skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don’t sell data, they let anyone who buys ads choose who the ads go to based on anonymized data.

You're using the current supposed state as if it excuses or negates previous behavior. It doesn't. Facebook has sold data in the recent past. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582

> If you’re worried about “foreign groups” there’s this Chinese app called TikTok that knows everything about every American under 30 that no one seems to be concerned about.

That's just whataboutism
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
But the problem is not the book itself. It's what you are looking for.

If you are just starting into any given topic, then you just need a good book, not the perfect book. And the advice parent gave you I think is more than enough for that. In any case, after you read the book, you can always purchase another one.

I have a friend that does this same thing. If we decide to learn how to play tennis, then he takes a month, does extensive research and purchases the most expensive and professional tennis racket around. Then when we get there, I use the racket that the tennis court lends you if you don't have any, and then I proceed to kick his ass!*

The same applies to my field (embedded/electronics). There are people that goes around in circles for months doing research for the perfect soldering station or oscilloscope (to start learning). Just purchase a decent one and move on!

Your abilities (in this case learning/knowledge) don't always come from the things you have or purchase. Whatever you use, it has to be just good enough for the task.

*PS: I don't mean you need or want to spend a lot of money.
My issue is that they have apparently no wiggle room or advance underwriters for the loan. They have a lot of employees that don't do data entry (because the process does that for you), that don't really think, that do take up money to be paid to be the voice on the other side of the phone. Given this, they could probably reduce staffing by another 10%.

As times get tougher, the edge cases will probably become a lucrative section of market. Rocket's been troublesome before. I doubt they have the capacity to pivot (given, again, their apparent lack of skilled brokers/underwriters).
One thing people forget, or just plain do not know, is that Bitcoin has "smart
contracts" (at least it had them when one BTC was around 0.2€ ... haven't
checked in much after that).

One example of those smart contracts was involving a trusted third party into a
payment. The smart contract in that payment would only clear if two parties
signed off on the payment. That's definitely a way to avoid fraud.
It's puzzling to me that you are getting downvoted instead of responses when it seems like your comment follows the whole progressive comment Hacker News thing... Or whatever it is they are going for this week.
Agree completely, have had the exact same problems after 10 years. I think that software developers need to force these issues on a daily or weekly basis otherwise the micro level of neglect becomes macro.
what does it cost and do they sell individual pieces?
The volumes are different because the technology is locked by a company that doesn't innovate nor mass produce their tech.
There are tons of applications of low power screen. It could even outweighs the OLED in term of volume.

Some companies in China, that ignore the patents, manage to produce 20 fps 23" eink screen.
Add color to it and it's the perfect screen for a lot of computer work.
I also realize that promotions are no longer a possibility for me. People are starting to wonder why I'm still a midlevel after 10 years.

Have you changed companies much (or at all) during that time? If not, maybe it's just time for a switch. Typically the best way to get promoted (or just get a decent raise) is to change companies, not to get promoted internally.
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Have people considered that perhaps the author enjoys the process and it's a win-win given they learn new stuff, get to teach that stuff, and make a little cash on the side too?

It's hardly out of bounds to think the primary objective was to make money. when the headline is "How I earned $x...".
Media elements, JavaScript, RAM limitations, difficult video rendering, and crashing limit its productivity.

Looking for ways to apply a new CCD to pi astrophotography recently, I made two mistakes: I didn't block ads and I opened more than two tabs.

The pi ended up in swap hell for over a minute before I restarted. This is an rpi4 4GB, OC'd with heatsinks and active cooling, on a good IOPS SD. Browsing the web is the only thing I've found that it routinely struggles with.
So we have a 21st century scroll? Another 2 millennia before eInk launches a codex version?
You can also convert your logic model into something that can be viewed as an image completion problem, eg, by translating categorical diagrams into a adjacency matrix and “completing” a partial one. (Hopefully, but preliminary results are encouraging.)

So far, we’ve started publishing about shape types encoded that way and are hoping to get to Zn group models by the end of the year. (Work is done, but I’m a slow writer.)

https://www.zmgsabstract.com/whitepapers/shapes-have-operati...
A lake can be salty, but a sea cannot be fresh. The Sea of Galilee is a lake, just like the Dead Sea.
If people think that it wouldn't matter too much. But we have a very active older generation that constantly release new laws against terrorism and violence until it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because some people have had enough.

We have been fighting terrorism for 20 years, it did cost trillions of dollars and you cannot even take a coke on a plane. Completely off base an insane because essentially you are correct. We live in the safest times ever. Sure, there are local conflicts and enough human suffering, but policies for safety are still in extremely high demand.

Some people really need to take a chill pill.

