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We're likely approaching the day when it'll be more cheap to attempt to build an open Linux phone from scratch rather than keep waiting for a manufacturer to listen to a few thousand techies who don't want their personal data chewed by proprietary OSes.
That milestone will almost certainly be marked by the availability of cheap 3/4G modems (I'd be perfectly fine with 3G if it was the only option). We're not there but chipsets are becoming cheaper with every portable router or dongle sold, so it's a matter of time. Cheap and small SBCs, displays, batteries and 3D printed cases are already here waiting for the 3/4G chipset to be added.
This is sickening. Your coworkers political views are none of your business. Googelers are acting like little facists blowing their ss wistles at every percieved transgression. Where does this leave their platform? Not cool.
It’s not bad. It picks up some common javaisms and converts those to the more idiomatic Kotlin version.

The cool thing is that you can convert to Kotlin on a file by file basis.
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Working link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/how-230-0...
This is my favorite argument against sharing DNA information (from Defcon 25):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
It was a question of curiosity to make sure so understood what OP wrote.
Nah, it's how you end up with HACL*: verified crypto that performs like C shipping in Firefox.

https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star

You can verify stupid designs or smart ones. You can do impractical verification or pragmatic approaches. Formal verification is a tool whose outcomes depend on who wields it. The only consistent drawbacks it has are requiring more expertise, the project takes longer, and the project has to be simplified in design/implementation. High-quality software in general (eg OpenBSD) often has same properties, though. Possibly intrinsic to achieving correctness rather than additional requirement of formal methods.
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Torrent sites aren't hosting the content though. They're just hosting some tiny files to connect you to the hosts of the content (seeders/peers)

The content (and associated bandwidth demands) comes from those seeding the torrent.
That Nietzsche’s public life ended with him sobbing in empathy for a horse who he saw whipped always felt to me to nullify all his previous philosophical argument.

In other words; His worldview builds until it breaks through recognition of the Other.
It’s okay for Federal Officials to demand crap and expect a random citizen to know refusing what demands is a Felony and what isn’t?

I don’t even know how to differentiate between a real Federal Officer and a fake one.

What does a real court order look vs a fake one ?

If I cheat on my taxes, it’s my fault. If the federal officers do something knowingly they shouldn’t do. They should get sacked and fined.
How can software lower tempurature? Limiting maximum usage, like clocking down a cpu? If so, to keep the magnets from going bad, they have to slow the car down at times. That sounds bad. I Dont mind if my cpu loses 500Mhz, but my car not accelerating could be a safety problem
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Whatsapp is only very big in __some__ countries actually.

Europe have free sms, so I do have friends with telegram, signal, skype, whatsapp, dumb phones, facebook chat, wire, etc., and at the the center of this crazy venn diagram, we can all discuss with sms for free. Most discussions are not group chats.

In Asia they have big whatsapp competitors like weechat. But I've seen kik used as well.

In Africa, it's also a lot of text message since they get the best coverage.

Whatsapp is definitly popular, but far from a universal.
Advanced Night Mode, other extensions, various greasemonkey scripts, etc, have been out for years.
There is a fringe hypothesis around called the "expanding Earth theory." The idea is that the Earth and presumably other planets gain mass over time by some unknown mechanism like particle capture in their core. Dinosaurs didn't weigh as much because the Earth had less mass.

It actually proposes a plate tectonics model where the continents all fit back together as you shrink the Earth and it kind of works.

AFIAK the hypothesis contradicts too much other data and is likely wrong, but I count it as an example of a good creative out-there hypothesis. This kind of thinking is good in general.
It absolutely does. Many European cities are in a Christmas Market frenzy for the most of December.
Os'es have been built. You don't need to spend time in that. You'll find one as small as a few hundred kbs to as big as 10s of gbs. For all kind of architectures and all opnsource. However you need to find a way to install the os on compatible device. This is no easy task and will require you to flash ROM. For every device.......

Or find a device that supports booting from an sd card. I don't think there is any phone out there that supports that. There are not even that many laptops that can boot from an sd card slot. But they can from an sd to usb adapter...

>novel ways of communication- Put everything on wifi relays, or communication with other peripherals

HIGH FIVE!!!!!

This is a very good idea. But then again how will GIPO attached devices send wifi signals and understand incoming wifi signals? You'll need a separate chip for that (If I understand correctly) that would have radios and antennas. I'm sure you can find a cheap way to build such a device using electronic components that you can find online.

A wifi enabled usb is very very cheap. wifi usb cards would be even cheaper, I think. A mobile phone like this is a complete package for about $10-$15.
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Maybe in general yes, but as a rule, no.

And it depends on what language you are using regularly and what functional language you would like to use.

