skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm all for fewer polished features - but we don't get any of those.

I don't think that the rest of your comment substantiates this. You don't have any arguments that the core functionality is lacking in some way - everything you say seems to be about non-core things.

> Hyperlinks in ePub and PDF didn't work.

Note the "didn't", and also PDF hyperlinks is not an "essential" feature for the purpose of the rm2, which is writing and annotating.

> If links don't work they must have some way to jump between pages easily, right?

Not core to writing and annotating. You're looking for a document-navigation system, which the rm2 is not.

> Search is very slow.

See previous comment about the rm2 not meant to be a document-navigation system.

> eBooks are slow to load, and changing text size requires you to wait while the entire book is rerendered (losing your notes in the process since they're image-based rather than proper annotations)

This might be the only valid complaint here, although it's still a non-essential feature. An essential feature is the ability to take notes, which you can.

> This is primarily a drawing/creation device.

That's literally how it's marketed - "Writing, reading, and visualizing only".

> A basic tool that would help here is stroke-based erasing. They have stroke knowledge since Undo supports that, but the eraser is a clumsy mess that reminds me of the worst cheap elementary school supplies.

The eraser tool is perfectly functional. I use it continually with no problems. Could it be better? Yes, like almost every piece of software ever written. Is it "a clumsy mess"? Not even close.

> While we're on basic UX, why is the entire device in "light mode" except for the settings app which is inverted into dark mode with no way to change it to a normal UX?

That's a single UX issue, among many things that they got right, that has little impact on the usability of the device.

You neglected to mention how the drawing, cut/copy/paste, convert-to-text, eraser, templates, and almost every other feature "just work". You do get all of those "polished features" - your stretch goals are not core functionality.
Here's one: https://wigle.net
That's nonsense.
I translate that to "don't ever try to dig into GCC/LLVM/Linux Kernel, because you won't be able to 'finish' it"
There are hundreds projects out there that are worth exploring even one will never 'finish' them, whatever that means
If you have a simple marketing or brochure site, and want to use React, it’s pretty much a no brainer.

Anything more complicated eg a dashboard app, you’re going to be fighting it a lot.
What I mean is yes, indeed, it functions like an additional traditional IRA, gains are accumulated tax free, and the balance can be withdrawn in any way you want post-65.

Does that trick actually work?
Seems to be fixed now -- it has switched to different geocoding API.
Google Voice will soon stop forwarding text messages to other phone numbers
Using PostgreSQL and Aurora with Serverless Stack to create a simple hit counter
That is not how American cities work at all. They are built for cars, and residents who can't afford cars have a significantly worse standard of living and access to food.
Legally, Wi-Fi communications in the US are not considered to be "broadcast", even if anybody sufficiently nearby can receive them. If you're not the intended recipient of a message, and you intentionally intercept it (or attempt to do so), and the content isn't "readily
accessible to the general public", then you're breaking the law.

Google was successfully sued over this, and to my knowledge the law has not been changed in the decade since then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joffe_v._Google,_Inc.

In particular, the SSID of a network is readily accessible to anyone with a Wi-Fi device, whereas the contents of data packets (even unencrypted ones) are not accessible unless you have packet-sniffing software and know how to use it. This seems to me like a fairly common-sense interpretation.

You can still own general-purpose radio receivers (subject to the usual FCC rules about radiated emissions and so on). The legal restrictions are about what you can do with that equipment.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pc
More than one of the new flying car / flying taxi / electric plane concepts are autonomous. Imo, this tech is more about:

1. Making short flights more viable

2. Making electric planes more viable

3. Seeing if AI is viable as a pilot

I also really doubt the FAA is going to just let anyone fly an electric “car”, given how non-trivial getting a pilot’s license is. Maybe there’s a middle ground for drone-type planes which probably have a “simpler” flight model than a plane or helicopter, but I can’t see it being just anyone. Even flying at night or flying in a cloud requires even further licensing and training since you can’t see where you’re going like you can with a car. Can’t see that going away either
Maybe companies that went public via SPAC are going to become attractive targets for short sellers? I know Matt Levine has been writing about how SPACs can market their "upside" without the normal scrutiny that an IPO would bring.

Any of our HN readers playing around with shorting the stock of public companies as an individual investor?
David McGowan suggests that a lot of the pop/drug culture of the late 60s was driven by the CIA as an attempt to subvert the anti-war movement.

https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Scenes-Inside-Canyon-Laurel/dp/...

I don’t think is anywhere near conclusive, but it’s definitely plausible given the information he lays out.

Fun fact: Jim Morrison’s dad literally started the Vietnam War when he led the fleet that fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin Incident:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
What do you think of ACEP v2?

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-has-developed-ace...
Atari’s New PC / Console Hybrid
I agree, your prescription should work.