A caveat is that wealth is relative and the younger generation will have a harder time finding dependable long time employment and may not be able to afford a home because speculations drove prices beyond reason. But they don't really need their nuts checked while boarding a plane.
I just want to run my vim terminal on an E-Ink screen.
Despite $6B for nuclear plants, two nuclear plants are still scheduled to close
> A fine-grained macro state is TTTT TTTT.

This macrostate seems fine enough to be a microstate, but sure. For the macrostates with at least one 'x' in it, that 'x' seems to be a placeholder for the concept of subjective ignorance.

> That doesn't mean I necessarily have any information about which macro-state the system is actually in.

But the entire purpose of the exercise of assigning microstates to macrostates is so that you can match up a description of some system to a microstate ensemble and calculate its entropy! Otherwise there's no point to arbitrarily labelling various groups of microstates.

To follow your example more practically, let's say you have an 8-spin system, whose net spin is zero. (You know because you've measured its overall magnetic moment or something). I've just described a system that is in one of the following possible microstates:

TTTT HHHH, TTTH HHHT, ..., HHHH TTTT

Now you can go ahead and define the macrostates as fine-grained as you want, where TTTT HHHH and HHHH TTTT are in different macrostates, but to calculate the entropy of this system, you're going to have to sum up all of those macrostates anyway to get the one that's consistent with the described system.
Absolutely. Saw everyone live back in the day: Def Leppard, Ozzy, RJD, Iron Maiden, Lita Ford, Yngvie Malmsteen, Aerosmith, Metallica, Ratt, Wasp, Korn...
I wouldn't be surprised at all. When employees hit 5/10/15/20 year marks for employment, then can select items from a catalog (golf clubs etc.). This stuff is all branded, so your idea makes sense.
Umm, that all sounds like SPA+SSR to me?

EDIT: Nvm. Upon rereading, I picked up on the distinction that the rendering is done before a request is made.
The math gets trickier when you consider monthly payments. At very low interest rates an extra 500k borrowed might only increase monthly payment by ~1500 which can be partially offset by $500-1000 less in property taxes per month depending on the municipality in Canada compared to US.
I think we do have animals that understand higher consciousness. Dogs!

Over time, domesticated wolves figured out that humans were more advanced because they consistently had access to food and shelter while wolves had to hunt for it. By adapting their own behavior to fit in with the superior species, we wound up with today's dogs who largely choose to be servile because it's advantageous to them. Isn't that an example of recognizing a higher species and submitting to it?

The "how they know, how we know" question is clear, too. Dogs knew we were smarter because of what we were able to accomplish and provide. If a "superior" alien race showed up and could do stuff we couldn't, we'd think they were smarter, too.

Language and adaptability play a big part, too. Cetacean language certainly helps them survive, and so does primate language. But human language went far beyond any other species and allowed man to cooperate and coordinate adaptations, like creating a building and heating it to survive the cold. Or inventing transportation to move to a more desirable living space. No other animals have pulled that off at that level.
All of the new shiny tools are incapable of working with mutlirepos ... yes i know i can do [1]. But true editing on multi repos at the same time i can only do with zc.buildout [2] Still not perfect but it does the job.

[1]

$ cat req.txt
requests
git+ssh://git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/amber.git@0.4.0
git+ssh://git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/rebam.git@0.4.0

[2]

$ cat buildout.cfg
[buildout]
extends = versions.cfg
extensions = mr.developer
auto-checkout = \*
develop = .
show-picked-versions = true
update-versions-file = versions.cfg
sources-dir = git-sources

parts = py

eggs =
amber
rebam
hammer

[sources]
amber = git git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/amber.git@0.4.0
rebma = git git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/rebma.git@0.4.0

[py]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
${buildout:eggs}
interpreter = py-backend
dependent-scripts = true
there are some ereaders with color already but they are niche because there isn't a huge demand of color.
I have been to a Great Lake one time (Lake Erie) and it made me sad. The shore had a bunch of dead fish all over it and it smelled very bad. The person i was with, an Erie, PA native, said that the water was pretty much "dead". Very antidotal but if left an impression on me.
If you moderate large enough subs you see this just often enough. They'll find another sub to farm karma on, then come to yours to spam their random new domain. I wish reddit automod could check the age of the domain since it was registered, could help, although it could also be straining on reddits part, but I've seen some weirdo who gets a new domain and spams blogspam thats just ripped off articles with ads all over. I'm surprised they're turning a profit wasting money on so many domains.

Before ever being a submod anywhere, I had no idea of half of what goes on in reddit.
Sounds like you're right about the carbon-14:

"C-14 also cannot be removed by ALPS, but its concentration is far lower than its regulatory standard for discharge."

Source: https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/decommissi...
Britain’s love-hate affair with the e-scooter
> Was fixing that the intent behind libxcb?

Yes.

