skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The global reaction to COVID is highly relevant to this discussion. As with covid the secondary and tertiary effects will be vastly greater than the primary effects.

There is a fascinating logistics and timing feature to this whole topic. Aside from global panic'd masses. There is a huge logistical difference between sudden and unplanned electrical grid shutdown and subsequent black start vs a pre-planned five minutes outage (assuming we can predict impact to five minutes). Another interesting electrical utility issue is the radiological damage from a melted-down nuclear power plant varies exponentially with time... There's a huge difference in expected damage between whacking the coolant pumps a month in advance vs a day in advance vs a minute of warning vs no warning at all just no coolant flow.
instead of downoting provide some source you buffoons, audio detection in the cold war? it's up to you to provide evidence.
https://gearjunkie.com/biking/beach-sand-fat-bike

The bike has a 10-inch-wide ATV tire on front to give float. The company touts you can “easily glide over soft beach sand as well as deep snow, mud, high grass, gravel, and anywhere else that regular bikes can’t go.”

It has a 4.6-inch rear tire and a 500-watt motor for pedal-assist. A special fork lets you swap the massive rubber up front for a normal fat tire when less float is required.
Cool. Now I want to see Chess grandmasters playing a variant where every piece is a queen, save for the King.
In some states, there are solar farms that people and businesses can "subscribe" to that allow them to purchase solar credits that they can use to reduce their own energy bills. The way these credits are passed are through something called virtual net metering.

My idea is to allow homeowners to sell their excess inventory using virtual net metering. At least in NY, energy companies buy the excess solar inventory from homeowners at the end of the year, but it is at slightly more than the wholesale price of the energy, which is less than half of the true cost on someone's energy bill.

My hope is that if a homeowner could capture 100% of the value that their solar panels generate, they would be encouraged to maximize the number of solar panels they add to their home. Otherwise, homeowners tend to limit the number of panels they add to the amount of energy they expect to use, which adds complexity since the amount of energy someone uses can vary over time.

I still need to understand a lot more on how virtual net metering works, but that's the crux of it.
Killing God Objects in Flutter
'Phase IV' 1974 Film by Saul Bass (about intelligent ants)
Even if your wrists are straight, what are your shoulders and shoulder blades doing? How do they sit in relation to your spine? The kinetic chain is more than just hands and wrists
There is plenty of nonsense on HN. I'd like to evaluate it for myself.
you can get an old ereader at a thrift store for about six dollars. usually they don't have a screen light, but that just means i go to bed on time. they're often rootable but i don't even bother, i just side-load epubs and keep any wireless off. online services are all eol anyway. i keep around a couple at a time and give them out if someone mentions they need a thing to read. the batteries all still last forever.

what's the advantage of a new device? somebody convince me.
But this was only based on the spike protein.

Natural immunity targets far more locations than just the spike. Whereas the Pfizer vaccine only targets that spike.

So it presents a scenario with crippled natural immunity vs the full capabilities of the mRNA vaccine.

Which means in this "super mutant" scenario, the mRNA will always need natural immunity be effective, but natural immunity will only need vaccination if both the spike is mutated as described, and if non-spike targets are also mutated to be resistant.

Which is far more unlikely than the already unlikely "super mutant" spike.
seems like HN thinks this is a broken broken dupe.

possibly a cookie redirect @dang?
It could be for me in theory, I suppose. My ebook reader does have a "stand" option built into the case. But the screen size is only 6", and so I suppose I never found a situation where I'd want to prop the device a foot or more away from me, because then I'd be unable to read the text. And if I could read the text, the font size would have to be so large that I probably couldn't fit more than a paragraph on the screen before having to turn the page!
Bring if on readers with colors ink
You are incorrect. Collisions are trivially easy to create, there is no situation where md5 is a good choice.
> you are ready to deny your own conscious experience of reality

No, I just don't agree that it qualifies as truth.
I find that many of these principles can be distilled (and replaced) by the simple adage: what is the best way to write this to make my colleague's life easier?
https://hotwired.dev/
> For what it’s worth, the variance in behavior between
> USB-C cables is so large I almost prefer micro at this point.

For high-bandwidth or fast-charge devices, sure. But for an E-Ink reader that you charge overnight once per month? I highly doubt that it would be an issue.
Because everyone has tabs set differently, so code always looks wrong, even if you use the same editor. A space is a space is a space.
Good point, and my mistake. Can't edit it now.
Based on what I've heard from interviews from doctors and nurses, these people change their tune incredibly quickly once they have been diagnosed with Covid and start suffering from some of the more severe the symptoms of the disease.
Good point. Anyone reading these comments and wondering about it should check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle .
> In 2021, there's a dozen really cool SaaS launches on HN or Product Hunt every day. A compelling value prop and demo video is no longer a guarantee that people will just check out your product.

