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About a year ago, I lost a new job before starting because the new company didn't want to deal with legal threats from my former employer. They agreed with my lawyer that my former employer wouldn't have a strong case, but they expressed concern that it would look bad for them to be involved in litigation.

The CEO who had been threatening to sue me and the new company was removed in June, presumably for unrelated reasons. Last week, he announced that he was taking a job which _my_ noncompete certainly would have prohibited me from taking.

Now, I don't know if he had a noncompete with my former employer. Perhaps he was able to negotiate it away. Maybe he was granted permission. Maybe he'll get sued, but I think that's unlikely because they have to know the new company will have his back and that they don't stand a chance of winning.

Whatever the case, it shows who the system works for.
Explanation using my half forgotten physics course: Apparently they are using the overhead wire as waveguide, with high frequency, using only its capacitance, thus avoiding ohmic losses. There are losses only from dielectric polarization, which they claim to be much less than ohmic loss in standard transmission.
I‘m from EU and prefer iMessage to anything else.
You had to make it interesting. No twitter/instagram/youtube feed. You had to dig around for the exiting areas.

One thing lost (maybe I am projecting here) is a sense of optimism... and the power of the individual (once upon a time L0pht declared they could take down the Internet in 30 mins) I once thought the information age would have
a profound impact on democratic institutions, but this hasn't really panned out.

Now the new frontier is being conquered by the State, hard censorship in China, soft censorship in the West (what if my employer reads this? will this get me banned from youtube / patreon / ...)
I'm not sure it is a good idea to use reader macros to implement the syntax. Probably better to implement a new parser for it.

The Clojure syntax is sufficiently different from Common Lisp, so that it might be a pain to implement that syntax as reader macros.

Generally I would think that reader macros are not a general mechanism to implement Lisp-like syntax, but specifically Common Lisp lexical syntax and extending/modifying it.
Same. For me I think part of the reason is that the more I get to know the intimate inner-workings of technology, the more I realize how incredibly brittle and unreliable new technologies can be. So if I have something that is reliable and working great after a year or two, I'm very hesitant to part with it. Plus these days what's passing for 'cool new features' is pretty underwhelming. I'll keep my stuff that works for now, thanks.
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Xiaomi Cepheus aka Mi 9 Appears on Geekbench with 6GB RAM, SD855, Android 9 Pie
I'm from EU and it is a thing. I use iMessages whenever the other side has an iPhone. In my social circle, it's about two thirds. But it is also true that many people who have an iPhone still use Whatsapp or Messenger as the default communication channel even if the other side has an iPhone as well.
> The bottom line is that the difficulty of the decision is the most important factor in determining whether a player makes a mistake. In other words, examining the complexity of the board position is a much better predictor of whether a player is likely to blunder than his or her skill level or the amount of time left in the game.

I wonder if this also works the other way around with good moves instead of just avoiding blunders.

A parallel in business: we spend so much time thinking about hiring "A players" and "10x-ers". But could refocusing on better processes, environment, and goal-setting (reducing the complexity of the position) be just as effective for increasing performance?
Line, mostly.
UK media coverage of artificial intelligence dominated by industry sources
It's a static site generator
"real part of themselves" except for their name, anonymity was easier when I first started using the internet circa 1995. Doxing wasn't a thing.
There was a discussion about this issue last month, where i wrote out a fairly detailed reply and gave a good reference to learn more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644880
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In my specific case (maybe my case is the majority, maybe not), I run macOS only because I want a no-nonsense laptop that just works. For the combination of good hardware, good display and good build quality, I found the Macbook Pro (2015ish) to be the best bet at the time, and it has served me well thus far.

Prior to that I was using a very cheap but sturdy Samsung with Linux on it.

On the Desktop I run Linux and Windows (only for Steam every now and then).
A comveraation regarding Vue being developed closed source
> Agreed. Apple went the wrong way with this by killing AirPort

Possibly, that device dying has lead to people discovering some truely excellent products. For me it has been Ubiquiti and Synology stuff, but you see other names here. For me it has been beneficial (though expensive) that Airport went away.
It is if you make it a factor. Some do.
I hear ya. Even though I’m not their target demographic, I bought some of their stuff for the same reason — great quality and great fit for athletic builds.

Something happened in the late aughts. The fit is not as consistently good (my body changed very little over that time), and the quality of the material and stitching is much lower.
So, Halo Effect 2.0?
Wireless headphones are great in a lot of situations (I have some) but they have latency issues that make them unacceptable in others.

They also move the problem of "using headphones" from "just plug them in" to "are the headphones charged, and can I pair."

Dongles move the problem from "just plug them in" to "do I have the dongle, does it fit my current phone."

