skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I mistyped with the Remarkable 1 display. I meant to say it's just a custom co-developed Carta panel that they were calling Canvas because it had significant proprietary changes from Remarkable.

even memory LCD can reach 20:1

For a screen 1.25" diagonal. Not competitive unless your ereader is dedicated to haikus. Carta 1000 was 15:1, Carta 1200 claimed a 20% improvement, and Carta 1300 claimed another 15% improvement, which puts Carta 1300 at a 20:1 ratio, which is about right based on real-world reviews of the most recent Kobos. And this is for devices with 7 to 13 inch screens, not 1.25 inch screens. Kaleido adds a color layer on top, which reduces contrast in Kaleido devices. Gallery has higher contrast when using color (but you would be correct that when sticking to B&W only Gallery has lower contrast).

And has it improved at all in the last decade?

Yes, significantly. You have decided it does not and reject all evidence to the contrary.

If you google, or if you click on the product, you or if you choose the cheapest one, or if you walk to a physical store... you will be offered the AMOLED one.

Definitely false. REI will try to sell you the Solar one (for obvious reasons). Best Buy will sell you whichever one you want, but will try to steer people toward cheaper watches like the Forerunner or Instinct that people are more likely to actually buy.

Memory LCD panels are _not_ cheaper, and most definitely not at this size. I'm not even sure they are manufactured at such sizes, either.

Alibaba says otherwise, and that's just a 5-second search. It appears that I can order 10 10-inch transflective displays for $200....which is about what it costs to acquire a single 10-inch Kaleido 3 screen. Or in other words, transflective screens are about 1/10th the cost of a comparably sized e-ink panel. Which brings us back to this: If transflective LCDs were actually superior to eInk panels for the e-reader use case, why is every ereader company sticking to eink? Why is notoriously cost-conscious Amazon sticking to eInk, when transflective LCDs would be far cheaper to make at scale? (Hint: it's because eInk is better for the ereader use case.)
It might be that both not consuming caffeine, and being very very smart, have the same root cause - like good sleep patterns.

Just an unresearched thought I had!
In the case of San Francisco it is a state law that limits cities to charging only as much as it costs to administer the program. San Francisco cannot have responsive residential parking under state law.
Any female speakers of note?
Owned by Google yes, but it is head quartered in London, with the majority of the staff there.

So the skills, knowledge, and expertise are in the UK. Google can close the UK office tomorrow if they wanted to sure, but are 100% of those staff going to move to California? Doubt it. Some will, but a lot have lives in the UK (not least the CEO and founder etc) so even if Google pulls the rug I will bet there will be a new company founded and funded within days that will vacuum up all the staff.
Nice idea :D
There's a large and growing number of music players for streaming from your own server. You get the best of both worlds by owning your music and having it accessible anywhere.
"How is this our life?"

I asked that question so many times (for reference, see my comment on Jake's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163619 ). I asked it of my late wife. I asked it of my therapist. I asked it of my daughter, when she was sleeping.

"Is this my life now?"

The first few months were terrible. Then things started to get better. Before anyone jumps and says "a few months?! That's nothing!", there's a thing called "anticipatory grief". Look it up. (Besides, each grief journey is individual. Besides, who are you to criticize me?).

Then things stopped getting worse. For a while life was flat. Colorless. Dark. I moved through the motions. Dropped my daughter at preschool, worked from home, picked her up, went to the playground, went home, dinner, bedtime story, lie in bed doing nothing. Rinse and repeat. Go to sleep early to avoid feeling.

Then it started getting better. And better. And even better than that. Therapy, meds, pushing (omg so much pushing), friends, a new love. Things got continuously better. I'll never forget that year, but I also now know that I can survive what I think is the 2nd worst thing that can happen to a person. I know it cannot break me.

And I think Bess found that out too. Parts of us died with them, but new parts are growing. Parenthood parts. Discovery parts.

