skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what makes SF, even hard SF, is not so much what can or can't be possible but the storytelling approach which falls out of it.

This is genre fiction, and genres have rules. For example, Romance is a genre of happily ever after endings. If you write what is ostensibly a Romance novel, but the heroine realises six pages from the end that her new lover is cheating on her and so she walks away unhappily and that's it, that's not a Romance novel, a Romance imprint would reject it, if you're a big name author they'd tell you to take it to a literary fiction house - otherwise go away and rewrite with a happy ending.

In SF the rule is "What if ...?", so you absolutely can have anything, unicorns, magic spells, faster than light travel, God can be real, but the story is about what else if that was so? That's where science comes into it. OK, so there are unicorns, what's special about them, just horses with a weird horn or anything more? Do people... ride unicorns? Eat them? Or maybe the unicorns eat people.

A fantasy kingdom with a rich gold mine can be dirt poor and yet money is somehow measured in gold, the thing they have plenty of, in fantasy you needn't explain, but in SF that's either a massive error or the core thesis of a novel.

On FTL specifically. I'm not a fan for reasons Charlie Stross explained when he gave up on writing a sequel I'd kinda wanted to read some day in a setting where he'd tried to tame FTL. FTL is time travel. So, you need to either embrace that, and have arbitrary time travel in your story (good luck producing a narrative you can write down) or come up with a water tight reason nobody ever does this. That's just a high cost it usually isn't worth it.

That said, the Clockwork Rocket series by Egan does just do time travel, but it also has different spatial dimensional layout, it's set somewhere way stranger than the setting for Incandescence, which is our universe albeit not somewhere humans could ever go. Still, I wasn't enormously happy with the outcome, time travel still ends up being sort of cheating even in the framework Egan creates. They do, as hoped, solve their impending disaster by going very, very fast though. Also they fix the patriarchy, which is way harder in a world where women inherently die during the equivalent of childbirth...
She's a columnist for The Torygraph where everything must be blamed on feminism. Also, the submission history for UnHerd tells one a lot about the site too - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=unherd.com
I would go further. I would say that people should be allowed to make up their own mind without unjust interference (i.e. censorship (such as shadow-banning) and artificial manipulation of visibility (such as putting 'fact-checks' in prominent positions)) regardless of whether someone in a position of authority (whether elected into government, bought into the board of directors or shareholders of some company, or just has mod privileges for whatever reason) thinks it's true or not. The people decide for themselves what's true, not the powerful.
In the eReader space. Kobo released their first eReader with USB C a few months ago with the Elipsa which is a 10" reader and in a bit of a different category. These are Amazon's first eReaders to have USB C too. Otherwise to get eInk and USB C you had to go with smaller players like Oynx and Boyue.
> Techy types are too quick to judge others as "idiots".

I wouldn't say too quick, probably just quick. Have you thought about that why that is ?

My running theory is that because people and skills in the tech industry have historically been discredited, they have developed a distaste for people who can't "deal with this computer shit".
It really comes down to your usage habits and preferences. I've found that I simply can't focus on reading on a phone or tablet, since there are too many distractions.
Peter Thiel is a sociopath, only out for himself. I thought this was already well understood. Is this some sort of revelation?
Wow. I didn't know Microsoft had a "metal" company logo.
> like funding Republicans that basically have sworn to dismantle big tech

This isn't the contradiction it appears.

The WSJ found Thiel brokered a secret agreement with Trump to stop Facebook moderation of Repub disinfo in exchange for a tacit agreement not to take regulatory action against Facebook.

Source: https://archive.is/WYV6m
I took a life-contingencies math course in college that used the life table notation. The instructor's background was actually in medical clinical trials, where as with life insurance, you start with a population, some of them die (or get another outcome the trial is testing for), and some withdraw or don't report back.
> Is the kinesis sufficiently wide enough? I use my split board slightly wider than shoulder width.

