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There is support for giac as an external app, the port is named KhiCAS. Flash a firmware with external app support (Omega typically) and then use https://zardam.github.io/nw-external-apps/ to transfer apps. Right now the current external app system is a glorified proof-of-concept when compared to the TI/Casio ecosystem, but it does work.

One cannot distribute epsilon with giac integrated since their licenses are incompatible (GPL3 vs CC-BY-NC-SA), hence the external app workaround. NumWorks could negotiate a commercial license, but there has been no sign of this so far.
The fact that this is the top comment and that folks who trusted you are seeing this email first on HN instead of in their inbox means you fucked up. The details of what trimmings you put on the email were not the fuckup.
It might still be worth it to move away from monopoly landlords and rogue city governments existing on bad housing policies
This sounds like an example of someone taking it seriously by actually putting in the effort to build the elaborate program but then failing miserably at making it effective. That's not at all an unusual experience for HR processes in my experience. There's far too little feedback built into those kinds of processes so they rarely know if they are doing well or not.
don't most SSO providers keep track of that to some degree?

which means you might be able to find it there, other than that maybe try 'forgot password' usually my go to solution.
More context for the OP:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/29/poof/
Where you give them you key?
I've done a couple neat (IMO) things with CF workers.

- I use imgix to manipulate images in my app, but some of my users don't want anyone to be able to discover (and steal) the source images. Imgix can't do this natively; all image manipulation instructions are in the URL. So I put a CF worker in front of imgix; my app encrypts the url, the worker decrypts it and proxies.

- A year ago, intercom.io didn't support permissions on their KB articles system. I like intercom's articles but (at the time) wanted to restrict them to actual customers. So I put a CF worker in front that gates based on a cookie set by my app.

These are both trivial, stateless 5-line scripts. I like that I can use CF workers to fundamentally change the behavior of hosted services I rely on. It's almost like being able to edit their code.

Of course, this only works for hosted services that work with custom domains.
> We'd be basically back to square one.

But with better tools! It might not be going from 0 to 1, but going from 0.1 to 0.2 is still progress.
Sounds like a good experience. I don't have anything to do with them so color me surprised.

I've got around 150 messages and more within last few hours of our little group - all very unhappy. The irc server #rant channel is getting loud.

Edit: 150 and growing (growling?).
I'd assume they would keep total cost to Facebook roughly similar, which depending on the state you move to it might result in less take home pay for the employee?
It looks like words I would write. I guess there are people out there who got the very same problem, with very same thought process.
And it's fortunate that seems it works for him. I would try.
The NSA has been revealed to gather and store crazy amount of US citizens data with zero oversight.

That was completely illegal at the time, and I hope that it still is.
I'm not salty about it but I don't understand. Could someone please explain to me why this is being down voted?
Agreed on the dark pattern and difficulty of cancelling. Today I cancelled my Prime subscription and had to first the cancel button, then I had to click "Cancel my subscription" button three times, which I had to find it along with ambiguous, same color "Keep my subscription and pay" buttons.
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lol, I can relate. I worked at a company that moved to a nice big new office. They replaced the carpets and the ceiling tiles, and I still had nasty allergies for the first few weeks. Place used to be owned by a dog friendly business. OMG dude you should've seen when we went on the tour of the place lmao. The carpets were stained with pee and poop and it was sooooooooo disgusting.
Fleksy has an amazing algorithm and is gratis nowadays. I'm not user what the developers are doing because the thing is feature complete and they keep on announcing weird additions, bit those are always opt optional so not all bad. Here's their official page where they advertise their app to government officials due to their privacy standards:
https://www.fleksy.com/government
They do take it seriously. It's just like the Nigerian prince scams. The insanity acts as a filter. What you get out the other side doesn't know or doesn't care that they are being misused.
I have a few guesses about this:

1. Triplebyte knew this would cause some outrage, especially on HN and Reddit.
2. Triplebyte did some calculations and predicted that doing this on a Friday and only giving people a week to opt-out would result in the fewest number of opt-outs.
3. Triplebyte assumed that many of those outraged online would delete their accounts.
4. Despite all of the above, Triplebyte calculated that this move would make them more money in the long run.

I’m also guessing that these profiles will serve ads. I bet Triplebyte will offer “premium” plans for both job seekers and employers so that they can directly contact you more easily.

I hope this change incorporates necessary privacy measures for job seekers. I hope that this doesn’t become a 1-to-1 LinkedIn competitor that only seeks to get clicks and ad revenue. Only time will tell. I’m very skeptical but I won’t rage yet. I’ll opt out for now and see how it goes...
I'm not a fan of dogs either. I have had what looked like a dog attacking me in the past in an office and I was being told that I should not worry because it is usually "friendly".

