skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact: I think remarkable is the perfect product for a subscription. Once they reach the ideal hardware there’s no need for them to continue changing it, no need to chase features, no need to try to make new colours or update the style just to sell more hardware to the same customers.

But they still need to keep the company running for all the things that we’d want out of a long-term product (driver updates, bugfixes, security fixes, feature simplification).

Personally I don’t want to foot the bill for “cloud services” as I’d rather self-host, but for Good Tools I’m comfortable with more of a Patreon model where my subscription helps everyone.
Is it just psychoactive toads, or can I continue to lick normal toads there?
Oh, I'm aware of that. I have a bone to pick with a lot of the SC rulings.

But also consider that nobody has yet been put in jail for harshly criticizing the President. And you can still buy a gun.
Personalized tracking is not a requirement for ads.

Ad agencies were making plenty of money for many years before the internet made this kind of tracking possible.

There's very little evidence that personalized tracking actually makes advertising more effective in terms of ROI.

Let ad companies sell ads, and websites sell their ad space, based on the content of what's posted there. The same way ads were sold in newspapers and magazines for decades.

And ad fraud on the part of any of the business parties involved in the ad transactions are not sufficient justification for tracking every person's entire life online. Let them deal with the fraudsters directly, in ways that don't involve incredibly invasive and privacy-eroding surveillance on a massive scale.

If they can't figure out how to do that, that's not my problem. It's their business model, not mine.
Yeah, that's a pretty small amount of clean up. Someone should try to revert the patch and reland it.
Boeing. SpaceX just ate a big chunk of their lunch.
At this point, I think the US would not accept it.

Half the country wants nothing to do with the federal government. If you visit places like South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Indiana, etc the people there are openly saying “prepare, the government is attacking us”

Driving around the country you’ll see upside down American flags (meaning country in distress), gadsden flags, etc you’re much more likely going to get people to accept ETH then take over the org or something.
Are you planning to mention Whitebox [1]? It seems the most significant existing geospatial project implemented in rust.

[1]: https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/
I'm not disputing this, but I think there should be a clarification:

By definition, someone who is conservative doesn't need to "move". Conservatism is about _conserving_ and subsequently not changing or moving.

If the conservatives are becoming "more conservative" they are (or at least should be) _not moving_.
I prefer "primal" for old great things.
What is with this obsession of never taking the hands of the keyboard? I've seen it so many times and it makes no sense to me. I don't find myself limited by the speed of typing but by the speed of thinking.
Do you mean the card animation's coming out late, or the scroll is not smooth?
The appropriately apocalyptic soundtrack to accompany this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0q0O4V5Qs
Android's Messages app does this. RCS isn't end-to-end encrypted, but Messages adds the Signal protocol on top.

https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf
If it's so undesirable to live or even visit SF, why is it still so expensive?
Some more context here is that Reed Solomon and Shamir's Secret Sharing both take some data and produce N pieces (commonly called shards or horocruxes), any K of which can reconstruct the original data (K <= N).

The difference is that Shamir's makes it so that having up to K-1 pieces reveals _no_ information about the original data. You may be able to infer certain data from less than K shards in Reed Solomon.
It is all about user system control.

They want to deny the control of some parts of the system to the user, and that as much as possible.

The worst case is video game consoles. Here, it is related to the "web", namely via ultra-huge complexity and size of web engines (with their SDK) with obfuscation of script code.
Off topic. What's your opinion on Python?

I also write shell scripts, but I'm just curious what you would think about a comparison.
The lack of features is a feature. The screen is good enough for focused reading, but too slow for anything more interactive in terms of consuming information. And the eink screen is more enjoyable to look at. ReMarkable is the reason why I have finally been able to go back to study as a dropout. It isn’t a perfect product, but it’s good enough and that’s huge.

Retrospectively though, I think a laser printer might’ve been as cheap and efficient (given how buggy and slow everything related to synchronization is with the reMarkable).
More often than not, you do have a say in prioritization as an engineer. But that won’t happen unless you speak up.
Here's how you can tell if a set of rights is more correct or less correct - how well a country organized around those rights thrives, or fails to thrive.

The US has thrived, meaning its definition of rights is reasonably on the mark.
> Since you know that's what they're expecting (unless you're an idiot), the more moral thing to do is to respect that and not engage with them if you don't agree

If you think the current state of online advertising as a business model is actively immoral, as I do, then I'd argue violating that expectation is at least morally neutral if not actually the moral thing to do.
I don't care if you run Linux or not, but for a home computer try a LTS distro, maybe Kubuntu , don't install third party PPAs and you should not get any problems updating. Using an LTS means that you are not getting the new shinny thing that you might see on the internet though.

