skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this phone is the perfect device for someone like my grandmother that can't even answer the phone on her smartphone because she can't slide the answer button. Smartphones nowadays are very complicated machines with hundreds of UX concepts that are not understandable by a increasingly higher proportion of the population. And you can never disable every function ("apps" in iMessage, really?!).

My grandmother uses an Android phone I've very heavily customised (deleted apps with adb, put a Windows Phone-like launcher with flashing icons for notifications, compiled custom versions of OSS apps for SMS and calls, etc.). This Light Phone seems perfect for her.
If they’re not clear and present it’s a good sign of clear and present danger
Sean, where were your libraries a year ago ...?

Having implemented the entire WebRTC spec a couple times now, what wisdoms have you learned that can be shared with us mortals?

If you could write a protocol for the same use-case right now that instantly became as popular and standard as WebRTC, what would be different about it?
A cyberattack should be expected
how long do you think it takes to turn fiat into bitcoin and bitcoin back into fiat for the recipient? Hint: its longer than clearing a check
I view people claiming they're "there to help" like I view people saying they welcome feedback. Assume it's not true without evidence.

A real request for help often implies things are going wrong, and tends to involve a lot of work, so the emotional reaction will tend to be negative.
A little google voice magic, or any number of other SIP providers and apps will have you making calls to POTS numbers over just a data connection very easily.
7 years ago I moved from a place with a microcenter to a place with frys. I was really excited since I heard so many great things, I was instantly disappointed. It just doesn’t compare.
I was just wondering what other metrics are there for code other than 'lines of code'

Cus I could write some stuff in one line of code. But that one line would be horrendously unmaintainable.

What metrics are there for maintainability (the most important aspect of code imo)

If there was a hard measure you could put on granularity for example.. Instead of saying hey I wrote this in 10 lines, you'd say hey I wrote this with 90 fleeborps of granularity! its super-maintainable!

ps. Not meant as a sly criticism of this. I have not even looked at the code. Just the 'lines of code' in the title sparked that thought. This thing is awesome! Just a few days ago I was chcking out Commanche Maximum overkill videos.. in 1992 that was mindblowing!
UL Pushes Security Standards for the Internet of Broken Things
Good point. But isn't it the author's job to establish context? Otherwise what they're saying is typical "thought leader" platitude nonsense.

Here's another way of looking it. Shipping a product involves thousands of decisions and course corrections. Sometimes technical decisions like deciding on a build system or programming language. Other times product decisions like deciding to ship without user login and use an email "magic link" instead. And other times it involves building no product at all and just gathering some user feedback on the idea.

So if you look at it that way, "just build the product" is total nonsense no matter what context you're in. It's the ability to make good decisions that matters. What's a good decision? One that produces the results you're happy with (expected or not).

How do you make good decisions? Well, that's the hard part. The OP doesn't help at all. It's just fluff.

Example: You're working on a product idea. One of the core features is a DSL/language that the user types in a GUI to make some magical thing happen. Immediately you're faced with choices about your DSL/language. Should it be a subset/superset of another language? Should it be totally custom? Should you write your own parser? Should you use a parser generator? If you use a parser generator, how will you handle lax/incremental parsing?

If it were me I'd spend a couple weeks researching PL theory. In the process I might learn about the tradeoffs of choosing LL/LR/LALR grammars. Maybe I'll learn about state of the art grammar generators that'll save me weeks of coding and months (cumulatively) of debugging. Did I waste my time or did I just greatly improve my core product?

Another week later you're faced with decision of choosing a build system. Since your product will only ever run on AWS somewhere you write a simple Makefile and move forward. No point in diving deep into the likes of CMake/build2/etc if you don't have to. Could it bite you later? Maybe. If it does you'll deal with it.

Where does "just build the product" help here? Building the product is making these decisions thousands of times.

Oh boy, I'm ranting. I'll just press Reply now :P
I got mine still in the box in a drawer somewhere. The main selling point for me were the additional features compared to the original. From the FAQ:

> These tools are currently being developed and will be released in the coming few months

These tools being the promised features of Music / Notes / Calculator / Directions / Ride hailing, and "coming months" being the end of 2019.

