skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with frontiers is that one culture’s “frontier” is another culture’s homeland. Look what happens to native populations every time they encounter a more technologically advanced civilization.

My worry about a lawless infinite frontier is that it will encourage lawless exponential exploitation. What happens when one of these spacefaring humanoids innovates a planet-eating or sun-eating machine. Just a vessel that consumes an entire planet. Or a death star type weapon?

Now you have a civilization of innovating planet eating humans roaming and multiplying throughout the universe like a virus. Does life exist on the planets they eat? Who knows or cares? Who would stop them if it did? I wouldn’t leave it past the human mind to implement this.
16GB isn't a lot when developing, but that doesn't mean your final code should need 16GB to run. My old desktop has 32GB and my laptop has 128GB, both at their motherboard limits.
With one small exception in Swedish. We still do it backwards for some numbers in the 10-19 range. 13 = tretton (three ten), 14 = fjorton (four ten), and so on.
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I recently bought a 16/1TB Air over a similarly specced 14” Pro. I can see the advantages of the Pro, but the Air also has things going for it - smaller and lighter, better battery life, 100% silent in absolutely every use case, no moving parts. I love this computer. It’s without a doubt the best one I’ve ever owned, even better to me than the 2012 15” Pro was for it’s time.

However due to the bloat of modern software I might have to upgrade to a 32GB machine in the not so distant future. Hopefully there Air-class machines wont be limited to 16GB for too much longer.
It recommended me straight outta Compton, and I watched it. Thanks
From personal experience, KLM is quite lax about it.
I think the binary representation is the essence of floating point numbers, and if you go beyond the "sometimes, the result is slightly wrong" stage, you have to understand it.

And so far the explanation in the article is the best I found, not least because subnormal numbers appear naturally.

There is a mathematical foundation behind it of course, but it is not easy for a programmer like me. I think it is better to think in term of bits and the integers they make, because that's what the computer sees. And going this way, you get NaN-boxing and serialization as a bonus.

Now, I tend to be most comfortable with a "machine first", bottom-up, low level approach to problems. Mathematical and architectural concepts are fine and all, but unless I have some idea about how it looks like in memory and the kind of instructions being run, I tend to feel lost. Some people may be more comfortable with high level reasoning, we don't all have the same approach, that's what I call real diversity and it is a good thing.
For me, I see:

- No OLED screen

- Limited RAM

- No ECC option

- Fixed NVMe of a small size

- Can't have more than 1 NVMe for raid1

- No amd64 core for legacy software

It has advantages for some people, but not for me.
To be frank I don't know if there's any serious 'workflow' involving ebooks that doesn't involve using calibre or equivalent software to ensure they're DRM free and in the format you want.
I was considering an reMarkable instead of an iPad Pro with a pencil back in 2015. But with the cheap iPad having Pencil support, I would never consider it today.
PDF fetishism and blindly disliking HTML because it's associated with the current web is such an old trope. HTML and CSS are good at making hypertext documents, they are in fact much better at that than at making applications, despite that being the most popular use case lately.

No one is making you write web apps, websites are still first class citizens for web browsers.
There may not be, but it's a pain in the ass. To strip Kindle books, you need to use an outdated Kindle PC client that uses an old encryption and may or may not break at any point in time, stop it from updating, track down some shifty plugin for Calibre that handles like a house of cards, etc.
Lots of issues running docker and other strange segfaults in VM.
> Aren’t our desires just a reflection of evolutionarily advantageous behavior?

I think that’s a great question but it’s not quite there in this context. Think of a virus as being more like a rock. We don’t attribute wants or desires to rocks (though maybe there is some fun and interesting philosophy to uncover here).

The reason to be careful is that you’ll never be able to think like a virus (or a rock) and so when you think that the virus might do X or Y you’re inserting a human bias to the virus that may cause error in judgement. Of course we’re just rambling on the internet but I guess it’s a good rule of thumb or at least something to think about.
Can’t wait to hardcode styling for each individual display that is out there!

go latex! Make everyone miserable, not just the math people.
Delta airlines certainly thought so to the degree that they themselves don't call it "Delta" but rather the numerical designation 1.617.2. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/delta-air-lines-really...
I do wonder why you care about optionality and priority and what those even mean and how it's better in any way. I don't think it's better at all. It's different.

You remind me of a website I found way back for "learning French as a German". The site was actually pretty decent. But then it started teaching you the numbers and the clock and it started off with how the French way of saying numbers and the time is so much more logical and better than the German way. I closed the site immediately and never opened it again and I did not continue learning French at that time. Stopped right then and there.