But if your current setup works painlessly for you then keep using that.
> If you live entirely underwater you have no reason to harness fire

No, but I wonder if simple batteries would have been discovered. That would get you straight to arc furnaces.
Ah the old "Everyone else is stupid" point of view. Sure, ok, Mark Zuckerberg is stupid. Satya Nadella is stupid. Tim Cook is stupid. Every tech company CEO is stupid.

Maybe every CEO isn't stupid. Maybe these companies were simply structuring their businesses to maximize their chances of capturing new growth opportunities in an environment of incredibly cheap capital. Most companies could hire 5 engineers who will completely transform their businesses. And they'll hire 50,000 in an effort to find those 5.

It's probably true you could run twitter with under 1,000 people. But it's probably not true that you can easily figure out who those 1,000 people are and get them to stay whilst you fire the other 6,500, and it's absolutely true that if the current CEO of twitter had tried that he would've got fired before he had a chance to pull it off. Go ask investors, do they want Twitter to reduce their ongoing costs significantly, with a significant chance it does long term damage to their growth plans, or do they want to grow revenue 30% YoY?
Anyone else with a large pile of money can acquire other companies. Does Facebook have a competitive advantage at buying companies?
GTK has long been under the GNOME umbrella.

The XFCE folks are welcome to fork GTK to support their own use cases.
To add to this, it's designed to work in conjunction with small programs. You don't write everything using bash (or whatever shell) built-ins. It will feel like a crappier Perl. If there is some part of your script where you're struggling to use an existing tool (f.g. built-ins, system utils), write your own small program to handle that part of the stream and add it in to your pipe. Since shell is a REPL, you get instant feedback and you'll know if it's working properly.

It's also important to learn your system's environment too. This is your "standard library", and it's why POSIX compatibility is important. You will feel shell is limited if you don't learn how to use the system utilities with shell (or if your target system has common utilities missing).

As an example of flexibility, you can use shell and system utilities in combination with CGI and a basic web server to send and receive text messages on an Android phone with termux. Similar to a KDE Connect or Apple's iMessage.
I joined FIRST with very high hopes - I had been programming in C++ for several years by the time I reached high school, and had built small robots at home (and also participated in our middle school Lego robotics team).

I quit after two months. Our team was dominated completely by the engineer parents/mentors and a couple of "wunderkind" (aka children of the engineer parents). Outside of the select few, most people were completely brushed off and just sat in an empty room dicking around. The parents were too competitive and did a lot of the work, the stakes were too high for them, so failure wasn't allowed, so nobody learned anything. You either joined an expert or were "dead weight".
I can't tell which direction the causation goes in this case(I mean I'm sure it's both, at least to some degree). It also makes sense that drugs that are illegal are used by "criminals" or those associated with criminal behavior.

In regards to new substances that aren't illegal yet, they are likely to be sought out by those who already use other illegal substances with similar effects
It’s irrelevant for engineers to know. We don’t make product decisions.
I came here to join the outrage, and while I'm definitely raising my eyebrows they are this close to having done it right.

First, the subscription is not mandatory, and in fact you can use the cloud provider of your choice for free. And second, if you do want to make use of the online functions (kids nowadays love their cloud sync) it does make sense that they would charge for them. Space may be cheap nowadays, but it's not free.

I personally would have preferred them to go the other way, presenting it "offline first" and then add "plus all of this extra features" afterwards, as it would save me having to cancel a service I don't want. But at least they do offer a working product without it, which is a rare feature nowadays.
It’s a new job that software provides. There is now a bug curator (usually non technical) that serves almost like an account manager for a client. They are in the middle.

Usually, developers would prioritize based on the frequency of certain bugs. The faux account manager might prioritize by importance of the client.
Welcome to your friendly, neighborhood corporate Big Box store. Admittedly, I only saw the armed guards(off-duty LEOs, sometimes in uniform) in L.A. and Houston.
I agree that verification is easy. I think they have softened the warnings and behavior surrounding key changes to accommodate their users that have virtually no understanding of crypto (i.e. the majority of people). It's an understandable position for them to take, but yes, in my opinion the alarm bells when a key unexpectedly changes are more oriented towards casual users than a (to paraphrase c7DJTLrn) Snowden-level user. For the latter, I expect behavior more similar to an OpenSSH key mismatch (which is quite a bit more strongly worded than Signal's).
I wish humanity could discard narrow-minded nationalist/short-sighted capitalist tendencies and unite against this threat. Imagine a climate pact between the US, EU, China and India where each society placed a similar focus on pivoting to renewables and developing reliable fusion energy as the Allies devoted to winning ww2 and developing atomic weaponry. Amusingly, the end of our dependency would also resolve many geopolitical concerns. However, governments across the globe are run by people who lack the proper morals or intelligence to see what needs to be done.
Their understanding is entirely in their own mind. I, and a very large percentage of internet users, reject it. Content publishers might want this social contract to exist, but it does not.

