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Musicians, are there any tablet you use, recommend, for partitions (sheet music) ?

Someone I know uses a iPad Pro, 13" seems like a good size to get the approximate good size. But it's also very expensive for just diplaying partitions.
Yeah so you want the Boox with Play Store installed. Then you have all that stuff.
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I have had my remarkable 2 for a month and really love it. It replaces paper and annotating paper PDFs. It is simple and easy to use. If you currently take notes or write paper PDFs, it is for you (this is enough for many people).
Do they ever violate constitutional rights in cases that involve a huge number of agents and agencies and are front page news all over the world?

This wasn't someone not being read their miranda rights in the back of a police car - it was a huge international operation that got a lot of press and attention.
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Let's make a petition to HN to support proper typesetting of the LaTeX logo when you input "\LaTeX".
Handwriting gets better with practice. You didn’t start out typing fast either; you had to learn and practice.
Star Trek was always a spherical cow as far as futures go. I'm not saying that it's not useful as an inspiration (socially, technologically and as emotional support), but realistically humans will pursue profit until we get a UBI system in place.
From what I've read, consumers will not admit it, but thinness is one of the biggest factors that influences their purchasing decisions
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TFA mentions word processing - has anyone tried eink text editing (say, vim, via termux on Boox android), for developing? Long dreamt of this.
> There is insufficient time to list every fact from every event.

Facts relating to events aren’t news their just facts.

> The distillation of facts down to what is and is not relevant itself will introduce some level of bias.

You can come up with the threshold for what’s news long before individual stories show up. It’s filtering based on political context that’s the problem not simply filtering. Aka, decide ahead of time that a president being impeached is news that’s fine. However, if your coverage depends on their party affiliation that’s a problem.

> provide all of the context needed about a situation to have an inexperienced person come to a proper conclusion.

I don’t see why people need to be making conclusions from the news. A Twitter account tweeting any earthquake over 7.0 is fine on it’s own.
Dogecoin is also based off an ancient fork of Litecoin. My understanding is its no longer actively maintained and very insecure and concentrated compared to Bitcoin or Ethereum
Living in Germany and having done a lot of travelling as well as working in multi-national teams for years, this sounds very strange. Compared to especially the US, in Germany "even" politics and religion are debated in the public but also at BBQs with friends and family.

As somebody else noted, this seems to be a "poll" that was trying to push a certain agenda.

There is indeed a growing number of people that understand right to "free speech" as the right to utter anything without anybody being allowed to question their statement. If you question their statement, they claim you are violation their right on "free speech".

And an even more concerning group are people that utter "opinions" that are relevant due to legal reasons. E.g. claiming the holocaust did not happen, glorifying murder and prosecution of minorities, calling to murder certain people ...
These people also cry out loud about how their "free speech" is limited by the evil green leftwing (which it isn't) government ...
A vaccine that cant replicate is as risky as one thats a weakened version of the live virus? Or an injection of the toxin that causes symptoms?

Not every vaccine is on this list you know. Only the ones deemed risky. They haven't deemed the new COVID vaccines risky enough to be on the list. If you don't want to believe the scientists behind that decision there's no point debating you.

"We don't know" should be "I don't know". There's been hundreds of studies on mRNA vaccines and chimeric viruses.

You're pointing towards this list as if it's some oracle for vaccine safety. Its not. It's just a way to collect incidents of adverse effects in vaccines with known dangers
The Kindle Oasis also does this
A little bit too expensive but so cool (because not just eInk but also hackable!) I'm definitely going to buy it. At the same time I would never buy function-limited proprietary thing like Kindle even if it was extremely cheap (I actually bought a PocketBook instead).
I want to switch fully to digital magazines (as PDFs or via the publishers apps), but I can't find the right hardware to do this.

I've worked out that for almost 100% scaling of a magazine PDF, I need about a 13" screen, in 4:3 ratio (or thereabouts). 16:9 ratio is just too tall and thin.

e-ink devices seem too expensive for this single use-case, as does the iPad Pro, which although ideal is massive overkill.

I've even started going down the crazy route of trying to design something with a Raspberry Pi zero, and a HDMI LCD panel, but the power draw seems too prohibitive to make it viable.

Does anyone have any other suggestions here?
It's an interesting thought. I'll definitely spend some time to consider how this could work.