It's been almost two years since the launch, and the original light phone will soon celebrate it's 5th anniversary so I'm not sure I should hold my breath. If anybody from the team is reading this, I'd love to hear what's blocking the software development side.
the problem is IPCC does not includes these 'feedback loops' into their reports. which by themselves are based on atleast a half a decade old 'safe' science due to publication pipeline. This is the reason why most of the climate reporting these days has some sort of 'faster than expected' adjectives. do you honestly believe that there is going to be no impact of permafrost melting or ocean ICE loss resulting in increased albedo? the question is why is IPCC knowingly ignoring these important feedback loops in their reports?

another point to consider, IPCC reporting is typically condensed into 3 scenarios 33%/66%/99% probabilities of staying below 2C. the most quoted carbon budget numbers come from the 66% scenario. is that wise? if we are talking planet-wide death & destruction then shouldn't we be aiming for 99%. if you consider that IMO IPCC is too timid on this issue and is essentially making a case of massive geoengineering when the 'faster than expected' becomes really bad.
ELK has way too much care and feeding for it to be worth it until your log ingestion rates start to get crazy.
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Working at a major car manufacturing firm. Maintain a website built on backbone.js as well as a Node.js web application as well.

Currently developing a serverless backend API with AWS and typescript.
My web app died from performance bankruptcy
Their ability to figure out json for mostly-but-not-entirely json log records in the query line as well as LogReduce and LogCompare are great. Hot take, they're way better than Splunk.
Technically, since you aren't letting me leave the store until you've performed some act, I'm being kidnapped. So, yes. Illegal.
It's about agile development. I would really like a write up how Google for example reduced the energy consumption in their data centers. I have a hunch 30% energy reduction was based on an insight on the specific causal relationship between demand and supply flows. This kicked-off a development sprint and eventually lead to a major energy reduction. A traditional waterfall project planning starting with a requirement to reduce 30% energy collapses before it starts.
Do you just deal with having typos in a long reply? You can’t edit watch dictation, so a lot of my replies including some form of “damned apple watch” so people I’m replying to know what’s up.

That said I quite like the combo in general. A big reason I went with apple music is the streaming. It is baffling to me that spotify hasn’t enabled lte streaming on the watch now that watchos 6 lets them.
**** Is Bananas
I don't recommend Splunk because I don't want someone recommending we run Splunk onsite ever again.

Running your own log infrastructure is the absolute worst. As in, we had to put a staff devops engineer on just that for 2 months the last time the company I was at needed an upgrade.
Zambia Has 17M People, a Stroke Epidemic, and No Neurologists
It's a light phone, not a light site.
We won't need to wait for evolution. We'll be engineering the people directly with gene editing.
The battery life of the Light Phone II is approximately 1-3 days of 'light' regular usage.

So yeah, battery life is not that great for what it is...
it will take so long to happen that such time frames are irrelevant to anyone alive today
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apollo-for-watch
Looks as though these might be most common in older port cities. I first saw them in Duluth (the tip of Lake Superior) but not in other cities in the region. Possibly the vault-light salesmen travelled by ship a lot!
Aww.. I thought this would be about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophone
Mind Control for the Masses. Brain-Computer Interfaces
True, but when you get accused of cheating for having a wicked hot streak, you know it's kind of one of the best compliments you can get :)
Google wrote BERT and they provide technical support to the FB Pytorch TPU port so it's not entirely surprising. RoBERTa, (Fb's variant) would be a good candidate to test it with.
I find it hilarious you think Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong doesn't "know what Bitcoin is for."

Maybe you don't know what it is for. People that are sane like Mr. Armstrong and Satoshi Nakamoto intended it to be used as a currency. If Satoshi is still alive I'm sure he was quite disappointed when Bitcoin decided to not scale past its blistering 7 transactions per second.

"Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost. It never really hits a scale ceiling." -Satoshi Nakamoto

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@cryptodailyuk/bitcoin-broke-coi...
Is your Home making you sick?
I agree on the notion that the doctors feel "cheap", especially in their LA offices I've been to. It seemed like I wasnt getting a thorough evaluation and upon going to Cedars Sinai and UCLA, I felt I received much better care.

In the DC offices Ive been to, I do not feel the same. Instead I feel like I receive top quality care compared to other local doctors.

Overall, I generally use OMG when I need fast and convenient care, not necessarily quality.

Sidenote: I like how going to OMG is always in-network regardless if I'm home or traveling (for my insurance plan anyway).
People used a similar argument to say that the eye could not have evolved from random mutations.

