skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Most MMS/SMS apps treat a MMS group as a threaded conversation, so you only have to set it up once (or it’ll automatically populate all the numbers when someone sends you a text from a mms group)

- MMS has been free and unlimited for the last decade or so on most major carriers (maybe more like ~7 years but we got it waaay before unlimited data made a comeback).

- Data comes standard most of the time, most people have at least a gig or two a month, going all the way up to unlimited. It’s not a problem of data use (since you’d be hard pressed to burn through two gigs of text and meh resolution images), but it’s that MMS is a lowest common denominator. Everyone has it, so you know you can reach them (except for the 10% of the time a message doesn’t go through and you don’t know about it :P). I’m in the US, and I don’t know anyone who uses something other than MMS or iMessage (which is invisible and acts exactly the same) for most of their communication. Some of us have Discord but we only use it on desktop. I think my parents may use Facebook Messenger for something.
Arf I didn't cover "when" the client is billed.

For short projects (weeks), usually a percentage before and a percentage afterwards, maybe a percentage in the middle. It's all negotiable, welcome to consulting!

For long projects (years), you will need to agree on a billing schedule from the moment you draft and sign the contract up to the delivery. There should be periodic billings and milestones. Definitely do not work a whole year for free :D

Unlike the comment above (anti pattern!), you don't want to redefine the goals every week and make payment contingency on the goals (it's too much time drafting formal agreements and it allows the client to not pay you by arguing the goal is not reached). What you usually prefer is to bill for the time spent on the project (weekly or monthly) irrelevant of any goals.

There's a fundamental struggle in consulting: you should get regular feedback and make sure you're building something the client is happy with... while you need to make sure you get paid, irrelevant of what exactly was completed and of the shifting will of the client... while you can't waste all the time doing paperwork/contracts to cover your ass. Long story short you always end up billing by time, except for some short specialized work you're very confident you can handle.
Which of your target users are willing to pay though? Because I am. Perhaps you should prioritize accordingly.
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This discussion is a decade late. The direction was set when HTML5 was chosen instead of XHTML 2.0 and I don't think any important group changed their mind since. Committee-made standards are impotent without popular implementations.
Windows 10 is the ultimate spy machine, it was shoved down everyones throats "for free", and constantly phoning home.

Each new OS updates introduces more telemetry and the phoning home can't be disabled unless you have an expensive enterprise version of Win 10 (LTSB).
The problem is consumer electronics break way more often than business not because they are not designed for heavy duty, but because some consumers are likely to misuse / misplace / misconfiged it. Since the price of your monthly payment is ultimately determined by the percentage of failure. This will drive up the total price, and hence it wont be cheap.

I think it will work well for Rental Apartments with property makers where large quantities are purchased and with design / placement standardise. And those price are included in rent or management fees.
You can drop me an email if you want to talk. Gmail: doreenmicheletraylor
That's really great and you did far better than Europe, no doubt about it.

But the borders vietnam shares with those countries are hard borders. You need a visa and pass a government controlled checkpoint when you enter.

Europe (mainland) has no internal borders. There are no checkpoints, customs agents or chokepoints between countries.

There's thousands of roads leading from every country into others.

That, plus the fact that both the government and the population have had no experience with this make it very hard to control the virus.

I'm open to learn, though, so if you have some time to explain what we could learn from Vietnam I'm all ears.
I’ve seen equity as part of the compensation deal, but never revenue sharing.
"... for the purposes of formalizing mathematical reasoning?"
I don't understand the issue? Decisions are just a state machine getting different inputs. It's the same for trees and humans.
They’ll do it to themselves.

One thing I see regularly is Chrome’s web caching being so aggressive it is driving front-end developers to start using FF for dev.

We simply need to stand back and let time take its course.
This is why I think many a software engineer gets burned out around midlife. The "winner take all/most" dynamics don't just exist for internet companies, they also exist for technologies. Putting my blood, sweat and tears into some long term technology project, only to have it end up being on the losing end of "mind share" at some point, can be incredibly disheartening over time. Some years ago I worked at a company that decided to standardize on Flow (TypeScript wasn't yet the clear winner, and Flow seemed to be easier to integrate piecemeal into an existing project). It was a good bit of work - that is all now getting ripped out and converted to TS as the Flow ecosystem dies.

I think that may be one reason why many software engineers take up things like woodworking or sculpting: working in a 3D, physical, non-ephemeral medium can be incredibly rewarding after working in the space of easily disposable software.
I was a director for digital agencies for a long time. There's no real fixed model for any of it. Like others have said, contract-wise you can bill as fixed fee, time and materials or some hybrid. Customers are more apt to sign a fixed fee, but it's a huge risk to put a fixed scope, budget and timing unless you know exactly what you're doing. Any level of ambiguity could lead to costly overruns and missed expectations.