None of these things are insurmountable obstacles, but they're an unnecessary annoyance.
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TBH i m surprised it lasted that long. The diminishing returns started long time ago, and practically it is the OS upgrades slowing down old phones, and drained batteries that drive the upgrades. Apart from the tech crowd, ppl don't care if their phone makes marginally better photos , as long as it makes them good enough to post to facebook.
Same thing with laptops. I ve been wanting to give myself a new thinkpad as christmas gift , but i just couldnt justify upgrading from an i7-5600 .

Which means, a lot of people are setting aside money that they would spend for their yearly phone upgrade, for the next seductive product. This could be a good opportunity for novel stuff.
It's a flying truck for places without roads, large airports or ports. It's hoped that it will be cheaper per km-tonne than planes for these use-cases.

Basically cargo hauling into destroyed warzones and the arctic.
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Wouldn't it be better to just set up TLS terminated in a service you control?
Cool! Which led me further down the rabbit hole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

- HVDC uses voltages between 100 kV and 1,500 kV.

- HVDC can be cheaper for 500+ mile runs

- HVDC allows power transmission between unsynchronized AC transmission systems

- Recent advances make UHVDC feasible (800kV+)
It’s funny that this README just assumes you have Node installed. Not having ever used it before, I had no idea what “npx” was or did. A “requirements” or “dependencies” section on the homepage would be nice, as would a comparison to other static site generators.
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It'd never be close enough to ground fire to matter. You're using altitude for general line of sight and then some very quality antennas to pick up anything in a very significant radius.
So many mysteries about the ancient world, I can't ever stop learning enough. It's endlessly fascinating.
I'd assume everywhere in Oz is serviced by roads that normal trucking could handle.
Cambodia has trains now. Started a few years ago, from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville. There is also a new train line to the Thai border that I think opened recently but it doesn’t connect to the Thai railway.
hah! Sorry if it came across that way, obviously those are two very different categories of train -- they do fall under equally scenic IMO but that's where the similarities end.
I've been using OVH for my domains. They're cheap and pretty good to be honest.
Not only that, but if you have two wires at a high potential difference on poles, you have to be careful to keep them separated, even under adverse conditions e.g. high winds.

Presumably, ensuring adequate clearance between a single wire and the ground is comparatively easier.
So to be clear, this site takes an MD file and publishes it to one of its fine paths as an HTML file?
All depends how the discarded device is being used -- i.e. the net emissions of the new device. Apple claims to emit about 80 kg of carbon dioxide (equivalent) per iPhone. This is basically in the noise for the typical consumer.
I'd have thought for most people it's an incentive like better car engine, they don't really need it, but they can say "I've got the latest 20Mpx" (when really it's probably the quality of the glass, flash, processing that's most important rather than raw megapixels).

I've been looking at cameras again, I want more control over focus, better ISO, but don't want to pay so much for a better phone because the glass and sensor size is limiting.
Check out matterbridge (https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge) which bridges gitter, irc and much more :-)
Ask HN: Returning to web iOS development after long break: Where do I start?
Hello HN.

After about two-and-half years break from being a full-time software engineer (trying my hand at something else, still working in tech but not _doing_ tech) I'm going to be returning soon full time. I haven't been completely absent but really haven't kept up as much as I used to - not even close.

Before April 2016 I was a 'generalist' web developer, as in I chucked myself at a wide variety of problems in the world of web application development, but largely was quite good at Backbone and NodeJS but also reasonably experienced with .NET technologies.

I'd done a little bit of React work but nothing major. I have done _some_ work with React since but again, nothing major.

Most of the work I did in JS back then was pre-ES2017 featureset and I know how bits and bobs of it works but I haven't used a lot of modern JS features in anger.

I understand things have moved very quickly in the frontend world in the last year or two and I'd like to catch up.

I was also an iOS developer in my spare time and at that point was starting to get familiar with Swift.

I was also playing around with Go... I'm still interested in that so I'm going to find out where it got to. How is it used these days, and by whom, and with which frameworks?

What I'm looking for is a few names of frameworks and tools have become very popular with frontend and iOS developers and sort of what they're generally used for. Obviously I can do a lot of research myself but to just get a general idea - names to look up would be super.

If someone can point me in the direction of some "The state of [JS/iOS]" articles that they trust that'd be great, or a brief rundown of what happened even in 2018 in these spheres would be helpful.

I also know that people are going to be coming from different angles - that's okay, I just want an overview.

Can anybody help me out? I'd be very grateful, thank you :)
Do you know how it is free? The cost of hosting static document only sites will be low but not zero. So is the cost being eaten by the owner or are adverts/tracking inserted?
They have rather a serious problem there actually. There are many people who buy an expensive iPhone for reasons that would be entirely satisfied by a less expensive one if it existed. It's hardly worth raising sales by 15% if you would have to lower overall margins by 50%.

