skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initially I also though that they are just using same trick as what they have for rest of the custom colored indicator shapes. But after looking at some teardown videos of EP-133 it seems to be using real 3x(10+1)segment display module for the number section.

So this might still be specially shape mask on top that 10 segment display. But considering that it by itself isn't exactly common (compared to 7 or even 14 and 16 segment displays) I wouldn't be too surprised if they were able to find a factory in china that would make a customized segment led modules in batches of few thousands. At the end of day what are 7 segment displays if not a bunch of LEDs and light guides molded into single plastic case. It wouldn't be cheap but for a premium product with focus on visual design and experience like what the teenage engineer makes it doesn't seem impossible.

As for something more accessible to a hobbyists - people have been experimenting with placing custom cutouts on top of LED displays with quite good looking results.
It can be as simple as thin laser cut stencil on top of LED matrix display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLgUtjyKO6Q
With thicker 3d printed mask you can even shift the positions of segments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt2merZcuno
The name is new but "ultra processed" - which is to say processed - has been with us for 50 years nowadays. Deleterious effects are known: obesity, diabetes and, yes, uptake in cancers.

Still, an unlikely candidate for a recent uptake in cancers amongst the young at least as a general category and not aiming at a specific new class of additives.
Oh that's a good point, I lost you on sign up. I created a demo page and also added link to the landing.
Now you can try without signing up https://jotnoted.com/demo
I was once offered a job across the country. I was flattered and a friend's recommendation was involved so I wanted to be polite. Instead of saying "no," I said thank you so much but looking at cost of living etc it would really take (to-me absurd offer, benefits, moving support, etc). They replied back: you drive a hard bargain but we can do that. Welcome aboard!

...shit. But yeah, I moved.
Canonical is patching, more than Debian. Which is causing own specific bugs. Upstream developers don't like that. The attack through the xz package is just one last example. Fedora also patches but limit it to small changes e.g. transparency for the Gnome-Terminal.

But Canonical is not just patching. Their launching counter-projects:

* Mir instead of Wayland
* Unity instead of GNOME
* Upstart instead of Systemd (Upstart is older but just SysVInit with patches)
* Snap instead of Flatpak

Canonical always tries to push own stuff and harms the community. Usually Red Hat and the community oppose and win because:

* they are better
* and stronger

What Canonical does well is shipping closed-source drivers (a thing which we don't want) and libraries for codes and their installer is neat. Fedora instead requires you the add RPMFUSION but delivers a clean GNOME, fast updates and don't try to ship weird stuff. I install Fedora for all regular systems which shall require little to no maintenance. Especially for non-technial users.

For professional task and my very own system I prefer Arch. They only patch when it is necessary, usually upstream patches. If you want a terminal with background transparency there are packages with patches in AUR.

The distribution should be the choice about installing and package-management, the software (i.e. GNU and Linux) shall be in general the same. It shall not matter "which" Linux you're using.
Visuals are top-notch.
> Not quite, some ISPs lock down their routers and you can't expose the relevant ports publically.

Here in Italy our public Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) has sentenced that ISPs cannot mandate a specific router type and MUST provide technical details so that any subscriber can be able to use a modem/router of choice. This was after quite a bit of lobbying by the "Free Modem Alliance (https://www.freemodemalliance.it/)

So I guess that at the end of the day i guess it's mostly a matter of political activism.

I love this, and run my own WRT3200ACM with OpenWRT
Yes; trauma feels like a heavyweight, serious business word reserved for the worst experiences of humankind, but in psychology it's used in a much wider context. For one, it's the result of a subjective experience, that is, what may traumatize one person may be someone else's day job.

