skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can trace my success as a software engineer to the 'too big' presents my parents bought me for xmas/birthday. I had a desktop computer of my own as 10 year old in 1992, and a laptop, a Powerbook 190 with a 16 grayscale screen, in 1995. A 33.6k modem also in 1995 (and a second phone line because my parents got sick of me tying up the main line).

I only had these things because my parents recognised my interests and bought things that were WAAAY too big for birthdays/xmas.
> can be still part of Nato and have a free travel arrangement with each other, changes do not have to be extreme

I've spent the last past decade pointing that out to people. People act like a state being separate from the US and independent is soooo absurd, logistically.

But the US can still assist on a natural disaster just like it does in all of the Americas. Common defense can occur, as you point out. Visa and waivers could be easy.

I always like to imagine what level of state tax would I tolerate if I was only paying income taxes to just California. Since California doesn't get much/anything back from the Federal Government from its remittances, I bet California wouldn't even need to raise its states taxes.
I love my Oura ring but if I didn't get the subscription for free from upgrading to the newer ring I wouldn't have bought it.
That's fantastic news then. Wind + solar need about 2 days storage to be viable as the only power at > 90%

So the $10bn on snowy plus $10bn AU of renewables can provide about the same contribution as 4GW or $40-60bn AU of nukes.

You're really selling pumped hydro.
Fuchsia-on-GCE as a supported system configuration
And consensus failure means that we should codify into the basic law what you believe is the consensus on that topic? Or change the rules to reflect the lack of consensus? How odd.

A change to the Constitution isn't going to save you from people fundamentally disagreeing on things.
Thanks, it's fascinating and a little scary to watch! The US has a huge influence on the world, particularly on the other western, anglophone democracies, so it feels important. I also have family and friends in various states.

My generation in the UK grew up with America being this shiny, free, wonderful, aspirational land over the sea, the land of Baywatch and Miami Vice and Disneyland and CocaCola all the other things. It really did appear to be the mythical shining light on the hill. I love visiting the US and have spent over a year there now, on and off. It is a varied land of contradictions and of very different values and lifestyles, a land of opulence, but also of left behind little places. But the politics ... it seems to have become pathological, and the population increasingly cynical about politicians, about the media and sources of information, to the extent that most trust seems gone and consensus reality seems to be frequently called into question (I'm not claiming this is unreasonable! Just observing).

These tropes are definitely present in the two countries I've called home, but to a much lesser extent, the poison doesn't seem to have permeated quite so far.

You do see stuff get thrown around on social media like "Make sure to take a pen to the voting booth so that they can't change your vote!" but it's fringe whackos. Even if the politicians themselves are disliked, the mechanics of democracy are usually pretty well trusted. IIRC in the last general election here one of the tiny right-wing parties tried some voter-fraud type rabble-rousing ahead of the poll, but they were largely ignored and pretty quickly contradicted by the Australian Election Commission.
Hardware can still be used.. only cloud storage seems to be problem.

Without Connect (~$4/month), only files used and synced online in the last 50 days will continue to be stored in the reMarkable cloud or updated in our mobile and desktop apps. It’s also possible to turn off the sync functionality if you don’t wish to use the cloud service.
When Apple switched to Lightning, EU was still trying to get all cellphone charger based on micro-USB. Not sure who is at shame here.
> State reps have a much more informed and salient interest in maintaining their state’s sovereignty,

Bullshit.

The smaller the democratic unit, the more likely it is to be unduly influenced by local power and wealth. State reps are far more likely to represent the interests of the local power and wealth than they are "their state" (by which I mean "the people of their state")
I'm curious: how does Amazon's foray into this sector affect anyone's feelings? Do people want a single-purpose device like this, or would they rather have a multi-purpose Kindle (or iPad, with more functionality but much less battery life)?
A wonderful product ruined by a proprietary cloud. The problem with the latter was very promptly proven by the unilateral imposition of a subscription. The product is useless without its cloud.
Hah!