Although, writing apps in yaml or json works really well currently. We mostly express logic through Lowdefy operators. We like supporting yaml / json since it is easy to write code to create or update such apps in any language.
I bought Remarkable 2 and returned it sadly. It does one thing very well which is writing. But not a great tool for reading PDFs. When I figured pinch to zoom was not possible that was it for me. It’s a really polished tool for wiring but they have a lot of room to improve for reading experience.
Let me just add that I am not talking about a powerful all purpose computing device, because I think we pretty much have this with modern tablets/laptops.

But I do feel the computing part could be much more utilized to make taking notes and reading text better. I am thinking of Hypertext, drawing tools like sketchpad, simple programming tools etc.

Not a device that does as much as possible badly, but one that could really push forward computing and text to get something more akin to digital paper we have seen for years in science fiction.

I don't begrudge people who like the extremely limited use case it has today, I personally just don't really get it why I should spend hundreds of dollars on something that I can pretty much get with a notebook and my smartphone camera.

On the other hand, this is a general problem these days that hampers innovation. As hard as hardware seems to be, it is obviously much easier than software, which is why so many devices these days fall short.
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The “someone else’s programmer” metaphor isn’t totally accurate, because of a key difference between cloud vendors and no/low-code vendors.

To support more customers, a cloud vendor needs to have linearly more computers. A no/low-code vendor, on the other hand, does not need to have linearly more programmers.
I find weight particularly important for reading in bed or when lying down on the couch.

Experimentally, I've found that my Kindle (320 grams including case) hurts a lot less than my iPad (470 grams) which hurts a lot less than my Surface Pro 4 (790 grams) when dropped on my face.
For the "classic" grocery delivery, where you order once every 1-2 weeks to get all ingredients you need, I totally agree.

Recently in larger cities in EU there's been a sudden rise of "10 minutes delivery"-style apps like Gorillas, Flink or Getis. These companies are more like food delivery.
I'm fairly sure that at any point in history there was a fairly large set of controversial opinions, voicing of which could cause you trouble. Number of opinions you could voice that would get you in very serious trouble is fairly low right now in Germany.
Ah, e-readers. I'm looking for a good one since forever, but they are either too small, too slow or too costly. Hopefully technology developments will bring soon a good 10" before my eyes will need a 15" one:)
Reading old books and magazines is also a problem: they're often 100% graphics with no OCRed text, therefore they're really slow, also zooming a page with diagrams on a technical book can be painful on low end hardware.

Does anyone have a model to suggest with 10" screen size?
I don't have many other requirements, other than:

Decent speed, storage space and battery life.
Support for beefy pdfs and other e-book formats. (this is important, one of my old readers took like forever to load a big book, then 15 seconds to turn each page).
I would connect it only to my network, so it must not rely on cloud services et al.
Color not needed, grayscale will do if well implemented.
Taking notes not needed, although being able to fill pdf forms might be handy,
but it's not a requirement.
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An important contextualization for Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

In Germany you can't advocate for far-right organizations (or the German communist party!) because there has been .. trouble with that kind of thing in the past.
IMHO, the taxpayer funding aspect is a red herring anyway.

There is no reason that a small team of founders or even a solo founder should not be able to start and grow a tech/software business well. The natural barriers to entry are very low in this industry. If you have a useful idea, the technical skills to implement it, and the willingness to try, you should never need lots of external help to build a viable business.

Obviously there are advantages to taking substantial external investment or other funding, and doing so usually also comes with strings attached. You have to weigh up whether the cost/benefit is favourable. But in a tech/software business, this should primarily be useful for accelerating the success of a business already destined to be successful. We're not talking about manufacturing where you need to pay for factory facilities and supply chains of physical materials and other big up-front costs before you can start creating value yourself that you can charge for.

The reason it is increasingly difficult for any small founding team to actually do that in much of Europe has a lot more to do with regulatory barriers and red tape than lack of funding. No startup is going to perform well if someone keeps distracting the people building it and making them do things that aren't directly adding value.
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The state of the art has definitely improved. Zama are doing something called 'programmable bootstrapping' which can enable efficient (e.g., faster) Homomorphic Inference on deep neural networks -- https://whitepaper.zama.ai/whitepaper.pdf?_ga=2.218937936.87...

Good question about database indexes; that could be an interesting use case study.
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The term for this (most commonly in social sciences research ?) is 'double barreled question'. It is bad specifically because you do not know which question is being answered.

The obvious bias of this website is...obvious.