It's definitely narrower than my shoulder width, but I don't mind the slight turn-in of my hands, my wrists are still straight. I can still rest my elbows on the chair arms and type.
I think if we're talking about concepts at the level of OOP, we'd be comparing MVU and virtual DOMs rather than React. I learned to write UIs in F# through Elmish (used by Bolero), which was inspired by (unsurprisingly) Elm. React, also being inspired by Elm, was simple enough to transition to once I was comfortable in Bolero. It was basically MVU with components that have local state and lifetime function callbacks. I ended up tripping over TypeScript/JS more often than React

At the same time, I do know what you mean about the walled garden ecosystems. It seems unfortunate that every framework I pick up, I'm learning a new set of components everyone uses for things like virtualization. On the backend it feels less common to be using a library that's only relevant to your stack, and when there's a killer library in another language, you don't need to move mountains to use it.
Open topped cars are a nice compromise, you can always put the roof up or turn on the heated seats.
“Hey look, the browser loads each new page one at a time instead of loading them all in the initial load.”
Yes it's okay for this example. I think it can get out of hand.
I think this is solving a problem too literally: "I have a bike, but sometimes want to carry more stuff."

Though the problem is actually: "I have some stuff, and I want it to get somewhere"

It's cute that a little car can follow my bike home from the hardware store with my stuff, but I don't actually care about the following. Just let me summon a trailer, put my stuff in it, and tell it to meet me at home in 20 mins. That way I don't have to pick it up somewhere, or drive it back when I'm done.

Of course the issue is that self-driving isn't a thing yet, in which case I may as well drive the thing. Just give me some kind of cargo pickup scooter like a Stint (https://stintum.com/pickup/).
Shocked someone has not posted the article about why its so popular among al-Qaida. Always a fun read.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkebp8/casio-f91w-watch-terr...
Network effect, probably. One or two join, perhaps knowing why or because of their own circles outside the circle you're aware of. They know the other people (are still in touch from school) and encourage them to join, so you see a burst of activity among related (in a common fashion to you) people.

I've been watching the same thing happen over the past year or so as circles of friends from various periods in my life have joined. Often I see a burst of 3-5 people a month who are associated with each other in the same way they're associated with me (went to the same school, same school and major, hobby groups, bar trivia groups, etc.). It's normal, if you'd been on Facebook at the time it started you'd have seen something similar. The difference is that with Signal you get a prompt if you both have each other in your phone contacts, so you're notified when members of one of your social circles joins rather than having to discover them serendipitously (like with early FB, looking at friends of friends lists).
The studies don't contradict themselves. The German one asserts low certainty on the study result.

Are you from the horse-cock crew?
It is not. kindle enthusiasts were surprised Amazon neglected to put USV-C on their expensive flagship Kindle Oasis years ago.

For what it’s worth, the variance in behavior between USB-C cables is so large I almost prefer micro at this point.
> art school

> joining signal

> None of can give me a straight answer as to why.

No secret squirrel shit here, their dealer told them to use signal.
I recently discovered that the most popular tool used by scientists who do research using agent based modeling is based on Logo: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
No, for me it's just a laziness issue. ;) I just enjoy not having to hold the device. I can just rest my arms wherever they naturally would rest. Or put them under the sheets when the bedroom is cold. Etc.
GitHub makes tab size configurable (instead of hardcoding 8)
Four actually - I prefer the MagSafe+Qi.
The article indicates various unions did adjacent strikes until McDonald's set their pay to $22/h.

I'm not sure how hugely helpful this is without considering all of the knock on effects and what all of that means.

We could demand $50/h for them as well or otherwise demand that everyone in the country have the same pay.

It would be better if someone could make the case for some kind of net gain in having such prices fixed at any given place.
Maybe they joined to order pot? Several non-techie acquaintances of mine popped up last year on Signal all of a sudden, and in each case it was to contact their dealers. Granted, that may say more about my social circle than yours…
What is the use-case, exactly? The only real-life experience I have with wanting to turn ebook pages remotely is during the winter, when my hands are cold and even touchscreen-compatible gloves/mittens don't work well with the touchscreen sensor.

