skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a reMarkable 2 and I really enjoy it. Before the weekend, I can load it up with pdfs of all the articles and books I hope to catch up on. Then I can spend all weekend reading them with natural light, marking them up, drawing notes, etc. Productivity with battery life measured in days, without any eye strain, and no internet distractions.

But it's not an IPad! It's always funny to hear it compared to tablets since the main value proposition (to me) is the e-ink and the distinct lack of tablet-like features. It's a replacement for physical bound books and paper notebooks. That's it. Do your paperbacks and composition notebooks have good OCR, search indexing and a mountable file system? Nope, and neither does the remarkable :-)
We discussed it before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26734647
I've seen people downplaying the contents book using arguments like "these kids are already looking at porn, so who cares?" Whatever, I don't have an issue with that. Been there, done that.

But how about this one? What if you're one of the many kids who want to but can't get laid in high school? Seeing teenage sex normalized by the school itself could lead to all kinds of additional insecurities.
> // The fact that we have to do this at all

> // is stupid, and the actual maneuvers we need to go through

> // are just painful. If programming were like this all the time,

> // I would quit.

Yup. Exactly why I refuse to ever work on Windows again, and won't even bother targeting it from other platforms. Total waste of my time and talent.
One thing to keep in mind is that when values of an asset are inflated, the nominal price of the asset can change to match the underlying value of the asset (ie price falls)or the value of currency can change to justify the current price of the asset (ie price stays the same and the currency weakens).

I think people are biased towards assuming the first one whereas the are structural reasons relating to Ray Dalio's long term debt cycle argument why the latter is more likely at this specific moment even though historically the former happens more than the latter.
I've exaggerated only a little about js frameworks. I've had a PhD from Geoff Hintons group do manual QA once for a few months. Far worse things occur on the regular, nobody really cares about highly theoretical concerns such as "waste of potential" in practice.

Some FAANGs even have a policy of hiring talent just to deny it to competition. Figure out what they'll do after you hire them, no real planning on that part.

However, the larger point remains: people in science labs for some reason stay in the lab. Why? Maybe they just like complaining or suffering? Maybe so, but if they want to - they can quit any time, but they for some reason remain.

I had a friend from Fermilab who left to do quant finance on wallst, only to return to physics because he found finance boring, even though very well paid. Much better paid than FAANG.

You just happen to like what you are working on at FAANG. Not everyone does, and plenty burn out and leave the field entirely.
If you were still in that era i'd say make sure the drive is in DMA and not PIO mode!

The drives would operate in a fallback mode called PIO unless you installed specific drivers for the DVD drive. The symptoms you describe sound like this. 1.6Ghz was definitely enough for MPEG2 decoding.
Check out Squared Away.

Military spouses working remotely.

Great way to make a diff.

Very, very happy with the results.
had to double check I really arrived there from hn...
What about their own "on device/phone" hash creating/matching surveillance set up?
There are a lot of surprising bits of cross-pollination visible in Latin American culture.

Here's another one: "al pastor" meat was brought to Mexico by immigrants from Lebanon, as an adaptation of shawarma with local spices.
> material that may cause discomfort to readers.

The world is going to discomfort them more often than not so they better train also by reading all kind of books or competitors (in the broadest possible meaning) will eat them alive while they rest inside a comfortable bubble.
It is called a "covid wave". Cases go up, then go down. Some people, mostly with frail systems, will sadly falter, not dissimilar to how flu operates. It's pretty clear that we are going to have at least one of these waves every year, no matter what the authorities do or not do. What it is not clear yet is whether it's going to be one wave, or several. I hope one. We'll know by May.
I think the Jetbrains Runtime as sub-pixel AA for Linux in particular[0].

I just tried running idea with adoptopenjdk-17 on macos, and it failed to start up, so it doesn't seem that simple.

[0]: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/JBR/JetBrains+Runti...
Eh, cats are cheap. Most of the money is spent on drugs and liquor. Quantum computing is well known for its party atmosphere.
I am quite skeptical that "Matter" (formerly CHIP?) will fix anything.

https://xkcd.com/927/
These are investors and traders who want a return on their capital, they are seeking alpha by any means that makes sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(finance)

Again, they do not care about fiat or the Austrian school of economics. Of course they know what those things are but they do not care about them at all.
Can you recommend specific tape drives and/or generations? I have never considered it but you make a good point. Maybe this is the time create a backup of my irreplaceable Google photos collection.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the info.

