skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m intrigued why companies are fighting so hard over what really should be a simple/boring commodity bit of software. There must be a good reason for it, given the huge amount of investment.

What’s the game of 4-d chess that I’m not seeing?
I wonder why for coffee you have it decaff but you are happy with tea, that has more caffeine than coffee.
It should not. ITA Matrix is a well-known tool in the industry, and anyone even closely associated with the airline industry is aware of it.
So... An eInk laptop wouldn't be for media. It'd be a different product with different pros/cons. Easier on the eyes. Better in sunlight. Easier on battery. Quite usable for reading, emails, code and any "mostly text" use.

To the OP's original point "why doesn't this just exist..." IMO, it could, but it would need to be a different product class. Just sticking the monitor onto a windows machine isn't good enough. It needs its apps/etc. The market is probably much smaller than the phone/tablet and laptop/desktop markets. Perhaps potential vendors don't think it's big enough to support the necessary OS, apps & such.
This is what killed my interest in crypto. I was fascinated by the idea of money as a technology, but in reality, money is a culture.
Docker images are different in local and production, they should not be
I have so many important accounts attached to my gmail so I created a bunch of backup codes and hide them in various places
MS Teams is the best way. Worth the dollars.
That's why I mention judgement: we expect OS vendors to make a judgement (that fact is what the top post seems to be missing).

And Microsoft makes a bad judgement now.
I've found it too but then the usage of it brings some limitations you know and basically makes it unusable as laptop.
> Longest line length!

> like a thousand fucking characters

can't wait to enjoy this on my 14" screen

> pesky 80 column limit

that pesky limit is there to protect my sanity against shitcoders (which some are forced to be in shit languages)

so, please no
No postgres actually.

Matrix.org has terrible performance, it's really a proof that synapse doesn't scale well.
In what planet are you living these days?
I have no idea why would anyone choose Angular (or Vue) as a JS framework in 2021. React has clearly won this ballgame (for now).
Classic example in security UX how it's not done.
Serious question: wouldn't just turning preferences of a normal monitor to black/white give you the same result? And is e-ink really better for eyes? Not sure I've seen research in this regard.
I wasn't attempting to make a value-judgement about whether something /should/ have these dependencies, but only to point out that if you think this is comparable to C-based projects you seemed to be pretty out of touch with common practices in that domain.

I take your point that NIH is a large thing driving this sort of divergence in many languages, with some (such as Common Lisp, and C) being more notorious than others.

But I'd say it's just as common in other languages for programmers to pile on needless dependencies. E.g. how many Rust/Node.js/Java etc. projects are using some "standard library++" to e.g. get better memory behavior for strings, but for whom string allocation overhead is never ever going to be an issue?

It would be an interesting metric to check what % of the code in a given library is commonly used by its consumers across languages. Even if you only used 1% you're implicitly assuming some of the maintenance overhead for 100% of it. E.g. if it won't build on an older toolchain that's now a hassle for someone packaging your program, even if it's in the 99% you don't use.
Media consooomption device
I'm not saying I'd reach matrix.org levels, but I am kinda anal about having something that could reach those levels. So that my users won't experience issues. Because once you pick a matrix server implementation you are pretty much stuck with it. Migration would require a lot of hours of converting users, and might not even be possible depending on how the passwords are encrypted.

I know people who've been hosting the same XMPP server for decades. So this really shows the immaturity of Matrix. I still believe in it but it needs some more time.
How does this compare with the Dasung Paperlike 25.3?
Looks like the same E-ink display, but perhaps different driver?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGblzUc_Z1I

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-253-the-first-2...
There are lots of situations where being very cautious is objectively the best idea - so it is a mistake to categorically reject caution.

Being excessively cautious is a mistake when the stakes are low and the benefits outweigh the risks. It is also a mistake when a decision needs to be made and no new information is going to arise. But that is contextual. It is sensible when dealing with situations where mistakes are easy to make and costly to recover from.
They have the same performance only in low performance CPUs intended for embedded applications.

If you want to use a RISC-V at a performance level good enough for being used in something like a mobile phone or a personal computer, you need to simultaneously decode at least 8 instructions per clock cycle and preferably much more, because to match 8 instructions of other CPUs you need at least 10 to 12 RISC-V instructions and sometimes much more.

Nobody has succeeded to simultaneously decode a significant number of compressed RISC-V instructions and it is unlikely that anyone would attempt this, because the cost in area and power of a decoder able to do this is much larger than the cost of a decoder for simultaneous decoding of fixed-length instructions.