Like I noted in another comment, XCB is basically just a loose wrapper around the X11 protocol. It is indeed a lot more verbose than Xlib, and modern Xlib is actually written on top of XCB, so you can use the two in the same application on the same X11 context if you really need to for some reason.
I'm still leery of ksplice etc. And the cost is a factor too.
Lately I often switch from metal to "viking/norse" music for programming. I would recommend a lot of what ends up in Fimbul Radio [0], and it being a radio takes away the burden of choosing what to hear / when to switch.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm6Sj0_W1E
There was a math error at 1TW, 4 billion tons lasting 100,000 years means 100,000 billion tons lasts 100,000 years / 4 * 100,000 = 2.5 billion years. Though I wouldn’t be sure of the rest of those calculations.

Of course that’s also ignoring the natural decay rate of uranium, and the fact the global electricity consumption is already close to 3TW and rising rapidly. Or the fact that the chemical replacement rate likely depends on the amount of Uranium left in those rocks etc etc. None of which is important in the short term but it seriously undermines their argument.
NIST's answer to “Do you need a blockchain?” (2018)
Nice practice project but nobody is going to pay for this.
Cool, but it doesn't matter yet. A lot of E-Ink announcements don't translate into unable consumer devices for years.
Namecheap: 10% commission, only works with Namecheap-registered domains, the exchange may take up to 96 hours, and then 5 days later you can withdraw these funds to PayPal (which will incur additional fees).

Compare this to, say, Tezos domains: exchange and transfer of funds settled in ~30 seconds, without any need for currency conversion, across any ".tez" domain in the network, 2.5% commission (or 0% via custom contract), no private data shared with registrar, and very low transaction fees.

Looking at Paxos: it is permissioned, lacks Sybil protection, uses leader-based rather than peer-to-peer data replication, and seems limited in how many nodes it can support. This isn't to say it's useless, but it clearly aims to solve a different set of problems than Nakamoto's consensus mechanism (and, more generally, cryptocurrency networks).
All nuclear waste should be blasted off into space.
US economy grew at a 6.9% rate in the fourth quarter last year.
Ok, so the only difference between JAMStack and SPA+SSR that I've picked up here is that, in a JAMStack setup, the server-side-rendering happens before a request is made by the end user, while in a SPA+SSR setting, it happens after a request is made.

Is that right?
Yes: the GTK codebase is, uh, not fun to work with and write backends for. See my comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31192099) and also one of my replies on the Haiku forums (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibili...) for more details.
The web and search seem massively broken if we need things like this. It feels like there's a massive opportunity to again make the web more person-to-person rather than corporation/advertisers-to-person.
The US corporate tax rate is 21%. So if they write off $X, the government is returning .21X to them.

Thus the government is getting it below their cost. Not by the full $X, but by .79X.

It's never that simple with taxes, of course, but that's the gist of if it. A writeoff isn't the same as free.
Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud ‘evidence’
I teach courses on various topics related to language and second-language education. Recent course titles include Ideology and Language Education, Ethics and Language Education, Language and Society, and Topics in Second-Language Education. I start the semester with only a general outline of each course, and the specific topics covered week by week are decided based on where our discussions go. Nearly all of the students are themselves multilingual and many have studied linguistics or related subjects, so they have the interests, experience, and backgrounds that enable them to contribute productively to the discussions. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

You’re right that the same method wouldn’t work with some other subjects and some other types of students.

I did take a mathematics class as an undergraduate, though, in which our teacher—Paul Halmos—had us work together in small groups on problems throughout the semester, with guidance from him only when we got stuck. That could presumably be done online, too.
Me and my spouse just bought in Chi. There's decent condo inventory in the city proper (West Loop, River North, LP, Lake View, even into Wicker/Logan) but SFHs in the burbs are slim pickins, especially in desirable neighborhoods (North Shore/Evanston, along the BNSF and UPW).

You've got to be ready to overbid (our first SFH got overbid by 70k), "best and last", and deal with 5+ bids per house.

You can find stuff away from public transit/no walkability but then why move to Chicago at that point?
I’ll grant that the surrogate code points prevent round-tripping of arbitrary code point sequences (though BOM characters arguably do as well).

> Unicode having been compromised for the sake of one particular encoding

They really didn’t have much choice though, because UCS-2 existed and was in major use at the time Unicode was extended beyond 16 bits (which wasn’t part of the original Unicode design), and too many code points were already used up to turn it into an UTF-8-like encoding. Not supporting the additional planes with the 16-bit encoding would have been a nonstarter. Switching to 32-bit in-memory representation (UCS-4) even less so, given the resource constraints of the time. The reason platforms like Windows and Java didn’t add strict input validation was due to backwards compatibility, because they previously were UCS-2 where arbitrary sequences are valid.

One can lament the chronology that lead to those technical choices, but they each were reasonable and appropriate choices under the constraints present at each time.

