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I bought the 6.1 the week it went out to replace an old Alcatel smartphone.

IMHO, it's a good value per dollar/euro. It feels fast and updates every month with security updates. I heard the phone is not Treble compatible, but Android 9 is planned on it already by Nokia/HMD.

Compared to an old Alcatel phone, the battery is awesome. If you don't use the phone, it can probably last for 4 or 5 days, maybe more. Otherwise, 2 days of normal usage.
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Remote: Yes, strongly preferred

Willing to relocate: Hardly

Technologies: Ruby on Rails for the last 8 years. Before that Java. Interested in Elixir, Clojure. Learning React, Nodejs, Python.

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/2IGbbK0

Email: miquel.bp.hn@gmail.com

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Software engineer with more than 20 years of experience.

Interested in Software Architecture, Agile methodologies, and functional programming.

I have manage teams from 3 to 50 developers.

I love to program. Interested in learning new technologies from low-level to web.
I had bad luck with the 6.1.
Constant Wi-Fi disconnections.

They claimed to have solved it with the august update but many still experience the problem and no response from HMD.

See this forum thread (there are more on the same topic):

https://community.phones.nokia.com/support/discussions/topic...
>Simulation involves a lot of overhead

True for some values of "a lot", false for others.

What's undeniably true is that it incurs some overhead over NOT running a simulation.

But that doesn't prove that a simulated life form incurs overhead larger than its real life counterpart.

For one, there might not be any real life counterpart.

We say "simulation" here, but what we actually mean is "virtual world", which might simulate an actual world, or it might be its totally own thing (the same way I can chose to write a simulation of actual things, like e.g. "the Sims", or a simulation of a domain I only imagined). If, for example, as per TFA, our universe is a simulation, is doesn't mean that it actually simulated something else. Just that it's a simulation in itself.

So, "simulated" in this discussion means "not an organically created world made of some physical substrate, but consciously created/programmed by some advanced civilization".

So, the thing simulated could be totally unlike (in properties, physical laws, etc) what exists in the universe of those doing the simulation.

Second, a simulation (as we know it and practice it ourselves) usually has much less overhead than the real life thing it simulates (when it does simulate some real life thing). That's like, it's whole point. E.g. a weather model running in some supercomputers has some overhead, but nothing like that of the actual weather. Similarly, Sims has some overhead, but nothing like the equivalent real-life place and humans would have.

Where you seem to be confused is that you assume that: (a) a simulation must be of something that exists, (b) a simulation must be perfect, e.g. 1:1 to the thing it simulates. Only then would your argument make sense.

But neither of those things are necessary -- even our Earth and universe, if they are simulations, they could be very crude models, running with very low resources, in a vastly more complex and powerful real universe.
What world do you live in where losing your job is "not a big deal," and anyone "can just go and get another job?"

If that were true, we wouldn't need unions in the first place.
But make no mistake, this yet another globalized race to the bottom, but one that hits capital (or the end consumer), rather than labor or the environment.
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Location: San Francisco
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript/React, Elixir/Erlang, Perl, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark Hbase, Elastic Search, Docker ....
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The validity of that argument hinges on how power and energy work. And our understanding of power and energy need not apply to any other universe. For all we know, the "real universe" does not have preservation of energy and our simulation is powered by a bunch of perpetuum mobiles.
Ask HN: Remote, flexible, low-skill jobs?
A friend of my is a single mom that recently confessed that she needs to start looking for a job, because she will have spent all the money she had saved for her maternity leave later this year.

She lives in EU and by her estimates would need to earn between 300 and 500Eur a month. Could she find some low-skill job as remote data-entry/virtual assistant? Could she earn enough with these, or is 500E/month not really attainable through these services?

I would like to know from somebody who has experience from the worker side of things. Like, what service did you work for, how much time did you spend there, e.t.c.

At least from what I have heard, amazon's Mechanical Turk is a terrible place to work for, but the concept seems alluring enough. And I don't want to give her unhelpful advice.
This is the thing I think most people miss when they complain about the complexity of Kubernetes. If you already know how to use standard sysadmin tools it looks like a lot of additional knowledge to achieve similar outcomes. These people seem to forget that there is a lot of complexity in their sysadmin tools too.
5 Secrets To Get 5 Star Reviews on Airbnb
I think it works well for megacorp clients too. A future option for a few million dollars is way easier for them to get over the line than some strange, and intangible open source scenario, when they don't want the code ever open sourced anyway.
What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
Erlang is latency sensitive and Go is throughput sensitive
What is happening in this scenario is a re-distribution of wealth. The costs of subsidizing Medicare and Medicaid, programs which would collapse without the subsidy of private insurance pricing, are financed by the rich- including this nobel winner who will redistribute his asset(s) to those in need (Medicaid beneficiaries). That is the 'socialist aspect'.