This is the reason why also ARM uses a compressed encoding in their -M CPUs for embedded applications but a 32-bit fixed-length encoding in their -A CPUs for applications where more than 1 watt per core is available and high performance is needed.
I’m honestly impressed by how detailed most of the emojis are (on iOS at least), even though they’re mostly just shown at tiny sizes. Nice attention to detail.
Microsoft isn't forcing bing as the default search engine because their judgement is poor. They do it out of malice.
Alright, instead, knowing this, I shall simply change the configuration of your terminal emulator to use a wrapper script I wrote. It'll inject a script into the shell to alias sudo to my evil variant. The evil variant will instead of calling whatever you wanted with sudo instead call itself and first worm into the system with root, then continue execution with what you wanted. A simple scan should reveal running services and the executable will disguise itself as those, ideally by writing to files that the original sudo command would have written to. Like, if you sudo crontab -e, then I shall simply worm into your crontab and wrap access to it to hide the actual contents. Once that is done I can go into manipulating your audit to hide myself before continuing with more nefarious things.
MS Teams has a free version now.
> they didn't have an option to send OTP to my phone number to reset my password

This is good, really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam
Good timing, I’ve been meaing to ask HN: what’s the best book on “sleep”?
> A 20-minute nap provides an energy boost comparable with a cup of strong coffee (without the later crash).

This is not true for me. If I get a 20-minute nap in the middle of the day, I wake up wasted. It takes around another 20 minutes for me to get really awaken.
I think we will be stuck with JVM on top of k8s container on top of linux VM on top of kvm on top of linux forever
I think the first person doing the claim should provide evidence, but anyway:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-disease...

Here you can find linked three studies by the CDC that support the idea that natural immunity is harder to get and less effective (besides, as others have said, there's the non trivial chance of side effects or not even surviving the virus)

I don't care about what the "experts" think or say, I care about studies.

Update: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x#ref-CR5 reports many studies that claim that we should be vaccinating people after a natural infection to get "super immunity", but that is different from what the OP was claiming (natural immunity > vaccine immunity)
You get what you pay for.

(Sorry for the obviously totally useless comment that is not helpful in any way. But seriously: I've seen this happen to a number of people, and you're just out of luck - computer says no. If you value your digital history, host your mail and file at a party where you pay for the service - that makes you a customer not a product)
Telegram, Signal, Mozilla are counterexamples... Have a large charitable donated cash balance sitting in your account, and your organisational motivation is all different
Yep, UK is the US for dev costs what India is to UK. I assume there are companies in the US out sourcing to a UK company that is the out source to an Indian company and the US companies have no idea.
Interesting.. My only real interest "in" crypto now is the idea of ubiquitous planet wide management of petty stuff (ala vechain supply chain management). To me there's so many lame jobs, waste and friction that could be absorbed by systems like these, because a lot of inefficiencies are just information tracking and forwarding.
> mouse cursors

Touchscreen and keyboard commands. I use those systems this way and efficacy is high.

> You really have to crank the speed to use a mouse cursor ... and that comes with a huge quality loss

You must mean, "use the A2 mode". Not really, on the contrary: on GU (Grayscale Update) they mouse cursor will leave a trail that can be more helpful than an annoyance.
System software gives you a ton of control over the user. It's easy to say "oops that doesn't work" when they use apps that don't make you money or give you more control. With an app the user would just install something else but switching OSes means work, not just installation but adopting the differing paradigms.
Did the 80s Really Have the Most One-Hit Wonders?
I'm quite sure virtio-gpu for OS X will _never_ happen unless Apple approves of it. 3D drivers are like the most closed things in OS X.
I love that, because it's sadly very relatable. We had to create support ticket for a defective server. It was impossible to move the "support" forward, because we didn't know if the server smelt burned.

In the end we just said: "Sure whatever, it smelt like burned electronics."
It's not remotely the same thing.

If you haven't looked at an E-Ink display try tearing a page from a magazine or newspaper and comparing that to reading the same size of font on your laptop or PC. E-Ink is practically indistinguishable from reading a physical piece of paper, whereas the backlight alone from an LCD eventually gets tiring to stare at.

Another huge difference is being able to use E-Ink displays in direct sunlight.
The main difference is that there is no backlight, so it's more comparable to a piece of paper (reflective light source) than a light bulb (direct light source)
Google Flights allows multiple alternative airports as well
A supply chain Christmas carol
In certain major urban centres in canada, the freeze thaw cycle makes so many potholes. It’s the probably more likely the drunks who drive straight right over them. The rest of us zig zag around these tire eaters. Some roads get so bad during the spring that you memorize a route.
Ask the same of adtech. The attention economy has wealth in mindshare. No one knows who IBM is but everyone knows who Microsoft is for one reason: everyone runs Windows.
Yes, it works well enough; but it's sometimes a pain, but not enough to move away
E-Ink doesn't emit light. There's lots of research that shows problems with looking at light-emitting screens all day.
I'd absolutely love to try something like this for programming, but it's much too expensive for me to try out on a whim
Why should I put any weight to statistical results that are made with some unknown "formula" and is not presented in a standard way.