In terms of what kind of work you do for them, it's up to you to sell whatever you're comfortable with so long as every expectation is explicitly documented in the contract/SOW. Companies can hire technology services to do almost anything up and down the value chain. From strategy and user experience design, marketing, content production, system architecture, development to operations and maintenance. The bottom tier is something like staff augmentation where you just rent out warm bodies to do IT work. The agency model is more like landing a complete self-organizing, product development team who take business objectives and translate them into a working product.

Stuff like operations and maintenance is stuff I would typically avoid because it can be open-ended and difficult to make money doing. I usually stipulate that clients have to own infrastructure even if we do the setup and add some specific warranty language on how long we will answer bug reports, what qualifies as a bug and what kind of turnaround time we'd need to resolve them. Especially at small scale, clients will search for any excuse to drag out their contract to get more work out of you or find a reason to not pay so you need enforceable language.

Doing good work and building trust can lead to future work. You need to toe a line between aggressively managing scope to not get taken advantage of while still staying flexible enough to be seen as a good partner. It's really common for a client to have a big vision and no idea what it costs, so we sell an MVP that does maybe 1/4 of their dreams to get a product to market within their budget, but there's still a lot of meat on the bone for future work. Sometimes it leads to a long relationship and sometimes they just fold.

It's a risky business, but there's also a huge market that only seems to be expanding. If you make a name for yourself and build up a few nice portfolio pieces, clients will come to you after not too long.
I don't really have a dog in the fight, but it's uncontroversial that basic quarantine breaches were what seeded the the June-October outbreak in Melbourne. Stories of "security having relationships with those in quarantine" make for titillating clickbait articles, but so far little more than rumour has been reported. We'll see what the inquiry report says, but any poor practices in quarantine would have been sufficient to seed the outbreak, whether or not there was any intimate contact. But then it was also poor contact tracing/outbreak management and aged care management that exacerbated things after that. So these things are always multi-faceted.

I've been paying close attention to the weather factor since the epidemic spread beyond China in Feb/March. It was notable that the places that had the biggest outbreaks then (Milan, Qom, NYC, London, Madrid, as well as Wuhan itself) had similar weather in those months to what Melbourne has in winter - cool but not freezing, and not too rainy or humid. When I saw that, I immediately felt Melbourne could be more at risk of a serious outbreak than other Australian cities - all of which have either warmer winters and/or lower population density (EDIT: and also more sunlight in some cases, influencing Vitamin D). Of course, if quarantine was better managed it could have been prevented. But I also find it hard to believe that there was not a single serious lapse in any of the hotels in any of the other cities that were running quarantine.

When weather is raised, people are quick to point out the warmer regions that have had major outbreaks, like India and Brazil. What these places also have his highly dense populations with many people living/working in close quarters, which obviously also facilitates spread. Nutrition/health may also be a major contributor.

As another commenter has pointed out, research has found Victorians to have higher rates of Vitamin D deficiency in winter compared to other states, so weather can play a role in different ways.

Clearly this is a highly complex illness with multiple factors that combine in different ways to influence the outcome.
GitHub Actions for custom content workflows
RFC 3986 says one thing, but what the HTTP protocol allows servers to do and they actually implement is another thing.
There are a ton of information available about the Cato institute online. If you "don't even know what is wrong with them", don't want to post about them and don't want to inform yourself that's on you.
Ask HN: How can I retroactively improve my mathematical maturity?
For context, I'm a junior in undergrad studying Political Science, so as you can imagine, I don't have a ton of math experience. I'm currently in a discrete class as a part of my computer science minor, and am struggling with proofs (mainly induction) primarily, in my guess, because I never got comfortable with fundamental algebra.

I tended to avoid any math wherever possible because I did not grok it naturally, but when I took calculus last fall, I actually fell in love. However, as stated above, I struggle with basic elements due to my prior avoidance and because this is coming to a head with my struggles with proofs, I would love any resources you all can give me that would help me recalibrate my missing knowledge / practice.

I hope this made sense and thank ya'll in advance.
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This look really good, thank you.

How would you say it compares / complements / competes with Vapor?

https://vapor.network/
In his first paragraph he says he wants to improve the visibility of his forward blinkers, so I feel this critique is undue. Like another poster said, I’m sure his only intention is to use them in an amber hue. Many LEDs on the market happen to support RGB – it’s okay to have a little fun with the available features in development.
> If your antivirus software tells you that any program downloaded from this site is infected with malware, this is the result of a "false positive."

