skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laptop manufacturers on their own clearly didn't hurt this (dying) category enough over the years prioritizing shallow form over functionality and constant design regressions, Microsoft had to push some more of their deranged "vision" too. S0ix was a joke when introduced years ago and remains one, but it's not funny to laugh at it anymore because its existence eventually killed the actual sleep state an user expects. There is, without an ounce of doubt, no benefit for an user to have their laptop device continue operating when it's expected to be "sleeping" without intentional, conscious instruction to resume work. Some of the proclaimed advantages to it I distinctly remember were "receiving emails" and "automatic updates when the device is not in use", and while the former is mostly useless because it's not a smartphone, the latter is actively harmful to an user's interests when unprompted. Hibernation on linux and windows (where it's secretly kept away for whatever reason since 8 or so) is far more predictable with any modern sabotaged devices missing S3 support, and modern drives are performant and large enough that it's not going to make much of a difference, at least for pauses that one expects to last more than an hour or two. Some more of the endless compromises to put up with because of unrestrained "courage".
> To be completely honest, the first thing that crosses my mind is that the prosecutor might be a racist, since the story is (it seems) about an immigrant family.

My mind too. But maybe only half: The names are only mentioned once or twice, but the author's name seems to be Tang, which sounds definitely foreign in a Swedish context. The wife's name, Kim, may not be very common in Sweden, but definitely not unheard of, so she could well be native.

So perhaps only a half-immigrant family. With the victim a foreigner from far away[1] and the not-prosecuted perpetrator a Swede... Which makes it look even more racist.

___

[1]: Maybe this wouldn't have happened to a Dane or Norwegian. And Finns hardly count as immigrants at all.
Will it be ssh-accessible like the other Remarkables? It's a really cool device, and costs (in EU) less than the DC1.
Not very good. Mario doesn’t have enough rhythm to evoke a lot of musicality.

The original game’s sound was tied to the frame rate so this vaguely happened by default. Later ports to PAL broke this because it ran at a slower frame rate.
USD prices usually don't include sales tax. Not sure how it is with JPY, but EUR prices usually do include VAT.
Like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_battery

Btw touristic heaters are based on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_acetate and that's also energy storage
Innovation with Purpose: The Most Successful Purpose-Driven Business Models
X permanently stops Grok AI from using EU citizens' tweets – Irish court action
Wonder how much of that is due to local taxes or perhaps tariffs. Pricing cross currency is more than just an exchange rate calculation.
Incredible that so many tech types are now cheering on the government blocking websites.
Real Time Operating System
I mean for a lot of users it would be a grate thing -- if it would work well.

And any issues related to applying updates after downloading them has nothing to do with this issue.
I ordered mine and am very excited for it.

I use it everyday at work (handwritten notes and reviewing short PDFs like resumes and white papers). It’s one of the biggest professional ROI investments that I’ve ever made.

The people who hate the Remarkable seem to be either zealots for openness or people who want to read ebooks on it or people who hate subscriptions. Those 3 things don’t matter to me at all so I’ve been extremely happy.
Did they announce they're locking this new device? I have a remarkable 2 and it's basically a stripped down version of Linux that you can SSH in and install whatever you want on it.
The claim is what exactly? That people drank both water and various alcoholic beverages. Well that’s certainly an interesting hypothesis..

Weak unfiltered beer will go bad on a couple of days even if you keep it in a fridge if it’s not properly sealed.

Also hoops weren’t widely used until the high/late middle ages.
I had a reMarkable 2 and gave up it almost solely because it didn't support USB mass storage (like Kobo devices do), making it really annoying to transfer files. Also, their software update made the reader worse, since I went from being able to manually crop the page to fit the viewport to having to carefully pinch-zoom with a bunch of latency and really weird sensitivity. And they seem oddly insistent they're not a reading device anyways; if they supported ePub 3 (particularly ePub 3 fixed layout - again, Kobo supports this) that would have made it a nice comics machine, but no. (And their weird web interface choked if you tried to transfer "large" books.)

100K JPY too, which is in the range of an iPad Air. I hope some of these software issues get ironed out and maybe I'll consider it again...
> A few years ago, I had a student who had taken one of these teach-yourself-perfect-pitch courses, and I was fascinated. From time to time I would fire random notes at him in an attempt to catch him out... and I never could! When I asked him how the system worked, he explained that the best analogy was to think in terms of colours. For argument's sake, he said, think of Bb as sounding blue and D as a greenish colour.

