skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no "nationwide holiday" last week. I don't know what holiday you are talking about, Thanksgiving is not really a thing, until today I never heard of constitutional day.

Not being in the new cycle is less to do with newsworthiness and more to do with mainstream being either biased or unable to talk too badly about the government. While Arnab Goswami's high profile arrest recently is not good indicator, the news not really critical of the current government is pretty obvious

Characterizing Kerala as communist state is over simplifying. Kerala always ruled by coalition of small parties, Congress and CPI-M are just single largest parties in those coalitions, and many times communist parties are part of the Congress coalition and vice versa. The smaller parties are reflection of diverse backgrounds of people of Kerala- broadly top third of the state is largely Muslim, central Kerala has lot of Christians and south a lot of hindus etc. IUML(Muslim League) parties have strong presence in north part of the state for example.

"Highest unemployment in Kerala" is very mis-leading statistic, Kerala has much better reporting of such stats than many parts of the country, and also given its huge dependence on remittances from middle east and their larger participation in foreign markets for jobs is nuanced to be captured here, you travel across karnataka(your state) and kerala you would not believe Kerala has lot more unemployment.

Yes the numbers and articles are misleading, but Indian media coverage of the strike and the protest has been very poor especially in the context of 24x7 breaking news cycle.
Bunnie's blog is one of my favorites on the web. His H1N1 post is especially interesting as it's a different perspective on analyzing a virus.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353
I’m confused. Perhaps because I can not unlearn what I knew but it does not make it easier for me, it makes even harder! The syntax is changing, subtlties (one dot or 3 dots?) not specific mentioned etc. all that makes things more confused. Maybe it’ll be easier for kids who will write in their natural English way. I don’t know. But I can not see why Hedy should be better suitable than Scratch for teaching programming for children. The visual, direct manipuable approach of Scratch is very powerful and intuitive at the same time. I’ve seen very smooth transitions from Scratch to other “serious” programming language. I don’t expect that kind of smooth transition by Hedy.
> Does anyone here have experience with actually using the pinephone as a daily driver?

I do. I have been using my pmOS edition as my daily driver since the day i gott it.

> Just curious if this phone is actually competitive with android devices in the same price class.

That depends on your needs. It is not going to have any of the proprietary app that are on Android. So, what works?

- Camera: stills only

- Phone calls: Yes. Sometimes calls don't come through but it usualy works.

- Messaging: SMS works, unless you need MMS. If people send you group SMS or picture messages, these are MMS. MMS not only don't work but disable the ability to receive SMS. The user must use command line tools to fix this.

- GPS works. However the default pmOS maps app only works with an active internet connection. Further it does not do navigation. You can get directions but you cannot do turn-by-turn navigation on the road. There is an app that works for this called PureMaps. It works as expected.

- Web browsing works great with desktop firefox even on mobile.

- Convergence. The phone advertises that you can plug in a monitor. This is technically true, however it only works while the phone is running from battery power. Further using the dock drains battery extremely quickly and is therefore only recommended on wallpower. So this is still a work in progress.

- Bluetooth. Bluetooth headphones work for music but not for phone calls.

If you have any questions, ask and i'll try to answer. Whether its "competitive" with Android phones is opinion. For me, its way better and i am glad to have it.
It’s done, but I have a lot of work to revise chapters. I’m also actively collecting feedback[1] if you are interested :)

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I’m a big fan of code environments that are set up to make graphics easy, and some do exist. Maybe the most popular one is Processing https://processing.org/ Processing defaults to Java, but it also supports python code and 3d GPU graphics.

There are lots of other projects like this too. One in particular that I have loved is NodeBox (nodebox.net/code/index.php/Home.html) - a Mac app where you write super simple code in python 2, and the output can render directly to image or PDF or QuickTime. There’s a similar python 3 project called DrawBot (drawbot.com). These both come from a lineage of forked open source projects over many years, so there are quite a few others.
Well I got mine. I'm torn between "will it just sit on the counter/will I use it" as I use a Moto 5 already(low end phone with 3GB ram). Still it is a dream of mine to have everything on a phone as far as dock/develop on it. I mean I don't know if you'd ever be able to do vms but if you could run generic environments, pull down a repo/work on it, that would be pretty cool. Also will try to get more into Linux specifically I'm after some kind of i3-wm toggle for performance gain. Mostly hoping my support can help speed up the 8GB device ha.

A bunch of my old phones are sitting around doing nothing.

Edit: I guess maybe part of it is a "future development/emerging market" thing maybe I can develop apps people would want on Linux phones in the future.

