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OP here. Correct! I use wifi to sync time. This is a convenience to the user. I know there are circuits for receiving radio broadcast official time signals. I also know that high precision, low drift clock circuits exist. However, IoT approach is simpler and actually less expensive in low quantities. I think that anyone who will pay $1400 for a clock will have wifi available. I apologize to anyone with an edge case that does not. If they contact me directly, I'm sure I can provide them a solution.

FYI, the internet time sync is infrequent and low bandwidth.
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Sounds like a good healthy dose of imposter syndrome.

It’s a struggle a lot of us have.

Thanks for writing this.
The Archimedes never took off unfortunately. If it had been the “standard” PC we would be a decade ahead in computing now, maybe more
This isn't how things play out. The papers will stop being checked after the riots have started. But will continue to be checked when there are just long lines. Bureaucracies react to things that are actually occurring, not things that will occur.
On my own personal projects where I have the authority to make broad declarations like "IE11 is marginal enough to be served the mobile version", that works. But try explaining that to a corporate executive. The cost-benefit analysis is not really in favor of jumping to grid for most mass-market products.
Anvil is hosted, or an on-prem server, whereas it looks like this can be run anywhere. I’d guess that’s the major difference.

Anvil also emphasises their dev tools, it’s quite an integrated environment, between IDE, data, and deployments.
Right I agree. What's that part about agreeing not to sell/resell? I can do what I damn well please with my property.
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OP here. Correct!

One of my earlier designs included the time "It's now" pseudorandomly every few days. I gave one of those to my father. One night he woke up unable to sleep, went downstairs, saw the clock and it said "It's now". He laughed as it was the one time he was actually curious what time it was. :)
I wonder what percentage of what we measure as IQ is actually measuring an interest in figuring things out and a belief that we’re capable of it.
Did you try the latest versions of GNOME? Touchscreen support seem to be improving quickly there, and I'm quite sure that the ongoing work on GNOME-Mobile will improve things even further down the road.
>You get to actually have discussions with people

Ofc. Mastodon by nature is an echo chamber. Choose your own enclosure and find people who agree with you. The only difference that Mastodon is the first where that's the main selling point
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People find vulnerabilities in closed source software too, they just don't have the source to patch it.
One thing I didn't like when I tried Mastodon (and I'm talking about the web client implementation here, not the underlying protocol) was that the feed element was too thin and there was no way to increase its width without resorting to inspect element or grease-monkey scripts.

Mastodon thread: https://mastodon.social/@dsandoval/100137860645975194

Good part is that people actually replied to me, instead of the 0 interaction I would have gotten on twitter.
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OP here. Yup! Me too. I've been playing and recording music for decades before making these types of word clocks. It bugs me to about the naming overlap.
It's an emulator, and you can try to capture the internal that attempt to check the time limit or check the activation. Knowing when and how that happens, you could hack the code and make it work.

Unfortunately, depending on where you live, it may be illegal to do so or even run software that was changed in that way.

It'd take some research to check who owns the relevant rights, so even finding out who we should ask permission from is tricky.

I tried that with Cyncom Systems' Mantis (a 4GL I first met in the 80's on IBM mainframes), but, it turns out, their versions that can run on MVS 3.8j under Hercules are still supported and cost a lot of money.
Not a lot of low income people are buying the the XR, my sister has had to replace her iPhone for at least six months but as a college student she's not going to spend a grand on a phone.

Why do people act as if the only choice for Apple products is the highest priced option? This is about how people are composing that they have to buy AirPods now that there is no headphone jack.

Apple sells the iPhone 7 for $475.
I am in a somewhat similar position, although I can't say that I have a solid career. I've started through working on a startup and then miserably failed, wasting three years.

Then worked for a small company making money saving and useful services for them, but nothing extraordinary.

Then I tried again. And I failed again. I was disciplined. I planned and worked hard for half a year, having nothing to show for it in the end. To the point, when I just sat and said that I won't do anything code related until I understand where I lack understanding.

I've come to understand that my main problem is fear. Fear of rejection of things that I do. Fear that anything that I can share is of not enough quality to be shareable. Fear of being not appropriate to the people online, or expressing opinions that I have no right to express.