Priority and optionality do not help with parsing written dates in an internationalized context. And that is true before computers as well.

2021-02-03 is easy to parse as the 3rd of February 2021 because there's no country on earth that uses this date format to mean the 2nd of March 2021, otherwise it wouldn't help at all.

I'd say that they both depend on context. Let's imagine the two of us are talking about "going camping this month". Year and month are optional. If we're talking about "going camping later this year" the year and day are optional "let's go in February". Let's say we're trying to figure out whether to "still go camping this year or next year". Now day and month are optional.
Has anybody used onenote on the boox note air 2?
I get that. It's the power of the brain's user of generalizations, i.e., patterns or classes, to represent things. The brain clearly also handles disambiguation far better than we consciously know to do. It seems like the brain essentially has a class named quatre vingt and it has a pattern of 4*20 that resolved to the concept of 80 which means 20+20+20+20.

It clearly comes from a lack of having a separate term for 80 or even 90 for that matter the way that German and English do; which I find peculiar too, considering that French a Romance language (not the heart romance), while the people are largely Germanic in origin, i.e., the Franks. It makes sense when you consider how the roman numeral system functions and that the Franks were in far closer proximity to Rome than the Germans, including the ones that moved to the British isles and became the English, i.e., Anglos and the Saxons, Germans. It seems that those interplays and intersections with the cultures are what determined how French language numbering worked based on when and where and what they had contact with.
Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
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EU companies issue formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive integration
I think it's obvious that I'm speaking about older children, as I'm speaking about exchange students...

Which yes you could argue is somewhat out of context as the original discussion is for children around age 7.
> Would highly, highly recommend it for traveling though.

I travel with a thinkpad nano: smaller, lighter, and it has cellular wireless.

Yet it can be stuffed- I put a 2Tb NVMe (Sabrent) in mine, and I'm now waiting for larger NVMe to hit the market
Hah hilarious. Let me just go tell management our bar is now “never breaks” rather than “ship it”.
It seems that if you're going to put in data, it should be done rigorously, otherwise, as you say, you're just, at best, distracting from the main idea.
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Quite fascinated by this video by Veritasium.
You don't think that; publishers however think differently. If you think it's user-hostile, they think it's right way.
But it's significantly more common as a last name than any of the other greek letters. 席 is number 213. For context, Armstrong is the 213th most common surname in America. There are still many tens of thousands of people with that surname, it is clearly recognizable as common a surname, and you have definitely heard of at least one Armstrong.
> It may be a source of science denying on the left, I'm not aware of that but I am aware that it is is a main source of racism from the rabid right.

This attitude is really not helpful. Science is never racist. It may not meet your expectations, but that's something each individual needs to come to grips with, it's not a reason to deny science, especially something touching very important policy questions -- e.g. is it true that the SAT test is racist because it highlights group differences?

That's a question that science can answer, and throwing around wild accusations of racism against everyone who tries to study this issue objectively does not promote public policy or science. That leads to a society in which key policy initiatives are based on a denial of human nature.

And here there is a special problem with the (historical) left because going back to Rousseau and certainly through Hegel and his admirers, there is a belief that human nature is fundamentally malleable and plastic. That everyone is made of the same soft clay that can be molded by education. But this is just false. And science is clear that it's false. Yet denying this basic truth of human nature leads to terrible education and social policies. And we are seeing this play out with significant human damage in California's education policy. Large numbers of lower income students are being harmed because people in California's education bureaucracy continue to deny science.

So please pay attention to what is true, rather than focusing on whether certain scientific conclusions are culturally acceptable to you.
AFAIK, It's not questionable, there is no gray area. On the US it's a crime, almost everywhere else it's perfectly legal.
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Stop deploying shit then. Also, I am very good at fixing systems even when drunk. Lots of practice.
It’s a sensible decision wrapped in disingenuous spin. The stated reason was that it’s a common name, but it is apparently not. Giving this as the reason rather the abundantly obvious reason is cause for reasonable criticism.
Nothing personal meant. I didn't understand your NWO acronym, and some searches of it yield some very strange results. I'll guess North West Ontario since you identify as Canadian? I know that area well. Or, to be pedantic, you might be a Canadian in North West Oklahoma or North West Oman (which would really blow my mind that maple syrup would be so popular there)? All I meant was that the major food processors who make breakfast syrups really don't go out of their way to differentiate themselves from true maple syrup.
Ahem, exponential forms go back to Archimedes, and no design (or intent thereof) assumed windows or offsets in FP. It’s just a fixed-precision floating-point notation, no more no less. The problem persists with decimal tax calculations like $11111.11 x 12% == $1333.33|32, where 0.0032 is lost in a monetary form. It also persists with on-paper calculations because there may be no room for all the digits that your algorithm produces (think x/7) and you have to choose your final acceptable precision.