If you'd like to learn more about how hospitals that serve Medicare/Medicaid patients need additional taxpayer funding to remain financially solvent, you can look at the statistics around Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH).

https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/finance/dsh/index.html
For me, "great tools like the race detector" sums up the article - the detector is fallible, and although every point in the article has some validity, they also could all be argued against, and the result is a bit of a house of cards. So for me, Go at work by order, Erlang at home by choice.
>So the statement overall actually is non-falsifiable.

Except if all possible structures of all possible simulations must by necessity fit those assumptions.

Which is their fuller argument.
I am a big fan of K8S too, not only use it in production, but I was also the one that set it up for my team. I agree that, unless you are already familiar with it, it is not always useful for protyping stage.

There is something to be said about having the infrastructure in mind though. That's why I'm inclined to use something like Elixir/Phoenix for web-based projects. Some (not all) of the ideas that K8S brings to the table are already built into the Erlang/OTP platform.

As for Heroku, there was a recent announcement that I think shifts things quite a bit: https://blog.heroku.com/buildpacks-go-cloud-native ... having standardized container images that runs buildpacks.

The ecosystem and tooling is not quite there yet, but I can see this as significantly reducing the investment to put into Dockerizing your app for K8S.

At that point, for the hobbyist, it might be:

Prototype -> Heroku -> K8S with an Operator that can run the buildpack

K8S is really a toolset for building your own PAAS. If there were a self-driving PAAS (using Operators) targeting small hobbyists that will run cloud native buildpacks, then the barriers of entry for a hobbyist using K8S is much lower.
> There is a small team at Google that work on the language

How many languages are lucky enough to have paid developers working on them?

Many languages have been labours of love with 1 developer getting paid, at best, pennies or doing it on the side.

I think there's a reasonable middle ground where you can claim "Go made good choices, but it also wouldn't exist as it does nor be as popular without google throwing money at its developers and without the brand association"

For example, the D programming language was wonderfully made and had many great features, but it never got all that far, in part because "Built by Mars" isn't as good as "Built by Google".

Sure, Go didn't just win by default because google was there (Dart is a good proof that Google doesn't instantly make languages succeed), but I'm certain having their backing and name association sure didn't hurt.
So not a single source. Might as well be going to war over invisible weapons of mass destruction. Also, Apple and Amazon both has said they do not agree with these claims. So far this is nothing more than propaganda.
Let's not forget that on top of limited leg room, seats are typically sized to fit a butt with no regard for shoulder width.

I'm also 6'3" and have resigned to getting my legs crushed, but my shoulders are wider than most seats, meaning my whole row is miserable unless there's a small child in one of the seats. It's bad enough on public transportation but you'd think airlines could do better.
The obvious solution would be to earmark some number of dedicated "china laptops" that will never be trusted with anything important, and get reused everytime someone has to visit China. If they get backdoored... who cares? They can only spy on things that were getting spyed on anyway due to being in China.
Rust has no GC, .NET has a GC.

Rust will be delivered with no runtime (minimal deployed size), Blazor will need the entire mono runtime and BCL.
I think finding a co-founder is harder than creating a successful company. So, either I'd go solo (not recommended at all), or I'd simply use time as the only helpful way to find the right person. It doesn't have to be tomorrow, could happen anytime. "Simply" force yourself to meet new people over and over. Time will make it happen for you.
I have had the same experience and the same journey from hand deploys, using configuration management, and all of that.
The article is attempting to explain the events, by characterizing them as a type of deception when it shows the exact opposite (it's not a hoax that papers are accepted on political aim, rather than evidence). It's a small detail, but telling as to the intent and voracity without knowing most the story.
They cut off contact for a separate reason - 2000 (IIRC) supermicro boards which did have issues.
Why do these things treat a finger-print reader as a feature? That alone puts a phone on on my no-buy list.
Is https://cloudbuddy.cloud something like what you considered creating?
"Since handwriting is so laborious, it leaves LESS time for thinking about what to write down, not more."