RED FLAG.
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So where is the development continuing with all this?
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Will jetpack compose be able to make cross-platform the UI code too?
Sorry, my fault. You are correct.

I implemented a similar solution (with http-based streaming), but using Motion with an old USB camera. I assumed this solution would also use an USB camera.

I still prefer the Motion solution. Streaming through http opens a lot more possibilities.
More like: "Chrome unlikely to follow WHATWG XPath 2.0+ support spec if ever merged"

Or "Chrome devs being against XPath 2+ spec because of internal maintenance problems"
Absolutely agree but it would be darn hard to manage with kids. I might be more productive on a Saturday than on a Tuesday, but hard to explain to the kids that you'll miss half the weekend because I wrote better on Saturdays than on Tuesdays.
Then the Toronto Police spent $35m to switch to encrypted radios, which were cloned and streamed for a fee to tow-trucks.

The best was when the clone was put back in police service and the original kept by the cloners.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-tow-tr...
That's an agency-friendly type of contract and it's really, really hard to sell that way unless you have a sterling reputation and great rapport. Most clients want to know exactly what they're getting and how much it will cost. Experienced tech leaders know estimates are estimates and clients usually can't even articulate what they need clearly enough anyway. It's why client services people get paid so much and why it's so hard to find good ones.
From a software perspective, changes in flow are identical. But from a hardware standpoint, local jumps, indirect calls and returns are all predicted differently. The spec actually has suggested forms for each kind (the author points them out in the article), so a good portion of encoding space is used on a large number of variants that will have poor performance and never be seen in practice. Especially when those bits could be used for far better purposes.
Precursor: RISC-V, FPGA-assisted open-hardware PDA for developers and hackers
This is the math equivalent of tabs vs spaces
If we start from the premise ‘we have a government corruption problem’, how does giving said government more power and responsibility fix that?

It’s like saying my car is too slow, let me add 500lbs of weight.
Wikipedia is not made up of a series of flat files that have the same paths as you see in the URL. The URL layout is controlled by MediaWiki and it's free to do whatever it wants with the slashes. After rewriting, the URL looks like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Load-link%2Fstore-conditional

You can actually visit that if you like.
HTML5 does have a standard XML serialization, which subsumes the "XHTML 2.0" use cases (such as extensibility via other XML namespaces).
I've been furloughed down to 32 hours a week for 5 months (mostly taking 3 day weekends). It has had a noticeable (downward) impact on tempo, but we aren't necessary looking for ways to make it the permanent way to organize the week either.

It would be hard to sell me on taking Wednesday off, but I can see where people with more obligations would get a lot out of an arrangement like that.
You could set up a script for something like Void/Alpine to just launch vim/emacs as soon as you boot, those are both pretty minimalist ootb, you'd just have to remove internet drivers.
As far as I know not yet. But the way it is build it could be adopted in the future.
How would your company have dealt with a "Trump/Pence 2016" laptop sticker?

What about a request to get time off to vote?

What if someone came to HR and said they felt they were being treated differently by their boss because they posted a news article that mentioned politics and religion in the team's Slack channel, and they think their boss considered that a sneaky attempt to circumvent your strict "no politics / no religion" rule?

Politics are inextricable from most plausible modern workplaces. I'm all for asking employees to try to avoid bringing it up if they can help it, but a "no politics / no religion" rule doesn't guarantee a reduction in "litigation, security issues, and horrible employee productivity."
Why would ionic leads to poor experiences?
https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc
Community version with much better support.
It often is, but sometimes those rights are only imagined rights. Does a right extremist have a right to have his race free from other races?

You say yourself that rights are sometimes at conflict with each other. That requires that sometimes rights are restricted to a point that other rights are not infringed. For instance we lock up dangerous people. Why do you think is freedom of speech is some kind of super-right that triumphs over every other right? Is freedom of speech more important even when it’s used to incite genocide?
Forget ordering. The useful equals relation becomes ternary.
Yeah, I have experienced it too.
> The only wine that made it out of their mafia control was what you'd get in the US for $4 a bottle, i.e. undrinkable.

Hey, I’ve drank many a bottle of 2 buck chuck. It’s not great, but it’s not exactly Night Train...

Edit - reference
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavored_fortified_wine
Because it is fine. Even good things can come from unethical companies, such as well paying jobs for people to feed their families and amazing products and services that improve people’s lives.

No use in getting rattled by how the sausage gets made.
I assume this is oGame or similar? When I was in high school I had a lot of fun learning Javascript/HTML in the console & TamperMonkey to create shortcut menus, faster actions, track area activity, etc.