I could have bought a midrange slower phone in 2015 thst would probably never get an update and then by another midrange phone 2 years later and buy yet another midrange phone this year.

Or alternatively, buy a 64 GB iPhone 6s in 2015 for $749 and still be getting updates and have a phone that is more performant than any midrange Android phone that was sold over the next three years and faster than high end Android phones in single core performance.

If history is any guide, the 6s will still be getting updates for two more years.

As a bonus, my phone isn’t running an operating system made by a privacy invading ad company.
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Little old grandma ain't making sites with GoDaddy either, so why do you have to come up with such an irrelevant strawman. Please.
All of this is in my experience. I'm not a psychologist.

I think it's easier to point to the cause of burnout. Too much pressures/stress at work/home for a prolonged period of time, a bad work environment, the loss of an expected reward after a long period of extended hours, etc. Identifying the root cause won't cure burnout, but you can at least take steps to change it. When you're burned out you may feel like you'll never climb out of it, but at least you can identify steps (e.g. new job) that may help in the long term. Burnout can last a while (1 year+) after a really bad experience.

Depression is harder (impossible?) to point to a single cause. You can feel a completely loss of feeling, or even just one feeling (sadness) and not really know why you feel that way. Depression can go on for a very long time.

I think a lack of motivation and creativity is there with both burnout and depression.

Being in the wrong job is when somebody is highly motivated and has a lot ideas, but their work environment kills that motivation or inspiration completely.
Interesting - I will consider it, thanks a lot for the suggestion! Memory use is a concern, but so are wakeups in a tickles kernel on a laptop.

At the moment I'm considering Sway mostly because of the wide use and community, but it's a "long term" project this month or the next :-)
I believe the path for Krebs when under DDOS was free CF cloud to akamai to special status (from Google?) Using CF domains with or without CF's normal services turned on would have made akamai impossible until a transfer process to a real registrar completed leading to an extra week or so of downtime.
I don't know whether this falls within that, but some people have made iMessage "versions" for Android by using a Mac computer as a bridge.

https://github.com/RomanScott/weMessage
Wow, they haven't canned it after the letter?
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>Is it because it's an "it could come at literally any time" thing, instead of being restricted to the class schedule?

I would like to hope that grades delivered in class also come with some modicum of qualitative assessment and psychosocial support. You might be giving Johnny a D grade, but you also tell him that he's making good progress and you know he'll do better next time if he keeps trying. You know that a B grade feels like a catastrophe to Anne, so you remind her that she's a good student and this is just a minor blip. John barely scraped a C, but for him that's a damned miracle and he deserves a resounding attaboy.

All too often, we in tech find a more efficient way of facilitating the core function, but we strip out vitally important secondary functions. Automating the process of grade delivery removes or substantially defers the opportunity for interaction between student and teacher at a critical psychological moment. The grading app doesn't know if a student is pleased with their grade or devastated. It can't see the pride in their smile, it can't see the hope drain out of their eyes. That simple human interaction is infinitely complex and vitally important, but we've reduced it to a couple of bytes of data.
Ockam releases open source tools to solve IoT developers’ greatest challenges
> you can't keep growing at 20% qtr to qtr forever, or you'd own the world.

Yeah, a lot of people don't intuitively get this; but any growth above GDP growth is some part of the pie you're taking away from someone else.
By the time I started using the internet around 1995 businesses definitely had a presence. But the web felt far more decentralized, open, and laissez-faire. It was a movement and like any new movement it just felt so happening. Today, outside of a random tech blog, it feels like I go to the same sites over and over again.

In the mid-nineties if you wanted to talk about your favorite band, you'd cobble together a site in something like tripod, geocities, or even expages. Then link to other slapdash fan pages. Today you go to a subreddit or setup a medium blog. Want to chat? Then you'd go onto IRC, ICQ (remember that?) or a random website running a Java Applet. Today its slack.

Economies of scale always win. We lose something beautiful in the process, gaining only nostalgia for something we'll never get back.

I actually write about this a bit in a book I'm slowly writing, Wanking in Hostels, https://pastebin.com/u/drifterzero
Most people aren’t buying third part routers. They are using whatever came from their ISP.
Been online over 20 years now. It’s much better today than it ever was. I can buy, watch, read, listen to whatever I want, all for a relatively small amount of money. People romanticize what the Internet was and IMO it wasn’t that great.
Well, the idea is opening it up only for an Apple sold AOSP phone. In some way that attracts customers that aren't in their current demographics, but without cannibalizing current customers. But, yes, agree...won't happen.
I have no hate for Christianity. I'm just stating the facts. It took the western world 1.500 years to go from the Antikythera mechanism to the first automatons. And those 1.500 years were when Christianity took reign over Europe.
i buy refurbished iphones. Admittedly iphones have better build than almost all and are better-lasting overall, i wish i could find a decent alternative. At the price points of current iphones, it is impossible to justify it as an upgrade. At least my region, it is either first-time phone buyers, or people wanting to show off/signal.
>> Why do people believe so much nonsense about AI?