In particular Qt/some native GUI/hopefully cross platform and to get more into C++ as I'm coming mostly from JS "wHy CaNt I uSe DyNaMiC tYpInG" ha that was a struggle.
To the author, get one of Creative's Bluetooth USB Audio devices. You'll have flawless Bluetooth audio and no OS support (past USB devices) needed.

I use them on my Thinkpads in OpenBSD because the BT chips don't have great support still. Will never go back.
But you are still missing the point. The same program that lost many on Solyndra made the government money overall (despite losing it on Solyndra and a few others): https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2016/1017/Solyndr...
This is incorrect. The difficulty is PoS adjusts to meet the target block time just like it does in PoW.
I'll think of this when people say google is the best search engine.
AWS can now see exactly how much of your workload is running on-prem :)
Is this also the case when replacing the stock ls binary with the one from GNU coreutils?
>miss the granular control of Portage

Portage was made because of the BSD Port system, you have the same control over your build packages with make.conf instead of USE-Flags

>Portage is based on the concept of ports collections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software)

The most important thing for me was that i always have the newest Software (like a rolling distro) but my System is stable in my case 12.2-RELEASE, thats the biggest difference from Linux you have a Full System (Kernel NFS etc.) and then everything else like firefox etc in form of pkg's (binarys) or ports (builds), so i have everything, i can change my system from RELEASE to STABLE to DEV, and choose my pkg from rolling to quarter (kind of a point release for the pkg's) or build every pkg myself (ports).
I was thinking more in terms of a political or economic event where trust systems collapse but technology remains working.
$800? The ram is 3GB so wondering what the huge jump in price is.
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I appreciate your preparation and systematic approach to a startup transition. You should definetly keep working on technical skills, people management and networking as much as possible right now.

However, the most essential thing you're missing is finding an actual problem you want to solve.

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Yes, these do sound like reasons why you'd want to use some free *nix instead of mac. I'm not sure these have really been changing though, when has FreeBSD's documentation not exceeded that of the Mac?

Personally, if I touch the trackpad and it doesn't do what I expect, that would be enough to disqualify a system from daily use. I use the gestures constantly, it's the main way of interacting with the system for me. So I need a system which does this correctly (in my view). Which limits my options to, well, one. Getting riled up about documentation is just really really far from the set of things I care about day-to-day.
Because at some point it may literally be cheaper? Not that I made the math, but since the point here is about "opening the possibilities", then it is also possible that having a render farm sitting idle half a year is actually the more sensible option.
Washington DC isn't a state because it was literally created to not be a state.

If they want to give DC residents voting rights they should make it impossible to be a DC resident and instead anyone who lives within DC should vote as part of the state the land was taken from for federal elections.

That solves everyone's problems (well aside from the democrats who are trying to get another 2 seats in the senate).

Local issues should still be decided at the federal level because that's the whole reason it exists, so a state can't take the seat of fed gov hostage as happened in 1783 in philly.

If you don't want DC to be controlled by the fed then it should be swallowed by maryland or virginia. Making a single city a state unto itself doesn't make any sense unless you're specifically trying to make political hay.
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Yep. And also because it's statically linked and optimised, which version of musl that ships in that binary may be obfuscated somewhat. And no, I don't get it either.
So much acrimony over a faulty premise. A DaVinci will still be a DaVinci, even if he only has charcoal instead of photoshop.

The right tool in the wrong hands is a curse, not a blessing. Think "lottery winner syndrome." We've minted far more digital addicts than Fabrice Bellards.
Any programming.

So, if all it takes is for programming languages to be 'formalism', then pedantically speaking, we're all doing it right. Thanks! My programs are all correct now?
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> What do we have? Unprecedented world peace. Why do we have it? American foreign policy.

Wait, what?

There have been hundreds of armed conflicts going on around the world since the end of WW2, many of which were either directly instigated by the USA or at least involved the USA. There are dozens going on right now [1] some resulting in massive casualties. I don't think we will ever see world peace.

You don't mass-produce already-obsolete fighter jets in order to promote peace or as an innocent act of military preparedness and industry knowledge-building. You build them to fight war.

1;: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
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I do a lot more than just program according to a spec someone else wrote and fulfill tickets on a treadmill.

In addition to programming, I also communicate with clients and stakeholders, architect solutions to problems, build and manage infrastructure, train other developers, and numerous other responsibilities.

So I call myself a software engineer. I deal with and engineer solutions relating to the domain of software.
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> We as humans should find new ways to adapt to this bourgeoning learning method.

Wish more people shared this mindset. A humans greatest strength is their ability to adapt.
A Googler responded on Twitter, indicating that this may not be at least partially intentional:

> If people ask for things they clearly know aren't true, sometimes featured snippets try to direct them to the most likely related content with context.