I do like that the wiki page calls out in the first paragraph that witnessing traumatic events indirectly on TV may be distressing, but aren't considered traumatic experiences. And there are some people that use it too casually / colloquially.
I would add PFASs to the suspect list.
A farmer from Zug is hacked. One of his cows dies as a result
Spoken like someone who has never had to deal with undefined behavior corner cases.
This kind of thing should be enforced with linting rules and an automated action that rejects any pull request which violates the rules, not with a comment.
Yeah, if you compare with the prices set by large manufacturers you are right, of course. But note the company behind this machine is like a two persons shop. They lack the economy of scale. And from a large hardware manufacturer you do not get "open source" hardware for which circuit diagrams are available to you for all major parts. If you do not care about that then this thing is not for you.
Switched from corded to cordless for all my tools, for a garden 40mx15m in size. It's so much better. My hedge trimmer for instance feels a bit less poweful, but no longer dealing with the cable makes trimming the hedge virtually twice as fast, especially the "back side". Same for trimmer. Chipper is corded though, that thing is a beast.
Downvoting on HN was never supposed to be about punishing inconvenient truths.
Agreed. And for even cheaper you can get an Android tablet (or even an iPad) and an external keyboard, if you think trading openness for their app ecosystems is a benefit.
CR for "new line" was probably a holdover from Apple II. It was common on 8-bit computers also from Commodore, Acorn, Sinclair and Tandy.
Two companies where they make sure Elon just plays with the unplugged controls and keep the adults in charge (well, I guess they let him have the Cybertruck - with predictable results)

Not the case at Twitter

Still I probably wouldn't do the amount of overtime they require of workers at SpaceX and Tesla
Unable to read article - what is a way to view this without a subscription?
The US price starts at $999, but you get hit with VAT when ordering from Europe. The VAT situation will be a bit different once we can offer these in our own (EU based) shop in a few weeks.

Keep in mind we're hand assembling these in Berlin, Germany, and the first batch size was below 1000 units.
I wish I were brave enough to pack up my things and move to Paris unplanned :(
Spam is the least of the worries.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37756086>
“Try to teach an alien on a telephone about left and right” actually sounds like a fun game to try with a class full of kids.

I would solve this particular circumstance by using the andromeda galaxy (“the closest galaxy”) as a reference, but it definitely stumped me for a bit.
>Like if Tim Cook decided to move to Alabama that’s where Apple Park would be

What a dumb take. Tim Cook lives in California because Apple was founded there over 40 years ago. And Apple will stay in California because most of the talent Apple needs to succeed is already there. And since Apple will stay in California so will their CEO.

You must be on some really good shrooms to think Apple will uproot itself just to move to wherever Tim Cook would move.
When are small strings bad? Parallelism?
Timing is everything so maybe 10 years ago was too early, not to mention Google has more resources than Flattr. ChatGPT didn't exist back then, and the whole online ad ecosystem is going to go through some upheaval.
Thanks! I've created a demo page: https://jotnoted.com/demo. The sketches can be exported from the editor as PNG files, and I also save the data in both SVG and JSON formats. The JSON data is compatible with Excalidraw, and the SVG is just standard SVG.

For the MVP, it's possible to export to PNG in the editor, and notes can be shared via a public link. Which export format would you like to see? I was thinking of adding an option to export notes to PDF.
I wonder what is the long term plan.

Maybe the next step is to sell the control of all these packages to a rogue entity to be used for a supply chain attack?
tangential

... without marketing (e.g. gmail

I would hard disagree that there was no marketing.

gmail had one of the first really successful guerilla marketing campaigns imo. Google made the initial phase by "invite only". By making it exclusive, a whole ecosystem developed around getting invites so that you could have that @gmail.com account. By the time of the official launch they had captured what could losely be described as the influencers of the time.

Invite only has been tried a few times since then, but never to my knowledge has it been done as well.
Nice writeup. I've been through similar problems that you have with my contact lens price comparison website https://lenspricer.com/ that I run in ~30 countries. I have found, like you, that websites changing their HTML is a pain.

One of my biggest hurdles initially was matching products across 100+ websites. Even though you think a product has a unique name, everyone puts their own twist on it. Most can be handled with regexes, but I had to manually map many of these (I used AI for some of it, but had to manually verify all of it).