Not a virologist, but I'm still hoping the virus can be cornered after a few more rounds of mutation/vaccine cat-and-mouse - the spike protein cannot mutate arbitrarily as it still has to be able to perform its primary function, i.e. breaking into cells.
https://archive.md/pKwwg
I have a similar reaction to people that hate Google Glass, Spectacles by Snap, Ray-Ban Stories etc...
Why not have equal representation on the board in the first place. Seems like someone thought, how can we solve this by stirring up as much controversy as possible.
Article author just accidentaly rediscovered austrian economy.
Regulatory clarity, extreme edition: anti-money-laundering and crypto
I doubt it. The land is just cheap and widely available over there. Also, they know workers will be attracted to being a short commute from Round Rock. The storm that caused the grid failure is a very rare occurrence ("100-year storm").
If the money was earned from legal activity, I don't think a conversion to crypto is technically money laundering either.

Perhaps the profit from holding cryptocurrencies could be considered laundered once converted back to INR since the profit itself was illegally earned.
> The most important thing is who gets the new money. It needs to go to individuals, not borrowers, not institutions

Government by its very nature must generally give out newly created money to the wealthy (handing out money to the public directly does not get low income housing built, or highways, or military bases, or warships, or scientific research... To "get shit done" you must give it to already-wealthy contractors), and by its current construction, the interest payments to create that money goes to banks. Now if you want to argue that "government maybe should not be doing a lot of that shit", perhaps you do have a concrete proposal for reducing the wealth divide.
They also blacklisted entities in Pakistan and Russia:

In addition to the Chinese groups targeted, Washington put 13 Pakistani firms on the “entity list” for activities related to nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. It added the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology to a “military end-user” list that makes it more difficult to sell technology with military applications.
This.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Remember, the use of encryption above a certain keyspace is still considered exporting arms, and subject to ITAR.

They will let more suffer from the bubble to allow swift legal reform.
I live in NJ, directly across the street from a fire station. I also occasionally work nights to connect with team mates in other time zones.

You will always see the flashing lights but they have never blasted the sirens at night.
I hope they get more data, having an increased risk for 2.5 months (the limit of what they tested) is very different than a few years or a lifetime.
Hate crime
I got my first PC in August 1994 and it had a Mitsumi 2X ATAPI CD-ROM. Everything I read said that Linux didn't support them yet. The drive worked fine in DOS/Win 3.1 which is what the computer shipped with.

I downloaded Slackware 2.1 on floppy disks and installed from that. By the next Slackware release my ATAPI CD-ROM was supported and I mail ordered a CD and everything worked fine.
LOL, did you check which institution this “research” came from?

I did:

The International Heart and Lung Institute, Palm Springs, CA

LOL, Palm Springs. I am extremely skeptical.
You can even buy their pre-installed box, ready to go.

It has some warts, but my automation would not be viable without it. I specially like the NodeRED integration - even if I think that NodeRED is quite quirky and %#@!% sometimes, it's still neat to be able to write automations without programming much. I do plenty of that on my day job. Also a great visual aid to explain to non-technical people.
Well, that’s the whole article. The “spoilers” sidebar itself specifically popped up today.
Austin is utopia of sanity compared to Toronto where I live.
Would you feel the same way if someone looked at them and commited the image to their memory?
"Chickens actually evolved as a jungle species"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tree-range-c...

I think I once saw something similar about cattle but I cannot find any reference.
In my country it is illegal, so I would expect at very least an order to block the site if they are not going to comply with the law.
Namibia Readies Bidding for CSP in 2022
No setup is.

How many nines of reliability does your home automation setup need anyway?
So I just spent some time looking at all of these you listed. With the exception of libGDX they are all essentially desktop-only (Win/Mac/Linux).

LibGDX appears to support iOS/Android and HTML5 desktop browsers, but not consoles (Switch/PS/Xbox).
You'll like it. Don't cheap out too much. I think the polish that careful manufacturers like Prusa add is worth paying for. I started with a Tiertime printer and it made me so unhappy that I bought a Prusa i3 a month later. Skip that step and go right to the good stuff. The best step for me was that I got the kit, so I put every part together myself. When something breaks, I know exactly how it's put together. (I have broken something by being an idiot and ... printed a replacement part and was back up and running the same day.)

The Prusa Mini is very reasonably priced, but I haven't used it and I'm not sure the build area is enough for what you have in mind.
Scientific advisors have been sounding the alarms on the incoming wave here for months and have strongly demanded preventative measures be taken, in particular vaccination (calls which have mostly been ignored by the government).

So the scientific majority opinion seems to be that you are not at all helpless against those waves.

> cases go up then go down

Yes, the wave will end eventually, probably around easter if going by the previous waves. Question is how much death and damage it will cause until then. That's something that can very much be influenced.
How to Hide Images/Photos on iPhone and iPad
I have the feeling of having read something similar in a sci-fi story.