E.g. If you normally write Java, then FP will almost always be more terse. I am learning Clojure and it’s a lot less code than Java, and it can even natively call Java code as it runs on the JVM
I get your point but like it or not alcohol is very complex and has many benefits as well as deficits. What organizations are doing now to alcohol with their studies is the equivalent of what people did to marijuana in the 40s and 50s. They decided alcohol was bad and then they went about producing propaganda and attributing science fortify their claims. In limited quantities alcohol has been shown to improve sleep, reduce stress, thin blood, and increase social behaviors. All of these are huge markers for life longevity and lower mortality. If you’re really concerned about poisons and risk factors you would look at the American diet and realize just what havoc it’s wreaking on its population, i.e. diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and heart disease. Statistically you will likely die of one of them
They are two different questions and both kind of true in my opinion.

You can use math analyse anything and say try running regressions on interest rates but that the reality is different from the equations and made of people doing stuff.

In particle physics you get things matching the equations so accurately that one might suspect that the reality actually is math.
How about something like this? http://www.hyperfiddle.net/
From watching votes, its either G has its own troll factory, or people just cannot admit that all their free and great services are provided by an ad business conglomerate. Maybe both :)
> not everything can be explained with math

Can you give me any examples? I'm curious.
> As specified in FamilyTreeDNA's Terms of Service, law enforcement can only receive information not already accessible to the standard user by providing FamilyTreeDNA with valid legal process such as a subpoena or a search warrant.

> Additionally, FamilyTreeDNA customers have the option to opt out of law enforcement matching entirely. If customers do opt out, they can still see their family matches but are excluded from being seen by law enforcement.

This does not make sense to me. I know that DNA can be taken physically from an individual with a warrant, so ostensibly that would hold with FamilyTree as well.

So: if one opts out, what is one opting out of? FamilyTree can't be suggesting that they'll withhold evidence because a customer opted out, can they?
Considering the low wage level of Chinese (execution level) officer, CIA should be much easier to recruit in China
If you liked filmstruck you might want to take a look at mubi as well. They have 30 movies at a time and ever day one movie gets added and another one leaves. It's very well curated and you get introduced to some real gems that you otherwise might never hear of or end up on your watchlist forever. About half the time I watch a movie there because I'm interested and it's leaving soon. It's a great forcing function. Many of the most memorable movies I've seen the last years were through mubi.
It is so incredibly stupid on so many levels to be spraying antifungals into the environment. Not least because of the resistance problem. There are many ways that fungus interacts with plants and animals. Destabilizing the base of some critical food chain to get 10% better crop yields seems like a bad idea for us to do.
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It's interesting that one quote said there were secret James Damores at the company. My first thought was that's a GOOD thing. I guess his kerfuffle really is a bit of an ink blot test.
This seems like it ties into an article from The Atlantic last year [1] on the under appreciated threat of increasing antifungal resistance. In particular, there are lots of antifungal agents out there that are fit for use on plants, but only a very small number triazole agents that are safe for humans. It should be completely illegal worldwide to use triazoles in anything except prescription treatments. This isn't even like antibiotics where there is necessarily overlap between mammalian usage in agriculture vs humans, there are non-triazole non-human safe agents that won't hurt plants one bit.

An important takeaway from that article was that it's not too late: agricultural azole usage is actually a fairly recent thing in much of the world and hasn't been in the US for example long. Quoting:

>"Until recently, the United States was exempt from concerns about azole-resistant Aspergillus. Azole use here has historically been low, a small percentage of what happens in Europe—though the numbers that record it, kept by the U.S. Geological Survey, may be incorrect because submitting them is voluntary. Nevertheless, tebuconazole use in the United States rose five times over from 1995 to 2015; the crops that accounted for the most use were wheat and corn. Meanwhile, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) poll of state health laboratories found no cases of resistance as recently as 2014. But last month, the CDC disclosed that 10 patients treated in the United States have been diagnosed with triazole-resistant Aspergillus bearing the mutations associated with agriculture. In a report in its weekly bulletin, the agency analyzed the records of seven of them. Four of them had never received azoles before they were diagnosed with the resistant strain. Three of the patients died."

It's worth trying to stamp down on it legally ASAP. But it needs more public attention and political pressure, which makes this report that health authorities have been covering up the seriousness even worse.

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1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/when-tul...
>The only problem I have with it is it is still really Windows only, hopefully that will improve with .Net Core 3.

I've been writing games in C# that run on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, UWP, AppleTV, Nintendo Switch and more for years now.

