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Standard Notes is great for desktop but on mobile it's not really there yet.

You basically can't format notes at all on mobile and changing a note on mobile for me just borked the desktop formatting.

Will be great all-rounder when that is sorted though.
Whether someone likes a movie (or a song) is usually subjective, often emotional, and can at best only be rationalized. There are exceptions, e.g. documentaries. You could e.g. have the system recognize a preference for a director, actor, or genre, and add that to the predicted rating. But i don't think using that kind of information to make a prediction would add to a collaborative system's accuracy.
The government could seize Facebook anytime they wish so the fact they don’t leads one to conclude that either Facebook controls the government, the government controls Facebook, or Facebook is not worth seizing
Parent is not kidding about the bleak. Peter Watts is very proud of getting rejected by a Russian publisher for being "too dark".

It's a great read though; I can't think of many SF books that can hold a candle to it for sheer density of novel ideas.
Could not agree more. Takes some very interesting concepts and takes them on whole new levels.

A definite must read is also the acknowledgments and references in both blindsight and the next part, echopraxia. Acknowledgements are amazing and references insanely interesting and detailed.
Which will all be inside an IC, away from the microphone.

So what, does the light turn on whenever the entire IC sees power? Because if it relies on a signal from within the software-controlled IC, that's not exactly trivial to audit.
Try having kids?
Nothing Eminates from the magnet. The magnet is distorting a field that exists with or without the magnet
By peeking into airport bins, food company cuts waste, saves millions
Show HN: Everyelixirvideo.page – Elixir conference videos on one page
Which OCR did you use?
Logic is not something that can be easily violated
If you can convince everyone in the entire world to move their schedules earlier by one hour, I'm with you.

If not, I'm willing to live with midday and midnight being conceptually misaligned, as they have been for the half of my life I've spent on daylight savings time so far.
Probably my favorite hard sci-fi book. I haven't found the rest of the author's books (Peter Watts) as good, but I'm hoping his upcoming books change that. The sequel to Blindsight especially is a frustratingly opaque book, with a stilted pace in contrast with Blindsight (although several fascinating concepts are in there, if you take the time to read all the errata on the web in order to properly understand it).

Also his blog is worth a read: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/
You'll probably like CintaNotes (Windows only) or Zim Wiki.

Biggest downside to both is the lack of mobile apps. But Zim uses plain text files and Cinta can sync with Simplenote. I mention Cinta mostly because it has some of the better search capabilities I have seen in a note app.
I actually tried it on my moto g and it runs pretty well. Everything works so far, this seems like a much better choice than buying an overpriced, discontinued, entirely closed Apple device.
I've never quite understood why our industry heavy weights didn't push heavily into battery technology. It seems fairly obvious energetic density is a big bottleneck in a number of industries. I'm under the impression all the attention went into theoretical research and patenting schemes, but nothing into actual production processes.

In that respect, I'm quite thankful to Tesla for pushing the envelop with Panasonic.
Yes, Uber suffers from original sin, but you don't become the fastest growing company of all time by avoiding any toe-stepping. Look at the pathetic state of "Jump Bikes" in SF. Uber is judiciously following all the regulations these days (in all areas), and SF is "generously" upping the Jump Bike limit from roughly 200 to 400 total bikes. It's really a pathetic number of bikes and doesn't come close to meeting demand.
Why this Idaho chipmaker is suddenly at the center of the US-China trade war
See also: https://megacities.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/ for some newer work.
Exactly. UITableView is a good example of how _not_ to do things.
The world would have ended many times over, but it still hasn't.

I don't see a big rise in other cars yet. Not even a lot of EV's. Probably the EV's will come when the car manufacturers are ready
You have me curious now
It won't be a big market until there's an actual offering that grows the market. In Europe gas is very expensive, but electricity is mostly cheap. The grid is solid. The fundamentals are there.
Good point. Oh man I love coconut though.
I think 21 is talking about the technical side of production e.g. hacking some weird sound effect - doesn't necessarily matter if it was hard, once it's recorded and produced, it's done. If you had to have someone holding up a part of the set, as long as it worked, it doesn't need to be maintained.

What you are talking about is maintenance of the storyline, which in some ways is probably more consistent with what us Devs talk about with technical debt. That said, there are plenty of plot holes in many TV shows and I still watch them!
One of the greatest sci fi books ever. I read it again on the long flights back home from vacation this summer. It's been a few years since the last re-read and I think I understood something new. I also suggest its almost sequel, Echopraxia.
Collaborative systems are designed to do this. If enough people who like A also like B, and you like A but haven't rated B, they should predict you will like B.
I would definitely suggest giving Gregg Egan a shot (start with diaspora maybe?) and Hannu Rajaniemi’s Quantum Thief.
Neither are dark but I loved the ideas they mess around with. Same goes for Cicin’s third body problem for how far he takes his ideas.
5 Years of Incorrect Claims and Forecasts About Tesla
This page is completely unusable without js, yet all it is, is short static document :(
I used to have no issues at all with EMF; not that I was very healthy, but I didn't feel any effects. Then I stopped entirely for six months while I lived in an ashram out in nowhere doing Yoga all day.