As it often does, nature beats imagination.
77% if you count land for grazing, otherwise useless to agriculture. If you go back 500 years you know what your find on that land? Just as many Buffalo as there are cows today. Feeding the world means using ruminants to turn grass into protein.
Is that 3 copies per each of the 2 media, ie 6 copies?
They're trying to use the unique nature of cats to exceed the theoretical maximum of 1:1 bits of entropy. This would create an entropic contagion event and that spread a heat death out into the universe in all directions.

Cat ladies are evil nihilists.
There was a similar report two years ago from NASA that the world had gone greener over 20 years primarily due to India and China. But I couldn’t find the breakdown of it by country.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/human-activity-in-china-an...

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144540/china-and-in...
Participatory Resarch
Published in a peer reviewed journal.
Contending with the Pandemic, Wealthy Nations Wage Global Battle for Migrants
Wow, first time I've heard about Monogame, I wonder how it'd compare to Godot.
https://archive.ph/IpBq
You were coding in Kotlin and TypeScript 16+ years ago?
This is not the answer the Australian government is looking for.

The solution needed by politicians is highly technological, expensive, allows us to keep selling coal, and isn't understood by people so can be easily spun into ridiculous tales by politicians.

"Just plant trees" would be ridiculously expensive and is totally impractical, the politicians would say.
I also use the Wemo switches at home. And yes, for the most part they are reliable. I really like setting schedules based on sunset and sunrise. The integration with Google sometimes fails as the article notes (I interpret as a timeout), but if you set up scheduling in the Wemo app, it's stored locally so they can run their programmed schedule without going out to the internet. That's a plus. I also control them via SOAP calls from the local lan so if Wemo ever gives up the market, they are still usable.
What I don't understand why or where you would use this .h file.

It can't be part of an end-user application, because looking for Visual Studio on an end user's machine is futile.

Maybe if you're writing some kind of extension for Visual Studio?

The comments in the header point to some lack of understanding on the author's part:

// HOW TO USE THIS CODE
//
// The purpose of this file is to find the folders that contain libraries
// you may need to link against, on Windows, if you are linking with any
// compiled C or C++ code. This will be necessary for many non-C++ programming
// language environments that want to provide compatibility.
//

This needs to clarify the exact situation. Because the normal end-user application cannot be looking for Visual Studio materials. It is completely wrong-headed. They either do not exist, or else were installed by some other application, almost certainly in its own folder. (On this side of year 2000, no application installer should be putting libraries into a system folder.)

The folders that contain libraries you may need to link against are found by default; you don't have to tell your program where to look for user32.dll or kernel32.dll.

Any non-system library is in your own folder: you ship that library with your program, and it goes into C:\Program Files\YourProgram\bin or whatever.

Any .DLL files which are in the same folder as your .EXE will be found by it automatically; there is no need to write code to look for anything.

// We find the place where the Visual Studio libraries live (for example,

That place is nowhere, on 99.999% of the installed Windows machines on the planet.

Unless you mean some other application's C\Program Files\OtherApplication\bin folder, where you have no business looking or using.

// libvcruntime.lib), where the linker and compiler executables live
// (for example, link.exe), and where the Windows SDK libraries reside
// (kernel32.lib, libucrt.lib).

kernel32.lib is a kind of liking stub; the library per se is kernel32.dll, which is a system component.

.lib files are not even required for using .dll files; for instance, you can use .dll files via dynamic FFI in various languages, without a .lib file.

Projects built with Visual Studio generally not have to worry where kernel32.lib has been installed; the tooling takes care of that. Programmers don't have to specify that themselves in project files.

It could be a concern if you use some external build system; it would then need some configuration mechanism to point various toolchain-related variables at all the correct directories. A program using "microsoft_craziness.h" could be built which runs on the that build machine and produces a batch file full of environment variable assignments, or whatever. That I can see.
Devil's advocate: Doesn't that mean the person who sold you the house now has the money to invest?

It seems to me that wealth isn't being lost. It's being transferred to those wealthy, smart, or lucky enough to have invested in real estate.
How do you go about testing your backups? Like if you have 1TB of data, testing that all of it is valid is not trivial, and I guess that should be done every time you create a new backup set? Shouldn't the backup tool somehow perform this test automatically?
It does in other countries!
Your statement is too general to be a joke.
EV batteries: Cheaper way to recycle material developed in Japan
China and India Lead the Way in Greening (2019)
Umm, no. First off, it's diametrically wrong on the main takeaway right at the very top:

We're facing 25 years of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment for the whole world.