Ironically, the most compatibility issues we had was with Windows Phone and UWP.
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That's funny! But I hardly think these templates will be responsible for destroying the Internet. If you are a great writer you probably don't need templates, or you will be able to turn even the crappiest template into something interesting. If you are a beginning writer/blogger, templates can be a starting point to explore different kinds of writing, and may be what makes you write even on days you feel you have nothing to write about (whether you should or not is up for debate). In time, you may become a better writer because of it. Or not. Anyhow, the templates are free to use or not use.
Hi Artur,

This tool avoids to create a lot of spreadsheets when you make budgets for different projects and frees you from making the necessary settings do adapt spreadsheets to software projects. Moreover it shows the information in an easier and more visually way.

It makes my daily work as a project manager more easier :)
I had the same issue and can highly recommend this course: https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud198

It includes short videos, quizzes, articles, and exercises.
How is it a programming issue? The content needs to be hosted (in a decentralized way). And, as a given title becomes less less popular--because it's older or people are just generally not torrenting as much--the odds that someone will have it available for downloading decreases. Essentially torrenting depends on people randomly making content available as sort of a quid pro quo and and streaming makes using torrents generally less interesting for a lot of people.
> obvious that alcohol is literal poison and best to be avoided

I'm really curious how this is obvious and how you know it. Anything is literally poison if consume too much of it. Even water [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
It’s being worked on

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/alco...
> Because in most cases, there's a better paradigm than MapReduce.

You'd think so, right? But what happens to me all the time is I try to use "small-scale" tools to handle some small problem, and then I find myself writing glue code that's already implemented in, say, Kafka Streams. So I might as well just run one Kafka broker locally and write a Kafka Streams application. Or the same with the Django ORM, which I reach for all the time just because I don't like writing database access code when I can write up some models and be done with it. Every time I reach for "small" tools I end up writing tons of code that's not actually solving my immediate problem or question.
Parallel or convergent evolution is coincidental to the point I was making, which is that you cannot assume a theory of mind from observations that might be consistent with it; you also have to give due consideration to the other possibilities, such as it being an instinctive behavior evolved for a particular situation.

>Even with squirrels though, as mammals they exhibit many behaviours common to all mammals. Behaviours we exhibit as well. So if all mammals have these behaviours and we do too...

Here you are combining speculation with an argument from the general to the specific. There are some behaviors common to all mammals, but are there any theory-of-mind-like behaviors in that category? No, so the rest of that paragraph and the one following are built on a false premise.

I am no expert, but FWIW, I happen to think that apes, or at least chimpanzees and orangutans, do have a nascent theory of mind, and that it was more developed in the various hominins that are now extinct.
Wow, #1 on home! By the way, do you have any idea if Wiz/JioPhone/... are shipped by any seller to Europe? Would love to hack one of those
Another instance of google propping up puppet competitors.
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Interesting and scary how much of it is in the New York area. I wonder if its similar to the AIDS epidemic in that a combination of immigration and local social patterns make big cities much more susceptible to these things than elsewhere.
Netflix might have a deep catalog of movies they once rented but they don't seem to be refreshing their catalog when a DVD goes missing. I suspect they are winding down their DVD service.

We gave up on Netflix DVD when about half of our saved for later queue flipped over to queue of DVDs they no longer have.

It used to be that Netflix competed with Blockbuster by carrying movies Blockbuster did not rent. Netflix was originally the movie service for movie lovers and Blockbuster was the service for new releases. This was before Netflix also started carrying new releases. Now if I want to see a movie that was made more than 5 years ago, it is no longer available.
I’ve read 10-20%. Of those are positive IDs it becomes real easy go find cold case suspects.
https://docs.maildown.app describes your model, 7 pound for 1000 emails. However, it's hard to find.

I also miss a lot of information. How do you prevent ending up in spam boxes? Which templates to choose from? What can be configured, what not? Etc.

Also interesting insights / developer journeys like how easy Chargebee is for you as developer, etc. would give me some incentive to try it out. Just my two cents!

PS: 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19562539 it was a MVP and probably buggy. Maybe tell that to your customers as well. ;-)
Maybe programming with my voice could be fun.
Is anybody using this kind of stuff on a daily basis ?
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html
Kids get made fun of for whatever nonsense is available as ammunition. I've never seen kids get laughed at over phones though.
You traditionally can't get a warrant to get the DNA of the cousin of a suspect in a crime. With a centralized DNA registry you can get partial matches. So perhaps those are opt-out?
Like the old Palm Pre?
It’s directly tied to battery power, and battery life is still a big concern. But largely I agree.
Intresting Really want to buy this one...!
PWAs did it for me.

