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I wish Remarkable would release an Apple Silicon (arm64) version of their desktop companion app.

I've got to keep an old Intel MacBook for these "legacy" apps, it's not ideal.

It works in Rosetta, but I can't install Rosetta on my main machine. I use it for dev work and the only way I've found to ensure that I don't have x64 code sneaking in is to have Rosetta not installed.
I firmly believe it'll be a catalyst that reminds "The People" that they were MEANT to be the fourth check and balance, and that the check and balance system was NOT abstracted for just political institutions to provide leverage against each other's tension.

The founder of the idea of "checks and balances" themselves (Montesquieu, Secondat) said it, the Founding Fathers who were influenced by the two (Madison) wanted to charter it (Federalist n. 10), and Hobbes argued for it in Leviathan. The writing has been on the wall for CENTURIES to include The People as its own entity within the ontological power-struggle of American politics - we were just led to forget our own history.
You just decribed what is like to be in a startup during its early days.
There's Briar, its peer to peer and pretty great.

XMPP/Jabber with OMEMO encryption, it runs on federating servers.

Session is a fork of signal that doesn't require phone numbers, there's some cryptocurrency something or other in there I don't quite get, but I don't believe you need it to send messages.

There's Tox, another p2p sort of thing.

Then there's threema, wire, and a bunch of others im not all that familiar with.
You should optimize when it’s net useful, not just because you know how. Making a random function faster and harder to maintain is bad engineering if the speed isn’t useful.
And dividing your cost of the Synology plus harddrives + power required by year, how many years before you break even with a cloud storage plan ? Add to that the cost of a local backup drive and the cost of your time.

Being based in Europe, where power costs €0.7/kWh, of course doesn't help, but powering a 4 bay Synology here costs around €23/month (45W x 24 x 30,5 / 1000 x 0.7), and that's the power costs alone.

I have around 10TB of cloud storage (including backup storage), and i pay €22/month for that, so even before factoring in the hardware cost I'm saving money on the cloud.

I have a small ARM machine running to synchronize cloud data locally in "real time", which has a USB drive attached for local backups, and the machine also makes cloud backups of the mirrored data. It uses around 4W idle, so costs are around €10/year, but of course doesn't offer much in the way of redundancy, but still i manage to live up to the 3-2-1 backup principle with data being primarily stored in the cloud, backed up locally as well as backed up to a different cloud provider.

That being said, if your use case is more than 10TB, the cloud starts getting expensive, and the Synology might make sense.
Where did all the “reject” buttons come from?
Not OT at all. ESR's writing is really about his particular world view, which is surprisingly coherent, so it makes sense to inquire about the author's whereabouts.

With that out of the way, I was pleasantly surprised to see him show up on LW[1] a while back.

1. https://www.lesswrong.com/users/eric-raymond
While I agree to your point, there's one sentence that hits a pet peeve of mine:

> For most of our history, most humans societies were only barely able to feed themselves. All growth in food supply was quickly matched by population growth.

This, like most clichés isn't strictly wrong, but it's not very true either, at least for agrarian societies. Almost since the beginning of agriculture, agrarian societies have experienced food surpluses, and that's what made the cities appear (as in a pre-industrial society the urban population feeds from the surplus of the countryside). And, at least in Western Europe, until the late middle ages there was a lot woodland completely fit for agriculture[1] that weren't exploited yet, leaving a huge margin for population to grow (and it did in fact, grow). So in most of the history of agriculture, again at least in Western Europe, population wasn't simply linked to the size of the potential food supply. It was probably much truer during the early modern period, when most woodland had been converted (even though the quick adaptation of the British agriculture during the continental blockade showed that there was again quite some margin there).

[1]: we know that they were fit for agriculture, because by the end of the middle ages, they were cultivated.
Oxygen is much thinner at 33,000 feet. You can still breath at 15,000 feet, most of us have hiked up a mountain almost that tall. In the USA, if you live out West and do a lot of hiking, you've probably gone up at least 12,000 and maybe 14,000, so you understand what 15,000 is. But 33,000 feet? That is much more difficult to survive.
That's a selective quote. I'm talking about being able to get files on and off the device.

That notwithstanding, looking at the page you link, let's look at each heading and what it says.

Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive integration

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Integrating-with-Go...

"Step 1: Log in to my.remarkable.com and click the menu in the top right-hand corner."

Handwriting conversion

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Convert-handwritten...

"You need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and logged into a reMarkable account (my.remarkable.com) in order to use handwriting conversion."

Read on reMarkable

Chrome:

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...

"You’ll also need a reMarkable account to use this feature."

Microsoft Office:

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...

"8. Log in with your reMarkable account."

Screen Share

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Screen-Share

"Your reMarkable needs to be paired with the cloud"

Send by email

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Send-by-email

"Note: You must be connected to Wi-Fi to share files from your reMarkable. You won’t see an option to send a file if you’re not connected to Wi-Fi and signed into an account."