I really hope that this whole dog at the office madness stops sooner than later. Hopefully WFH is going to resolve this.
How to Curl
The CURL command line tool is handy when you want to quickly explore a resource on the web such as an API or webpage. Even better, it comes installed by default in Windows 10 and macOS.

I wrote a little bit about it.
Exactly. This is basically like the workplace equivalent to the Ashley Madison scandal, only pre-planned.
What the hell does that even mean?
They did add a "Notify me three days before renewal" button, but still finding the correct pattern to cancel it is a pain.
Jesus, what a horrific way to opt out. "Visibility" as the same contrast as text? Great way to kill _all_ motivation to use this company going forward. Weren't they in one of the YC groups?
When you don't have a viable product, its hard to optimize for long term.
Things like "It is the programmer's responsibility to ensure that std::string_view does not outlive the pointed-to character array."

"string_view" is a borrow of a slice of a string. Since C++ doesn't have a borrow checker, it's possible to have a dangling string_view if the string_view outlives the underlying string. This is a memory safety error.

Rust has educated people to recognize this situation. Now it's standard terminology to refer to this as a borrow, which helps. Attempting to retrofit Rust concepts to C++ is helping, but often they're cosmetic, because they say the right thing, but aren't checked. However, saying the right thing makes it possible to do more and more static checking.
Was in job search late last year so not much to worry about. But abuse me and you lose me, goodbye triplebyte, we hardly knew each other and never will.
Years ago I read that you had to breath out more than you breath in, like "you give more to the world than you take from it". Fine and all but since then I can't help thinking about my breathing and I think it messed up my natural way of breathing.
How so, the same argument about making dollars go further applies to someone already hired.
By writing system level macOS software, although I think you mean old style POSIX UNIX stuff.

Here is a thing, already with NeXTSTEP, UNIX support wasn't never something worthwhile looking for, NeXTSTEP was used for its Objective-C tooling and frameworks, like Renderman and Improv.

The UNIX stuff was just a solution for having a quick ramp up for their OS development, and just like Microsoft with Windows 3.1 NT, to have a tick in the box when selling to the government,

Their famous commercial against Sun, hardly touches on UNIX like development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg

You aren't going to see a CLI on that NeXTSTEP screen.

Just like the SDK is all about Objective-C related stuff, even the device drivers were written in Objective-C.

https://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/

The only fouls here are those that keep giving their money to corporations instead of supporting Linux OEMs, as Microsoft cleverly discovered.

In fact, had either A/UX not been discontinued or Microsoft seriously supported their POSIX personality, Linux would never taken off, as the same crowd would be happily using these systems.
Can you tell us more about your home brew weather station? That sounds cool.
Watching the notarization video from WWDC last year they explicitly said it wouldn’t affect command line apps.
I’m a little surprised that there aren’t any mentions of Obsidian, while there are at least two mentions of Roam. To all Roam lovers, and to all intellectuals in general, I’d recommend you to check out Obsidian [1] from the makers of Dynalist.

It’s also a tool made mainly for Zettelkasten

Just so you know, I consider myself probably a fairly typical HN user. Got my own little daily tech concerns, but keep a toe in the water of the larger zeitgeist. I have no idea what anything you just said means. You could be talking about brands of car or my little ponies for all I know. Googling it - seems it's something to do with notes?

Just remember that not everyone is in your little concern-bubble, and one or two explanatory sentences would be very welcome.
Might be depth of comment branches and ratio of upvoting and downvoting to comments?
I think the others are missing your point a bit.

I use an IoT thermometer so that I can monitor smoking progress over 13 or so hours and still do things like go to the hardware store.
This is going to make electric cars extremely cheap once the million mile battery is out. Probably at least 50% cheaper given the money you can make selling off peak electricity at peak prices.

Electricity costs by me since I switched to time of use are 4x as much on peak vs off. My Tesla costs about $6 for a full charge off peak. It seems like its easy to make (4-1)* 6 = $18 a day off of this the car as it home. Let's say $10 after conversion loss and battery wear, etc.

Once you buy any other hardware needed (I think they are $2k-4k now), this seems like free money.
Worst case, car is home during peak 2 days a week and $10/day gain, $4k system: 2.5 year payback period and then $223/month income
Best case, car is home during peak 5 days a week and $15/day gain $2k system: 26 week payback period and then $322/month income.

The best case over 10 years is worth $38,700.