I've found that building the scrapers and infrastructure is somewhat the easy part. The hard part is maintaining all of the scrapers and figuring out if when a product disappears from a site, is that because my scraper has an error, is it my scraper being blocked, did the site make a change, was the site randomly down for maintenance when I scraped it etc.

A fun project, but challenging at times, and annoying problems to fix.
There was an initial crowdfunding period first which we have almost completely fulfilled now (working on the last shipment of 68 devices atm). The devices you are buying now are from Crowd Supply's stock which we will start fulfilling to them in around 2 weeks.
Important to keep in mind. You can vent and ask for things, but you can't start violating boundaries.
Checking the comments is a way to view the article. This was posted an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178801
US sanctions on PRC limit what PRC can buy now, may be confiscated pending US admin to prevent PRC spending later.

Meanwhile PRC trade surplus huge -> PRC USD reserves huge -> USD is strong and commodity prices not too whack due to global slow down.

Why not stock up now? Eventual global recovery could trigger expensive commodity super cycle. Would it be helpful in war, sure. But PRC needs to build up nukes first, going to take a few years for 50% parity.
Thanks for your kind words!

I haven't thought about monetizing it, because honestly I don't really see anything about it to be monetized in its current form.
I've only seen half the stuff you're calling "IP communism", but many are inspired by the "fully automated luxury gay space communism" meme, so sure :)

> I don't believe in communism and I think anarchocapitalism is maybe as bad as communism.

I've met both, and yup; though the communists seemed more sociable, neither could really understand that the other existed except as caricature.

> If you think certifications are just consumer protection then you are missing big part of the picture.

I was unsure if I should have written "also" in that sentence; but I didn't write "just" ;)
This one is interesting, can you elaborate?
Overall perception: there are a lot of inefficient and ineffective charities, you have to be careful about who you give to if you want to have an impact

Ever given? Yes, I give through a regular deduction from payroll (I'm a giving what you can pledgee)

What keeps me committed? Knowing that I'm having an impact. I give mostly to GiveDirectly and find it almost impossible to read about the recipients and not want to give more: https://live.givedirectly.org/
Sure, but these are not made in some asian sweatshop and you can replace everything yourself.
> much more powerful than tools with batteries

Battery powered tools can be much more powerful than corded tools. Corded tools are limited to 1500W whereas battery powered tools are not. For example a corded snow blower would never be powerful enough, but you can get battery powered snow blowers that are quite usable. Some of them will run 4 56V batteries in parallel to get the power.

Nothing hand-held is going to give you 1500W of course, the batteries would be too heavy.
For me, this is also the norm and I kinda forgot that there are people that would need this article at all
> Yet chainsaws ... well, they're just a different beast.
> There seems to, weirdly, be more poorly designed engines or some such.

It's about power and weight. You don't carry a push mower; the engine can be heavy and powerful. A trimmer doesn't need much power; the engine can be light and low power.

But a chainsaw: You have to carry all the weight for long periods, and yet you need a lot of power. Relatively speaking they're hot rod engines with a higher power to weight ratio. That's why they're generally harder to start and burn so much fuel as well.

> And it's not normal for them to always have issues. People make a living off of them.

Correct. Drain the fuel, every time. If you let the mix evaporate and leave behind gobs of oil, you're the problem. When storing for long periods put it somewhere heated to avoid condensation cycles.

No problems.
Chainstate
The few random checks that I did on a few products as I was shopping didn't show any difference.

Either I was lucky or they don't bother, who knows
I have an impression that EC2 instances are priced so high to discourage their use and instead steer customers to managed services: S3, CludFront, Lamda, RDS, SQS, Fargate e. t. c.
Holis: A vector-symbolic implementation of a Lisp interpreter
Is it just me or does anyone also get this odd feeling when people use phrases like "challenged a law of nature". Makes it sound like he did something that is physically impossible when he actually attempted something that was believed to be impossible or highly unlikely
Not everyone wants to hack on things all the time, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Why artificial sugars, which have been extensively studied as a food, when there are so many pollutants that are actual poison that we ingest every day? This meme never dies, just like the one about MSG
Yeah, that works best in the 70s.