Tags

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Tags

You can tag pages without a cloud account. It's useful but at best an anciliary feature.

Limited cloud sync

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Connect

You need an account.
> Since the book series apparently is already widely translated and published, why is a Kickstarter needed?

Have you not heard of Brandon Sanderson

edit: seriously, your entire analysis of his current status as a professional writer, and your dismissal of this article, is because he's using Kickstarter?

> selling easily digestible rebellion fantasies,

That's been his entire shtick, he was a big Creative Commons-boosting, FSF-friendly, WIRED contributor type of blog pundit since the early 2000s. What you call "amateur political agitation" is Doctorow's bread and butter. It might not be for you (it certainly isn't for me), but it shows that you clearly don't know anything about the public figure you're attacking.
Since when does the World Wrestling Federation care about wildlife?
I think Object.freeze is insufficient but there is value in immutable properties of objects. I wish TS understood this
Why did you spend time to figure out and set up vim, tools, and extensions, but only spend 15 minutes with an IDE?

vim's "design decision" to have extensions and external tools that you need to manually string together somehow is just as infuriating.
nope, that's blacklisted on all my machines
> one of the best gaming preludes. You had no augmentations, and then you get rocked. The opening credits while you're in surgery, chefs kiss.

I'm afraid it's been... nine years!

*midge ure plays*

(that's right, you think that's the real bowie you're listening to!?)
I dunno if Facebook is going to make it there, but I think their goal for VR is feasible and achievable. All the functionality is there on their platform and others right now, but it's too slow to boot up and not polished enough yet. Unfortunately, tiny performance hiccups in VR will immediately nauseate most people, not to mention the friction of having to put on the headset, boot it up, navigate through slow menus, launch an app, log into a room...

If you could toss on your VR helmet for 2 minutes to pop into VR and chat with someone the way you can open a Zoom call today, it'd be a huge quality of life improvement for remote work. Or like Carmack was saying recently, you could get to a point where it's cheaper to mail out a thousand headsets than to host a conference in person

Tangential edit: Man, how nuts is it that Facebook is throwing billions of dollars a year into this? Palmer Luckey invented modern VR in his spare time as a kid living in a trailer next to his parents' house. You've got VR startups out there making interesting devices, amazing multi-user worlds, and all sorts of other things for a few million bucks per company. It makes sense that if they have the money they should try to do something useful with it, and silicon valley engineers/hardware development don't come cheap, but that's just such an incredible amount of money.
Such a bizarre comment for a language designed - by the creator of Unix no less - to work well with tools and to be easily parsed. High likelihood it was posted from a Unix device too.
Malicious code running in the same JS process, specifically malicious code that modifies an object you give it (that you retain references to) or that gives you an object and then changes it later. Running multiple mutually untrusting pieces of code in the same process was the main point of E, and that's what the modifications to JS being discussed here are aimed at.

The reason for such "frozen" objects is explained in http://www.erights.org/elang/kernel/auditors/index.html.
QAZ Is an Ultraportable Cyberdeck with a 35% Keyboard
See my reply to your other comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33354089
No it can't, for security reasons.

Browser games have no idea how long their data is around and how big the cache actually is.
> inexcusably optimistic

I will definitely bookmark this as a nice replacement for "lying".
My omtech 40W is also in this way, which is the reason of the omtech machine itself. Now Monport has introduced a new k40. You can use lightburn without replacing the motherboard. I have planned to throw out the omtech and replace it with a new one.
Are...are you my boss?
The American writer Calvin Trillin wrote a short story called “A Christmas Shopping Tale” about how this kind of gift-giving might not always be welcome. It appears in his book Too Soon to Tell (1995). Excerpts:

“There was once a man named Arthur Robinson who was, as they say, very hard to shop for. He was a nice man, but as the Christmas shopping season began every year, his family and close friends and business associates grew to resent him. Arthur Robinson had no hobbies. He did not grill chicken in the backyard or bake bread, so the problem of what to give him for Christmas could not be solved with a new piece of kitchen equipment or an apron with witty sayings on it. ...

Then in October one year, Arthur Robinson made his first business trip to Africa. Having found himself about to return home with some local currency that was notoriously difficult to change in the United States, he plunked it down at the airport gift shop for the first items that caught his eye—two small statues of elephants. ...

That Christmas, all of his children gave him elephant statues for Christmas. He couldn’t imagine why, until he realized that he had put the elephants from Africa on a table in his study. ...

The year after that, he received nine elephant statues. A lot of the cards said, in addition to Merry Christmas, ‘For your collection.’ Arthur Robinson didn’t think he had a collection of elephant statues. ...