I personally don't find ad-supported content objectionable. But it's still my browser running on my computer and I'll do what I like with it.
Before buying remarkable, compare remarkable to a BOOX device. I did just that and my conclusion was that remarkable is an overpriced piece of tech at risk of being abandoned.

For example, just the reading software on BOOX is leaps and bounds ahead of Remarkable. Similarly, on BOOX, you've got Android, which opens up a number of possibilities, while remarkable uses Linux (which sounds awesome until you realize that nobody's going to custom-develop apps for a very niche device in a very niche ecosystem). Technically speaking though, this means that once abandoned, Remarkable will not be completely dead.

A comment in a comparison video I'd recommend you watch [1] summed it up pretty nicely: " The Remarkable is remarkable for the amount of stuff it doesn't have." The only thing that Remarkable wins at is the actual writing experience (which you can top with a $30 fountain pen).

I was seriously considering buying Remarkable. I've bought a BOOX Lumi instead, and it has been a great experience.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQp1o6qPj8
> if you don't like websites with ads, don't use websites with ads.

I wish this was a tenable solution as if this were practical it’s exactly what I’d do. As it stands I can’t even use basic web search without ads, or even my banks online banking service!

Even services which I pay for are increasingly getting greedy and showing ads, which is unacceptable.

I do find advertising offensive, but I’m not fundamentally opposed to the concept. In reality though online ads are heavily abused by almost company/individual and I will opt to control my network traffic as I see fit.
It's morally acceptable to block intrusive ads, in order to force advertisers to adopt better practices. Isn't that the way of the free market? To vote with your wallet, I mean, with your eyeballs?

The ultimate purpose of ads is getting money from us, why can't we have a say about how the request is presented to us? Ads are not a privilege or a right, they're beggars posted at every corner of the Internet.
I want one so flipping bad...
> But most of customer support is "they didn't read the docs/googled hard enough" type. It might be not for your field but that's what it is.

Yes, and those weren't the type of support requests I would handle; although keeping an eye on the support inbox every few days to see patterns where customers are struggling with was still useful; sometimes it can just be fixed by changing the wording on a label, or adding a link to the documentation. Customer support isn't always good at communicating these issues to developers, and many PMs are more focused on the "big things" rather than little details like this, but ... they do make a product better and it costs very little effort.

Similarly, if a customer started getting difficult/ranty I would just tell support to deal with it. I've had people go off on entire tangents about the Bush presidency and Iraq war (in ~2016-2017...) because of a minor inconvenience. I'm not going to deal with that kind of silliness. There are some very odd people in the world...
The fact that his mother had to return to work just to “make ends meet” indicates it was not an inconsequential loss, I think “inhumane” isn’t too far of a stretch. Especially given his injury was the direct result of risking his life for the American government.
For 13" e-paper document readers, there's the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 or its predecessors, the Sony DPT-RP1 / DPT-S1. They are PDF only, since they were intended for professional use.
Not a surprise, since co2 is an oxide, and therefore very stable in the athmosphere. It would take a huge amount of energy to remove it, and we don't even stop putting it in there.

Janvici had a nice way to put it: the 1.5C are already signed for, which means we won't ever see the climate of today again in the next 5000 years.
I take it you haven't read the Party Platform, have you?

Not sure that it really matters. As the #1 and #2 priorities of the Democratic Party right are allowing for the unrestricted killing of the unborn and supporting the alphabet-soup of sexual/gender spectrum.
Oh brilliant, I'll go an start to play latest CoD on my mac then. Oh, wait.
Often making a YouTube video made to be a timer the top choice. Where it probably shows you an ad before you can use the timer. Ugh.
I can say perceptually it's a backlight, how they did it in engineering terms I'm not sure.

It can even be in dark mode and variably backlight only the foreground content with no change in the illumination of the dark background.
This.

This is the true difficulty with clawing back features in order to charge for them: you break trust.

Businesses income in aggregate is not immediately affected by choices that break trust (in fact, the short-term balance sheet might even show increased profits) but it’s very hard to un-sour people once you’ve broken trust.
My favourite part of P3P was when Google started returning a P3P header that just had the string "This is not a P3P policy", intentionally letting browsers consider its presence a declaration of P3P compliance while declaring non-compliance in English. Real, refined, stylish evil. I couldn't help but be impressed.
The 1 and 5 minute timers show for me, but they appear after video recommendations. For my display, this is just under my viewport.
I agree with all of this. Well said.
This argument might be valid in Brazil but definitely isn't in Canada.
Fortunately, you still have those rights - whether you recognize them or not, and whether or not the government recognizes them.

They're inherent to being a human being - those "inalienable" rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.

The US Constitution did not create those rights, it recognized them.
Here is a great talk on new SSS library from Daan Sprenkels at 34C3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojMFCpUt7OU

Implementation: https://github.com/dsprenkels/sss
Yes, I came to reflect this sentiment.