> Intrigued, I played him a Cmaj7 chord and asked him to identify that. He shook his head in despair, and gave up almost immediately.

> "Can't you just home in on each note in turn and identify the separate colours?" I suggested. "Then you could look at your list of notes and figure out what the chord is."

> "No, you don't understand," he replied. "All chords sound brown to me!"

- Guthrie Govan, from Creative Guitar 1 (which, incidentally, I had to dig out to find the quote)

I imagine that Guthrie's student might have been able to combine his pitch training with some ear training and have a better shot of hearing something other than mud when he heard a chord, but this always stuck in my brain and I'm reminded of it every time I see discussions of perfect pitch. It seems like perfect pitch is barely even desirable, in this framing.

And that makes sense, as discussed elsewhere in the thread, what you really want as a musician is a great sense of relative pitch, and a good mind-body connection between the fingers and ears that lets you easily turn what you're hearing in your mind - where your ear wants to go - into actual music.
Which e-ink devices have had fast enough page scrolling for you?
Show HN: Fabric – Reports-as-Code for Cybersecurity
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VPS are good, but the fact that you have to enable 5 different services to do stuff on most clouds and deal with semi-opaque billing is pretty annoying as someone who lived through the colo and dedicated hosting days.
> We don’t talk much about this, because if the people on Team Overboard were honest about who they plan to purge, none of their intended victims would be friends with them, let alone vote for them.

It's hard to take the piece seriously after that. Obviously a mischaracterization of the group he refers to as "Team Overboard".

A steelman would look something like: "On the other team, they are indifferent as to whether people they don't know find a place for themselves. They are confident that all people they would want to potentially know will find places for themselves."

Because that actually matches some commonly espoused philosophies. On the other hand, I've never heard anyone seriously call for a purge of undesirables, which is what the author claims.
The "fun" part is that smartphones/tablets implement those features with S3 (CPU off, RAM in self-refresh).

Updates? Well here is an RTC to wake-up. Voice control? Well here is an always on audio dsp. Remote wake-up? Well here is a WiFi frame filter to trigger IRQ.

I think it isn't tractable on most laptops because of all the hardware that has been onloaded to software, and the hardware isn't capable of those hardware filtering, and partly OS and drivers are probably to blame too. An embesded OS takes under 1s to wakeup, so even managing TCP KeepAlives wih resume/suspend is realistic on those devices. Not so much when wakeup takes 10s.
I have never understood the rush for "the cloud".

I run all my shit on a VPS (which could be called a cloud) or a dedicated rented server but that is so easy to setup and I can run all projects on the same server. Easy, simple and if I need to scale I just rent a bigger server.

Scaling vertically is easy, scaling horizontally is hard. Most people never need to scale horizontally but does so anyway because they think they do.

You also get like 10x the perf for the same money. Using SQLite makes it easy to have backups and even time-specific testing databases.
Holy moly, the article addresses argv[0] as the problem, while the real problem is that the snake oil industry has no clue what they are doing
> E-ink is not "paper feel".

The paper-feel comes in large part from the physical part of the screen the pen touches not from the display itself.
Pilot Training Didn't Prepare Me to Handle This Situation [video]
Perhaps it's Gwynne Shotwell's doing. She seems to be one of the few people on this planet who can say "no" to Musk and not get bullied.
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Here it is how it looks like if you try to visit an account of a cult member and political rival of Erdogan from Turkey(the cult used to be ally of Erdogan, then turned against him. Now they publish sometimes credible and other times dubious corruption documents and allegations from exile): https://dropover.cloud/755d93

Also, Twitter has legal representation in Turkey and people are routinely detained, imprisoned or made pay fines for their tweets in Turkey. The country also ranked very poorly on any freedom or democracy index, political figures are routinely held in prison. Erdogan government often dismisses orders from the Turkish constitution court, if you think that Musk is into constitution - it doesn’t add up.

AFAIK Twitter is also blocked in China and Russia.

What is the fuss around Brazil? Why this is not just another day with business as usual?
I made the job board to end all job boards
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been proving to myself that I can translate my creative coding skills into an indie hacker/maker-type project.

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I actually think jobs aren't disappearing, but work is being reimagined—and AcceleratedJobs.com is here to make it meaningful.
Switching now would be out of the question even for Sweden who isn't perpetually doing the opposite of everyone else. With modern infrastructure it's simply too expensive. In the 50s and 60s it was doable.