Yeah after that I might ask for a transfer and also vow to never again to sleep with a maintenance chief’s wife.
The rm2 is a really nice device but you also have to take into account the price for their subscription service. IMHO they totally ruined it with their subscription service. On the other, I assume this is the only way they could raise the money to keep going. Times don't get better for them with more and more e-ink devices that support note taking etc.
> If India passes a law or deems Signal to not be in compliance with whatever encryption regulation, will you walk?

Makes me think of my encounters with US encryption export regulations. I think we're all lucky those aren't enforced.
Yes. Official support for uploading PDF and unencrypted EPUB over USB but the interface is designed for annotating instead of reading. koreader or plato can be installed (unofficially) for a much better reading-first experience.
This "too cool for stuff" sounds like US culture. I never experienced that kind of thing in EU. We each had our own friend groups, and didn't really care what the other groups were into.

I once heard an artist say (can't remember which one), that they loved playing in Europe, since everyone at a festival is there to have fun. While in US, everyone is there to look cool.
Amazon is entering this space with the upcoming Kindle Scribe. I wish Remarkable luck, but the odds of them surviving as an independent entity is going to plummet if the Scribe is at all decent.
The go designers are brilliant. This is exactly the right priority. We would all do better it think more the way they do.
*Frontlight. Backlight is not possible in eink readers, right?
The US does not equal the rural parts. Did the rural parts of America vote for Biden or support what he is doing?

California from decades ago is hardly comparable to modern day California.
those platforms can easily be taken over if access is given or sought out by the indiv. We don't have a law that states ine must be granted to water in the usa do we? You can go live in socal if u want but most seek out water, the value tech gives isn't great enough, it could be and will be though.
> - Is 1.2.3gamma > 1.2.3? Yes

I wrote this example, because I knew the answer. And your interpretation (the same as my initial one) is wrong :)

> Pre-release versions have a lower precedence than the associated normal version.

[1] https://semver.org/#spec-item-9
Which part of your comment doesn't apply equally to candidates who just passed the fizzbuzz round?
You get three tiers propagating at very different speeds:

The machine intelligence - spread solely over the airwaves to receptive civilizations, which then get taken over to promulgate further spread. Laser launch telescopes have great bandwidth and transmit at approximately the speed of light, but require some selectivity.

The intelligent machine - Robotic Von Neumann probes, probably of the star-wisp design. Can colonize barren rocks, and be sent out in large batches at low speed.

The intelligent race - The fleshy bits. Not even very interested in barren rocks compared to planets. So logistically difficult that the supporting infrastructure limits them to tiny fractions of the speed of light at the cost of large fractions of civilizational output.
Dunno how widespread this is, but I've heard that unofficially some regions of western China use different time zones
The device is rather useless without the cloud service, isn't it.
Chess outcast Hans Niemann says he was a top cyclist. Was he really?
This is the example I had in the back of my head. Like ok I'll write my code in C or Fortran and dutifully provide all 13 arguments to BLAS because I'm a dummy but I thought people used languages like Go to avoid this sort of thing.
I was curious if the device could recognise my terrible handwriting. As per this page, they use MyScript[1].

Here's a demo of the software if anyone's interested to confirm the same: https://webdemo.myscript.com/views/text/index.html

1: https://myscript.com (TIL)
If you want to read his latest, he put out his first novel in a long time just yesterday.
Understand Ruby Blocks by looking at examples from popular gems
Since Elon Musk has entered the building at Twitter. The online job applications procedure can be easily fixed. Jobseekers can enter their details because they can trust Twitter under Elon Musk and a quick turn around process like that you see in the SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla connects worker to workspace. Connect to Ziprecruiter?
Guess what happens with crews daily Internet allowance when ships cross the international dateline the wrong way. :-)
That is as arrogant as saying: "customer support and success teams should do the engineering". Engineers really should do engineering, it does helps if they have some idea about other stuff of course.
I don't know which game did it first, but I the first mirror I came across was in Duke Nukem 3D, 4 years before Deus Ex.
Beat me to it. That was a dealbreaker for me.