More importantly, surrogate characters rarely create any actual problems in practice. I haven’t encountered any in the past 20+ years (other than missing support for characters beyond U+FFFF). Other parts of Unicode cause significantly more complexity.
That's helpful to know. Looks like an update to use the new resolver is close:

https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools/pull/1539
That's not true. Here's a video of a Kindle Touch from 2012 playing a movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr52ZWEZH4Q
I think the distinction should be easy in this case. First of all, the great lakes are sweet water, not just water with low salinity. But most important of all: they are not directly connected to the ocean. All oceans are directly connected to each other, a ship can change between them without using locks, but they are required to reach the great lakes.
> Some companies in China, that ignore the patents, manage to produce 20 fps 23" eink screen.

I'm genuinely interested, are you talking about Onyxboox Mira or Dasung ? Because i thought that they manufactured official e-ink patented products
If the solutions have been copied from a set of solutions published by the university, they will have copyright. If the solutions are the students own work, then they won't, and this is abuse of the DMCA.
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Has anyone actually used Rocket? Every time I (or a friend) have looked at them they have higher closing costs and wanted multiple points to close the mortgage.

I was able to do way, way better by going with a local bank, as did my friends.

The only thing I can figure is they are better for folks with "good" (not "excellent") credit and can maybe close the loan faster.
Am I the only one who doesn't take daily notes, doesn't build a knowledge database and doesn't track every aspect of my life? I feel out of touch with folks these days sometimes.
...and they largely don't know where those hunches came from.
https://www.crossover.com/

Pays $100K for senior developer role which is big money in many parts of the world (India, Eastern Europe, Africa, etc), so people put up with spyware.
Surely it's both.

1) Product has to exist - and now it does tick
2) Has to be useful tick
3) Has to have possibility of being make cheaper by mass production no idea
4) Has to be put into mass production depends on 3

So we're currently stuck on 3.

Not sure there's much demand for a colour e-ink tablet - but maybe could be layered with a transparent OLED. I'd cough up an extra £100 for that.
Normal tablet - with reading mode. Spend a while looking at static image, OLED turns off, e-ink layer fires up. Scroll down and the OLED takes over.
> food scarcity

How much food rotted at the Texas border after Governor Abbott's PR stunt held it up? Estimated to be over $4Billion.
..or a Minecraft gameplay video
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I agree with you and would love more "real world" things to be open source. I do like the ethos within software/tech that things are open-sourced often. It doesn't exist to nearly the same degree in many other "physical world" type industries.

I think government/ bureaucracy moves slowly and most people working within them don't come from a software background so a lot of the older norms of not sharing things (outside of things like data/documents) is just the way things are done. I expect to a lot of these people sharing a source code is treated exactly the same as sharing any other mechanical designs which they just often don't do.

Hopefully both things will change.
Isn't the point of having a PM to bridge the gap between leadership that knows the domain of "it" and IT who knows how to implement general business needs onto a technical solution? Of course that would require having a PM to begin with, instead of expecting your developers to become subject matter experts in your obscure domain.
This is how I intend to use mine, I just have not sat down to do it. This way I don't need to waste any resources on my main box. I'm also kind of waiting to buy a Pi 4. I used to run Pi-Hole at home but it got corrupted. I also had openHAB setup as well to control my A/C via ... whatever that wireless protocol is called that my thermostat was using. I have since replaced my thermostats with the Wyze one.
This makes a lot of assumptions about interest rates, but it holds up.

Buy a house (with mortgage) for 4%. Inflation is 5% a year. Invest the money in real assets (literally anything diversified).

Your mortgage price goes down in future dollars because of the delta between interest rates and inflation.

Even if inflation isn't happening, mortgage rates tend to be fairly low risk, so any diversified bucket of assets has a historical return greater than the mortgage rate, especially over a 30 year period.

If you bought a 13% mortgage in 1984 (highest), in 30 years, S&P returns 11% by 2014, so even if you never refinance, during the highest interest rates you're only down 2%. If you refinance at basically any time in the 90s/00s you're way ahead.
They sell development kits at https://shopkits.eink.com/ under a funny condition:

> PURCHASER IS PURCHASING THE PRODUCTS FOR COMMERCIAL USE AND/OR IN A BUSINESS CAPACITY. ORDERS PLACED BY CONSUMERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
The IRS does not consider a refinance (even a cash-out refinance) to be a capital gain. The IRS also allows for 250K (500K if married) of tax-free capital gains on the sale of a primary residence. Maybe you misunderstood your friends’ situations.
Wait do we have little now? When did that change because when I look around I see much, much that we won't share.

Do immigrants always bring violence? Why did their states fail anyway? Could we have had a hand in that, bear some responsibility?

Whatever the specifics of the answers you see to these questions your comment sucks. It's using racist fears to stoke xenophobic resentment.
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