Perhaps you underestimate the time scale involved here?
Built an app a few months ago to capture my stream of conciousness. The UI is like a messaging app where you can just send yourself messages and quickly organize them under tags.

https://www.streeeeam.com

I wonder if this could turn into something like parabola.io but focused on consumers.
Yeah that's why I said "really needs", there are cut down versions that will run without an MMU, it's not really the mainline Linux though - I've worked with MMUless kernels in the past, it's not a lot of fun (and I started porting V6/V7 for base and bounds swapping machines)
One should always read beyond the title. The actual request was for advice on what tusharsoni was thinking of doing.
I'm having trouble seeing how writing into a license a prohibition on harming all individuals or groups would take more resources than writing in a prohibition only on harming underprivileged individuals or groups.
yea except that something cannot scale at such a rapid rate forever. Bitcoin and the rest of the market is sooo much bigger than it was back in 2013 when it was at $100. It requires so much money to make Bitcoin go up 50%.
Decaf?
Who’s to say humans didn’t copy the ants? I’ve always been fascinated by what I call “uninventable inventions”. These are things we use commonly but never had the chance to invent ourselves due to their common occurrence in nature. Examples are: the fluid carrying tube (since arteries would easily be observed in killed animals), the sphere (think eye balls), or wings to fly with (i.e. the general shape of a modern jetliner).
It would appear you feel for big sugar's game
More on where "pets vs cattle" comes from: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...
If you're ever in DC and want to see more of this kind of stuff, definitely check out the Spy Museum. It's unbelievable the lengths both countries went to for even the most basic of intelligence!
I worked in edtech for many years and read her work regularly for most of those years. At a certain point though she started to feel more like a restaurant critic who took too much pleasure in roasting whoever the latest target was. Did she write a Best Ed-Tech Success Stories of the Decade? Cus that I'd be interested in.
I think they are being sarcastic. What they probably mean is "for political/business reasons Coinbase CEO has to tiptoe around Bitcoin's actual purpose".
ACM: Techniques for Interpretable Machine Learning
> The idea that any sane financial instrument could increase its return by two points by the holders of it voting to do so is... I haven't the words.

Raising the savings rate will also raise the interest rate that those holding loans must pay. If a loan holder doesn't agree with the new interest rate, they are free to close out their loan.
"inspect" is weirdly apropos, because it hearkens back to Simula-67 (which used it for what we'd call type switch today - so, a subset of pattern matching). The original C++ syntax borrowed a lot from Simula.
No such comparison was made. In case you didn't deliberately miss the outrageous point: when it comes to the Feds, often the persecution does not fit the crime, but rather some "make an example of them" agenda. It's nothing new, you're probably old enough to remember Operation Sundevil.
The 2010s killed the cult of the tech founder
The workaround is constexpr hashing

void f(std::string const &str) {
switch(hash(str)) {
case hash("option_1"):
std::cout << "First option\n";
break;
case hash("option_2"):
std::cout << "Second option\n";
break;
default:
std::cout << "None of the above\n";
}
}

It could be as little as converting the final 8 bytes to a uint64_t above and using that. That just happens to be all of them in this case, but there are a bunch of them. Or using minimal perfect hashing. None of this is the language though
The market exists in its current state because the gambling/loot box/DLC whales subsidize the rest of the market, because by far most of the rest of the market think they're entitled to $200 worth of content and support for $60 at retail and are very vocal about it.

I'm the last one to defend Big Business in any industry, but I've seen the gaming industry from the inside and as a consumer. Here's my opinion: gamers are absolutely the worst customer base I've ever seen.
> Lower dev resources

Learning a completely new language in Dart to even get started with Flutter doesn't seem like low dev resources.

With React Native you are using:

- Javascript which most devs have a grasp on in 2020

- JSX which really isn't much different to HTML

- Styling is practically just CSS with slightly different property formatting and naming

If you've decided to go down the RN then theres a decent chance that your devs have used React before and there really isn't much between React and RN.
Well I may as well answer my own question with the research I've done thus far.

First, it appears that even privacy advocates just use Google Firebase. (Yeah, hypocrisy is abundant.)

Matamo.org is the top contender I found for privacy-conscious analytics. Basically, you have immense control over the integration, so you can accomplish any privacy goals you'd like.

Other potential analytics tools (not necessarily privacy-conscious) include segment.com and Mixpanel.com. Many of the other ones were recently acquired by Google and are now shutting down.
#0: the fact that a significant percentage of people, including myself, doesn't have the attention span to read a 100-item list of debacles anymore.

(yes that's not Ed-Tech, but it's a huge Ed debacle and possibly Tech related...)
Selective Service System Website Crashes
Not sure what you mean. Small startup here and we share code between frontend and backend just fine, using Dart.
There were many (and much better IMO) instant message multiplatform apps before Electron.