Instead of using the normal measures of mean, average, standard deviation and percentiles, we just used "formula" and voila, here is answer. Ok I'm going to continue to be sceptical of such results..
> It needs its apps

Out of experience: not really.
My wife's grandmother while being treated for cancer last year, was literally taken by ambulance (god only knows why) from one side of the medical campus to a building on the other side (3 minute ride) for around $9K. This is Chicago, so hopefully not typical. :-D
There's a whole area for this - pharmacokinetics. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_half-life#Rate_equa... for examples of e.g. first order models (exponential elimination rate, etc.) It has to do with protein binding dynamics among other factors I have no idea about. Remember that you are dealing with biological systems.

Some of these processes to do with elimination and clearance are very much non-linear and are modelled with diff equations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiologically_based_pharmaco...
This is probably a hard challenge, because I assume the data is semi-scraped.
Let me add just one thought on the single term searches: I do not think that a good search result for such terms as "philosophy" should focus on the primary meaning of the term alone. As someone else had pointed out, the beauty brand can be quite important for some people. If we look at a search engine as a tool that needn't present me with near perfect results from the outset, but something I can have a dialogue with to find something, than it is best that results for single terms presents me with a variety of different special meanings (and probably some useful suggestions how to refine my search). Perhaps you can scrap the Wikipedia disambiguation pages and use it somehow to refine your search results.
Take that to the Feedback form, I'm sure the product team would appreciate such detailed feedback.
I particularly enjoyed www.every-layout.dev
In France it is mostly Pozidriv, electronics and small appliances are usually Philips, Ikea is hex, we still see slotted screws but they are a dying breed, Torx is getting more and more popular.

Still, when you go to your local hardware store, the kind of cheap screws that are sold in bulk are usually Pozidriv. Torx screws are also available but usually in more expensive, branded, retail packaging.
Hipmunk was the absolute best, I miss it everytime I have to search for a flight.
I couldn't agree with you more. People complain about free services like if they were directly paying for it.

I have my main email service through Protonmail and my GMail account is for all the spamming email stuff.
Can you point me to where in the document I should look?
I'm very pro-linux by personal preference, but I always find it silly when Linux tools are billed as good. They're powerful certainly, but what we as a community should hear when someone remarks "Can Windows really be called an operating system?" is that our tooling is so supremely bad that, despite its raw power, people would rather deal with a locked down ad-ware mess than have to consider our tools.

We're not spoiled, we're just deviants.
eInk Inc. levies giant patent royalties on eInk screen manufacturers.

Plus

There are no 8 bit eInk controllers
Got it. Yeah, I can give this approach a shot.

One of the things I've been doing with this scraping project is "health checking" job posting links. There's nothing more annoying than clicking an interesting looking link on a job site, only to find it's been filled. (This is one of the lousiest parts of Indeed and similar, IMO.) I wrote some pretty simple routines

Caching solves the problem of potentially missing data while the scraper is running, but it doesn't really alleviate the network strain of requesting pages to see that they are actually still posted, valid job links.
The magical miniature worlds of terrariums
But therein lies the problem. Any system that tries to apply a blanket policy WILL run into these very real problems. Regardless of what the actual intent was (blocking drunk drivers in this case), the unintended consequences of this will be severe.
> This kind of stuff ought to be regulated somehow, one can’t lose access to one’s life.

You can't create regulation requiring anyone or anything be competent and responsible.

If you entrust your livelihood to a company that cannot be trusted, that's on you.
I perform a periodical backup of all my Google data with https://takeout.google.com/ if the sh*t would ever hit the fan.
I doubt an lcd display in a laptop costs a vendor more than $10. So that would make it a 16 million dollar company. If a E-Ink display costs $100, it would still only be a 160 million dollar company...
I am delighted to see that they have Linux support for their software. You don't see that so often, especially for such niche hardware. Really cool!
Since this has popped up I have started reaching for mozilla.org directly. Spooky times we live in where I trust so little of the sofware I run. How long until default hosts file redirects mozilla.org to bing.com?
Unless you use part of your free time to do things that you previously had to pay someone to do because you didn't have time.
IME you’ll also need to use isolcpus and affinity on the KVM threads to get stable GPU performance (with macOS or other OSes). Plus there can be some other fun issues depending on your setup, like having to flash a different BIOS on your card or having to deal with multiple devices on the same IOMMU domain (I had to pass through a USB controller with my card).
No manager would consider signing off on devices that don't make their PowerPoint deck look great. Without the corporate or consumer market you're going to struggle to find revenue.
I lost a lot of accounts because of this misunderstanding. I always use a VPN for work. I keep all logins and passwords in the password manager. But Google is very worried about my safety, even to my detriment.
It seems that this is not a problem or the US military wouldn't spend so much sponsoring the creation of games and sponsoring eSports.
This must be a PR nightmare for Israel, which brings me to my related topic of Israel's other major weapon in its cyber arsenal.