A bit in undergrad but quite a lot in grad school, I ended up stopping taking notes. I discovered I was better off engaging completely in class, and consulting the textbooks if necessary, than trying to multitask learning and taking notes. YMMV; I can easily believe there are people who had the exact opposite experience, that note taking radically improved their retention. I'm just saying that such experience is definitely not universal.
is measuring the moment of inertia not standard? I think any mechanical engineer would suggest it for that kind of problem (disclaimer; I've suggested it before for the same problem)
An opinion piece by Safire, as part of "a series of hardline columns denouncing the financial backing being given Moscow by Germany and Britain for the Trans-Siberian Pipeline, a major natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe. That project would give control of European energy supplies to the Communists, as well as generate US$8 billion a year to support Soviet computer and satellite research." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Dossier#CIA_response

Now quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss#Sabotage_allegati... "it was caused by poor construction rather than sabotage ... Another point of criticism of the sabotage allegations is that, according to Prof. V.D. Zakhmatov, an explosion safety expert who has overseen the safety measures on many of the Soviet oil and gas pipelines built in the Eighties,[4] at the described timeframe Soviet Union simply didn't practice digital control of its pipeline system. Most of the control was manual, and whatever automation was used utilized the analog control systems, most of which worked through pneumatics."
No it's not a joke, claiming that being harder to read help understanding things remind me the ancient Victorian era, the Cilicium idea, the "all work and no play" song etc. I do not consider it a scientific truth but only another reactionary claim that can be as scientific as Franklin idea of forcibly wake up people with a cannon shoot in any road.
After using ES6/7, I do not find most of them useful (unless you need strong types)
Are nursing homes even prevalent in other countries? When I visited Thailand they were appalled at idea of putting elderly relatives in a random building and not with family, but I don't know if they are the exception or the US is
Thank You!. I am actually doing the deeplearning.ai, specialization(on the first course) and will be doing this in parallel. Thanks again for your advice and also your community service by offering Free, Quality education for all of us!.
> Do you find your city government to be very responsive to your desires?

Yes, but only because I hold them accountable with FOIA requests and constant generation of a paper/documentation trail.
Doing the same quality cheaper is better.

When it comes to signalling with phones, it's losing signalling value at accelerating pace. It's starting to be a bulk screen you carry in your pocket.
Greg Kroah-Hartman Explains How the Kernel Community Is Securing Linux
Remember that this was during a time when the US Government was not run by incompetent hacks who lie all the time. The current political environment does not foster an open discussion as it used to be under the previous administration.
You trust anonymous sources, over a company that is willing to back their claims?
I would agree that it's "not a medical reality", in that it does apply only to the USA.
This kind of harsh rebuttal is rare for Apple. The closest comparison was the Letter about the San Bernardino shooter's phone and the request to build a backdoor into iOS: https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

They did do something similar for the PRISM reporting: https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/
That may or may not be accurate. The limit of time dilation function as velocity approaches speed of light is zero, but the function itself is discontinuous. It hits a division-by-zero.
This impressive hack highlights the fact that endpoint security is not enough and that data are not secure, neither in cloud or on-prem setups.
It's imperative for users to keep the data always encrypted on the storage-side, even in memory. You can learn how here: https://www.kalepso.com
The POS and the PED/PTS isn't the same thing the POS can complete the transaction without touching the credit card in fact most of them do exactly that the only thing that it does is communicate with the PED/PTS to send the amount and get a confirmation/denial.
Erlang doesn't do shared memory. It's a message passing, shared-nothing model. I believe GO is the same.
I have a Nokia 6.1 and it has been fine. Some jank when I'm heavily multitasking (say, Pokemon Go and Facebook Messenger at the same time). (I also own an iPhone XS, and have owned the Pixel and Pixel 2, and various Moto G devices.) You may want to look at the Wirecutter review for more color: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-budget-android-phone/

The Nokia 6.1 feels very similar to top-of-the-line Androids from a few years ago. Basically https://xkcd.com/606/, except for phones instead of video games.

I think my biggest pain point with budget phones is that they get "too slow" for the latest apps fairly quickly, as app developers stop targeting apps with these specs. They work fine for about a year, and then beyond that you basically have to get a new one. Whereas if you buy the latest $800-$1000 iPhone, you can expect to get a solid two or three years out of it (so you can resell or use it as a hand-me-down).
No US police academy conditions recruits to a fully thoughtless routine of acquire and fire. And firearms training isn't even a huge part of the curriculum.
I don't recall learning it in a "few minutes" say compared to Apple Basic, but it was definitely a great learning experience.
You mean like couple of well known platforms that let you reach their users and in the meantime steal, mine and monetize user information?
It's getting there. The building blocks are being created one by one -- Minikube (single-node K8s for devs), Helm (packaging for K8S), Operator framework (and individual Operators for self-driving infrastructure). The most recent piece is Heroku's announcement for cloud-native buildpacks, allowing for standardized container images to run your buildpacks.