My question wasn't whether the UK would ever do it (now) but whether they did or should have considered it in the early 60s.

Not sure what I feel about the speed limits. Being part metric and part imperial seems like the worst of both worlds tbh. The pint is fine. You aren't going to do a lot of math with the pint. Worst case you'll wonder how many pints to a 50L keg). But mph is just terrible. I mean just do km/h when everything else is metric in terms of distance! Also, do L/100km not mpg (or km/L). The volume-per-distance is the one that composes mathematically e.g. in averages.
This feels like something some Chinese company can put out at much cheaper price, just a barebones large e-ink tablet, for hackers and tinkerers, with some linux distro with touch support, unlocked bootloader and ssh, powered by a microcontroller with mainline linux support, no fancy apps, no cloud service and no subscription, where they just supply the HW and the community on GitHub builds the SW for it, a-la RPi.
That sounds great. How would one go about this with a city like Mumbai?
Feels ridiculous that we've had Kindles since 2007 but we've still got no A4-sized Colour E-Ink Tablet in 2024.
I genuinely liked the Palm Graffiti. It took a couple of days of playing Giraffe to get used to it, but afterwards the speed and precision was quite decent. Of course it's nothing compared to modern swipe keyboards but still.
What does the ReMarkable really excel at? You can make notes, but the software is not that great from what I've seen. It doesn't have end-to-end encryption so I wouldn't use it for anything important. You can read PDFs but typing notes is much faster on a desktop/laptop, and for nontechnical books a kindle is much better form factor. You can use it to draw, but e-ink is inferior to a wacom tablet or iPad pro. e-ink is great in bright environments, but in most places where people work that's just not an issue. And who is going to use their ReMarkable at the beach?

It's a cool product but I don't get it. I don't get who needs this.
I have scripted this (well, installation of some systemd units, but the workflow is the same). So I just plug my tablet into my laptop and run my script every time it updates.

It’s not ideal, but not super tedious either.

I’ve been planning to start charging via a raspberry pi so that the pi can automatically tend to the device whenever it’s connected, but haven’t gotten there yet.
So did palmOS "Graffiti" input. It was fun!
Anyone that has one of these - does it work with Linux? From Googling it looks like at best it works via wine, but even that is questionable with the latest version. Pretty ready to buy, but this is a pretty big turn off.
Oral size and texture preferences for particle-containing foods in children
I'm a Remarkable 2 owner and yeah, this is a "make or break" feature to even start considering a potential upgrading, but found nothing online about if the Pro version has this or not.
Kobo lets you tap and hold a corner (or hold down the page turn button), and after a second it'll start fast-flipping through pages. Not as fast as an iPad but pretty quick, sorta like flipping through a book at a moderate pace.
At least for us, the promise was not a lower bill, but faster time to market. The requests to on-prem engineers are just _not a thing_, which is much faster for our developers.
Do either of you have a source with more than 29 countries in it?

Statistia comes up a lot, but the free content always feels like it's an ad for their paid stuff.
From experience,reading the screen size is not a problem at all.

But writing is where you notice how small the screen really is.

It’s down to the size difference between printed text and handwriting.
I mean, who really cares, at the end of the day, but let’s be real.

You can only play “fuck you I don’t have a legal entity in your country you can’t touch me” game…

…if you dont.

Now he’s gone and set a precedent for “how to bully musk into compliance”:

1) find something he owns that is actually making money.

2) blockade it.

Feels like that was a stupid game to play, with a predictable outcome, for no really good reason.
Twitter is not complying with Brazilian law, it is simple.
E-ink contrast is something like 1:15, it's pretty bad.
Two states become first in US to ban use of PFAS in firefighters' gear
> can we stop saying/writing "formerly known as twitter" - please?!

Why? Elon Musk considers deadnaming to be acceptable, hence Twitter - as the original given name - is here to stay.
depends on source of books I find, and perhaps also if you have eye strain issues, I need to read mine with my glasses often, which is irritating. But the zooming in can often leave you with text being too big to fit on the display.

So I sort of feel like I should love it more, but this bit makes it annoying for me.
>restructure our work such that the majority of people work no more than 20 hours a week

I think this is highly unlikely in the US, given how much we as a society prize economic productivity.