A conspiracy theory gives people some control over their lives in that it explains chaos or random events, and puts people in charge of things. or maybe it's an answer for meaning in the world.

It's comforting for many to think a world government is pulling the strings for some reason. It's more scary to realise that no one has control and things happen at random, meaninglessly.
> Rather, a problem is that once a European project becomes successful enough, it soon becomes an American project, either by acquisition or by moving to where the investment money is.

That's not a problem, that's the solution. There's some other problems causing the need for this solution.
You're assuming that the UK, Germany, Israel, Russia, and China are not all doing the same.
𝐓𝐋𝐃𝐑; I trained a LinearSVC to predict good .com domains with 0.74 accuracy.

See for yourself how the model performs in action at https://DailyDomainIdeas.com or @DomainIdeaDaily on Twitter, or feel free to read the medium post for more details on the process I used.

𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭?

I love product ideas (shiny object syndrome), and I'm coming up with new ideas almost daily.

So 1 month ago, I decided to daily publish 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 single idea that popped up as a side project.

As I started to publish all the domain ideas, I thought that "this would definitely be possible to automate with machine learning."

So I did.
>I was exposed to turtle graphics in school when I was a kid, but I wasn't impressed

I think most kids would say the same thing about manipulating spreadsheets.

I would have. Spreadsheets are fucking boring. Hell, I still think spreadsheets are fucking boring.

The only reason that modifying spreadsheets is exciting to me is because of how much time automating the modifications saves me.
Right, that’s the only one I’ve ever heard, but what does ‘without third party payment processor involved’ bring in practice?

I have a European bank account and a US one, and I don’t experience any meaningful difference, indeed the third party processors in the US are generally far more feature rich than the bare bones European bank options.

Hardly: “The US is so far behind in banking and actual useful technology it's quite funny.”

More: An irrelevant implementation detail that doesn’t impact end users.
That looks great, 13 inch screen ensures no reflow issues too. Are you able to flip through the pages with minimal issues while in split screen mode, or do you have to manually resize the page each time? Also, it looks like you have this in 'landscape' mode - is that correct? Awesome feature if so. Too bad these are still so niche and therefore pricey, $800 is a painful price point for such a device imo.
Not to mention the VAT (Value Added Tax) that is a big weapon of market selfdestruction.
Are CIA agents really known for rape? I would love an example.
I know, but I was hoping for something like "you could fit 4 of the buttons in a browser window, on a 640x480 screen" (the standard of the time)
I've done work on low-latency FHE neural network inferencing [1] and we estimated the FLOPS to be approximately 4 times that of an Intel 8087 floating point coprocessor [2]. This was for a LeNet-5 network on the MNIST dataset with multicore evaluation on a workstation class machine.

My view is that this is already fast enough to support use cases that really need the unique capabilities of FHE. Since this work we've been focused on making FHE more usable with compilers and tooling [3]. Currently most FHE is being programmed like that Intel 8087 was: with the equivalent of assembly by directly calling functions in FHE libraries to perform arithmetic and crypto operations. Imagine having to do register allocation by hand for all of your code. The EVA compiler [4] is meant to be like a "C compiler for FHE", hiding low-level crypto concerns and providing common optimizations.

[1] "CHET: Compiler and Runtime for Homomorphic Evaluation of Tensor Programs": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.00845.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8087

[3] "EVA: An Encrypted Vector Arithmetic Language and Compiler for Efficient Homomorphic Computation": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11951.pdf

[4] https://github.com/microsoft/EVA
> My understand is that their efforts were mainly meant to sow political discord.

Yes, exactly. It was the Same in 2017 in France, they did "interfere", but the goal was not to elect one or the other candidate. probably.
and this is why I love remote work in a tight team. Cameras are really only on for standups / outside of team meetings / coffee breaks. Instead we do whatever we think is appropriate during meetings.

I normally make notes on paper and use the computer to fact check myself and the conversation (where it matters). It makes everything waay faster.
See also the Cornfield Bomber, an F-106 Delta Dart, which is a mach 2.3 interceptor. The pilot was doing a training flight, entered a flat spin, and ejected. The pilotless, out of control aircraft proceeded to stop its spin, entered straight and level flight, and landed intact in a nearby wheat (not corn) field. The farmer called the authorities about what he should do about it- the engine was still running. The Air Force told him to simply let it run out of fuel, which it did a few hours later. The Air Force recovered the aircraft, repaired it, and returned it to service. It retired with the rest of the F-106s 10-20 years later in the mid '80s. It's on display today at Wright Patterson AFB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6329703 (2 comments, 8 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7963421 (no comments, 7 years ago)
Apple doesn't monetize their user's data, for one.
In an enterprise you’re supposed to manage the computers, run your own updates server, set the install time yourself etcetera
Just use Linux. I don't see much point in using windows in 2021, even for gaming.
Well publicizing your success would often be conterproductive. It is also easy to dismiss the contributions of covert actions when they work, by design.