So, now I am working directly with fear. Will see where it will lead me.
OP here. I loved your comment. Maybe I should think about how to make my clocks heavier!
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You don't have lightning in the UK?
Jehovah's Witnesses own official website is anti-flat earth: https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/flat-earth/
They’re feelings, not actions. You can love and hate something and someone at the same time (see Apple and Star Wars fandom), but it’s quite hard to love or hate something and feel apathetic about it at the same time.
At a base cost of 8 bucks a month, do you see a large number of people canceling it, vs. supplementing it with something else? In my case, I'm paying for netflix, hulu, amazon, and youtube. So adding one more item would be similar to changing up a cable tv package.
In this case the request is always needed since the request returns html, not the actual data. In most frameworks (or even custom solutions) you can choose to either load the data up-front or fetch each page on-demand.
Would anyone serious use this as the frontend for a customer facing website?

Maybe not.

Would anyone use this for “line of business” applications? Internal tools? The signed-in experience on an enterprisey product?

Most definitely.

Guess which one 90% of software falls into.

I work at a tech company, we sell to consumers, we’d never use this for customer facing stuff, but being able to rapidly build web apps that show tabular data and editing controls with various integrations with our services for internal customers and partners is critical. If we built that as fancy React apps all the time we’d never get anywhere.
Anyone familiar with the software know how it fares compared to the heap of commercially available options?
OP here. It's an ad with a story and a Q and A. Just like all the other Show HNs. Isn't that why Show HNs have a separate section on the site?
Was there nothing from school that was useful? Did you learn to read and write, how to work as a group, or anything indirectly related to your current career?

EDIT: fixed typo
M-Pesa could be considered fintech that has improved matters for millions of people.
I highly suggest the Stanford course https://cs231n.github.io. All the notes are in the link. I found it a very good introduction to backpropagation
Retroreflective road signs get close to 100% light returned and are a problem for most LIDARs because they blind the sensor. Some companies are working on car paint with higher visibility for LIDAR systems (https://automotive.basf.com/news/read/improve-lidar-detectio...) but that seems the wrong approach to me. The LIDAR needs to work with legacy infrastructure and nature.
Well seeing that the iPhone 5s from 2013 is still supported in 2019, I don’t see any reason that the SE/6S won’t get support until 2021.
This is an issue that something like openbsd's pledge can prevent. No reason for the MySQL client to be able to read arbitrary files on the system.

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge
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I see a lot of people using Wix and Wordpress for this purpose, presumably because they've got so many ready-made components that can be "snapped" together. Is there any other stack - Python, .NET, etc. - that works as well for rapid web development like this?
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I don't really know what to make of this comment, but without a doubt it breaks this guideline:

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I cannot agree that this is the example of open source advantage.

For me it is an example of bad protocol design in the first place.
This seems like a particularly dangerous linear extrapolation in a nonlinear world. Shouldn’t you all have just had a minimum engagement time that you wanted customers to hit? Like ten hours a month should make you feel comfortable enough that the customer will not be canceling anytime soon. But 200 hours a month might mean you’re causing problems to their lives that they will address by canceling. Even the auto play feature just seem like a standard hack that Goodhart’s Law would predict. User hours may be a good metric to indicate user retention when it’s measuring people’s voluntary use of the product, but could become inaccurate when it measures their psychologically manipulated use.
For anyone into this, you can undoubtedly enjoy playing around with https://vcvrack.com/ ;)
OP here. Nice work! My first few clocks were holiday presents as well. I always like hearing about other people's creative stories. I'm sure the recipient will love it.

/snark

if they don't, then they don't deserve it!

/end snark
Hey everybody!

Two friends and I launched our side project recently and we are looking for your feedback.

The web app is called Lito and it's a virtual office that connects your distributed team through voice.

Waiting for replies, feeling left out, not knowing who is working at the moment, and struggling to find a time to meet. If you are working remotely or work with remote co-workers, these problems might resonate with you.

That's why we build Lito (You can read our full story on Medium) https://medium.com/getlito/an-easy-hack-for-more-efficent-re...

Try it! We're really looking forward to your feedback!
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That's because it's not actually a '70% tax on the super-rich' until after $10 million (annual income), despite how some outlets are trying to spin it.
That's interesting and so obvious now that you mention it. Thanks for the clarification.
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I believe this. I've been very heavily into games before after being very heavily into watching TV shows and movies. I would always try to talk to my gaming friends about movies and shows and they would all basically say the same thing.

"Who's got time to watch that stuff?" They were always so busy playing games that they didn't have hours every day to sit down and watch stuff.

If Netflix could find a way to hook this demographic, they could expand considerably.
The animations in the Anim tab of the demo still lag a bit on my Samsung S6. It's always these subtle, uncanny things that tell you it's not a native app
Just to be clear the kind of strategy we discuss here only works at FANG like companies that have enough candidates applying so that missing a good one doesn’t hurt their hiring goals.