And sure enough, after coming back I could barely do 10 minutes with my laptop on a wireless network before feeling sick for hours. These days, I don't even use a cell phone unless I absolutely have to; and I only use wired technology at home. Working in an office or spending a lot of time in cities is not even on the radar.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I see people raving about their AirPods online, walking around all day with wireless antennas in your ears looks like suicide from here.

So; there goes the karma, I guess. I am painfully aware this is not a very popular perspective, but it's my authentic experience and this is my Internet as much as anyone else's.

Edit: See, I told you. Keep chasing your tails then, I don't care. It's evolution in action.
> Merely owning a vehicle is an odd definition of skilled labor.

Having witnessed countless uber/lyft drivers do their thing I have to agree with your "skilled" assessment.

More on point -- my main objection is they are paying basically at cost pricing to the "driver-partners" when you add up all the costs. Basically, though many will disagree, all they're doing is taking the equity out of their vehicle now instead of at resale time.
Hehe love the “almost sequence” part of your comment. I always call it a sequel but your way is spot on. :))
Any SV startups working on PD or similar? My dad has it and I would like to work on it. Embedded systems engineer working on SoCs here.
Recent HN discussion on a different article about the same exploit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18362905
Those are rated for over hundreds of millions of switching cycles. They would be the last thing that breaks in a laptop.

But if you're so against moving parts, a hall sensor and a transistor would achieve the same result.
This seems like an abuse of the Ask HN convention. Please write a blog post and post a link to it. Thanks!
Uhhhh... no.
As has been pointed out, a large percentage of these are probably “hello world” types, which is harmless enough.

I’d be interested in what percentage of smart contracts are actually useful. Remove the demo contracts, the horribly broken, the Ponzi schemes and all the ICO token contracts. What do you have left, and does it justify the existence and price of Ethereum?
> I can't find a direct comparison of Python-vs-Racket in the site

Now you will.
I love this. Do you happen to know if there's anything similar for ruby?
Also something I read recently and agree with is this:

You do NOT have to be nice to people who are mean to you.
While they should definitely consider serving up a more static version for mobile (couldn't scroll on Firefox Android), the experience of reading this article on my desktop was truly awesome.

I absolutely loved the graphics, cinemagraphs, and entire experience, and really do think it added immensely to the story itself.

Is there a name for this style of article? Do they use some existing JS library or is it all hand crafted?
You don't need a chip for this. And to their credit Librem laptops have offered such a hardware switch for a while now (perhaps since they began selling laptops) with (as I understand it) no chipset involved.

Putting this functionality into a computer chip is ridiculous and unnecessary partially because there's no clear way for ordinary non-technical users to control that, and partially because this suggests that software (as I presume the software on this new chip will be alterable by Apple) can still affect whether the mic is hot. The headline "Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone" should probably be interpreted to mean that Apple won't be prevented from listening in.

Camera access and wireless network access should also be physically disconnectable via a simple user-controlled piece of hardware which electrically disconnecting the on-board webcam and wireless network device from the rest of the system -- a slider or rocker switch. This too is something I understand Librem laptops offer but is uncommon elsewhere.
Women and mixed gender teams have raised a record amount of VC so far this year
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The problem is the architecture is intertwined with the product is intertwined with the people. Believing that these things can easily be broken apart is an illusion. It’s how product believes one thing and engineers believe another, resulting in quick hacks, missed deadlines, and a mediocre product, if it’s released at all. Meanwhile the manager is a “people person”.

Teams need leadership, not three leaders. Dev managers should be able to understand the architecture, and the product, and the team. Product advises on the direction. Tech leads argue for the implementation. But the dev manager needs to bring these things together and provide direction. Otherwise all three people will just point fingers when the results suck—diffusion of responsibility. Teams need leaders and leaders need to be accountable for results.
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The “surrounded by electronics” explanation really need a citation. It doesn’t make sense to me. Nothing in proximity to the pilot emits any kind of radiation - the radio antenna is not in the cockpit.

The higher dosage of solar/space radiation due to the altitude is surely the correct explanation.
Ask HN: $100/month, how to spend it on online subscriptions?
If you had $100/month to spend on monthly or yearly subscriptions, what subscriptions will you pay?
Interesting article. There's no doubt we will continue to discover fascinating things about our past human civilizations, especially with data centralization, advanced mapping, etc...