Stateful workloads (the database servers) are not quite there yet and remains one of the most challenging parts of K8S. We are just starting to see Operators written for specific datastores (Mongodb, Postgresql, Redis, etc.)

I don't know about 10 years ... but it is not that turn-key right now, yet.
Some people really hate screens that aren't symmetrical. Or they just think that the notch is ugly, or distracting. And I think those are all fine reasons to consider the notch a horrible idea.

I don't mind the notch myself. I don't think it hurts the performance or usability if a phone.

I try to keep things like this in perspective. I feel that mushrooms totally destroy the performance and usability of a pizza. And yet many people love mushrooms on their pizza, and think I'm a complete weirdo for feeling the way I do.

So whenever I don't get why people dislike something, I try to think of things I strongly dislike that lots of people seem to enjoy. Then it all makes a little more sense. :)
I do prefer smaller phones too. And unlockable. All Nokias are locked down. Which is a pitty now that Treble ROMs are starting to surface.
I agree that panic is ill advised and trust should be given carefully, but if Bloomberg is to be believed, then it happened at least once - and if it did happen once, it's very likely that it happened more than once, because why not? Most organizations don't have resources to find a backdoor like that, nor they have a reason to search for one (had no reason until today I should say) and in this case we only heard about it because of multiple leaks to the press from government officials.
There's a fairly heavy debate about whether or not people in jail should be forced to work for no pay.

The 13th amendment calls it out as an exception to the ban on slavery and there is not universal support to change that amendment
Based on my reading of the article, the allegation is that only boards going to certain designated customers were targeted. Not all boards.
It's better than nothing, but it's so expensive they don't really expect anyone to use it at prod scale. That's a recipe for letting catastrophic bugs do damage for hours or days.
What are the many fundamental axioms we have disproved? We have proved that some creation myths cannot be literally true. What else?
Spirit is a lot cheaper than Southwest.
Everyone participating in those tests knows what's happening and how to do it. The only variable they don't know is which exits will be blocked. It's like doing UX testing with the project team and giving it a pass.

And it's not 'moronic' to want to take money, ID, medicines and valuables in an emergency in a foreign country. The airline certainly isn't going to help afterwards beyond paying the pitiful per-bag compensation.
No, because when you had Nokia 3310 you can just throw it at the wall, pick up and continue the conversation.
The expectations part is the brutal one for me. Did it for years. Only started trying to not in the last year. Lost a few folks I thought were friends, but turned out to just be folks who were outsourcing their problemsolving to me.
Great to know
I am all for it.
Also, Postgres FDW for network(TCP/HTTP/UDP) sockets would be great to further enhance or push the capabilities of PG
fiverr or upwork?
Couldn't a simulation also simulate our conclusions that we are not in one? It doesn't seem like one could answer this with any certainty in the end.
This is pretty borderline delusional
You keep saying 'property', do you mean 'propriety'or are you literally speaking of the ownership of images when uploaded to Facebook?

Just asking if in the interest of other readers who come along because at first I couldn't grok the connection between how one feels about certain imagery and retaining ownership of one's uploads.
Well, a better conclusion is, if it matters to you, then it matters to you.

You can't make a more general statement of meaning out of your very specific declaration.
Try "War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler, USMC major general.
Ask HN: What do you use to track personal data points?
I need to start tracking things like: How well I slept / Behaviours I'm trying to change / What external factors are lending to my mental state/ etc. Does anyone here have a library or app that they like to use for stuff like this?
A pre-drawn handgun reduces the "get stabbed before I can react" range dramatically. The general rule of thumb is you need a knife threat to start at least 21 feet away to draw, aim and fire(See - Tueller Drill). When already at the low-ready that range drops down to ~10-14 feet, if I recall.

So if you might need to defend yourself, but you want to avoid escalating the situation by aiming a gun at someone, it makes sense.
Chris Masterjohn's Analysis of Vegan Debate on Joe Rogan
Microsoft front ends haven’t really changed since the 00s.
In corporations you don't address the federal government without your legal team in the conversation, and your legal team would also be in the approval path for any public statement about such an allegation. It's extremely unlikely that a public company would comment on something like this without connecting the dots internally first.
Those phones would be nice if Motorola wasn't notorious for not delivering firmware updates.
I have been consistently impressed with your work. Keep it up!

This has been very, very nice for throwing up a quick explorer for some research data I use regularly.

You mention things about sqlite's JSON support; do you have plans for exposing more of this?
Amazon's cloud-computing business is looking to space
'When Disaster happens' and I need a job/freelance ASAP
Digital roulette opportunities tend to descend into a crusty pit of lasciviousness and harassment.
Well, good luck with that!