But if I ever truly got that desperate, there are several lines of Kobo and Kindle devices with physical touch buttons that would solve the problem.
NASA to split leadership of its human spaceflight program
> In any case, how do you retaliate if you have no idea who attacked you?

You get to choose who you want to attack, go invade your preferred targets? It worked for the US about 20 years ago. It's not a hypothetical, it's recent occurrence.
> Flow types (for JavaScript) can be complied into run-time type-checks.

Okay, so there are some, though flow is pretty obscure, and flow-runtime (which is the part which does this AFAICT) is even more obscure. I don't think this is a popular feature.

> Properly statically typed languages do not need run-time checks because the compiled code is already proven to be valid by the type-checker.

If you want that, just enable strict mode for mypy.

And if you want to interface with code that is not stirctly typed, just use runtime type checks, which will inform the static type system:

foo: Any = untyped_code()
assert isinstance(foo, MyClass) # after this mypy will treat foo as instance of MyClass.

Same can be done with other types of checks also.

So if you want runtime type checking that informs the type system, you have it. I certainly don't want runtime checks for what the type system has already checked for me.
How is this not free choice? Are you saying Microsoft shouldn't be able to impose mandates to use their online service?

Genuinely curious.
I still don't have a single USB-C device. Especially for something like a Kindle that doesn't draw any power, microUSB is fine.
Resubmitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28605813
How did they miss the increased mortality during he vaccine testing period? Sample size too small for representative casualties, or organized cover up?
These kinds of compensations are not unheard of at all in tech. While I'm not making quite as much as OP, I am coming close.
Sorry, sometimes I forget my expat living abroad situation is uncommon. I guess that could be considered “very long term travel”.
As far as we know, all SARS-CoV-2 variants can infect most mammal species. However this hasn't been studied in detail.

There is at least one other type of coronavirus which infects cats.

https://www.vet.cornell.edu/animal-health-diagnostic-center/...
Seriously?

Please, explain to me how an arbitrary number of RPs can collude to link a FIDO2 identity.
One of the oldest writings still preserved contains the musings of an old man, on the proliferation of writing, complaining that the young will now no longer have to memorize their lessons because it can be now written down and read. If memory serves it is Egyptian.
Are page turns near instant yet?

I'm on a 6yr old Paperwhite Kindle still, still have another 9yr old one that works too (these things last forever).
Same here. Thought about NOPE
What the 'proto' field is about in Linux 'IP route' output (and input)
I do the same in my module that enables increment operators in Python by patching the bytecode for two unary plus/minus ops: https://github.com/borzunov/plusplus
I haven’t used Next, can you explain this more?

> the ability to add imperative server-side logic cohesive with each page (getServerSideProps)

Our use case is an administrative web-app for managing a transportation network. i.e. you’ve got a bunch of cars and buses driving people around, you can use the admin web-app to see a live map of all the vehicles, see their itineraries, book driver shifts, configure rules about fares, where people can get picked up and dropped off, etc. It’s a mix of highly live/interactive content, and more static content.
Why? I've ridden hundreds of kilometers on both the Xiaomi Scooter Pro 2 (the tall, small-wheels kind that companies like Lime use) and a custom built electric kickbike and I don't consider them any more dangerous than a normal bicycle. They reach similar speeds and have similar acceleration and braking distances.
Google's advantage initially was speed. The other search engines were slower on dialup and riddled with advertisements.
That doesn't quite for without speed bumps, not in Eastern Europe anyway. Interrupted speed bumps every 100 meters can be a solution for bikes, yet keep cars under 25 kph. Residential areas should effectively be bicycle streets.
You could put together an OCR app for their phone that could scan the title and author from the spine of the book (or cover) and do a lookup against something like the Google Books API or Open Library to get the ISBN (or store the work in your account on that service).
I'm pretty sure people in Denmark are not as tied to gasoline as they are in the USA. The country is smaller to begin with, and likely has better public transport, cycling, and pedestrian facilities.