The problem isn’t JavaScript, which these days is remarkably fast. It’s that every app loads almost an entire OS in order to run. Process isolation, layout engine, text rendering, 2D/3D graphics, audio…
He's the chair of a very public company with investors and whatnot.

Inevitably that hamstrings permissible opinions.

Not only that, the purpose of his company is to profit from cryptocurrency in a specific way, whether or not that's the 'right thing' for the space or not.

Their business model basically falls apart, for example, if people stop using fiat currencies and atomic swaps allow trades to happen without a clearing house.

All over this thread you can see waffle about money laundering or whatever else; which Coinbase cannot sidestep because they're forced to interface with banks that will cut them off, governments that don't like it if you don't do what they say, etc.
Lemborexant (Dayvigo) significantly improved both sleep onset and maintenance
Also worked in edtech for many years and while I understand Audrey got the reputation for saying the negative, someone had to do it. The general media is so uncritically positive (for example of Knewton which was always snake oil). She had to be the voice of reason.
C ABI is basically structs + functions + function pointers. On Win32, functions and function pointers includes calling conventions, but that's not really important.

COM is a C ABI in a sense that its spec defines everything in these terms. Yes, in practice it translates nicely to C++ vtables, but the stability guarantees are defined on the lower level.
I'm cool with the answers about what people are actually using. But there are also recommendations, and that's what OP asked for at the end.
Man. That's pretty bad.
Was about to signup then that annoying complex password requirment came up.
Lets Make a Web App (Part 0)
Show HN: Train an AI from a Google Sheet
You can extract the non-Flutter parts to a seperate Dart package and compile it to JavaScript to share between both web and Flutter itself
Was anyone who works at One Medical actually told about this? lol
just learn WebAssembly, it's the future :o
How do you figure? If it’s just from the interface, they could be using a fork.
> the old Pennsylvania Station

It wasn't that old! It was only built in 1910, and using modern techniques! It wasn't an ancient monument as you probably think it was, and it was only around for a few decades.

Equivalent of a 1960s building being knocked down today.
But in solar basically the entire cost is paid up-front. The cost in 2030 only applies if the infrastructure is built in 2030.

Which is why you start transitioning now, so we get a resilient energy system.

it really doesn't make sense to change anything we're doing after these bushfires since any problem will will resolve itself

No, because the current government actually wants to build new coal fired power stations and open new coal mines.

The underlining point is that this crisis isn't a catalyst to rethink our energy policy.

Yes you keep parroting this line. But I noticed you ignored the tourism industry costs above as well as the arguments about how successful the German transition had been.
I took a lot of psychadelics, stopped, and started using them again rarely. I'll occasionally take extremely small doses to self-medicate acute depression but it makes me overly impulsive.

I read a lot of experiences from people who went down both the paths you're talking about so I just avoided them. Rather than not using and considering it inevitable that for years I would be using psychadelics in a degenerate way. I approached them with the mindset that they are a tool to look at problems from a different perspective and accelerate certain forms of thinking. However this tool, independant of actual self-improvement, was not only useless but self-destructive.

I ended up having subjectively worse mental health after the psychadelics. Although the psychadelics were a desperation attempt in the first place so take this with a grain of salt. At the same time my life OBJECTIVELY became much better. Better diet, more exercise, more social life, stronger, more cash, all that jazz. I basically turned around a situation where I was completely trapped in poverty and despair to one where by a good number of measures I was pretty successful. So I do find it interesting to read about how people who take psychadelics are all deluded into thinking they're doing well when they're doing awfully. Since that's precisely the opposite of what I experienced.
They look like "Dinotopia" Sunstones.
FDA approved: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?ev...
You're confusing "people who want to get rich" with "people who want useful products".

"People who want to get rich" are a significant subset of the HN population, and they are downvoting you because they remember Dropbox. You'll recall that Dropbox was met by "people who want useful products" saying "oh, I can do 90% of that with rsync".

Your solution is probably excellent for someone who knows what they are doing, but it won't make a lot of money, and it won't sell to the kind of status-conscious fanatic minimalist who always needs a new toy to prove their minimalism.

In fact, there are lots of caution signs around this product's website indicating that they aren't actually very good at the technical parts. I wouldn't be at all surprised to read a teardown showing that this is a low-end Android phone with an e-Ink display running a single shell program around the underlying dialer, SMS and alarm functions.
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