I remember watching my wife to make sure she was breathing. Then at the hospital. Then she wasn't. And it was terrible. A loss I cannot even describe, a part of your own soul that is torn out of you. Yet, that part was painful. Not just that, also in pain. In some sense, I was relieved she was no longer in pain. Even more relived she didn't have to witness her mom passing away. The world turning darker and more despair filling in. She missed on milestones, but also on sadness. And, at the end, I miss her but that part, slowly, became more bearable.

To Bess - I can't promise it'll be ok. No one can. But it'll get easier to bare.
Decoding the Decoder LLM without de code [video]
Suppressing journalism seems to be high on the priority list of the new administration.

In addition to the examples cited in this article, also from today's news is the example of the White House banning an AP reporter from the oval office because the AP continues to use the name "Gulf of Mexico" rather than the jingoistic neologism "Gulf of America".
There is compelling evidence, from what I read online anecdotally and some studies, of obese or formerly-obese people having much slower metabolism (BMRs and TDEEs) than predicted by regression equations when controlling for body composition and weight. When someone says that “I’m barely eating and can’t lose weight” it is actually possible this may be the case. it's not just a failure to track calories when the tests show these people have slow metabolisms.

Basically, their bodies run in a sort of hoarding or efficiency mode, which although advantageous during famine, does predispose to obesity during abundance. These people got a bad genetic hand. They have to cut to absurdly low calories, and maintain it forever, to just not be obese or overweight.

The study has not been replicated and has few subjects.
Link to the report which got the inspector general fired:

https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OI...
To add to this, MOO is just an interpreter and very basic network manager. All of the logic for controlling the actual game or environment is inside the database in interpreted MOO code. (You also have control over the network from inside. The server is just handling TCP bookkeeping, basically.) This means, for instance, that you can implement whatever permission system you want. One of the earlier examples is JHCore, which offers different groups of permissions. Really the only server-enforced permission levels are the wizard, which is essentially root, and the programmer. Everything else is up to you.

I'm not positive on the history of the recycler, but I think you have it backwards. It actually exacerbated the problem of using literals in code because you couldn't guarantee that the object you wrote in the code is the same object 20 years later. This created security concerns (imagine you hard-code an object number into your code and now the object is owned by a completely different person who can write their own code on that object. So your code called #123:innocent_function(), which the new object owner has programmed to do something malicious) at worst and broken code at best.

I assume the reasoning was two-fold: First, huge numbers are a pain to type. And in MOO you do end up typing object references a lot. And second, in the early 90's, memory was at a premium. Even a recycled object is using some memory (it still has a space in the object list).

Anyway, if anybody is interested, MOO is still kicking! There's a fork called ToastStunt (https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt) that offers some slightly more modern conveniences. And the community has, mostly, converged into the ToastStunt Discord channel.
> It is closer to being fully reproducible than most other build systems (including Bazel).

How so? Bazel produces the same results for the same inputs.
N₂O production via enzymatic nitroxyl from a nitrifying archaeon
I find this title incredibly offensive!

Syria before war was normal middle income country. It had income from petrol. Tourists from Arabic countries come there for shopping. That was 15 years ago!

Here is a list of international conferences I found in 10 seconds googling. Some of them are technical:
https://www.syrleb.org/site/english/index.php?node=115522
Competition is as old as time. There are single celled organisms on your skin right now competing for resources to live. There is nothing more innate to life than this.
-berg

Apart from jokes, why appealing to victimization when you have internet trolls bombing your system?

Trolls will always troll, and it's idiotic to blame far-whatever stuff always. If you have an online platform, you should at least keep your site safe from trolls and spammers.

They should stop doing victim-hood things, recognize their site was attacked by internet trolls and fix that thing. Everyone who have online services (including myself) knows this is a common issue.

Our site have attacks from radical left comments instead, and we don't do this "oh no, political extremism is too far, hate is never accepted", instead, we just delete the comments, try our best to keep them out from our platform and that's it.