I guess the next major costs to compare are rent and health insurance?
Also it seems like a lot of agricultural water use doesn’t actually get to the plants. It just goes around the roots and sinks into the ground.

Could we grow things like almond trees in large concrete basins and collect any water not used by the roots?
Amazon's the scary-looking flea market on the wrong side of town with the barbed wire on the roof and a couple tough-looking guys conspicuously hanging out out front, with half the stalls full of stuff that definitely "fell off the back of the truck" and the rest selling fake Rolexes and shit.

Doing that at scale doesn't make them more trustworthy. Or it shouldn't. Then again I guess if you're a super-creepy stalker at large enough scale then you're Facebook or Google and instead of getting probation and a restraining order you get billions of dollars, so maybe it does work that way.
The hardware's fine, but software-wise Kindle is still a horrible ereader. It still refuses to read epubs, the de-facto ebook format used by the rest of the world. Its native formats are terrible: mobi is an ancient, horrible proprietary binary format. If you get a nicer modern mobi but use "send to Kindle" to transfer it, Amazon inexplicably and silently removes all advanced formatting, effectively downgrading it to a mobi from 2002. azw3, its own proprietary format that competes with its other two proprietary formats (the third being kfx), is kind of a repackaged epub but more annoying to create, not open source, still lacking in many of the formatting features we expect from ebooks in 2021, and incompatible with "send to Kindle"!! The fact that Amazon has three competing proprietary ebook formats, each more terrible than the last and one of which literally can't be sent to its own devices, should be telling.

Kindle software is software made by people who hate reading. If you want an ereader, get literally any other device. Don't support Amazon's disdain for the market it has a stranglehold on.
I’m with you :)

It’s certainly nothing new, but the “buzz factor” impresses people who don’t know what it’s for and they implement it everywhere thinking it’s an improvement. The trend/gimmick culture in frontend is a real thing.
A non-zero number of websites have followed web twitter in making '?' produce a hotkey display.

Naturally tumblr isn't one of them.
>but why not just drive that instead?

cost of compliance
I did the opposite. Wore a Seiko 5 for a while until I got tired of not trusting it, then switched to an F91w. The Seiko is very good for an affordable automatic, but it’s hard to beat a quartz for “it just works”.
I’ve had the oasis for a couple years so can’t comment on this vs base. I will say I would never go back to reading on an iPad which I did a long long time ago. Waterproof is also key for me. Being able to read sitting by a pool, on a boat, or at the beach and not having to worry makes it infinitely more useful to me.
You are totally right. Still, the platform could be considered a step in that direction. For example, a further improvement of the terms and conditions could at least force the services to agree not to store any data. If I manage to find at least a service willing to use the platform and some users, it's definitely something to look into.

Edit: I will improve the landing page in the near future, to better show the purpose of it and also to make it less vague.
The useValidation hook needs to add data to the dependency list of its useEffect or else it will run on each render unnecessarily.
I would only note that blogs originally didn't have an "audience" outside of the (then small) blogging community. The goal wasn't to amass followers or become an influencer, but just to share things you discovered and write about them in an interesting way, amongst a very small (certainly by modern web metrics) group of appreciative and like-minded people.
What good alternatives are there though? I failed to find anything good a few years ago when I needed an e-reader.
It seems like this is essentially the same technology, but they use the "needs to follow a bike" property to deal with the fact that your proposed AI trailer likely wouldn't be street legal, and also as an easy way to deter vandalism or theft.
Yeah, I do worry that I'll get distracted by shiny objects if I don't have a dedicated device as well but haven't experimented with it so I'm not sure.
Amazon has deployed contactless palm-scanning system for retail
I know the netherlands actually taxes fuel something like 100%, which is why people try to buy gas in germany and belgium when then can.
For reasons enumerated by others I prefer the e-ink screen. I also like that it's lighter weight (I use a paperwhite from ~2018), and that I can mostly use it one handed. It's also significantly less expensive.
This is a beautiful device. I wonder how much it improves over the existing one, though.