Another alternative is to make parents a protected class to legally prevent discrimination, although that may cause all kinds of pushback just like we're seeing with DEI in the current environment.
Brazil is being overtaken by politicians who think they are above Brazil's constitution, which is quite catastrophic since Brazil seemed to be a good (?) republic.
> imagine the 24/7 guy observing the 1 mm high wave

It's not the flow itself that matters here, the rise is how they found out that there was a problem. The problem is that the sluice was set to manual operation instead of automatic, for an unknown reason, and stayed open when it should not have.

The guy would not have noticed a rise, what he would have noticed is the sluice staying wide open for a long time.

Also, the water rose 32cm in the canal, not in Amsterdam center. The locks were closed in time to prevent water from rising in Amsterdam, where 32cm could have been a problem. The water level is supposed to be mostly constant in the city center, it doesn't follow the tides.

The water does not necessarily "flow back" after a tide either, since most of Amsterdam is below the level of the sea at low tide. It must be pumped out.
Since when does e-ink have bad contrast?
This article would be much more interesting if it compared the cost increase of cloud vs. the cost increase of on-prem.

It's not like on-prem costs have magically stayed the same while cloud costs increase.
I did! Wow! Thanks :)
Definitely read Embassytown by China Mieville. I'll second the Cixin Liu rec (though his series is divisive), and also recommend Philip K Dick.
I posted some other comments in this thread - unless they've significantly improved the software in the past year I would 100% recommend against it.

(Also, a lot of manga gets distributed through proprietary apps now so an iPad is probably your best bet anyways, at least if you read the serialized version and not the tankoubon releases...)
It is interesting to test people at just one device.

I used my phone on a mount, and completed the test with my wife, children and myself - I was interested (though not surprised) what an outlier I was, as I am colour blind in various combinations, but though my wife scored 'bang in the middle' - it was interesting that wasn't common.

My kids were both to the left of the scale fwiw - I was further right than 98% of people.
Because most companies/startups have this in-built assumption that they will eventually grow like wildfire. Obviously this is because they are selling to investors who want this to happen so they can cash out on their unicorn. So they just build it in the cloud in the first place with that in mind.

Now in some miniscule amount of cases this is true and probably did help some people who's business 100x'd overnight, but in the vast majority of cases your business just will never get to the point it needs to be "cloud scale" in the first place. Nevermind accidentally shooting yourself in the foot with a recursive lambda here and there in certain instances or a misconfuguration causing a huge bill.

Edit: Another is because lots of companies who do actually end up succeeding negotiate a shit-load of credits with cloud providers so they can basically grow their business for free for a while. That is until those credits run out and they get hit with the actual costs.
I guess the fuss is about Bolsonaro being depicted as a dictator in the media and as soon as Lula da Silva takes over, authoritarian measures such as these are pushed forward?
This is my stance. I'm increasingly just not buying anything that isn't have FOSS. Artificial constraints that try to force a subscription are a hard no.
Sometimes slower is faster.
The idea of cars being driven remotely by someone on the other side of the world was mentioned in Charles Stross's 2007 science fiction novel Halting State. I think about it sometimes, but I always come to the conclusion that the latency would be too high. A 100ms latency might make the difference between a near-miss and a collision.
For large companies, a big reason is to transform capex into opex, and the predictability. Moreover, large organizations tend to favor predictivity over levels, i.e. are ok to increase average if variance is decreased.
https://youtu.be/vWRlxSGf_ns
He must have forgotten he has 23 ground stations in the country that they'll happily just go take in retaliation.
Not having to wait for procurement to approve to buy a few terabytes of NAS is nice.

Not dealing with procurement cycle for h/w purchase is priceless.
Based on my exexperience: In some cases yes, in many others no.
I don't think so, because there are countless vendors for all different parts of the stack fighting for marketshare and doing their best to prevent their competitors from becoming the de-facto for anything.

Just think of how many different flavors of SQL there are being run. If we can't even all agree on that, I have doubts that we could unify on the rest.
This is actually ... remarkable in that it uses color particles. From what I know most color E-Ink displays on the market today have b/w particles and a color LCD on top.
My impression was that with this part he was trying to come up with his own version of the fantasy trope of different races with different characteristics (orcs, elves, men, etc), and imagining a situation that could produce such.
He seems to regard his employees as his slaves.
*) in the realm of electrophoretic displays or with strong ambient light, not compared to some 2000 nit OLED in the dark
Have you ever compared with actual printed paper?