Often I don't feel free to express my views in the US, not because there are social consequences but because it is simply not a space where my opinion is useful or valid. E.g., I don't feel free to express my views publicly about other peoples parenting decisions.

The article posted here starts with an outcome and then takes a poorly written poll question as the sole piece of evidence to support its preformed conclusions.

The poll in no way supports the statement: "The view of Germans that they are living without free speech would be of little surprise. What is most disconcerting is that they seem to reconciled to living without this basic human right."

Even if the poll supported the first sentence, it doesn't even COME CLOSE to supporting the second one.
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Interesting. That hasn't been my experience at all with the reMarkable 1. I do agree the software needed some work, but it has improved significantly since I first bought it. I have been debating purchasing the reMarkable 2 and although it looks great, I think I'm happy enough with the first device to keep it for now.
Imagine if you have a whole renderfarm
"No code" opens up more purchases direct from the business groups at a company, rather than through a bureaucratic IT department. I am not surprised that it's being pushed hard.
Because high future valuations allow companies to raise capital and do useful work in society.
> How does that work?

The point is that it's meaningless to make blanket statements about whole continents when the differences are so substantial within them, and mobility within them is much less than you might expect. E.g. consider the number of Eastern European developers who could significantly increase their salaries by moving to higher paid locations in Europe, but you instead stay and e.g. work for local agencies. As such, you're not competing against all of Europe if you go to the highest paid locations in Europe any more than you're competing against all of the US in Silicon Valley.
Personally, I really wish the Remarkable 2 would integrate with O'Reilly's new learning platform. I love having access to just about every tech book ever written, but I hate reading on a screen. The Remarkable is the perfect form factor for displaying tech books and if I could get the O'Reilly app on the Remarkable and read from their library on it... that would be enough to push me over the edge to get one. Hell, if that was all I ever did with it that would be worth it for me.
I don’t like the software on my Onyx boox. It’s over engineered with too many options often not intuitive. Unless you opt in for their cloud service syncing sucks. I still can’t figure out how to access documents from Dropbox and edit them and sync it back.
It will be hard for people to complain how proprietary services can't be trusted when they can change terms and might pull the plug but apparently that's less of a concern when an open platform imploded so badly.
I've been thinking of buying a ReMarkable, but all I really want is a reader without a backlight that can handle PDFs smoothly. (Ability to mark up is a plus but not necessary.) Based on this thread it seems like the RM/Boox are not really what I'm looking for.
IMO the issue isn't so much the taxation, although this has a big impact on hiring since you need to be very certain about anyone you keep past their trial period.

The bigger issue is that the US has a massive advantage, in that a US tech company can launch in one language (their native language) to 300+ million potential customers, and hire from the same pool with minimal bureaucracy (the laws are largely the same, and at least written in the same language, ID and visa requirements are the same, payment providers are mostly the same, etc.)

In Europe on the other hand, to launch even to other countries in the EU involves a lot of translation work. Then taxation varies a lot, and the laws are in different languages so you'll need local lawyers and a local tax office to hire employees there, etc. - on the employee side, the ID and visa requirements vary a lot too, so you'll need local specialists / relocation companies to help with that. The payment providers also differ a lot, e.g. with Sofort-überweisung in Germany and the lack of online card payment options there (until recently), etc.

And then there's the extra EU regulations - the GDPR, cookie consent laws, age verification laws for video content, link tax for aggregation services, etc.

But I still think the best solution in the short-term is protectionism. Give European companies a bigger advantage in Europe by not sourcing from foreign corporations (especially for critical infrastructure like public services), and invest in FOSS and development companies around that (where smaller companies could work together on FOSS projects).

Otherwise the US companies just dominate, and then use their dominant position to get a monopoly through bribes and threats (see Microsoft in Hungary and Munich for example). Then they pay no taxes in the EU, take all the profit back to the US and use that to crush EU industry even further - just like how in the past natural resources were plundered from colonies, but all the skilled industry was kept in the coloniser countries.
Here in the US it seems practically as bad. And the Internet is just as bad - big tech’s stuffed with DSA activists - Marxists - who create lists of wrongthinkers to share with people like The Atlantic Group and Joan Donovan.
There's definitely a movement to be more open to Rust, but I don't think you'll be seeing it replacing swathes of code anytime soon. Device drivers and such, maybe, but this be a long-tail if at all.
I think your translation is slightly imprecise. It’s unclear in the English whether the “you” in “you are free to express your opinion” is being used as the 2nd-person pronoun (i.e., equivalent to German Sie) or as the generic pronoun (i.e. man).