Trolls will post extremism from left, right, anarchist, porn, ads, whatever in order to disrupt services
I Automated My Computer Life with macOS Folder Actions
Every publication in America is lionizing Shoup except here on HN a lot of confident Dunnings and Krugers are sure that they know more about the economics of parking, and they are ready to inform us.
How this article discusses reproducibility in NixOS and declines to even mention the intensional model or efforts to implement it are surprising to me, since it appears they have done a lot of research into the matter.

If you don’t know, the intensional model is an alternative way to structure the NixOS store so that components are content-addressable (store hash is based on the targets) as opposed to being addressed based on the build instructions and dependencies. IIUC, the entire purpose of the intensional model is to make Nix stores shareable so that you could just depend on Cachix and such without the worry of a supply-chain attack. This approach was an entire chapter in the Nix thesis paper (chapter 6) and has been worked on recently (see https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/62 and https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/17 for current progress).
Predef: A wiki of pre-defined C compiler macros
Ask HN: Any Open Source Cold Call Assistants
Hey HN, do you know of any open source cold call assistants or repos to practice cold calling?

I have my product and target list, but I just suck at cold calling and want to get better, but don't want to practice on prospective clients.

I know there's already repos which utilize LLMs and tts / sst to help people with their interviews, but wondering if there's anything out there yet to help with cold calling / practicing cold calling?
> What's missing in containers?

From a consumer/user perspective almost none of the benefit of containers is available to the end-user. Features sets vary wildly by operating system. MacOS doesn't even have real containerization and apple has not signaled moving in that direction. (not even going to bother to take windows seriously.) jails in FreeBSD work in a completely different way from cgroups. Our phones should effectively be containerizing apps so we can e.g. control who is allowed to contact the internet, but no such functionality is offered to the user. Apps instead are simply not allowed to look at each other, but they can contact whoever they want. (Maybe a rooted android has slightly better feature set in this regard, but that sounds miserable to me to have to figure out.)

For writing services, yes, they're quite useful. We've only tapped a tiny part of the potential though. These could be easily repurposed to allow the end-user who uses graphical interfaces to lock down their computer.
It's an area over which a player has influence, but which is not solid territory yet.
A reminder that thanks to the Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, any travel to Syria will make you forever invalid for US ESTA (visa-free entry) and you'll need to go through the grueling, incredibly slow and expensive regular US visa process instead.
Their ideology is that safety nets let useless people take up too many resources.
Do any companies pay bounties for path #2? My understanding is that it's forbidden by most bounty programs since it could be seen as a form of extortion.

For #1, as tptacek says, it would be trivially easy for Google to shut a service like that down as soon as it was created, and prosecute the people running the service under the CFAA. Also, the amount of demand for that kind of data is pretty small given the number of email address databases already available online through legal means (e.g. Zoominfo, RocketReach, etc). It's a path filled with a lot of risk and not a ton of reward.
Part of it is _gone_, as in "replaced by unused bike lanes".

My local government _brags_ about the number of parking spaces eliminated in favor of bike lanes.
That, and how did Apple managed to approve an application that hides its true purpose like that?
thank you! You are both right that the wording could use some revamp. Perks of hacking on sth til 3am and writing a dirty README that leaves a stigma for years haha.

Also by "no build" I mostly meant "no bundling". If you look at the source code of the example deployment: https://fullsoak.onrender.com/app - you'd see that every HTML file loads a single .js file. Sometimes we can "lazy load" the entire component .tsx file (if we choose to do so).

So there's no bundling of the whole app into 1 single "entry point". From JSX/TSX to vanilla JS, we do need a "transpilation" step, and right now it's done ad-hoc (on every request). Some caching technique could be employed to make this scale & perform, but it's a topic for another day I guess.