One big takeaway from the article, which indicates an interesting geo-political strategy behind funding research on these topics:

> ... the desire to show that the country had a glorious pre-Islamic past. “The Saudis are building a national narrative,” Al-Jallad told me. ...
Humans have a tremendous bias towards good stories with heroes and villains. World War II is a great story, and Hitler is a memorable villain who has come to symbolize evil. A flu outbreak is just a massive tragedy without anyone to take the blame. It doesn't survive as a story.
Not the ones I've seen, lol!

You sound like a super-advanced hunt and pecker. I've never seen someone who can type without looking but their hands not in the "correct" positions.
De Tijd ( Belgian) is the only one currently that gives me a lot of interesting economic ( Belgian) information with news I can't find elsewhere
> So the authors observed increased markers of damage

I'm not in that field, but the way I read the article, they claim that a lot of other articles support their claim, namely that the DNA could be damaged by EM radiation which is not "ionizing." But this particular article doesn't seem to contribute any new proof, and the only "new" message of the article is: "DNA is, the way we understand it 'a fractal antenna', therefore even non-ionizing EM radiation 'could' be dangerous." But the proof of that claim on the level of physics is not explicit (not in a way I'd expect to read about it). Especially their kind-of claim that even 60 Hz EMF can influence DNA in damaging way is still very... let's say, suspicious, to me.

If somebody would actually prove something like that, I'd expect he or she would get more Nobel prizes at once... it's that much far away from what we understand. The wavelength of the EMF of 60 Hz is 3000 miles in the air. How can such a change affect anything in any DNA in any cell of any living organism, even if we accept any "fractalness" of it I can't even imagine. Even if we accept that the longest cell is in the range of 1 meter, the wavelength of 60 Hz is 5 million times longer! So even a 1 m wide DNA would "surf" on a 5 million times longer "wave." You can say "but it's fractal" as much as you want, I'd need more than that, for me it still doesn't appear different from "it's sprinkled with the dust of fairy."

On another side, the "obvious" statistics of some problems appearing should be enough even if the mechanism is not known. Given the amount of the EMF we live with, something should give us enough information...

Note that they mention "the stress response" of the cells and that since "the stress response is activated by other stimuli that are
potentially harmful to cells (Kultz 2003), it is clear
that the stress response is a natural protective
mechanism" which could actually mean that the cells remain "more protected."
With those excluded, what you have left is going to be 99.9% gambling.

Fills a demand, sure. But I would assume that every one of these contracts is more shady and less fun than online poker.
I would make sure some portion of it goes to "independents" and small shops via avenues like Patreon.
Ha imagine the distant civilization who has to deal with a storm of alien corpses raining down on them
> Note-taking shouldn't be done by an external application because then users have to switch context from their current work. Rather, the tool should be available in the command line, browser, and IDE.

Some ways of working around that:

- have your note-taking app always open, on the other screen if available

- work in the same program you're using to take notes

I do the latter - there's one program that can do that, Emacs.

dnote doesn't look ergonomic enough for me to use directly (I don't spend that much time in raw terminal), but looks perfect for globally binding to a key, with an ad-hoc popup UI (e.g. via your WM on Linux, or with AutoHotkey on Windows - the latter makes it trivially easy to create a minimal GUI too.)
There are countries where people have lunch at 12:00 and countries where they have it at 14:00 or later. Dinner and bed time are set in consequence. For the people in those first countries it makes sense to never have DST. For the others it would make sense to have double DST. We can argue that they could shift two hours backward with no consequences but cultural habits are hard to change (I live in one of those countries.) Having light late in the evening (22:00) is great if people are still out. Nobody use sunlight at 5:00 if they're sleeping.
It leads heavily with rage factor and "How to lie with statistics." But the last three paragraphs or so have a spoonful of genuine data that suggests modest improvements.
Because you may want to configure it. I close my laptop when it’s attached to an external monitor. The mic should stay on in that instance.
Here's a smart contract I deployed that gets regular use: https://etherscan.io/address/0x04b547C56d997A70Fa5fa007bE176...

There were at least prior one version that I deployed where there was a misconfiguration, so it was never interacted with. There were another half dozen versions or so that I deployed to testnets and the main-net for testing purposes that were barely used.
Notes are structured differently than source code. My notes contain things like tasks, each affecting many source files, sometimes dozens, design notes affecting the code globally, and even plain brain dumps, which would be best left unshared.

Personally, I generate at least as much prose in notes as I do lines of source code, so there would also be readability issues.
Would the Arduino chip be a better choice for the intellectual challenge? You get a lot of modules you can buy from different vendors, and at the end of the day it's a simple to program chip like the 6502 from what I have seen.
Broken code gets fixed, bad code lasts forever
I'd love to have more articles that revisit all the amazing sounding findings we read about every day. Especially about the ones that fail trials.
Not a startup, but Medtronics makes deep brain stimulators for PD that involved embedded systems work
That, I don't have an answer for.