That is the central question. Why is it that people are prepared to believe in all the wild fantasies that the marketing arms of the tech industry come up with? Shouldn't the expectation be that the majority would instead be more cautious and avoid believing all the overblown promises, especially when they repeatedly fail to be fulfilled?
> Rust is becoming very popular.

For actual jobs? I don't see any evidence for that.
I want to touch on a subject that is not mentioned here so much yet, and that is online gaming.

Specifically, Quakeworld and games coming after that.
I still remember fondly how small the circles were, especially with Quakeworld. You could play on a server, and there were not that many, and actually see the same people there night after night, getting to know them and feel respect when you saw the more veteran ones entering the server.

And actually talk to those same people in IRC afterwards. Nowadays, there are so many players everywhere that it's very difficult to have a sense of connection to the people, as most times you might never see the same players again or connect with them in any way.

There was just so much more fun stuff happening there, when games were not nerfed to death and designed for everyone. I mean, nowadays when you play a online game, it's just so goddamn balanced and researched and overdesigned in many ways in modern games, and don't me let even start on the loot boxes and experience and all the crap around the core game logic that is not even relevant.

Sometimes I miss those days where everything was smaller and not everyone was on the internet.
One alternative is sandboxing the js code (or using existing browser or networking logging capabilities) to reverse engineer network requests and write a more raw client instead of piggybacking onto the web client, that would still have risks of changes but less likely than this.
Really awesome and they include CSVs. I only wish it was more than 100k, with only ~28% residing in the US.
I guess such „counter-hype“ feels like an attractive position to many. Just like general cynicism seems to be the mindset of our times. Maybe because people think being contrarian and/or negative makes them appear smart?

I don’t necessarily buy into any predictions of what machine learning will accomplish in the future. But just the examples already available today are quite stunning, especially in images and language.

In any case, I don’t see how „the media“ is at fault here. I see far more „hype“ of AI among the tech community than the larger media outlets. The possibility that AI could transform our economies certainly exists, and it would seem prudent to nurture the debate about the future of work even in the abscence of certainty.
it is a factor in high schools?
Single wire DC transmission is a solved problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_earth_return#In_HV...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Mo...
4 sub 1: Exactly what happened to me at the plastics factory. So much better off programming.

4 sub 2: I think I have the right job but the wrong home.
Could be lower clock rate on the RAM. But agree that those specs at $600 sounds tight.
Thanks, I'll have to check that out. I am not beholden to any OS or platform. I have Windows 7 (at work), Windows 8.1 and 10 (at home), Linux, and an iMac and iPad, and I am amazed at how great the developing and coding experience can be on my 2015 iPad Pro. My other notebooks are all four-plus years old, but I have heard the latest iPad Pro is even faster and more capable for serious work. The Smalltalk/Pharo environment is pretty amazing, but coding F# on the iPad with Continuous is close to it.
On the idea of a 2nd class civilian:

Would that include level of support? If something goes wrong in any Google product for me, I am almost certainly SOL. If my scenario doesn't fall under automated support or is something that requires human logic/cognition, there is effectively no support. It's either post on Twitter and hope someone from Google reads it (P = < 0.0000000005) or off to call the credit card company for a chargeback and pray that Google does not decide to ban my entire account for it.

If something goes wrong in any Apple product, the support ranges from stellar to acceptable, regardless of if I'm using Windows or MacOS.

So in that regard, I would rather be a 2nd class Apple civilian than Google's favourite civilian.
To add on to the other reply, a big problem in mountainous operation theaters is that soldiers can't talk to other squadrons or base, because of the mountains. Reception is shit. This big ol blimp thing could float around at 20,000 feet and act as a communication hub so soldiers can talk to each other, while also having cameras on board to be an eye in the sky for said soldiers, or painting targets for the soldiers or other aircraft's targetable weaponry.
This sort of nonsense bothers me. So the guardian, a member of the media, is telling us that the media are unwittingly selling an AI fantasy? And the fantasy is that it's positive?
Most of the news I see about AI is handwringingly pessimistic about AI being a disaster that will wipe out jobs and maybe the human race, which is the opposite of the thesis of the article. This sort of article is just trying to grab attention and took no thought to write, it has no substance, and took no research or deep insight to write.

And the idea that somehow we can get Law before we work out the Ethics of AI? You cant just have fiat law pulled out of a hat that works? How can you possibly expect the law to proactively regulate AI before we know what it is? Because at this point we don't know what it is, its an evolving thing just like the internet was when it first came out.

Frankly it's disappointing that drivel like this can make it onto the front page of HackerNews.