Even WebGL 2.0 alongside WebAssembly will be good enough for Flash like games (Google Chrome team will give a talk about WebGPU at IO).
I don't see why. I wasn't using my data for anything so it seems like a win-win if someone will pay for it. Also, NB this phone runs KaiOS, not Android.
Where is the reference to the 10X improvement? As in, which benchmark are you comparing against? Thanks!
I saw an interesting YouTube video about KaiOS a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_g2bQgOXY
Agreed. The only one is Nokia 8110, which doesn't support WhatsApp and which is actually somewhat overpriced IMO (a Nokia 1 with Android costs less and the "keyboard cover" doesn't make too much sense to me). The new 3310 would have made more sense.
>...I hear they get teased (and sometimes bullied) if they don't have a half decent smartphone.

I've also heard of kids getting left out of things socially for the same reason. One family tried the "you don't need a smart phone until sometime in high school" thing, but their kid started missing invitations to everything because the plans developed on whatsapp, snapchat, or Facebook - all of which the kid didn't have real-time access to.

They relented and got their middle school kid a smartphone.

Way too much of the social world of students goes through phones to be able to keep up without a smart phone.
What about cheap cellular data service for your hackphone?
While true, Web based OSes are exactly the opposite of that regarding privacy.
Because they were sold as loss leaders on the assumption that people would be paying for time/data on the network.
The article seems to say that it is the blood pressure that statistically causes strokes, and that even moderate drinking statistically raises blood pressure. Is that a fair summary?
> Health officials say that disclosing outbreaks frightens patients about a situation they can do nothing about, particularly when the risks are unclear.

They could go to a hospital that isn't having an outbreak. Why isn't that an option for most patients?

> Even the C.D.C., under its agreement with states, is not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks.

This seems like an agreement against the interests of the populations that the C.D.C. is supposed to protect, even if (temporarily) in the interest of hospitals involved in outbreaks ... yet another example of regulatory capture.

On the one hand I can see that this policy would make hospitals more likely to report potential outbreaks and cooperate with the C.D.C. On the other hand the secrecy would result in dead patients who could have gone elsewhere and survived. Or people that need hospital treatment avoiding all hospitals.

Can anyone point to a good argument that such secrecy -- even after the infection has been verified -- is good policy?
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> from friends who do have kids I hear they get teased (and sometimes bullied) if they don't have a half decent smartphone

My daughter is in middle school, and pretty much everyone in her class has iPhone. Only a few have an Android phone.

School requires every student to have a Chromebook, but even teachers encourage students to use smartphones. Also, one of the apps only works on smartphones.

My daughter has my old Samsung 6s. She doesn't complain or ask for a new phone, but I know she wants an iPhone.
Looking at the way the wind blows it rather is towards more language centric ecosystems, than towards less of it.

That said I'm still waiting for when the language ecosystems start to standardize how they interact with each other. That is a very hard nut to solve, but it would also be a quantum leap forward.
> 18% share of revenue for the author of this tech book ...

What kind of system of commerce is it, when the stars and the accomplished fall to ruin, rent and low-cost bus passes, while coffers swell to record size, and abusive money lending , addictive drugs and casinos prosper standing littered by the wreckage of their victims.

Maybe paperback books were more of a treasure than we realized ? .. including the livelyhoods of the participants ? Is there one person or player or style to blame for the aggregation economies that are consuming its citizens, farmers and aspiring creators mercilessly ? USA here.
The latency for Netflix is longer but it means there's a DVD right there with zero effort that you can watch more or less whenever you get around to it. Even if the nearest Redbox is just 5 or 10 minutes away, that's one or two possibly unique trips you have to make. That's actually a fairly big barrier for me unless there's a new release I really want to see tonight.
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Not only does GNU/Linux appear to be unkillable, it always seems to take over every single market niche overlooked by larger, established players promoting fully or partially proprietary stacks. And in many cases, these niche markets end up being quite large or even mainstream. Amazing.
You can use the Gapps you mentioned even on Android without logging in I think. At least on older Androids (4.x)
Because that phone is supposed to be a reference to the original one.
Interesting concept, not sure it'd meet our needs but I'd like to try a send.

I couldn't verify my email, or find any contact info though...
actually..being a conservative/republican is the new punk.
I still very much like Spotify. They have a superior product. I think Apple with it’s billions could probably fund a bigger library but I subscribed to Apple Music for 90 days and I didn’t have a great experience.

If I was Spotify, I would continue investing to make the best music subscription product hands down.
I meant to set a timer to see how long it took for someone to bring this up.

Do we really need to compare deaths and injuries from self-inflicted water intoxication to that of alchohol?
I programmed Perl for many years and Ruby as well; I see the similarities but I very much prefer Perl and find idiomatic Ruby not very pleasant to read or write. Matter of taste ofcourse.