At least part of this is a fear that if I don't properly understand its dynamics I will misapply it

The explanation that you like can’t save from it either. It’s not something you think through and just write the correct code. Quick exercise with the “new” knowledge you’ve got: you have an array of a million floats, add them up correctly:
… I don’t know what to say to this comparison other than the brand “corona” beer is doing just fine and now profiting from joking about things.

One is a brand, the other is a world leader with nukes in a country our previous president was regularly stoking racism against. There’s also been a massive influx of Asian hate crimes since president Jyyynah & coronavirus.

I do not recall hearing many crimes against delta airlines because of any conspiracy theories involving them.
> Do you have kids? hobbies? friends? Do you like to go fishing on weekends?

Do you like having a job that gives you money to pay for all those things as well as the basic ability to, you know, live? How far do you want to take this? Is working 40 hours a week taking time away from your children, friends or hobbies? Of course it is.

But nobody owes you a living. A job is you trading your time and your skills to someone else in a way that provides that person value. There are going to be parts of that job you like and probably parts you don't.

If you really want to avoid oncall then fine, do it. That will likely limit your career opportunities because some jobs will require it or your coworkers may be rewarded (monetarily and careerwise) because they're doing something you're not. There's nothing wrong with that choice but at the same time you don't get to complain because others benefit from doing something you won't.

> but... it doesn't have to be that way.

For 24/7 production services then who exactly supports those services?

> I'll never have those nights and weekends back that I spent being on call for products and services that don't exist anymore.

There's a pretty good chance that nothing you worked on will exist in 25 years. What's your point?
Personally I use a Boox e-Ink tablet, which just runs Android. That means I can just install the Kindle app and read Kindle books without any fuss. I do hate DRM with a passion but sometimes I just want to get on with my day and this solution works for me.

I really like the look of the Remarkable though, I just wish it ran Android.
I got one and it’s so effortlessly fast, I can just open it and do stuff in one smooth motion
The filtration and pumps in Butte are suprisingly world class.
The memory needed to efficiently compile an application isn’t the same as the memory needed to run it.
I see the author's point.

However it focuses almost entirely on the idea of documents/information retrieval.

The web would not be at today's scale if it focused on written-word documentation. For better or worse, most individuals are spending their time online for entertainment.
That definition is a bit dated. Evil as a result does not relate to evil with intent, and using it in that context is odd in modern times.

To make my example a bit more concise, if your financial planner lost you money on the market would you ever tell them, "You did an evil thing"? Of course not, but it did result in harm to you, regardless of their intent.
> But, do you think that people who attack or racially abuse Asians because of the virus will care that it's not in the top 200. Xi is a pretty well known name because he's China's leader, and it will most definitely be used against them.

So the fact that a very small number of people may act in undesirable ways means that we all need to walk on eggshells and treat China specially even as the country’s leadership acted in irresponsible ways throughout the pandemic? In short you’re arguing that neutrality (in naming) and accountability (due to origin) are less of a priority because of a small number of bad people? Where does that end? It feels to me a bit like caving into the terrorists’ demands and its logical conclusion seems to be “don’t say anything negative about anyone because someone may do something bad with that sentiment”.
> I should note that in theory there is a gesture I saw referenced in the onboarding materials to go to the "next" page, but I never could figure out how to make it happen

This makes the whole article seem un-serious to me. It seems like there was either a defect with the author's device, or they couldn't take the time to Google "turn page remarkable" and find this help page showing the (very intuitive) gestures listed, with videos: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000958211.... This is absolutely not something I had trouble with on my device.
Could someone explain this to me?
You tried Delta flights but you didn't try Omicron flights :-)
Being slow and inefficient in the middle of a war is the same destructive result as being dishonest or malicious. It still costs lives. It doesn't matter that there was no malicious intent.
> It's only backwards for the last 2-digit numbers. Once you go into the hundreds and beyond, it's read from left to right.

Well, no, because “twenty three thousand” will be “three and twenty thousand”. Ditto for millions.
> "I purposefully chose to create a nearly identical username to an existing user"

Is that even surprising? Some names are just so common that people use them all the time and ends up as John, John_ , John-, John1, John11. John100
While true, its highly unlikely Omicron actually exploded into existence in the last 2 weeks. It's likely been circulating for months and we've just now discovered it.
Crypto is a weird space. Firdt thing to make clear is if OP has a vested interest in another blockchain platform
I was certain the title was a joke. After reading the article, I’ll continue to assume this is an elaborate joke for the sake of my sanity.
FE is not an alternative, we're building something separate with the same team (just a beta, experimental side project).
> That being said. I wonder how much of those kinds of complications lead to higher IQ and higher education test scoring. Simplification also dumbs down, stunts the mind.