Of course it sucks for the individual...but such is life
Donate some of your salary to an effective charity. You don't have to get another job, but you have found a way to use software to convert the money of rich art lovers into saving lives.

You could do worse to find a charity than starting here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
OP here. Thank you for your support! I've actually been wondering if my pricing is too low.
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Perhaps it is the emotional reaction which may spark learning. Many of my strongest lessons have been taught to me by people I don't along with and thoroughly loathe. This is the basis of one of the fundamental lessons I tell all serious students and acolytes: As much as you need mentors you need to have an enemy. Someone who provides dramatic contrast and direct competition can teach important lessons that cannot be learned any other way.
If it is so stupid, explain this to me.

1. Who actually needs boutique gear? I am not saying it isn't fun. I am not saying that it can't be a hobby in itself nor am I saying some tiny percentage of the music industry might need it. But in pretty much all the interviews I have read with successful musician they use something horribly mundane for most of their career, because it isn't about the gear. So does the weekend warrior need boutique stuff?

2. Is teenage engineering actually boutique? I don't know that much about music gear, but I do know a fair bit about electronics and it certainly doesn't look in anyway custom to me. You might think that it is because e.g. they use bare PCBs. But that would be a faulty assumption. So what is expensive part here?
He misses the front end technology with the most momentum right now which is Flutter
This seems like a weird design choice. Why would you need to load a file from the file system as part of a select?

Unless I'm missing some kind of use case this seems like a bad protocol design.
I get what you're saying, but disagree. I receive plenty of pushback, but we have a back and forth and it can often be quite stimulating.
OP here. Thank you for your comment and support. As you pointed out, I'm not trying to compete in price.
IIRC Mysql too can change between point releases in surprising ways. (Though not sure if that practice began before or after Oracle's purchase of it.)
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Nobody wants to be a nobody who goes to work every day, makes PowerPoints that nobody cares about every day, goes home every day, watches TV every day, and in the end amounts to nothing special, nothing memorable, because there's nothing interesting or unusual in life - just boring stagnant nothingness, no moral framework to guide you to heroic status, day after day until you croak.

It's certainly the case that identity politics meets the same need, which is why adherents are so aggressive and get so emotional when the ideology is attacked. If you aren't religious then how do you know if you're a good person or not? Christianity is at heart a methodology for convincing yourself you're a good person, and getting back on track when you sin. Following Christ's teachings makes you good, and if/when you fall to temptation and don't, you can pray for forgiveness and restore your goodness. Pretty simple.

The concept of original sin gets added on because otherwise there might be people who claim they aren't sinners, and that would annoy those who are taking it seriously and trying to genuinely be better people. It's quicker to argue "in fact we are all sinners due to the crimes of our forefathers" than to drill into that person's life specifically and try to identify specific instances of sinning, which is high effort and likely to upset people. By claiming everyone is tainted by original sin, nobody can opt out of the purifying rituals of praying for forgiveness - probably a good idea for community cohesion.

But if you're not religious and nobody else is, then there's an absence of any philosophical framework to tell you what makes a good person good, vs just a morally ambiguous nothingburger. Unless, of course, you sign up to the tenets of identity politics and feminism, in which case goodness comes from supporting minorities and - if you are a straight white man - admitting to your original sin and going through various highly visible purifying rituals that stand in for praying for forgiveness, like stating you will definitely try to hire and promote more women in future.

In the end the moral needs it all meets is the same. Take away the underlying ideology by pointing out its contradictions and flaws, and people are at risk of losing the feeling of goodness that is so important. So of course they go on the attack.
Op is getting downvoted, but I have to agree with him; the website is chaotic, but the font is directly painful to read (Chrome, Win10, HD screen).

It may look great on Mac, I don't know.
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The "web" link has never worked for me (located in the EU, using Firefox on Linux). I'm assuming it works for some people, or it wouldn't be still there, but it doesn't work for everyone.
ffmpeg, sadly. No other UI wrapper gave me what I needed. MeGUI is nice, but requires AviSynth and extracting audio and video, for which I no longer have the patience.
"They" is a pretty broad term.

Physicist's convention is to call a 99.7 (3 sigma) per cent chance a "hint" and only a 5 sigma effect a detection.
It's interesting how the details don't really matter...
Yes, the option exists, but it is not a real 10 bit, because internally the pipeline is limited to 8 bit.
Unfortunety the moment the person you explained that to understood it. 50 new young developers joined the bandwagon of "download everythink, think later"..

Thats the issue with frontend.
I hear this claim all the time: which subreddits are you visiting? Because that makes a huge difference.