Arthur Robinson continued to thank everyone for the elephant statues—twenty-three by the fourth Christmas following that business trip to Africa. His family and friends had been greatly pleased to find something to get him for Christmas. ‘At least Arthur’s no problem,’ they’d say as they went down their lists. ‘Good old Arthur and his dreadful little elephants.’

Which meant that when they ran into Arthur during Christmas shopping season, they no longer seemed put out with him. They gave him a cheerful hello. He was always polite, but he resented them deeply.”
> No more comparison

There's no need for a strawman.

The comment didn't say "no more comparison", it said comparing to the lowest of the low is dumb. I agree.

If you're a sporting team, is it productive to say "We're better than the team on the bottom of the ladder" ? (Even though you're second-last)

When you're a country, it's equally as pointless to say "We're doing better than <China/North Korea/Central African Republic/etc>

The only reason a person would ever make a comparison "down the ladder" is because they want to paint themselves in a better light. They have no interest in improving anything, and when they spend enough time looking down the ladder, that's exactly where they'll go.

Sporting teams, countries and people who are interested in improving make comparisons "up" - it gives them something to strive for.

Do you want to improve?
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Show HN: Locale, the first localization platform specifically built for Laravel
The first localization platform specifically built for Laravel.
https://archive.ph/0JfHa
It was, because no one was using it and it isn't as if 3D Web is capable of stuff like Nanite.
> sense of shame, fear of ostracism

I think you have a loose definition of violence.

“Go live in the forest” is very violent, in practice.

The duty and and family stuff are arguably window dressing on the ostracism violence.
I'm surprised, maybe I was blinded by pro-tesla channels, but some recent videos about users trying the latest "autopilot" update shown very impressive results (crossing+insertion into low sight high traffic roads).
I am a fan of having some element of the team and solution architect also do the support. It is useful for aligning incentives, and it kills some of the risky and useless refactorings that a "sheltered" engineering team can be tempted to do..
Pumpkin Plot
> Try muting the notifications from Twitter or Mastodon and see if you remain interested in it: odds are, after a while, you won’t.

I muted all notification on my mastodon app years ago but I keep visiting it once or twice a day.
"Authorization for use of military force" is not a declaration of war, despite what the DC blob and their corporate media surrogates would suggest. The whole concept behind checks and balances is that the Congress would retain the power to declare war on foreign nations. Not that they would abdicate their responsibility and pass a bill that gave the executive branch unlimited, undefined warmaking powers.
This is copying the heart of the work in a way that I don't think any reasonable judge is going to put under fair use. It doesn't transform the original in a "creative" way that deviates enough from the original.

It does not matter if there's no assets - the code is an asset. To my knowledge the only way to "decompile" is to only provide the tool (with no game source code in it), and have the user use that tool to decompile the binary.

DXHR is still sold on steam. Some other popular game decompiles (like OOT) are not, which has reduced the eye of sauron from gazing upon them.

If you're going to make decompiles, better to have it's entire existence detached from you, IP included. A simple discovery request will reveal all your details.
Middleware engines have been offering that for at least two decades with better tooling.
> that didn't happen for some reason.

It was probably because they had to build a wall to keep the citizens of the territory they were occupying from escaping communism.
I was going to rant about Synology Photos being not that great at many things, but looking at your workflows it makes plenty of sense. You seem to cover a lot of the weakness through these batches.

This still feels a bit fickle as Synology app quality hasn't much improved IMO (I'm mostly using the DSFile and DSUpload apps, both in android and iOS, and they still work but are far from getting the love they deserve from the Synology dev team). But at least you still have all your photos at hand and can move to any other alternative import and viewing system that would fit the bill.
How much time do your 4-5 year-olds spend playing video games on a daily / weekly / monthly basis?
I've been a heavy vim user for I don't even know how long. What does neovim get me over vim? Looking at the charter page on the website, the only thing that really stands out to me is Lua.

"Deliver a first-class Lua/LuaJIT scripting alternative to Vimscript." The rest seem fine but not really a reason to switch, and I don't know Lua so I'm not sure that's a reason either.

Is this the main reason? Are there other good reasons?
With regard to security, it seems to me that the most obvious comparison for the ReMarkable would be a paper notepad which would also be compromised if you had physical access?

Saying this as a former ReMarkable owner (and kickstarter backer) who ended up only using the device as a notepad, after learning that I read in a non-linear fashion which doesn't work well on the relatively slow screen. And for notes, I ended up deciding that paper is simpler that dragging yet another device around.

Still, I highly recommend the ReMarkable and my device happily lives on as a school notebook for my son.
Did sound like it:

> why would anyone want only bundling
Hmm. Where I am there are a number of "Deer Feed" sellers and the buyers bring large trucks. Serious hunters do indeed attract animals with food.