Speaking from the buyer-side of SaaS, I expect this is because users are starting to realize that they don’t want three dozen browser tabs open at all times to accomplish basic business functions. IT departments are realizing that siloing business operations in that many different apps means you need a massive DE team to keep everything integrated and in sync, hoping that these SaaS companies stay in business and keep robust APIs. No wonder data engineer is quickly becoming the hottest new role.
There's a nice bitmap based approach for enumerating n-queen placements described at

https://blog.cloudboost.io/bitwise-n-queens-in-a-tweet-9251e...
I’m sure this question comes up in high up meetings. What positions are taboo for this sort of thing? Offing enemies on foreign territory isn’t new. (poisoned umbrella tips, polonium laced teas, Hillary and her drones, etc.) but now that more remote means are available to more regimes and governments what keeps someone from liquidating a pariah head of state or their inner circle?

It would seem the big players have some kind of tacit agreement, but what happens when a second rate dictator uses this option?
Personally I still use a Kobo Aura One from ~2016. IMHO it's a perfect ereader: Larger form factor, eink, amber frontlight, and the 2nd-best renderer on the market. (iBooks being the best, but obviously not an option for eink.)

When using Kobo's kepub format, you basically get a modern Webkit renderer. (Note that regular epubs trigger the much worse ADE renderer.) It's a pity you have to use their kepub format, but fortunately kepub is just epub with some extra HTML. I've been hoping for years that Kobo will get its act together and enable their good Webkit renderer for plain epubs so we can stop having to make kepubs, but that hasn't happened yet.

Additionally I believe you can install other software like koreader on Kobos, so if you don't like Kobo's own software you have options, unlike Kindle.
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It is already super cheap and transported automatically. We just need to catch more of it. Rainwater capture will be the next big thing. Right now our idea of rainwater capture is letting it go back into the ground. That's fine, it kinda worked but not really. Now we need to capture more. Finally, yes, maybe everyone should get an RV style toilet, have no dishwasher and get their pressure reduced to 30 PSI.
Suunto and polar are two other's I've used
Part of the article makes it sound like there was no physical person close to the vehicle with the rifle, other parts make it sound like the rifle was merely AI assisted, whatever that may mean. At the very least people assembled the whole thing and probably drove it to the target location also.

At least the NYT article seems a bit better, and looking at the picture in the NYT article it seems like there were quite a few shots fired.

I wish there was some more detailed information here.
Try getoutline.com. it's open source too.
I would love an alternative. I've tried multiple Kobos, but I've had a variety of issues with them.

The Kobo Libra H2O had an extremely inconsistent backlight that was blue on one side, yellow on the other. The Kobo Clara HD had no landscape mode (why?), and some ghosting issues. I've heard reviews say the Kobo Forma has a barely-functional power button. On top of all this, the build quality just feels cheaper and more plasticky than the Kindle.

I really hope someone makes a better e-reader soon so I can stop supporting Amazon and their ecosystem.
That's one area where I feel like there has been a regression. Back when eInk ebook readers were new several had physical "flappy paddles" to flip pages, it was glorious. Now they all use touch or gesture controls, and holding the thing is not really a consideration.

Unfortunately because Amazon has little to no competition in the space and offers no choice, you cannot vote with your wallet as it were.
Yeah, it doesn't make a difference, and my use case is scrolling with just a mouse.
At least aggressive drip irrigation should be a default mode.
You can also compare the source code structure to the Azure Devops Pipeline agent's to tell pretty easily that the github runner is a fork what has been edited to process the somewhat different format of the actions YAML.

https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/
Is there any reason why Amazon doesn't license out their store (or make it accessible) to non-kindle ereaders like the kobo? I'd love to be able to read a kindle ebook on some of the other readers on the market. For a company that doesn't typically balk at making their products available on other platforms, Amazon is surprisingly locked down here.
Deff agree with electron.

> unrelated to the prior move from Gecko to Chromium/Blink

Is there publicly available reason for this move? No worries if there isn't.

No plans on forking from ff v ~70-ish with the servo stuff and going with the rust stuff or just more with chromium? Too much work and not worth it at this point or other tradeoffs? I like a lot of stuff you have been doing with brave (use the default search instead of ddg now in my ff fork) and wish some of it was in ff without me personally having to do it xD
There's a class action lawsuit filed this year against Amazon, alleging conspiring with the Big Five book publishers on e-book prices: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p...
Especially at a time when cities were dramatically fewer and farther between.
Follow-the-leader is much easier AI technology than full self-driving. Almost certainly we'll soon see this in cross-country tractor-trailer highway freight "trains" where only the lead vehicle needs a human driver.
OEIS Sequence for the n queens problem https://oeis.org/A000170
The big difference is that with the robot, the hit team has already left the country.
Another open-source e-ink book reader is PineNote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28190756.
Actually, I think it does: you cannot be using the core while it's doing the memset or memcpy, so it's technically not what I'm describing.
Even if it did: a cross-industry reference implementation would go a long way into making this a reality.
I like e-writers even more, I have a Remarkable 2. It's a great writing tool.
This makes me sad.