The modern versions of these use a lot more Javascript for countdown timers, and while that's nice the pages usually feel slower.
You've been around here long enough to know that personal attacks aren't permitted on HN.
Kotlin has many full time paid compiler developers by Google
I think the idea is to suppress numbers via lockdown to the point where contact tracing, along with ubiquitous testing, can detect and squash any local outbreaks before they spread widely, and people can live somewhat normally.

Afaict that has been the plan all along in the US as well (in terms of what scientists and infectious disease experts were saying), but most states and the administration gave up on that months ago, e.g. the national "testing czar" declaring the required testing capacity impossible.
They share a rule evaluation engine and offline SQL store.
>WhatsApp and Signal with without play services so that shouldn't be an issue.

I know Signal can now, but can WhatsApp notify you of incoming messages without Play Services?
I think this is something every grad student already knows.
They looked for duplication events (and dated them using computer models of genetic drift) — where the whole genome is duplicated — which set species up for rapid evolution because now one copy can change while one remains unchanged and functional.

Very useful in agricultural breeding as well. For example wheat has undergone one or more recent whole-genome duplications that have allowed it to diverge from its wild ancestors.
Fusion is hard. At least, unconstrained fusion is hard. If you have a couple instructions pairs to fuse together, that's fine, but fusing any possible compiler output together is going to make decode even more complicated in practice.

This is why Intel publishes software optimization guides that go over what their fusions are, but it doesn't seem like the RISV-C spec is going to do that yet for many cases. And compiler authors need to know which instruction stream to generate to ensure fused execution.
Heads up - The 'Flight Booking Java example in Sodium' link seems to take you to a fake McAfee virus scanning page.
Because I'm a grump, I stuck with google voice for years specifically because it didn't support MMS. It cut down on a lot of spam from my family. I did manage to push people to email for group conversations. SMS/MMS are interrupts where email has a some what built in understanding that replies will not be immediate.
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These were a great read! I have made a headless linux laptop with vim as a fairly distraction free environment. I have also used a Psion 5MX to take notes while out and about, and my only caveat for those wanting to use retro devices for important things is to back up often! I'd forgotten how unreliable old filesystems and media were.
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This is one of the bigger effects of the general downside that social interactions may become difficult, depending on your circles.
I totally agree. But the amount of pressure required is incredibly big. As in, Google has been trying it for years in the Android world and is only seeing success now with drastic measures that vendors hate, like forbidding use of any kernel patches outright.
Really appreciate the reply - thank you. It's always intriguing to see how the other half lives, as it were.

MMS never seemed to catch on in the UK and never seems to be included in the free allowances which probably doesn't help (eg I have unlimited calls, sms, >100gb data but MMS still costs me 50p each). I think the only time I've seen it used in years is very occasionally when I ask an iPhone user to send me a photo and they don't realise I'm on Android and won't automatically have it funnelled via Apple, so instead I get badly compressed unreadable photos of printed letters.
Non-Indian here, I've always wondered how does this work in practice? Is there some giant book with a surnames-to-caste look-up table that Indian children memorize so they can recall later when they hear someone's name? That seems to be a lot of to pack into each of 1 billion people's heads. How many distinct surname "keys" in this table are we talking about?
You can go with Asus with has monthly/quarterly updates, as well as folks like Merlin (and others) who use the open source components to roll their own binaries.

There's code in there besides the kernel that could have (security) bugs and backdoors.
Thanks for the submission! Backstory here:
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Why is towing such a business in north america? Here in europe, you see rarely towing trucks. I remember, when I stayed in Vancouver in 2004, almost on every street corner was a towing truck.
Wow. I feel like I dodged a bullet. I found a storage unit company 5 blocks from my place. It's the cheapest in the bay area. Run by some very nice folks. No shady anything, so far as I can tell.
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> Does MMS make it easy to have a group conversation, or does everyone have to remember to do the equiv or "reply-all" (add everyone's number in) when sending a message to the group?

It depends on the client, but yes, MMS makes it pretty easy to go.

> Do you get free SMS/MMS included in your plan? (My American Aunt has always insisted SMS was obscenely expensive and refused to use it to communicate.)

Most common plans that I know of have unlimited SMS/MMS/Phone calls (unless you get a really cheap one).

> Do you get Data as standard with the plan? (Eg is it that people can't easily use WhatsApp because they don't have data when out and about or is it that people just won't agree which IP product to use in the first place?)

Data is generally standard with a plan. SOme only give you a limited allotment, and some give you some version of "unlimited" (i.e. if you use too much they will start to throttle you).
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