They linked to this blog post: https://blog.google/products/search/reintroduction-googles-f...
Ever tried mirtazapine? It’s an antidepressant that’s also a sedative. You take it every night before bed. Works great for me.
After over 20 years, I think we can safely characterize WiFi as an integral component of a laptop.
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Even without the pandemic, i just need 2 hours of me time when the kids are all sleeping.
As most parents know, they often don't go to sleep as easy as one wishes so my own shedule gets moved further back.
"Linux has systemd" and that's why the author didn't select it supposedly. I hear this line of thought from people that use FreeBSD often, although I suspect if you ask many of those people why systemd is so horrible you won't actually hear a legitimate (and still relevant) reason from them. I suggest anyone that thinks systemd is terrible and doesn't spend lots of time in Linux to watch this presentation by Benno Rice.

https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo
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> So I'd love an ecosystem where things tend to be statically linked unless there is a good reason not to.

Well, every time there is a bug fix in one of your dependencies you/your distribution would have to recompile everything that depends on it. Which will use quite some resources.

So to actually use this you would have to reinstall (nearly) all programs once a week or so (no matter if source or binary distribution). While that is quite possible with modern internet connections, I am not sure if it solves all the problems you might think it solves. After all, even nowadays application authors could provide static packages, but many don't do it.

After using quite a few distributions over the years, I like Arch Linux best at the moment, as the combination of binary distribution, with frequent updates, and the source based AUR, with the very large amount of packages, suits my needs very good.
He might also not remember the abacus. Things change and that's fine.

I think most people today would look at a laptop with bad wifi and wonder what its purpose was.
>I paid $200 for a Windows 10 pro license because I needed to run a Windows application in a virtual machine

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
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I don't know that I agree that you're doing an apples to apples comparison though. There's nothing to stop you from doing:

let x = doRiskyThing();
match x {
Ok(x) => x.doThing(),
Err(e) => ...
}
x.get().doThing();

That would be more comparable to the try catch from above, and a comparable try catch that actually is semantically approximate would be:

try {
MyType x = doRiskyThing();
x.doThing();
} catch(CheckedException e) { ... }

Putting these two together, it makes the Result type seem worse than a try catch, right? But that isn't fair to result, because I'm using it like a jackass.

In other words, you can be a jackass using either of them, but you can also use them correctly, and when you use them correctly I don't see how they're any different. I also don't feel like the likelihood of using a Result correctly (edit: originally this said _incorrectly_) is substantially higher than a try/catch, but it probably boils down to developer experience and comfort with a particular varietal and not the capabilities inherent in either. Probably. And if not, I'm looking forward to being shown why! :)
Because this started on a different page, I didn't realize this was a repeat until I saw the whole thing together.

Same issues as before. It's a hobby-toy. For people who don't mind that it's impractical and just want the retro look and fun of assembling it.
> China's larger modern copy of Arecibo (FAST) come on-line in 2016

China's is not really a copy. It does not have transmit capability. What is really missing now in US, and international science is asteroid radar imaging and ranging.
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No state pays a cent to another state or to the federal government. It is residents of each state that pay federal taxes, which the federal government in turn uses to provide funding and services to states and individuals.

The Rockefeller Institute data (https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-...) shows that it's not so much "blue states" as frequently claimed, but taxpayers of four very wealthy Northeast states (the Tri-State area plus Massachusetts) that account for the vast bulk of citizens paying more than they receive from the federal government. After them come CO, NE, UT, and MN, of which half voted for Hillary/Biden and half for Trump. All other states, including CA, are net beneficiaries of the taxpayers in the top eight (and, again, really, it's the top four).

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Hillary/Biden-voting states: VA, NM, MD, HI, 1/2 of ME

Trump-voting states: KY, AK, AL, WV, MS, 1/2 of ME
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Yea my wording might not have been on point.

I was thinking of an economic or political collapse where technology otherwise remains more or less intact.

Anyway, we agree that it’s a niche scenario.
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Trying to build everything from scratch is actually the only time it's ever taken me several days to setup an OS. If that's what the author has to do for whatever reason, I can sympathize with that. I'm probably never going to take the Gentoo approach again, but I can't knock its particular advantages.
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It’s definitely impacting some more than others. Far shittier for someone to miss a year of college than it is for me to miss a year of in-office work... yea I’m tired of WFH but it’s different
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Imo OpenBSD on laptop, FreeBSD on server/desktop. But they're both great and I don't think you'd regret either one on any system :)
In the crypto world inflation/ deflation refers to change in supply.
At least in this case, the lack of reaction from Apple shows that his accusations are not baseless. Don't blame it on the messenger.
Here is an interesting idea, they might know it from their English lessons in school. Which might have taught British English and not American English. But who knows.