Definitely need to find a coherent wording to describe this whole concept without causing mix up or misunderstanding. Thanks again for pointing these out!
> All this "AI safety" is purely moat-building for the likes of OpenAI et. al. to prevent upstarts like DeepSeek.

Modern AI safety originated with people like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom, the LessWrong/rationality movement etc.

They very much were not just talking about it only to build moats for OpenAI. For one thing, OpenAI didn't exist at the time, AI was not anywhere close to where it is today, and almost everyone thought their arguments were ridiculous.

You might not agree with them, but you can't simply dismiss their arguments as only being there to prop up the existing AI players, that's wrong and disingenuous.
Absolutely not. I dont want to be unbanned. I gave up my media job protesting the Iraq war and I will give up all my social media accounts protesting this rabid propaganda russian ukrainian war.

Thank you for being polite enough to explain though. I really appreciate it.
Insert any other country of your choice that has a government sturdier than a lemonade stand.

You're free to follow the legal process to come to the country to seek your pursuit of happiness.
The text of the article says it's the first time "a free Syria hosted an independent tech conference", implying that any tech conferences under the Assads didn't count.

But yeah, it's a clickbait headline.
> You can't CERN your way to nuclear non-proliferation.

Non-proliferation is, the US has nuclear weapons and doesn't want Iran to have them, so is going to apply some kind of bribe or threat. It's not cooperative.

The better example here is climate change. Everyone has a direct individual benefit from burning carbon but it's to our collective detriment, so how do you get anyone to stop, especially the countries with large oil and coal reserves?

In theory you could punish countries that don't stop burning carbon, but that appears to be hard and in practice what's doing the most good is making solar cheaper than burning coal and making electric cars people actually want, politics of infamous electric car man notwithstanding.

So what does that look like for making AI "safe, secure and trustworthy"? Maybe something like publishing state of the art models for free with full documentation of how they were created, so that people aren't sending their sensitive data to questionable third parties who do who knows what with it or using models with secret biases.
> Assuming you don’t believe in forced sterilization there is actually no public policy way to reduce density.

There is. Restrict the dense office space, by cap-and-trading it. Like we did with sulfur emissions.

Also, "forced sterilization"? WTF are you talking about?!? The US population is likely peaking within the next decade and the peak population will likely be 5-7% more than the current level.
The viciousness and vindictiveness takes my breath away.
What Does It Mean That AI Is Now Good at the AIME Math Competition?
Same here, I tried to fix the navigation by re-creating this bit of road multiple times but it's always rejected without a reason given. https://maps.app.goo.gl/YkjqBZSRPrjFLvsi8
The T-Mobile 5G Rely fixed-wireless home internet plan offers no caps and no throttling plans.
...has even resulted in death

I wish developers (and their companies, tooling, industry, etc.) creating such flaws in the first place would treat the craft with a higher degree of diligence. It bothers me that someone didn't maintain the segregation between display name / global identifier (in YouTube frontend*) or global identifier / email address (in the older product), or was in a position to maintain the code without understanding the importance of that intended barrier.

If users knew what a mess most software these days looks like under the hood (especially with regard to privacy) I think they'd be a lot less comfortable using it. I'm encouraged by some of the efforts that are making an impact (e.g. advances in memory safety).

(*Seems like it wouldn't have been as big a deal if the architecture at Google relied more heavily on product-encapsulated account identifiers instead of global ones)
> (…) not an argument for people literally living as they did in the past. (…) isn't demonstrative of a life like our ancestors lived. (…) isn't the same as living as our ancestors did.