And while I don't have time to unpack a lot of the way-wrong predictions made, a few do seem to jump out:

By about 2005, animals are used for developing organs that can be donated to humans

By 2010, China is generally acknowledged to be on a path toward more democratic politics

And (cringe):

The vast majority of Americans who see their prospects rising with the expanding economy are genuinely sympathetic to the plight of those left behind.

Along with essentially no mention of the reality of climate change, the emergence of social media and its effect on the collective psyche (as opposed to simply "videophones"); rampant inequality and the plague of populist politics, etc.

TL;DR the original article gets a lot of stuff right, a lot of other stuff not so much or just plain wrong. An interesting read and not a bad attempt at holistic projection -- but "predicts with insane accuracy", well ...

let's just say it didn't predict the
The difference is the USD is the global reserve currency. And that’s not changing anytime soon. It’s a totally different game when the entire planet wants to (or has to) transact in your money.

It’s also justified as the USA is by far the most dynamic economy in the world and has the most advanced military there to protect your investment in USD.
https://youtu.be/83b_u5V51U8
Here's a good example
Mandatory software updates are not the problem. Having to restart devices to install any updates (plus the fact that it takes 10 minutes) is the problems. It's possible to engineer around that.
Source? Pretty bold claim to just toss out with an IIRC.

First, I haven't seen any indictments of any BLM rioters. Note when I say rioters I'm not including protesters but those who set fires and harmed people.

Second, while I'm against contact tracing apps in general for the reason they can be abused, I don't think they would be needed by LE given their ability to setup string rays, drones, and monitor social media.

Most of the BLM rioters and Antifa terrorists are known. Raz Simone is still free although he setup CHAZ, passed out rifles, and extorted public officials with political demands while claiming public land allowing 6 people to be killed under his "security".
Expat is when you’re white and wealthy. Black and brown people are immigrants
Zigbee or Zwave devices can have firmware vulnerabilities.
Why Some Dads Don’t Take Leave: They Think They’ll Be Punished
Am I missing something or is your system actually 3-3-1? I.e. more comprehensive than the 3-2-1.
Okay, that means the barrier to entry doesn't really exist.
It's a good question.

Those are second order digital money. They are not actual assets or liabilities on the central bank balance sheet. They are digital ious on a bank's balance sheet.

The difference here is that the asset and liability are moved directly onto the central bank balance sheet.

The reason this matters is because CBDCs are fundamentally about creating a hybrid fiscal /monetary policy tool that the central bank can use and allowing the central bank to digitally alter the balance sheet in a way that affects retail customers is the only thing that enables that.

As a side note, there is nothing which intrinsically ties these to crypto or block chain. You could implement this without either of those concepts.
Thanks Scott - I'm really enjoying sitting back and reading all the great discussions you've been having here and interesting questions people have, nothing makes me happier as a writer than to be able to spark something like that.
In a world where the cost of giving every single human being every book they could possibly want is trivial, we need to drastically rethink all of this, not the stupid and open censorship we see here, but the absurd friction that the old IP system plus Amazon creates.
> Just as many Buffalo as there are cows today.

I’m very skeptical of this. Citation needed please.
Thank you for this wonderful explanation of the mindset behind this.

Kind of like the google moonshot idea but with the desperation of the times.

The engineers themselves must've been in the position of having to say "Yes sir!" while all the time knowing it wasn't going to amount to anything.

I guess you could have multipart projects where each engineering party thinks their bit is useless but together it amounts to something.

And that is why I wonder .. what was the person behind this bit of wunderwaffen actually conceiving. Did they think they'd get a flying car? Or a 300kmhr supercar? What were they possibly dreaming up? We'll never know.

I look at this and see - at best - a fast-ish car that would experience enough aerodynamic effects to have miserable handling but nowhere near enough to take off.
> (probably from China)

Not only China, they most likely come from Wuhan where the pandemic started.
> sold to

Isn't that one of those "circular economy" things? As in "Here, we're giving you X amount in defense aid, and you're buying from us Y things with it."
From Reddit:

"1) It's a non-peer-reviewed conference abstract.

2) It's a single author. That's weird, and rare, considering a single person certainly didn't do all the work this abstract describes themselves

3) The single author is Steven Gundry, a "functional" medicine quack renowned for promoting lectin-avoidance diets as cure-alls.

4) It's absolutely impossible to ascertain the methods here.

Because the abstract is terribly written, it's almost impossible to work out what they're actually trying to report

I'm not a cardiologist, but from what I can tell and my general impression the PULS test is not a validated biomarker. The website gives no publications. The papers referenced in the FAQ are small and terribly cited. The test is marketed by numerous natural health websites. "