I would say more that simplification makes the boring bits easy and allows the mind to concentrate on more interesting higher-level concepts. As someone who has attended a range of educational institutions for the same courses, one thing that really stood out to me about the "top-level" ones was that there was none of this "life must be hard" attitude. For the core material, the teaching was excellent and designed to make it as easy to learn for students as possible to learn. Then while "lesser" universities were examining students on those core materials (often with questions they'd seen before), the top universities asking novel questions on material that hadn't even been explicitly covered, but which the students could reasonably be expected to answer on because they had a really solid grasp of the core stuff.
It’s just not enough when it’s a multi-service backend that you want to run on your local machine, plus IDE, a browser, and a few well known electron/react native apps that play music and let you chat with your colleagues.
People on Earth will care about Earth, people on Mars will care about Mars.

Do you give up on US problems just because you have lost relatives in Europe? No. Do your lost relatives in Europe give up on European problems because a lost relative moved to the US? No. Neither of us has ever met them, but I can still confidently say "no" because that's just not how people work. We have plenty of things to worry about, a mars colony altering basic psychology shouldn't be one of them.
It was never a science organization, it mostly a coordination and standardization organization that organizes medical responses. If a Xi variant wouldn't be called Xi variant in China that would just cause confusion. Better have a name everybody uses then sticking to the order of an ancient alphabete.
Well, the publishers aren't entitled to enter my house and check.

If bits and bytes enter my home I can do anything I want with them within that private property.
You aren’t following. The hard fork lets me double spend the tokens from those blocks.
Those people would be classified as hospitalized inside two months though.
The value of the NFT (EIP-721) standard is not the currency you may or may not extract from the representation (picture) of the code on the network.

The value is that it allows for ownership of a specific asset that cannot be argued against. It is immediately accessible, communicable, and you can verify ownership of said asset.

Instead of making nfts for land on the moon, replace the asset with property deeds. And replace/automate whatever you can cost efficiently in the property deeds process and infrastructure with blockchain.
I would say the general perception is that it was extremely cringey.

Obviously they found a large enough audience that disagreed but I don't think they were a majority.

Obviously anecdotal.
The author has a few silly points, as pointed out by others - but plenty of valid criticism.

The basic problem with the Remarkable is that it's useless without the $8/month "cloud" plan because that's the only plan that enables its primary feature: handwriting recognition. That means that very rapidly it has a TCO approaching or exceeding, say, a used iPad and Pencil. A device that exceeds the capabilities of the reMarkable in every regard (even on the most basic level: an iPad doesn't require a network connection and cloud service to do handwriting recognition and drawing simplification), even before you get to the massive ecosystem of accessories and apps. This device is a one-trick pony that is expensive and requires its own special food.

They're also more than a little shady about their refund/return policies. If you don't buy the cloud "trial", you don't get the "free" trial/return policy. The cloud trial is a nonrefundable 3 month $24 fee.

They have no defined return/warranty policy if you don't buy the cloud service; it's literally "go look up what your rights are, we'll do that." This is buried several pages into their site away from the product page.

I've never seen a consumer electronic device company say that nor make it so hard to tell what the warranty and return policies are.

I've never seen a consumer electronic device company tie a return policy to a cloud service purchase.

In the last discussion about reMarkable I believe several HNers had return/warranty issues with them, too.

That doesn't even begin to get into the privacy concerns with them being what appears to be a principally Hong Kong based company. They may have some offices in the Netherlands, but everything on their homepage points to HK operations for some reason. Where are the cloud servers based?
Surprised not to see a mention of gemini. But ultimately it's the same spirit. It's in the air. Society and economy re-rooted itself over IP (let's find a cute acronym for that). That said I don't see the sad web trend stopping, my bet is that it may very well evolve into ubiquitous world wide allocation web where the network will track and optimize exchanges ala bitcoin/ethereum (don't jump on me yet, I'm not promoting crypto.. but I think they're a hint of how information and physical systems will intertwine).
Not "4×20", but "4 20", and in a single word that means "80" without thinking about 4 and 20.

When you say eighteen, you think just "18" and not "8 teens". (Similarly, when you say "backwards" you think of the direction, not of "back wards")