For those who can’t read the German version: it’s the latter.

Unfortunately there is no way to distinguish these two in English other than using the somewhat dated pronoun “one”. It usually doesn’t cause any confusion but I think in this particular case, the answer is different depending on the meaning. I might feel safe to say my opinions, because I don’t believe anything particularly controversial, but still think “one” might need to be careful depending on the particular content of “one”‘s views.
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>They haven't deemed the new COVID vaccines risky enough

Sounds like circular reasoning to me. They have't deemed the new COVID vaccines risky, because they don't have the data from population wide use. And they don't have the data, because they don't consider them to be risky.

>If you don't want to believe the scientists behind that decision

I surely don't want to believe these hypothetical scientists who are afraid of data.
>I seldom hear good things about the software, only that it is "improving" for years now.

I think that depends on what you want out of the device. It's definitely limited - but, as other posters note, that's an explicit design choice. A design goal in fact. But what it does, it does pretty well. I've had my RM2 for maybe a year now. And I use it daily. It's become my preferred note-taking & sketching medium, replacing the paper notepads I've used for years.

I don't use it for anything else: but it supports those two use cases very nicely. It's simple but subtle things that I've found useful, for example:

1. Keeping my notes in folders.
2. Being able to add notes to a subject (folder), rather than interleaving in a paper book
3. Being able to move things about when sketching. I'd often get to the edge of the paper in a notebook and need to cram something awkwardly. Now, I can just select and move.

I've tried using a wacom tablet connected to the PC instead, and much prefer the remarkable. The ergonomics just feel so much better.

It's not perfect: live sync can be a bit unreliable, and I'd prefer the "todo" template to be a bit more app-like (move items off the list when complete).

But I can live with those. I like the fact it's focused, efficient, pleasant to use, and doesn't try to be all things to all people.
I only have the reMarkable 1, but I've actually been pretty happy with the software on the device on the constant upgrades. What has been really disappointing is the clunky desktop and mobile apps and the fact that there's no Web app. Personally I wish they would just abandon the desktop and mobile apps and build a great Web app that works OK everywhere.
They used to hang people for heresy, and they still do in some countries. I think "people will be upset with me" is pretty mild viewed in a historical lens
What I can say is it just works. If you keep a notebook, it is a viable alternative with few drawbacks and many advantages in my experience.

They have been very careful and deliberate with their features. At first it was odd or even frustrating that the capabilities are limited, but over time I have started to understand their approach and wanting to align with their goal of being a focused and distraction free experience.

It seems like they have little real competition in this niche they have carved out, so can take the time to slowly but continuously role out enhancements. It reminds me of how the iPhone has been limited in overall capabilities compared to Android but stays more streamlined as enhancements are made.
> My counterpoint: companies shouldn't get to have their cake and eat it too, as in offering public content, but then preventing competitors from using that public content.

I agree this case is taking an anti-competitive action and spinning it into a pro-privacy case. However, what's the line? Personally I believe if you apply the rules equally to competitors and non-competitors alike you can restrict programmatic access to public data. Since LinkedIn isn't doing that, HiQ shouldn't be restricted.

In any case I think this is a poor use of the CFAA.
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Today I learned that "bit" sounds to the French like "coq" sounds to the English.

Swapping bits. Doing arithmetic with bits. A nibble has not one but four bits. All fascinating stuff.
But should a more modern, digital paper, not enhance the human intellect? Why should I not be able to jot down a math formula that the computer then solves for me? Why cant I draw a triangle and let it compute the sides? Why not write a letter to a friend and send it directly to them and also read their answer on the same device?

This would be enhancing paper for me. Combining the at this point pretty natural way of writing on paper with many of the modern computers amenities. Sure, you might not need all these, but paper is also cents if you really need "Not features". Minimalism and focus on core features is fine, but artificially limitations in this way does not seem to help remarkable to deliver good software. So what does it achieve?
Yup, ripgrep (and ack before it) is definitely a new style! Doesn't mean it has nothing to do with Unix, or that "new wave Unix" is itself inaccurate or nonsensical.

When you start quoting the dictionary to prove a point, maybe it's time to take a step back.
Medical diagnosis is a great example!
This kind of evidence is the weakest there is in court. I doubt it would go anywhere
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