In startups there's a push for founder-led sales because it's the best way to learn from your target customers.

It's the same for engineers. The quickest way to validate your assumptions, see where the rough edges are, identify an easy bug, etc. is directly from the customer.

I found that doing it myself with a support rotation was the best way to do this. That said, it's not "throw engineers into the deep end". It was managed by support team to optimize my time and their benefit. We were able to mutually teach each other a ton.
What is your process for reading manga on the device? I've considered loading some up on mine, but I haven't come up with a process at all yet. I've actually considered writing a custom program for it to specifically load up a manga zip file, but I'm working on a way to talk to external storage first so I don't wear out the internal memory loading in a bunch of test programs.
They are publicly hosting their content with a protocol that was designed for clients to only follow the links they are interested in.

Rather than gimping the browser stack for everyone, websites should use the tech they already have. Like rendering ads directly into the page contents.
I frequently stumble upon blog posts from adguard.com, usually have good research and analysis about the state of ad blocking and that spectrum.

But anyone here use their Ad-blocker? Why I should consider it over uBlock Origin?
Traditional nerd/geek culture has always been pretty pro-enthusiasm. I mean, it's built on enthusiasm. Chris Hardwick noted that being a nerd isn't about what you like; it's about how you like it, and that delta is really the almost manic enthusiasm that ensues.

I'm sorry you had to work through this!
It’s not OK to have one style as a manager.It’s not OK to do things by instinct
This is not a new threat. It was first made September 12, 2022:

https://documents.unoda.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Unoff...

Source: "Open-ended working group on reducing space threats / Statements: second session"
https://meetings.unoda.org/section/oewg-space-2022_general-s...
I see all the rights under constant attack all the time. By Americans. It's heartbreaking.
Completeness of Vision, Ability to Execute, sure

This demonstrates a difficult-to-measure resistance to deviation from the core product.

Some might approach the market of a Press Conference and say "Well, all press conferences I've seen usually go well when the speaker is prepared and had good answers for all questions. I might want to learn more about the folks who might ask good questions or hard questions to make sure I don't get stumped"

A craftsman says "I understand it's a press conference. Here's my thing. You do you, I'm gonna do my thing and let it speak for itself. That's why I'm here."
Musk Tells Twitter Staff He Doesn’t Plan to Cut 75% of Jobs
I have this feeling of polluting the thread. Like if I'm interested enough to start a discussion about a topic, or the person replying to my post is, maybe this thread format is not the best way to go about it. Sometimes I even go and do an edit to my post and answer some replied concerns there, but most of the time I feel like I'd be polluting too much.
Since yesterday, Instagram is able to circumvent ad blockers probably by no longer using a different domain for ad "posts". I had to write a (tampermonkey) script to filter out the many ads between posts.
Yeah, the great thing about the "coffee/beer/chocolate/etc. friend" is that the gifts are consumable. You can get the same or similar thing and it doesn't just keep piling up everywhere.
Sometimes I find myself thinking about the difference between video games and traditional games. For some reason, we assume video games are transient. What you played a few years ago probably isn’t what you’re playing today, and you certainly aren’t playing something that you played 25 years ago. Of course there’s the nostalgia remakes and all that, but that’s a small subset.

On the other hand, you have chess, poker, monopoly, etc. These games persist unchanged for decades, sometimes centuries.

Obviously the transience and rapid development of software is a major factor. But it’s interesting to ponder what a persistent digital game would look like.

I suppose Tetris is probably the closest example I can think of.
>What indicates that at some point in the future we wouldn't have the computational power to run neural nets roughly equivalent to a human?

It's making the assumption that human brains are simply very complex neural nets. Even ignoring religious/spiritual arguments about souls, the simple fact of the matter is that we don't really know a lot about how the human brain/consciousness actually works on a fundamental level (and anyone who tells you otherwise is misinformed or lying).
If a website is providing ad-supported content you enjoy, you really see no moral quandary in stymying their income?

"Akshually there's no law saying I need to behave morally" feels like an adroit sidestepping of the problems here.
GNOME UI is very snappy and pragmatic, in my opinion much better than macos on a laptop screen for example. Out of every OS, I will happily use Gnome on wayland without a second thought, and I’m not alone.
Because federation is seriously difficult — look at all the effort the Matrix team has put in, and it’s still not quite 100%.

Plus yes Signal has a bit of an NIH complex.
To add to this, I'd recommend participating in the relevant reddit (helping others, commenting on articles, submitting links by others, etc) before self-promoting.
not sure about the relative rarity, but De Beers did/does artificially limit available stock to keep prices up. If you read really anything about them, you'll see that market manipulation was core to their business model from the start.
Indeed, except then you have to maintain screwdriver.
And yet the BoR was the first set of Amendments as the founders realized the mistake of not including them.
Exxon’s Exodus