While I think we ideally shouldn’t build any more nuclear weapons, I don’t think we should prevent any country from doing so.

It’s so hypocritical.

Aside from that, this machine is disturbing, but not more so than a reaper drone. I’m not quite sure why they’d go through the trouble.
People in the nuclear non-proliferation community have been talking about this for decades. There were serious concerns in the Nixon days when he was sort of going off the deep end and really drinking a lot that he could order a strike too. To quote the indelible Kanye West, "no one man should have all that power."

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/11/donald-tr...
Love the creativity! Not only storing the data directly in the file, but also the clever hackery to make a single file that renders a page in the browser yet can also be executed in the terminal with Node. Very cool!
i almost bought a Kobo earlier this year but talked myself back into the Kindle ecosystem just for whispersync. while i vastly prefer reading on the kindle itself, i do often find myself reading on my phone during unexpected downtime. MOBI sucks but even self-converted epub MOBI seamlessly syncs progress.
I would expect very few considering how rare early cities were and how rare these low-atmosphere explosions are (and presumably were as well).
i didnt know that i really really want this. attach the kindle in soem kind of flexible arm on the headrest and turn the pages with a small remote control.
How suitable is it for reading PDFs with code/diagrams?
If you read my comment, I didn't say not having kids itself is a moral weakness. I said that moral weakness leads to a lack of desire to reproduce.
Amazon recently sent me a (refurb) Paperwhite 4 (2018), and its page turns are much faster than my ancient Kindle Keyboards (one of which had 3g, thus the free Kindle).

The new one felt like instant page turns to me and I like that the screen isn't inset, but there is something weird about the screen that I don't care for, so I went back to the Keyboard.
That's used to synchronize between devices, and you can disable it.
I definitely see situations where Gemini wants to be as bandwidth-friendly as possible, and certain clients auto-downloading resources from the same server would make it difficult to estimate costs/resources/etc.

However for external images available over http/s, I think that should be up to the client.
Here in NL, we've had cargo bikes like these in use for a while (century?) now:

https://www.nijland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Bakfiets-...

They exist in electrified form, and also smaller ones which are much more commonly privately owned (Dutch soccer moms drive these instead of SUVs): https://dutchcargobike.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bak...

Trailerduck does seem more ergonomic (lower floor) and suitable for a larger volume of cargo, but not sure you've then already crossed into cargovan territory.
A Lot of Rejection and 4 Years in “Stealth Mode” Turned into $21M in Funding
It’s not hypocritical at all, as the whole point is to maintain an imbalance of power and capability in one’s own favor. The public reasoning and ceremony around why we prevent others from getting this capability may be run through with hypocrisy, but the real reason isn’t.
An apparent major increase in battery life is good to see, because the battery life on Kindles has been going downhill for a while.

It doesn't help that Amazon insists on marketing them "based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13". This doesn't align with my reading habits, so there's always a bit of subliminal disappointment at misleading-promises.
Agreed. I refuse to use Yelp and hate that Apple doesn’t host their own photos of sites.
Because you don't want to keep 1 million dollars under your mattress.
How did they get the pick up truck close to him them? Put it at a stationary location that he usually drove by? Or remote/self driving? Or hired someone local that didn't know the full plot?
I've been using a Boox e-reader for months now, migrated from a Kindle. I've really loved it, particularly the stylus for notetaking. And if you want something cheaper, the smaller versions don't have a stylus or a WACOM layer.
Or maybe they watched her burn to a crisp from afar, did not go back to check and took the ashes for salt.
But you’re only talking about gasoline prices.
Threadreader link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1440014690831126528.html
Not the user you were asking, but the way we do it is that the OpenAPI/Swagger spec is auto-generated from server-side code (a C# .NET app with the ABP framework) during the CI build, and that is then used to auto-generate an API client (via swagger-typescript-api) which is what the frontend app uses.

When the backend team makes some changes, they notify the front-end team which then runs the auto-generation script, fixes the typescript errors (if there were breaking changes), and that's it. Pretty nice setup, IMO.
> The result is that DRM protections are everywhere

Not everywhere, in Poland ebooks are only watermarked, there is no DRM protection and you get epub/mobi/pdf copies of every ebook you buy.
Could you have something running with an invisible window, e.g. keylogger? Less scrupulous friends from way back used to talk about writing such things.
Kindle has an 85% market share so you’ll have to excuse us for not caring about the tiny “rest of the world”.
As an engineer I like these watches because they keep time extremely accurately. The drift on mine is something like 1-2 seconds per month.
There are plenty of places in the United States where there is little resistance to building more housing and the local government would love for people to come there and start businesses.