In general you're correct, most hunters don't. But some hunters -- particularly the ones that hunt the most -- do feed prey. On the high end of that histogram are people that acquire property in communities that are designed to accommodate hunters. They feed a lot of game.
Agreed. A related point: it is often hard for someone who’s not into some specific interest, to know which attributes make something better. Like most people don’t have the same standards of freshness for coffee beans as coffee needs (and wouldn’t know to care)
No, on basically all accounts. In the US there is a fatality every 75,000,000 miles, a injury every 1,250,000 miles, and a reported accident every 550,000 miles on average [1]. From a "reliability" perspective, we can reasonably assume that at any given time, you will probably crash in less than a minute without control over your car. The average driver probably averages ~40 MPH per unit time. So, on a minute basis that is one fatality per 111,000,000 minutes (99.999999%, 8 9s) a injury every 1,875,000 minutes (99.99995%, 6 9s), a accident every 315,000 minutes (99.9996%, 5 9s).

Even the worst component of the driving system (the driver) is solidly over 99.999%. And every single hardware component is vastly better than the driver. The Pinto, a classic example of a death trap, only resulted in a hardware-induced fatality something like every 1,000,000,000 miles, or using the minute basis above a fatality every 1,500,000,000 minutes (99.9999999%, 9 9s). The person you responded to is correct, 99.999% is unusably, criminally bad.

[1] https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/National%20Statistics.pdf
I learned quite recently that one of the limiting factors in the Rust compiler’s performance is the LLVM IR it produces being of poor quality. This means that LLVM itself takes much longer to produce code. Are there any initiatives to address this?
So... you should be happy about the winning power allowing some self determinism. Would you rather it have been forced?
Sure, but it doesn't really matter what you do for those people; their projects will be inaccessible anyway. For the rest of us, it's a useful reminder.
UTC+12:45! Surely, that’s as far ahead of UTC as you can get?

Nope, apparently we also have:

– UTC+13:00 for Samoa and Tonga (standard time) and Fiji and New Zealand (daylight saving time)

– UTC+13:45 for Chatham Islands (daylight saving time)

– UTC+14:00 for Kiribati (standard time)
They can! That's a different process called importing, and people do that a lot. For example, I've imported all of Walmarts in the US a few years ago by request. See OSM wiki on imports: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import
>I mean, sure, but I’m just saying point me to a source that is ranking Python as #1 or #2 most popular. If it’s TIOBE or something similar it’s meaningless.

According to 2022 Stack Overflow developer survey, if we exclude HTML, SQL and Bash, top five languages (as in being used by most developers) are: Javascript, Python, Typescript, Java and C#.
Big govt vs big tech, a battle that is being played out all over the world.

Any country that value sovereignty and sees itself as an independent actor rather than a vassal state, must take the position India is taking, or else be susceptible to foreign owned apps influencing its citizenry. The only alternative would be to insist Signal hire its security agents into product / moderator roles, so that oversight can be conducted in more implicit ways.

Not great for the users, but the world where globalised technology makes everyone friends is over
I do want to hear more about how toll road management companies are working to prevent their roads being used by bad actors, terrorists.

Food manufacturers should also ensure that they are not contributing to feeding bad actors...

People like you being so easily manipulated by governments are extremely dangerous to democracy.
Bees order numbers in increasing size from left to right
I haven't seen anyone note the timing of this:

Musk is buying Twitter today or tomorrow, and he'll likely need to sell more Tesla stock unless he can get additional financing. This news will obviously depress Tesla stock. The timing is hardly inconspicuous.
If it's leaked then nobody has to pay lawyers to review it first. ;) but everything today has access logs.
JavaScript is still the language that owns the platform, because WASM doesn't have any capabilities beyond compute, it up to the host to provide callbacks so that WASM code can call into the host, those callbacks are written in JavaScript.
> In April 2021, Niemann relayed his life story to Chess Life magazine, a lengthy monologue with a very specific claim – both numerically and geographically – at the start of it. “I continued cycling upon my initial return to the States, finding myself ranked third for my age nationally,” Niemann says.

> So, was he the third-best cyclist of his age in the US?

> There’s nothing in the results on USA Cycling’s database that appears to support that statement. At the Northern California Nevada Cycling Association district track championships, he finished fifth of five riders, in all six races. In the Valley of the Sun Road Race, he finished sixth of eight on the general classification. In 24 races he started through the 2013 season, Niemann took no wins. Of his eight podium finishes, only two races had more than three riders.

Niemann is clearly talented. At bending the truth...
I don’t understand the Mindstorms pricing:

- Even you as a privilege background, you had to join Birthday and Christmas,

- If a Raspberry Pi costs $30, why would each single motor at Lego cost $25? Why can’t we have an excellent Mindstorms set for $200?

It looks just like segmentation and extracting the dollar fro where it is, but wouldn’t the market be much bigger if it were a little more affordable?