With modern software it's a pain in the butt. Remember CD burning software? That at least used to invoke cdrecord underneath, and whenever that went wrong it was awful, because text is an awful interface for a complex system.

Today you'll find many things that actually "de-UNIX-philosophy" stuff, by making a library that wraps around an invocation to a complex tool and presents what 99% of users actually want -- a library style interface.
The "small string optimization" makes the strings harder to manipulate with `unsafe` code. However, being easy to manipulate with `unsafe` code is in fact a priority for most std types, so that they are easily understood, extended, rearranged, passed over FFI and then later reconstituted, etc.

You can tear apart these types and reassemble them very easily. For many C++ std types, you cannot do this.
Bloomberg did a good mini-doc on pfas 8 months back; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qGtEVh7oQ

I suspect it might end up being an all or the above kind of situation, perhaps mixed in with transgenerational effects from atmospheric atomic tests and so forth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY, https://web.archive.org/web/20200507112343/https://www.cdc.g..., & https://www.americanscientist.org/article/fallout-from-nucle...)
In the English Language, "American" refers only to people from the US. Try referring to a Canadian as an "American", I dare you.
Different strokes for different folks.

Comparing the two, I'm interested to test OP's site but not yours. The "Get OneTake for 5x Cheaper" and "Birthday discount" give me really off vibes, as well as the absence of a clear pricing page with no fluff, the fake (1) notification in the title, ... The yearly plan gives "30 minutes of editing with OneTake AI" which seems very little (are we talking of 30 minutes working or 30 minutes of video?) and I'm not even sure what is the pricing on that. Also the testimonials all show a date between 3 and 5 minutes, which seems extremely dubious. Clicking the link they do seem legit, but the weird meddling makes it suspicious.

I'm totally willing to believe these tactics work well for you, but I also strongly feels I'm not part of the target audience.
> This is a tired meme and essentially an ad hominem "silly Americans never experienced civilization so they don't know better"

It has nothing to do whit Americans, nor did I imply it. Simply put, as it wasn't already simply put, my claim is that changing incentives changes peoples (not just Americans) wants. I would really like to hear why you think that that isn't true. I didn't even mention the US in my post, GP did. But he isn't making an ad hominem but somehow, according to you, I am. Is that because you agree with him and not with me so I'm making a fallacy and not him? Either way, neither did I nor GP make an ad hominem. If you thing that somebody made an ad hominem show some good faith and show where and why is it an ad hominem.

> I grew up in Moscow, USSR. With 2 min subway, trams, rail, buses and trolleybuses going everywhere. There was no private car ownership in the USSR until 1950s so nothing was built "for cars". Yet everyone dreamed of owning a car. There were films about people getting cars. The government ran lottery where prizes were appliances and the main prize was a car. The wait list to buy an overpriced (~2 annual average incomes) car was 5+ years. People still bought them at 3x price on the black market. Some people bought motorcycles and drove them with a sidecar as poor replacement for an unaffordable for them car. People went to work in the oil fields in the north for a year to afford a car. So yes, people do want cars even after they experienced the wonders of public transit.

It didn't occur to you that maybe back then people dreamed of owning a car because it was a novelty, a status symbol? Are they still making films about getting a car in Russia? Why not?

I'm not saying that nobody wants or needs a car. All I'm saying is that in places with good public transit and walkablity not everybody needs a car for day to day life, and of those that don't need a car majority don't dream of getting a car as you put it.

> People who have anxiety driving or cannot give up their drinking habit are a small minority.