I got a couple of Rocketbook notebooks for when I want something that really feels like paper, plus an iPad for the large-screen computing bits. Pity, because I love the idea of the Remarkable and would strongly consider it were it not for the subscription.
My Kobo has an adjustable backlight that works great.
Beautiful, but inaccessible site
The Supreme Court is, in no sense of the word, ignoring the law. They are interpreting the laws in ways you disagree with and in ways which have historically not been how it was interpreted by the same court, but this is not what ignoring means.

Further, the objections of the population have nothing to do with the judicial branch and everything to do with the legislative branch. The courts are not and have never been democratically elected entities.
about:blank gang here

personally i'd love to get a widget layer like the old mac dashboard or the windows 8 start menu. miss those a lot, but never really wanted to put those widgets in my browser...
Michael McCann is a genius and deserves way more credit for Deus Ex than he is given, but he was responsible for at least half of the Mankind Divided soundtrack too.
I wrote an article on my blog on how to move photos from google photos to Synology, if you're the kind of guy that wants to host things on a NAS: https://michelenasti.com/from-google-photos-to-synology-phot...
There's also a way to overcome the 500 photos limit (using google backup options).
You interpreted your own copy/pasted answer wrongly.

MAY has not the same meaning as MUST. MAY is optional, MUST is mandatory.

> https://semver.org/#spec-item-9
But wait, there's more! Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Monthly Recurring Revenue?

Will that thing needs a subscription too? I guess so...
Who is downloading oracle and using it on a whim?
Surely postgres or mysql would be the path
Devs should also do HR, project management, CEO...

I do all of that stuff. But at my own company for myself...
It can be damaging politically to admit your wrong about a core aspect of your policy
There's an option to self host (rmfakecloud) if you find the hardware compelling. Still a fairly niche device though.
Haha. They don't use Leetcode for actual interviews. And they got rid of Bluejeans too. It's mostly Zoom and Coderpad. I suspect they'll downsize by about 25% since they were on an exponential/hockey stick hiring binge over the past 6 years. Metric tons of nontechnical hires without much to do.

What I think they need to do is:

0. Triple-down on AI. They're committed to spending $50B on hardware over they next 2 years to do it, mostly within Reality Labs. The technological singularity will happen only and after systems plus AI are given enough interfaces to operate, configure, and design themselves.

1. Expand boring-but-profitable enterprise software like Workplace. They need desktop apps and deeper integrations with the major OS vendors' stacks.

2. Incubate the crap (incl. throw bits of money for convertible notes) at all kinds of tiny startups and have startup events, both external (students and startup people) and internal from staff, with a welcoming hackathon-like environment. The next big thing will happen somewhere else and the world will move on otherwise. As Apple gave away computers to schools, Meta should be at the door of every high school trying to get students to code and launch startups.
I am building something similar. If you can please give a detailed description of what your dream tool would work like.
Worth noting they actually announced changes to subscription that basically cancels the whole thing. Subscription still exists, it's cheaper, but basic functions that we (clients) were told comes with device itself are again not tied to subscription.

That move of theirs was insane, this change must be a direct reflections of clients correctly voting with their wallets.
Reminder that Apple did this domestically for the FBI/iMessage.

They intentionally maintain a backdoor in the end to end crypto of iMessage:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Indeed. Hence the need to apply a meaningless psyop label to distract from the fact that conspiracies are a significant chink of US law.
Is this subscription-based hardware though? It's an open linux device and you can write any software you want to work with it. There's no requirement to pay for their cloud storage if you don't want to.
NASA Spacecraft Snaps Haunting View of Earth from 380k Miles Away
What's even more infuriating is that if you're on the legacy Google Apps for Domain plan, the only way to upgrade storage is by going to Workplace for the whole domain, even if only one person (my mother) requires it.