Thinking about it, usb-c cable and faster ui are valuable. Larger screen, probably not a big deal.
Isn't that sort of what science is though? This is just probably the most public exposure of the scientific method that I'm aware of. Experts sometimes disagree, then we test the heck out of something, then we hit a consensus. This stuff is usually wayyyyyy slower than this, it's a miracle we hit consensus as fast as we are on anything related to Covid.
> The Catholic and Christian tradition recognizes the need to evangelize, but not the legitimacy of coercion.

Nice ideas, but they are not reflected in actual actions taken by Christians over the course of history (same goes for most religions and related ideas). Theorycrafting about >1000 year old stories didn't help the Cathars or the Sephardim much, and it isn't going to help anyone in any real religious conflict nowadays either.
This bookmarklet marks where the bottom of the page was when you press space to page-down[1]

I modified it so the marker is not a red line, but a transparent gray block marking the part of the page you've already seen. (Sometimes I couldn't find the red line before it fades away, and I find the gray block less distracting.)

Then I added it to ViolentMonkey (user script) so it's always activated without having to click the bookmarklet.

[1]: https://github.com/phuhl/bookmarklets#scroll-better-with-the...
Deskto.ps – share annotated screenshots of your desktop
Go regularly to your local surf beach/kite spot/skate park/climbing wall/Games workshop/organic vegetable collective/Latin dance club / or whatever your interest is.

Show that you are interested. Talk to people. Ask questions. Give praise when you see cool stuff. Accept praise when it's given. Don't bring your job with you. Be respectful and interactive. Let connections build over time.

No app needed!
Sorry, they did reduce it:

> In order to achieve that minimal increase in size, Amazon has shrunken down the bezels on the new Paperwhite.
The only distraction for me on an e-ink screen is the awe at how it close to paper it looks like.
I completely agree!

What I intended with my comment was to point out that the idea of new frameworks being created every week is a bit of an exaggeration and that it being the reason frontend development is fragmented is just totally incorrect.

React or Vue on their own with a sprinkling of helpful utility libraries will get most projects 99% of the way there though, and often times that _is_ simpler than trying to put together your own system for server side rendered pages and template composition.

Of course, if you're making a blog, you don't need any of this, but for _web applications_, I don't think I'd reach for SSR anymore.
Lots of sci-fi reference in the comments but the first thing I thought of when reading the article was the movie Pandorum.
You just reminded me that if a Tumblr conversation went on long enough the quotes became smaller, pushed out of the div to the right. Literally unreadable lol
I've mapped Ctrl to the big middle-lower thumb key on both sides; and Alt to the smaller middle-upper thumb key also on both sides. Space is right thumb rightmost big key, backspace is left thumb leftmost big key. Windows key and Delete are small keys; and do require a bit of a reach of the thumb. But I don't use them much (e.g. for delete, I'll do Ctrl+D). Enter I put in its usual place (i.e. not a thumb key). In Emacs I use Ctrl and Alt more than Enter, Space and Backspace. And I like to press them with opposite hands like shift, hence I have them on both sides. This helps avoid stretching.

When exported as a text file from the Advantage2, my mappings look like this:

[=]>[`]
[tab]>[\]
[caps]>[tab]
[up]>[down]
[down]>[up]
[`]>[=]
[lalt]>[lwin]
[ralt]>[delete]
[\]>[']
[lctrl]>[lalt]
[delete]>[lctrl]
[rctrl]>[lalt]
[enter]>[rctrl]
[']>[enter]
Great! It's too bad that python's jump instructions only accept constant targets or constant offests (which seem like they end up being equivalent), otherwise this approach could also support labels-as-values.
Well, vaccines based on a single aspect - the spike are weaker than a natural infection immune response, but of course the patient suffers the disease which stimulates the immune system with all the carried detritus of an infection = a more comprehensive immunity.
I suspect later rNA based Covid vaccines will add some of this detritus code to broaden the response? This will complicate testing, but will improve the vaccines.
Glad to see that they did reduce it:

> In order to achieve that minimal increase in size, Amazon has shrunken down the bezels on the new Paperwhite.