However, I don't find it absolving what I observe in today's Google and all the "business" and "marketing" types who appear to have come to dominate it.
This might be contentious, but I'm going to say it. If your program is multithreaded in a nontrivial way, Swift is not the language for you, at least yet.

First, this article understates the danger significantly. It's not just that your token loader might be called twice, if you call this from two different threads you're fully in undefined behavior. Swift is "safe-ish" in that it's mostly safe in single-threaded contexts, but with data races that breaks down. It's even more confusing because some things are properly atomic (reference counts, manipulation of value types like arrays), but some aren't (access to fields in classes).

Second, the language is missing basic features that in modern programming would help tame this beast - the most important of which is a wrapper for internally mutable state that is protected by a mutex. Grand Central Dispatch can help with some of this.

Third, there are unexpected performance losses. For example, the closure for running a block on a sync "queue" is heap allocated (because the type of such a closure is the same for sync and async, and of course the latter has to be heap allocated). This will probably be fixed, but I think is symptomatic.

Fourth, there's no official concurrency model. Again, it's confusing because there are some things that are obviously intended to run with concurrency. In fairness, Rust doesn't have a formal concurrency model yet either, but it is straightforward to apply reasoning from C++, and also reasonable to expect guarantees if the primitives such as Mutex, channels, etc., are used properly.

Fifth (and related), there are no atomics in the language or the standard library. Apparently OSAtomic is deprecated, and they now recommend the use of C atomics, but you're in the territory about having to reason about the polyglot combination of Swift and C.

Likely all this will improve, but in the meantime it's important to realize how immature Swift's concurrency is.
Interlacing is technical debt. It looks bad and there's no longer any need for it, but it's still included in currently supported standards.
Personally I think Uber drivers/couriers are freelancers. Uber drivers can work whatever hours they like. If they want to work 1 hour a day, they can. If they want to work 10 hours a day, they can. That's not something that non-freelancers can do.

For the same reason, I don't think it's fair to compare the average Uber driver salary to a full-time salary. Some Uber drivers work full-time, but I'd guess most don't. Lots probably only work a few hours a week. Uber provides students/parents/anyone with a way to make extra money on the side.

Also, from the article I linked to, 900k US drivers make $13 Billion a year. So $14k-$15k/job/year. When you factor in that many (probably most) Uber drivers are only working part-time, that's significant income from a super flexible job.
Mohammad himself was born and died in the Petra region of Jordan. The foundation myth of Islam moved the story to Arabia (as we know it) for political reasons.
Many employers don't care what your degree is as long as you can prove you can code what they need you to code.
That would defeat the purpose wouldn’t it? Malware would also configure it.
Tracing a Meme from the Internet’s Fringe to a Republican Slogan
What I've heard is that if you are asked an uncomfortable or illegal question in an interview, convert it to the closest legal or comfortable version in your head, and answer that. Like:

"What's the worst thing that ever happened to you?" -> Auto-convert to "What's the worst situation that you had to handle at work?" -> Forget the "I got in a bar fight on the weekend" story, tell the "I had to convince the stubborn holdout on my team to go along with the rest of the team's consensus on how to solve a problem" story.
This hypothetical daughter stops you mid- well-intentioned lecture, smiles comfortingly - places her hand gently your shoulder, and says, “Dad - it’s okay. I just bought it because it smells good.”

Do you believe her? How do you respond?
Potential project for Strange Parts. If anyone could do it, I'm sure he could.
But it doesn't have to break anything. Programs written for DOS or old Windows version already tend to run in compatibility mode. You can have these devices be "everywhere" when the program runs in PC-DOS compatibility mode, and in \dev\ when it's not.
I'm really wondering if there even was 1 customer request for this.
This article is a great example of the biggest problem with software development management: they often fundamentally do not understand what software engineering entails.

You can tell that he has caught on to a few aspects in terms of requiring editing and creativity and not being able to plan everything ahead. But really he doesn't understand the full extent of what programming involves. If he did he would definitely not carry the writer metaphor so far.

A writer's output is natural language. Natural languages and programming languages are extremely different things. Prose does not have strong and brittle constraints on syntax and semantics that computer code does. Prose does not create real systems with many moving parts that must align and synchronize precisely.

If you could get a creative writer to sit down and just design a new type of spacecraft engine by using his creative powers like a science fiction exercise, then the metaphor would work. But engineers have to make systems that are completely detailed, exacting, follow the laws of physics and harness them in intricate ways. Software engineers are often essentially doing research on new systems or new ways to combine systems.

If at all possible, get an experienced programmer to act as a manager for programmers. A programmer would not describe it as simply writing.