However the biggest opportunity here is probably for Tesla to lease the battery to consumers. The car will be discounted significantly if you can plug in 3 days a week near peak usage.
I have a big snoring problem. Did yoga help you with that?
EDIT: What I was trying to express (without being snarky) is that stereotypically what you see in the bay area is very rich successful people moralizing others on liberal values from their high horses. I have a hard time to put this together with people earning a fortune, doing minimal things to actually help others and feel threatened when there is a risk that other people might benefit from opening bay area jobs to a wider audience.
Huh? Waddya talkin' about?
Ask HN: What is your back end stack?
Care to explain why? I'm curious.

In my experience he's as unbiased as a journalist can be regarding American happenings.
I'm getting charged by rhapsody.com every quarter for no apparent reason. I used their service like may be 8 years ago. They have a phone number in their merchant line which is invalid. When I filed request to void the charge to American Express, initially they declined! Then I filed appeal with angry comments and they finally voided it. It took over two months for the process. I just saw new Rhapsody charge again. The credit card companies literally have no control over who can charge us.

If anyone at stripe is reading this, I think this is golden opportunity for consumer focused payment service. One should be at least able to block a merchant from charging my card. I can do that for spammer email but can't do that for spam charge on my card - in 2020!
Very cool!

I just really recommend to use our library (https://github.com/openland/react-native-fast-animations) for non interactive animations like appearing and disappearing. Since iOS and Android could block UI thread during initial layouting if there are a lot of content and you will get dropped frames or just broken animation (if freeze will be ~200ms).

This is important since iOS actually rely that all animations are done via Core Animation that could not be blocked by main thread and therefore a lot of UI widgets are just slow on first view. Most iOS developers don't care if instantiating view will take 50ms since you have 300ms budget for all transition animations.

This library does same thing for Android by "hacking" native API the same way as official Google Apps do. This is a shame that google not opening this API.
Opt-In doesn't help them achieve their product goals.

Triplebyte as founded isn't working so they're trying to take a valuable asset they have (engineers looking for jobs) to compete with linkedin

The problem with bootstrapping a linkedin competitor is the same chicken-and-egg problem with networks generally. You need people on it for people to join it.

What Triplebyte wants is your identity public. That's the product goal. The problem is that opt-in won't get them that. What are the incentives for anyone to make theirs public?

How many people who were searching for a job without telling their company are going to opt-in to make that public?

Most certainly not enough to bootstrap a LinkedIn competitor.

So someone had the idea to move fast and break things, either:

a) hoping no one would notice

b) hoping the fallout wouldn't be bad

c) not caring that the fallout would be bad

d) not knowing that there would be fallout

none of the above are particularly inspiring. It does seem hard to miss this coming
Yeah, up until a couple hours ago I had nothing but praise for them. They made the whole process go extremely smoothly, answered all the questions I had and gave me a ton of advice on the whole process, and their screening process was not only great from the my perspective but also gave me confidence in the quality of all their candidates. Then this happened.
Maybe they sell the H/W at a loss (especially considering R&D + Marketing spend) - and the real strategy is to turn a profit on PSPlus, licensing and taking a cut out of game distribution. If that's the case... you or me building a linux cluster will actually hurt them =)
I don't have space for all my photos on my laptop, but I would like to use Apple photos.

How do you guys go about that?
This works sometimes. Like, the article notes, it worked for the iPod. For the iPad, it landed much softer than its predecessors, even if they still made a killing on sales.

The large format was awkward to hold as a content consumption device, and while it could have made for a neat content creation device, that never became a mass-market phenomenon. Later, smaller models were then eclipsed by phones that grew in size. Then, recently, the line was repositioned to import some more traditional computing expectations, after the Surface line proved that there was demand for that paradigm.

If you squint, you'll notice that the iPad wasn't a failure, but the critiques leveled against it at the time that challenged whether consumers would recognize that an iPad was something they needed turned out to be right. Those who waited and never bought an iPad were rewarded by phones that grew in size until they could reliably satisfy much of the iPad's usecase. Those who used the iPad for content creation found that software was a significant part of their workflow, which translated poorly to competing platforms that later emerged to innovate with hardware -- so their long-term retention was a blend of lock-in and merit.

At first, the high price of the product initially contributed to a significant self-selection of its customer base -- by dissuading unsure prospects from an impulse buy; but this gatekeeping effect was lessened when smaller, cheaper models were introduced later. Gmail achieved gating through invitations; Facebook achieved gating through requiring an ".edu" email address. The iPad, Gmail, and Facebook all benefited from the marketing value of gating, but in the latter two's case, the network effect kicked in in earnest once the gating was lifted. In the iPad's case, once less-invested people began buying iPads, that now-shifting market of people began moving closer and closer to the consensus that it's simply a Really Big iPhone, with all the benefits and drawbacks that come with that.