So instead of buying her a $20/year plan for 100 GB, they're forcing a hundreds of dollars yearly plan on me.

And obviously there's no way to detach that one account.

Looking for a better option here.
no "should". Maybe if your company is having problems with support requests MAYBE it might be useful to get engineers involved, maybe they will notice some kind of problem with the right information getting to engineering or something going wrong with prioritization of what to build. But then again, getting other roles in the company involved with support MIGHT also find what the issues are, it might be just the engineers need to talk with support to find out what they think.
In a real tech company, engineers should do everything. There’s no need for non engineers.
If you can get your own root certificate on this thing you can see how its cloud transfer works and theoretically redirect it to your own box, but it would most likely be a lot of work.
I owe it all to Lemmings
Why is it useless without cloud if you can still use USB?
This is just pointless
Maybe not, imagine possession of such program is treated same way as a child pornography.
I’m a customer. The hardware (reMarkable 1 refurb) is nice. I bought it a while back before they made this change to the website.

But advertising the price without the pen is so dishonest. It’s not nickel and dime, it’s deceptive marketing. It destroys trust.

It means that as a happy customer, I will never recommend the product.
Are you sure it’s a backlight? I’m looking at my Libra 2 and can’t tell whether the light’s in front or in back.
luckily I can still hunt where ever I am at, in Alaska, in CT picking off a bunny my daughter helped me skin, a fly in my palm or an idiot on the internet. How are they controlling anything about the way I hunt or pick ip roadkill to eat?
I credit eve online with teaching me how to run complex and effective counter intelligence operations but I've yet to use it in real life :(.

On the other hand how to inspire people and the importance of operational doctrine has been massively important.

Also spreadsheets..
Was going to say the same thing. Worst case you buy it and it doesn't do what you need (itch) and in that case you can gift it to someone.

I think the design decisions can be educational. I'm sure mindstorms is full of compromises required to get a product to market under a certain price point (etc).
The House is the representation of the people. The Senate is supposed to represent each state government. Regardless of population the state governments do not need more representation.

The role of government is to protect states from foreign or domestic invasion and to ensure no government tramples the rights of the people.

But, we are so far past what the government is supposed to do we have people trying to figure out how to get more power for themselves. The Federal government was meant to be inconsequential to your daily life.
That's weird, I did a roundtrip of Australia a few years ago and reading the title of the article knew exactly what it was talking about.
I distinctly remember one of the roadhouses having a clock with a sign "yes this is the correct time"
I have an Onyx Boox e-ink writing device. While it also has a cloud service, it seems to be less necessary since it is just Android so you can just install whatever you need on it. I use Syncthing for this and it works fine.
Now partner with framework laptops and make an eink laptop already
> If you’ve ever sat down at a slot machine, you will likely note that they are constantly making noises as you interact with them. These sounds are designed to stimulate the reward center in your brain and thus cause it to release endorphins.

Okay, but: if you sit down among a group of your friends chatting, you’ll similarly hear them constantly making noises that stimulate the reward center in your brain. Yet we don’t consider that harmful. And that’s just as valid an analogy for Twitter. I mean, you can literally use Twitter to chat with friends.

Perhaps I should say both analogies are valid, and Twitter combines aspects of both.
I am one of the original kickstarter backers and got mine at a very favorable price compared to what they are selling it for now. As a original kickstarter backer they also provided me with a free tier for their subscription service so I am not paying anything extra to have full functionality, this is very important to me because I am not very excited of subscription based software features - remarkable please take note of this!

The remarkable unit is still a thing of beauty. It excels at what it does, and I bring it with me everywhere. I use the cloud features to pick up documents and use it to hold my PDFs and eBooks and it is an important device for my note taking. I have modded the unit a little bit by replacing the original back-ground pictures. To be able to access this device as root appeals very much to me, I very much feel in control of my device.