You might say the success of the European Union has some CIA fingerprints on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Committee_on_United_E...
The remarkable is not able to do split screen (for now).
Instead, you can install the [ddvk hacks](https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks) for fast switching between recent documents and a swipe to the previous document.

I'd recommend the remarkable2 as the hacker friendliness makes quite a difference
It absolutely is (or incredibly close)
Totally, but not all of them brand themselves as Arbiters of Freedom and such. There's a strong current of nationalist exceptionalism that could use a counter-narrative (or a reality check).
I think that it is important to consider the reason _why_ we make some information public.

We make our SSID public so that we, or our friends, can easily access our WiFi, not so that somebody else use it as a tracking tool. Just because I make something possible, it doesn't mean that somebody else should take advantage of it ("hey, your car was unlocked, so of course I took it for a ride"), even more so when we talk about a huge corporation where the effort of taking advantage of this is much more than the effort that an individual must put to protect him/herself.

Want to use my SSID as a location tool ? I'm fine, but first you ask, and the let's talk about how much you're gonna pay for it.
I've noticed that as well -- no matter how engaged someone is, if there is a screen that they can see but others can't then it is an information imbalance that is disruptive to the normal flow of conversation. It's like hearing half a phone conversation -- your brain works overtime trying to reconstruct the part it can't see. And it makes some sense; when I am talking to a person and they keep glancing at their laptop, phone, or watch it's exceedingly off-putting and they seem disengaged even in cases when other evidence indicates they are paying attention.

I've similarly noticed that interacting with someone wearing a bluetooth headset or smart glasses is off-putting no matter how much they indicate they are paying attention and not watching or listening to something I can't see.

Like you, I prefer to type my notes. I've found that angling the screen down so that I can't see it either and then maintaining normal eye contact with everyone makes the problem mostly go away. Possibly because I'm not constantly breaking eye contact to furtively glance at a glowing screen that they can't see. Or possibly because I wasn't paying as much attention as I felt like I was -- there is some research that indicates that people who can see a screen or TV while they are accomplishing a task often significantly underestimate how much time they spent looking at it and how much it negatively impacted their task performance.
I agree with your point for the HN crowd reading it but it's not intended to be read by us soley. Yes, there have been some real shockers, I'll grant you that but I have read some decent scientific and some IT articles that do generally capture the specifics and ELI5. I think there's been a shift in the quality of the output, for sure, especitally around politics there too (although that's an entirely different story).
Tangentially, I used to work at the beeb a few years back, in a technical department (non journalistic). There's some fantastic people there that are extremely talented and do try to uphold Reithian principles, it's just unfortunately spoilt by others with different motives.
Even if Windows 10 has problems with scattered settings, old style programs vs new style apps, default apps and start menu annoyances, Linux Desktop annoyances are on a completely different level.

The huge Gnome 3 schism, that lead to many different Gnome forks. And consequently GTK is more of a Gnome 3 toolkit rather than a universal toolkit, which will affect non-gnome GTK apps.

And if you manage to pick a desktop, hopefully by avoiding Gnome 3 because it constantly changes workflow and uses buggy JavaScript plugins, you realize that you will probably have Gnome 3 installed anyway because apps or the distro having dependencies to Gnome, if you don’t want to settle for old forks of those apps with less features.

And if you didn’t pick Gnome (or KDE) it is a good idea to install a compositor if you don’t like software rendered desktop like the good old Windows 9x days.

Be sure to turn the compositor off if you plan to play any games, especially if you thinking about playing on Wine. Or accept to always play in full screen. This will of course annoy you every time you need to look up something online.

If your game doesn’t run well, just add this unknown PPA that will installs nightly compiled graphics libraries (who wouldn’t?).

And if your computer freezes mid game, sorry you didn’t change the virtual memory size before because it is a fixed size. Tough luck.

And then of course the entire X vs Wayland situation.
Completely agree, there is a lot of opportunity here. I have extensive experience using Solidworks, its PDM and another vault software (Adept, don't get me started). Collaboration on reasonably complex assemblies is rarely worth the effort, it's easier to communicate in other channels and link up at the end. File versioning is needlessly complicated and often frustrating, especially for less tech-savvy designers.
I was surprised the article didn't mention how conspiracy theories give people:

1. A feeling of control, e.g. "Now that I know the truth, people won't manipulate me with their lies!"

and

2. A feeling of superiority, e.g. "I'm smarter than all those sheep who don't see the truth!"

Besides the biases mentioned in the article, these feelings must contribute to people believing conspiracy theories, or so I would think.
Sorry to say, but that article is 6 years old. A lot has changed since then. Yes, you need broad spectrum, but the point of my post is that those labels are not always telling the truth. You do not always get broad spectrum sunscreen from a bottle that says it is broad spectrum sunscreen.
Sometimes you are looking for deeper insights in some equations that can only be achieved by finding symbolic solutions.