But they are not considered desirable places and they often end up on 100 worst places to live in the United States lists made by the same sort of people rationalizing their high cost of living. Amazon has apparently taken notice of this and decided to monetize it. But if it becomes a broken Orwellian dystopia like this camera system, that's a made for TV horror movie.

And if you suggest someone in an expensive place like San Francisco who is sinking into debt should move to a place like that and bootstrap you will hear an unending stream of profanities from them. Because the people who are willing to do that sort of thing have mostly already done so. Your priorities are not their priorities. They'll take the NIMBYs if they're close to their friends and family.
Why would it? It wants to push its ever increasing hardware ecosystem onto people and there probably is a tendency for a user who has one device from a company to keep buying more, whether a fire tv or an alexa.
There's an old adage about emerging market investing, which I don't follow, personally.

Invest when there's blood running in the streets.

The idea is that when everyone's too scared of political risk, that might be the time to jump in.

In this case, the blood hasn't even started yet. Xi is determined to remake the economy even if there are drastic consequences, and Evergrande is the beginning of those consequences, not the end.
Fantastic! This is extremely helpful, thank you.
that's interesting. I'll keep it around in a window and look at it to see if it helps.
std::optional and non-POD C++ types
Totally, I think if this article were titled patterns it'd be more accurate. Architecture has a more specific meaning (at least to me).

As for using state, when you use something like react-router, all those things, path parameters, query parameters etc are stored in state.

You can build hooks that use the hooks provided by react-router to retrieve those values in a useEffect in the relevant components. The hooks you build can be responsible for validating the path/query params, coordinating route changes etc.

The larger idea is to use your state as a means of coordinating messages that any component can hook into. So you could include in each of those detail pages a redirect route component that only fires when the hook you wrote detects that a page is invalid.

To take this to another level. You could build a Higher Order Component that automatically embeds this ability (a redirect component with a custom hook) into your item detail pages so that it's automatic.
Tell me again though, why did the local chinese food place's menu need to be in flash?

The issue wasn't really the flash games. It was using it for everything that ruined it for the people using it for what it did well. Standards bodies not keeping up with what people needed/wanted wasn't helping either. We're just now getting things like grids being usable, and some projects still can't use it because they're targeting browsers (that are well past being unsupported) that don't implement it.

Also, try picking up an open source game engine, godot or phaser or something, you might enjoy it. don't dismiss things because it's not what you know?
Looks very interesting. As a C4D/AE artist I’ve often wondered about having an animation tool for the web. Love this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decian_persecution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletianic_Persecution

The iniquity talked about in Revelation has occured, occurs currently, and will continue to occur. Revelation has predicted more about human nature and the nature of government than climate change scientists could ever hope to.
So let me give my review of using kindle for the last three years.

I feel like kindle have two kinds of users:

- Orthodox user: only buy amazon books

- Unorthodox user: sideload books because doesn’t agree with drm or any other valid reason.

Ways in which amazon mess with unorthodox users:

- you can only sync using mobi and now you have a completely crippled book with horrible formatting;

- you have an almost good enough formatting with azw3 + calibre css kung fu but now you don’t have sync;

- want to see the cover on your sideloaded book? You need to either use it offline or use calibre workaround disconnecting the usb and reconnecting after sideloading it.

- Want to jailbreak your device? if you’re on the newest firmware you’re absolutely out of luck

So, if you’re an unorthodox user, do yourself a favor and buy any other brand of ereader. God knows whatelse amazon will do to nudge us into their walled garden on the years to come.
Well let me give an opposite view: I've had 3 Kobos (Touch, Glo, Clara) and they're all excellent :) great software, hackable so I can install other apps, nice hardware too.
> because exiting the position at this point removes any optionality around a successful resumption

HODL to the moon!

This sentences makes me laugh because its just HODL masked in some professional speak.
This is the same company whose sales team celebrated their ICE contract with little American flag and eagle emoji (https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31...) and eventually decided to donate all their proceeds from the ICE contract (i.e., their motivation was helping ICE, not making money).

Everyone here lives under capitalism. Making money is fine. Saying "If you pay us, we'll take your money" is totally expected. But that's not what they're doing here.

But GitHub is now a MAGA-converged organization pushing a social agenda, and you can see it in the quality of their engineering.
Some more discussion in this thread

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/typing-sig@python.org/...

I have a fork of the "adt" library that supports sealed classes. For static type checking, I'm using a fork of typpete, a SMT based type checker.

It's not as user friendly as mypy or pyright, but in the longer term can be a winner because it supports user defined type constraints (aka refinement types).