From a security point of view, they still have some work to do. It is embarrassing when the unit goes into sleep mode and private notes are kept visible to everyone. I created a ticket in they support system, but they don't seem to take it seriously. There is also the issue with only having a 4-code pin to unlock the device. This means that you must be very careful with what you write and store on the unit. Sensitive notes should not be stored on the unit.

There is also no way to deprecate the unit and the content if it is lost or it hasn't check in against the cloud.

The software that is installed on your PC/Mac has very basic functionality.

Overall, would still strongly recommend, 8/10.
And Oculus. John Carmack. Now with hand tracking and feet! :)

I think this is the emotional sentiment media manipulation of the market poo-pooing the MAANGs helping investors buy them at a discount. And whipping "The Man" megacorps during a recession as convenient outlets of frustration.

Alphabet/Google will always be around. Meta has so much money, it can turn itself into an Amazon in terms of entering other categories. It will probably take 5-6 years but watch the same naysayers when Meta has some crazy awesome AI AR that's better than the chunky RayBan's.
It's a nice sentiment but really isn't accurate.... unless you're suggesting nerds don't get bullied in Europe
They're basically an engineering company that could never become a marketing company. I personally think it's a little inverse of Apple's philosophy. It's primarily a fashion/marketing company before an engineering company.
Attention and ecological wealth
The SC opinion in Heller vs DC makes it clear that the 2nd is a personal right (-and- it was was long before the Declaration of Independence): https://s3.amazonaws.com/oyez.case-media.ogg/case_data/2007/...

"It was good to have a gun when the clansmen came" -Justice Anton Scalia
Elon Musk isn’t even done buying Twitter, but he’s already in a fight with Apple
see nationalpopularvote.com
> Constitutional amendments were supposed to be easier than right to rebellion.

I think they were more worried about entire _states_ going into rebellion and not factions of populations spread across them.

> These are dark times for US democracy.

I don't think that's warranted. I would say these are the growing pains of a country now fully entering the age of always available connectivity with a founding document created when horse travel was the only credible way to travel across it.

> There’s no evidence things are working as intended.

You could say this of many things. The highly monopolized state of our media in the face of this new era is definitely a baffling outcome, and I definitely spend a lot of time thinking about the connection between this and the previous statement.
The github page states that this project doesn't work with mobile safari. Therefore all browsers based on the safari engine on ios including firefox will not work.
Hydro reservoirs seem to cost in the $50-90/kWh range. I don't see that going down as digging and pouring concrete are pretty cost optimized already.

Although a holes don't tend to wear out and can be used many more times than a battery, I'm not convinced low cost abundant-material battery options won't eat their lunch if we keep dragging our feet on the renewable buildout.

I guess if we were really committed to the idea we could use all that Uranium to make some very cheap holes and have it actually contribute to zero carbon energy rather than being a myth, but I'm not convinced the fallout is worth it.
Any time someone gives me chocolate as a gift I say a polite thank-you and then discretely throw it in the trash. Maybe I'm an outlier, or maybe not...
Is there a reason this is trending, I can't see any changes recently?

I played with the RM1 at work and quite liked it, but the locked down experience is a deal breaker. I want to be able to work with Obsidian (Onyx Boox might do this).
OT but does anyone know what's up with esr? His blog seems to be half baked and just thrown back up and there's no information about him anywhere.
according to you, I like cheap ammo, mostly .22 so I can practice. I do not have time (haven't) to even get into reloading. And who cares about the price or how hard it is. You know how easy it is to get a crossbow and spikes? Do you think you need a special license for that? More deadly, way more quiet, untraceable, I mean you can go on yet we talk about climate change now? Stay on point please
It's my fun fact when people ask about my timezone! I live in Perth, and then we talk about this, it's a good little icebreaker if meeting them for the first time :).