Correct. Nowhere did I defend or make an appeal to live life “as they did in the past” or “like our ancestor did”. We should (and don’t really have a choice but to) live forward, not backward. We should take the good things we learned and apply them positively to our lives in the present and future, and not strive for change and consumption for their own sakes.
Really, the fact that Apple pushes swiftui as production ready is laughable. The framework is so ridden in bugs, does not play nicely with the other frameworks like photosui, and the language itself is incredibly bloated.
Must be a bass shell user
You don't need to always listen to new pieces of music to enjoy music. Once you realize that you can focus on owning the stuff you like and listen to that most of the time
In my case, I define, "reproducible," to mean, "immutable." After a few days of testing, I broke NixOS. Simple test was swapping different Desktop Environments, eventually broke Nix, thus I'm not at the point where I'd agree with Nix being truly reproducible, at least not in that context :(
Relatedly, Nokia announced a new CEO this week with a datacentre/enterprise background.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nokia-ceo-ste...
Where I am from, like probably the majority of the world, you cant use ESTA.
made sense from the pov that if its harder to exploit, it's less damaging of a bug, so worth less
The water is recycled
A quick reminder for anyone interested in the project:
if you come across an annotation that you disagree with or feel is missing important details, please open an issue in the GH repo. That way, we can discuss it and work toward incorporating the knowledge into the project.
I'm disappointed to see this posted by you. The developer of imapsync, Gilles, has created a fantastic piece of software and deserves all the sales he can get. Sharing private links like this undermines his hard work and effort.
Having gone through such a search just recently:

- This 13.3" panel cost ~$420 to make https://www.printables.com/model/1189455-waveshare-133e-6-co...

- This 7.3" panel cost ~$150 to make
https://www.printables.com/model/1189420-waveshare-73e-6-col...

This includes shipping the panel from waveshare.com, paying taxes, adding a raspberry pi zero w2 + a sd card, and printing a case
Right - how could I forget Amarok ? And I too was pushed to Clementine by Amarok 2.0
I agree with you. When I was younger, I played a lot of Minecraft PVP servers, and for whatever reason these PVP servers cultivated a weird and toxic community of cyber criminals about them. For reference/star value, the recent headline of the kids stealing 200m in crypto via social engineering— I played with those very same people when I was younger. As in, the people who were sent to jail.

Their story repeats itself a dozen times over from my now-fragmented friend group from that time. Many young kids getting into ill-fated get rich quick schemes ranging from credit card fraud to refunding (mail fraud) all the way to sim swapping, blackmail, doxxing, and even real life violence and gang activity. A few of my earliest friends were just indicted for home invasions and armed robbery in some scheme to steal crypto. All of them from Minecraft, weirdly enough.

Anyways, those who didn’t end up in jail or “on the run” from participating in these stupid schemes, I tend to notice a common trend towards security related work. I know one guy who went from fraternizing with the same now-criminally-indicted people I hung around to working for the FBI’s cyber crimes unit (fitting, I guess). Another one now works with a defense contractor developing spyware, as far as I can tell. Many more work in different areas of cyber security and programming et al, including myself.

The cyber-crime adjacent to cyber security pipeline is very much so real.
Ask HN: Would you nowadays write a new web service in Perl?
It's my understanding (though I'm far from an expert) that vehicles aren't convenient in a lot of places around the front because the roads aren't great (and weren't great to begin with even before the shelling/bombing started) and because the springtime mud conditions in Ukraine can be borderline impossible to drive through with both Western and Russian vehicles. There's no short supply of photos online of all kinds of tanks/transports/trucks from both sides completely stuck in (and even rescue vehicles coming in to pull them out getting stuck as well). So it doesn't really surprise me to hear news of donkeys or other animals being used taking off around the time the seasons are changing and winter is ending.

It wouldn't make much sense to pay big bucks for a hummer/mrap/apc style vehicle for short hauls if it can't even make the trip without getting stuck in the mud and getting hit with a drone.
Yeah, better to let food rot while people starve. Or let pregnant mothers transmit HIV to their children. Lol
Europe just loves signing declarations and concerned letters. It would make no difference if they signed it.
Neuralink is being proven and it's on its way to market. There are so many people out there who will benefit from the technology.

Animal testing has existed for centuries and will continue to do so until we can fully sinulate a human being.
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