judged on their merit, not merely dismissed as a conspiracy theory on the basis that the mainstream doesn't (currently) accept them.
Some for YOLOv4 https://github.com/AllanYiin/YoloV4
> The educational resources available to anyone today obliterates what we had in the 80's.

Do you mean the materials available online? There's definitely lots of great material online, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence that schools and universities have gotten any better (despite becoming much more expensive).
There are millions of dogs waiting to be adopted, It is not about shortage of dogs but some rescues specially importing stray dogs from other countries.

Just go on petfinder and see how many dogs are available
IMHO, this misses the point. How the fuck can Elon/Tesla buy bitcoin, do a pump and dump, and walk away with enough money to cover 300 lifetimes of me working. Or some kid in a basement that bought GME options gets to retire and not work a day in their life. Also the guy that VC gifted 6 figures (multiple years of me working) of equity just because he wanted more money from the acquisition.

Watching people get a bunch of money over and over for no work starts to make you question things. All these people get a bunch of money by gaming the system so why not try that instead of working? It does make me a bit salty and that's someone who in the grand scheme of things gets a lot of money for not much work. I can only imagine how a wage-slave busting their hump feels.
or unless you build a site for somebody for whom editing Markdown files is too much
It's not the one-off expenses that hurt, it's the recurring expenses every month. 100 dollars for your regular family plan, that's 1200 dollars every year that you can't cut, even if the kids get the cheapest Android 8 phone you can find.

Also, when your cellphone is how you access the Internet because you can't afford a decent laptop, at some point it makes sense to go for a more powerful phone.
App idea: casual curated newsletters
iOS infamously collects your location data even when you opt out of Apple's iOS analytics; it's more of illusion of control than anything.
ffmpeg recommends a crf of 23 to preserve 1:1 for H.264 -> h.265

I do a probably overkill CRF of 20 just to be safe. But everything looks absolutely perfect, even blown up on my 65 inch (1080p) TV
Its weird really. Europeans do pretty well in sports so its not like they lack drive. Speaking having just watched Djokovic, Nadal et al battling it out.
'Unplanned' outages hit Texas power plants in soaring temperatures
If you're looking for more information on what this is about than the landing page provides, the "Pitch Us" page expands on their editorial vision: https://future.a16z.com/pitch-us/
The 1-by drivetrain is something I sought out when looking for my Wife's bike ( or last new bike purchase several years ago ). The advances in the range you can stack in a single cassette totally outweigh the upside of a second ring up front. She has no plans to take that bike up HWY 80 to the Blue Ridge Parkway, and apart from that, she gets by just fine even pulling a kid trailer around town.

My experience with 1-by drive is that the simplicity and (hopefully) fewer opportunities for derailment are totally worth it.
Chromium is open source? We still don’t control releases but having the open source version it should not be too hard to reverse engineer and see if they messed with it.
Is there a link somewhere that says how they collect that information? If they're geolocating through chrome and building a database out of that I'd consider it a ubusive but if they're just driving around reading brooadcasted wifi ssids and correlating with the vehicles how position I'm not sure that's any worse than using any other landmark.
The open platform didn't implode. The open platform was forked and kept alive. The remaining platform was then made proprietary and then destroyed.

The point of being 'open' isn't to prevent implosions, but to facilitate continuity when, for example, a proprietary commercial interest attempts, say, a hostile takeover.
> To help apps like Google Maps work better, you can let Google's Location services use your Wi-Fi access point.

Wow, that's pretty nasty. That sentence sure makes it sound like you're opting in, but in fact you have to rename the SSID with a "_nomap" suffix to opt out.
Not the rapper.
I got a great one from eBay yesterday; Because you bought Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PS5, we thought you might like this; Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PS5.

Hmm.
Was not aware, thank you. Creepy.
For people who immigrate to the US from a reasonable or well off quality of life, they are often less risk averse in the US than your average US citizen from my sampling.

Many take risks to start businesses, make big purchases, pursue a novel career and so on. These are often fairly large financial risks, many with bankruptcy as an option, and I often ask what their backup plan is should their risky endeavor fail. I often hear some quick poorly thought out plan and after a few more questions, the real backup plan emerges: or I'll just go back home.

If you're not fleeing dire conditions, many immigrants come to the US to gamble for an opportunity to great success. If they succeed, they stay, if they fail, they go home. I had several immigrant friends that did just this. The vast majority now live back in their home countries and based on their social media, they seem to be doing quite well there. The few who have stayed are doing markedly better than they did in their home countries, jumping several socioeconomic brakets.
Agreed. I pursue the idea that we should be able to talk in an easy way about the code we produce.

We bumped on Codestream with one of the person who works at Axolo, we had this idea in mind but after talking to many developers we realized that no one mentionned creating PR with their IDE or having direct conversations from there. We want Axolo to fit in well in developers habits => Using slack for messaging and code editors to code.