Wow, everybody that doesn't dream of owning a car suffers anxiety or is an alcoholic... really?
This is unnecessary consumerism...
I'm guessing, since they don't state it clearly, that the combined rate of all cancers is falling, it's only when you look at subsets that it's rising.

Which prompts the idea: "do different cancers compete for shared resources?"

Would a lung cancer use up something that would prevent a different kind of cancer and so once smoking goes out of fashion you get some rebound as other cancers step into the gap left by them?

edit: I looked at the paper and then followed the link to the paper they cite for a general increase in incidence in top cancers combined in Gen X by the time they reach 60.

> Some portion of these increases can be attributed to rising obesity rates19 and increasingly
sedentary lifestyles. 20-23 Another portion might be explained by changes in cancer registry policies
and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision
(World Health Organization) classifications, 24 leading to inclusion of relatively indolent lesions in
more recent periods that might not have been diagnosed as cancer in earlier periods. Furthermore,
radiologic diagnoses have become more common following widespread deployment of sophisticated
medical imaging technologies, 25 especially for thyroid 26,27 and kidney 28,29 cancers. We chose not to
exclude any leading cancer site from our summaries because our granular estimates are freely
available (eFigures 15-17 in Supplement 1).

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=51200100901400413...
Let's not crab bucket each other. You deserve good working conditions and making life suck for everyone else, too, won't make your life truly better.
Isn’t this a use-case where LLMs could really help?
Ask HN: How does your Obsidian.md stack look like?
I would be particularly interested in how you keep it synchronized across multiple devices?

I currently use iCloud Sync but I would like to switch/expand to a better solution. Git on mobile devices is of course more difficult. My devices in use are Windows, Linux and MacOS laptops, an Android tablet and iPad/iPhone.

Thank you in Advance
> That's great, but wasn't it in France where the government made a (botched) attempt at making flying less attractive by increasing its cost?

More governments should follow.
How to Read a Page [pdf]
Postgres has very limited features related to FTS, so it is useful only for very simple cases or for very limited budget. Elasticsearch is stable enough(but good devops and devs needed) and has numerous of features. Anyway Elasticsearch is not a "plug and play" solution and requires much work to be done for good search quality. Why I know this all? I'm running ecommerce search startup, based on Elasticsearch as primary storage.
My statement here is less that the AGPL doesn't set out to do what it says on the tin (it does) but more that many people launching SaaS companies don't understand what the tin says. Many at least consider AGPL because they believe it "protects" them in some fashion from other cloud providers monetizing their IP.

The OP paradedb blog states for example:

> Future-Proof: Thanks to the copyleft provision, cloud vendors cannot easily resell our project without our consent. This gives us confidence in our ability to monetize without fear of predatory competition.

IANAL but my understanding of reading the various legal analyses of AGPL (which I've read several) is this part is not true: cloud vendors absolutely could resell their project without their consent, provided those cloud vendors don't modify the code. From an end user perspective and for an OSI OSS advocate those attributes are likely in your best short-term interest: they promote competition. But in the long-term, if the company launching an AGPL product believes it protects them from this, they're going to eventually find out what Mongo did: that it doesn't. And the result of that is that they'll either need to accept that there will be cloud vendors competing with them on the IP they created or relicense. Commercial interests/shareholders being as they are and many of these companies being VC-backed startups, the latter is frankly a more likely scenario.
> fully automated luxury gay space communism

Thanks, TIL!

Communists may be sociable but being a Russian I don't have a good impression from the ideology.
Intel's Immiseration
When you click on a product you get its full price history by default.

I did consider adding a 3 and 6 month button, but for some reason I decided against it, don't remember why. It wasn't performance because I'm heavily caching everything so it wouldn't have made a difference. Maybe aesthetics?
> anything could be defined as such

Not really, because many disciplines are inherently applied. There is, for example, no such thing as "pure teaching", since teaching is always practical.

To me the lack of a practical purpose at the moment is the defining characteristic.
And the lesson is.. never challenge a law of nature.

Also, this comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL8chWFuM-s