I'd generalize that lesson to say that your product must appeal to a self-selecting, highly-invested fan, so that it's profitable to solely cater to them and ignore everyone else. Then, to survive an intentional or unintentional pivot to a more mass-market appeal, your product must readily offer a smooth and coherent way to satisfy a set of usability needs people currently have. Gmail, Facebook, the iPod, and the iPhone did this, but the iPad fell well short.
Funny how this[1] is their modal when you log in.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/0J4sVlX.png
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm guessing this counts as fraud. Facebook could terminate you if they found out and try to recover wages from you. Nevada might not care since it has no income tax, but most states would care if you were actually resident there and not paying taxes. If you moved to Portland for its lower cost of living, tax officials might not like that you aren't paying taxes to Oregon.

It's a little weird, but most companies seem to want to vary salaries by location, even for remote work. It might not seem fair or correct, but I do think there are reasons you couldn't pull of a scheme like that. The IRS has information sharing agreements with most states.

Let's say you pick Arizona. What happens when your car is registered in Arizona and the IRS tells Arizona that you earned a lot of money and should have paid them thousands? Do you register your car in California, keep a CA license, buy car insurance at the CA address that it isn't garaged at? I know that these are small things and often people don't change this stuff for a few years after college, but at some point it starts adding up to more and more evidence of one's intent to defraud. Do you set up a non-USPS mail-forwarding scheme to make it seem like you're still in CA? If you get into a car crash, will your insurance start looking into why you're always in Arizona?

For Facebook, it wouldn't be too hard for them to figure it out. You'll be connecting to their servers for work from an IP address. Do you keep a server in the CA flat share to proxy everything? What if the box goes down? Worse, this shows real thought going into the fraud. It wasn't a casual, "oh, I thought I was going to be spending most of my time in the $500/mo flat share and just innocently forgot to update that I'm in Arizona basically always" and rather something really intended to defraud.

To keep tax collectors off your back, you'd have to let FB pay CA and then you'd have to pay AZ tax out of your pocket. Even a cheap $500 flat share eats into the profitability of this scheme. If you're earning $200k in CA and offered $150k in AZ, $13k of that will likely be eaten up by expenditures. Plus, with roommate turnover, at what point do people think it's weird to have someone on the lease that basically doesn't exist? How much time and money do you spend on flights for administrative things like flying back to CA to renew your license? Heck, do you vote in CA despite not living there?

It could certainly be profitable, but it does seem like there's significant risk of being caught. I'm not a lawyer, but this feels like defrauding an employer and different states handle background checks differently, but it seems like something that might go on a record that wouldn't be great to explain away. Like, "I was 19 and we thought it would be fun to steal the University sign" is a lot easier to explain than "I thought the company should pay me more so I defrauded them out of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars."
“The ‘kind of person’ who will cheat on an academic teat is intuitively also the ‘kind of person’ who will cheat in other areas of professional life’.

Ah, I see. Do you also believe in ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people?

In my experience, all people are capable of cheating and given the uniquely require circumstances, most people will cheat.

Integrity is a well supported, secure persons value.
I like the fine grained permissions on Catalina, but along with dropping support for 32 bits binaries, this is getting ridiculous.
It’s uncommon, but some will send your account to a collection agency, which has automated the process of causing you enough trouble that you’re likely to just pay if it’s a small amount.
PyConSys
Control units and control loops implemented in Excel and Python (Python with AI example). In Python, PID parameters can be set automatically with AI. Excel file with numeric basics included.
In despotism, you do not have security either - the despot can do whatever he wants to you or to your family.
Is this a conscious decision or an evolutionary thing where only those companies survive that happen to treat their employees like this?
Oh god you're right
The process described here is one that would honestly have me walking out the door. I don't say that from a place of "this isn't worth my time" or a similar feeling grounded in self-worth and healthy ego--the aimless, direction-less, utter lack of structure or clear direction on how to proceed while being deluged in busywork would leave me so anxious and adrift that I know I wouldn't be able to return to that place. The concept of "working" for three days before my direct supervisor even noticed my presence is so foreign to me that I truly have no idea how I'd function, unless it was to sit in a corner and panic about not knowing how to start doing the job I was (supposedly) hired for.

As someone trying to figure out how to turn my diploma into a job despite intense impostor syndrome, this tale is absolutely harrowing.
It looks like emailing candidate.support@triplebyte.com is the only way to delete your account.
I also thought this is as damaging a quote as it gets "The company had cut pay for senior leaders in March, too, but reversed that decision recently."

So they'll be flying into bankruptcy with a golden parachute.
Facebook employees working in London are paid, say, half as much as the ones in SV.

If we follow your reasoning, London employees are half as productive as the SV ones.