/r/funny may be a shitshow; /r/askhistorians probably is okay.
Geometry, geography and geology are different things.

There are no outstanding subtle questions about the Earth's geometry as far as I'm aware. It's not a perfect sphere but we have literally mapped the surface of the Earth with detailed 3D point clouds - we can model the geometry down to near arbitrary levels of detail, and we do. Look at Google Earth!

Questions about how the Earth got into its current state and why it looks the way it does are not geometric questions.
I can smell what the rock is cooking... but I'm not buying.
This is a huge red flag. Say no & tell them you are saying no because they are not negotiating professionally or in good faith.
What's so "most beautiful" about HTML+CSS masquerading (badly) as UIKit?

I know, I know, every web framework is "best", "most" and "beautiful". But still, for once I would like to know what is so "beautiful" about web emulating native in a bad manner.
>I always had a bit of a moral dilemma working at Netflix because my goal was to get people to spend more time watching Netflix, which I didn't really think was good for humanity.

Ah, come on. We need entertainment. Netflix is far and above what cable companies have been doing for a long time in terms of effort and not being scummy. Bringing joy to people is good for humanity. Don't let it weight on you.
> Apparently the income of Big Pharma investors is more important than the affordability of generics.

You say this as if it is surprising.
Loading a CSV is a common use case. PostgreSQL has a similar \COPY command used for a similar purpose (but that's a client side command not server side as far as I know),
I can understand why it's popular. Is there a study around whether it would be useful? I agree the super rich should be taxed more than middle class. Just that 70% seems steep.
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Oh, there definitely are better tools out there, I’m just saying where the source material is coming from. Transcoding specific apps are relatively far and few between, so we end up having to use use other apps for this at times. Handbrake, ffmpeg, Apple’s Compression (is it still alive?), Adobe Media Encoder, etc. Having to use DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Medi Composer, etc to create proxies or flip between formats is overkill and time consuming.
I could live with that, but I really would want to call back e.g my bank, and not end up in a phone tree.
Test if people can actually spot liars (when you know the truth), or if they are not clearly above chance.

Place microphone phased arrays in a loud club, to see if people actually understand each other, or if they hallucinate most of what others say.

Use the same shot of an actor cut in in different contexts, to test if people can accurately see the expression, or if they making it up based on what they know otherwise.
I wonder why they very carefully avoid giving a hard minimum for how long the software will actually be supported. "For years to come" could be a third of your device's physical lifetime like everyone else does.
Not sure I follow you there. Are you suggesting that better terminology would help? Even if there were better names, it's a pretty hard to change words that are so entrenched.

At any rate, "p-value" is a made up, artificial word, certainly better than using a common existing word (such as "likelihood" or "significance") which would be even easier to misunderstand.

The fundamental problem is that hypothesis testing happens within a whole theoretical framework, and the jargon refers to things well defined and understood within that framework. I think there is just no way of breaking it down further (though the implications and typical limitations of the research could maybe be communicated better).
If you're running a e-commerce site, why would you connect to a rogue MySQL server? I've never had that urge...
So 10m is 'Super Rich' now?
That’s actually a pretty expensive phone: $600. I think it’s a fair proposition given what they are offering and attempting, but in this post they provide none of the phone specs. I suppose it’s not their target, but should probably still list it.
Bad protocol design occurs in both OSS and proprietary.

However, with proprietary software the protocol is unknown unless it has been published. With OSS, you at least have the source code of the implementation.

As you should know, proprietary software relies on the owners to fix the problem. With OSS, "anyone" can provide a fix - and even if the owner does not wish to include the fix in the official build (which would look very bad on them, in this instance), "anyone" can apply it to their own copy.

Meaning, it's vastly easier for a 3rd party to discover and fix OSS, than proprietary software.
I was applying for graduate school a while ago and the application form says: GitHub link to your programming portfolio.

Portfolio? I don't have a portfolio. My work is jealously guarded by the people who paid for it. I've been able to kick some stuff out as open source, but it mostly isn't mine or especially good. (The victory was overcoming the culture of fear.)

Of course, the form is for people who had just graduated recently. But it made me question myself.

And then it made me question whether I was wanting to study the right course. Were they open to having students who had more life experience than they did? People who have been in the field building real systems? Other stuff came up and I didn't end up finding out how it would go.
Pragmatists are incapable of criticizing social norms? Where did you get that from? And I'm not saying this as some sort of "supporter" of DoreenMichele or anything like that - far from it. She's of course entitled to her opinions, but I'm under no obligation to agree with them.
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