I think this falls under a type of disinformation. I don't know of any other state that has effectively weaponized any/all criticism against it as religious discrimination: antisemitism

Here is a basic example:

> (in no way am I promoting antisemitism or encouraging racial stigmas but this example is so common and the least harmless I can think of) "all Jews are greedy" - clearly antisemitic

> Israel is guilty of murdering non-combatant children in Gaza - has nothing to do with Judaism. Involves the very sensitive problem of murdering innocent children. Is part of the complex Israel/Palestine political issue. Yet this could also end up being spun as an attack on Jews and being antisemitic.

I think getting labelled an 'antisemite' in a country like the USA is career-suicide. It does play into the conspiracies about Israel's influence, but my theory goes that criticism of Israel in a country like the USA is just wrong-think/wrong-speak. Getting to this level of disinformation is incredible. Hopefully the dictators in the Middle-East(and customers of NSO) don't catch on and start weaponizing criticism of them as Islamophobic ...
Not, it's not, according to Apple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t92B-qbLnNE.
I call this "benchmark by visual inspection". It is completely useless. Yet, many top devs that I know seem to think that they can emulate a complex chip in their head better than... the chip itself.
It's not my job to find out how they made their secret calculations, it's up to them to show it if they want to present credible results, otherwise it should be ignored.
> If you value your digital history, host your mail and file at a party where you pay for the service - that makes you a customer not a product

And then the hosting company has a fire in their datacenter and there’s someone on HN saying it’s still your fault because you needed to do backups as well. And then you have a backup issue and there’s someone on HN saying it’s still your fault for some other reason.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B...
Good idea, but I wish that there was an option to get backup codes without having to enable 2-step verification.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en&co=...
Sarcastically, I would say he paid dearly with his privacy and metadata, without ever giving it a second thought.
> Bare metal isn't the same, and who wants to dedicate a whole machine to one process?

1) I actually do that at work. A few bare metal machines each have to run just one large-ish process. If I had the time I'd really invest in a unikernel type setup just for the simplicity of it.

2) if you're using any cloud hosted vm to run your apps as the post describes you could benefit a lot from a unikernel setup. Haven't used aws et al much the last few years but at my last gig we hosted everything in their own vm,which would've been great to slim down hard.
Planet "Linux"?
Ask HN: Which one is more suitable to build a Hacker News app? Strapi? Parse?
I want to build a hacker news clone app using flutter to familiarize myself with backend frameworks. I know Google's firebase is a viable option, and hacker news database can be accessed through API call, but I am more interested in self hosted solution. While exploring for possible options, I found strapi and Parse. Which one is more suitable for this project? Which are the differences that I need to consider while choosing the right backend framework for a project?

Please point me to the right direction. Thanks in advance. :)
Why? Google owns ITA...
I have a legal/human rights theory that I've been trying to promote, albeit with basically zero zeal.

Crime is something that happens on the fringe of society and as such should be a relatively small problem. If it happens enough even if it's technically illegal it ceases to be a real crime because so many people think it's OK.

As such if something is to rise to the level of a crime we as a society ought to be willing to spend the resources to have a real human being make the accusation of crime.

If you can't afford to put a human in the loop, it can't -- simply by definition -- be considered a crime.

I'm sure there's a hole in my logic somewhere. There are likely big loopholes you could drive a bus through. But I can't help but feel that there's a nugget of truth in there somewhere. I don't think anyone should be able to be accused of something by a mere algorithm.
Weaviate Wikidata Vector Search Demo
Yup. This happened to me two years ago. Thankfully I hardly used them for anything important. They started freaking me out years ago and I've moved to self host everything.

People still send emails to my gmail address, including my own family. It forwards to swiley.net for now but that probably won't last.
Is it 1998 again?
mRNA COVID vaccines use the organelles in your cells to make partial copies of the novel coronavirus, which is exactly how the live novel coronavirus grows in your body.

The big difference is that the copies cannot make copies of themselves (they are only partial copies) so the viral load does not grow geometrically within your body.

Again: if the small viral load of a vaccine makes a person sick for a week, that person likely has a higher risk for severe illness from the (much larger) live viral load from a full infection.

Science does not yet understand why some people have more severe COVID illness than others, but it is an observed fact that some do. In some cases, even if they are otherwise fit and healthy.
On the linked page there's:
https://anchor.fm/s/7735d924/podcast/rss

It's also in the "more platforms" section right next to "Spotify".