You would never figure out that black holes are a solution to the Einstein field equations of you just threw a numerical solver at it, for example. (Bad example because that's arguably the easiest solution to them but I hope you get my point.)
This model doesn't take into account time of day, but many do. But those mostly seem to do so incorrectly, as far as I can tell. They tend to use the measure of "UVA/B incident on a horizontal square meter". However humans are not flat horizontal surfaces - and in fact a lot of my exposed skin is more vertical than horizontal. Therefore I think the correct measure should be "UVA/B incident on a meter-diameter sphere" or similar (where absorption from the atmosphere is the only contributor, not merely foreshortening). I was unable to identify numbers for this at all when I looked into it - does anyone know of a model that does this properly? Or just number of how much UVA/B is impacted by this?
The awkward thing is that there is always a dissenting or misaimed fandom who sees an action no matter how horrific as a good thing. "They oppressed everyone don't do it." is read as some as "They have power over all if you do it nobody could stop you."
It worked for this one because we knew the answer beforehand and the best approach. Its not like we can generalize this. Change some of the terms and poof unsolvable
>I don't know where you have been for over the past 5 years, but not only did some of those not disappear, they had a massive resurgence (in the US/Canada, at least).

They definitely almost disappeared, but had a small resurgence, not massive.

>"Emo rap" has been all the hotness over the past 5 years, just look at artists like Lil Uzi Vert or Frank Ocean. Skrillex,

This is hilariously wrong, nowhere near reality. Frank Ocean doesn't have a single reference to "emo" anything on his Wikipedia page. Skrillex is solidly EDM/dubstep, not emo.

>Skrillex, one of the most successful producers and artists of our time, went back to his original emo rock band and recorded a single with them to a wide applause.

That barely made a blip, not even 3 million listens on YouTube and Soundcloud.

>I don't see how those things are mutually exclusive. Plenty of non-binary/genderfluid/etc. people would count themselves as a part of those groups, just like cis/straight people would.

The entire non-binary wave didn't really come about until the outlets of being emo/scene/goth ran out. Being non-binary in 2018 was the same as being emo/goth/scene in 2008.

>The point you were trying to make would have been indeed interesting to look into, if the reality matched a bit closer with what you were claiming was happening to those emo/goth/etc. groups.

It has matched reality, almost to the T. Frank Ocean being emo is not reality.
Does anything modern support this? Does the remarkable? Because this would be killer for me. I have terrible hand writing and being able to type without hauling out a keyboard would be great for notes.
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Depends on your definition of "impossible" ;-)

In high school, I transformed x^x into e^(x log x), expanded that into the Taylor series, and integrated term by term. I got a "solution", but it wasn't closed form - it was an infinite series. And, for a given error limit, it probably converged more slowly than a decent numerical integration. So, not worth much. But I "solved" it...
> The reason the US has freely flowing funding is because the VC has an immense amount of cash from the previous generations of successful Unicorns. So why was it (and still is) easier to raise unicorns in the USA ?

You're ignoring that all of this money initially came from massive investment by the Defense Advanced Projects Administration (DARPA) which funded the semiconductor industry in its infancy, which funded the creation of the Internet, which funded the creation of mainframes, which funded the creation of personal computers, and continues to provide massive funding to tech companies. Heck, their decision to choose Microsoft DOS over IBM OS/2 for the US DOD literally solidified its rise as the dominant operating system. It's requirement that all parts must be multi-source-able is why AMD and Via were created as additional manufacturers of x86 processors. But it also funded PowerPC and even provided significant funding to ARM.

Sure, we don't have much socialism here (USDA farm "subsidies" not included), but we do have very strong, protectionist-welfare capitalism.

So you had the combined might of the US government founding the creation of the computing industry. That let companies take massive risks which left tons of people making tons of money before private VC even really became interested. The IPOs of the original tech companies funded the creation of half of the current major VC funds.
on the other hand, when I visited Ireland a couple years ago I was kind of shocked at how common sports betting establishments were there, much like you'd see payday loan-type places here in poorer areas of the States
Well that's unfortunate. In this cabin dream, do you have a family or was your intention to live in a cabin in the mountains in isolation?

Regardless, perhaps make it a goal to do this when you retire. It will give you something to work toward and possibly quell some of your regret.

If it's on your mind this much, and I'm no expert here, you might want to talk about it with a professional. You can't let this stuff bottle up and eat away at you from the inside.
through the api

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation...

there are also many open source wifi location databases that can be downloaded and queried locally

devices listening to ssid broadcasts for this purpose are common at grocery stores, malls, political protests, and more